Re: [Debconf-discuss] Ordering Debian Tartan Products
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 19:09:03 +0100, Jonathan McDowell nood...@earth.li wrote: On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 01:06:44PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 08/07/2010 12:00 PM, Philip Hands wrote: I should have got round to this before people started leaving DebConf, but in fact it doesn't make a vast amount of difference as I don't actually have any spare stock with me, but there is around 20 yards spare from the most recent batch that was woven. I really like the Debian Tartan, but i assume it's made of wool, and i don't wear animal products. I'm sure the traditional tartan-makers would be aghast at the suggestion, but are there any plans (or even any possibilities) to make a batch of this fabric in cotton, linen, or other vegetable- or synthetic-based material? I have a wool allergy, so if there was a plan to produce a non wool run of the tartan I'd be interested. Interesting question -- I'll ask them when I talk to them about the new tie order. Looking round the geoffreykilts.co.uk site, it seems that they do cloth in Polyester Viscose and Polyester Cotton, but I've no idea if that would work for kilts. Of course, we don't have to use the Edinburgh folks to do the work, so finding some weavers who are used to weaving in the alternative material and telling them the pattern (which we own) might be considerably cheaper. Silk would make much better ties, and would presumably look fantastic, but Geoffrey's charge a fortune for it. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd.http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] Ordering Debian Tartan Products
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:14:23AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: Hi, Silk would make much better ties, and would presumably look fantastic, but Geoffrey's charge a fortune for it. I agree, silk ties would be wonderful. Not that they would help if the issue is no animal based cloth, though. :) G ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
[Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
Hi there! Please do not Cc: me, I read the list, thanks. On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 17:39 -0400, Adnan Hodzic wrote: Looking forward to attend DebConf11, where probably say what? and what's that? will need to found a good counterpart (Zack and Biella, you know about that...). Can you please elaborate what was meant by this? Basically, given that I am not an English native speaker, I tend to make errors, thus sometime the person in front of me does not understand. I found out that she/he replies to me with different expressions, used AFAIK without any preference WRT her/his origin. Until now, I have found three of them: say what?, what's that? and say it again, the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
On 10 August 2010 19:26, Luca Capello l...@pca.it wrote: Basically, given that I am not an English native speaker, I tend to make errors, thus sometime the person in front of me does not understand. I found out that she/he replies to me with different expressions, used AFAIK without any preference WRT her/his origin. Until now, I have found three of them: say what?, what's that? and say it again, the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. Say what? definitely sounds US English. I wouldn't use the other two either. Your basic four UK responses are as follows, in descending order of politeness: Pardon?, Sorry?, Come again?, What?. For bonus points, elaborate: I beg your pardon, what did you say? I'm terribly sorry, come again? If all else fails, add more self-deprecation and explanation: I'm afraid I didn't quite hear, would you mind awfully repeating that please? This actually happened to me in New York with someone asking for money. It seemed somewhat unfair not to give it to them at that point, after making them repeat themselves so many times. -- Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:26:00PM -0400, Luca Capello wrote: Until now, I have found three of them: say what?, what's that? and say it again, the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. Wunderbar! SCNR Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] Lost Garmin ANT+ USB communication device
In case someone found a USB stick that is *not* a USB stick but the communication device to use with my running watch (Garmin Forerunner 405), I'd be happy to get it back again. Now that's a geek! Asking debconf-discuss before asking his own son who he exchanged bags with and who happened to have it! -- Cordialement, Jean-Baptiste Perrier Ingénieur électronique 64 bis avenue Aubert 94300 Vincennes Tel:+33 1.72.94.71.19 GSM:+33 6.71.83.69.32 ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] Lost Garmin ANT+ USB communication device
On 08/10/2010 05:41 PM, Jean-Baptiste Perrier wrote: In case someone found a USB stick that is *not* a USB stick but the communication device to use with my running watch (Garmin Forerunner 405), I'd be happy to get it back again. Now that's a geek! Asking debconf-discuss before asking his own son who he exchanged bags with and who happened to have it! grin That's was great! Though in defense of a fellow geek, obviously his approach of asking on the list was ultimately successful ;-) -- John ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
Tim Retout dijo [Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 08:36:39PM +0100]: Until now, I have found three of them: say what?, what's that? and say it again, the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. Say what? definitely sounds US English. I wouldn't use the other two either. Your basic four UK responses are as follows, in descending order of politeness: Pardon?, Sorry?, Come again?, What?. For bonus points, elaborate: I beg your pardon, what did you say? I'm terribly sorry, come again? If all else fails, add more self-deprecation and explanation: I'm afraid I didn't quite hear, would you mind awfully repeating that please? This actually happened to me in New York with someone asking for money. It seemed somewhat unfair not to give it to them at that point, after making them repeat themselves so many times. Of course, being the minimum wage so crazily high in that so-called first-world, if you didn't give him the requested money, you would be facing the Homeless Union. Well played. At least you made him lose some time with you brit. ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
Andreas Tille dijo [Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:07:59PM +0200]: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:26:00PM -0400, Luca Capello wrote: Until now, I have found three of them: say what?, what's that? and say it again, the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. Wunderbar! I think mixing de_AR is a bit offtopic here... ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
