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I like this one too.
“What gender is a computer?” A language teacher wasn’t certain which it was, and so divided the class into two groups and asked them to decide if a computer should be masculine or feminine. One group was comprised of the women in the class, and the other, of men. Both groups were asked to give four reasons for their recommendation.
The group of women concluded that computers should be referred to in the masculine gender because:
1. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
2. They have a lot of data but are still clueless.
3. They are supposed to help you solve your problems, but half the time they ARE the problem.
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that, if you had waited a little longer, you could have had a better model.The men, on the other hand, decided that computers should definitely be referred to in the feminine gender because:
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic.
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories.ah, I had read reviews that said by book 4 some stuff had gotten tiring, but this was addressed by the addition of new characters and situations in the following books. How many have you read, and was it enough?
The front page is back to 10 items again. Doubtless, some setting that got screwed during the last problem.
Could someone please stick it back to 15 when they get a minute?
Thanks.
Oh, and Tony, I sent you a small package Saturday. Should be there in a week to 10 days so you might want to keep an look out for it.
[quote=”Jhevz”]
After we went across the street, we could hear the roar of the Falls, before seeing them; but once we did, we were in awe of how big & beautiful the Falls really are. When people say they’ve experienced something powerful after seeing them, is absolutely true; when I saw them, I had experienced something so powerful that I can still hear the thundering roar of the Falls 2 months later.[/quote]I have heard that at Niagara Falls, you’ll experience extrodinarily high negative Ions rates. The more negative ions, the better for us, since negative ions clean the air and produce good feelings. Niagara Falls is the negative ion capitol of the world and those negative ions in the air are what cause the strong positive reaction that people have for the falls and why honeymooners have such greeeeeat experiences there. 😀
No, you discuss it here and maybe that will generate some traffic someday in the future.
I edited your post. Sad doen’t like people logging just to advertise their stuff.
You are more than welcome to chat here about your lothing of all things universal.
Huh? Like all websites I imagine it came from it’s webmaster, who is I believe Mothbreeder. The mystery of the Sea is “where does the best tuna happen to be. ” Who knew you were such a Chicken of the Sea fan.
When I first saw your post, I was like… well yes, or course there is. But…. Nursewhen is right, Much of what we think could be magic is also being done by people who are of diffent races than what we consider human or humans who are hosts to other kinds of beings. And since they are different, they may have different abilities that we do. Abilites that are natural to them, but seem magic to us.
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Have you seen this website?www.(enter expletive that starts with “f” here)thesouth.com
Very funny and pretty much what you just said….
But really we can’t abandon Austin, TX the sole bastion of old time college liberalism and health food stores in Texas!!
I’m heading that way to visit my sister in january!![/quote]
OMG! 😯 I howled the whole way through it. 😀 a few more swear words that I think is good in one rant, but an excellent rant none the less. I keep hearing Dennis Leary’s voice in my head as I read it. Thanks for sharing. 😀
Well if is on fef.net you might be able to use the SadChat portal in a pinch. That will get you there and the command to change rooms is really quite easy.
[quote]Headgehog on Friday, November 19, 2004 – 08:42 AM – DreamWorks has tapped Jon Strauss and Ed Decker to write a script for a Shrek spin-off movie, featuring Puss-in-Boots. Puss played a swashbuckling Zorro-esque cat, and was voiced by Antonio Banderas. DreamWorks is considering a direct-to-video release of the film. Nothing is confirmed yet, but it is expected that Antonio Banderas will return to voice the role. [/quote]
[size=18]Squeeeeeeeee[/size]
Oh my god that is great! I am not an Antonio Banderas fan (although he was pretty good in Evita) but I loved his ‘Puss…. in Boots!’ portral. And if they get any kind of a script like Shrek 2 it will be greatness. 😀
P.s. has anyone else had the Shrek M&M’s? Orgerly colored and extra large…. weird. 😉
Speaking of Egyptians….. and that book I was talking about eariler
Amazon has a peek inside of the Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy and the section that they decided to sneak peak was Cheops. 😀L O’conner wrote in a review >> I must have read this book twenty times at least, and I never get tired of it. Every time it seems just as funny, as Will Cuppy tells us about the lives of historical characters, from Cheops ( or khufu) through to Catherine the Great, taking in such diverse characters as Cleopatra, Attila the hun, Lady Godiva, henry the eight, John Smith, and miles Standish. His wonderful dry comments are hilarious, as on Charlemagne who was born in the dark ages when people were not very bright. They have been getting brighter and brighter ever since, until finally the are like they are now’Or on the American revolution , started because the colonists had to pay takes to which their consent had not been asked ‘ today we pay taxes but our consent has been asked, and we have told the government to go ahead and tax us all they want to.
