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bk · « **Reply #90 on:** February 19, 2005, 08:02:53 AM »

I love sushi that's not raw, like shrimp and california roll.

I do not love this rain anymore.

George · « **Reply #91 on:** February 19, 2005, 08:03:36 AM »

The TV that I have in my living room was a Christmas gift from my sister. I just realized that I've never bought my own TV...several VCRs over the years, but never a TV. Anyway, it's an Apex with a 27 inch screen...or is it 32 inches (now I'm not sure). It still seems very big, and it's quite heavy. I have two VCRs, a DVD player and a laserdisc player hooked up to it.

bk · « **Reply #92 on:** February 19, 2005, 08:04:01 AM »

Holy moley or rye - page four!

Two people are walking their ERSATZ dogs. Those dogs are sopping wet because the dogs were stupid and forgot to bring their doggie parapluis.

bk · « **Reply #93 on:** February 19, 2005, 08:04:35 AM »

Hisaka, what was your first TV and stereo?

Danise · « **Reply #94 on:** February 19, 2005, 08:21:28 AM »

Hi folks.

I think I finely have the Wi Fi stuff figured out. In fact, be on the look out for an attempt by me to connect right here to HHW from a REMOTE

location later on today!

I read what you said DR Jose but after reading everything on the Sans Disk website and the MS site, I learned that you do need an internet provider UNLESS you can find a free IP hot spot. I found a site that lists them and they are so far and in-between that it wasn’t worth even trying to get to one either in NYC or Tampa.

I looked the Muse up and found they have 3 IPs for Wi Fi in the lobby. I went to each of the sites and read about up on them as well. I chose to go with Boingo.

I went with the unlimited service because you get the 2nd month free and that will carry me through the NY trip. Afterwards I’m switching to the Pay As You Go Plan. More expensive but I don’t think I will be using it as often since there is no Boingo server in down town Tampa. If I can ever get any information on the free hot spot they said was going to start I would use that anyway.

Anyway, I shall go to the hot spot that was listed for Brandon today and give it a try. I’m going to attempt to send an e-mail to a few folks and then try to access HHW proper.

I guess that explains why I was E & T last night. I just wanted to get this thing set up and working so I would have it in place for the trip.

BTW, here are some links to what I was reading last night.

http://www.wififreespot.com/

http://www.bitstream.com/wireless/index.html

http://www.starbucks.com/retail/wireless.asp?cookie%5Ftest=1&fav%5Ftest=1

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/pocketpc/ppc/default.mspx

http://www.sandisk.com/retail/c-wifi-sd.asp

http://www2.boingo.com/

I haven’t gotten into the “Numbers” show. Or “Medium” for that matter. I always manage to miss them. I saw where there is going to be a new “Amazing Race”. I might miss about half of those as well but if it’s the same time slot as before, I will manage to catch a few.

I see the weather in NY is still very, very, very cold. Burrrr. I hope I have enough warm clothes if that’s the way it’s going to be when we are there.

SWW—I agree with VixMom. I think we should make a side trip to your kitchen. You make everything sound so good! I should have gotten a hotel with a Kitchenette and we could have gathered there to watch the master at work.

You could have even brought the dogs as far as I would be concerned . I love them and would not have minded a bit. I wish I could take B & B with me.

Hisaka, those were some very lovely dolls.

First TV/Stereo. I honestly don't remember that but I do remember our first color TV. That was in the late 60's. It was a very big deal at the time.

I also remember my first cassette player/recorder. We took it though a local tourist attraction about pirates. That has long since closed. I think I have the only recording of the story of Jose Gasperilla.

Gotta run but I will be in touch…………………………..hopefully.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #95 on:** February 19, 2005, 08:22:36 AM »

No food of the day? Or did I miss that?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #96 on:** February 19, 2005, 08:23:40 AM »

Good Morning! Again...

I sort of slept in to this morning, but since I really didn't get to sleep until around 4:00... I actually woke up at 8:00 automatically - I guess I have reset my internal clock - and I almost put my feet on the floor, but... Fast forward about two hours later, and here I am.

It's another bright, sunny, but cold day here. I may workout this afternoon, or I may go ahead and actually take today off like I was contemplating yesterday.

However, I do know I will be cleaning the bathroom in a few. -The last time it was cleaned was when I cleaned it... back in December. So... I also need to get a few loads of laundry done. The domestic life. Gotta love it!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #97 on:** February 19, 2005, 08:26:15 AM »

Like George, I have never actually bought a TV. I've either been with roommates who already had them or gone without or people have given me older TVs. It wasn't a conscious plan, but it has just worked out that way. We probably need a better TV now, less bulky. I'd love to get rid of our bulky entertainment center.

My family's first TV was a bulky Magnavox on wooden legs. Since I was one of the younger kids and sat close to the TV, I was the remote control. "Change it to Channel 32".

