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zorinth!Yesterday I went up to Pleasantville for the NYRSF work weekend. There weren't a lot of manuscripts left to read, and the turnout was small, so I was making corrections by late afternoon.
In the room with the main computer (there's a laptop elsewhere), someone had turned the radio on to WFUV. When I wandered in, Pete Fornatelle (sp?) was complaining that the Malaysian tapirs at the Bronx Zoo ignored him. I started talking back to the radio, pointing out that the tapirs don't talk to anybody. Then he explained that it was the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, so he was going to be playing animal-related music. The theme was very loose: the first song was about unicorns and Noah's ark, and others included "I Am the Walrus" and some random Monkees. He finished with Danny Glover reading "How the Leopard Got His Spots", backed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. I need to listen to him more often.
Pete Fornatelle was followed by Vin Scelsa doing "Idiot's Delight", which is free-form radio taken to an extreme. He didn't just dig out his old Robert Palmer LPs--he talked about what it had been like doing radio when everything was on vinyl, and the crackling noise (which I hadn't noticed until he pointed it out, because that's what music on the radio sounded like when I was growing up), and even played a bit of the end-of-LP sound you'd get if the DJ stepped out during a long song and didn't come back in time. He talked about the Universal Life Church and their Web site (where you can put religious credentials in an online shopping cart). He read us Ferdinand and the Bull. I wound up making corrections to one review while singing along to the Clash's "Lost in the Supermarket".
Vin described the LP bit as nostalgia, but for me the whole thing was pleasant nostalgia: the DJs I listened to in high school (on WNEW-FM, back then), doing what they do well and playing a musical mix that included stuff from that era. I'm going to be listening more often, and probably seeing what else WFUV has to offer me: they've promised lots of John Lennon for Thursday, which would have been his birthday.
In the room with the main computer (there's a laptop elsewhere), someone had turned the radio on to WFUV. When I wandered in, Pete Fornatelle (sp?) was complaining that the Malaysian tapirs at the Bronx Zoo ignored him. I started talking back to the radio, pointing out that the tapirs don't talk to anybody. Then he explained that it was the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, so he was going to be playing animal-related music. The theme was very loose: the first song was about unicorns and Noah's ark, and others included "I Am the Walrus" and some random Monkees. He finished with Danny Glover reading "How the Leopard Got His Spots", backed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. I need to listen to him more often.
Pete Fornatelle was followed by Vin Scelsa doing "Idiot's Delight", which is free-form radio taken to an extreme. He didn't just dig out his old Robert Palmer LPs--he talked about what it had been like doing radio when everything was on vinyl, and the crackling noise (which I hadn't noticed until he pointed it out, because that's what music on the radio sounded like when I was growing up), and even played a bit of the end-of-LP sound you'd get if the DJ stepped out during a long song and didn't come back in time. He talked about the Universal Life Church and their Web site (where you can put religious credentials in an online shopping cart). He read us Ferdinand and the Bull. I wound up making corrections to one review while singing along to the Clash's "Lost in the Supermarket".
Vin described the LP bit as nostalgia, but for me the whole thing was pleasant nostalgia: the DJs I listened to in high school (on WNEW-FM, back then), doing what they do well and playing a musical mix that included stuff from that era. I'm going to be listening more often, and probably seeing what else WFUV has to offer me: they've promised lots of John Lennon for Thursday, which would have been his birthday.
Yesterday I went up to Pleasantville for the NYRSF work weekend. There weren't a lot of manuscripts left to read, and the turnout was small, so I was making corrections by late afternoon.
In the room with the main computer (there's a laptop elsewhere), someone had turned the radio on to WFUV. When I wandered in, Pete Fornatelle (sp?) was complaining that the Malaysian tapirs at the Bronx Zoo ignored him. I started talking back to the radio, pointing out that the tapirs don't talk to anybody. Then he explained that it was the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, so he was going to be playing animal-related music. The theme was very loose: the first song was about unicorns and Noah's ark, and others included "I Am the Walrus" and some random Monkees. He finished with Danny Glover reading "How the Leopard Got His Spots", backed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. I need to listen to him more often.
Pete Fornatelle was followed by Vin Scelsa doing "Idiot's Delight", which is free-form radio taken to an extreme. He didn't just dig out his old Robert Palmer LPs--he talked about what it had been like doing radio when everything was on vinyl, and the crackling noise (which I hadn't noticed until he pointed it out, because that's what music on the radio sounded like when I was growing up), and even played a bit of the end-of-LP sound you'd get if the DJ stepped out during a long song and didn't come back in time. He talked about the Universal Life Church and their Web site (where you can put religious credentials in an online shopping cart). He read us Ferdinand and the Bull. I wound up making corrections to one review while singing along to the Clash's "Lost in the Supermarket".
Vin described the LP bit as nostalgia, but for me the whole thing was pleasant nostalgia: the DJs I listened to in high school (on WNEW-FM, back then), doing what they do well and playing a musical mix that included stuff from that era. I'm going to be listening more often, and probably seeing what else WFUV has to offer me: they've promised lots of John Lennon for Thursday, which would have been his birthday.
In the room with the main computer (there's a laptop elsewhere), someone had turned the radio on to WFUV. When I wandered in, Pete Fornatelle (sp?) was complaining that the Malaysian tapirs at the Bronx Zoo ignored him. I started talking back to the radio, pointing out that the tapirs don't talk to anybody. Then he explained that it was the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, so he was going to be playing animal-related music. The theme was very loose: the first song was about unicorns and Noah's ark, and others included "I Am the Walrus" and some random Monkees. He finished with Danny Glover reading "How the Leopard Got His Spots", backed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. I need to listen to him more often.
Pete Fornatelle was followed by Vin Scelsa doing "Idiot's Delight", which is free-form radio taken to an extreme. He didn't just dig out his old Robert Palmer LPs--he talked about what it had been like doing radio when everything was on vinyl, and the crackling noise (which I hadn't noticed until he pointed it out, because that's what music on the radio sounded like when I was growing up), and even played a bit of the end-of-LP sound you'd get if the DJ stepped out during a long song and didn't come back in time. He talked about the Universal Life Church and their Web site (where you can put religious credentials in an online shopping cart). He read us Ferdinand and the Bull. I wound up making corrections to one review while singing along to the Clash's "Lost in the Supermarket".
Vin described the LP bit as nostalgia, but for me the whole thing was pleasant nostalgia: the DJs I listened to in high school (on WNEW-FM, back then), doing what they do well and playing a musical mix that included stuff from that era. I'm going to be listening more often, and probably seeing what else WFUV has to offer me: they've promised lots of John Lennon for Thursday, which would have been his birthday.
Testing with absolutely nothing but the native software and no installed data strongly suggests that rivka was right and this is a software problem.
So now I slowly put things back. I've made a copy of the Palm's "backup" directory on the desktop, and removed almost everything from the main/original directory (the one the software looks in).
If I have what I think I do, the just-completed hot sync should have only restored my datebook info.
I'm going to be slowly adding to the Palm--if I can get the datebook and address book working, I can cope. Memo pad and shopping list would be useful. So (yes) would Bubblet.
This entry is mostly a note-to-myself on current status.
12:36: Adding the datebook information--not the snazzy Datebook4 program--seems to have worked.
12:47: Restored address book data. So far, so good.
• Added to-do items with no problem. Added memo pad, and got some errors in the hot sync log about it being unable to add everything, but the Palm still works.
• Next, either HandyShop or figuring out what I need to do to get DateBk4 back.
17:00: I have HandyShop back, and the Palm still works.
17:30: Restored DateBk4, which led to a tedious scan through a lot old email to find my registration code for the software. So far, so good. Prudence suggests stopping here, but I want bubblet. I'll get a fresh copy of MetrO, I think, in case it had been corrupted. I can live without ParensLite (a calculator).
