Marta, As usual, your response was excellent! You are a jewel and we're so grateful to have you as a part of this list serve. I am pleased to have you as a friend, also. You're great! And Eric's initial announcement was quite moving, too. Kudos to both of you! Mike
On Sep 28, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > Since , because of infirmity, I will be unable to attend the funeral, > which charity do you suggest we use for our contribution to preserve > the memory of this faithful servant until the unforeseen and untimely > early departure brought emptiness into your soul and an unoccupied > space on your desk and in your back pack. > Not too familiar with the illnesses of computers, is the logic board > the heart of the computer , that which makes it tick and breathes life > into the dead machine, or is it perhaps its soul that stores and > remembers and retains and suffers all the joys, misfortunes, successes > and rages of its owner ?? What a pity if the latter were the case, > then we shall also have? to make extra efforts in comforting the > bereaved owner.? > Marta > > > > > On Sep 28, 2006, at 13:20 PM, Eric Hammond wrote: > >> The recent death of Eric's iBook G3 800mhz is announced. Last >> Wednesday, it was rushed to a local Mac guy who pronounced that the >> logic board was failing or had already failed. It was the 3rd >> installed on the computer. The bill to fix it was more than was >> currently in the bank account of her owner and long time friend, >> Eric. Desperate attempts were made to save data and to stave off the >> final blows of death. But to no effect. Apple themselves were >> unresponsive, claiming that "since the computer was over 3 years old >> it had reached the end of its life and was not worthy of repair, but >> I can give you 50 bucks off a new mac." She is survived by a iPod >> shuffle, a 5G iPod and a 160 gig external hard drive. Funeral >> services will be arranged as soon as the Dr. Frankinstein style >> attempts of resurrection are mede from a verity or sources from ebay >> to ifixit.com. As soon as the funds become available. >> >> A new MacBook has been delivered by the UPS man this morning making >> this email possible. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting is October 24. >> Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting is October 24. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2813 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060928/66c6a7e4/attachment.bin