[url]http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0879235144/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-3055337-5892653#reader-link[/url]
P.s. the foot notes are a scream. 😆
the Sci-fi show I was the most disapointed it would have to be Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Come on Roller Disco in space? Does the universe not hold enough horrors?
Don’t even get me started on the Spandex and aqua-net ‘do’s
Something cute Tressia sent me.
Subject: California’s secession letter to Bush
Dear President Bush:
Congratulations on your victory over all us non-evangelicals. Actually, we’re a bit ticked off here in California, so we’re leaving you. California will now be its own country. And we’re taking all the Blue States with us. In case you are not aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, all of the North East States, and the urban half of Ohio.
We spoke to God, and she agrees that this split will be beneficial to almost everybody, and especially to us in the new country of California. In fact, God is so excited about it, she’s going to shift the whole country at 4:30 pm EST this Friday. Therefore, please let everyone know they need to be back in their states by then. God is going to give us the Pacific Ocean and Hollywood. In addition, we’re getting San Diego. (Sorry, that’s just how it goes.) But God is letting you have the KKK and country music (except the Dixie Chicks).
Just so we’re clear, the country of California will be pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, and anti-war. Speaking of war, we’re going to need all Blue States citizens back from Iraq. If you need people to fight in Falujah, just ask your evangelical voters. They have tons of kids they’re willing to send to their deaths for absolutely no purpose. And they don’t care if you don’t show pictures of their kids’ caskets coming home.
So, you get Texas and all the former slave states, and we get the Governator and stem cell research. (We would love you to take Britney Spears off our hands, though. She IS from the south, right?)
Since we get New York, you’ll have to come up with your own late night TV shows because we get MTV, Letterman, the Daily Show, and Conan O’Brien. You get… well, why don’t you ask your
people at Fox News to come up with something entertaining? (Maybe you should just watch Crossfire. That’s a really funny show.)We wish you all the best in the next four years and we hope, really hope, you find those missing weapons of mass destruction. Seriously. Soon.
Sincerely,
CaliforniaI really liked their fashion and cosmetic line. Sadly, their furniture collection left something to be desired.
[quote=”smeghead_lover”]Now its hard to choose just him in general is a sex god even now, the things i could do 2 that man :P[/quote]
Rimmer a sex god? In which incarnation? Actually I think Lister is kinda cute when he is cleaned up like when he was a hologram with Kachanski. But if you want style, not brains mind you but style, then Cat is the one. 😆
I was thinking of what would happen, if some of the history we accept is just fiction. It could happen. Take the Rosetta Stone for example it survived because it was on a tablet and not papyrus ect… The basis for
translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics. But what if the stuff written about in the hieroglyphics is fiction?Okie dokie now we have John Uber-Geek Fanboy who as an extra credit exercise (or in a fit of geek-one-up-manship) translates a favorite passage into English, Latin and Klingon. And since this is an uber-geek perhaps he takes it to metal shop and engraves or acid etches it on a copper plate.
Year later, John Uber-Geek Fanboy is now a highly regarded scholar or history or linquisticts. So perhaps there will be traces of him here and there…. Centuries later, when we are all dust…. Traces of this odd language pop up everywhere (those trekies are diligent little buggers) but no one knows what this lost language is until this brass plate is discovered…. And there ya go….
What is to say that the ancient Egyptians did not have fiction fan-boys who worked stories and make believe languages into various places as decorative elements. And ya, know… there could have been trekkie-like fan-boys back then. 🙂
This is a morfed topic concerning itself with sci-fi and truth. It jumped off a portion of Sidhecafe’s last comment.
I have often wondered myself, what future problems we will have when records get old and perhaps unsearchable. I wonder if we will be in danger of having people mesh our sci-fi entertainment with scraps of actual historical record.
