Ashi

I think I might know what your wife is saying, but I don't think I could ever live in a country side, despite I like my quietness and uneventfulness. And the last part is the reason why I won't like living in the country. It's so boring in those places, people will create something out of nothing so they don't get bored. And I loathe gossips. I like burb better.... I have the choice to go to a city if I want to, without living in there and deal with the problems a city has.... Notice I mentioned nothing about financial situation. I don't know why people like to link livability with money. If you're with someone you love, does it matter where you live? (okay, I won't live in a place that's like a pressure cooker or a walk-in freezer)

Happy Birthday Joann!

Happy birthday.

LOL. That sounds like my old Brother typewriter back in the early 90's, except the whole desk shaking part. LOL. Fortunately, mine could remember which font I used (i.e., there was only one font face) and erase it correctly. But sometimes I went cheapskate and reuse the correction ribbon, so not all part of the letter would be erased.

LOL. Back then when I was taking a programming class (QBasic and Pascal... who uses that now?) people were chatting using the school computer, though they were sitting next to each other. LOL Before there is texting....

Happy Birthday. Carl.

Okay, I accidentally came across this place on Google Map called Steamworks (I was looking for a photo lab that could still print film optically), and it looks like a place Matt might enjoy.... Gym plus bathhouse. They have a website (which includes many locations even one in Toronto), but be forewarned, some photos might contain nudity. You won't spot a nerd like me in a place like that though, but thank you for asking.

Congrats.

They forgot empathy..., which ought to be listed as one of those psychological/non-physiological senses (like the 6th sense is). There are probably plenty more senses one could describe, like the sense of direction.

I guess your family was a multi-typewriter household. I still remember the time when multiple-computer household was not common. Now almost everyone has a home network.... Hmm, I am not sure I like the kind of boss who treat employees as their extended garage, but you could try eBay. Hey, those IBM "clicky" keyboards are legends. The second best thing after a real typewriter. The thing about a real typewriter is the sound and mechanicalness. My HS slowly moved to modern computer in my senior year, but I was already done with my "Word Processing" class by then (yes, we had clicky keyboards, and we had one of those cheat sheet template that you put around your F-keys on the keyboard to show you which function key does which. I faintly remember F7 or F9 is for margin alignment). We used DOS version of WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3. Imagine that!

Hey, I love those genres! Didn't I say share your playlist? LOL

Now..., share your playlist.

http://youtu.be/deebKNI-dTE Don't know why when I heard the bad news (RIP Trebs...), I went on YouTube and listened to it. I guess we're all connected by a rainbow and we missed a good man.

He will be missed.

RIP Treb. He was a very nice person.

Happy happy fun fun together.

Happy birthday Mike.

Oh no, indeed!!! In similar note, with our severe drought in California, I expect many of the trees to die in Yosemite, that's on top of the wild fire we had a while ago. The famous Jeffrey Pine made famous by Ansel Adams photo died in a drought in 1977. I wonder if my Lodge Pole Pine will die this year... (my photo is not famous yet...).

LOL. BTW, you don't have to choose between old technology and the new. There is a guy on Etsy who makes these: https://www.etsy.com/shop/usbtypewriter I personally like the old mechanical typewriter (though I also have an electronic typewriter) because the nice typing sound it makes. And the keys are harder to hit. It's like piano vs keyboard really. Give your fingers some work out. Don't they look svelte, my fingers? And each typewriter gives a unique "fingerprint." For bonus point, who can tell me what's the difference between pica & elite? (no google) I love the part in the video where the guy said (after he figured out how to insert the paper), "I'm good at this." LOL. How do I know all these? Because..., I used a typewriter when I was in middle school. (OMG!) Schools back in the early 90's were very underfunded, so we had these typewriters. It had the same punch bar thingy as my newly acquired 1947 Underwood Universal. When you click a key, it punches a letter. Then the one from my high school (yes, we still had typewriter back in high school), it required electricity, but it was still largely mechanical (but you didn't have to use much force. It had a ball with all the letters and numbers on it. No, not the "modern" daisy wheel kind). My flea market find was relatively well dampened. Still has smooth action. And it smells like someone lubricated it with oil. Found the serial number so I know it's Underwood Universal Model F, made in 1947 (the wonder of google). It is somewhat dirty, but for the most part, still in good shape. The typewriter in the video is still too modern. LOL. That's more like the kind I used in middle school. An Olympia maybe? (the one from high school was a Royal, which could switch between pica and elite). Back in my university days, we had a shop right across the school which sold Olivetti typewriters and other mechanical office equipments. Which was a little odd even at the time, but it's closed now. Remember those ASCII arts? Back in the days we did that in class for extra bonus, using a typewriter. And you don't use white out to erase a letter!!! The video is like..., just wrong! We had this thingy called "correction tape." So what you do is, click the backspace key to go back to the wrong letter, press the button or lever to move the ink ribbon out of the way, put the correction in front of the wrong letter, and type over it. The correction tape is white, so it covers the wrong letter. My modern Brother fully electronic typewriter, if you don't use the LCD "word processor" screen to proofread, it has the correction tape built-in, so all you do is click the backspace, and the typo is automatically erased (and you can choose per letter or erase the whole word). OMG. Isn't that an engineering marvel? LOL. Yes, like the video showed, you have to type one paper at a time (we didn't use carbon paper in school). Some people used to make a living typing letters. You gotta be quick and no typos, and you proofread your own stuff. Imagine a typewriter with a cellphone auto correct function in it. LOL This post probably makes me 20 years older. LOL

Happy Birthday wild kitty.

Happy Birthday!

I think you captured the "new kid in the block" anxiety well. I like how Andrew's mind go everywhere and self-conscious a lot. I remember I was like that in high school, but there was no Brian. I think I'd be doomed if there was a Brian character, and Brian took advantage of my worst kept secret.... Good job.

You grabbed my attention with this first chapter. I like it. And I love the cat. Is Rain a girl or a boy cat? I noticed sometimes the pronoun is he and sometimes a she. And a few grammar issues as well. But in general the story itself is griping.

The title of this thread is "Educating Others Tactfully."

Erm..., so..., you actually watched those? I think the trailer is enough to turn me off, and I was actually open-minded when I heard it.