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tommyrot - Apr 15, 2005 4:19:19 am PDT #2444 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I also have no idea what the ad was for

PSP.

I know this because I saw the same ad at a train station, so I had time to study it.


Wolfram - Apr 15, 2005 6:20:31 am PDT #2445 of 10003
Visilurking

We're becoming a society of acronyms and shorthand. (Or acros and SH.) It doesn't please me.


Jessica - Apr 15, 2005 6:27:06 am PDT #2446 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I recieved a shiny new flatscreen monitor at work today, and it's got a much higher resolution than my old one. I want to set my Outlook preview pane to a slightly bigger font, and I can't figure out how to do it across all mailboxes. (Doing it one mailbox at a time is certainly possible, but would take all morning, since I do a lot of filtering.) Anyone know where this setting is?


Liese S. - Apr 15, 2005 8:19:05 am PDT #2447 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Ha. While I have hitherto thought of it as fidelity, I will now happily think of it as wireless fiction.

Also, the iPod photo does not currently allow me to transfer photos directly off a memory card or by USB or firewire from a camera, right? Because if it did, and allowed me to use it as a small, portable, extended storage capacity device while taking pictures in the field, it would be tremendously useful, and I would have to buy one Right Now.


tommyrot - Apr 15, 2005 8:20:48 am PDT #2448 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Also, the iPod photo does not currently allow me to transfer photos directly off a memory card or by USB or firewire from a camera, right?

They have an optional iThingie that allows you to do that.

eta: somewhere towards the top of this page: [link]

eta²: there are two different things - one that can transfer from a camera to an iPod, and another (by Belkin) that can read various memory cards into an iPod.


Liese S. - Apr 15, 2005 8:42:15 am PDT #2449 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Ooh!

Thanks, tommyrot.


§ ita § - Apr 15, 2005 9:02:30 pm PDT #2450 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Where's a good local place to which to donate (ugh, ugly grammar) a 17" CRT in good repair?


Alibelle - Apr 15, 2005 10:29:55 pm PDT #2451 of 10003
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan

My house? Assuming a CRT is some sort of TV.

Kidding. I would suggest Goodwill. But I really don't know.


DXMachina - Apr 16, 2005 2:44:17 am PDT #2452 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I'm assuming it's a monitor with a VGA input, so mostly useless for TV purposes.

My default for donating stuff is the Salvation Army, mostly because they have a store near where I work.


Laura - Apr 16, 2005 3:41:23 am PDT #2453 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.

We have a number of local charities that take working equipment, but not components. I have a garage full of used parts that I need to toss, but garbage rules say they harm the landfills and need to be recycled. The recycling centers charge you per pound when you drop stuff off. Unless I find a better solution I am about to toss stuff in various construction dumpsters around town.