Topic: THE WITH IT AND HAPPENING ME (Read 24989 times)

bk · « **on:** August 11, 2009, 12:14:16 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were both with it and happening, and now it is time for you to post until the with it and happening cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** August 11, 2009, 12:15:13 AM »

And the word of the day is: FUG!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** August 11, 2009, 12:16:12 AM »

And a very happy haineshisway.com birthday to a whole slew of people who never post here - but also to singingnymph, who occasionally does.

DAW · « **Reply #3 on:** August 11, 2009, 02:08:00 AM »

Indeed!! A very very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our very own DR singingnymph!!!!!

DAW · « **Reply #4 on:** August 11, 2009, 02:08:38 AM »

TOD:

I am usually one of the last to jump on any trend. $:-\$

DAW · « **Reply #5 on:** August 11, 2009, 02:09:35 AM »

Looks and sounds like the HHW gathering at Skip's and DR FJL's was an unqualified success!

DAW · « **Reply #6 on:** August 11, 2009, 02:11:32 AM »

Hope your doctor's visit today goes well, DR Cillaliz!

***FRIDGE REPLACEMENT VIBES*** to DR Sam!

Laura DR, your latest video made me smile and smile and smile!!!

DR JMK, that was truly wierd. Perhaps one of Bronn's legs is shorter than the other? Like, a lot?? $:-\$

DR Kerry: thanks for the compliment! I think.

DAW · « **Reply #7 on:** August 11, 2009, 02:23:49 AM »

ps: DR JoseSPiano - your food porn is sometimes just astonishing!!

And congratulations to Skip!

DAW · « **Reply #8 on:** August 11, 2009, 02:24:32 AM »

Cincinnati will host the World Choir Games in 2012 - the first time the event will be staged in the USA.

Ben · « **Reply #9 on:** August 11, 2009, 05:19:57 AM »

I'm still sitting at my desk. The rumor is today we are relocated. We shall see. If I am relocated I probably will not be in posting mode for the next two weeks because I will be surrounded by other folk who know not from HWW.

Ben · « **Reply #10 on:** August 11, 2009, 05:20:28 AM »

Glad to hear the Fred and Skip taste event was successful.

Ben · « **Reply #11 on:** August 11, 2009, 05:38:38 AM »

We don't have a Blu-Ray Player and don't plan on getting one. We don't have a large screen, flat screen, LCD or plasma television and don't plan on getting one. We don't have cable anymore since June 12 (we do have a digital converter box and rabbit ears) and don't plan on re-subscribing anytime during my lifetime. We don't have an e-Book reader or a Kindle and don't plan on getting one. We don't have an mp3 player or an i-pod and don't plan on getting one. If I put on a CD I want to listen to it, I don't want one song from Column A and one song from Column Q and then a song from Column B, etc. I know you don't have to shuffle through your music on a player but it's not worth the effort (for me) to load my CDs on to my computer and then load them onto a media player just to have music as I walk down the street. In the time that takes I could listen to a CD! Plus, I can listen to my beloved BBC on the computer at work or at home anytime I want.

We do have a CD player, a computer, high-speed Internet service and e-mail addresses, a digital camera, a digital video camera, a record player and two pay as you go cell phones. We only bought into that idea last year right around this time. If Anthony had not gone to Wisconsin I doubt that we would have them. I got 1200 minutes on my cell phone along with a year of service. In the year that we have had the phones I still have 1065 minutes left. That shows you how much I use it. Yes, I could get a "plan" and pay $20 or $30 or $40 a month, but why bother (as Bette Midler said in a song or movie, I forget which). It's the reason we canceled cable television. We don't watch it enough to justify even $25 a month. I don't want to pay $20 a month for something I'm not going to use.

In spite of all this I feel completely with it and happening. I am totally technologically literate and comfortable with the technology that surrounds me, I just don't need to immerse myself in all aspects of it.

Thus ends Curmudgeon News Update

Jrand73 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 11, 2009, 05:58:43 AM »

I think DR KERRY is correct, it looks like Stephen McHattie to me who once played James Dean in a tv movie.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 11, 2009, 05:58:54 AM »

I will be back.

Laura · « **Reply #14 on:** August 11, 2009, 06:06:35 AM »

TOD: I always thought my DH and I were the last ones to embrace electronic trends. I was wrong. It's Ben and Ant.

Kerry · « **Reply #15 on:** August 11, 2009, 06:17:13 AM »

TOD:
I love my computer and the internet and CDs and DVDs, but I am very slow to embrace new technology. I'm still more of a listening to phonograph records and reading books made of real paper.
I have to be truly convinced of the value of new technology and avoid trends at all costs.

Kerry · « **Reply #16 on:** August 11, 2009, 06:19:22 AM »

Quote from: DAW on August 11, 2009, 02:11:32 AM

DR Kerry: thanks for the compliment! I think.

Most definitely a compliment!

Kerry · « **Reply #17 on:** August 11, 2009, 06:20:40 AM »

Quote from: JRand58 on August 11, 2009, 05:58:43 AM

I think DR KERRY is correct, it looks like Stephen McHattie to me who once played James Dean in a tv movie.