If you think about it, it could be possible. Look how detailed some of the Star Wars and Star Trek stuff is for crying out loud. They have books full of ship designs and stats. And being popular with the fan, there are potentially more of those documents to survive. Especially with the uber-geeks perserving theirs in acid proff bags ect…. 🙂
Actually historical record is usually terrible at getting to the heart of what is truth.
Case in point a wonderful book by Will Cuppy, ‘The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody’ he meticulously researched twenty two historical personalities and the reasons for some of the stuff they did… or didn’t do. and the actual whys of what happened which is seldom correctly attributed. His point is that the truth of the past depends on who is recording it. He didn’t think much of Mr. Gibbon, I can tell you. 🙂
When first offered for publication, it was rejected as a book of fiction, but later studies have borne out just about all of his assertions. The fact that the book is a hysterical scream is just a bonus. I first came across this book at my theGrandmother’s house when I was a kiddo, I had much fun consulting it during history class. Amazingly enough, theTeacher was initially amused, they came around when I lent it to them to read. Sadly that copy has gone to dust, but I was lucky enough to get a new copy ten or so years ago when it was re-issued. It is currently available at amazon.com and would make an excellent stocking stuffer for anyone who has a history buff in the family.
A really great review of the movie from an imdb fan. It claims to be spoilerish…. and it may be if you are real pick about them… otherwise it is fine.
Date: 7 November 2004
Summary: Pixar is InvincibleSpoilers herein.
All movies are about other movies. Most simply quote them, and most of these are bad. Some are very clever quoters, like Tarantino. But still mere quoters. A few weeks ago, I saw ‘Van Helsing’ which impressed the daylights out of me. It was all about transmutation at many levels including transmuting itself through several other movie identities.
Meanwhile, I’ve been impressed by Pixar for other reasons. They’ve always been the leaders in folding and introspective dimensionality. Their logo even shows it: an illuminator jumps on the ‘i’, replaces it, looks around and then looks directly at you.
In this film, their introspective experiments extend to quoting other films. But instead of the simple shopkeeping of Tarantino, we have appearances of other films but instead of being quoted they are re-imagined. Each transmutation is better than the original: This is better Bond than Bond, better Spy Kids than Spy Kids, better family drama than any recent experience. Better through-the-trees chase than Star Wars. Much, much better than ‘Spiderman’ and its ilk because it really understands pacing and manages ever-more unseen camera swoops.
And it does everything it does with familiar images. For instance, the scene where Bob smacks his boss through several walls and he ends up wrapped in bandages and in traction is a collection of classic images from old cartoons, starting with the big guy grabbing the little guy. Except you don’t notice that the big guy is the good guy. Never happens in the classics.
There are two interesting folds here: the one that folds many movies genres as we mentioned and the one that conflates the folds of reality. Here’s how this works: Usually there are two layers of a folded movie: the movie and some more abstract story within the movie. Spoofs depend on you knowing the layers, even if a layer isn’t shown. So ‘Austin Powers’ has the intermediate level of Bond, even though it doesn’t have an explicit segment that exists in the world of Bond.
Ted’s law says the folding distance must be equal, so the abstraction between the real world and that of Bond is exactly the same as that between Powers and Bond, extra cartoonishness if you wish.
This Pixar project has two levels squashed into the same world. One level is the very realistically abstracted story between Bob and Helen. This isn’t very cartoonish at all compared the regular world of cartoons. Then you have the superhero world which Bob and later Helen dive into; this is the most extremely abstract world of cartoons. Three levels, us, Bob and Helen as people (and they seem more real in this mode than most ‘real’ characters) and Bob and Helen and kids as superheros.
The novelty of the fold is that these are squashed together as if there is no distance. That (plus some very human-like camera angles and the ‘interview’ footage at the beginning) squashes the world of the viewer into what we see. Its the kind of brilliant novelty that can only be done by close students of the art.
A side comment that follows: the standard Disney cartoon has to have an obvious moral. Parents enthusiastically use this as a sad excuse for parenting. This film puts the moral in the spoof level. That means, folks, that it is equating it to the mediocre fictions Bob berates at the beginning. To distract the dopes in the audience, they do damage control by splicing an ‘ordinary’ moralistic dippy thing at the beginning.
The real moral is that most movie houses have ‘insurance:’ they test their films into mediocrity. Pixar does no testing. They figure it out and trust their geniuses. Along the way, they take two heavy hits in the story at insurance companies who literally put superstars out of business, and incidentally steal from the worthy.
Ted’s Evaluation — 3 of 3: Worth watching.
[quote=”mysteriesofthesea”]
Truth, Logan,..is absolute.What is,..after the event has happened,..is. That which has happened cannot be undone. All the pretending by all of the humanity in the world,.. as to how that humanity choses to percieve WHAT we call the past,…cannot alter the past. ………………….Stanelle[/quote]
Obi-wan said it best. What you were told was the truth *from a certain point of view*
While there are exceptions here and there of course, the truth as we perceive it is more *the truth of that moment* It can be altered or shaded as more facts become available or indeed as the passions of the moment pass and comunal reasoning is stacked against it.
Lots of stuff can alter *the truth* including things that were not known at the time. A perfect example is DNA evidence on old cases. The truth of who killed someone can change when you find out that the other blood at the scene belonged to the neighbor and not the poor smuck who just happened to take advantage of keys dropped by an unattended car and had the bad luck to have the same blood type as the killer.
Grrrr, I had a lovely full page reply vanish into the netherland of posts.
Ah well, here it is again shorter. Great review Sad. It has been a while since I saw this ep, but I do believe you hit every important point. It was a bit of sparkle in an otherwise uneven season, so we appreciate it so much more for that.
As you may recall this ep is the one that pushed them over the edge money wise. Not that that has never happened before, but possibly not so much on one single episode.
It almost killed the special effects guys. Woody (from DZ4) said that they had to bring in more help, with their own machines and fudge on the quality of the final look before they could get it out the door at the last possible minute. There was a very real danger that it was NOT going to make it to the stations in time. If you look at it closely, you can see why they were so upset. There is some sloppy mat work going on there.
Fx caught the reason for it immediately while we were on set. Perspective. The cameras were not computer controlled or baring that locked into set positions and focus. This made the thing impossible from the special effect point of view. Although Woody said they would not have had such a problem with that if the entire thing had been shot against green screen and used a plain green screen floor. They could have easily dropped in the elaborate background and more easily nudged the chess board to fit the various shots together. Ah well, this was known as the ep that wouldn’t die. ;D
I am glad you liked it Tony. I look forward to your last six reviews.
Hummm, Haley’s Comet, Apocalexx Now, Viva LEXX Vegas, Trip, Lyekka vs. Japan, and Yo Way Yo. I saw parts of three of these being made, so I am not unbiased. Any one else want to give Saddy some encouragement by pointing out the jewels in this lot?
Well, I don’t dispite theSpouse’s fussing have satillite. Sorry. But I am sure some ‘gezzer somewhere does and will be able to answer you.
[quote]2. There is no such thing as “American English”. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. [/quote]
Ah, well that would be worth the price of admission I think. 😀 Anyone ‘telling’ microsoft anything AND getting a favorable response!!!
Hummm…. we have this for the whole country. Which could be a bit of a sticky wicket once the ‘Sons of Texas’ and others of their ilk getting their dander up…. or we have the succession of like minded states to Canada. [img]http://www.ntape.com/images/jesuslandMAP.jpg[/img]
Granted border control might be a problem at first, but I imagine that machine gun turrets set up at the border looking for gun racks, and a few other tell tales would be enough.ooooh an even better map. This one lists New Canada and Jeusland!
[url]http://www.cool.ca/jesusland/jesuslandMAP.jpg[/url]
Pretty cute map. If any one knows where a larger version is, I would like to see it. 😀
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Now this is a nice Christmas Pressy for some one that may be hard to buy for.
I have bought these for theFather, theBrother and theSpouse. They all loved them, in fact the one that theSpouse had was so popular that when it was stolen at the car dealership not even threats from the management could get it back. These were originally shaped like yellow foot balls, only available at Christmas and ran about $80.00 a piece. They are nicer and more affordable now.
