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Post by HoppersSkippersMiners on Aug 14, 2011 15:02:23 GMT -5
[evil grin]
In a sorta related segway about technology changes and what we're comfortable with, I will occasionally catch my dad using a slide rule. He claims its faster and more intuitive than using a calculator.
Did *did* get me one when I was a kid. I don't think I used it for anything other than wacking my sister tho'. ;D
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Post by LindaG23 on Aug 14, 2011 15:02:35 GMT -5
Just catching up but I LOVED Adam's look and I LOVED Adam's dates and I LOVED his singing of mad world and I LOVED his making CG squirm and I LOVED HIS SPEECH!!!!!! (and I'm a discerning kinda girl  ) So all's well with the world. Also love your "cleaning" ideas. *WAVES MADLY AT AMW* MISS YOU GET IT GIRL!!!!! Guess what happened to me today? I got rained on! Weird, huh? Thought I would send you a reminder of what you are missing, today's forecast. Rain, pshaw!  |
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Post by murly on Aug 14, 2011 15:03:03 GMT -5
Someone wrote that Adam and Sauli kiss all the time in public. Why can't we have a picture of them kissing. I would certainly love to see the two of them liplocked. I am totally in love with their love story, and since I am a romantic, I want to see a picture of them kissing. It never bothered Adam to kiss Tommy, and I could care less about seeing a picture of them. But real love - Sauli and Adam - I would swoon to see kissing. Am I crazy? Am I being silly? I can't help it. I am in love with love, and who better to flail over than Sauli and Adam. Somebody get a picture (a nice, romantic picture) of Adam and Sauli kissing. I hope I am not the only one who wants to see this. I would love to see a picture of them kissing too. Just so I don't come off as entitled and intrusive, I will specify that I want it to be a picture that they know was taken and released, and they're okay with it. (I'm sure irish1139 feels the same way--as soon as I posted, I realized that I might have sounded as if I were implying that she was being entitled and intrusive and I didn't mean that at all!) |
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Post by HoppersSkippersMiners on Aug 14, 2011 15:05:27 GMT -5
[looks up]
You know, I just realized I can't make fun of my dad.
I, in all seriousness, used my daughters abacus the other day when I needed to add some stuff up and couldn't find a single working pen.
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Post by mszue on Aug 14, 2011 15:08:55 GMT -5
Truly - I cannot stand Macs. The lack of a right-click feature, the inability to control WHEN I want multiple windows and how, and the need for a mouse for every freak'n function is incredibly annoying to me. Plus (and this is a nitpick, but a sore spot), I have never found a comfortable Mac keyboard. They all feel too squishy. As a touch typer who runs off of the sound of my typing as well as the feel of my keystrokes, the Mac keyboards drive me nuts. And - yeah - pjd, I spent a lot of time on UNIX too. :D ETA: In the interest of full disclosure I DID use a Mac before a PC - an Apple IIE to be exact. It was a step up from the RadioShack TRS80's (remember those?) that had a cassette tape drive b/c floppy discs weren't in use yet. However, THAT was still a step up from the boxes of punch cards that my dad had been using not so long before. (He still has those boxes in the basement!!) Totally agree on the mouse and keyboard stuff. I also touch type and have a split-ergonomic keyboard that I love. My first computer was a TI99-4A. It also used a cassette tape. I learned my first flavor of BASIC on that thing. I actually used punch cards for my first few weeks learning FORTRAN my senior year of high school. It was the first computer class they had and the monitors/keyboard didn't arrive before the year started. My first PC was a clone and did not have a hard drive - it was pretty fancy with 2 floppies! You could have your software on one and your data files on the other  Very first hard drive was 10MB and I thought it was HUGE and I couldn't possibly use that much space! I'm glad I'm not the only PC person here ;D ETA: I really don't have a clue what people do to "corrupt" their PC's - I've never had trouble of that sort. Maybe the closest would be a bad update from a software manufacturer with bugs? Not really the PC's fault and the same thing happens with Apple products - how about all the problems people have with iTunes updates? Q3 is going to kick us off yet...but before that happens  let me say, in defense of the Mac....that re the right click..if you attach a separate mouse to your keyboard you have the same rt click as with a pc so do not understand that one. If using a laptop mousepad, just tap with two fingers instead of one and you get the rt click drop down menu. Also, the two finger scroll has saved many a peep from carpal tunnel from using the scroller on a mouse....love it. re the corrupt updates....I had to have my computer help person [for PC] clean and remove several nasty Window updates....she finally gave me strict instructions to disable the automatic updates function and only update those she sent to me. That fixed that issue. I do sort of miss my split keyboard...but can still use it if I have a lot of keyboarding for a document....then remove it when booting about the internet searching for Adam!! :-) Do we sound like a cult??? sent to 'go forth and multiply'?? hehehe |
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Post by LindaG23 on Aug 14, 2011 15:10:27 GMT -5
[evil grin] In a sorta related segway about technology changes and what we're comfortable with, I will occasionally catch my dad using a slide rule. He claims its faster and more intuitive than using a calculator. Did *did* get me one when I was a kid. I don't think I used it for anything other than wacking my sister tho'. ;D LOL, I have a slide rule and a book for reminding me how to use it. I keep it on my bookshelf with car repair manuals and how to identify non-poisonous plants for eating and herbal medicine remedies. All of this in preparation for the Apocalypse or being "left behind" after the rapture. I call it my Doomsday Shelf. I need to figure out a way to listen to Adam music manually, do they make a crank-up CD player? ;D ;D |