Yes, it is him. Trust me on this.

Laura · « **Reply #18 on:** August 11, 2009, 06:25:38 AM »

Trust Kerry.

Ben · « **Reply #19 on:** August 11, 2009, 06:32:00 AM »

Quote from: Laura on August 11, 2009, 06:25:38 AM

Trust Kerry.

I do! Implicitly!

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #20 on:** August 11, 2009, 06:39:26 AM »

TOD:

First Record Player: I still own and use my first personally owned turntable. When I graduated from high school, my parents took me to Wall To Wall Sound to pick out the components of a new stereo system for a gift. Aside from getting a Pioneer receiver and speakers, I also chose what was then the latest, greatest and nifty turntable on which you could place a stack of albums and be able to program or select any of the tracks (that were on the top side of the LP.) Unfortunately, this item turned out to be a gimmick and the novelty soon gave way to the overall flaws of the turntable: it was cheaply made and delivered crappy sound. I packaged the thing up and exchanged it for what was then the top-of-the-line Pioneer state-of-the-art (remember that term?) turntable. It was and continues to be a sturdy piece of machinery that still plays incredibly well.

First CD Player: Pioneer, again, bought in 1986. I was working at Strawbridge and Clothier and saw it was on sale and brought it home without any CDs to play on it. That weekend I bought Peter Gabriel's SO and the OCR of THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. DROOD was great fun because you could program the different endings of the musical.

First VCR: Panasonic, right after the New Year in 1984. I bought it for the sole purpose of taping the PBS broadcast of the RSC NICHOLAS NICKLEBY mini-series. It lasted me for years.

Never got a LaserDisc player.

First DVD player: Sony, again right after the New Year in 2000. I had gotten a number of DVDs for Christmas--people had thought that I already had a player. First DVD I played was SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE.

First portable "walkman"-like music player: For Christmas in 1982, my sister gave me a Toshiba cassette player/recorder. It was the size of a thick paperback. To play the AM/FM radio, you had to snap in a module into the cassette player. It was pretty heavy but it could take a beating--I dropped it tons of times and it kept on playing.

First portable CD player: Sony--thick black heavy box that ate batteries. Fragile and not practical at all...

First Mp3 player: A little gadget from Sensory Science--it was 512K and could hold about 2 albums worth of songs. It also had a built-in FM radio. It served it's purpose.

First cell phone: Another Christmas gift from another sister in 1996 or 97--Toshiba brick with an ironclad two-year contract with AT&T. Couldn't wait till I got rid of it.

No Blu-Ray player, yet...I'll wait till I get an HD TV.

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #21 on:** August 11, 2009, 06:42:04 AM »

Quote from: bk on August 11, 2009, 12:15:13 AM

And the word of the day is: FUG!

And The Song Of The Day Is: IT'S HOT UP HERE

Laura · « **Reply #22 on:** August 11, 2009, 06:53:18 AM »

Just in case she pops in today -- Happy Birthday to singingnymph!

Matt H. · « **Reply #23 on:** August 11, 2009, 06:54:09 AM »

Good morning!

Another hot day though we do have a chance of showers this afternoon. It was so stifling when I got the newspaper at 6 a.m. that I couldn't get back inside fast enough.

Matt H. · « **Reply #24 on:** August 11, 2009, 06:56:36 AM »

My arm started aching during the night, so around 4 a.m. I got up and started watching my work project for today since it's 3 1/2 hours long. I figured I'd watched about 30 minutes and start to drift off to sleep. Instead, I got hooked, and for two hours the time flew by. After I got the paper and ate my oatmeal, I lay down on the couch and slept for another 1 1/2 hours.

Matt H. · « **Reply #25 on:** August 11, 2009, 06:59:37 AM »

My work project is a film called JEANNE DIELMAN, and it's three days in the life of an "ordinary" woman, a widow with a teenaged son. It's a very stark film, covering her daily routine in rather mundane fashion, but the mundane becomes the mesmerizing as the days pass. I've watched the first two days, and I have the third one to go this afternoon.

Very different and hard to describe, but I'm enjoying it to my great surprise.

Laura · « **Reply #26 on:** August 11, 2009, 07:00:31 AM »

It would be a very dull movie indeed, DR Matt H, if they filmed three days of my life.

Matt H. · « **Reply #27 on:** August 11, 2009, 07:00:36 AM »

And the UPS man just brought me two more TV box set review items: NCIS - Season 6 and THE UNTOUCHABLES - Season 3, Part 1.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #28 on:** August 11, 2009, 07:01:18 AM »

Happy Birthday to singingnymph!

Matt H. · « **Reply #29 on:** August 11, 2009, 07:02:31 AM »

Quote from: Laura on August 11, 2009, 07:00:31 AM

It would be a very dull movie indeed, DR Matt H, if they filmed three days of my life.

What's dull and routine to you might be fascinating to others. That's exactly the point with this movie. Because everything is routine and patterned, you have time to explore character traits. It's really quite a surprising movie but a female director I had never heard of.

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