11/7: And now the digitization has wandered off again. Time to start over without DateBk4, or install a brand new copy.
rivka was right and this is a software problem.So now I slowly put things back. I've made a copy of the Palm's "backup" directory on the desktop, and removed almost everything from the main/original directory (the one the software looks in).
If I have what I think I do, the just-completed hot sync should have only restored my datebook info.
I'm going to be slowly adding to the Palm--if I can get the datebook and address book working, I can cope. Memo pad and shopping list would be useful. So (yes) would Bubblet.
This entry is mostly a note-to-myself on current status.
12:36: Adding the datebook information--not the snazzy Datebook4 program--seems to have worked.
12:47: Restored address book data. So far, so good.
• Added to-do items with no problem. Added memo pad, and got some errors in the hot sync log about it being unable to add everything, but the Palm still works.
• Next, either HandyShop or figuring out what I need to do to get DateBk4 back.
17:00: I have HandyShop back, and the Palm still works.
17:30: Restored DateBk4, which led to a tedious scan through a lot old email to find my registration code for the software. So far, so good. Prudence suggests stopping here, but I want bubblet. I'll get a fresh copy of MetrO, I think, in case it had been corrupted. I can live without ParensLite (a calculator).
11/7: And now the digitization has wandered off again. Time to start over without DateBk4, or install a brand new copy.
Testing with absolutely nothing but the native software and no installed data strongly suggests that rivka was right and this is a software problem.
So now I slowly put things back. I've made a copy of the Palm's "backup" directory on the desktop, and removed almost everything from the main/original directory (the one the software looks in).
If I have what I think I do, the just-completed hot sync should have only restored my datebook info.
I'm going to be slowly adding to the Palm--if I can get the datebook and address book working, I can cope. Memo pad and shopping list would be useful. So (yes) would Bubblet.
This entry is mostly a note-to-myself on current status.
12:36: Adding the datebook information--not the snazzy Datebook4 program--seems to have worked.
12:47: Restored address book data. So far, so good.
• Added to-do items with no problem. Added memo pad, and got some errors in the hot sync log about it being unable to add everything, but the Palm still works.
• Next, either HandyShop or figuring out what I need to do to get DateBk4 back.
17:00: I have HandyShop back, and the Palm still works.
17:30: Restored DateBk4, which led to a tedious scan through a lot old email to find my registration code for the software. So far, so good. Prudence suggests stopping here, but I want bubblet. I'll get a fresh copy of MetrO, I think, in case it had been corrupted. I can live without ParensLite (a calculator).
11/7: And now the digitization has wandered off again. Time to start over without DateBk4, or install a brand new copy.
rivka was right and this is a software problem.So now I slowly put things back. I've made a copy of the Palm's "backup" directory on the desktop, and removed almost everything from the main/original directory (the one the software looks in).
If I have what I think I do, the just-completed hot sync should have only restored my datebook info.
I'm going to be slowly adding to the Palm--if I can get the datebook and address book working, I can cope. Memo pad and shopping list would be useful. So (yes) would Bubblet.
This entry is mostly a note-to-myself on current status.
12:36: Adding the datebook information--not the snazzy Datebook4 program--seems to have worked.
12:47: Restored address book data. So far, so good.
• Added to-do items with no problem. Added memo pad, and got some errors in the hot sync log about it being unable to add everything, but the Palm still works.
• Next, either HandyShop or figuring out what I need to do to get DateBk4 back.
17:00: I have HandyShop back, and the Palm still works.
17:30: Restored DateBk4, which led to a tedious scan through a lot old email to find my registration code for the software. So far, so good. Prudence suggests stopping here, but I want bubblet. I'll get a fresh copy of MetrO, I think, in case it had been corrupted. I can live without ParensLite (a calculator).
11/7: And now the digitization has wandered off again. Time to start over without DateBk4, or install a brand new copy.
Heather rang our doorbell late this morning, to tell us that she'd had to put Bumble to sleep. She'd thought he was rallying--and had needed cattitude's help to get an IV in him Friday night, because he wouldn't hold still--but he was suddenly much worse last night. It got bad enough that not only was he clearly dying, but very painfully, so she ended it for him as painlessly as possible.
