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[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

On a different note. I am really p#ssd off that my fancy, expensive bloody LG Plasma Smart TV doesn't have a headphone jack! How can this be! The TV is only about 14 months old. How can there be no headphones jack!?

[Linda]

You young people and your gadgets! When I was a child, our b&w tv gave us three chanels. The plug in broke leaving exposed wires. We plugged in with those two wires for years. If a light bulb went out, we were in the dark. That was dangerous, trying to plug in those wires from the tv in a dark room. It wasn't that we couldn't afford to buy a light bulb or a new plug in. I think it was 'make do' syndrome left over from WWII.

At the George Walker Bush Library dedication yesterday, President Clinton made a funny comment about digitalization, his telephone conversations with President Bush, and the fear that the calls were recorded. It was funny the way he told it. Tony Blair was there as was the President of Australia and other dignitaries around the world. President Bush's rating is now at 49% which makes me happy. He had a hard time trying not to cry during the ceremony. If you are interested in US history, try to catch a re-run of the dedication. President Obama talked about telephone conversations with President Bush when he (Obama) took office. He said, "I needed" those talks. So the exclusive club made up of all living US presidents was together at one time in the same place and they were very civil to one another. Secretary Clinton laughed her distinctive laugh at something funny. I would know that laugh anywhere.

[Linda]

Bobby wrote: "Not an arse man here, however....


Apple does it again
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 Apple Computer announced today that it has
developed


You naughty boy! That was funny. Wonder how much the implants cost? One of the in-laws bought herself from powerful speakers!




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[Linda]

I wrote some random thoughts for you, but I don't see them here. Are you doing better with the back?

[[deleted user]]

Bobby wrote: "Not an arse man here, however....


Apple does it again
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 Apple Computer announced today that it has
developed

That's hilarious! Got a good laugh out of that one.


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[Linda]

I wrote some random thoughts for you, but I don't see them here. Are you doing better with the back?

[Linda]

I think my Nook has been *flirting* with ASUS again. Comments I am reading are full of double meanings. My comments are posting twice. Two speakers, I guess. Off to separate the little rascals, Nook and ASUS.

[Linda]

One more thing. I am so glad my Elvis impersonator did not send the poison to the president and Sen. Wicker. We hold on to our Bibles, guns and Elvis impersonators. I doubt Mrs. Wicker will use any Elvis impersonator at any of her future parties. If you don't know Roger Wicker or any impersonators or this bit of land we share, the story might not have been funny. But we natives could talk of nothing else. I have danced with an EP impersonator. There is one living on our main street. He sits on his front porch, in full regalia, everyday. When a good old boy drives by in his cowboy Cadillac, he will hit the cab top and yell, "Hey, King!" Such excitement!

[Dawn]

Wow, this conversation has me rolling my eyes, laughing and being completely confused. I don't think I'm ready for that much emotion yet today. :)

[Bobby]

Methinks someone is pulling my proverbial leg...looked everywhere for an iTit and can't find it. Not even on e-bay. Price is not an object. Guess I'll have to go back to being an arse man.

On another note, we are getting awfully close to the 100 degree (F) mark. Guess summer is already here in Phoenix.

[Nate]

Nice to see another Arizonan in here, it's not too bad in Tucson today but we don't have all that impressive concrete and asphalt :) I'm actually from Tempe, kinda miss it sometimes.

[Linda]

RAISING ARIZONA! Funniest movie ever.

[Dawn]

100F (38C) is way too hot for me, we're only at 63F (17C) here in the Fraser Valley, which is about perfect for me. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Linda wrote: "I wrote some random thoughts for you, but I don't see them here. Are you doing better with the back?"

Thanks Linda.
Not completely better, but not affecting my quality of life anymore. I can get around freely now with a twinge if I overdo it.

[Bobby]

Nate wrote: "Nice to see another Arizonan in here, it's not too bad in Tucson today but we don't have all that impressive concrete and asphalt :) I'm actually from Tempe, kinda miss it sometimes."

Minder Binders and Big Surf...used to go to those places in Tempe all the time years ago. Don't know how old you are Nate but the really HOT spot was a place called Dooley's!

[Nate]

I'm 26, don't remember ever visiting any of those places. I do remember Tom's BBQ and the Coffee Plantation, though! Good times.

[Darcy]

Dooley's is the name of a chain of a pool/snooker/skittles bar in Eastern Canada. I find it fascinating how often the same names pop up for similar type things. In this case - entertainment.

