There was a "This American Life" episode a few weeks back that was pretty
humorous: "the 7 things you are not supposed to talk about" in conversation.
Clothes wasn't on that list, and you've got a good start here on some good
dinner conversation, for sure.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.c
Re "Today, I wore a leather jacket, black; and a sweater underneath, blue; and
boots, brown; and a wooly cap, navy, pulled down over my ears. And, that's when
I was inside my home office.":
Why not turn up the heating? Then you could wear a silk shirt and linen slacks
and feel unrestricted.
Re "And get a big heating bill next month . . . As it is the house is set for
65 degrees.":
Mine is set for 20 degrees celsius (68 in your measure). You Yanks have
dirt-cheap fuel bills thanks to fracking. Make the most of it.
One of the biggest causes of disputes in shared households is
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Re "And get a big heating bill next month . . . As it is the house is set for
65 degrees.":
Mine is set for 20 degrees celsius (68 in your measure). You Yanks have
dirt-cheap fuel bills thanks to fracking. Make the most of it.
One of th
Nah, our heat pump decides that.
"Heat pumps" - what the hell are they? Don't you have central heating? Don't
let the machines boss you around; they should be our servants.
I have a Vaillant combination boiler which feeds the central heating and
supplies the hot water. A few days ago it came up with error message "F.22" and
stopped working. I did a Google and came across a short YouTube tutorial
showing me what to do. All I needed was a screwdriver. A few minutes a
Oh, man, I've had a bunch of those, All kinds of stuff I'd have been in the
dark about and helpless to deal with on my own if it weren't for the Web. Not
to mention how it helps with aging memory!
And the search algorithms keep getting better and better; I'm constantly
feeling as though they
Re "I used to sweat creating perfect Boolean search strings, but it almost
doesn't matter any more.":
Absolutely. What leaves me astonished (and humbled) is the sheer scale of the
free info and advice that's now available. We're talking about countless
numbers of people who freely give of th
Thank you for this - really got my beanie propeller spinning. Yes, it has
vastly changed the world, mostly for the better. My career was in datacomm, and
I remember well the unreliable networks, very slow speeds, and mostly
mechanically switched, or point to point circuits, that persisted nearly
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
The term 'Internet troll' is frequently abused to slander opponents in heated
debates and is frequently misapplied by those who are ignorant of Internet
etiquette.
It certainly takes one to know one Dick. You have been giving a perfect
impr
In Indonesia, I drove along a canal for about an hour at highway speeds. I
never lost sight of cardboard shanties or the 100,000 people that lived inside
them and drank that canal's water. Never saw that canal, actually, because
it was clogged with garbage.
A career for those folks was stan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote:
>
> Richard, I guess people just like to belong to a group and having a
uniform as it were, indicates what group one belongs to. Unless people
really think they need camo in the cities! And would traditional camo be
the best camo? What it is?
"First, Kate and Will's press operations were taken away. And now, it would
seem, their sartorial freedoms (well, Kate's, at least) have also been
curbed from on high. Royal correspondent Katie Nicholl reports in the Mail
on Sunday that the Queen has issued some dictums as to how Kate should be
dre
One of the most talked about subjects in conversation is fashion, or
lack of it. It's taken some adjustment for me to "dress down" every day,
not that I used to really "dress up", much anyway. But, compared to some
others, I'm usually "over-dressed", even at Starbucks.
One of the geeks I worke
My Mom bought me a real stretchy pair of jeans to wear during my sojourn in the
big bad city of Annapolis (-:
I tend to cords in Fairfield. IMH experience jeans are NOT at all warm in
winter. And in the summer they're too hot! How the heck are they so popular?!
Asking the important questions LO
Denims are durable - you can wash them hundreds of times and they just
get more and more comfy. But, you're right about wearing them in the
heat and the cold. There's nothing like soft cords for comfort and
warmth! I used to have a nice brown cord sports coat with leather on the
elbows, but I w
Today at the mall, I saw a teenager gal wearing a pair of Converse
All-Star "lace-up" knee-high "boots", lime green tennis shoes. Do those
things have a zipper in back? Otherwise, you'd have to add at least
fifteen minutes onto your dressing time just to get your feet ready to
go out. Go figure
People in Annapolis dress nautically, even in the winter, dockers,
windbreakers, etc. It's a watery place featuring the Chesapeake Bay, the Severn
and South Rivers, Weems Creek. It's a haven for boating people, home of US
Naval Academy. I'm not a boating person. If I'm near the water, I want to
Today I am wearing a Hanes sweat suit, shirt and pants, grey; with Nike
running shoes, white. If I go out to the Roadhouse, I may wear some brown
corduroy pants, a red and black checkered flannel shirt, and a black
leather jacket and a wooly cap, pulled down over my ears.
