Topic: TROUBLE WITH A CAPITAL "T" AND THAT RHYMES WITH "T" AND THAT STANDS FOR TIME WAR (Read 15234 times)

John G. · « **Reply #60 on:** May 11, 2013, 02:30:17 PM »

Three!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #61 on:** May 11, 2013, 02:31:43 PM »

Good ~~morning~~ ~~afternoon~~ evening, all.

Back from THE VIKINGS (which was very enjoyable) and from running a bunch of errands in some mightily torrential rains. Well, we've most definitely needed the rain.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #62 on:** May 11, 2013, 02:37:16 PM »

In today's news, I have been gifted with some form of frickin' MALWARE!

This one turns a couple of random words or phrases on any given web page into ad links. Isn't that nice of it? Example: On my screen, the word "errands" in my previous post is blue and underscored, and hovering the pointer over it shows three items and prices -- just innocuous stuff, but oh my, how it wants me to click on it.

This, on a three-month-old computer, and I am an especially scrupulous person when it comes to not clicking on crap or going to questionable websites. Well, have to fix it. I suppose I'll be downloading Malwarebytes or whatever that's called. It did the job fine for me on some problem or other a few years back.

bk · « **Reply #63 on:** May 11, 2013, 02:38:28 PM »

Back from some bacon and eggs and picking up a couple of packages. Guess what? The Internet was down - don't know how long, but it just came back up as I was dialing Time Warner.

vixmom · « **Reply #64 on:** May 11, 2013, 03:02:26 PM »

So this morning I had a temporary crown fitted

Jane · « **Reply #65 on:** May 11, 2013, 03:03:49 PM »

Bryan sent me an early Mother's Day gift.

vixmom · « **Reply #66 on:** May 11, 2013, 03:04:31 PM »

then Vixdad and I went to The Cradle of Aviation Museum https://www.cradleofaviation.org/
where we listened to a talk by Buzz Aldrin and had him sign his new book

Jane · « **Reply #67 on:** May 11, 2013, 03:04:35 PM »

I hope I don't kill it. I am terrible with plants.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #68 on:** May 11, 2013, 03:04:52 PM »

BK: I just read through today's postings in the Aspect Ratio Research thread on HTF.

Wow. Just: Wow.

vixmom · « **Reply #69 on:** May 11, 2013, 03:05:10 PM »

That is lovely, Jane!

Jane · « **Reply #70 on:** May 11, 2013, 03:05:43 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on May 11, 2013, 03:02:26 PM

So this morning I had a temporary crown fitted

Sorry.

Jane · « **Reply #71 on:** May 11, 2013, 03:06:06 PM »

Thank you DR Vixmom.

vixmom · « **Reply #72 on:** May 11, 2013, 03:08:27 PM »

then we wandered through the museum we are inthe area where the Lunar landing Module was designed and built and sure enough we ran into a man who was one of the engineers on the original . He had a folder with him with all sorts of cool photos and schematics we hada very good time as we are a space geeks

Jane · « **Reply #73 on:** May 11, 2013, 03:23:57 PM »

I love when interesting meetings like that happen enhancing the experience.

Jane · « **Reply #74 on:** May 11, 2013, 04:23:01 PM »

I'm thinking about DR Callie and hoping all is well.

bk · « **Reply #75 on:** May 11, 2013, 04:40:42 PM »

More frustrating Time Warner calls - down, up, down, up - never their fault - supervisors are in a meeting but will call me back (sure they will) - it has to be my modem so a technician will be here Monday between three and four and he will tell me there's nothing wrong with my modem and that outages were being experienced all weekend. I will call billing and tell them I am done unless they give me a full month's credit for the aggravation and obvious lies.

bk · « **Reply #76 on:** May 11, 2013, 04:41:13 PM »

Have no idea if this will keep happening for the rest of the evening. I may write notes early again so that they can be posted when we're up.

FJL · « **Reply #77 on:** May 11, 2013, 04:44:29 PM »

Chas - Do those pop-ups have that X that you can click off?

FJL · « **Reply #78 on:** May 11, 2013, 04:44:56 PM »

vixmom, sorry to hear about the dental problems

ChasSmith · « **Reply #79 on:** May 11, 2013, 05:04:54 PM »

Quote from: FJL on May 11, 2013, 04:44:29 PM

Chas - Do those pop-ups have that X that you can click off?

They have a ? and X, but I don't touch them -- I just click on the main web page to get rid of them.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #80 on:** May 11, 2013, 05:06:41 PM »

This is no consolation whatever, but I have been through exactly that kind of horribly aggravating situation with Comcast. It's just inexplicable, how there seemingly aren't ways for them to positively identify exactly where this kind of problem actually resides.

