Subj : food, etc To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Tue Aug 27 2019 09:58:00 Hi Nancy! -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 13-Aug-2019 10:24 <=- NB>> Replying 11:25am on 23 July, from home... :) BM> And probably no e-post card unless one lives some place semi-famous! NB> Unless one considers the message a form of e-post card... That could work: just don't write into the address section! NB>>> Yup... I wouldn't want to bring it along when I was sure I'd not be NB>>> using it, or have any call to wish I'd brought it along.... It'll be NB>>> going with me on the next two trips, for sure.... to the Pond this NB>>> week for the 4th and following, and then from the 13-20th for my NB>>> family's camping week... BM>> Makes sense. Won't be in constant use but there when needed. NB>> It was sorta in constant use... I left it on, and used the blanked NB>> screen (still backlit) as a nightlight in the camp/cabin each NB>> week... ;) Worked nicely... ;) BM> That works! I 'noticed' in Vienna at the hotel my laptop put out a BM> relatively large amount of light until it went to sleep ==> rooms had BM> the lights off but could see the glow of the laptop's screen in the BM> main room from the bedroom once my eyes accomodated to the dark. NB> My laptop doesn't really go to sleep... it just blanks the NB> screen... so it really does output a fair bit of light in a NB> darkened room... :) Mine is set to shut the display off after 20 or 30 minutes. At the hotel could see a definite 'nighlight glow' in the next room. After the half-hour it got really dark in there. BM> Had a sort of nightlight in the bedroom: LED on a flexible ~14" BM> 'stick'. Powered from 5v USB port, so good U.S. or Europe with the BM> correct adapter. Will have to look for a brighter one. NB> Not quite enough lumens with the one you have, eh...? Nope. And not sure I can find the lumens it has to get a starting point. ...Could get a regular night light but this light-on-a-flexible- stick is sort of handy as can roll up and pack ==> maybe two-thirds the size of a deck of cards, ¬" thick, and hollow in the center so can pack a 5v adapter inside the hollow. NB>> And I did use it regularly, for doing messages a little each day, at NB>> the Pond for some Association business, at the family camping for NB>> keeping the yearly record (who was there, when they came/left, how NB>> many were there, memorable activities, weather, etc), and for the NB>> occasional game of solitaire or mahjongg... :) I did do other stuff NB>> as well, not involving the computer, of course... BM> I used the laptop in Vienna (left behind when did the three-day side- BM> vacation to South Austria) for daily journal notes and 'homework BM> assignments' from my Mother and/or Aunt ==> stuff would come up like BM> "so who is ?" and we were trying to remember the name of a BM> female movie star who during WWII was part of the Dutch Resistance. BM> Fortunately I had planned ahead a bit and copied a lot of documents BM> and letters I had sent to my Mother to the laptop so when got back to BM> the hotel was able to look it up that way. BTW, was Audrey Hepburn. NB> Ah. So you were just looking at stuff you'd already stored on NB> the computer, not checking for the info on the web... Both. Had copied in some stuff from the computer here and also looked up some stuff (Google.AT - the Austrian version, which does ask if I wanted the information in English). Probably could have found the "Audrey Hepburn" answer from a Google search, just was easier for me to use the documents from home as I knew the answer was in there. BM>> Yes. Was thinking how might it would be done now -- college students BM>> still scribble down notes or they hold their cell phones towards a BM>> speaker and it transcibes the lecture for them? NB>> Probably some of each, depending on the student... :) Or something NB>> in between... ;) BM> Something like that! Someday when the opportunity arises will have to BM> ask. Probably still depends on personal preferences, but would be BM> interesting to see how lecture note-taking has changed in 40-50 years! BM> ("What's a 'notebook paper'?" ) NB> In 12-15 years or so, you could ask Autumn.... Maybe less, NB> if you ask about highschool classes rather than college... ;) If I wait the dozen of so years may as well wait another four or five! Think this thread will be going still? BM>> Some people have a better sense of direction, some just know the area. BM>> ...Others could get lost on their way to the end of the block. NB>> I'm generally in one of the first two categories... and I know others NB>> that are definitely in the latter... Or at least they claim to NB>> be... Generally I've found that everyone has some sort of sense of NB>> direction in their own home territory... :) BM> True. I won't claim to have a fantastic sense of direction but don't BM> get lost because follow the signs. Here at home generally don't use BM> signs as familiar with the area and tend to use landmarks. NB> Signs and landmarks are both good and useful... :) Except when giving directions and the traveller's joke "where the old schoolhouse used to be"! ...I gave directions to the house and part was "turn left on - there will be a yellow fire hydrant on the corner". No, they didn't paint the hydrant but I had forgotten the hydrant was right at where they were to turn, not 50 or 100 feet. They commented they had sort of slammed on the brakes at the turn. (Not really hit the brakes, but was a fast slow down for the turn.) NB>>> knocked out the grill... Car kept telling me that multiple bulbs had NB>>> failed and needed replacing... like I needed to be told... BM>> The electronics is just doing its job! So far we haven't hit an BM>> animal but have seen some cars that have and you got off lightly. You BM>> were fortunate! NB>> It's a Volvo, after all... I've got it back now... took it for NB>> the last trip for the family camping... :) It came mighty close to NB>> being considered totalled, though.... cost of repairs came close to NB>> book value of the car... guess the deer had better stay out of my way NB>> from now on...! BM> Bet the deer's family is saying it better keep out of the way of BM> those super-fast gigantic turtles scooting along on those hard trails! BM> (Cars on streets/highways.) NB> As long as it learned the lesson... Hopefully! ...Daryl's going to insert the joke about how do deer know to cross the highway at the sign? BM> LIS while I was gone it was in the upper 90's/low 100's and no rain. BM> I came back and it's rained -- guess that's good! -- but the humdity is BM> so high (still 94% and not raining) makes it pretty much unbearable to BM> be outside. ...Historically not unusual for this part of the country BM> to be hot and humid from mid-July to mid-August. By my unofficial BM> observations the hot-and-humid season has shifted to a few weeks BM> later, so now more the entire month of August rather than starting the BM> middle of July. NB> I was thankful that we've not had anything since like that in the NB> second half of July.... the highs haven't been higher than the NB> upper 80s at worst, although there has still been some very humid NB> days with that... And we've had nicely cool days and nights now NB> for over a week, here at the end of August... what's predicted NB> for the rest of the week still isn't going to be more than low NB> 80s, and lows mostly in the 60s still... Getting to be Fall-like temperatures: 64ø this morning, think it was 58ø yestrday morning. Afternoons still getting into the low 80's. I turned off the window air conditioner here in the Computer Room and opened up the window -- the one on the other end! -- and with the window fan has been comfortable. BM>> While in Vienna did have a couple of 'fun' storms. Not all that much BM>> thunder but did have some heavy rain and one seemed to have mostly- BM>> melted hail: my suite was on the upper floor and so skylight windows BM>> (~45ø angle in the roof/ceiling). Was cooler so had the windows open BM>> some; did hear distant thunder and rained rather heavily with frequent BM>> 'splats' of either huge rain drops or I'm guessing mostly-melted BM>> hailstones. Was listening to Radio Wien on the TV and they were off BM>> the air for a while, came back on, then off for numerous shorter BM>> periods. Lights never flickered. NB> So at least where you were wasn't losing power... :) Right. And I'm spoiled here at the house with back-up lighting -- nothing at the hotel room! Cellphone does have a flashlight function so would have used that -- knew approximately where it was. BM>> Did go outside on the porch for part of the main storm: rain swirling BM>> around from the gusts. Flexibility of the tree branches still BM>> surprises me; none broke but did pick up some twigs yesterday. NB>> Guess the trees are designed to weather quite a lot... else there'd NB>> be no trees left standing anywhere... BM> Or they'd all be short! I've watched here at some of the branches BM> flexing in the gusts: what looks to be solid is relatively flexible! NB> God designed them well... :) He did. Or She, or Whatever. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Every dog may have his day, but it's the puppies that have the weak ends. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .