Subj : Re: Songs  was: Stormy
To   : Barry Martin
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Fri Sep 06 2019 00:01:12

-=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 30-Aug-2019 10:36 <=-

 NB>>> True, one never knows.... not using any GUI interface makes my life
 NB>>> easier, I can just turn the thing on, and type away... ;)
 BM>> Yes, good and bad points to all options.  LISB4, there are some
 BM>> functions I find a lot easier to do using the command line.  Then
 BM>> there are those items where clicking a button is soooo much easier!
 BM>> All depends!
 NB>> And a lot depends on what one is used to doing... :)
 BM> LIS some time back, I started with MS-DOS 2.11 so command line is sort
 BM> of the base.  Clicking the icons is just a convenience, though with
 BM> the cell phone I have no desire to attempt to command line it! 

The cell phone being actually another animal altogether, even though it
shares some traits with computers... And mine doesn't even have icons in
the sense of a smartphone...  :)

 BM> ...Some time back did accidentally find Linux will do some GUI/command
 BM> line stuff: drag the icon of the drive or file to the prompt and the
 BM> full pathname (and filename) will magically appear!  Handy (for me) for
 BM> functions like copying a file to or from a thumbdrive, etc.

That's a nice magic spell to discover...  ;) 
 
 BM>>> The webcams have been reconnected (yea!) -- found that when I was in
 BM>>> Vienna and was chatting with the hotel reception staff one evening
 BM>>> about various things.  Somehow we got on to the flooding in downtown
 BM>>> Davenport (IA) so I showed them some pictures -- made them sad and I
 BM>>> felt I needed something to perk them up so showed the (static) pictures
 BM>>> of the mother eagle feeding the two eaglets.  Also 'discovered' the
 BM>>> distance between the two sites is about the same: the downtown flooding
 BM>>> is abour 5 miles / 8 kilometers downriver from my house and the eagle's
 BM>>> nest is about 5 mi / 8 km upriver from the house!
 NB>>> Nice discoveries... :)  Glad they got the webcams working again... :)
 NB>>> I'm guessing the nest is empty now....?
 BM>> Every time I've check the nest is empty, but then by the time I get
 BM>> around to checking the eagles are probably looking for food.  ...And
 BM>> for whatever reason lately one or the other (and just now both) camera
 BM>> feeds have expired -- noted a 2018 date in the error.
 NB>> Sounds like they still are having some issues there....
 BM> Just checked: both cameras are running but nobody home -- eagles must
 BM> still be on their summer vacation before school starts!  ...Thought
 BM> the picture had frozen as no movement, then a bug zoomed by.  It is
 BM> rather still out (no breeze, no leaves moving).

That was a useful insect... :)  A breeze would have reassured similarly,
but as you say, there wasn't one.... :)

ttyl        neb

.... They rejected my post on the spurious grounds I don't know anything.

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