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tpryan
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response 25 of 109:
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Mar 24 19:28 UTC 2002 |
polygon's house is the reverse image of my house. However,
I am in the dinning room/living room, at the dinning table with the
computer (temporaryily) on the edge of it such that I face into the
kitchen. That would be facing mostly east. To my right, south is
the TV set on the other side of the room. Playing The Beatles
Yellow Submarine at the moment. Between us, is the good computer,
making a CD for me. This one, the IBM PS/2, 386 25Mhz with 4meg RAM,
has been doing the $100 function of connecting me to Grex for the
past two or three years.
The creek behind me is Mullet's Creek(?). It would take a
good 4 to 6 feet for it to overflow it's upper bank. My house is
a good 6 to 8 foot rise above that level.
I am in the middle of a job search. I would prefer to
be at the end of job search. Certainly hope it is not the
mid-point.
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slynne
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response 26 of 109:
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Mar 24 20:31 UTC 2002 |
I am at work right now sitting in the middle of a windowless cube farm.
I dont know which direction I am facing but I think it might be south.
It doesnt really matter though as there are no windows. I have a
calendar with pictures of Venice, Italy that is directly in front of
me, I have the monitor off to the side a bit. I guess because I
actually spend more time looking at my pictures of Venice. I bought
that calendar because I have been to Venice and I would like to go
back. I thought I might be able to this year but I have decided to get
a new roof for my house.
I wish I were writing this from home because I really love my house and
I would love to be able to tell you all how I was writing this from
such and such room with the sun gleaming in but then I remember that if
I were at home writing this, I would be in my walk-in-closet/office
that I have in the basement. It has a window but it faces north and
there are bushes in front of it so there never is any sun gleaming in.
I cant write this from home anyways. I dont have a phone jack in the
basement so the computer is cut off from the world. I do have an old
notebook and I can call grex from upstairs but the cord is short so I
have to type while standing in the kitchen which isnt all that fun. I
do have an area that could be made into a small desk in the kitchen but
then I would have to move all the cookbooks and the cat food dish
(which cant go on the floor because of evil cat-food stealing dogs).
The obvious solution to this would be to install a phone jack in the
basement but I dont know how to do that and I am too lazy anyway. Maybe
I will get tired of no phone and call Ameritech to install a jack. That
will cost me more money than it is worth though. I guess I just dont
see it as any big deal that I cant put my computer online.
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gelinas
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response 27 of 109:
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Mar 24 20:35 UTC 2002 |
Does Michigan 17 now continue north along Washtenaw to Huron? I cannot recall
seeing signs for it beyond Tuomy Hills. But, again, this may be selective
recall.
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keesan
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response 28 of 109:
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Mar 25 01:17 UTC 2002 |
You should be able to get materials from Radio Shack to let you extend your
current phone cord so that you can sit at the computer upstairs, and maybe
even drill a very small hole through the floor to run a cord downstairs.
Email us if you want some free suggestions how to install your own phone
wiring, from Jim.
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gelinas
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response 29 of 109:
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Mar 25 03:02 UTC 2002 |
Maybe I'll start an item on home phone wiring. Or maybe not. I like my
distribution panel, but that may not be the solution for everyone.
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bru
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response 30 of 109:
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Mar 25 04:51 UTC 2002 |
I am on the north side of ann arbor, in my livingroom next to the kitchen.
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gelinas
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response 31 of 109:
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Mar 25 04:55 UTC 2002 |
I meant to add that: I'm in the basement, facing west, with the televsion
to the south.
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polygon
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response 32 of 109:
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Mar 25 10:54 UTC 2002 |
Re 27. Michigan 17 now ends at US-23.
East of there, it is Washtenaw going into Ypsilanti.
West of there, per the 1937 map, it ran along Washtenaw until Tuomy Hills,
and along Stadium and Maple to Jackson Road, which was then US-12.
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remmers
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response 33 of 109:
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Mar 25 12:41 UTC 2002 |
I'm sitting at my desk in my study, facing east, on the 2nd floor,
above the kitchen. If I turn my head 45 degrees to the left, I
can look out of the east-facing window and see the big tree that
presumably will be in leaf in a few weeks.
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jazz
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response 34 of 109:
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Mar 25 13:33 UTC 2002 |
Cybercafe. Having that blissful moment of no-stress before work.
Facing west. Typing on a computer with an overly small monitor running KDE
and Red Hat. Wishing there were more plants here.
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slynne
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response 35 of 109:
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Mar 25 17:08 UTC 2002 |
Re #28 Thanks for the offer but it really isnt that big of a deal for
now. I think I might actually have a book about it. I think I will go
to radio shack though because buying a longer cord for a few bucks so I
can sit at the table seems to be the best solution.
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jep
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response 36 of 109:
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Mar 25 18:11 UTC 2002 |
I'm at work at Domino's Farms. I have a window; it's across a hallway
but there are no obstructions between it and my desk. It overlooks a
shipping dock. My back is to the window, but I do have a window.
Of course, that's as I type this (and will be as I hit the "Post"
button in Backtalk to post this). By the time you read this, I could
be speeding south on US-23 or US-12, or on one of the many backroads I
use to get from place to place. Or I could have gotten home, to my
apartment in Tecumseh, and be on Grex again, overlooking the really
nice, scenic wooded view from my bedroom window and reading or
responding in another item. With the hours kept by bdh3, if he is the
reader, I may well be in bed, either asleep or trying to be. I
wouldn't know.
