Pariah Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 Say, that's not a bad idea. I wonder where I could find the molds.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 I'm sure there's stuff in the back of your fridge with molds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 Tin soldier molds must be antiques nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 Polymers are cheaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 28, 2017 Report Share Posted November 28, 2017 Though you can't melt and recast polymers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 1, 2017 Report Share Posted December 1, 2017 There is something odd about grading students' reflective essays after reading Clarke's The Star and some bits about gamma-ray bursters and GRB080319b while listening to Sympathy for the Devil on the headphones. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 1, 2017 Report Share Posted December 1, 2017 And ... why does a one-page essay become a 111 KB docx file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 1, 2017 Report Share Posted December 1, 2017 That's a mystery for Microsoft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 1, 2017 Report Share Posted December 1, 2017 I think I've seen worse file inflation, but that's idiotic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 2, 2017 Report Share Posted December 2, 2017 It must be the formatting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 2, 2017 Report Share Posted December 2, 2017 I wonder if it has packed an entire font into the file because the one the user selected isn't a "standard" one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 2, 2017 Report Share Posted December 2, 2017 Insanity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 2, 2017 Report Share Posted December 2, 2017 Hmm, yes, it does seem to pack entire fonts -- sometimes several of them -- into a document file without a good reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 2, 2017 Report Share Posted December 2, 2017 Can the recipients keep the fonts ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 2, 2017 Report Share Posted December 2, 2017 No idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 2, 2017 Report Share Posted December 2, 2017 Perhaps they used Papyrus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 I may check on one or two of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 My guess is that is just how the document format is. So many options to record them, so it gets bloated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 Thing is, of 30 papers I received by email, only 4 or 5 are upwards of 100 kb. Most are down in the 10 to 13 kb range. And in terms of word count, they're all 500 words or less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 * Crabby old man Cancer holds forth on the virtues of plain text format * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 It works very well for most intents and purposes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 Or intense porpoises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 Though they and I are comparably graceful on land, I am not a cetecean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 Too much hair on your part, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 "Part" in a certain sense requires hair.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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