weenie: an emotional juvenile, afraid, and to ridicule, everyone not just like themselves.
techie: the rest of us. best...jf On Jul 29, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > 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 >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