Not only did it give theSpouse a flashlight that would work when ever…. but theLittlestNeice use to plug in her head phones, crank it up and listen to her tunes while we were on trips. She liked not having to worry about her batteries going dead in the middle of the trip, or having to bug the oldies to change the radio station for her. 😀
theGF bought one for her mother who liked to listen to the radio while working in the garden. She liked that no extention cord, no battery to worry about freedom. Of course the flashlight of last resort thing also worked for her. ;D
5-In-1 Emergency Radio & Spotlight #YW631
Pick your power! Emergency Radio & Spotlight recharges by solar, hand crank and DC power. – $39.95Lightweight, portable five-in-one emergency device features an AM/FM radio, spotlight, flashing light, siren and digital LCD alarm clock with snooze. To recharge, just position the pivoting solar cell collection panel toward the sun; or, if no sun, turn the hand crank or plug into a 12V DC power socket with its DC adapter/charger (included). Also runs on 3 AA batteries (SM660, order separately) or 2 AA NiCad rechargeable batteries (included). Measures 8 1/2″ x 3″ x 7″ and weighs less than 2 lbs. 90-day warranty.
[url]http://images.sharperimage.com.edgesuite.net/all/en/images/products/YW631-PIP.JPG[/url][quote=”Logan”]I’ll mention that my wife is always trying to get us matching stuff, and [i]it confuses the hell out of people[/i]. You wouldn’t believe the double and triple takes we’ve received when people look at us in our matching hiking boots… You can almost see the grinding cogs of their poor, confused brains working overtime as they try to sort out which is which, what is what, and who is who. :lol:[/quote]
Well matching is good, it means people don’t fight over it. I have found, that if I get something super wonderful…. I may as well just get another for theSpouse. He appreciates it, and it just means we have two incase the first one gets damaged or worn out.
We have lots of stuff the same, but I do try to mark which is whos…. That way when someone leaves theirs in the garage and has to clean off all the dust and junk we know who’s it is! 😛
Nope, still waiting Logan. TheFather has that info. For some reason, I cannot think why….. but my family seems to think I am hard to buy for. They keep fussing about me buying myself everything I want, and not leaving anything for them. Sooooooo theFather has the info on this….. and not that I think theFather may doesn’t love me or anything…… but two would be good. 😀 When we take old ugly to a show, there is sometimes the tenesiest tendency of theSpouse to forget that he wanted nothing to do with it and he loads it down or snags it to rest on. I figure if I get him one, then he can load down his own, which will leave more space for my stuff. Also, if by some mischance theFather changes his mind and gets me something else (which can happen as he is flighty) … well then I have theSpouse’s to use. 😀
Not that I would take something of theSpouse’s that doesn’t belong to me or anything….. well except for that really, really nice Sony laptop I gave him for Christmas that I took to DC…. and Austin…. and Sheevesport…. and is in my closet in a new case, with my favorite kind of mouse… ya know, he really should have suspected something when I totally upgraded it from the no-name he was looking at…. 🙄 😉
TheSister meet two gentlemen from UK land on the internet. What it was about them that interested her I am not sure, because other than the UK’ness they were totally different.
Chat room, led to phone calls, led to visits of them to the States (her turf) and then her to UK. She eventually decided on one who gave up a pretty decent job to come live in the states for a year (just to make sure) before she moved to UK and got married.
Careful? Backgrounds were checked, children stayed in States for the first year she lived in UK to let her get established and make double sure and then family was re-united.
Me? I wish she had met someone from states, but she seems pretty happy and the kids seem to have ajusted well.
Best GF did on line dating and scored the winner on about her sixth try. They dated for a year and have been happily married for about three years now.
I don’t think there is a problem with using the internet to meet people….. as long as nothing gets strung along. If after a month or few someone is not coughing up phone numbers and addresses (for said checks) then that person is NOT what they claim and it is time to cut the connection.
The nice thing about the net now, is so many of us know people all over the world, we can often get preliminary feed back on our online buddies from some one we know who has actually met them un RL.
Actually many people that are not moderators write reviews on the various shows we cover.
Will they be come a posted to the main review section? Depends…. 😀 Mainly on how good they are. Tony has standards ya know.
But…. the Lexx Reviews are a special case. You see, Lexx season 4 was not shown in the UK, so that meant that someone (me) had to stay up past midnight every Friday doing a double tape to make sure they had a good copy for Tony, then package it up and take it to the post office bright and early the Saturday morning so he would get them no later than the following Wednesday.
