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From: Mike Rosenberg on 14 Nov 2009 17:37 dorayme <doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > Sometimes I think we just shouldn't let these kids sit at the same > > table. > > It is better that we sit where you can keep an eye on us, no telling > what we might get up to otherwise... <g> Definitely a good idea to keep an eye on you, but that's why I have a camera with a telephoto lens. -- My latest dance performance <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvB98fgse-s> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi>
From: dorayme on 14 Nov 2009 18:50 In article <1j96m8z.13xco87h52aioN%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > dorayme <doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > > > Sometimes I think we just shouldn't let these kids sit at the same > > > table. > > > > It is better that we sit where you can keep an eye on us, no telling > > what we might get up to otherwise... <g> > > Definitely a good idea to keep an eye on you, but that's why I have a > camera with a telephoto lens. The main thing is the mike (no pun intended but what does it matter) picks up every tiny thing I have to say. <g> -- dorayme
From: Nick Naym on 14 Nov 2009 19:22 In article doraymeRidThis-AFDCE7.07293515112009(a)news.albasani.net, dorayme at doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au wrote on 11/14/09 3:29 PM: > In article <C7246E22.4B855%nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com>, > Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote: > >> In article doraymeRidThis-B8DBD4.09102813112009(a)news.albasani.net, dorayme >> at doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au wrote on 11/12/09 5:10 PM: >> >>> In article <C7211633.4B6E9%nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com>, >>> Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> Your *general* statement that you prefer PDF to a website for on 'the >>> web' (you mean 'on screen') >> >> "On the web" is what I meant; "off the web" means "offline but onscreen" >> well as a format for creating and saving documents for exchange or printing. >> > > Bullshit. "Off the web" can mean a printed copy, it can mean rooting a > sheep in your local pub, it can mean anything at all as long as it is > not something online. Chuck that prissy dictionary in your head out. > Oh...I see. So now you're telling me what it is that I meant when I used the terms "on the web" and "off the web" -- not withstanding what it is that I said I meant. Thanks for the clarification. (You really love telling people not only what they should do, but also what they meant, don't you?) >>> is either a statement of extreme ignorance >>> and foolishness or a world weary exasperation at the number of badly >>> made web pages and sites. >> >> The fact that some folks lack the skills necessary to create decent web >> pages or sites is irrelevant to the discussion: PDF was designed to be a >> platform-independent format for representing documents that are to be viewed >> and transmitted electronically as well as saved and printed. > > It was not well designed from the ground up to be something to be viewed > on a screen. The wide choice of browsers, the technology of HTML and CSS > is altogether better geared for conveying *information* across the > internet than PDF. Why don't you apply for a job advising Adobe how to redesign PDF to meet users' needs (as you define them, of course). > Don't get me wrong, I love PDFs. I keep several as > pets. In lieu of those small woodland creatures? >> Because some >> folks don't know how to properly apply the format is not a reason for >> dismissing it as undesirable, and telling Jim that he shouldn't be using it >> for his newsletter. _That_, sir, is arrogance born of "extreme ignorance and >> foolishness." >> > > I did not exactly tell him that he "shouldn't", it was more a gentle > suggestion, If you call repeated hammering rants "gentle," then yes, indeed, it certainly was a "gentle suggestion." > to avoid the inconvenience of my mission impossible team > turning up and shooting his dog, Back to the helpless pets, eh? > stealing all his latest gear, and > grabbing all in his liquor cabinet in a night raid. So, you think he has cool gear and is an alcoholic? > Why don't you loosen up! This _is_ "loosened up." :P > No wonder I like to tease you a bit. It has not > helped you that Michele (a valued sparring partner) won't take a single > bait from me these days. A valued sparring partner who refuses to spar? Hmmm...perhaps "value" is in the eye of the beholder? > In other words, that leaves you! > Leaves me what? >> For someone who is so quick to accuse others of "casting aspersions" and >> soiling your so-called "reputation," you sure are not adverse to sprinkling >> your posts with insults. > > I am not quick to do this at all. I hold my powder admirably in my own > opinion, it is just that it appropriate to expend a bit of it with you > (have a good look at what you have said to me to trigger it off). > He who lives in glass houses should not throw stones. >> You remind me of the self-righteous TV Evangelists >> who condemn their "flocks" for "sinning," while they themselves commit >> adultery and engage in pedophilia. >> > > I resent this a great deal, You're just overly sensitive from all of those aspersions folks continually cast upon you. > no one is fairer, more helpful, lovely in > all respects than me Is that what you say to woo those married women, innocent children, and small woodland creatures? > and I demand you withdraw it. In the meantime I am > going to take a nice bath, the taps are running my own glory... Yeah...you're all "tapped out" all right! -- iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) � OS X (10.5.8)
From: Nick Naym on 14 Nov 2009 19:25 In article doraymeRidThis-CF1679.10502415112009(a)news.albasani.net, dorayme at doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au wrote on 11/14/09 6:50 PM: > In article <1j96m8z.13xco87h52aioN%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, > mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > >> dorayme <doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: >> >>>> Sometimes I think we just shouldn't let these kids sit at the same >>>> table. >>> >>> It is better that we sit where you can keep an eye on us, no telling >>> what we might get up to otherwise... <g> >> >> Definitely a good idea to keep an eye on you, but that's why I have a >> camera with a telephoto lens. > > The main thing is the mike (no pun intended but what does it matter) > picks up every tiny thing I have to say. <g> Notice that he singled out _you_. -- iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) � OS X (10.5.8)
From: Mike Rosenberg on 14 Nov 2009 19:49
Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> Sometimes I think we just shouldn't let these kids sit at the same > >>>> table. > >>> > >>> It is better that we sit where you can keep an eye on us, no telling > >>> what we might get up to otherwise... <g> > >> > >> Definitely a good idea to keep an eye on you, but that's why I have a > >> camera with a telephoto lens. > > > > The main thing is the mike (no pun intended but what does it matter) > > picks up every tiny thing I have to say. <g> > > > Notice that he singled out _you_. He did no such thing. -- My latest dance performance <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvB98fgse-s> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> |