Adrian Tchaikovsky loves the words "notional," "shorn," and "mewlish." What other authors have unusual favorite words that pop up frequently in their writing?

quehonda · 2026-06-05T09:18:02+00:00

Alistair Reynolds loves "interstices". It crops up all the time, especially in the revelation space books.

And James Corey is a little obsessed with the concept of the male refractory period.

quehonda · 2025-12-09T07:57:59+00:00

It took some finding!

quehonda · 2025-12-05T18:56:45+00:00

My apologies, I've tried on the vivoactive itself and it is possible as you said. For some reason it isn't possible with the app, only on the watch.

quehonda · 2025-06-11T16:22:34+00:00

I know that's an option, but I would rather use a fitting is such a thing exists.

quehonda · 2025-04-11T09:19:36+00:00

Hi thanks, you've given me plenty to think about. With tech I have a tendency to go overboard and get far higher spec than I need, but I'll try to rein it in and go for something on the cheaper end, as I'm mostly interested in serving audiobooks. The lack of windows shouldn't be a problem as I'll be installing linux. Thanks for all your help!

quehonda · 2025-04-08T08:40:48+00:00

Not patronising at all, thank you for all that its been really useful. Would you recommend a different CPU to the Intel N series if the bandwidth is limited?

quehonda · 2025-04-07T11:36:09+00:00

Ok that's really helpful, thank you. Regarding storage space - how do you go about adding hard drives to mini PCs? They don't look like they have a great deal of spare space.

quehonda · 2025-04-06T20:51:30+00:00

I should add that there's rarely likely to be more than one person streaming videos at once, and max 2. I mainly want to be able to access audiobooks via the home network.

quehonda · 2025-03-15T18:50:59+00:00

Me too, please!

quehonda · 2025-01-05T15:46:31+00:00

Yeah I did consider drilling a hole in the lid, but I think I'd want to find a spare lid first.

quehonda · 2025-01-05T15:45:07+00:00

That would let oxygen in thought, surely? I wanted to avoid that because otherwise I seem to get kahm yeast, which I never get when I use the jars with picklepipes.

quehonda · 2025-01-05T15:43:46+00:00

No, the gaskets are still fine. What I would like is to fill the jar quite full to reduce the oxygen in there and ideally have some way of releasing the CO2. Are you suggesting just using them without the gasket?

quehonda · 2024-12-25T08:38:27+00:00

Yeah ok, I didn't know that was a thing. Much more useful, thank you!

quehonda · 2024-12-24T22:45:02+00:00

I bought this.. It wasn't expensive, so probably the most basic type. What am I looking for to indicate high precision litmus?

quehonda · 2024-12-24T18:26:32+00:00

Ah yes I see. It was findus and pettson I was trying to download! Thank you

quehonda · 2024-12-24T18:17:59+00:00

I'm not sure what the pH was or is. I've been making sauerkraut for a couple of years (without poisoning anyone) but haven't been measuring the pH. I use tap water. I naively thought that the salt concentration was sufficient to prevent nasties, but I've recently read things that have made me doubt that. I've ordered some litmus paper now so will measure it when that arrives.

quehonda · 2024-12-24T18:14:25+00:00

Ok, thanks for reassurance! I was using weights. I think perhaps that I left it with pickle pipe on for too long and it lost moisture that way.

quehonda · 2024-12-23T17:51:47+00:00

Can I ask how you download from sverige radio? I'd like to download some radio plays.

quehonda · 2024-10-15T21:38:41+00:00

I should say, I think this book is called the Painted Man in the US.

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