Posted by Els on 08/29/05 23:13

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> __/ [Els] on Monday 29 August 2005 16:17 \__
>
> You always have a surprise waiting, involuntarily lifting a spirit. *smile*
> Any message in alt.html? Els!

Be careful - you're showing the first signs of a serious Usenet
addiction ;-)

> [Technology]
>
>>> Yes, and today I posted a reference via message-id.net (Toby's latest
>>> project) for the first time. He peculates PR by putting GG[1] within a
>>> frame. He hits them where it hurts, having the latter done the same with
>>> images and cache.
>>
>> Sounds like he's one of the good guys then ;-)
>
> I see Toby as one of the guys in the benevolent team.

That too :-)

>>> Screensavers phobia... too many... recently heard of a screensaver in
>>> Fedora that gets random pictures off the Internet. Funny when you come
>>> back to do some work only to find hardcore pr0n on the screen.
>>
>> I'm guessing that's a disableable (made that word up myself) feature?
>
> Not trivially.
>
> "...After a bit of rooting around I?ve tracked this down to the
> webcollage.desktop screensaver which picks random images off the internet
> and displays them within the screensaver. Not a very responsible inclusion
> in a desktop environment but it can be found in
> /usr/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers..."

What were they thinking when they added that screensaver to the
package :S

>>>>> If you were to pick up a
>>>>> Windows CD, you could play it backwards and hear Satan.

>>> Either way, I was never fond of Satanic music.
>>
>> Me neither - backwards, forwards or upside down.
>
> *LOL* I'm glad the context leaves no room for confusion or ambiguity.

Indeed <g>
Careful snippage required :-)

> The beautiful thing in life is that things can unravel gracefully,
> progressively and without any prior expectation. As just one example, at the
> same time last year I only had a handful of visitors in my site.

And how many is that now?

>>>>> This reminds me that I should return to doing some actual work today. I
>>>>> posted almost 300 messages (NG's alone) in the past 8 days.
>>>>
>>>> That's nothing. I once was blocked before the end of the day because I
>>>> had posted 150. In one day :-)
>>>
>>> sarcasm To 0.test? Were you eventually happy at least?
>>
>> <g>
>> No, actually, it was to alt.www.webmaster mostly :-)
>
> Boy, the threads can go bonkers there. Have you brought the same phenomenon
> to alt.html? *wink*

I don't think I'm the only one to blame, but it does look like it.
Wanna set a f-up to AWW? ;-)

>>> I no longer travel.
>>
>> That's a very bold statement at your age.
>
> My last big vacation was so disappointing for no apparent reason (you can
> see Gallery >> Zermatt in my site). I was just waiting for it to end. It
> wasn't the first such experience, but rather a staged decline in interest.

I think this may have to do with:

>>> Computers killed my human soul.

Make sure you don't become like the rest of us: computer and Usenet
junkies ;-)

For travelling, I suggest not visiting a hotel in a snowy city, but
actually backpacking to a country where you haven't been before, book
only 2 nights in advance into the local youth hostel, don't take more
money with you than you'd need to survive one month, and make the
ticket a 3 month return. Once you get the hang of it, you can change
the 3 month return for a round the world one (one year).

>> Get it back. Make them give it back. You need travel. After getting
>> your Ph.D, you should take a year out and go travel. Backpacking, not
>> checking in to a wifi-enabled hotel with your laptop.
>>
>> As a wise old(er) woman I'm telling you - do that before you're stuck
>> in a rut. ;-)
>
> I feel somewhat stranded already. I love my life, I enjoy it, but it
> involves many dependencies.

It doesn't have to - you can be as independent as you like.

>>> I will at least go to the health club shortly.
>>
>> Is that shortly as in "10 minutes from now", or shortly as in "some
>> day soon, but I haven't registered yet really" ?
>
> No, you got the wrong impression of me. I have been working out intensively
> for 10 years < http://www.schestowitz.com/sports.htm >.

Image of nerd destroyed. ;-)
Is there anything you're not good at?

> It's nice and sunny at the moment and yet... I long for the computer. I'll
> go out to the sun a little later. I need that vitamins. *smile*

That's why laptops were invented. Sit in the sun, get your vitamin D
while not leaving your computer :-)

>>> [1] GG where the second G stands for Groups and PR where R stands for
>>> [Rank.
>>> I have to be cautious with sensitive keywords these days... my employment
>>> opportunities are narrowing down like a supermodel on bulimia.
>>
>> I've seen your CV - you will not have a lack of employment
>> opportunities very soon I think :-)
>
> As time goes by, I come to grips with the fact that I prefer to stay in
> medical-related research, so I am not overly worried. Nevertheless, I have
> served more as a critical reviewer than I have as an evangelist. This is
> risky.

Not sure I understand that - why is it risky?

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