Greetings Sheldon, Melba and the rest of the old timers!

I have returned to Usenet after purchasing a Mac, totally Mac proud
now, and getting a GMail addy to prevent spam from reaching my primary
mail box.

I have missed you all and am glad to back.

During the past several years, I have been busy moderating/owning
several food groups at Yahoo, working as a reporter, but have now
semi-retired. Hubby plans to retire in a couple years too and we plan
on taking a cruise to Canada. At least I hope to see the inland passage
to Alaska. Can't wait to get there.

I'm down to two cats after having four. Sadly, I lost one cat to a
coyote, and two under mysterious circumstances. Currently the two
"boys" keep me busy with their purring, meowing, playing, etc.

Any way, it's nice to be back.

Mary
formerly smile...

Dog3 > wrote:
>Welcome back. Glad to see you. Sorry about the cats. I wish Hoot was more
>friendly.
OT - Hey Michael. Scroll up a few threads and see my ping to you
about how you jinxed me <G>.

>
> > Greetings Sheldon, Melba and the rest of the old timers!
> >
> > I have returned to Usenet after purchasing a Mac, totally Mac proud

The best choice.

MK

Dog3 > wrote:
>I don't see it. Xnews has really screwed up.I need to find a new news
>reader. Charter is no good. Xnews has been great up to now. I keep getting
I'll just paste it here - the topic was "you jinxed me"

Well, I never tasted Ensure before, or thought about it until your
recent post. I have now been (doc's orders) living on that and
Gatorade since Friday. Today a group is meeting for the "Spring is
here" intro to picnic season. Ham, deviled eggs, baked beans and tons
of junk. I will be drinking this foul brown liquid. You did this to
me.

Dog3 > writes:
> I like Ensure. Well, it is an acquired taste. Sorry I did this to you. The
> stuff is good but I can no longer drink it. No Ensure or Gatorade for me.

I despise the stuff, but I do see how someone could like it. I
remember it from '99 when I had a compound jaw fracture and was living
on the all-liquid diet for around 5 weeks (at which point I graduated
to hummus and tabouli, chewable food was another month or so). I
tried Ensure for a while, but eventually settled into a routine of
beer and smoothies from Crazy Carrot (a now-defunct chain of smoothie
stores in Minneapolis). When you hit the same smoothie bar three
times a day for weeks, you learn about a whole new level of regularity...

At one point my friends did have a cookout, and helpfully made me a
bratwurst smoothie, which was one of the most vile concoctions I've
ever seen.

--
Richard W Kaszeta

http://www.kaszeta.org/rich

Dog3 wrote:
> (AlleyGator) wrote in
> :
>
> > Dog3 > wrote:
> >>Welcome back. Glad to see you. Sorry about the cats. I wish Hoot
was
> >>more friendly.
> > OT - Hey Michael. Scroll up a few threads and see my ping to you
> > about how you jinxed me <G>.
> >
>
> I don't see it. Xnews has really screwed up.I need to find a new news

> reader. Charter is no good. Xnews has been great up to now. I keep
getting
> repeat messages and some I do not see. Tis time for a change.

Hey Michael - the last time I checked (today) XNews was a news reader,
not a news server, so don't blame it.

What you need to do first is COMPLAIN like crazy to your ISP about this
problem and demand they shape it up or find a better news server for
their subscribers. If they aren't interested, find yourself another
ISP... if that's impossible, there are still choices - but one of the
best news servers doesn't carry binaries, which means no ABF for you.

sf

Michael L Kankiewicz wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings Sheldon, Melba and the rest of the old timers!
> > >
> > > I have returned to Usenet after purchasing a Mac, totally Mac
proud
>
> The best choice.
>
Why?

"sf" > wrote:
>
>Michael L Kankiewicz wrote:
>> >
>> > > Greetings Sheldon, Melba and the rest of the old timers!
>> > >
>> > > I have returned to Usenet after purchasing a Mac, totally Mac
>proud
>>
>> The best choice.
>>
>Why?
>
Exactly. Are they doing high-end graphics for a new movie? Are they
satisfied with doing nothin but buying a bunch of software and being
relegated to the task of mindless mouse-clicker? Happy to be out of
the mainstream? I can think of no other reasons to buy a Mac.

