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Bridget ([personal profile] bugshaw) wrote2006-12-01 12:10 pm

A couple of questions

1) Give me free stuff!
I suspect there are some people on my friends list who have accumulated huge numbers of USB sticks. Do you have any spare, as gifts or loans? For my project I want to assess and perhaps develop some stuff which can be run from a USB stick, and to make life less complicated I'd like to keep each thing on a separate stick. I am also too cheap to buy extras.
Can anyone help, or suggest a source of very cheap sticks?

2) Cambridge info
I'd like to start Tai Chi again. Can you recommend a good class?

I did Yang style Long Form for a few years, but only got 2/3 the way through. I did one of Mike Tabram's beginners Short Form class three years ago, but it was a bit too beginner for me. I went to John Constable's advanced class for a year, which was great, but I was quite far behind and found it hard to keep up. I stopped before Easter because I was too busy, and haven't got back yet... I could start again, but it's over in Green End Road which is a bit of a way from me in Mill Road way (I walk), also I feel a little bit guilty about dropping out and I'll be even more behind now.

Another problem I have with committing to a class, is that I have to fit it around my students' timetables, which change in February, and may include lectures up to 7pm, and I don't want to sign up for a term's classes and then only make the first four.

But I find Tai Chi very good for me, and I enjoy it a lot, if only I make time for it rather than balancing bank statements and making spreadsheets for conrunners!

EDIT: Wednesday is out (gaming). Thursday might be okay in early evening but I like to go to the pub ;-)

[identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com 2006-12-01 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Does Sion Arrowsmith go to any of those classes?

[identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com 2006-12-01 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)
He goes to yet other different ones - there are a lot in Cambridge!

[identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com 2006-12-01 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I tend to be given lots with press releases on (as does [livejournal.com profile] marypcb.

How many would you need, and what sizes? I can stick a bunch in a jiffy bag for you - just send me your address off LJ...

[identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com 2006-12-01 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
My address is here: http://bugshaw.livejournal.com/79512.html

Four would be nice, what sort of sizes are they? I imagine 128MB would be plenty, but I've not really looked into size yet.

Thanks!

[identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com 2006-12-01 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll sort some out for you over the weekend.

[identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com 2006-12-01 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm obviously getting the wrong press releases - mine usually contain a picture of some obscenely expensive scientific apparatus and a voucher for 5% off if I place an order by a date that is almost invariably a few weeks before our financial year starts and we actually have some money to spend.

[identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com 2006-12-01 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I have in my hand a USB stick which is one of two which was given to me by Simon Bisson for Newsletter purposes. I'm sure he wouldn't mind me lending to you on the promise that you bring it to a con sometime...

How big does the stick have to be?

Remember that these sorts of thing have a limited lifespan so if you are going to be dong lots of writes then you may kill the flash memory inside...