e-mail gets smarter and bonus canoe
Apr. 21st, 2011 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillSo I was sending the minutes from the last LWV board meeting to members of the board, and I wrote an e-mail saying something like "I am attaching them as a .doc file; if you have any problems with the format please let me know and I'll work something out."
And then I went to send the e-mail and a little message pops up saying (roughly) "it looks like you intended to send an attachment--you wrote 'I am attaching...', but this mail has no attachments. Send anyway?"
This let me hit cancel, and attach the file I was intending from the first to attach, thus preventing me from making a fool of myself yet again with that particular mistake.
Now *that* is smart programming.
In other news I have been making dookie schmutz and forcing it into cracks between the planks on my boat. For quick, efficient forcing I have been using a syringe (even in this war-on-drugs day and age you can pick up several at a feed store without raising an eyebrow--domestic animals must be very patient about being injected by amateurs, I guess.)
And I have discovered a new thing--vinegar! No, vinegar is not new--but it was news to me that vinegar dissolves uncured epoxy, even when it's quite thick and gloppy and beginning to harden and full of sawdust. The epoxy turns white and gets liquid--quite quickly too--and the sawdust makes everything opaque but is basically like sawdust suspended in water. It certainly makes cleanup much easier.
Word has it, it also neutralizes whatever-it-is in the hardener that people react to like poison oak. I think before I shower after sanding epoxy I may wipe my skin down with a washcloth dipped in vinegar.
I won't be able to work on the canoe this weekend (going to Atlanta to visit Alice) so I am trying to decide whether to do one last pass with the dookie schmutz tonight--thus committing myself to some sanding in the morning, because if I wait three days to sand it will be hard like a rock which is not a good idea next to soft white pine--or whether to put that off until Monday.
And then I went to send the e-mail and a little message pops up saying (roughly) "it looks like you intended to send an attachment--you wrote 'I am attaching...', but this mail has no attachments. Send anyway?"
This let me hit cancel, and attach the file I was intending from the first to attach, thus preventing me from making a fool of myself yet again with that particular mistake.
Now *that* is smart programming.
In other news I have been making dookie schmutz and forcing it into cracks between the planks on my boat. For quick, efficient forcing I have been using a syringe (even in this war-on-drugs day and age you can pick up several at a feed store without raising an eyebrow--domestic animals must be very patient about being injected by amateurs, I guess.)
And I have discovered a new thing--vinegar! No, vinegar is not new--but it was news to me that vinegar dissolves uncured epoxy, even when it's quite thick and gloppy and beginning to harden and full of sawdust. The epoxy turns white and gets liquid--quite quickly too--and the sawdust makes everything opaque but is basically like sawdust suspended in water. It certainly makes cleanup much easier.
Word has it, it also neutralizes whatever-it-is in the hardener that people react to like poison oak. I think before I shower after sanding epoxy I may wipe my skin down with a washcloth dipped in vinegar.
I won't be able to work on the canoe this weekend (going to Atlanta to visit Alice) so I am trying to decide whether to do one last pass with the dookie schmutz tonight--thus committing myself to some sanding in the morning, because if I wait three days to sand it will be hard like a rock which is not a good idea next to soft white pine--or whether to put that off until Monday.
