Um-hmmm...that and 2 dollars will get you on the CTA.

I can't be there but if you make this kind of offer, I might try my best to attend. Maybe the Cubs should think about it.

You've got to be either damned hungry or a termite to eat a seat.

Or kinky

Kinky is when you sniff the seat; perverted is when you eat it.

Since I was at the office of a hypnotherapist during the chat, I didn't show up. Did anyone say anything nasty?

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I can't be there but if you make this kind of offer, I might try my best to attend. Maybe the Cubs should think about it.

No matter how many games the Cubs lose, they never seem to have problems with filling the seats. I've wondered if the fans stopped coming whether they'd take their 100+ years of losing seriously, but probably not.

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Kinky is when you sniff the seat; perverted is when you eat it.

Kinky is when you use a feather; perverted is when you use the whole chicken.

I yield to your greater experience with the subject, Proof.

BTW, Proof, it's "edge."

I hope to see many of you on the chat tomorrow. Once again, it will start at 12:00 noon, CDT, or 17:00, GMT.

You have video on your computer?

And...there's another chat tomorrow! The time is the same, 12:00 noon, CDT or 17:00, GMT. See your posts there! (Better, Asa? )

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You have video on your computer?

In fact I do have it on mine - but I stopped using it as I was unable to find anyone else that had it!

I was unable to find anyone else that had it!

I've been at more than one party or gathering where a computer was set up and one could talk with and see absent friends who could not make it to the party. At other times, the laptop was simply pointed at some event and the others could watch. Recently my wife's aunt was given an electronic picture frame that is subscribed by RSS to a Flickr photostream, so her children and grandchildren can simply upload photos to Flickr and she sees a cycling through of them all. Ain't technology wonderful? (In this case I think it is.)

I can understand the potential benefits, but it's a bit like when Bell invented the telephone. It wasn't a lot of use until a fair number of people took it up.

So far the take-up of video-calling in my own circles is so small that it's not worthwhile my re-installing the software (that takes up a lot of space and slows my system down). I had hoped it would help to keep in touch with our son in Canada - but he doesn't have the equipmnent or software either.

No doubt its time will come and then, like other tecnology, it will suddenly take off and we'll all wonder how we ever managed without it.

I shall be undergoing my electric schlock therapy session at the time of the chat. They tape our eyelids open, strap our heads in one position, and make us watch QVC and HSN

QVC and HSN

Doesn't sound very electrifying ...

It's electrifying if you don't agree to buy the schlock and they hit you with their cattle prod.

Seriously, I was in the office of a hypnotist at chat time. He's trying to convince me that I CAN understand limericks. Yeah, suuuuure I can...

I heard there was a 7,000-acre brush fire in your area. I didn't know artists' colonies were that big.

That fire was a long way from here, and The Home is a Fartist colony, not an artist colony.

Asa the Old Fart

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The Home is a Fartist colony

You must be King of the Hill

I am indeed among the few, the farty few, the band of stinkers, for he to-day that passes gas with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, this day shall putrify his condition; and farty fiends in Plasticwood now a-bed shall think themselves degassed they were not here...

I hope to see everyone tomorrow...same time, same station: 12:00 CDT or 17:00 GMT.

Once again I'll be receiving electro-schlock therapy, so will not be around.

electro-schlock therapy

For the gas problem, fun, or grammatical purposes?

The former and the latter.

The former and the latter.

If you could work on the mean you might get to chats more often.

Verily. This was the last scheduled one, so I should be free next time.

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Originally posted by zmježd:

Recently my wife's aunt was given an electronic picture frame that is subscribed by RSS to a Flickr photostream, so her children and grandchildren can simply upload photos to Flickr and she sees a cycling through of them all. Ain't technology wonderful? (In this case I think it is.)

My son and DIL gave me one of these for Mother's Day. It is wonderful to wake up in the a.m. and see pictures of the new grandson who lives all the way across the country--along with his cats and his parents!

Wordmatic

...and tomorrow (or today I see!) is another chat. It has been an amazingly busy week for me, and I have hardly posted at all. So Shu and I are going to Galena, IL, tomorrow (for fun!) and we won't be around for the chat. Have fun, everyone!

I certainly won't make it tonight as this evening is our party to celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary.

I am only sorry that there won't be any Wordcrafters there - but Partridge Green is a bit of a jaunt - especially for our North American members!

Congratulations, Richard.

Yes, congratulations, Richard and Margaret. Looks like nobody came to the chat. I was just there and the room was empty. So I hope everybody's having a lovely Saturday!

Wordmatic

Looks like nobody came to the chat.

I was there from shortly before the hour until slightly after the half hour, multitasking on other work. I did not bother to log in again after the chat client crashed the browser for a second time.

Congratulations Richard.
Although my other problems, touch wood, seem to have gone away, I am still unable to access the chatroom.

I was in Hood River (From whence those great apples come) at an airshow. It was a lovely day and they showed me lots of air. I hope to stay closer to home next Saturday.

Congratulations, Richard, and kiss Margaret for us! It so happens we are in Galena for our anniversary, too. We toured Grant's home today, which was interesting.

The stars here in Galena are amazing. Shu shared this poem with me after we did some gazing, and I thought you might enjoy it, too. It's by Robert Louis Stevenson:

Escape at Bedtime

The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out
Through the blinds and the windows and bars;
And high overhead and all moving about,
There were thousands of millions of stars.
There ne'er were such thousands of leaves on a tree,
Nor of people in church or the Park,
As the crowds of the stars that looked down upon me,
And that glittered and winked in the dark.

The Dog, and the Plough, and the Hunter, and all,
And the star of the sailor, and Mars,
These shown in the sky, and the pail by the wall
Would be half full of water and stars.
They saw me at last, and they chased me with cries,
And they soon had me packed into bed;
But the glory kept shining and bright in my eyes,
And the stars going round in my head.

Thank you, everyone, for your congratulations. We had a wonderful evening and the weather kept fine for us. We had lots of guests and the whole thing went with a swing (and now we're clearing up!)

The bar (which I ran) was stocked entirely with English drinks (even the red wine) and many of the guests, who had never even tried English wines, were hugely complimentary about their high quality.

I had a Budweiser sign made up and affixed it to the garden water tap

Oh, you are so funny, Richard!

What kind of beer did you have? Did Margaret have a good time?

We had Hopback Summer Lightning on draught, plus bottled Fuller's 1845, Freeminer Gold Miner, Ballard's Bitter and Hepworth's Organic. All bottle-conditioned, of course.

Tomorrow is our weekly chat at 12:00, CDT, and 17:00, GMT. I will be in Wisconsin visiting my dad, but I hope some of you will chat.

I'm in the chat room now, at 1, and there is no one here. Did I mess up the time? I'm having a very confused day.

I'd join you but it still doesn't work with my ISP.

I was there for a time, Bob, and saw that you got in, then left soon thereafter. Were you even aware that you were logged on?

I tried it but still got just the blank screen that I always get.

Sorry, CW. I'll chat next week, even though I'll be at a meeting in Philadelphia.

Bob, we miss you a lot on the chats. I just can't figure out the problem. We could have one monthly chat on a more public site perhaps, where you could come? Otherwise, I don't know what to do.

Since I'm computer technology-ignorant, I'll ask an uninformed question: Is there any way to bypass an ISP and use a satellite or some such thing, or is one stuck with a monopolistic system?

Is there any way to bypass an ISP and use a satellite or some such thing, or is one stuck with a monopolistic system?

Sure anything is possible, but it costs money.

I did post (or thought I'd posted) my apology for my absence (I was away at a vintage vehicle rally) but for some reason my post doesn't seem to have "taken".