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keesan
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response 37 of 109:
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Mar 25 19:44 UTC 2002 |
From the room where I work I can see the wall next door, with two windows and
five meters, and also a bit of snow on their driveway. From the kitchen we
see only the 6' fence of the neighbor's yard, plus the exterior stairway they
are currently building to replace the almost identical one that they took down
after buying the house about five years ago and converting from 2 to 1-family.
The previous owner had just replaced that stairway with a new one to sell the
house with. We wonder whether they expect to sell it as a 2-family again,
having converted from Cape Cod 1.5 story to a full 2-story and had two kids.
We know about the kids because we can hear them through the solid fence. Not
the sort of people that stick around in this central neighborhood. They built
the fence 2' inside their property line so that the weed trees on their
property would not be their problem.
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flem
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response 38 of 109:
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Mar 25 20:40 UTC 2002 |
I'm sitting in a curiously padded chair, with slightly too much curvature
build into the lower back area and another curve at the top of the back,
which rolls my shoulders forward, bows my neck slightly. Oddly, if I slouch
down about six inches, the chair becomes much more comfortable, except that
the excessive lumbar curve still makes me feel like I'm going to regret
sitting in this chair later. Around me lurk the looming shadows of several
unfinished projects, whispering vague threats of future ignominy. Their
voices seem uncertain, though. In front of me, slightly above eye level, is a
patch of drywall bare of office-eggshell paint, whence I removed some months
ago the darkly funny husk of a wildly inaccurate project timeline. The
window faces west, and will become a burden in an hour or so, as this
particular room rises to a temperature slightly higher than the rest of
the office building and the setting sun hides my monitor screens.
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mcnally
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response 39 of 109:
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Mar 25 21:03 UTC 2002 |
re #38:
> I'm sitting in a curiously padded chair...
Near-obligatory Simpsons quote --
Burns: "That's to correct your posture. Soon you will have a mighty hump!"
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lynne
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response 40 of 109:
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Mar 25 23:48 UTC 2002 |
I'm sitting on a stool which is too high for the lab bench the monitor and
keyboard rest on. Soon I will indeed have a mighty hump...I'm facing east.
About three miles out is the Atlantic Ocean. I'd like it to be warm enough
to walk along the shore and let the waves wash over my feet. Periodically
I get up to go tinker with my emulsified extraction or check on my
recrystallization. Soon I'll give up on Grex and go set up a new reaction,
and then be able to leave for the night.
It's been a productive, somewhat calming day. The chronic restlessness is
latent for now.
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scott
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response 41 of 109:
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Mar 26 01:36 UTC 2002 |
Re 39: Not quite. Here's the apropo Simpsons quote:
"Well, children, our new ultra-hard PostCherfect chairs have
arrived. They've been designed by eminent posturologists to
eliminate slouching by the year 3000."
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mcnally
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response 42 of 109:
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Mar 26 02:49 UTC 2002 |
I'll stick with my original choice of quote. Anything involving Burns
has an automatic humor advantage over anything from the school plotlines..
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gelinas
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response 43 of 109:
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Mar 26 03:35 UTC 2002 |
Thank you, Larry.
I'm now sitting in the middle of my living room floor, facing northwest.
A laptop and wireless network are a _wonderful_ combination. :)
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senna
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response 44 of 109:
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Mar 26 03:43 UTC 2002 |
I'm sitting at a computer desk that is not optimally configured for my typing
preferences. No shock there; I work at desks with that problem all day. In
my field of vision I have four televisions, all old hand-me-downs that nobody
else wanted, and a computer screen.
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omni
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response 45 of 109:
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Mar 27 01:10 UTC 2002 |
I am in my apartment facing due west. From the window I can see the Owens
Illinois Tower, WTOL TV, and the Cherry St Bridge. I can also see the
headquarters of what I call "The bank of the Improper fraction' aka fifth
Third, the old Owens Illinois HQ, the HQ of Toledo Edison, and Key Bank, not
to mention COSI, which is what used to be called Portside, or as some of Donna
Owens' detractors called it, "PorkSide". I also can see The Michael V.
DiSalle building, aka One government Center, the seat of power in Toledo.
sometimes if the air is clear, and the wind is blowing just right, I can smell
the chili cooking at Tony Packos.
Oh, and I can also see somewhat of the Magical Maumee, the Amazing Color
changing river. One minute it is brown, and then all by itself, it can be
blue.
I am Toledo Ohio because that's what it says in the floral garden at the
corner of Summit and Cherry. Funny, I would have mistaken this city for
Cleveland. ;)
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gelinas
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response 46 of 109:
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Mar 27 05:28 UTC 2002 |
I am, again, in the basement, facing south, where Reno and Leno are depicted
on a screen a bit larger than one on which my words are appearing.
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void
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response 47 of 109:
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Mar 28 17:39 UTC 2002 |
None of us exist. We are all figments of happyboy's imagination.
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other
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response 48 of 109:
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Mar 28 18:13 UTC 2002 |
Is that why I have three fingers in my ass and a banana in my ear? I was
wondering...
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vidar
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response 49 of 109:
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Mar 28 22:17 UTC 2002 |
Re # 47: Well, you're right about the not existing part. I'm a figment
of my own imagination.
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