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| bartist |
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| Tech-wise, ive recently roared into the 21st century, addinf a tablet, a roku box, and hulu plus. Browsing the criterion coll. at hulu has been the kid in candy shop experience - so stupefying in fact that I have yet to watch anything. 'World on a Wire' will be our firsr hulu film this wedkend. The tablet seems not suited to my thickened thumbs, clumsy from the renov. I too am spooked by a scanning mouse. What would a trtraveler from 1950 make of such a phrase.? Cheers |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 2:32 am |
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I really like the first half of World on a Wire -- basically all the set up stuff. But then it kind of meanders and loses steam.
My favorite Fassbinder is Veronika Voss -- check that out if you haven't. It's sort of his take on Sunset Blvd ... and post-war West German cultural amnesia. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 3:48 pm |
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| Well, I've taken the plunge, and ordered an HP 15" 4GB laptop from Staples, and if all goes well, I'll order a printer after it's all hooked up. Then I can start watching movies and TV shows on it, as if I don't waste enough time sitting in front of a screen already.... |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:07 pm |
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bartist wrote: ...addinf a tablet, a roku box, and hulu plus. Browsing the criterion coll. at hulu has been the kid in candy shop experience - so stupefying in fact that I have yet to watch anything. 'World on a Wire' will be our firsr hulu film this weekend. The tablet seems not suited to my thickened thumbs, clumsy from the renov. I too am spooked by a scanning mouse. What would a traveler from 1950 make of such a phrase? Cheers
I barely understood half it and I wasn't even born in the fifties. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:44 pm |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:08 am |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 9:25 am |
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| Well, I got my laptop--HP, 15", 4GB, touchscreen (which I didn't need, but whatever). It arrived from Staples last night and I managed to get it hooked up and plugged in and going pretty well. Now I have to add Windows and figure out what to do with all the features. It'll be great for watching movies, though. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 6:59 pm |
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| Happy Birthday Bill Weeden |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:09 pm |
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jeremy wrote: Happy Birthday Bill Weeden
Thanks! |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 7:08 am |
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| Happy Birthday, Billyweeds |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 8:09 am |
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Syd wrote: Happy Birthday, Billyweeds
Wow, in purple no less! (My favorite color.) |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 12:44 pm |
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Oh yeah, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BILLY!
No one ever remembers my birthday?  |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 6:15 pm |
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| Or mine. I haven't yet crafted an outreach program to all those in ignorance. Happy bidet to all you cats! |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 7:12 pm |
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I learnt of Billy's birthday through Facebook and got the jump on the rest of you by dint of being close to the West side of the International Dateline. Enter you birth date into your personal profile and FB will tell the world it's your birthday whether you want it to or not. It's sort of nice for those whose birthday is not pencilled into too many diaries.
I can understand those who resist selling their soul to the the devil that is Mark Zuckerberg. And I certainly have a tendency to bare mine too often - probably to the mortification of my children. Alas, though FB feels like a confessional - as misleading in its intimacy as the one in "Big Brother" - it's more a massive screen in a public square. But I like it nonetheless; it does what it says on the tin - it's a medium for being social; which is especially handy for a peripatetic engineer like myself.
The danger for the chronically shy, though, is they may mistake the contact it offers for the messy, difficult, awkward, wonderful real thing. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 8:43 pm |
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| For some reason, the phone app is no longer alerting me. Not sure if I pushed a wrong button or it's part of an update package. Still shows up on my computer, though. |
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