h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Marv

Any chance of getting your hands on a touch sensitive screen?
That should confuse the finger pointers

I hope not... I have used them in the past and they are a bear to ceep clean. I sit next to a window and the light reflectso n my screen terribly when it is dirty. I would close the shades but then I could not spy on people all the time with my binoculars .

That confirms everything I've thought, Marv.

I'm so disappointed, Caerwynn, that it's just a . I was looking forward to a good story!

Maybe there's still hope, FG - remember that Caer said there was surprisingly much noise for a - maybe it's a divertion?

FG
I think Caer is just glad it wasn't a "furry tailed gutter munching tree rat"

I'm thinking of getting rid of my desktop PC, which will officially make me a Mac-only user. I'm a bit conflicted as to whether I should take the leap to sell it as I have well over 40k worth of programs for my PC and I think it is quite a decent beast (Pentium III (top o' the line when I bought it), a 40 gig and 80 gig hard drive, 640mb ram, 8 firewire ports (don't ask), four usb ports and all the usual PC humdingers... but I don't think I could get anywhere near the price I want for it. Myself, I paid around 3k$ for it and I'm afraid it isn't worth much nowadays

Oh, I should mention why I'm thinking of getting rid of it: today I bought a desktop Apple to go with my notebook. It isn't anything special, that's for sure (g3 400) but it will be nice to have a wireless network with my laptop so I can keep my external harddrive continuously connected to the g3 and keep some of my lesser used aps on it as well...

*calculates the capacity of her 4 hard drives, and comes up with a total of 5 gig*

*swoons*

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Sporky, You could always keep it around for a test bed for *nix stuff. That is what I did with Pitr, my spare machine. Pitr is now the web browser for my room mate while Dust Puppy is my power machine.

But a fried egg sarnie comes close and H recommends peas and ketchup, but then he is a veggie

You're right, T. The is a diversion for the Forces of Evil.

Whatever you do, Caer, don't go up in the attic with only a negilgee and high heels on. Something bad always happens when Our Heroine is scantily clad.

You're right, T. The is a diversion for the Forces of Evil.

Whatever you do, Caer, don't go up in the attic with only a negilgee and high heels on. Something bad always happens when Our Heroine is scantily clad.

drat

Now that is because there was only one post from FG when I replied.

Perhaps it's your ! Eeeek!

Oh! We exist again!

I spent the day getting organised for doing taxes, collating all my receipts and printing out all the electronic invoices for the past year.

But it's been an irritating computer day. Not only this mini-Foop, but Earthlunk has evidently mis-categorised the Historical Society's website. I have the invoice to prove what I paid for -- it was supposed to include stats gathering -- but they didn't plug the domain in. One governing board is going to be extremely displeased when I tell them the news next week. There are some old-guard types on the board as well, who were never happy about putting the Society's archival stuff on that new-fangled web.

I will be bending some ears on the phone tomorrow.

And then I spilled some tea on my beautiful Mojoworld manual. I seem to be spearheading a debug session into one of the plug-ins, too. Every time I thought I had a really nice continent just about built I would back into a mountain and the world would explode. Figuratively speaking. Good thing Microsoft doesn't build planets, eh? Imagine sunrise underway and suddenly seeing an illegal op message plastered across the horizon.

Sandwiches: being from New Jersey, dE and WM, you probably have access to the true Philadelphia hoagie, the one with capacola ham and the onions properly presoaked in olive oil. For a while there was a Philadelphia immigrant running a deli in Lakeland, Florida, but he retired and sold the shop to people who had no idea. I haven't had a good hoagie for nearly as long as I haven't had cod and chips.

Lil, you're making me . I'm far enough north that we call them subs, not hoagies. And I still have to go to Philadelphia for a real Philly cheese steak. Proximity just doesn't cut it for that.

I got to start the day with my carbon monoxide detector going off. I called the fire department and they looked around (big truck with lights flashing in front of my house, but no siren ) and suggested I call the utility company, who also looked around. Fortunately the electronic sniffers did not find anything. I probably have to dust the detector.

Thanks for the contributions to the sandwiches page folks. I'm thinking of concentration on sandwiches that have fillings that are not obvious from their names.

Should I add the Philadelphia Hoagie?