TheNumberOfGeese

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[–] TheNumberOfGeese 1 points 1 year ago

I was so close, yet so far from that joke! Brilliant job!

Please consider yourself an honorary boater. Please also collect your official !narrowboat golden toilet cassette from this channel's concierge.

[–] TheNumberOfGeese 1 points 1 year ago

It does make our good "home coffee" even better!

To add, we watched James Hoffman's review of good instant coffee and tried the Percol instant. It's certainly good enough for later-in-the-day coffees, but we always start with the good stuff.

Great username btw!

[–] TheNumberOfGeese 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi Dave, Thank you again for taking the trouble to create this community.

The two of us and our dog live on the K&A. We've had our boat for a few years, but still feel like newbies!

[–] TheNumberOfGeese 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I half wonder if some of them just whisper "It's like Mad Max out there." as they push you off :p

Very excited for your adventures!

[–] TheNumberOfGeese 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

No matter who you pick, insist that they explain the rules of the ~~road~~ canal.

We've had to help holiday boaters who were given the keys and sent on their way without even being told what side of the canal to drive on!

Points to ask:

  • What side to generally be on
  • Where is it ok to moor
  • How to use a lock (including priority and also when to wait for other boaters to turn up)
  • What state to leave a lock in
  • How fast to go
  • When to give way
  • Etc. Etc.

A decent hire place should be happy to take the time to talk you through it.

[–] TheNumberOfGeese 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Much of my work is collaborative document creation. I'd love to use LibreOffice but try as I might, I can't work out how to connect it to corporate SharePoint sites etc.

Working with MS Word on anything but trivial documents is miserable. So many bugs and weirdnesses. How is it even possible for Word to let its documents become sour using its own file format!

I say "sour" because the documents are still accessible, so not fully corrupted... but over time, weirdnesses creep in such as tables losing their positioning data, cross-references breaking for no reason etc.

[–] TheNumberOfGeese 7 points 1 year ago

That sounds more of a !ukpersonalfinance question, but I can see why you posted it here. Best of luck.

[–] TheNumberOfGeese 2 points 1 year ago

Hi! Thank you for your message. Fair enough, we'll enjoy Reading on the K&A and save the Thames for another year! :)

[–] TheNumberOfGeese 1 points 1 year ago

There was a very basic 2d game where you flew a plane over a simple landscape... You got points for blowing up some silos but lost points if you shot the cows. Can't remember the game but spent hours playing it.

Tantalisingly it had a 2 player network option, but I think it needed some rather non-standard network hardware to work.

If anyone can remember the name I'd be grateful :) Just thinking about it makes me happy!

[–] TheNumberOfGeese 1 points 1 year ago

Yeap, I'd say Elizabeth line into central too. Piccadilly is fine, but doesn't have A/C and is slower, I think.

Does the 8 hours exclude check-in time? If not, that's not much time to see central! (Even 8 hours is a bit of a whirlwind)

[–] TheNumberOfGeese 14 points 1 year ago

The trees are still plotting my demise.

[–] TheNumberOfGeese 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To add to the list, there's also:

Not sure if these will be appreciated, but at least it helps our work to complete the Star Trek Reddit-to-Lemmy story :)

Edit: Can't work out how to add links correctly, sorry!

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