response 25 of 512:

Mar 29 22:20 UTC 2002

I hope Billy Wilder is the one that rounds out the trio (old superstition:
Famous people die in threes. Of course, it's just a superstition, but it does
work out that way sometimes... heh... this trio being Wilder, Uncle Miltie,
and Dudley Moore). 
 
My favorite Wilder, one of my favorite movies of all time, was "Stalag 17":
"Ah, so Security checked out everybody, but who checked out Security?"

response 27 of 512:

Mar 30 00:47 UTC 2002

        Curiosity got the best of me.
        I went to the Super Gigantic Computer Show Exhibition at Novi
Expo center today.  Did not think I would have to pay $5 to park in
front of what was, today, a store.  Then $8 to get in.  Still curious.
Not the bastion of bargains they would want you to believe.  From
what I could see, things like motherboards and such at very normal
prices (like SkyTech normal).  Same for enclosures, power supplies
and other build it yourself stuff.  Part pulls, like CD-Rom drives
maybe better than expected, but then again most sold 'as is' or if
there is a problem, you can always pay $13 and bring it back the
next day.  The only computer books where remainders that where probably
bought at 5% of original retail, and they wanted 50% or original 
retail.
        One guy did seem to be the 'junk man' for best buy.  Any
open cable or ripped package, and he had it with the Best Buy price
tag almost removed.
        Some monitors where being sold for good prices--17 inch
ranging from $59, most near $109.  LCD monitors at near normal
or above prices.
        Some merchants must have stocked up when they thought prices
where good.  $29 for a stack of 50 unknown name CD-Rs is not a
good price anymore.  TDK, iMation, Maxell, Memorex are all slugging
it out weekly at CompUSA, Best Buy, Stapes or such.
        Oh well, learning experience.   I did find a laptop carcus
for $13, an NEC that just might have a floppy drive that works 
better than the one I have on a laptop.

response 29 of 512:

Mar 30 03:43 UTC 2002

Are you on a yahoogroups mailinglist. Then...

Sorry that this is off topic to all of the lists it's going to. Many of you
have Yahoo accounts for mailing lists. As of today, Yahoo changed it's
policy on spam. If you have any account with them, you are about to be
flooded.

Here's how to shut it off. Log onto your account. At the very bottom of the
page, in small type, click on "privacy policy". On the left of the next page
click on "marketing preferences". See all the check boxes? When you set up
your account, you probably checked "no" on all of them. They all say "yes"
now. Turn them all off and hit the "Save Changes" button at the bottom.

response 31 of 512:

Mar 30 05:28 UTC 2002

Now, exactly what was the deal with this?

response 33 of 512:

Mar 30 06:42 UTC 2002

So, why'd you bring up a magic "3" at all? You know it is nonsense.

response 35 of 512:

Mar 30 15:17 UTC 2002

In regards to the Yahoo thing, this applies for *all* Yahoo IDs, whether used
for groups, mail, messenger, shopping, or anything else.

response 37 of 512:

Mar 30 17:11 UTC 2002

he ws trolling .... <dhoe>

response 39 of 512:

Mar 30 20:53 UTC 2002

The explanation of how to undo the Yahoo marketing droids' actions is in this
item #29.

response 41 of 512:

Mar 30 21:50 UTC 2002

thanks blaise

response 43 of 512:

Mar 31 00:20 UTC 2002

        CBC Radio Two is doing a whole bunch of Rink Rock right now on
Windsor 89.1fm.  Celebrating Canada's great game with a whole bunch
of tunes and interviews.  Interesting.  It came on after Lorne Elliot's
Madly Off In All Directions.

response 45 of 512:

Mar 31 05:23 UTC 2002

#36> Because it's amusing when it actually bears out. You know, fun? As in,
"Heh, hey, look, three famous people died in a two-day span." (No, tsty, I
wasn't trolling. If I'd been trolling, I'd've made a bigger deal of it, and
taken Rane's return as an opportunity to pick a real fight, blah blah blah.)
 
But it's ok, Rane, we love you anyway. =}
 
I acutally thought of your this afternoon, wtching "The Messenger." There's
a bit late in the film when "The Conscience" (Dustin Hoffman) mocks Jean
d'Arc's "signs," one of which was her finding a sword in a field and
interpreting as a sign from God. This is a loose paraphrase:
 
Jean: It was a sign.
Conscience: No, it was a sword in a field.
Jean: No, it was a sign.
Conscinece: No, it was a sword in a field. There are a multitude of ways that
sword could have gotten there. For instance:
<scene of a sword fight, where the sword flies free>
or:
<scene of horses running, and a sword falls out of a scabbard>
Here's another possiblity:
<scene of a soldier being hunted down, and throwing the sword as he falls>
or, more quickly:
<scene of a soldier running, being shot in the back with an arrow, and
throwing the sword>
And of course, there's the inexplicable:
<scene of a man walking along the road, throwing the sword, and continuing>
But no, of all the infinite possibilities, of all the explanations available
to you, you chose this one:
<scenes of the sky opening up, heralds of angels singing, bright shining
lights hearkening the Holy Spirit>"
 
Valerie made some comment about "another Monty Python bit," to which I
replied, "No, I think Rane wrote this part." ;}

response 47 of 512:

Mar 31 08:13 UTC 2002

        Science has it's own understanding of implicate order too, tho. ;)

response 49 of 512:

Mar 31 22:09 UTC 2002

#46> Actually, no. It was left up to the viewer. Conscience was Jean's
psychotic voice after she got imprisoned for heresy; the claims the Conscience
makes is that, when Jean thought she was hearing Jesus' voice, it was actually
her own internal delusions, and that it's ludicrous for anyone to think that
God would call them, specifically, to fix a problem that He could easily fix
Himself. I'm calling the character "The Conscience" because that's how
Hoffman's character is billed, but the charcter could just as easily represent
Satan... it's not that clear. No, I didn't get any sense of mockery directed
at Hoffman's character, though. If anything, he was one of the few characters
in the movie who *wasn't* mocked at some point. .