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Jun. 5th, 2002 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vyvyanxToday, due to having a larger hard disk, I finally caved in and installed a graphical browser. It doesn't entirely work, and I'm not sure why; nor can I find any helpful information on the web, for once. When I try to download certain pages, it says it can't find a plugin for the mime type text/plain, which seems surprising. Anyone know how I might deal with this, where the plugin is to be got etc. ?
I'm scared this installation of a graphical browser is a slippery slope to increasing unnecessary technology and complication. If I'm not careful I'll end up with a mobile phone and a credit card, and then where will I be? :-)
I went to the UL today and borrowed six books which it so happened that no one had ever borrowed before. They were mostly dictionaries of Russian to $random_obscure_central_Asian_language, so perhaps it's not that surprising. I collected some data for Evenki this afternoon - it's a language with a peculiar fascination with reindeer. There are dozens of highly-specialised terms for types of reindeer eg. "1-year-old reindeer", "female reindeer with a calf", "reindeer with white hooves", "not completely castrated reindeer" and "reindeer harnessed on the left-hand side of a sledge-team". Wonderful.
This evening, G and I went and ate at the Maypole and drank cocktails (though not as many as I'd have liked, for the sake of our finances) and G told me about Changeling at some length. Now he's asleep, and I guess I'll join him soon. Hmm, quite a pleasant day, on the whole.
I'm scared this installation of a graphical browser is a slippery slope to increasing unnecessary technology and complication. If I'm not careful I'll end up with a mobile phone and a credit card, and then where will I be? :-)
I went to the UL today and borrowed six books which it so happened that no one had ever borrowed before. They were mostly dictionaries of Russian to $random_obscure_central_Asian_language, so perhaps it's not that surprising. I collected some data for Evenki this afternoon - it's a language with a peculiar fascination with reindeer. There are dozens of highly-specialised terms for types of reindeer eg. "1-year-old reindeer", "female reindeer with a calf", "reindeer with white hooves", "not completely castrated reindeer" and "reindeer harnessed on the left-hand side of a sledge-team". Wonderful.
This evening, G and I went and ate at the Maypole and drank cocktails (though not as many as I'd have liked, for the sake of our finances) and G told me about Changeling at some length. Now he's asleep, and I guess I'll join him soon. Hmm, quite a pleasant day, on the whole.