Oh…. and the episodes that were delayed in the US? Ah those episodes, someone (me) had to nag their little hacker buddies in Sweden and Germany to get from their buddies in Canada. Which were then downloaded (slowly) burned to a disk and mailed during a skipped lunch break the following Monday so that Tony would have them by Thursday.
So what does this really mean???? Well I guess you could say that already having go to so much crap to get the episodes to Tony in a more than timely manner [size=18]I’ll be b*tched if he is not going to finish them[/size] ….and since theNieceletts and theSister are now in UK-land, Tony is running a real risk of stepping out his door some morning and getting whompped upside his head if he doesn’t finished them pretty darn toot-sweet.
But the good news is, that if Tony finishes them soon, he may be able to avoid having the side of his head stove in and I will be able to collect them in to a nice book form for all of our Libraries. 😀 Wouldn’t that be nice?
Tony…… does thou understandth?
Sweetie, I recommend that you post a link to make it easier for people to find. And….. perhaps an exerpt to catch peoples attention. ust a thought. 😆
I love the cover. How could that many people be so dumb. *** Sigh **
Very Nice cartoon B. I love the jobs leaving America…. so we don’t have to work so hard. Bleh!
Too Cute.
I got this one today. And while I normally don’t pass them on, I just had to with this one. 😀
The Facts:
Q: I’ve heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this
true?
A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that’s
it….don’t waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually.
Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that’s like saying
you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live
longer? Take a nap.Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables?
A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow eat? Hay
and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So a steak is nothing more
than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system.
Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef is also a good source of field grass
(green leafy vegetable). And a pork chop can give you 100% of your
recommended daily allowance of vegetable products.Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake?
A: No, not at all. Wine is made from fruit. Brandy is distilled
wine, that means they take the water out of the fruity bit so you get
even more of the goodness that way. Beer is also made out of grain.
Bottoms up!Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio?
A: Well, if you have a body and you have body fat, your ratio is
one to one. If you have two bodies, your ratio is two to one, etc.Q: What are some of the advantages of participating in a regular
exercise program? A: Can’t think of a single one, sorry. My philosophy
is: No Pain…GoodQ: Aren’t fried foods bad for you?
A: YOU’RE NOT LISTENING!!!. Foods are fried these days in vegetable
oil. In fact, they’re permeated in it. How could getting more vegetables
be bad for you?Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the
middle?
A: Definitely not! When you exercise a muscle, it gets bigger. You
should only be doing sit-ups if you want a bigger stomach.Q: Is chocolate bad for me?
A: Are you crazy? HELLO Cocoa beans … another vegetable!!!
It’s the best feel-good food around!Q: Is swimming good for your figure?
A: If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me.Q: Is getting in-shape important for my lifestyle?
A: Hey! ‘Round’ is a shape!Well, I hope this has cleared up any misconceptions you may have had
about food and diets and remember,[size=18]’Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways – Chardonnay in one hand – strawberries in the other – body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming – WOO HOO! What a Ride![/size]
Headge called me last night to comiserate with me. ;D We came up with this idea. 😀
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Do you ever post in the forum? [url]http://p205.ezboard.com/fcafepressstoreownersforumfrm29[/url]
What I did was pay one month for the adobe, and then fortunately , the problem seemed to go away by the time I needed it next time.
You may want to post a question there to see if anyone else is having ‘issues’
They sent out a survey this afternoon.
Questions
3. What do you dislike about CafePress.com?
My Answer – The inability to have black or dark colored shirts.
Also I dislike the way the publishing area decides that it does not like pdf995 every once in a while. We do not all have adobe, nor do we wish to sell a kidney to afford a copy of it. Yes there is the free online trial but that will not work with files longer than 100 pages. Also, quite frankly, Adobe is harder to work with when you need a specific size, rather than the normal page size.
4. How can we make CafePress.com better for you?
Fix the intermittant incompatibility to pdf995 and the other programs written with ghost script.
[quote=”pet”]Hmmm… why exactly is it on their site if it can’t be used on their site?
