Re: The plot thickens (or not) RE: Since the list is so quiet....

Hey Judy,
Don't get a lousy phone from the Shack- I got a beautiful cordless at my
Audiologist- very expensive and excellent reception- much better than the
Panasonic- it is Clarity.
Susan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:28 PM
Subject: The plot thickens (or not) RE: Since the list is so quiet....

>
> If you're dealing with a wiggy person there's a certain security -- odds
> are 99 out of 100 they're going to be wiggy in the same way... like tell
> you about the listening devices in the wall, or the dangers of germs in
> public toilets or doorknobs, or doorknobs in public toilets (they say
> Donald Trump has a germ phobia, BTW), but if it's technology, ESPECIALLY
> digitalics, there's simply no predicting and no consistency.
>
> I spent a couple of hours this afternoon working my way through the tech
> support personnel at Adobe, trying to figure out why the blinking
> "acrobat" wouldn't distill a mere 100-page CMYK file... Each of the three
> guys knew something, but none of them knew the whole thing -- the action
> would "flush" (distiller's word) at page 50 or so. Logic said there was a
> corrupted file at that point, but where, what? So I "distilled" in 10 page
> increments--- and did the whole hundred pages just fine. The damn thing
> just didn't want that much work at once. (But why the first attempt only
> got the outermost left edge of the pages, none of them even attempted to
> guess -- the slackers.)
>
> So I'm done with that (until the next 100 pages, or 110 to be precise) and
> decide to check e-mail to relax. I think I said yesterday, or day before
> yesterday, or maybe it was last week, that the connection to my husband's
> phone would connect, but my usual one to the kitchen phone wouldn't. But
> today the husband's phone wouldn't oblige (no "hardware handshake"),
> possibly because the connection (size of a matchbook with many wires &
> receptacle for thumb plug) seemed to have gotten caught in the door, it
> sort of stuck out, really dumb of it wouldn't you say?), so I tried my
> phone again, no luck, but then I tried the center hole in what is not a
> siamese connection, so let's call it a TRI-anese connection (the first
> hole connects the answering machine, which worked the whole time), and it
> connected.
>
> The phones themselves had dial tones the whole time. So I will assume it's
> something in the thumb plug of the wires that wrap around the lally column
> that holds up our ceiling and runs down its length and across the floor to
> the pit of coiled snakes that's the back of my computer. (Anyone who has
> PF #1 can see the drawing on p. 31, including the outlines of a small
> child and domestic animal swallowed therein...) I doubt a laptop could
> cope, but having used a laptop once or twice I know I couldn't cope.
> Sometimes I type 198 hours a day and those flat keyboards are instruments
> of the devil -- and magnets for carpal tunnel. My daughter has a separate
> keyboard, but even so, she doesn't have 108 peripherals, probably just a
> printer, so laptop suffices.
>
> Whichever, I believe I have done my bit for this list. There's not a
> single person on it who can't feel superior to me in the field of
> digitonics...That is, I have added to the sum total of human happiness,
> which I do gladly whenever it's convenient. (I guess I didn't mention
> that daughter has some kind of router rigmarole that I could connect to or
> under or around, but anyone who thinks that stuff is trouble free is...
> leading a charmed life. The thing is controlled by evil Verizon, tho tech
> support sometimes comes from Canada, which may be a plus. Daughter said
> that one time during the original hookup, this 12 year old (they're all 12
> years old) in Canada had control of her system, and drew a couple of cute
> funny faces on her screen in the interim, but his boss came along & saw
> it, gave him hell. (I of course get no funny faces but my own...8 (
>
> Anyway, I realize I'll have to do something about this problem, and I do
> think I WILL go to radio shack & pick up a new phone anyway, reception on
> this one has gotten very bad... if someone is talking on a cell I can't
> understand a word they say...(though they understand me fine) -- I know we
> have a radio shack around here somewhere, and I really really appreciate
> the advice and concern... The term "moral supprt" is ambiguous, don't you
> think? but you know what I mean... many THANKS !
>
> Judy
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