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at
Richard, we're twins as I'm wearing brown cords too! But with a pink hoody
because it's fleece and my warmest. You probably shouldn't wear pink to the
Roadhouse imho! I'm also wearing 2 pairs of socks, wool on the outside. My toes
are still cold. Poor circulation!
When I went to the Dome I wore
We went to a friend's wedding yesterday and I wore a suit from Botany,
black; a Van Heusen dress shirt, white; a Penny's tie, red and blue
stripes; and Nunn Bush shoes, black. Val wore a velvet pants suit from
SAKS, black; and boots from Sketchers, black.
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Share Lon
Richard, who is Val?! What happened to Rita?
On Sunday, December 8, 2013 3:51 PM, Richard Williams
wrote:
We went to a friend's wedding yesterday and I wore a suit from Botany, black; a
Van Heusen dress shirt, white; a Penny's tie, red and blue stripes; and Nunn
Bush shoes, black. Val
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Richard, who is Val?! What happened to Rita?
Too many questions. Don't question a guy about the different women he chooses
to hang out with.
On Sunday, December 8, 2013 3:51 PM, Richard Williams wrote:
We went to a friend's wedd
Today, I wore a leather jacket, black; and a sweater underneath, blue; and
boots, brown; and a wooly cap, navy, pulled down over my ears. And, that's
when I was inside my home office.
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Richard Williams wrote:
> We went to a friend's wedding yesterday and I wore a s
And get a big heating bill next month. I have a space heater if I really
need it. My furnace needs a tune up but no one around here seems to
know anyone honest about those things and it needs to be done in the
fall as right now they're busy fixing ones that have broken down. As it
is the hous
The rent is too damn high!
It's usually 100 degrees in the shade around here and I like wearing my
$149 leather jacket at least once or twice a year. If I want to sweat,
I'll go to a sweat lodge, naked. Most of the time I wear a nice
"Hawaiian shirt" - and they are all silk sent to me from my
Good point. Around here, all you have to do is bundle up in some warm
clothes for a few days.
Just before the cold spell hit here, my AC went on the blink, so I
called Jon Wayne Heating and Air Conditioning. They charge $100.00 just
to show up and the cost goes up from there. And who can trust
My place was prepped for "central air" so I got an estimate from the
company that set it up originally and because it would need an
electrical upgrade it would have cost $5500 to put in. That was over 10
years ago so I'm sure it would cost a lot more now. Not too sure how
well it would help w
noozguru, what's good about a window air conditioner in the bedroom is that I
run its fan every night all winter so that fresh air is coming into the room
while I sleep. But in the summer when I have it on AC mode, it tends to be
noisy and then I wish for central AC.
On Monday, December 9,
I use Google as a thesaurus just make sure I've got the right word. It
must really muck up their profile of me because it can be things I'm not
remotely interested it but something I am just commenting on.
Freakier yet is to look up something on Google on Android that I might
have just been l
I was gonna say, the freaky accuracy can't be a function of my profile, because
I've looked up zillions of things for stuff I've edited that I have zero
personal interest in. And like you, for commenting on Web forums.
Bhairitu wrote:
> > I use Google as a thesaurus just make sure I've got
Good idea. There are a number of videos on YouTube about furnace
tune-ups and also how to watch for scams. Also since I am just in the
living room at night to turn the furnace down 4 degrees and use the
space heater instead to save on energy bills.
On 12/10/2013 05:27 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.co
Yeah, it's too bad we don't have free and accurate information here on
FFL, what with some informants trying to obfuscate in the extreme, so we
can't find out where the TM mantras really came from and what they
really mean. This is supposed to be a spiritual help site where people
can discuss s
An amusing post I saw on a newspaper site recently was from some guy
complaining about the hypocrisy of the paper running an article about the
negative effects of modern porn when at the same time there were adverts for
sex-related services appearing alongside the piece.
