Subj : Hubble Sees an Asteroid with Six Comet-like Tails
To   : Paul Quinn
From : Roger Nelson
Date : Sat Nov 09 2013 08:27:48

On Fri Nov-08-2013 10:30, Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to Roger Nelson:

Hi,

 PQ> In a message to All you wrote:

 RN> I should have known that as soon as I said something about NASA, they
 RN> would send me an article, so here it is:

 PQ> Poor boy.  Them's the breaks.  ;-)

 PQ> If you think that's a good'un, listen to this...  I'm still signed
 PQ> up with googlegroups.com, basically because I'm lazy and I thought
 PQ> my situation was 'safe' (sort of thing).

I'm sorry to say that you don't have a monopoly on laziness.  (-:

 PQ> Now, googlegroups used to send me daily "digests" of NASA posts in 
 PQ> two newsgroups which worked well from March 2010 to September 
 PQ> 2011.  (I never used their on-line groups cr#p, except to config 
 PQ> an email tunnel thing into a local echo.)

google has been (and continuies) bugging me to install Chrome, which I refuse 
to do and worse, they discontinued google ig this month for who knows what 
reason.  We don't need no steenkin' Chrome as long as we have FireFox.

And Apple is even worse.

[Rant mode on]
I received 5 (count 'em) app upate notices for my cell phone, but in order to 
install them, I have to, at my age, read 54 screens full of their new policy 
and agree to the totality of it or the updated apps won't install.  Did you 
ever in your life have to try to do that on a cell phone?  I wouldn't try even 
if my vision were 20/20.  So, without knowing, they have given me something to 
complain about and I'm doing that on Monday.  You're probably wondering why I 
won't read the new policy on their web site, right?  The answer is because of 
the enormity of what I have to read.  I think 54 pages to read is a ridiculous 
assumption on their part because it would have been much simpler just to make 
available the "new stuff" and agree to it.
[Rant mode off]

 PQ> Suddenly, on 2 Sep 2011, nothing came through the pipeline and 
 PQ> I've seen nothin more since till the night of 29 October 2013!  

LOL!

 PQ> Yep, you guessed right.  I received _a_ digest, containing posts 
 PQ> for the previous week!  Evidently, something in the plumbing at 
 PQ> Google cleared momentarily.  :)

We could blame that on George W Bush.  (-:

 PQ> I count myself lucky to have this echo as a primary source of
 PQ> NASA-related news. The only time I go on-line for  NASA-related
 PQ> stuff these days is to follow-up on EwwToob flick links posted
 PQ> herein.

I had to change it from what it was because I don't believe in that paranormal 
stuff, and while at one time I thought mankind was the only species capable of 
space travel, and that the universes are there for us to explore, that line of 
thought has swung 180 degrees.  However, I am very glad that our Solar System 
isn't any nearer to the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

 PQ> Thanks, Roger.

Any time, pal.  As long as I'm breathing the posts will contimue.

 PQ> ... Old swimmers never die, they just fall off their blocks.  ---

....I read Paul Quinn's messages for the taglines.


Regards,

Roger 
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