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I'm a Wardeadlock 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
I'm gonna steal that!!!
I'd rather be phishing!
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Upvote for a TP reference!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Terry Pratchett[^] - very much a British thing and much loved by programmers for his orthogonal humour.
I assumed you knew his work because he talks of sourcerers (as opposed to "sorcerers") as being wizards that are connected to "the source of magic"! clickety[^]
His work is rich with puns, e.g. Rincewind the wizard, who can't do magic, who has "wizzard" written on his hat (the wizard who can't spell) possibly culminating in "Soul Music" where there's "Music With Rocks", "Pathway To Paradise" and an elaborate setup to "Wheels On Fire " and "Three Wheels on my Wagon" where Rincewind escapes the city in a wagon with wheels on fire until they start falling off.
You either love Pratchett or you just don't get it!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Ah, he gets mentioned on here once in a while. Never read him, but I'm a Douglas Adams fan and I keep thinking I should try.
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As an Adams fan, I'd be amazed if you didn't enjoy Pratchett's books. You don't need to read them in sequence, although there would be some benefit.
You should be aware that:
- Some of his books are kids books. They're adult readable (especially the Nac Mac Feegle books), although some are a little light
- Not all of his books are about The Discworld, his main ouvre
There are several distinct threads to the Discworld books, with considerable crossover: Wizards, Witches, The City Watch, Death (the person), the Feegle (a race of small blue people with a distinct Scottish heritage "pictsies") and Moist von Lipwig (a semi-reformed con man).
One benefit over Adams is that TP has been prolific, so it will take you ages to get through all the Discworld books and although he is ailing, he is still pumping them out! Like Adams, you can read his books over and over and get something new out of them (especially his sometimes elaborate jokes).
Happy reading!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Speechless. Especially those brooms.
Marc
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Exactly. It was all over for me when I saw/read that you have to play with the brooms between your legs. 
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I think about a Palladin or Cleric
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Yes, according to my ex-wife, and all who followed her... Why do you ask?
Will Rogers never met me.
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It's all fun and games until the chafing starts.
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When the platypus swims it does so with nose, ears and eyes closed.
It uses electro reception for navigation and finding it's prey. They have almost 40,000 electroreceptors, whose sensitivity lies in the microvolt range.
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good one 
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: eyes closed.
simply not true![^]
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Which should I get? Mostly will use for reading books, eg. Nook and kindle.
If Android, which device?
Thanks.
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Kindle Fire.
I have a Kindle Fire, Ipad, and Lenovo Thinkpad (Win 8.1). For reading books, kindle books specifically, the Kindle fire is hands down the best. They each have their uses though, and I'm not sure you could get the Nook software on you Kindle fire, but it is just Android after all. Most, or a lot, of android apps work fine on the Kindle Fire.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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I would recommend an iPad air, very nice piece of kit!
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I use a Nexus 7 for that, and other things. Very nice, and has two big advantages over the Apple version:
1) It's considerably cheaper.
2) It doesn't involve iTunes...
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OriginalGriff wrote: 1) It's considerably cheaper.
2) It doesn't involve iTunes...
I also own the Nexus 7 and I 100% agree with what you said on both accounts.
Except I think you meant to say,
"doesn't involve [the iTunesVirus]"...
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I was being nice to the Fanbois! 
Silly question - did the 4.4.4 update "lag" your Nexus a bit? Mine seems to be slower to wake up than it used to be, particularly if it gets a wifi connection, but can't reach the internet through it (Tesco is a prime culprit here). I'm hoping that the Lollipop push will fix it when it rolls out to my device.
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Yes, I have definitely experienced the lag on my Nexus 7 also.
It has actually driven me quite crazy recently and I wrote a app to kill all processes thinking it was one of the processes which was causing the problem. Then I figured maybe the hardware was just getting old now. I noticed that the newer ones do have quite a better chip.
I'm with you on hoping that the Lollipop makes things better again. Wish they'd say when it would be deployed.
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Thank elephant for that!
I was starting to think I was the only one - I've seen nothing on t'interweb...
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