Eventually, I was allowed to bring our old b/w set into my bedroom from the basement, and that was quite a luxury at the time. Even though it was like LAVERNE and SHIRLEY, where you had to wear tinfoil and stand in a certain place to pickup certain channels.

My first all-me stereo was given to me when I was 13 or so, and the brand name escapes me, but how I loved that thing! I became a radio DJ in my own room and mind.

George · « **Reply #98 on:** February 19, 2005, 08:33:25 AM »

Quote from: Rodzinski on February 19, 2005, 08:22:36 AM

No food of the day? Or did I miss that?

It's Chinese food today. Panda Express is the Chinese that I most prefer.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #99 on:** February 19, 2005, 08:33:50 AM »

I shall be hitting the road shortly for a road trip to NJ with The Gal. Don't laugh. There is much to do in the Garden State. Use of a motorcar for the long weekend is something that must be taken advantage of.

Someone needs to step up to cover my 12.11 posts per day average.

Or two people could average 6 more posts a day and that would work.

Look forward to reading more about the Courts Show. Scope out James Hong for me! And Alan Sues!

Take care everybody!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #100 on:** February 19, 2005, 08:35:02 AM »

Ah, yes. Chinese Food. Just looked back and saw that. I shall get an egg roll.

With six, you get eggroll.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #101 on:** February 19, 2005, 08:35:12 AM »

DR Hisaka - I would love more origami papers and books, but I need to stop purchasing those for a while. I think I have about 30 different packets of papers in various sizes that I've bought over the past year or two - and that are still unopened! And there is also a small pile of three new books that I bought a year ago that I have yet to try a fold or two from. But once I get through them...

The National Building Museum in Washington, DC, has an origami festival each spring - coming up soon. They have some wonderful displays as well as some hands-on workshops. Last year, while I was folding away at one of the tables, I ended up becoming an impromptu instructor. I showed a family - a mother and her two boys - how to fold a dinosaur and a peacock. During their festival, their bookstore also stocks up on books and papers.

When I'm in NYC, I check out that Japanese bookstore in Rockefeller Center. They have a nice selection of books and paper/washi. *I also make a stop at Minamoto Kitchoan to indulge in some wagashi.

I'm just glad Takashimaya does not carry origami supplies - at least not in the New York City location. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure I'd end up buying something there, and spending way more money on papers and books than I should. But I love window-shopping in that store.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #102 on:** February 19, 2005, 08:39:06 AM »

Oh...

DR Hisaka - So is the sushi for Girl's Day like futomaki?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #103 on:** February 19, 2005, 08:40:28 AM »

DR Danise - Thanks for the WiFi info and the links! Congrats on your new technological advances!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #104 on:** February 19, 2005, 08:53:24 AM »

OK - The clock is about to strike 12, and that bathroom is not going to clean itself, cause if it did...

Ah, well..

Laters...

William F. Orr · « **Reply #105 on:** February 19, 2005, 09:04:40 AM »

Since vixmom posted a picture of John Raitt and Doris Day in The Pajama Game yesterday, it is only fair to give equal time to Karen Ziemba and BK's close personal friend The Sexiest Man Alive.

I'm trying to find a larger version, but for now the thumb-nail will have to do.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #106 on:** February 19, 2005, 09:07:45 AM »

Well, I was up till four-thirty last night because Tewkes is frightened of lightning and thunder. While he doesn't howl or anything, he just shivers and pants (sort of hyperventiliating, I guess) and no amount of holding him or soothing him will make him stop. So he shifts and gets in one's face and pants with his doggie breath and just refuses to settle down. His little heart beats like mad and, what with his heart murmur, you're afraid he's going to keel over.

I shall soon swim over to the Bur of Bank...if it is not under water...and pay my fifteen bucks to see if anyone showed up for the Ray Courts show. They couldn't have picked a worse weekend for it

elmore, I too remember Willis music. They used to have a record department where I could pick up records that no one else carried. I also remember Wurlizter where all us kids had music lessons at one time. I had four years of guitar. I'm terrible and never play though I still have my '58 Gibson guitar in the closest. My guitar teacher would occasionally to play in the band on The Ruth Lyons show.

Oh, great...there was a clap of thunder just now. Tewkes woke up, clamoured off the couch, and is now at the foot of my chair, shivering and pawing at my lap.

William F. Orr · « **Reply #107 on:** February 19, 2005, 09:08:29 AM »

Here we go:

bk · « **Reply #108 on:** February 19, 2005, 09:08:45 AM »

Still pouring here. I got a couple of pages done this morning, so I shan't feel guilty about being gone for most of today. I shall return after I'm done working with Mr. Grant Geissman. Keep the home fries burning until my returning, you dear, dear people out there in the dark.

And remember: ERSATZ!

And remember: Chinese food!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #109 on:** February 19, 2005, 09:24:30 AM »

According to the Weather Channel you will have HEAVY rain all day today in LA. And the Lord didn't make little green apples.