She's angry at the shelter that pushed the other cat on her--she thinks that's where Bumble got whatever infection it was that killed him--and is going to take said other cat, who never comes out except for food, back to them. (They'd talked her out of doing this at least once, shortly after she took him.) She also thanked us, repeatedly, for helping and listening.
cattitude's help to get an IV in him Friday night, because he wouldn't hold still--but he was suddenly much worse last night. It got bad enough that not only was he clearly dying, but very painfully, so she ended it for him as painlessly as possible.She's angry at the shelter that pushed the other cat on her--she thinks that's where Bumble got whatever infection it was that killed him--and is going to take said other cat, who never comes out except for food, back to them. (They'd talked her out of doing this at least once, shortly after she took him.) She also thanked us, repeatedly, for helping and listening.
Heather rang our doorbell late this morning, to tell us that she'd had to put Bumble to sleep. She'd thought he was rallying--and had needed cattitude's help to get an IV in him Friday night, because he wouldn't hold still--but he was suddenly much worse last night. It got bad enough that not only was he clearly dying, but very painfully, so she ended it for him as painlessly as possible.
She's angry at the shelter that pushed the other cat on her--she thinks that's where Bumble got whatever infection it was that killed him--and is going to take said other cat, who never comes out except for food, back to them. (They'd talked her out of doing this at least once, shortly after she took him.) She also thanked us, repeatedly, for helping and listening.
cattitude's help to get an IV in him Friday night, because he wouldn't hold still--but he was suddenly much worse last night. It got bad enough that not only was he clearly dying, but very painfully, so she ended it for him as painlessly as possible.She's angry at the shelter that pushed the other cat on her--she thinks that's where Bumble got whatever infection it was that killed him--and is going to take said other cat, who never comes out except for food, back to them. (They'd talked her out of doing this at least once, shortly after she took him.) She also thanked us, repeatedly, for helping and listening.
Meme, snagged from joedecker:
What are your oldest belongings still in use? By length of ownership or chronological age:
I think the answer to both of these is the same: my dresser, which I've had since I was three, but which my mother used for many years before that. I'd have to ask her exactly how many years, though: it might be the set of nesting Pyrex bowls that my parents got as a wedding present in 1955, and that my mother gave me when she moved to England. (I also have a beat-up orange frying pan, likewise from my mother, and some Corningwear plates of about the same vintage.) But the dresser has been mine the longest.
joedecker:What are your oldest belongings still in use? By length of ownership or chronological age:
I think the answer to both of these is the same: my dresser, which I've had since I was three, but which my mother used for many years before that. I'd have to ask her exactly how many years, though: it might be the set of nesting Pyrex bowls that my parents got as a wedding present in 1955, and that my mother gave me when she moved to England. (I also have a beat-up orange frying pan, likewise from my mother, and some Corningwear plates of about the same vintage.) But the dresser has been mine the longest.
Meme, snagged from joedecker:
What are your oldest belongings still in use? By length of ownership or chronological age:
I think the answer to both of these is the same: my dresser, which I've had since I was three, but which my mother used for many years before that. I'd have to ask her exactly how many years, though: it might be the set of nesting Pyrex bowls that my parents got as a wedding present in 1955, and that my mother gave me when she moved to England. (I also have a beat-up orange frying pan, likewise from my mother, and some Corningwear plates of about the same vintage.) But the dresser has been mine the longest.
joedecker:What are your oldest belongings still in use? By length of ownership or chronological age:
I think the answer to both of these is the same: my dresser, which I've had since I was three, but which my mother used for many years before that. I'd have to ask her exactly how many years, though: it might be the set of nesting Pyrex bowls that my parents got as a wedding present in 1955, and that my mother gave me when she moved to England. (I also have a beat-up orange frying pan, likewise from my mother, and some Corningwear plates of about the same vintage.) But the dresser has been mine the longest.
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