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| | | Subject: Origami as a commuting activity
Posted Mar 14, 2003 by Pimms Lettuce
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 | | I first got started with origami on bus journeys in Sheffield.
I found the journey time generally sufficient to dissect my bus ticket and make two small flapping birds  , and sometimes start on a a third still smaller one from the bit left over.
Gradually I completely filled a pint (yogurt) pot with these birds, which then made great decorations, when I had a chinese themed evening, threaded onto lengths of cotton.
Some nice things about doing origami in public are that you can get:
the pleasure of creating something,
the pleasure of other people admiring it (sometimes) and
the pleasure of giving it to someone who appreciates it afterward.
I nearly always try to give my origami away now - far too much has piled up under my desk and in my pockets.
Strangely I've found that some people find it off-putting when you engross yourself in minute folds of paper - which is why I'm trying to give it up for lent. In its favour origami is cheap, quiet, and good for your dexterity.
Warning: origami is generally not a good idea when you are driving a vehicle, or on foot. A book is a better choice, as long as you have reasonable peripheral vision  .
Pimms 
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| | | Subject: Origami as a commuting activity
Posted Mar 15, 2003 by sinistercoincidence
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 | | It's funny that I'm still so delighted to find people as weird as myself at h2g2. It happens so often now that I've come to regard myself as quite normal. I do the origami thing with bus tickets too (secretly dreading the day when I have to explain to a ticket inspector precisely why I can't prove I paid for the journey without unfolding several cranes of various sizes and piecing the paper back together!)
Long journeys on trains are good for folding modules for a big modular project - you get to stare out of the window and think about something else (an activity I believe to be severely underrated) whilst keeping your finger fitness at an acceptable level.
(hope my nickname isn't too silly for Pimms  )
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| | | Subject: Origami as a commuting activity
Posted Mar 17, 2003 by Tweety Pie
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| | sinistercoincidence you've done better than Pimms in reading personal spaces before replying. Have you considered adding Celtic Knotwork to origami as a time-consuming creactivity?
Well done on the offer from Cambridge I hope it turns out ok. I also applied to Cambridge, but didn't end up there.
Nickname seems fine to me - would it refer to some morganatic alliance?
Tweety Pie  (a southpaw)
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| | | Subject: Origami as a commuting activity
Posted Mar 18, 2003 by sinistercoincidence
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| | Hello!
Congratulations on decoding me (at least in part). Mental image of one-sided bird trying to take off caused much hilarity for those partying in my brain (gives them something to do whilst waiting for Bob Dylan, anyway).
Celtic knotwork is intriguing, but my problem is always that I find everything so darned *interesting*. Honestly, you'd think the cosmos was out to deliberately drive us all insane.
Your own fine personal space has reminded me to add an essential component to mine, which is what I'm off to do now.
Toodle pip
sinistercoincidence (hoping Cambridge turns out ok - thanks!)
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| | | Subject: Origami as a commuting activity
Posted Mar 19, 2003 by Tweety Pie
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| | Sinister (if I can call you that) I've spotted the addition - had you found a link to the myth of 42? A530560 (the ACE who first welcomed my alter ego pointed me to it)
You might have overlooked the 'keeping the numbers in the same order' bit. This adds a bit more challenge.
Bemused by compliments re Personal Space. Compared with some more established researchers I have done virtually zip. There are probably hints in entries elsewhere as to how to personalize your space much more, but I prefer to browse than primp.
Nothing occurs to me for decoding the other part of your nickname  . My alias here has no hidden layers.
must dash 
Tweety Pie
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| | | Subject: Origami as a commuting activity
Posted Mar 20, 2003 by Pimms Lettuce
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| | Hi SinisterCoincidence
 I took so long to reply - couldn't get to my computer.
Where would you recommend looking for instructions on modular origami? Never tried it myself, concentrating on single piece creations like dragons and flying pigs.
Your nickname is fine (don't make it any longer). I did write a lengthy reply about what annoyed me  about 'silly' names, but lost it when my pc refused to preview it.
Suffice to say I am almost as guilty having added my Lent banner comment, but at least it is informative and topical, which is often more than can be said for additions like Royal Keeper of Unwashed Balwynti Irritatingly long and meaningless Threads, which bypass my good humour on the second reading, like pop-up adverts, but nevertheless must slow down my loading of conversations fractionally.
Pimms
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| | | Subject: Origami as a commuting activity
Posted Mar 20, 2003 by sinistercoincidence
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| | I'd no idea the Myth of 42 was an organised thingy with rules - I suppose I just assumed it was a viable meme for the type of people who tend to sign up here! I've been meaning to sort mine out for months, but h2g2 has so many millions of distractions that I always remembered after logging off for the night. Will pop back to coreect the order thing immediately!
There is nothing wrong with 'virtually zip'. It is zip with Punctuation and Spelling, ergo it is good zip.
As for hidden layers, they may be overrated or they may be the whole point of life. Who knows?
Anyway, I'm off now. Would use a smiley but I don't know them - too much browsing and anyway I have enough trouble with the imperfect magic lantern of language: I'm not sure I can cope with more!
Byeee
Sinister
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| | | Subject: Origami as a commuting activity
Posted Mar 21, 2003 by Pimms Lettuce
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| | I've never found any bookshops that carry in stock origami books worth buying. In my experience of internet sourced origami it is easy to find bibliographic recommendations, and some-time when I really need the books I'll source them through an internet bookseller (as I say on my home page I do live in the middle of a sea on an island - bustling metropoli with cornucopias of books are an inconveniently long way away).
Smileys are simplicity to use if you use Brunel as your skin (which can be set in Preferences), as a useful selection appear below the Reply box. Of course once you are more familiar with them (having gone to the smiley index a few times) you just need to remember the descriptive word and enclose it in the pointy brackets.
Pimms
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| | | Subject: Origami as a commuting activity
Posted Mar 22, 2003 by Pimms Lettuce
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| | SC the above was me - but I was on Tweety Pies log in.
Apart from conversing, browsing and learning Smileys do you intend to write Guide Entries? I've browsed one or two of your interests (that prevent you learning Guide ML) - so far only coffee spoons presents itself as an unsung entry, though of course this may have quite limited appeal (maybe there's a lot about them I don't know) The general element has been covered A352739 Please don't join the sporkite rebellion 
Pimms
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| | | Subject: Origami as a commuting activity
Posted Mar 23, 2003 by sinistercoincidence
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| | Slightly confused now, but posting regardless...
Pimms and Tweety Pie will now be added to my friends list, unless either tell me otherwise(!)
One day, perhaps, I shall finally get round to writing a guide entry - for now there are too many people telling me that A' levels must take priority for me to justify the time it would take, really. I'll be so glad when that's all over- not long now!
I don't know anything about coffee spoons as such - they're on the home page as representatives of other stuff. I won't tell you the literary source of this particular piece of shorthand unless you're absolutely desperate to know - what's the point of poetry otherwise.
Sorry - it's possible I'm a little under the influence still!
Sincerely
SC
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