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[kinzel]

Odds and end ... Theo needs to talk to me RSN ...

Odd ends for sure:

Here's one, a pet for no-pet places:http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9421520726.html

Here's one -- sacred meteors/meteroites ... I think the parent body is one \I saw when I was about 8 ....
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/09/14/meteorite.auction.ap/index.html

If you bought SCOX ... sigh, why?. If you think SCOX has been barking up the wrong IP tree:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070914/laf040.html?.v=101

Careful what you do with that cat:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14121108/detail.html

News: in theory the cover proofs for LUC2 are in motion but not arrived here yet; I think they go first from pre-press to printer and then from printer to us; we shall see. I note there was some glitchiness here resulting in an extra couple days of delay; my fault for assuming that the defaults in the template I was using were industry defaults... which they were (I find) not. On the other hand, working that problem out helped in the LUC mass market cover work, so there -- a learning experience.

I did go to chess at the Waterville chess club Monday night. If you're within a few hours drive and a chess player, let me know and maybe we can arrange a chess-and Tim's get together RSN -- Tim Horton's is opening in town any day now, hoooray! Oh yeah, Monday was quite active with club-rated games ... all in all I probably picked up 10 points but I still got bashed around some in a couple 20 minute games. FWIW, we've sent an invite out to Colby College to try to get some new victims, blood members or drop-ins.

Am I frustrated or what? I am, yes. I had a chance to get a very good deal on a lightweight but not exactly what I wanted laptop a few months ago, but I said no, given the Foleo due in from Palm. Now, Palm has lost it's nerve (and ten million bucks$!) and decided not to ship. I sill have my Visor and a folding keyboard, largely unused in the last years since I haven't been traveling, but the Foleo would have been very near perfect for me... so much so that I was in the ship-mine-now list for first-day-issue.

I want a real keyboard -- I'm too old (and cranky) to type with my damn thumbs and I want a real screen since I can't see a lot of the phone screens. Gah and gah again. Maybe the EEE 701 will actually get distributed this year. I understand that they've dropped immediate plans for an 8 gig machine and will be upping the price but at around two lbs and a working computer...for $400 I'd find a way....


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[mardott.livejournal.com]

You know those cats? My first impression is that Animal Control is jumping to conclusions and being a bit harsh. At least the woman dropped them off at an animal control center. True, she could have brought them inside, but maybe didn't want to face questions or recriminations about "abandoning" her responsibility. Maybe they weren't even her cats. She might have found them somewhere and brought them in for their protection. On her way to work after dropping off her kids at school, who were all crying because they couldn't keep the cats...

Maybe I'm thinking about it way too much.

Meteorite

[tweetybookgirl.livejournal.com]

I've seen the meteorite in question many times in my life as I live down the block from the Hayden Planetarium (now the Rose Center for Earth and Space). It seems unfair that the Grand Ronde Council is making this fuss considering that the segment was traded 10 years before they had ever made any sort of claim to the meteorite.

Robin

Take 5

[drammar.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hijack your thread for other purposes, but I'm a little concerned about the Take 5 order that I placed some weeks ago when the offer first came out. I sent that and a follow-up (a couple of weeks apart) but have heard nothing since. First one went to publisherATsrmpublisher and the other to your kinzel email address.

Not wishing to be a pain, but really do want to take advantage of the offer!

Emails would have come from pmreussATverizon.net

Thanks

Re: Take 5

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

I'll take a look -- the srmpublisher address had a few days of wonkiness awhile back; the ISP did manage to get things together. Kinzel... sometimes doesn't look at for a few days at a time. In both cases, in the face of multi-hundred spams a day, I set my filters high... so I'll look in the holdboxes too as time permits.

The Folio

[(Anonymous)]

Steve, try an NEC MobilePro 900c. Ebay is selling them for a song, they have slots for wireless cards, wide keyboards, nice screens and still fit in a small briefcase.

I own a MobilePro 800 (and am thinking of getting an 880).

Of course, they run WinCE, but some clever folks have figured out how to turn then into Linux machines.

Laura J. Underwood

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I was looking forward to getting a Foleo.