I’ve definitely got it. Thanks to the good old British Broadcasting Corporation I can watch it live online here. It doesn’t hurt that my NTL account goes through a UK-based internet gateway so I’m getting access to the UK only clips. That’s a result, as they say!
From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 29 August 1941, pg. 14, col. 5:
_Shooting the Breeze_
by Joseph Driscoll
(…) But when the men of the U. S. N. have time to relax, they relax in a great big way. What is their favorite relaxation? Strange as it may seem to landlubbers, your naval man would pass up wine, women or song any time if only he be permitted to shoot the breeze.
Shooting the breeze is yarn spinning, only I never heard it called the latter on shipboard. When sailor-folk shoot the breeze they are not conscious of retailing fiction.
(Long article–ed.)
Overall I’m finding the beta 2 of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 browser to be quite good. There are one or two flaws though that I’ve noticed particularly in it’s handling of CSS.
However, the yahoo mail beta doesn’t support it. It provides a
Sorry, Yahoo! Mail Beta does not support your browser
but helpfully advises me to try Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher with a link that takes me to the IE download page. From a brief examination of requests IE7b2 is throwing at our webserver Looks like Yahoo failed to psychically read MS’s intentions and got the HTTP_USER_AGENT test wrong. Hope someone tells them!
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve used the Engineering Fundamentals website to research an engineering or financial calculation. It has some of the most practical and useful explanations of relatively complex concepts that I’ve seen. The calculators section is excellent and available here