On Monday 11 April 2005 19:00, Peter Kupfer wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 10 April 2005 14:51, Peter Kupfer wrote: >>>Gene Heskett wrote: > >If you care, I have responded on social.
And that is yet another mailing list? While I might enjoy it, a situation is developing that will take me out of state for several weeks, probably by thursday morning if I can get all my stuff in one sock by then. Doubtfull. Friday maybe now that I think of what I need to do before I leave for a month. I'm an Almost-Retired (thats my handle on /.) tv broadcast engineer who seems to have a reputation for getting the job done, and the owner of the tv station where I've been the CE for the last 20.5 years has a dark (off the air) tv station that I have to go see what I can do about. As its quite decent money, and all expenses paid except food, I shouldn't turn it down, and he is also a friend of long standing, I usually try to fix whatever is ailing. So I may be "out of pocket" for a few weeks. I hope I'm not disappointed, the last time I was up there a year ago in feb, I spent far more time shoveling snow than anything else except walking because the rental 4wd jeep had sulfated, crap battery with about 1 amp/hour of capacity that the jerk who rented it to me wasn't about to replace. At 10 below, that won't cut it. FWIW, I stood and looked at this package we're discussing in Staples tonight, for about 5 minutes, long enough to scan all the text on the box I could read without breaking the seal. Its apparently for windoze only, and absolutely nothing on the packaging indicated that what it was, was OOo. Its also came with a bunch of other stuff with a similarly fuzzy identification, and had a shelf price of $49.95 at Staples. To the unwashed, used to the non-information propaganda on the labels of a windows product box, its quite an all encompassing package. Since it was winderz only, it went back on the shelf. No windoze allowed on the premises here, never has been, never will be. My personal opinion is that he who buys it, confirms the P.T. Barnum observation made before I was born 70 years ago. But then I'm admittedly biased. :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
