Welcome to SCR!
Yes it is a luxurious writing software we have all stumbled across. None of us ever lie about anything I really can fly and Vic-k really is a pirate!
(actually we found this very smart gentleman named Keith and we kidnapped him and forced him to sit in the bowels of our pirate ship and write software that meets our fancy. We give him input and lots of beer and outcomes really productive things like SCR!.)
The only thing missing from the retail model is the Beer Dispenser Button (Which rumor has that the Portlander Version actually has a Beer/Wine/Java/Juice dispensing button built into the software! AMber has a copy of this as well but her copy also many cryptic functions that allow her to hack at light speed)
First thing is the imagination is widely used here and as in Vic-kâs case some very colorful and flavorful language.
Yes, of course I will use English from now on. Just saw the Norwegian line and wanted to say hi. Thanks a lot for information on the Scrivener. I will try it out on my new Macbook Air⊠Never tried mac before, though, so maybe I better get used to mac first.
I just happen to like writing
As another very recent acquirer of a MacBook Air â though Iâve been a Mac user for something around 20 years! â may I congratulate you on your acquisition! I have yet to use Scrivener in earnest on mine â I also have a MacBook Pro, which Iâm tired of lugging around â but Iâve only had the MBA four days and Scrivener use starts today!
Scrivener and Macs are made for each other, so just plunge in and learn to use them together. And youâll find the people on this forum â to which I too welcome you â are very helpful, experienced and knowledgeable. Threads may tend to go wildly off-topic, but thatâs just part of the fun and community, when you need help or advice, itâs here to be had.
Speaking of which, if one watches Jeroen Offermanâs amazing âStairway to St. Paulââwhich is a piece of video played backwards of the artist singing âStairway to Heavenâ backwardsâone will note the following striking thing: Even though the fellow, who is Dutch, is singing meaningless reverse vocal sounds, when the video is turned around to play âforwardsâ, it sounds like a fellow singing âStairway to Heavenâ with a Dutch accent. What is up with that?! I mean what does this tell us about spoken Dutch? Is the Dutch accenting of syllables improbably symmetrical?
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P.S. Okay, well it sounds like a Dutch accent to a Rednalsdrowkcab. Whatever.
P.P.S. If you havenât seen the video, hunt up a copy of McSweeneyâs Wholphin #1. You can find it in the interstices of that DVD. [As a special bonus you will get Selma Blair in âThe Big Emptyââa short film adaptation of Alison Smithâs excellent short story, âThe Specialistââthe sensibility of the ending of the story is unfortunately changed/lost in translation, but, hey, what else is new.]
You may well be right ⊠I thought about that after I had posted it and before I discovered the possibility of going back in and re-editing a post, and as no one seemed to pick up on the reference and what it meant/JFKs error, I forgot all about it.
If he said âIch bin ein Berlinerâ Iâm wondering if he was grammatically correct.
I think Berliner is masculine and need âeinERâ infront of it, rather than âeinâ.
This is what you get from being a Dyslexic German student - you start figuring things out, then not having any idea whether youâre right or not.
[size=85]THREAD HIJACK[/size] IN OTHER NEWS
The first name for Duct Tape was DUCK. During World War II the U.S. Military needed a waterproof tape to keep the moisture out of ammunition cases. So, they enlisted the Johnson and Johnson Permacel Division to manufacture the tape. Because it was waterproof, everyone referred to it as âduckâ tape (like water off a duckâs back). Military personnel discovered that the tape was good for lots more than keeping out water. They used it for Jeep repair, fixing stuff on their guns, strapping equipment to their clothing⊠the list is endless.
After the War, the housing industry was booming and someone discovered that the tape was great for joining the heating and air conditioning duct work. So, the color was changed from army green to the silvery color we are familiar with today and people started to refer to it as âduct tape*.â Therefore, either name is appropriate.
ACTUALLY USED ON DUCTS?
To provide lab data about which sealants and tapes last, and which are likely to fail, research was conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Environmental Energy Technologies Division. Their major conclusion was that one should not use duct tape to seal ducts (specialty tapes are available for this purpose). (They defined duct tape as any fabric-based tape with rubber adhesive.) The testing done shows that under challenging but realistic conditions, duct tapes become brittle and may fail. Its use in ducts has been prohibited by the state of California and by building codes in most other places in the U.S. However, metalized and aluminum tapes used by professionals are still often called âduct tapes.â
DUCK TAPE an American ICON?
It has also been called 100 Mile an hour tape, chrome tape, gun tape, gafferâs tape, acute psychosis restraints (Space Station) to name a few. But in other countries (such as Austraila) if you ask for Duct Tape you will get a different tape all together. In many European Countries you may get blank stares as âDuck Tapeâ is not a common phrase.
TWO RULES TO GET YOU THROUGH LIFE
If itâs stuck and itâs not supposed to be, WD-40 it.
If itâs not stuck and itâs supposed to be, duck tape it.