[[deleted user]]

Baseball sized hail just smashed the windshield of my car. Weather around here is crazy this time of year. Like a dumbass, when the tornado sirens go off, the first thing I do is go outside & try to spot it. I love seeing tornados...as long as they don't hit my house.

[Bobby]

D wrote: "Dooley's is the name of a chain of a pool/snooker/skittles bar in Eastern Canada. I find it fascinating how often the same names pop up for similar type things. In this case - entertainment."

This Dooley's was a night club and Dooley was the name of a huge plastic ogre that guarded the entrance. I remember skittles from when I lived north of Toronto...had forgotten all about that game. Game of choice there was tabletop shuffleboard.

[Linda]

We run out to see the tornado when the alarms go off, too. I've made it through some really bad tornadoes and straight line winds. I have never seen a dry tornado. Here there is hail, rain, wind and the unmistakable roar.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Derek wrote: "Baseball sized hail just smashed the windshield of my car. Weather around here is crazy this time of year. Like a dumbass, when the tornado sirens go off, the first thing I do is go outside & try t..."


Oh bummer. Real sorry about the hail damage.....but then I actually laughed out loud to read what 'certain dumbarses' do when tornado sirens go off. Lol?

[[deleted user]]

Lol Terri. Hail damage is a something everyone around here has to deal with, especially this time of year. Thankfully, my insurance will help with that. I live right in the middle of what is called "Tornado Alley" here in America. Some of my friends & neighbors think I'm crazy, because when the sirens go off, they run to their cellars or closets & I run outside. When baseball sized hail starts coming down though, I promptly get my crazy arse indoors.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Oh we know hail too. :-) But it comes with storms, not with twisters, so we usually have some advance warning to get the car in the garage, or if out and about, try and find somewhere under cover to wait it out, such as a service station or over pass.
We don't have your big twisters.
From time to time we can get a small twister in a valley not far from me. It is called tornado alley locally, but they aren't big tornadoes that will flatten your house and sweep you away. They will take down trees or a roof of a house. That is about as serious as they get.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Derek,
I don't watch the NFL, but Keep an eye out for our Aussie this season. He's from my State.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/j...

It was rumoured that he might go in Round 1. He had to wait until Round 5. He must have been panicking. :-)
He'll be playing for the Seattle Seahawks.

[Darcy]

For the last 25 years or so, I've read a lot of books about Scotland, both fiction and non-fiction and have just now realised, that in the non-fic ones, Scottish authors say "envoy" in place of afterward or epilogue.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Oh..I do believe we have a thought of the day.

Thanks for squeezing that random thought out, D. I am going to keep an eye out for this in future.

[Darcy]

Well, this is what happens when one has to re-catalogue one's entire library including the proper number of 'text' pages. Going through several books by Scottish authors in a row tends to identify otherwise missed trends/traditions.

[[deleted user]]

Awesome Terri! American football is my favorite sport(I pretty much like all sports though). I was familiar with Jesse from watching University of Alabama games, but I had no idea he was Australian. I will definitely keep an eye on him. He certainly looks the part of an NFL defensive lineman. Alabama puts out a bunch of top notch NFL players. They have won the college national championship 2 years in a row. OK..I'll shut up about sports now. Thanks for that info, Terri.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

No problem. Happy to share. :-)
Did you read the whole article? I can see why some might be hesitant after those knee Ops he has had. For someone to grow that big and weigh that much so young, and then also be a fast runner, that can wreck their knees early. No wonder really that he didn't get picked until the fifth round.

Keep an eye out for the other two Aussies in the Draft too. These guys:
Two other Aussies, Louisiana State University's Brad Wing and University of Hawaii's Alex Dunnachie, both punters, are yet to be drafted.

[Bobby]

Like to see the draft results the next day but watching it ranks right up there with the snail mile race.

[Darcy]

I mis-read that as "snail-mail race". Which would be a massive bore.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

D wrote: "I mis-read that as "snail-mail race". Which would be a massive bore."

And to think, we all used to do that race......*hugs internet technology*

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Bobby wrote: "Like to see the draft results the next day but watching it ranks right up there with the snail mile race."

You are not wrong. My hubby turned it on yesterday as it was airing here on ESPN or whatever. After a while he stated "Man these yanks are nutty for a statistic!" and turned it off.

