The email wasn't from Comcast - it came in on a email list. (But I suppose it could have been part of a Trojan Horse tyope thing.)
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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sumi - Jul 15, 2008 11:49:48 am PDT #7071 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
amych - Jul 15, 2008 12:04:23 pm PDT #7072 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
In that case, I'd assume it's someone being "helpful" -- no need to worry about it any more than about Obama being a Muslim.
tommyrot - Jul 15, 2008 2:46:44 pm PDT #7073 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
sarameg - Jul 15, 2008 3:32:35 pm PDT #7074 of 25501
Thanks to assurances here, I bought a refubed macbook pro this morning. It has 12x the diskspace, not to mention umpteen times more speed and memory. I expect I'll be pleasantly surprised at the relative performance.
And then have to shell out for something more than dialup when that becomes so clearly the bottleneck....
omnis_audis - Jul 16, 2008 5:50:47 am PDT #7075 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Is there a good local source for buying inexpensive HDMI cables? Or is the internet my friend in that regard?
Tom Scola - Jul 16, 2008 5:55:21 am PDT #7076 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The big-box retailers' prices for HDMI cables are almost criminal. I know that NoiseDesign has said he's gotten good prices through Amazon in the past.
hippocampus - Jul 16, 2008 6:38:36 am PDT #7077 of 25501
not your mom's socks.
weird mp3 voice recognition question - my craxy associates don't want to transcribe a sound file ... and are looking for voice recognition software that they can use to process/transcribe it instead. Beyond the ::lazy! lazy! bad! bad! :: wheelspin that I'm stuck in, does anyone have experience with this? Suggestions?
Jon B. - Jul 16, 2008 7:05:41 am PDT #7078 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Is Dragon NaturallySpeaking still the standard?
hippocampus - Jul 16, 2008 7:06:59 am PDT #7079 of 25501
not your mom's socks.
thanks Jon - that's what I suggested. They've just come back through asking if the Vista voice recognition is any good.
::headdesk::
tommyrot - Jul 16, 2008 7:14:25 am PDT #7080 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
You know, dogs can recognize about 200 different words. So if you assume that there are 10,000 commonly used words, and that most words used fall in this 10,000, you could get 50 dogs and train each to recognize 200 words. Then you'd need some sort of 200-key doggie keyboard for each dog....