Every day is a new ‘tomorrow’ – Every day is the world made new.
[That’s a line that just appeals to me from a poem I’ve not gotten any further with… If you’ll send me two more lines that fit the scheme – I’ll put your name in special type on in CASTELLAR type… it looks like this CASTELLAR. If you’d like that drop me a line at n4zhk@arrl.net and you can see it tomorrow.]
Oh my the Internet does marvelous things. And those little 4S TV’s you can hold in your hand are even more ‘cute’. But I’ll let you in on my secret. I suppose I’m the only guy on the block who doesn’t want one. (J) Why? My pockets bulge too much already with just me in ‘em – much less another TV set.
Then the bigger gripe I’ve got is – well I bought my first computer-printer etc. back about 1982… it was a DOS TRS-80 sold by Radio Shack. I did that because I knew virtually nothing about computers… other than that I had to pay about $85 to have my client’s 13,000 name and address list printed out… and more if I wanted mailing labels done. Well… smart little me… I figured I could save the client a lot of money by buying my own computer and we’d go from there.
Well there’s a LOT more to the story.. but that old cptr… had a ram of 68kb… and a speed about as slow… but for me it was a monster… I spent half of my nights getting it to work. Still I think had I contracted for a computer at one store, the program at another, the printer at still another I would have *never* seen the thing print one pass of my address list. But it did the job… with a lot of help and frustration on my part.
The first internet access I had I believe had a top speed of something like 13 wpm… it was slow… and I was ignorant. I spent three nights trying to get the thing to work.. following the instructions microscopically … Do you know WHY it wouldn’t follow the commands I copied out of the instruction book? BECAUSE I DIDN’T TYPE IN ALL CAPS! That’s why… and there wasn’t a stitch of that instruction that I could *ever* find in the two or three large binders of instructions. Can you get the idea I was irritated? Here I was saving the client money… and tearing out my hair. That’s why I have such sparse hair today. (J) It’s true!
Well… I gotta quit… the arthritis is giving me a late night fit.
So… Lord willing we’ll communicate with you tomorrow from FairPlay… and the Bait Shop and Sushi Bar crowd will be on hand. At least that’s my plan. I don’t know just what we’ll talk about – perhaps our paths will cross with those of Mr. “O” and the Canadian-built busses. At’s how we get JOBS in
Love ya… see ya soon… Cordially IN HIM
Jack Buttram
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“JUST A MINUTE”
“OLD” FRIENDS AND “NEW” FACES SHOW UP IN PROTESTS
Just a Minute: Editorial writer Dorothy Rabinowitz – she of the sharp tongue and stiletto wit – leads the current charge to become the Wall Street Journal’s Editorial “Wicked Witch of the West”. She scours the streets of “Old New York” looking for something politically scintillating or new outrages by street protesters now that John Fund has moved over to new slot at The American Spectator leaving Rupert Murdoch’s political gossip tank floundering.
Other Journal editors like Paul Gigot and James Freeman in the Wall St. stable show up in the slot which once was a genuine source of new political “news” five times a week under Fund’s lead. At that time they often cranked fresh news into the slightly stale editorial experiment. But now, since Fund has jumped ship to a more ‘independent’ paper, most of the ‘verve’ and ‘edge’ has trickled out of the Journal’s editorial experiment.
Trotting out some of the old-timers just doesn’t cut it. But wait… CBS just cut out old Andy Rooney from his forever Sunday evening ‘groan-and-gripe’ slot. Could he resuscitate the old Journal’s breathless political crew? <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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