All Knowledge is Contained on LiveJournal: Miscellaneous Questions

[tamaranth]

Answers to all and any gratefully received!



1. Why have Amazon changed their 'Order Summary' view for sellers in such a way that I can't usefully copy-and-paste into a spreadsheet? (Their response did not explain change but invited me to pay £28pcm for the privilege of proper reporting. No thx.)
1a. Do you know a quick and easy way of grabbing data from a webpage full of buttons and dross and shoving it into plain text/CSV? (I've tried 'view source' but it all seems to be dynamically generated.)

2. Does anyone have access to a microtome for non-werk purposes?
2a. If so, would you be able to slice up some bone for me? (I picked it up on the beach, honest. It is for jewellery-making purposes.)
2b. If not, can you suggest a source for 'scientific preparations' that might give me thin slices of bone, shell &co without embedding them in resin or glass or whatever?

3. Jean-Paul Sartre, in Being and Nothingness (a chapter of which I proofread today): "In our Introduction we defined consciousness as ‘a being such that in its being, its being is in question in so far as this being implies a being other than itself’." What?
3a. Was JPS on the good drugs?
3b. Can I be on the good drugs too?

4. Cambridge people: is there actually a branch of HSBC in Cambridge now, other than the one on Hills Rd which closes at 4:30?
4a. Why does HSBC's website still insist there is a branch on Cherry Hinton Rd, when that branch closed in June?

5. As a cyclist, what is my legal status if I fail to brake when a pedestrian steps out in front of me without looking?
5a. If I do brake and the cyclist behind me rear-ends me and I make painful contact with the frame of my bike, is it reasonable to expect the pedestrian to apologise?
5b. Might he also enquire as to my well-being and that of the lady who ran into me?
5c. Would it be disproportionate of me to lie in wait and ambush him tomorrow morning?

6. My nice floppy fake-leather multi-compartment small handbag, bought less than a month ago from Claire's Accessories (no relation to highheeled fishlifter), was Unfit for Purpose (strap snapped) so they gave me a no-hassle refund. yay Claire's! But where can I find a new one?

7. What is the word for people who deliberately (or possibly just invariably) see the worst in a situation, read the worst into an argument, perceive prejudice and malice where none is intended?

8. In spit Micro$soft IE7, when a link opens in a new window, is there a mouse-free way of making that window open in a different position? or of moving it without using the mouse?
8a. Why did I have to fill in a 30-minute survey on Proper Use of Desk before they would order me a wrist-rest?

edit to add
9. Is anyone playing Monopoly City Streets? Because there doesn't seem to be a 'vacation' option, so I might prefer to sell my property to a Worthy Person rather than lose it to landgrabbers while I'm sunning myself.

Comments

[groliffe.livejournal.com]

I'll try and remember to see if my microtome is still in the loft when I'm up there this weekend. Though you'll have to operate it yourself...

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

You have a microtome? YAY!
You will have to tell me what to do. And not laugh at the results.
(Away next week but could pop round some time after that?)

[groliffe.livejournal.com]

I certainly had one, and 20 years ago I knew how to use it, whether either is still true remains to be seen

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

The branch I used to bank at, many, many moons ago, was:

HSBC Bank
32 Market Hill
Cambridge
CB2 3NU

telephone: +44 (0) 845 740 4404

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

a quick check on Google Maps (yay streetview!) indicates that yes, this is where I thought it was: and is now a large building site.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Boo, hiss!

[childeric.livejournal.com]

There is such potential for losing friends by answering 7.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

no names, no pack drill ...
anyway, are they on my F-list?

[childeric.livejournal.com]

Goodness, is that the Fifth Amendment? :)

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

HSBC: I think they moved to St Andrew's St /Regent St--you know, alnong from H&M...

Sartre: No. Being French is possibly a drug, but not a good one. Especially if one is also mainlining pretentiousness and self-importance. Highly undesirable interactions have been reported.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

aha, had forgotten that HSBC (and it isn't on their branch list page, which is woefully out of date).

I have a feeling I had to read Being and Nothingness as an undergraduate. Did it make sense then? I doubt it, but I honestly can't remember. Anyway, Philosophy was my minor.

[nils.livejournal.com]

7. Livejournal users.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Sartre simply wasn't certain if he existed or not. And, if he did, if he was himself, or Simone de Beauvoir.
TK Maxx are surprisingly good for handbags.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

T K Maxx are my default handbag venue, but of course their stock is ever so variable.

Your comment, via email with no line break, is the first time I have ever (mis)read a confusion between Sartre and T K Maxx. Hopefully not the last.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

There is a strong overlap, it's true ...

[andrewducker]

7) People.
8)Alt-space takes you to the menu from the top left of the window. Then press M to move it, use the cursor keys to reposition it and then enter to carry on from where you were...

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

8. You are As A God. If it works. Thank you!

[andrewducker]

That should work with any Window's app. So you can try it out at home :->

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

#7 Thin-skinned. See also neuroticism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism).

[gummitch.livejournal.com]

4. Have you tried Yell.com? Might eb more up to date.
7. Misanthrope?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Yell also ignorant of the non-existence of Market Hill branch and the relocation to St Andrews St. See, local monkeys beat Yell monkeys!

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

5. It's Your Fault, because as is well known, cyclists are dangerous and antisocial, run red lights, ride on pavements, and don't pay road tax. Pedestrians, on the other hand, have a divine right to step out in front of bicycles, cars, buses, Martian tripods and, indeed, other pedestrians, without ever looking first or turning down the volume of their iPods.

Ummm…

Does that make #7==perlmonger :)