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carson
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response 150 of 512:
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Apr 12 07:55 UTC 2002 |
The Northern Michigan University baseball team just returned from a
trip to New York, where they split a two-game series with New York
University. The Wildcats will close out the month with a 13-game
home stand, beginning this weekend with back-to-back doubleheaders
against conference rival Finlandia University. Last year, NMU swept
its series with the Lions, taking all six games.
Follow the Wildcats at http://nmubaseball.tripod.com
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clees
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response 151 of 512:
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Apr 12 11:25 UTC 2002 |
I can call to the US for 4 $ct a minute.
That is quite cheap.
Calling within your own area costs half of it (internet connections and
such), it is not free.
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gull
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response 152 of 512:
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Apr 12 15:07 UTC 2002 |
Re #148: It varies from phone to phone. I think mine is pretty typical.
To store a number I hit STORE, dial the number, hit MEMORY DIAL, and
press the number I want to store it under. To dial it later, I hit
MEMORY DIAL and then the number.
I used this a lot when I was using a calling card to make long-distance
calls from college. I programmed the calling card 800 number on one
button, and the calling card PIN on another. Then I just did two memory
dials, followed by the phone number I wanted to call. That's only four
extra keystrokes, or two if your phone has single-touch dial buttons.
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keesan
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response 153 of 512:
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Apr 12 19:41 UTC 2002 |
I don't have STORE or MEMORY DIAL, just MEMORY and PROGRAM (and FLASH and MUTE
and REDIAL).
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keesan
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response 154 of 512:
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Apr 12 19:45 UTC 2002 |
Monday APril 15 7:30 is an open discussion in City Council Chamber (where is
that?) concerning a proposed new ordinance which would require people who get
unwanted newspapers thrown in their yards to remove them or pay a fine. I
have not yet read the proposed ordinance - see trash.doc (it is in WORD).
Anyone who would like to make the delivery company (Delivery Unlimited)
responsible for the trash, or even the News which pays them to throw unwanted
newsprint in everyone's yard every Tuesday, please show up. They could be
required to remove any issues more than a couple of days old, which would mean
going around on foot instead of throwing things from trucks in the general
direction of the property, same as the News daily, which is never a trash
problem since they remove issues not taken in and stop delivery. The other
papers are being 'delivered' to people who moved without cancelling.
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keesan
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response 155 of 512:
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Apr 12 19:45 UTC 2002 |
trash.doc is at /a/k/e/keesan/trash.doc
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richard
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response 156 of 512:
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Apr 13 02:49 UTC 2002 |
okay this is a new york kind of a story..tonight I was out and about in
the east village. Was trying to cut over to third avenue and detoured
down e. 12th st. to get there. Its a side street. Suddenly ahead of me
there's this woman screaming and running across the street holding her
child. She reaches her suv and puts the kid in the back seat. I was
wondering whats going on. Then I heard the word "CUT!" and as I got
closer to the woman, I saw some cameras further down the street and
realized the whole thing was being filmed. Yes, by cutting through 12th
st. instead of 11th or 13th sts, I walked straight into an episode of Law
and Order, the NBC series. Which series I rarely watch, but still it was
interesting. I watched them film this woman running across the street
holding her child (probably running from a bad guy or something) three or
four times as they kept re-doing it. The makeup artist would come
running up to the woman and fixing her hair between takes. When I walked
away they were moving down the block to set up another scene. I'll have
to watch Law and Order during May and see how that scene looked on tv and
if I show up as a pedestrian in the background (which I could depending on
which take they use)
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senna
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response 157 of 512:
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Apr 13 03:56 UTC 2002 |
It's also a Toronto and mostly an LA kind of story.
Still, it's interesting to know that they don't in fact bother to control any
of the pedestrian traffic in their scenes. I wonder how common that is.
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edina
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response 158 of 512:
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Apr 13 19:14 UTC 2002 |
It makes the show look real, that's for sure - and one of the reasons that
I love it.
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keesan
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response 159 of 512:
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Apr 13 22:41 UTC 2002 |
We went out in a canoe for Huron River Cleanup Day. Got there late so were
not issued surgical gloves. We covered the same route as last year, which
took 3-4 hours last year but 1 hour this year, and got about 1/10 as much
trash. Both years we were out after everyone else had finished. Last year
we got a bike wheel, a coconut, and lots of plastic bags but this year almost
nothing but plastic bottles, mostly from water or gatorade. One glass bottle
and one can of beer (unopened) and two tennis balls (green). Perhaps the fact
that we had removed 10 years worth of trash last year made it less likely that
people would throw more trash in this year into pristine (tho muddy) waters.