Some helpful respon
As long as we're talking about "What People Wear", let's talk about the
double-speak that some people like to put on. Let's look up "mantra" and
see what people say. Who wants to go first?
On 12/10/2013 8:35 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
I was gonna say, the freaky accuracy can't be a funct
Not sure what this has to do with what people are wearing, but, with all
the new information technology, it's a shame we can't find out much on
FFL about the real meaning of our spiritual path. Go figure.
On 12/10/2013 10:06 PM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote:
Thank you for this - really
Why would you look here? This place is free, so you get what you pay for.:-)
Most clothing that people wear is not free, unless you're living in a
shelter, and someone gives you a coat to wear, because it's cold
outside. But, it would be wrong to tell someone that it's hot outside,
and not tell them about a free coat.
On 12/10/2013 10:29 PM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.co
This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) takes
Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know.
Richard trolled:
Yeah, it's too bad we don't have free and accurate information here on FFL,
what with some informants trying to obfuscate in
If you know the answer, why not just tell us where the TMer mantras come
from and what they mean?
It is totally misleading to say that the TM mantras were "made up" by
the fakir Mahesh, or "lifted" out of a book, or that the TM mantras are
so much gibberish, meaningless non-sense syllables. Ei
This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) takes
Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know.
Richard trolled:
> > It is totally misleading to say that the TM mantras were "made up" by the
> > fakir Mahesh, or "lifted" out of a book, o
The term 'Internet troll' is frequently abused to slander opponents in
heated debates and is frequently misapplied by those who are ignorant of
Internet etiquette.
On 12/11/2013 8:10 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except
Xeno) tak
I couldn't have put it better myself, Richard - A brilliant example! :-)
Thanks for the compliments, but I don't really have much to say about
what other people wear - my main concern is what I'm wearing. Today I am
wearing denims, Wranglers; a western belt, brown; a Van Heusen long
sleeved dress shirt, white; and cowboy boots, brown (not shiny, but
rough); and no h
Don't be hard on them - it is a sin to see homeless people in this country -
Here, in Silicon Valley, one of the wealthiest places on earth, we had seven
homeless people freeze to death, last week. We have the fifth largest homeless
population, of any county in the US. I recall helping out the b
Doc, thanks for this, for the compassion. And for the hard fact of what
happened last week, seven people freezing to death there in Silicon Valley.
More than sobering...
On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 9:58 AM, "doctordumb...@rocketmail.com"
wrote:
Don't be hard on them - it is a sin
I've been giving a monthly donation to the United Way for about fifteen
years - it's too complicated to figure out who to give to - so I just
trust them to know what to do. I get approached almost every week for
spare change and I donate cash on a case-by-case basis.
One time I saw an RV parke
Dress for the job you want, not for the job you have.
In many cases, this will mean showing up to the interview in a pirates suit.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Richard J. Williams
wrote:
> I've been giving a monthly donation to the United Way for about fifteen
> years - it's too complicate
You'll see people wearing Duck Dynasty camouflage clothing all over the
place around here. Pants, T-shirts, and jackets. They probably get them at
Walmart - there is also some Duck merchandise at the Cracker Barrel too.
And, at Old Navy.
I have a pair of camo cargo pants that I got at Old Navy. So
Richard, I guess people just like to belong to a group and having a uniform as
it were, indicates what group one belongs to. Unless people really think they
need camo in the cities! And would traditional camo be the best camo? What it
is?
On Monday, December 23, 2013 9:58 AM, Richard Willia
These are so cool, turq and guess what? I was thinking of such when I wrote
that post. I probably have seen similar before. thanks...
On Monday, December 23, 2013 10:22 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote:
>
> Richard, I guess people just like t
One of the most popular urban camouflage outfits around Austin is a
black T-shirt and some black pants and shoes. This works very well at
night, whether in the city or in the country. Black T-shirts look good
with denims too, and when you're sitting at a table at a cafe, people
only see your to
Years ago, I heard of a guy - a one time was aspiring seeker to be be a TM
Teacher, was working with Jerry Jarvis at SIMMS in Westwood, CA. Jerry
always wore a conservative dark-blue suit and a nice stripped tie when he
was presenting or initiating. The guy I heard about wore an old
cream-colored t
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