Pet[/quote]Because, the not all the people doing the huge long books feel like ponying up the hundreds and hundreds of dollars it takes to make the Adobe franchise happy. And…. the free adobe trial will not work for people doing books with more than a few hundred pages. Therefore, they continue to list it and pray that the glitch doesn’t appear too often. This is the second time I have heard of it, in perhaps the last 18 months.
Very cute sweetie, thanks for sharing. I am glad to see the ATF has time to go clubbing this close to the election. 😆 And they hooked up with a Lexx Fan, too cool of course. 😀
Ummm, what is with the wookie looking thing? Do you have a better pic of that?
Really? Which converter are you using?
I know they have had intermittent problems with non-adobe programs. I have successfully used, been refused and used again pdf995 on three books I uploaded.
Every once in a while their system burps and declares
[size=24]Blasphemer! Thou shalt not use any other system but the sacred Adobe![/size]
Then it gets over it, realizes not all of us want to sacrifice a kidney or sell a neighbor child to buy their stupid program.
This is a great discussion on the episode ‘The Game’ [url]http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=1314&highlight=game&sid=462ca58a159a8e75c26f40893d0989d0[/url]
(Note to Headge and Sad…. ummm long url’s anyone????)
Anyhow, I did like this episode, even though I have only played chess while in Junior High and never got past the basic moves really… think checkers with prettier playing pieces. 😆
Anyhoooo even none chess player that I am, this was an interesting game. And judging from the response it got from chess players, they enjoyed it even more that we did. 😀
A little something I whipped up for the Election Tuesday
[img]http://prodtn.cafepress.com/nocache/4/14321924_F_tn.jpg[/img]
The little print on the bottom says [quote]What? Are we behind on our Dues again? Where are those United Nations Election Monitors when you need them![/quote]
Large Image [url]http://www.thefrey.com/images/OneNation.png[/url]
[size=24]Yeah![/size] Thank you so much, you blogger sleuth you! 🙂
I copied these links to my hard drive lest the powers that be cause them to be removed. Muhahahaha…….
[url]http://www.goldsteinhowe.com/blog/files/VFPart1.pdf[/url]
[url]http://www.goldsteinhowe.com/blog/files/VFPart2.pdf[/url]
God is this some scary reading or what!
Too too funny. 🙂 Disrespectful yet….. most likely true.
Something I picked off one of our web sites.
[quote]The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission reported on October 15 that the proportions of union jobs being moved to Mexico and China increased dramatically since 2001.
The report noted that in 2001, 14 percent of companies that moved production and jobs to China were unionized, but that figure rose to 29 percent in 2004. Meanwhile, the proportion of jobs at unionized facilities that moved jobs to Mexico rose from 26 percent three years ago to 44 percent this year.
Overall, the report said 39 percent of the jobs sent overseas in 2004 have been union jobs. Around 8 percent of private sector workers are union members.
In all, U.S. employers will shift an estimated 406,000 to Mexico, China and other foreign countries in 2004, about double the number three years ago, when 204,000 jobs were moved to foreign countries, the report said.
The report said that 140,000 jobs will be shifted to Mexico this year and as many as 99,000 will go to China in 20204, compared to 85,000 to each country in 2001. The Midwest lost the most jobs to offshoring — 18,398, with Illinois losing more jobs than any other state, with nearly all its 7,555 jobs going to Mexico, the report added. The Northeast lost 7,223.
The report can be seen at [url]http://www.uscc.gov/researchreports/2004/cornell_u_mass_report.pdf[/url]
[/quote]Ah, so now it comes up…. what was the story on this? I thought it was just my system, but I tried from work and got the same results. I meant to tell you several days ago, but I forgot.
Hey headge, did you realize that your response is on page two, but no page two icon appears when you click on this thread.
Yes we remember you. Fx was mourning your absence a few months ago.
Hummm,
Well Ms. Seeberg just finished working on a movie and as curious if there are any good sci-fi con’s in Germany. Apparently she would like to go to one, so if anyone know about any do chime in.
Mr. Downey has been working on the production side of things lately.
Mr. McManus has did a short in Germany about a year ago.
Ms. Dubin is in a new canadaian TV series called the Collector which is not shown here in the states.
Mr. Kanies has been working a lot in Germany.
Ms. Zentilli was in a play in Toronto called Urine Town which ran from May to October. Oh and her movie Touch and Go was released this year.