On one island were several nesting geese and 11 basking painted turtles.
On the way back we saw about 10 times as much trash, in the area by the
roadside, as we had collected in the canoe, much of it in the little park on
Main St. that is supposed to be an introduction to beautiful Ann Arbor (North
Main, near the decrepit former gas station with the siding coming off).
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danr
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response 160 of 512:
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Apr 14 03:07 UTC 2002 |
re #150:
One question: Beef-a-Roo Field?
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carson
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response 161 of 512:
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Apr 14 07:19 UTC 2002 |
Regarding response numbered one-hundred sixty, Beef-A-Roo is a restaurant
chain with a store located in Marquette on the western side of United
States Highway numbered 41, just inside the southern city limit.
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happyboy
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response 162 of 512:
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Apr 14 14:32 UTC 2002 |
re160: IS BEEF-A-ROO STILL IN BUSINESS?!!? 8D
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keesan
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response 163 of 512:
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Apr 14 15:49 UTC 2002 |
I just got a chat request. Hi Sorry wrong number (end of chat).
I wonder what I said wrong?
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remmers
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response 164 of 512:
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Apr 14 22:39 UTC 2002 |
I don't recall if there's a TV item, so I'll announce it here:
The season premiere of "Nero Wolfe" is TONIGHT, Sunday April 14,
8-10pm EDT, on A&E.
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keesan
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response 165 of 512:
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Apr 15 02:55 UTC 2002 |
It is possible to sign up for Geocities using lynx by rewriting the signup
page not to ask for specialization (you add 'other 47' to title somehow),
which I finally managed to do for a friend. But you cannot upload anything
to Geocities by FTP, only with a Windows-type browser and 'Easy Upload'.
home.pages.at offers 25M free webspace and two email addresses and it is easy
to sign up using lynx with two minor problems - you have to specify an email
address to which they send your special code and then your password but they
don't seem to recognize addresses ending in .org (grex.org), and you have to
know German to sign up. Plz seems to be 'street number' and Ort is city.
Kennwort is password and must be 8 characters long. They did a hardware
upgrade March 12 and the bug reports stopped coming in - no longer problems
with disk full cannot upload. A discussion forum system without ads.
The solution for grexers without an ISP who want a website with photos.
FTP them to and then from grex. They have webmail too.
The German for bug is Bug, as opposed to the word for insect.
You can read the forums at home.pages as a 'Gast' at member.home.pages.at and
if using lynx pick the frame 'navi'. Dies und Das is like agora. It seems
to be mostly German-speaking men in their twenties.
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gull
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response 166 of 512:
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Apr 15 19:27 UTC 2002 |
www.topcities.com and www.batcave.net both allow FTP uploads. Don't
know if you can sign up with Lynx, though.
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keesan
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response 167 of 512:
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Apr 15 21:17 UTC 2002 |
Most of the ones on a list I found allow FTP uploads but I could not seem to
find anything that allowed me to sign up except this one. Lynx works to read
mail but two other DOS browsers cannot access their webmail page.
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ric
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response 168 of 512:
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Apr 15 23:20 UTC 2002 |
Writing web applications, such as webmail, that support text-based web
browsers is a waste of any developer's time. Unless he's being well paid :)
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carson
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response 169 of 512:
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Apr 16 03:58 UTC 2002 |
A rough weekend that saw both doubleheaders split. A shame Lake State
plays so well this season. We may not catch up on over there to them.
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russ
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response 170 of 512:
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Apr 16 04:02 UTC 2002 |
RISKS digest volume 22 number 3 is in /a/r/u/russ/public/risks-22.03
The two top articles describe what appears to be an amazing train
wreck caused by the merger of 3 large Japanese banks and their
inability to test their systems for ability to handle demand.
And there's a wonderful Marc Rotenberg piece relating current
events and the world described in "Fahrenheit 451". Read it.
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glenda
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response 171 of 512:
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Apr 16 04:19 UTC 2002 |
Just heard that science fiction author Damon Knight has died.
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remmers
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response 172 of 512:
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Apr 16 12:31 UTC 2002 |
Oh my. Back in the "Golden Age" (1950s) when I was actively
reading SF, Knight was one of my favorite authors, editors,
and critics.
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scott
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response 173 of 512:
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Apr 16 12:50 UTC 2002 |
Actor Robert Urich (probably most recently known for being "Number 2" on the
Austin Powers movies, but a ton of other stuff as well) has died.
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edina
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response 174 of 512:
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Apr 16 12:54 UTC 2002 |
I think you are thinking of Robert *Wagner*. Robert Urich was Dan Tanna on
Vega$ and Spenser in Spenser for Hire.
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