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Post by justkaren on Aug 14, 2011 15:17:36 GMT -5
Wow - am I the only one here who loves my PC? Just curious... are any of you Mac lovers Engineer/Tech types? Do all of you live near an Apple Store? quote] lol, I think why they like Macs is that you almost never have to go to a store since they are difficult to corrupt. But I'm a PCer. It's always been needed for work. Luckily I have an in house tech even if he is a Mac guy. But I am trying to figure out the pad situation. Needed for web surfing, online gaming, and maybe some schooling. You all have ipads? Hi Jablea! I'm on my 3rd iPad ... my kids keep talking me out of mine so I have to keep getting a new one ... and each time I do I get a bigger one, and the latest one is filling up with Adam photos, videos, etc. They don't completely replace a computer because they don't do everything, but some things they are GREAT for. For example, I'd much rather follow ATOP on the iPad, because it goes anywhere in the house I want to be, and is easier to carry around than the laptop, so I'm not isolated in the "computer" room. When you lift the lid of a laptop it creates a "visual barrier" between you and others in the room, they feel ignored, but when the iPad is in your lap, it is less obtrusive and doesn't seem to separate you from others as much. Does that make sense? Also, when I want to look closer at a picture, I just stretch it with my fingers ... on the computer I have to download it and open it in Photoshop to get a closer look. There are some things it doesn't do well ... you won't compose the great American novel on the keyboard, but you can type short tweets or email responses on it. And once in awhile there will be a Flash video you can't watch. And some websites (ABC for example) still use Flash so you can't watch their episodes online on your iPad. I signed up for an Illustrator class at the local JC, the textbook was $54 in the bookstore; the iPad version was $28, and didn't weigh nearly as much! I have dozens of books on my iPad, several issues of People Magazine, a year's worth of newsletters for a club I belong to, several movies, and lots of games for the grandkids. With a Netflix membership, I can stream movies and TV anywhere there is WiFi ... such as airports during that interminable wait between flights! And speaking of airports, iPads go through security like an iPhone ... they don't even have to come out of your purse. Oops, getting way off topic here ... but I can say that Adam looks great on an iPad, the resolution is amazing, and you can just stretch out his pics to get a close-up look at .... um, ... well, whatever you want to check out up close. His eyebrows, for example, you can tell that they are his own, with individual hairs, and not just painted on heavy. Yep, that's what I checked out up close ... : |
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Post by crazylady on Aug 14, 2011 15:20:09 GMT -5
Just catching up but I LOVED Adam's look and I LOVED Adam's dates and I LOVED his singing of mad world and I LOVED his making CG squirm and I LOVED HIS SPEECH!!!!!! (and I'm a discerning kinda girl ) So all's well with the world. Also love your "cleaning" ideas. *WAVES MADLY AT AMW* MISS YOU GET IT GIRL!!!!! Guess what happened to me today? I got rained on! Weird, huh? Thought I would send you a reminder of what you are missing, today's forecast. Rain, pshaw! While we were replacing a light fixture in the bathroom a little bit ago, it thundered and I said to hubby "what was that?" Him: "I don't know." I looked outside to see cloudy skies and realized it was thunder! Hadn't heard it in a very long time--oh, and we got zero rain. >:( |
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Post by Jablea on Aug 14, 2011 15:22:16 GMT -5
lol, we are the geek squad here. I learned Basic on a remote computer. We had certain hours, send off your program, get it back the next day. When I took Fortran they made us do the first half of the class on punchcards and then we were allowed to move up. They were too busy with all the peeps on the "new" equipment so I wound up doing the whole semester on the cards. Remember Lotus 123 and Wordstar? For PC corruption it's mostly web surfing and spyware. Oh and Adobe products. : The machine keeps working it just crawls from the spyware, Adobe tends to break other programs. I have to have a PC for customer testing and legacy reporting software. Oh and just because Macs don't come with a right-clicking mouse doesn't mean you can't buy one. Apple has done one thing wrong they discontinued the lampshade, wonderful machine.  You know Apple is another product sponsor that we never talk about for Adam. It seems he's always used a Mac for his garage band software. ETA - adding here (so I don't create another geek post lol) JustKaren - it's the kid who really wants one. He's going into 6th grade. Do you find them useful for kids? Maybe we can share one. |
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Post by mariep on Aug 14, 2011 15:22:40 GMT -5
Oops, getting way off topic here ... but I can say that Adam looks great on an iPad, the resolution is amazing, and you can just stretch out his pics to get a close-up look at .... um, ... well, whatever you want to check out up close. His eyebrows, for example, you can tell that they are his own, with individual hairs, and not just painted on heavy. Yep, that's what I checked out up close ... : I LOOOOVE stretching photo's lol! justkaren I agree, so happy I have an ipad! Have to say this...Atopper's are really passionate about their macs or pc's. Something new I learned today! Oh and I never had a problem with an itunes update. Also I right click away with my Magic Mouse! |
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