Thanks for the PG pic DRSWW. I love that show, and that movie. I am not sure how I feel about those BLUE pajamas! The Doris and John pic yesterday reminded me how much I LOVE that costumes in the movie.

Alan Sues! Hahahahah. I loved the LOVE AMERICAN STYLE sketch he did when he was a baker and he had made a wedding cake, then the couple broke up and he had to get them back together so he could get the money....LOL.... And his sportscaster on LAUGH-IN was hilarious.

Saturday! We have snow forecast for tonight!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #110 on:** February 19, 2005, 09:25:27 AM »

I was going by the address for the Shillito's given in the picture - but it was about a building being torn down in 1997, so I don't know for sure.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #111 on:** February 19, 2005, 09:31:46 AM »

Well, after an incredibly healthy breakfast of vanilla pudding sprinkled with coconut, chocolate milk, and pringles no-fat potato chips, I shall bathe, try to get Tewkes to do some business out under the eaves of the house (out of the rain) and hie myself hence to the sodden Bur of Bank and, hopefully, a few celebrities and some show biz memorabilia.

I would much prefer to roll back up in the bedcovers and sleep. But duty calls.

bk · « **Reply #112 on:** February 19, 2005, 09:53:26 AM »

I'm on my way to the Courts show. I have just noticed that while no water is actually coming into the room, there are ominous signs that near the patio door area where I previously had a leak, that water seems to be coming down the wall, making nice little pockets in the paint. Nothing has burst yet, paint-wise, but if this keeps up it's not going to be pretty. Well, it's not like they haven't known about this since December. And the little plastic stop-gaps they put on the roof are probably not doing the job right now. And, of course, I can't get anyone on the phone until Monday.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #113 on:** February 19, 2005, 10:07:56 AM »

We're off to the show. Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor gloom of night shall keep us from our duly appointed rounds...nor hailstones, tornadoes, hurricanoes, nor hangnails, acid reflux, ennui, wet dogs (now towelled off), cat vomit (and Mosby the Grey Ghost did just vomit)....

JMK · « **Reply #114 on:** February 19, 2005, 10:08:22 AM »

I played the Dictator/Sitcom Character game and I am Bill Gates of Microsoft! Cooool. Though is he a dictator or a sitcom character, or a little of both?

George: I made an impulse purchase of all three Star Treks a few weeks ago when Fred Meyer had a 20% off DVD sets sale. I think the clerk was only supposed to let the coupon be for one set, but he said I could get as many as I wanted, so I got all 3 season of Star Trek (I think I paid $60 each for them after the discount) and even the first season of Lost in Space. Don't tell Betsy. (She knows, of course). And am I still on the What If? list?

First TV: well, my Dad was a Sears Manager, so of course everything in our house was Sears. The first tv I remember from my childhood was a mammoth blond unit (Sears Silvertone, of course) with the phonograph built into the top. Long before I was born the needle on the phonograph had disappeared, but I remember to this day putting on old 78s of Edward R. Murrow's "I Can Hear it Now" and playing them with my fingernail. I kid you not. I would put my fingernail on the records and the sound would vibrate out (through my finger? is that possible?). "Oh, the humanity" is forever etched into the muscle memory of my index finger, LOL.

We later got a color tv (Sears Silvertone, of course) in probably about 1964 or so so that my Mom could watch the World Series. I of course claimed it was a birthday present for me, since my birthday usually falls on/around the week of the Series. I remember us all gathering around the set and watching "Dick Van Dyke" (which was in B&W of course) and claiming that we could even see "a little color" in that broadcast. Those were simpler times, to say the least.

My first stereo: Was a Christmas present in probably 1968 or 1969. Can you guess what make? (hint: Sears Silvertone). It was one of those avocado green portable units with the detachable speakers and the turntable that folded up into the main section. Now I was a kid with pretty adult musical tastes (Sergio Mendes, Percy Faith, etc.), so I personally think my parents had very little to complain about. But I did like The Beatles and one of my first 45s was Hey Jude b/w Revolution. The first time I put on Revolution my mother burst into my bedroom and forbade me to ever play "that horrible caterwauling" again.

JMK · « **Reply #115 on:** February 19, 2005, 10:43:55 AM »

A lull.

JMK · « **Reply #116 on:** February 19, 2005, 10:45:15 AM »

How about this parlor game? How many words in the English language follow the form of "lull", i.e.:

a-b-a-a

Sandra · « **Reply #117 on:** February 19, 2005, 10:46:34 AM »

Breaking news: I am sick. Blech! And I have a lot of homework I don't want to do.

JMK · « **Reply #118 on:** February 19, 2005, 10:47:24 AM »

JMK · « **Reply #119 on:** February 19, 2005, 10:48:33 AM »

Breaking news: I just got an error message from HHW that I've never seen before: The last posting from your IP address was less than 5 seconds ago. Try again later.

What is this, IMDb all of a sudden?

News:

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