Steve!

Thanks, Suz. You know, you look just the way I pictured you, except taller.

I for one, would love to know the names (or at least the gspot handles) that go with the faces in these pix. Would I be out of line if I asked the people that are in the pix to say "I'm the third one from the left in the back row in this pic, and I'm the one sitting down in the other pic"?

"It was a woman that drove me to drink, and I never got around to thanking her." - W. C. Fields

"To be is to do." - Aristotle "To do is to be." - Plato "Do be do be do." - Sinatra "Do be a do bee." - Romper Room "Do a doobie." - Cheech Marin

It's time for some wierd one-liners: To be forewarned is to be forearmed, and to be forearmed is to have twenty fingers. (makes sense when spoken aloud) Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. In docvic's (praise be his name) last hidden teaching he said that you've got to master piffle. You say your nose is running and your feet smell? You're built upside down! Anyone else?

Well, whadda ya know, Mikey may actually be seeing the faintest glimmer of a hint that his ideas are about as well respected around here as dog doo on the bottom of your shoes.

But are these reflections left-right reversals, or up-down reversals?

These 2 companies have been up and down. It used to be that Dell computers were loaded with proprietary parts, which meant that Dell computers had to be shipped back to Dell Inc for servicing. Now that's true of Gateway. If you end up with a computer that doesn't need any servicing, then it doesn't matter, does it? All the people I know with Dells are fairly happy with them. The school uses Gateways, a lot of them, and for the most part the newer ones are pretty good. At work my group uses IBM NetVista, and our problem rate is higher than average. So either way you go - Dell or Gateway - you should be okay. Which one will save a little more money? As far as a DVD burner - how often have you made copies of videotapes? If the answer is "never", then you probably wouldn't use a DVD burner either. And if you figure out that you really COULD use one, somewhere down the line, you can always upgrade that part of your computer.

One time, when I was on a flight somewhere, I saw a circular rainbow. It was so cool. And, Zix, if you look 4 posts above yours, you'll see that I already posted about Roy G. Biv.

The colors of a rainbow are Roy G. Biv. Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet

That brings up another point - How could anything about docvic(praise be his name) possibly be new? He's been dead for 25 years, fercryinoutloud! Yeah, I know, officially it's been 17, but he was actually dead for 8 years before his family got the nerve to tell him.

If you want to see where all of this is coming from, just remember an old adage from our TWIt days. "Follow the glory." Just exactly who is Mike glorifying? Who is getting the glory? If it were truly of God, God would be getting the focus, the attention, the glory. Even Jesus Christ didn't glofify himself, and out of everyone ever born, he most certainly had cause to do so. So who's getting glorified by revrun Mike? Not God, that's for sure. docvic(praise be his name) is getting a bit of glory, and Mike is certainly doing a whole lot to glorify himself. And when the glory goes to anyone besides God, you-know-who is actually getting the glory. Just some points to ponder.

Boy, talk about only being able to sing one note . . .

I'll second the motion.

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THE is forever.

But if we bury it again, and forget about it, and not tell anyone about it, then it will be the HiddenLostSecretPollTM once again.

What they lose out on in the profit-per-machine, they are thinking that they will make up in volume. And like I said, the surge won't spike as high, but it will last considerably longer.

Ummm, I was *apprentice* 16th corpse, does that count?

Oh, and Ig, a lot of corporate computers are beginning to be fully depreciated, and decrepit. Remember 1999? Everyone was waiting for Y2K to pass before investing in new PC's, because of the investment in Y2K changes. So the year 2000 saw a surge of PC purchases by corporations. I expect a similar surge, although I expect it to start slower, not hit the same peak, but last longer than the one in 2000. In other words, just about any decent computer company's stock should start picking up about Q2 or 3 of this year. That being said - I don't have complete faith in Dell, mostly because their boxes are filled with proprietary components - or at least they used to be. Which means that if a diskette drive or a hard drive fail and need to be replaced, the whole computer has to be packed up and shipped off to Dell Corporation. That may no longer be true, but it WAS true a few years ago.

