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2008-06-14 |
![]() tu3031, there's a message for you with the bartender in the O Club. Sherry has graciously agreed to join us as a moderator. Her color will be greener than lotp's, not quite as dark green as Rab Steve's. I will be offline for much of the weekend. Today is Baltimore's Hon Fest, where everybody who's anybody, plus most of us nobodies, shows up to eat and wear funny hats. We're meeting the Baltimore Mr. & Mrs. McIntosh for the occasion. This evening I'm hoping to be in Washington for a birthday party. Tomorrow is Father's Day and I'm invited to dine in the evening with the Washington Mr. & Mrs. McIntosh, who are in the early stages of expecting their first little bundle of joy. I have it on good authority that the child will be named Fred and grow up to be a paragon of virtue and a joy to his/her grandfather. |
Posted by:Fred |
#15 I wanna know who does Fred's proofreading: "plus most of us nobodies, shows up to eat and wear funny hats.." Why would you want to eat a hat, funny or otherwise? Or was that a subtle test for testing the 'translate' button. On a serious note, Happy Fathers', Grandfathers' and any other assorted flavor of Father out there Day |
Posted by: USN,Ret. (from home) 2008-06-14 22:27 |
#14 Forget what that Aubrey dude said; Baltimore is a party town. |
Posted by: McZoid 2008-06-14 22:13 |
#13 Hope you have an excellent weekend with the family, Fred. |
Posted by: Frank G 2008-06-14 21:26 |
#12 And the man in the back is fiddling with a tape drive, children. Those were reels of tape the size of an LP record -- er -- the size of a dinner plate which held an astonishing 140MB of data. Wow! I still have one, somewhere. From Wikipedia:
I did not know that. I guess no one ever wanted to photograph our computer room. |
Posted by: Angie Schultz 2008-06-14 20:59 |
#11 And grandfather's day, too, Fred. Welcome to the cat herd, Sherry, and thank you! I look forward to reading interesting things framed in medium green. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2008-06-14 20:49 |
#10 Happy Father's Day, Fred. :-D |
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-06-14 20:25 |
#9 I understand lawyers are required to wear ties - keeps the foreskin from riding up |
Posted by: Frank G 2008-06-14 19:40 |
#8 Having a tie on in a computer room can be particularly fun - especially if your an operator dealing with old fashioned line printers (and card readers, etc...). |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-06-14 19:19 |
#7 The Hollerith position, yes, I know it. It mainly being folded and spoiled. |
Posted by: Captain Bligh 2008-06-14 18:20 |
#6 http://207.114.86.27/images/captchas/hdgdgrwyueoi.jpg Object not found! |
Posted by: ed 2008-06-14 17:20 |
#5 For those of you geeks who are younger, that thing hanging off the man's neck is called a "tie" -- its purpose is lost in antiquity, but it is believed to have been a torture device. They are now used mostly by lawyers and CEOs. The stack of cards on the table is also a torture device, though that particular stack does not appear menacing. When they reached carton-sized proportions they were most vexing. I was awarded an advanced degree in 1980 in part because I was able to endure the task of transmuting several cartons of cards into a "boundary layer solution." Don't ask me what that is -- I haven't needed one since 1980. |
Posted by: Darrell 2008-06-14 16:54 |
#4 He's part of the Army of. |
Posted by: Steve White 2008-06-14 14:52 |
#3 Rab Steve? Who knew? |
Posted by: George Smiley 2008-06-14 13:36 |
#2 I'm afraid you'll need to sacrifice Iphigenia in order to get out of Baltimore harbor. |
Posted by: Eric Jablow 2008-06-14 13:28 |
#1 I dig those 60's computers and the, uh, peripherals too. |
Posted by: Abu Uluque 2008-06-14 11:26 |