On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:47 -0500, tom wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Ric Moore wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 21:57 +0000, Chris Jones wrote: > >> ivers101 wrote: > >>> I am a lurker in this conference, but notice that Karl's foibles do tend > >>> to take over the whole thing. It's like a Saturday cartoon... > >> > >> Whilst I confess I sometimes wish Karl would stay a little more 'on > >> topic', you have to admit he does add his own special brand of interest > >> to this list. A little amusement now and then isn't so bad I guess. > > > > Heck, my mother is 4 years younger than Karl, and she refuses to turn on > > a computer that she bought 6 years ago. It still has Win98 on it and > > she's jerked that her new flip video recorder won't work with it. I'm > > gonna sneaky sneak install Fedora or Mandrake to it, she would never > > know the difference. But, if she ever found her way to this list, she'll > > make Karl look like a Saint. That's all some of you would need, is my > > Mom calling your Mom to tell her how Junior is behaving in public. > > <WHAM!> <chortles> No sirreee, not letting her know nothing. :) Ric > > Ain't Moms wonnerful? We had to switch mine from an 8 bit Kaypro with > WordStar to a Mac SE. Took well over two years to get her to stop > insisting the the WordStar cursor diamond was going to work on the Mac. > (For the youth on the list - the WordStar diamond was a set of four keys > which moved the cursor around the text screen when used with the control > key.) A quarted century later she is still on a rant that techies do > things to suit themselves. Mine has been on a rant for over a half century that I do things to suit myself. I think I'm finally starting to believe her. <sighs> Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
