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Got a dollar store? A wal-mart, etc, too.
My neighborhood is mostly small family-owned businesses, and very little is open on Sundays.
Jess, can you slip a dime into the slot?
Nope -- the screws are set into holes smaller than a pencil-width (that's what I mean by the Philips-head being too fat -- I literally can't fit it into the hole where the screws are). I need a skinny Philips-head screwdriver, and I can't get one until tomorrow.
I even tried one of my eyeglass-fixing screwdrivers, but the head was too small. I'm like the Goldilocks of screwdrivers here.
It's asking me for the names of my incoming and outgoing mail server.
The outgoing is often smtp.yourISP.com
I could lend you a screwdriver.
Hee! Thanks, but I can wait. It's probably something that'll be useful to have anyway.
I don't know if anyone here reads Computerworld's Shark Tank, but I just can't get enough of it -- lots of tales of clueless IT users, often management with pointless decisions.
From Space.com:
September 12
Space Elevator Gets FAA Lift
The LiftPort Group, the space elevator companies, announced September 9 that it has received a waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to use airspace to conduct preliminary tests of its high altitude robotic “lifters.”
The lifters are early prototypes of the technology that the company is developing for use in its commercial space elevator to ferry cargo back and forth into space.
The tests, which are planned for early fall, will simulate a working space elevator by launching a model elevator “ribbon” attached to moored balloon initially up to a mile high. The robotic lifters will then be tested in their ability to climb up and down the free-hanging ribbon, marking the first-ever test of this technology in the development of the space elevator concept.
According to Michael Laine, president of the LiftPort Group in Bremerton, Washington, the FAA go-ahead is a “critical step” in the ultimate developing of the group’s LiftPort Space Elevator concept.
I love the idea of space elevators, I they they're a bad idea for use on earth. The catastrophic failure of a space elevator brings new definition to the word "catastrophic."
In my mind, space elevators fall under the category of "cool stuff that won't happen until after I die." Of course I could be wrong....
(Another of that category is "humans landing on Mars." Latest word is that will happen by 2025 or in the 2030s, but who knows if the proper level of funding can be maintained for that long.)
I'm still rooting for Bob Zubrin and the Mars First movement, but why goes to Mars cheap and easy when you can hand out bloated government contracts instead.
