On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, anne-ology wrote:
cute, cuter, cutest ...
you're surely t' best.
[further comments below]
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Felmon Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, anne-ology wrote:
you took all my puns away ...
just doing humanity a service.
[http://www.thepunalsorises.com/]
I haven't any more; but ne'er fear,
the punster will re-appear ;-)
we are armed.
Tom Jefferson complained in 1787 about all the punning going on at the
Consitutional convention in Philadelphia; I think he struck the right
note when he wrote to Abigail Adams:
"The people at large view every object only as it may furnish puns and
bon mots; and I pronounce that a good punster would disarm the whole
nation were they ever so seriously disposed to revolt.”
["... to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end
them" yet I've punned with the best of 'em, ne'er taken yet ;-) ]
watch out lest you be outpunned.
(btw I don't buy Pollack's theory. quote from Jefferson from
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2011/05/bonfire_of_the_hannities029811.php>)
[...]
I think the 'r' stands for 'remote' but I don't know; the source doesn't
need to be 'remote' though. I just backed up one older external drive I
have (was making funny noises) to another newer one.
[funny noises, eh ... maybe it was speaking to you in its own
language ;-) ]
yeah, only I was the one making the noises.
F.
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Felmon Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, anne-ology wrote:
rsync ???
I think i are sinking fast ...
sink vb sinks, sinking, sank ; sunk, sunken
you are probably just joshing around but 'sync' has nothing to do with
'sink'; one is germanic, the other is greek.
'syn'+'chronos' as in 'synchronize'.
sometimes the spelling of words, like the syntax of directory paths,
matters.
(and 'syntax' has nothing to do with 'sin' or 'taxes'!)
'rsync' is a great utility; I assume it's available for Windows but I
don't know but there's certainly equivalent stuff.
Felmon Davis
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