You don't have to say please.

[reddragdiva]

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LessWrong meeting on Sunday 2nd was jolly fun. Really smart people sitting around talking erudite rubbish. I have homework.

Packing up redcountess' stuff to send back to Australia, and slightly our own to move to a house without a collapsing floor. Filling many a garbage bag along the way. All stuff constitutes a white elephant unless and until proven otherwise. I have thrown out several dead laptops and cameras, according to the rule of "generally useful is not the same as specifically useful" and distinguishing "actually useful" from "seems useful", which I shall now term "usefuloid." BEWARE THE PSEUDO-USEFUL. There's almost room in the lounge!

Comments

[jauncourt]

I always feel like I've missed something. I suppose that's what I get for not paying attention :D

We have done that. I have spasms of "get it OUT! OUT!" periodically and our house is better.

[nanaya]

Good grief, a total Whitehouse collection. The soundtrack to my nightmares. I should probably point fluffymormegil, just in case there are any gaps in his undoubtedly extensive hateful noise library.

[reddragdiva]

I believe the point is to make it the soundtrack to other people's nightmares. If you have a neighbour who plays eight hours of Robbie Williams a day for a week, a blast of Whitehouse will have them moving out within about an hour.

[nanaya]

But I'd rather have Robbie Williams for 100 years than have to listen to Whitehouse for an hour...

[arkady]

You don't necessarily have to hang around at home for that hour whilst it's playing though. I once got the point across to a noisy neighbour by queuing up about 3 hours of Cradle of Filth on my PC and leaving it playing whilst I went out shopping. When I got back there was complete silence from the neighbour, and I had peace and quiet from that quarter the rest of the time I lived in that particular apartment.

[nanaya]

Hm. Could get messy if there's an escalation in sonic warfare though; what if the neighbour starts performing "I Will Always Love You" on their home karaoke machine to retaliate?

(There was a noise nuisance case about a woman who was obsessed with that song, IIRC.)

[fluffymormegil]

The size of my hateful noise library is a function of what the listener considers "hateful noise" :)

[nanaya]

You said when you visited that you wanted to make the most unlistenable record ever. While I regard that as quite an impressive challenge, I have to assume that the point of that would not be to cheer, relax or soothe your potential audience :-)

[reddragdiva]

Whitehouse: destroys neighbours, leaves buildings only slightly tottering.

[nanaya]

I'm genuinely surprised they weren't using Whitehouse at Guantanamo - or at least, not as far as we know. That'd break a man in 10 minutes...

[vayshti]

If there happens to be a double male VGA cable in the white elephant pile with a length under 5m, I have a good home for it.

[reddragdiva]

You might actually be in luck! I'll check tomorrow ...

[vayshti]

Cheers! I look forward to hearing a yay/nay.

We've just bought a 5m one to hook the laptop up with the TV, and the TV doesn't acknowledge the PC as being connected.

The font o all wisdom that is other clueless sods like me on the 'net suggests that it may be to do with the cable length being too long - hence the plea.