Jerry, you ARE wonderful, but no matter how much we like to be pure -- today everything is a big mish-mash , weatherman do not report, they make the weather, announcers are nowadays stars and need to have pleasant, beautiful and truth-inspiring faces and a truly awe- inspiring hair cut, truth and opinions are cooked up like quick oats into an easily swallowable pablum concoction that does not upset the stomach, and we, we, we are the weenies , all of us who used to be called normal in times past, because normal means to be a small sausage in so many of life's menus . Weenie is my word of the day, on top of the one that comes to me by email. I feel like producing some poetic outpour on "Weenies' lament" or the like, so that the word can be included in the new Oxford dictionary.
And in order this email have some sort of technical connect, my f- keys on my iBook have different functions than those on my iMac -and I shall try to find out which were set by Apple and which were manipulated by me. While in the age of forgetfulness ( no, I have not been given by the gods the beaker filled with the drink of Lethe, my forgetfulness is age dependent,) ---However, I may , with some deep concentration, be able to talk intelligently about the f-keys , perhaps even write a treatise on " the ever puzzling f-key dilemma" Marta On Jul 29, 2007, at 15:25 PM, Jerry Freeman wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2007, at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > >> send hate mail to the "poor, simple, just-doing- >> my-job journalist." > > journalist write and verifiy fact, columnist express opinion. > columnist are not to be confused with journalist, though a journalist > might write for a column. the mere fact of being published in a > newspaper does not automatically assign journalistic credential. it's > the editor who makes the final call to run it, in this case most > likely something unread to fill column space with no exposure to > libel. > > this writer sounds as yet another columnist, however annoying his > juvenile grasp for the concept of diversity may be. at the end of the > day a weenie is just a weenie, not a journalist. best...jf > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >
