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#60 Ha ha ha ha ------- This is Major Tom to Ground Control I'm logged into an old BBS And I can't get back to fronttalk this way And the modem lights are fading fast today For here Am I am typing on a terminal Far above the world Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do. #CrystalPepsiForever
Having (hopefully) finally figured out how to get Fronttalk to keep track of my conference reading progress (see resp:garage,45,17), I am now face with the task of catching up with 25+ years of accumulated items and responses. I was thinking that I needed a program to catch-up my conference reading status by automatically going through the conf's and marking every item and response as "read". That way I could then use the NEXT and READ NEW commands in FT to easily scan the conf's for new items and responses since my previous visit. However, since yesterday in spare moments I've been using READ NEW to skim part of the backlog in dribs and drabs selected by FT's mysterious algorithm, and have found myself enjoying exploring Backtalk's dusty and ancient corridors. Of course a lot of garbage has built-up over the decades and many items are worth no more time than a glance at the opening post, but there are a lot of well-hidden gems in there. Today I have been exploring conf:Language and conf:International. Feel free to join me in exploring Grex's Backtalk catacombs!
"fixseen" is your friend. :-)
FIXSEEN is useful to know. Thanks.
re #64 #CrystalGravy
Grex has a conf:Laundry conference!
:D You are pure class papa! After you have finished mining Grex for gold; if you get bored - there are 25+ years of conferences to read at mono.org (monochrome BBS) ssh mono@mono.org :)
No rest for the wicked. ;)
papa: you havn't time to be wicked - with another decade of conference posts to read still (or the inclination even if you hadn't: still good to keep busy eh? :) ) .
btw: Happy New Year!! :)
Happy 2021!!
resp:74 It only took us six-and-a-half months to notice!
yes, HIGH FIVE, very nice
What are everyone's latter half of 2021 plans?
resp:77 Immanentize the eschaton!
That seems so pedestrian. What about botanicals or intangibles?
"Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion." ― Jim Morrison, An American Prayer Plans for 2021? Definitely plan to do a light sand on my little toyota and reapply clear coat. There's always another project determined by a complaining wife. She wants me to nail these rubber tiles to our porch (which is a deck material). Some other misc misery soon to follow. We ordered new doors months ago. Where are they? Construction is a wait and see thing nowadays.
re #80 Are the rubber tiles to keep from slipping on ice?
#81 mostly for appearance. She bought them over a year ago and they are sitting in the garage. Cringe I think it's a dumb idea. The porch is a deck material which is painted. I think it looks fine. Not in favor of over complicating things. But obviously I need to get it done before there's trouble. ;)
How will you adhere the tiles? Finish nails?
#83 Likely deck screws.
How did the deck screws work out?
#85 Uh... it's still on the list! LMAO
re #86 TOMORROW Tomorrow tomorrowww
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