Subj : Re: Do Not Call To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Mon Sep 09 2019 02:24:26 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 03-Sep-2019 08:33 <=- Replying from the Pond on 8 Sept, about 10:25pm... -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 27-Aug-2019 09:58 <=- NB>> Ran out of time last night, so continuing now... :) BM> And either got uploaded late or I downloaded early and so didn't BM> receive this until Tuesday September 3rd. Dunno,,, I think that that should have been in a packet I uploaded late Saturday night (31 Aug)... maybe you missed a day as well as d/l'ing early...? Or it took an extra day to get to you, maybe...? You'll get this one late guaranteed, as I'll not be uploading until I get home either Tuesday or Wednesday this week (Sept 10 or 11), probably late night... :) BM> ...Sort of dark out there as cloudy; big storm system just to the BM> north of here and heading southeast but will miss me. Always nice to have a storm miss.... but be close enough to be able to enjoy the show... BM>> Sort of speaking of "Do Not Call" (the Subject) the spammers were busy BM>> yesterday: lots of nuisance calls. NB>> Hmmm.... do you suppose that if we'd changed the subject the scammers NB>> would all have disappeared....? Nah.... probably not.... So far NB>> today, I've had two calls, one certainly a scammer, the other possibly NB>> legit, but not something I recognized from the recorded message, NB>> either.... :) BM> We had one yesterday late afternoon -- must have forgotten it was a BM> holiday in the U.S.! I thought the spammers/scammers prefer to do them on holidays... makes the call seem that much more important... NB>>> Hasn't specifically responded to these later emails, but I did see NB>>> things getting fixed... so hopefully he's glad I'm letting him NB>>> know... ;) BM>> We'll just assume that. Personally I wouldn't expect a reply either. NB>> And things still are running smoothly there, which is nice... :) BM> Yes, and probably very busy with Hurricane Dorian -- looks like BM> between the Bahamas and Florida. Possibly.... And now leaving our east coast pretty much... last I heard it was skimming the shores of New England.... BM>> ...And LIS in a earlier packet I'm thinking of just giving up on the BM>> at-the-house temperature and humidity up here and just go with on-line BM>> conditions. Had collected a project using the Raspberry Pi; so have BM>> something in mind, just to finish up the current stuff and get a Round BM>> TuIt. NB>> It's just that those pesky round tuits are so hard to find when you NB>> need them... And current projects never quite get finished... ;) BM> More or less right on never quite finished! A lot seem to get BM> interrupted with must-do-now projects and so side-tracked. But first! But of course.... ;) BM>> Still would like find out what that BM>> strong signal is, just because. Not really seeing a low-budget way to BM>> find. Portable signal detecting device isn't all that cheap and BM>> probably don't need after finding, so the price has to be even less BM>> expensive as is a one-project usage. NB>> Maybe you could borrow such a device from somewhere... maybe from NB>> one of the local colleges and possibly with an earnest gung-ho NB>> student to trot around with it....? ;) BM> Possibly; thinking sort of low probability as sending a student to an BM> stranger's house with semi-expensive equipment to try to locate an BM> unknown source's signal. OTOH they have made movies of stuff like BM> that: Blair Witch Project, Ghostbusters.... Might be a class project... I could see a teacher finding it an interesting change of pace for a class, or maybe just a couple of his bright students... :) BM>> Yes, I switched to finger davenport@graph.no some time ago because the BM>> previous option I was using stopped working. It wasn't working a BM>> little while ago -- last weekend? -- so just timed out. NB>> Yup, happened here, too... for a couple of days... and then it NB>> came back... :) BM> They were cleaning the lab that weekend and needed the outlet for the BM> scrubber! Possibly.... Or maybe just had a brief power outage.... BM>> Every so often there is a brief message -- if you like this service BM>> let them know, an option up for consideration, etc.; occasionally I BM>> will respond. NB>> I haven't figured out any way to actually respond, with my setup... BM> Mine had an address so just sent an e-mail. If you type @graph.no BM> will get a help screen; played with some -- Imperial Units option BM> didn't work so still need my Temperature Cheat Sheet (lists øC to øF BM> -- was originally for my Aunt and Mother)); about@graph.no lists a BM> contact address. (I don't recall if was the same as the one in the BM> display.) Richard discovered that if one types "^" before the name of the place you want, it will give the temps in degrees F... it worked for me, too... :) BM> BM>>> Right. The good news is the street I went transitions from well-lit BM>>> in-city to just streetlights at major intersections (though four-lane BM>>> all the way) so everyone's eyes should be adjusted by the time it came BM>>> to driving over the hill and into darkness. Still a little strange BM>>> driving because one is expecting lights. Car lot essentally at the BM>>> base of the hill and that is normally super-bright but instead was BM>>> pitch black. Throws one's bearings off a little: am I in the right BM>>> place?? NB>>> I could see that... ;) Sort of a timewarp feeling... ;) BM>> Sort of! I was driving slower than usual because of the dark BM>> conditions, which also threw off the timings: two minutes after the BM>> car lot should be at the bridge over Duck Creek.... NB>> So the "internal (mental) GPS" was thrown off a little.... or at NB>> least felt wrong... :) BM> More 'felt wrong'. Maybe because the timing was off as I was driving BM> slower ==> never have seen any but possible deer and other wildlife BM> wandering in the dark' 'things not right' so just driving more BM> cautiously. Certainly doesn't hurt to be extra cautious at a time like that.... BM>> Sort of like the 'secret communications' our generation has the BM>> teenagers don't know how to decode: cursive handwriting! NB>> Depends on how clear the writing is... although, true, some letters NB>> can look totally different.... just not the majority of them.... I NB>> think a clever teen should be able to easily decipher it... :) BM> Really clever to decipher some of mine! Not illegible but sometimes BM> close,plus I tend to use a lot of abbreviations and symbols. Well, that is more cryptic than merely cursive... ttyl neb .... 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