I keep a book beside my computer to read while I'm waiting for stuff to
happen.
Tina
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2/1/2013 2:42 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> > I agree with that philosophy, Moose. That is why I am still using XP.
> But
> > when you buy refurbished machines, you kinda take what comes.
>
> Who is this "you" to whom you refer? I've never bought refurbished, and
> hope I never do. For a desktop, I want to buy
> just short of the bleeding edge, so it will last me a long time. I run
> things like PS, long and hard, and will be doing
> some video, so pure performance is important to avoid sitting around
> waiting a lot.
>
> St Peter: So is seems you didn't get up to much trouble in the later half
> of your life. Why is that?
>
> Sr. M.: I didn't really have a lot of time to spare for shenanigans.
>
> STP: Why is that?
>
> SM: I spent most of my time waiting for my computer to finish doing
> things. Somehow, the wait was never long enough to
> go do something else, but somehow cumulatively long enough to gobble up
> much of my life.
>
> STP: Ah well, perhaps you didn't know who was behind most computer and
> software development?
>
> SM: Oh, my.
>
> > My wife uses
> > her computer for games that promote brain/hand/eye coordination, such as
> the
> > DOS game, Weltris. When her old one died, we got a Dell refurb that had
> ME
> > installed. For her use, it has done fine. With no connection to the
> > outside world, it is also virus-free.
>
> Sounds like what Carol uses her iPad for, much of the time.
>
> I was once a fairly wizard player of Tetris on the GameBoy. There were,
> I'm sure, kids who were better. But I could keep
> the game all at the bottom until the pieces started falling like rain and
> then keep it together for at least a few
> moments. Hmmm, these scribbles I found seem to indicate level 180 and a
> score of almost 110,000? But there are probably
> other scribbles elsewhere.
>
>
>
> --
> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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