[[deleted user]]

Totally agree. I'm a huge sports fan, but I can't watch the draft. I just check on it once every few hours. Snail mile race is a perfect analogy for the NFL draft, but this yank is completely nutty. Yank? No. Liberal Okie, Yes. Tom Joad Jr.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

You're all Yanks to the Aussies and the British and many other countries. :)


(p.s it is not meant in a derogatory way. Thought I better mention that. Just a name)

[[deleted user]]

I was just kidding around, Terri. The term yank doesn't bother me or anything like that. Ironically, there are some people in this weird country who would object to me being called a yank.

[Crystal]

I love NFL, but I can't watch the draft. I even play fantasy football, but really, it's slower than molasses.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Derek wrote: ". Ironically, there are some people in this weird country who would object to me being called a yank."


Really. wow.

[[deleted user]]

I really enjoy fantasy football, Crystal. Holler at me if you have an opening in your league next season. It's more fun when you're competing with people you're familiar with.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Crystal wrote: "I love NFL, but I can't watch the draft. I even play fantasy football, but really, it's slower than molasses."


So true. What hubby and I watched yesterday seemed like an hour of stats and footage between each name being announced. And there was a hundred tv screens in front of and behind the tv presenters plastered with more stats.
It was like pulling teeth.

[Crystal]

Derek, I usually just play the free NFL one. I finally won my league for the first time after playing for 5 years. It would be more fun with someone I know!

[[deleted user]]

I'm envious, as I've yet to win a league yet. I usually play the Yahoo leagues, but next season I'll try to get in an NFL league with you. We'll battle it out.

[Dawn]

Saw this article about an Aussie bookstore and thought I'd share:

Cool Idea of the Day: Amazon Amnesty

In a campaign aimed to help "people to understand what Amazon is doing and make an informed choice to have choice," Pages & Pages Booksellers, in Mosman, Australia, just north of Sydney, is offering what it calls a "Kindle amnesty." On the third Saturday of every month, customers who purchase a BeBook e-reading device from the store and trade in a Kindle at the same time, will receive a $50 gift voucher.
photo: Mosman Daily

In the announcement, general manager Jon Page, who is also president of the Australian Booksellers Association, noted that in Australia, Amazon has more than 65% of the e-book market and more than 75% of e-reading devices. "Kindle has become the default term for an e-reader but most readers don't understand that it is an Amazon product and there are other, better, reading devices on the market." They also don't understand that "the Kindle locks them into buying from Amazon only. Amazon limits readers' choices and walls them into their garden. But you don't have to be."

By contrast, Pages & Pages sells e-books and e-readers that work on "any tablet or smart phone as well as all other non-Kindle e-readers like the Sony eReader or Kobo device…. Come in for a demonstration. Pages & Pages are also happy to set up any device for e-reading. Unlike Amazon, Pages & Pages can give face-to-face customer service and advice. There is also a bin in store for old Kindles."

Unlike Amazon, Pages & Pages, he said, also "support local schools, pay taxes in Australia, employ local people, give Mosman Village character, respect readers privacy, none of which Amazon does."

Page said, too, that e-books are "not a threat to physical bookshops. This new format presents bookshops and readers with many wonderful opportunities to sell and read more books. What does threaten bookshops is a company who engages in uncompetitive behaviour, pays no tax in Australia and misleads readers with restrictive devices and fake book reviews."

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Hope you don't mind Dawn, I also posted that piece over in the eReaders v Dead Trees thread too. :-) To stir the eReading folk up. Lol.
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7...

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Great idea, but I hope their eBook prices are competitive with Amazon on ebooks, or it is a stupid idea.

[Bryn]

@Dawn Radical. And just up the road, and I've been having misgivings about my Kindle(s)...

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

$50 trade in voucher is pretty good. Especially if you got one of those entry level $98 Kindles.

But then how do you transfer all your Kindle books to the new device? Is that possible? I guess it can be done with Calibre program.

[Bryn]

Yes, I can't in fact trade in my Kindle with its contents, thousands of items. Let's not forget, too, you'd have to wave bye-bye to Monica's free books. I ain't that anti-Amazon yet... I want to buy an alternate ereader though, that's a step.

[Leland]

Maybe the OLD kindle, but I'd be hard pressed to give up my kindle entirely. I have however added a kobo to my ereader collection) a portion of my purchases go to my local independent bookstore. Still keeping the Kindle too.

[Leland]

I rarely buy anything for the Kindle anymore though. Mostly downloading freebies.