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| Lori |
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chillywilly wrote: Lori wrote: ( I gotta get the kid over her to show me how to scan and upload things. My scanner just sits there building its collection of dust.)
While my scanner has been through periods of dust collecting, the last 8 months it's gotten a decent workout. And if you are using a Mac, scanning should be pretty simple.
it probably is, but I bet I'm simpler! :-) And I am using an iMac OS X. Which has waaay too many smarts for me. I feel like a Model T driver suddenly plunked into a Ferrari. I have no idea what most of the 'buttons' and 'switches' are for. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:03 pm |
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Befade wrote: Chill.........What kind of scanner do you have? Does it print, too?
All in one printer/scanner. Canon PIXMA 150. I don't do much printing with it... mostly scanning. But it's nice to have a color printer for the few times I need to print full color. |
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| Lori |
| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:11 pm |
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.... I plan to call it: L.A./London : When a rose is a rose, but not necessarily a posey. (Here a posey refers to any single flower, a rose, a daisy, a carnation, etc. while in England a posey is what we Yanks call a nosegay: a round, structured bouquet with a handle, often seen at weddings. And probably everybody in the world already knows that, so I sound pompous. Sorry.[/quote]
And lets not get started on pants, ass or fanny.
I don’t live in London anymore and am not up to speed with current street slang, a lot of which is imported from America anyway, but feel free to ask for my opinion if you think I can be of help.
These days I find that differences in language are as much intergenerational or, though Americans are uneasy with term, class based as they are to do with nationality. ‘Young people’ in London and LA may share elements of language via music, texting and blogging that are alien to their parents in both locations.[/quote]
Ahh yes, fanny. You should have been there when I tripped on stairs and regaled a bunch of guys waiting at the bottom with how I almost fell on my fanny!!
I think you are absolutely right about language differences being more intergenerational, than national, and any Yank who doesn't think we have a class system here should study the culture of the "redneck" or "trailer trash" or "ivy league" for that matter. I rely on my daughter, the alternative music dance club DJ to give me some inkling of current kids slang. But of course the Hip Hoppers have a language of their own I would have to do a heap more research to update my entries if I thought I could actually publish the dictionary. And slang changes so rapidly, a lot of it would be obsolete before it hit the bookstores. Sighhhh. |
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| Lori |
| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:41 am |
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| After failing to be able to log in on AOL, I finally want to Safari and was able to get on. I typed in 12 things, and hit submit and was taken back to the log in page and everything I had typed was gone. I have so little time, that I can't type it all again. No one else is posting, so there's nothing for me to read, and I WANT to read other peoples stuff, so I think, sadly, I'm gonna have to take a hike or at least a vacation. I'll come back to read- I'm still waiting for chapter 3. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:11 pm |
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| Lori, you can always read my book. That will keep you busy for a while. |
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| Lori |
| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:53 pm |
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| Still trying to see if anyrthing I've typed has printed. |
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| Lori |
| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:58 pm |
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Lori wrote: Still trying to see if anyrthing I've typed has printed.
And it didn't. Logged in about 6 times, wrote the same thing 3 or 4 times and none of them made it out of the ether. This one probably won't either. But what I said waaaas: I would love to read your book Marantz, what page does it start on? Because you've been so nice to me, I'll MAKE time.
Please, dear Lord, let this one print....... |
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| Lori |
| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:30 pm |
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Rod wrote: Thank you, Lori.
Hey, Rod-
I don't know how I missed it, guess I just thought it was your signature or something. The lines at the bottom of that post. Smoke makes a stairway for her to come down, the cigarette burns you and your hand is OK, but there's pain in your heart.
I really like that. Wish I'd written it. Since I don't smoke, I guess I never could have. But I like the imagery a lot. Can't believe I missed it the first time. Someone slap me for being so self involved. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:43 pm |
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Lori;
I wish I'd written it too. It would mean I'd be a lot richer, for thing. It's a pair of lines from the song "Deep In A Dream" by Jimmy Van Heusen and Eddie de Lange. I was listening to it sung by Sinatra on In The Wee Small Hours and, as often happens, the emotive, humanistic quality of those old songs leapt out at me.
The whole song (imagine, for best effect, smoky Sinatra croon and dreamy Nelson Riddle orchestration);
Deep In A Dream
I dim all the lights and I sink in my chair.
The smoke from my cigarette climbs through the air.
The walls of my room fade away in the blue,
And I'm deep in a dream of you.
The smoke makes a stairway for you to descend;
You come to my arms, may this bliss never end,
For we love anew just as we used to do
When I'm deep in a dream of you.
Then from the ceiling, sweet music comes stealing;
We glide through a lovers refrain, youre so appealing
That I'm soon revealing my love for you over again.
My cigarette burns me, I wake with a start;
My hand isnt hurt, but there's pain in my heart.
Awake or asleep, every memory I'll keep
Deep in a dream of you. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:28 pm |
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Lori, my book starts about half way down page 11 of this forum. It's title is A Leaf In the Wind (it's been changed since). It goes on intermitently on the forum right to the end. It's the first draft. The third draft is what I have now and what I am trying to find a lit. agent for. Plan to go to NYC sometime this winter/spring to look for one. It's a big long shot.
Rod, I was also impressed with those couple of lines and was going to say something, but to be honest I thought they were familiar and not something you wrote. When I read what Lori wrote I was hoping that you had written it and was going to jump in, but, alas, no such luck. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:24 pm |
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Lori,
Behind the Curtain I posted about changing from Thirdeye to subsilver. I did it intially because my eyes were tired. But now I'm a confirmed subsilver user. Why? I HAVE NOT GOTTEN THROWN OFF ONCE.
Finally I no longer have to type somewhere else and then copy and paste.
And I can make the switch for you if you'd like. Just let me know. OK, sweetie? |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:25 pm |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:20 am |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:44 am |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:15 am |
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