Ease of use and lack of crashing, corrupt files, viruses, worms, etc.
They also show "true" color a plus for web designers.

A good example was yesterday when I updated my personal web page. All I
had to do was drag and drop my files using Fetch and I was done. On the
PC I'd have to search for the correct directory before adding the
files. What used to take 10 minutes now takes less than a minute.
Literally within minutes I had finished my web page update with so
little effort.

Macs are bullet proof and the best operating machines. Hopefully the
rest of the world will realize how wonderful they are.

Mary

who originally started this thread with a warm hello to everybody
sf wrote:
> Michael L Kankiewicz wrote:
> > >
> > > > Greetings Sheldon, Melba and the rest of the old timers!
> > > >
> > > > I have returned to Usenet after purchasing a Mac, totally Mac
> proud
> >
> > The best choice.
> >
> Why?

Mash wrote:

I wondered because I have access to both at work.

> Ease of use

I guess that's in the eye of the beholder. They drive me crazy.

> and lack of crashing,

What do you mean by "crash"? If you mean freeze and a need to reboot,
I find the IMacs at my site are really bad that way.

> corrupt files,

A non-problem for this PC user.

> viruses, worms, etc.

LOL! As soon as you get your wish that MACs rule, the malicious code
writers will attack. MAC is not immune, it is the "underdog" and
attacked less.

> They also show "true" color a plus for web designers.
>
Sounds good. I know graphics people like MAC for some reason.

> A good example was yesterday when I updated my personal web page. All
I
> had to do was drag and drop my files using Fetch and I was done. On
the
> PC I'd have to search for the correct directory before adding the
> files. What used to take 10 minutes now takes less than a minute.
> Literally within minutes I had finished my web page update with so
> little effort.
>
I don't have a web page, so I wouldn't know. Sounds like a real dream
though. What program do you use? Hot Dog?

> Macs are bullet proof and the best operating machines.
>
That's a bit smug and (IMO) a very innocent opinion.

> Hopefully the rest of the world will realize how wonderful they are.

Happy computing! Here in RFC, MAC and PC people have learned platform
tolerance... we even manage to get along with the occasional 'nix
rabble 'rouser who pops up.


sf

Dog3 wrote:

I'm
> afraid of falling in the shower.


Michael do you have a cane or even a walker? If you don't, please consider
using one until you become more ambulatory. We don't want any more
accidents to befall you! We want you happy and well :-)

--
Best
Greg

"Mash" > wrote:
>A good example was yesterday when I updated my personal web page. All I
>had to do was drag and drop my files using Fetch and I was done. On the
>PC I'd have to search for the correct directory before adding the
>files. What used to take 10 minutes now takes less than a minute.
>Literally within minutes I had finished my web page update with so
>little effort.
Uh, no offense, but you're telling me just because you have a Mac, it
read your mind and knew exactly where everything was supposed to go?
Makes no sense to me.

X-No-Archive: yes

I'm using NVU or Mozilla to update web pages. I do know some HTML, but
not much, but my kids are teaching me. Some day I hope to write my own
web pages from scratch. I've used Hot Dog, long ago, and it is a good
program but when I used the program it was some what limited.

I use Fetch to drag and drop the files I need which are easily found on
a Mac. I've used other PC programs which were not as good as Fetch.

I like both PCs and Macs but the more I use the Mac the more I like the
machine.

Mary

X-No-Archive: yes

AlleyGator I think what I wrote was fairly clear. Perhaps you had a
problem understanding how easy it is to use a Mac. I like both Macs and
PCs, still have a couple PCs I use, but the Mac is a wonderful machine
that does not depend on Windows which is unstable. Also the Windows
program is a security worm hole.

Macs are relatively stable and secure. Wish more people understood how
reliable Macs really are.

Remember Apple was the first company to bring about the personal
computer. It wasn't Bill Gates and it wasn't IBM.

Mary

Dog3 > writes:
> A bratwurst smoothie. UGH. At least the thought was there Did they put
> kraut in it?

One brat, some mustard, some cooked onions, some kraut, and just
enough beer to get the consistency right.

I don't recommend it.

--
Richard W Kaszeta

http://www.kaszeta.org/rich