The faster the processor and the more the RAM (what you call memory), the better the computer. Storage is fairly standard, although you can get faster or slower storage devices. Some hard drives (storage) have a faster access/throughput speed than others, but even as fast as the fastest one is, this is currently considered the "bottleneck" as far as computer speed goes. Processor speed is whatever it is - the latest model will have the fastest processor (generally speaking). So what you max out, as much as feasible, is the RAM. And if you are doing lots of screen stuff, get more Video RAM too.

DR. PHLOX Oh, great, so now you're quoting Clint Eastwood in Heartbreak Ridge! A war movie, wasn't it? Lots of body parts just lying around? Hmmmm, I'm out of here! I've got to get to that movie set! INDY Whatever. Karl, just follow my lead. KARL FOLLOWS INDY TO A TABLE NEAR THE TWO C-I-WAY, WHO THINK THEY ARE CLEVERLY DISGUISED AS HOUSEPLANTS INDY (seating himself at a table next to the two weg corpse) stage whisper: Karl, when Kultwelle retires, that's when Clonendale's going to make his move. He's going to push Rozilla Barkingfox out completely. The only way to stop him is for Barkingfox to take control and work him behind the scenes, like a puppet. KARL But how can she do that? INDY I know he likes messing around with boys. If that got out it would ruin him. But Barkingfox doesn't have the charisma to take over - so they would put someone else in instead, and they'd both be out. KARL Clever! So she threatens to expose him, and he agrees to be a puppet. She gets what she wants, he gets to wear purple tights and prance around on stage and make crappy videos, and everyone's happy! INDY Exactly! THE TWO VEG CORPSE LEAVE EXCITEDLY. INDY Think it worked? KARL I do. That one guy ....ed his pants! How did you know that they both work for Rozilla? INDY They smell like cat litter, and they had inkstains on their hands. KARL So what happens next? INDY We sit back and watch the fireworks, then we sneak in and steal our stuff back. next?

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You know you are living in 2003 when . . . you hear the phone ringing but have no idea where it is. You USED to be able to follow the cord and find it. NOW you have to try to follow the ringing - but you only get 4 or 5 rings until voice mail picks up!

INT, Adolph's Coffee Shop in New Kultwelle, Ohio. KARL Do you really think it will work? INDY It's got to! It's the only way we'll get our families back. KARL But just where the heck are we going to find a live chinchilla, a blue trumpet, a left-handed fork, asparagus flavored edible panties, and an orangutan? INDY What? Where the hell did you get THAT list? KARL Ooops, hehehe. Nevermind. Pretend you didn't hear all of that. There's NOT going to be a party next Saturday night, and I'm NOT going to it, and there WON'T be all kinds of babes there. Really. So don't go looking for it. Cuz it won't be there. INDY I thought you learned your lesson last time. Remember how long it took for your eyebrows to grow back? And I really don't think the cat will ever be the same. DR. PHLOX Here are your orders, gentlemen. Huma- er, calve's liver for you, and butt steak for you. INDY Ummm, didn't you used to have a cute waitress here? DR. PHLOX Ahh, yes, she was rather tasty, wasn't she? er, I mean, attractive. A delicious personality. She's, er, away at a banquet. INDY Oh, I see. Thank you. So, Karl, how are we going to find someone that's even worse than Kultwelle? KARL I have just the person. Clonendale! His first name is Oy! but everyone calls him Rag. He's already one of Kultwelle's cronies - all we have to do is slip a few subliminal suggestions to Kultwelle, and Clonendale is in! INDY How are we going to manage that? KARL My ex-wife's third cousin, Rosary Barkingfox. She's in Kultwelle's inner circle, too. We just have to plant some ideas of grandeur in HER head, and the rest will take care of itself! INDY I think this could work! next?