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danr
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response 116 of 365:
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Oct 9 15:43 UTC 2000 |
I've posted the snickerdoodle recipe in the "Recipes for the Last Thing You
Cooked" item in the cooking conference.
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birdy
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response 117 of 365:
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Oct 10 00:51 UTC 2000 |
Well, it's for Proposal 1. I'll have to look that up to see what it is. And
yes, the sign has two stick figures crossing the road.
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gelinas
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response 118 of 365:
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Oct 11 03:49 UTC 2000 |
It's the "school crossing" symbol; last I looked, "pedestrian crossing"
signs were diamond-shaped, while school-crossing signs were house-shaped.
Short answer to the short question, "What is Proposal 1": it will amend
the Michigan state constitution to allow indirect aid to private schools
(currently, state monies cannot be directed to private schools at all),
thus allowing parents to receive State assistance in paying tuition at
private schools (i.e., a "voucher").
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swa
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response 119 of 365:
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Oct 11 05:40 UTC 2000 |
I've also got a snickerdoodle recipe I'd be happy to share, but it sounds
like that's covered.
What's the address of the Mail Preference Service, or whatever it's called
-- where you can write to request that you be taken off mailing lists?
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keesan
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response 120 of 365:
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Oct 11 13:44 UTC 2000 |
Mail Preference Service
Direct Marketing Association
P O Box 9008
Farmingdale NY 11735-9008
see www.unt.edu/legal/mail_preference_service.htm
You have to write them every five years, and this only works for a few of the
larger mailing list companies, the rest mail to you anyway. It does not work
for resident/occupant/our friend at mail (no name), which local junk mailers
get addresses for from a list sold to them by the post office, which you
cannot get off of (but the post office used to and may still maintain an
additional list of addresses that do not want junk mail, which a few larger
companies consult). Most mailing list companies will 'delist' you if you
contact them. See my file junkmail (a/k/e/keesan/junkmail) for where to write
or call. MediaOne will not delist you, nor will KMart, or Washtenaw Community
College, which uses the USMail for free to distribute materials containing
advertising from local businesses such as pizza companies.
It is particularly difficult to stop junk mail from certain nonprofits such
as World Wildlife Federation and Planned Parenthood, which also apparently
make money by selling your name and address to lots of other nonprofits. The
former generated mail from the Toledo Zoo, etc., and it took several years
to stop the flood (I finally happened to call someone at the right number).
If you donate money to a large nonprofit, don't be surprised if they never
stop mailing to you even after multiple requests.
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swa
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response 121 of 365:
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Oct 14 05:53 UTC 2000 |
Thanks, Sindi. Yeah, the nonprofits seem to be going after me a lot
these days. Kinda ironic when the environmental organizations are the
ones sending me the largest stacks of paper...
Does Backtalk have a "preserve" command?
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russ
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response 122 of 365:
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Oct 15 02:11 UTC 2000 |
Re #121: I believe there is an "unseen" box you can check to have
something come up new again the next time you read it, but since
I'm not coming in via the web I can't check.
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scott
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response 123 of 365:
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Oct 15 14:44 UTC 2000 |
Every college town has a store somewhere that sells super-cheap prepaid
calling cards targetted to specific countries, such as $10 for 300 minutes
to Norway or whatever.
Anybody know where the Ann Arbor version of this store is?
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birdy
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response 124 of 365:
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Oct 15 22:54 UTC 2000 |
Any gas station in the Ypsi area. Seriously.
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keesan
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response 125 of 365:
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Oct 15 23:53 UTC 2000 |
Try an ethnic food store. Alladin's Market or Jerusalem Market.
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goose
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response 126 of 365:
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Oct 16 00:21 UTC 2000 |
Try www.bigzoo.com for 3.9 cents a minute calling cards. It's saved me a
*bundle* of money. <goose thinks about the 155(!) minute call last night>
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johnnie
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response 127 of 365:
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Oct 21 06:56 UTC 2000 |
My 2-year-old, having discovered the joy of randomly punching keys on
the keyboard, has somehow managed to change my Windows95 clock settings
choices to "PM" and "IGBSZTOI". Maybe my brain is just fried because it
is now officially 2:45IGBSZTOI on a Saturday morning, but I can't figure
out how she did it or how to change back to the more traditional "AM"
(Adjust Time/Date only seems to let me toggle between "PM" and
"IGBetc.").
Ideas?
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bdh3
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response 128 of 365:
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Oct 21 08:30 UTC 2000 |
Well... If a two year old can hack Micro$oft OS's than what hope can
there be for the rest of us? If the 'client' of a secure connection
arbitrarily establishes that the password for a given server's 'share'
is one byte long and is able to try all 256 possibilities without
detection?
re#127: Call Micro$oft tech support. 'Reinstall the OS'... thats
the answer. Start out each new day as if it were a new day....
Microsoft ought to be eliminated not because they are a 'monopoly' but
because they are idiots.
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n8nxf
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response 129 of 365:
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Oct 21 10:47 UTC 2000 |
I rater like IGBSZTOI!
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tpryan
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response 130 of 365:
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Oct 21 13:24 UTC 2000 |
How many bushels in a peck?
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mcnally
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response 131 of 365:
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Oct 21 21:07 UTC 2000 |
I thought a peck was less than a bushel, but I think the ratio is 4:1
whichever way it goes..
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gull
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response 132 of 365:
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Oct 22 00:09 UTC 2000 |
Start, Settings, Control Panel, Regional Settings. Click the Time tab. It
should be fairly obvious after that.
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johnnie
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response 133 of 365:
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Oct 22 00:31 UTC 2000 |
Ah, there we go--Thanks. I knew it had to be something simple. I still
wonder how the little stinker managed to burrow all the way down there,
though...
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bru
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response 134 of 365:
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Oct 23 17:03 UTC 2000 |
4 pecks to a bushel is correct
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tpryan
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response 135 of 365:
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Oct 23 21:34 UTC 2000 |
thank you.
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keesan
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response 136 of 365:
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Oct 25 16:19 UTC 2000 |
"I love you, a bushel and a peck, a bushel and a peck and a hug around the
neck" (an old popular song). Our 4-gallon buckets are about half a bushel
so would that make a peck 2 gallons?
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jerryr
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response 137 of 365:
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Oct 26 11:01 UTC 2000 |
A peck is 8 dry quarts: a bushel is 4 pecks or 32 dry quarts; a barrel is 105
dry quarts; a heap is an informal unit meaning a lot.
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jor
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response 138 of 365:
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Oct 26 19:47 UTC 2000 |
a heap is a form of dynamic memory allocation
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mcnally
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response 139 of 365:
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Oct 26 19:56 UTC 2000 |
And a binary heap makes a great sorting structure..
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danr
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response 140 of 365:
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Oct 28 01:50 UTC 2000 |
How many heaps make a pile?
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