TCB · « **Reply #81 on:** May 11, 2013, 05:20:05 PM »

Quote from: bk on May 11, 2013, 10:31:10 AM

Here is the kind of customer that just makes you scratch your head. I received an e-mail filled with CAPS about how this guy had ordered Leave Her to Heaven and HADN'T RECEIVED ANY CONFIRMATION of the order (we don't do those - paypal tells you "you've made a payment"), and hadn't received a shipping notice (we don't do those), and hadn't received the disc. So I told him we'd check his tracking information on Monday, since the discs had shipped over a week ago and should have reached him.

He then wrote back and said he hadn't actually ordered from us. Now, I don't know about you, dear readers, but doesn't that just make you wonder about someone's sanity? But the capper is - he DID order from us because I'd already seen his invoice - I checked again just to make sure and saw that he'd actually ordered late - May 3rd, so his order probably didn't ship till the 5th or so, so while it's taking a while to get cross-country, it really hasn't been that long.

Sounds like he would fit right in as a regular at this site.

bk · « **Reply #82 on:** May 11, 2013, 05:24:53 PM »

Funny, no supervisor has called back. However, I got full names of the supervisors on duty and they will RUE the day they didn't call me back because on Monday, when I'm told there's nothing wrong with my modem, I'm going to the top of the Time Warner food chain about this crap.

TCB · « **Reply #83 on:** May 11, 2013, 05:56:32 PM »

I am sorry to announce that Bob Maqrley has died!

http://www.biography.com/people/bob-marley-9399524

Jane · « **Reply #84 on:** May 11, 2013, 06:15:48 PM »

"colour footage of 1920s London shot by an early British pioneer of film named Claude Frisse-Greene, who made a series of travelogues"

http://vimeo.com/7638752

TCB · « **Reply #85 on:** May 11, 2013, 06:15:53 PM »

Hamlet's Castle

Jane · « **Reply #86 on:** May 11, 2013, 06:23:29 PM »

Jennifer · « **Reply #87 on:** May 11, 2013, 06:33:06 PM »

Quote from: Jane on May 11, 2013, 10:11:29 AM

Quote from: Jennifer on May 11, 2013, 05:51:46 AM

Quote from: Jane on May 10, 2013, 05:57:10 PM

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A book on my library wish list showed available to check out. I went to my Nook to borrow and download and it was already gone. That was fast! I have 2 books already checked out so I'm ok though my plan was to read this book before the other ones.

DR TCB wrote:
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That seems rather odd.

At first I was thinking that DR Jane was saying that her library told her an ebook was available but when she went to download it she couldn't. Now I understand what she did mean. It was a book on her wishlist that she hadn't yet reserved. But still it was fast. Well now you can reserve it right and be second?

I can't put a hold on it without removing something from that list. I only get 6 holds at a time which is why I check my wish list once or twice a day.

So even if you are number 10 you can only reserve 6 ebooks at a time? Even if you won't be getting that ebook for a while? That seems odd. Can Keith get a library account and get 6 holds too?

Jennifer · « **Reply #88 on:** May 11, 2013, 06:35:06 PM »

Quote from: Jane on May 11, 2013, 10:12:17 AM

Quote from: Jennifer on May 11, 2013, 05:54:35 AM
My niece (who will be 4 this Friday) blabbed my sister's Mother's Day present to her. It was pretty funny. I guess don't tell her anything you don't want everyone else to know.

Also, I had her make 4 cards yesterday (a Mother's day for my sister, a Mother's Day for my mom, a birthday card for my aunt whose birthday is today, and a birthday card for my brother-in-law's aunt whose party is today). So we showed my sister 3 cards and so my niece says "but I made 4 cards". I had told her the 4th card was a secret. But I guess she doesn't quite get it yet.

Cute.

Oh she also blabbed what the gift was. After all our hard work to make it a surprise. Oh well. It is partially my fault because I showed her on tv what they were getting my sister. But only after my older niece had told her what they were getting her. But I probably refreshed her memory and made it visual for her by showing it to her. But apparently my dad had sort of accidently blabbed what the gift was already too.

Jennifer · « **Reply #89 on:** May 11, 2013, 06:36:08 PM »

Quote from: Jane on May 11, 2013, 10:13:28 AM

Quote from: Jennifer on May 11, 2013, 05:55:22 AM
My shoulder is a little sore this morning but it's fine. I knew it was going to hurt when I was lifting my niece at the park. But she wanted to do those things (monkey bars and fireman's pole) so badly. I couldn't refuse.

Of course not. Just a little sore isn't too bad. I expect you are relieved it isn't worse.

It's actually perfect now but was sore after I took a nap. I think sometimes the way I sleep makes it sore. I was careful not to lie on it. But I still often wake up in pain. But it goes away.

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