Btw, when I mentioned this to Chet, I mean Chad, he said yes, feel free. You have his email, no? [And …. turns out he knows waaay more about this subject than I even thought!]
cobble- thanks. And so if I had to ask BH to help with setting up an open source os for my other laptop, do I have to start calling him Chad (or Chet?) 😉
cmu- you interpret everything in the extreme- if it doesn’t agree with you. You decided I was rabidly anti-smokers. that’s your problem, not mine. Where did I or M4L note that you did not start this? First you put words in people’s mouths, then you misinterpret and finally you simply make stuff up. Your comparisons are ridiculous- I too happen to like the smell of turpentine but I don’t go around blowing it into the air so everyone else can share my joy. Smokers “share”- and while you may like the smell, the majority of non-smokers find it offensive. For the record I didn’t call them stupid or death-loving (again you put words in my mouth. Put your money where your mouth is and quote me.)What I do find interesting is your increasingly desperate defense of cigarette smoking. Got issues much?
bxgrl, I’m so sorry to hear that. It sounds like a brutal week. Never easy to cope with the death of a dear one. It’s stressful and painful. I’m glad you have each other to lean on. Family is so important, no one else knows how it feels, as clearly, in these times.
Well, if I can give you any words of encouragement, some people I’ve been talking to in the financial world seem to think business is going to pick up in the fall. I’m ‘banking’ on that myself at the moment.
If you need help with setting up a machine in open source/linux, BH has his home machine set up that way, and knows a ton about it, just let me know. I’m happy just to have one working machine. It’s was a strange experience to not have one for a few days — how did we become so dependent on them?
bxgrl, Interesting. Bark worse than bite, eh? No, from your prev posts, you do sound ‘rabidly antoi-smoking’, then you admit you let friends smoke around you. Go figure.
Addicted? Not me, and I for one think smoke smells fine. My to-be-ex, an artist, said she loved the smell of turpentine. Was she addicted to it? Hardly. One’s aversion to smells is mostly conditioned, it’s not like cig smoke is innately horrible.
And, both you and m4l note, it isn’t me that started this. Anti-smokers immediately feel they have to tell the world how horrible cigs are and how smokers are (implicitly) stupid and death-loving (check your own language above.) I just reacted to extremism with extremism, not politic perhaps but this is the net after all.
Been a rough week. Had a death in the family and spending time with my cousins, one of whom is very ill with AIDS. It was their mother who died- we had all been close growing up and it was just very sad.
Still looking for steady work- its scary. So sorry to hear about your computer. I am going to get my alienware laptop renovated and I think I may go open source on it. And rebuild my big desktop- wish I could afford a mac but that will have to wait. My dream is to have lots of computers 🙂
Hi bxgrl, Well, last Sunday night my computer showed signs of taking it’s last gasps after 6 years of pretty steady service. And on Monday it died, and BH could not revive it, which is saying something. Diagnosis is that the fan died, and I cooked the motherboard!
So after hours of unsuccessful resuscitation attempts BH looked at me and said, get your bag, we’re going to the Apple store. And off we went. And we got cables and stuff from his place of employ and he was able, after minor surgery, to get my old hard drive out of the dead body…and carry my info over to the new machine…it was dramatic, and fast!
And no sooner had we gotten that in hand, then we had to leave for a few days visit to the NJ shore with friends…which was great! Then immediately upon our return…we had to finish the migration from the old hard drive to the new one…
Cobble, bxgrl, very sorry to hear that.
bxgrl, yes, please refer to BH as Chad!
Btw, when I mentioned this to Chet, I mean Chad, he said yes, feel free. You have his email, no? [And …. turns out he knows waaay more about this subject than I even thought!]
cobble- thanks. And so if I had to ask BH to help with setting up an open source os for my other laptop, do I have to start calling him Chad (or Chet?) 😉
cmu- you interpret everything in the extreme- if it doesn’t agree with you. You decided I was rabidly anti-smokers. that’s your problem, not mine. Where did I or M4L note that you did not start this? First you put words in people’s mouths, then you misinterpret and finally you simply make stuff up. Your comparisons are ridiculous- I too happen to like the smell of turpentine but I don’t go around blowing it into the air so everyone else can share my joy. Smokers “share”- and while you may like the smell, the majority of non-smokers find it offensive. For the record I didn’t call them stupid or death-loving (again you put words in my mouth. Put your money where your mouth is and quote me.)What I do find interesting is your increasingly desperate defense of cigarette smoking. Got issues much?
bxgrl, I’m so sorry to hear that. It sounds like a brutal week. Never easy to cope with the death of a dear one. It’s stressful and painful. I’m glad you have each other to lean on. Family is so important, no one else knows how it feels, as clearly, in these times.
Well, if I can give you any words of encouragement, some people I’ve been talking to in the financial world seem to think business is going to pick up in the fall. I’m ‘banking’ on that myself at the moment.
If you need help with setting up a machine in open source/linux, BH has his home machine set up that way, and knows a ton about it, just let me know. I’m happy just to have one working machine. It’s was a strange experience to not have one for a few days — how did we become so dependent on them?
bxgrl, Interesting. Bark worse than bite, eh? No, from your prev posts, you do sound ‘rabidly antoi-smoking’, then you admit you let friends smoke around you. Go figure.
Addicted? Not me, and I for one think smoke smells fine. My to-be-ex, an artist, said she loved the smell of turpentine. Was she addicted to it? Hardly. One’s aversion to smells is mostly conditioned, it’s not like cig smoke is innately horrible.
And, both you and m4l note, it isn’t me that started this. Anti-smokers immediately feel they have to tell the world how horrible cigs are and how smokers are (implicitly) stupid and death-loving (check your own language above.) I just reacted to extremism with extremism, not politic perhaps but this is the net after all.
Been a rough week. Had a death in the family and spending time with my cousins, one of whom is very ill with AIDS. It was their mother who died- we had all been close growing up and it was just very sad.
Still looking for steady work- its scary. So sorry to hear about your computer. I am going to get my alienware laptop renovated and I think I may go open source on it. And rebuild my big desktop- wish I could afford a mac but that will have to wait. My dream is to have lots of computers 🙂
Hi bxgrl, Well, last Sunday night my computer showed signs of taking it’s last gasps after 6 years of pretty steady service. And on Monday it died, and BH could not revive it, which is saying something. Diagnosis is that the fan died, and I cooked the motherboard!
So after hours of unsuccessful resuscitation attempts BH looked at me and said, get your bag, we’re going to the Apple store. And off we went. And we got cables and stuff from his place of employ and he was able, after minor surgery, to get my old hard drive out of the dead body…and carry my info over to the new machine…it was dramatic, and fast!
And no sooner had we gotten that in hand, then we had to leave for a few days visit to the NJ shore with friends…which was great! Then immediately upon our return…we had to finish the migration from the old hard drive to the new one…
It’s been nuts…it’s all ok now, but it was nuts!
How are ya?
cobble- where have you been?