Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform
At 11:08 PM Sunday 10/25/2009, Doug Pensinger wrote: Debbi wrote: > Hey, guess who's posting from home for the first time? > (I did have some serious help getting stuff hooked up, and I still hate this laptop's 'finger mouse.' -- hmm, hadn't thought of what that conjures up, but it's entirely apt...) Congrats on the new job, and on getting your own rig. I'm sure you're not going to miss having to go to the library all the time. I would suggest a usb mouse. You don't want to know what I call those things. Doug I call mine a trackball . . . . . . ronn! :) ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform
Debbi wrote: > Hey, guess who's posting from home for the first time? > (I did have some serious help getting stuff hooked up, and I still hate this > laptop's 'finger mouse.' -- hmm, hadn't thought of what that conjures up, but > it's entirely apt...) Congrats on the new job, and on getting your own rig. I'm sure you're not going to miss having to go to the library all the time. I would suggest a usb mouse. You don't want to know what I call those things. Doug ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform
Julia Thompson wrote: ... I think in both cases, it's sort of a deferred maintenance problem. When you finally have time, there's a BIG backlog to deal with. ... Yes. And in our case, it was compounded by our daughter refusing to sleep in the room she shared with her twin brother, starting about 5 weeks before school started. The project to get the "spare" room fixed up to be a bedroom for a 6-year-old took a big chunk of time, and that wasn't quite finished until about 4 weeks later, partly because there were some hard deadlines for 2 other projects in the meantime. :P I don't know if that counts as deferred maintenance or not. But I guess it did from your daughter's point of view. : ) We are in the process of finishing a room move too, actually a swap, which added the difficulty that neither room was empty for long. Our older daughter is only here some weekends, so it was time for her to give up her big room, and let the younger daughter move into it. And of course we painted, and fixed furniture, and so on... I guess that was deferred maintenance, but we weren't the ones who deferred it. I'm thinking about what has to be done in the breakfast nook at this point, and figuring that maybe I'll work on it for an hour tomorrow, or maybe I won't. (I think that 2-3 hours will have it *done*, but the first hour is going to be a bear.) Julia Or maybe you deserve a break, who knows? ---David ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform
On Oct 25, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Deborah Harrell wrote: On Sun, 10/25/09, Doug Pensinger wrote: Good to hear from you all that haven't posted much, maybe we can get a rip roaring discussion going. Anybody over hear read Banks' new one? Hey, guess who's posting from home for the first time? (I did have some serious help getting stuff hooked up, and I still hate this laptop's 'finger mouse.' -- hmm, hadn't thought of what that conjures up, but it's entirely apt...) Debbi Posting Like A Newbie Maru You mean one of these? http://xkcd.com/243/ The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H.L. MENCKEN ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
RE: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform
-Original Message- From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On Behalf Of David Hobby Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 7:48 PM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Subject: Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform I think in both cases, it's sort of a deferred maintenance problem. When you finally have time, there's a BIG backlog to deal with. ---David ___ Yes. And in our case, it was compounded by our daughter refusing to sleep in the room she shared with her twin brother, starting about 5 weeks before school started. The project to get the "spare" room fixed up to be a bedroom for a 6-year-old took a big chunk of time, and that wasn't quite finished until about 4 weeks later, partly because there were some hard deadlines for 2 other projects in the meantime. :P I'm thinking about what has to be done in the breakfast nook at this point, and figuring that maybe I'll work on it for an hour tomorrow, or maybe I won't. (I think that 2-3 hours will have it *done*, but the first hour is going to be a bear.) Julia ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: "Cloud Computing" Smears (Was: Google Wave)
> On Mon, 10/19/09, John Williams wrote: > >> Never underestimate the power of human error. As this > >> debacle demonstrates. > > (me, IIRC) Which particular debacle would that be? > I was referring to the Sidekick debacle: > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Microsoft-Claims-Sidekick-Data-Will-Be-Restored-This-Week-491196/ Whoops! I have a friend who isn't using that service, but somehow lost all his hundreds of contacts from his phone, and they weren't retreivable from his back-up site either. I, OTOH, have all my contacts on paper...(and I'd be smug about it except I don't have hundreds, just dozens, which is quite managable). There _was_ something about a 'hole in security of cloud computing' in a recent MIT Tech update (but I only get the headlines, not the full story, and doubt I'd understand without some major studying, which I just don't have time for at this point...). Debbi Borderline Luddite? Maru :) ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform
> On Sun, 10/25/09, Doug Pensinger wrote: > Good to hear from you all that haven't posted much, maybe > we can get a > rip roaring discussion going. Anybody over hear read > Banks' new one? Hey, guess who's posting from home for the first time? (I did have some serious help getting stuff hooked up, and I still hate this laptop's 'finger mouse.' -- hmm, hadn't thought of what that conjures up, but it's entirely apt...) Debbi Posting Like A Newbie Maru ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform
Doug Pensinger wrote: Julia wrote: It's amazing what you find needs doing when you finally have all your kids in school for a full day for the first time ever. I might have most of it done by the time school gets out in early June! I've heard the same thing about retirement; my brother-in-law and his brother, both firefighters, retired this past year and both of them say they've never been busier. That's the kind of busy I need... Good to hear from you all that haven't posted much, maybe we can get a rip roaring discussion going. Anybody over hear read Banks' new one? Doug _Transitions_. I bought it two months ago, and have been so busy that I'm only 50 pages into it. But so far, I like it. I think in both cases, it's sort of a deferred maintenance problem. When you finally have time, there's a BIG backlog to deal with. ---David ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform
Julia wrote: > It's amazing what you find needs doing when you finally have all your kids > in school for a full day for the first time ever. I might have most of it > done by the time school gets out in early June! I've heard the same thing about retirement; my brother-in-law and his brother, both firefighters, retired this past year and both of them say they've never been busier. That's the kind of busy I need... Good to hear from you all that haven't posted much, maybe we can get a rip roaring discussion going. Anybody over hear read Banks' new one? Doug ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
RE: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform
Well, Julia, in my experience (is that abbreviated IME?), it doesn't get better until they go to college, and even then they come home and disrupt your schedule =+)). I *still* wonder where the time goes, but I know way too much of it disappears into my computer screen. Mothers of young children all need a wife, IMO. I have a theory about working mom's and nanny/housekeepers that run along those lines... Amities, Jo Anne evens...@hevanet.com > It's amazing what you find needs doing when you finally have all your kids > in school for a full day for the first time ever. I might have most of it > done by the time school gets out in early June! ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
