Subj : PING Question To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Thu Nov 07 2019 13:55:00 Hi Nancy! BM>> Reminds me of an article I recently read and printed out for BM>> my Mother on the anteroom to the Women's Rest Room. We had one at the BM>> store and us guys would on occasion comment about a waste of space; BM>> sometimes jokingly considered as a temporary storage area for the BM>> Christmas Season overstock. Article went into the history and reason BM>> why the anteroom was created and used. Made sense once started to be BM>> explained. NB>> And rarely seen nowadays except in theatres and such.... :) BM> Right: everything (OK, 'everything') is figured in cost per square BM> foot, and so the anteroom is a hundred or so square feet not making BM> money and not a requirement like stock storage, etc. NB> And probably not as useful/used anymore as it was at one time.... Probably not. The article stated ladies wrote letters in there/some of the anterooms (would suppose partially depends on the furnishings). The one at the store where I worked was sometimes used by breast-feeding mothers and to change diapers -- the cleaning crew would sometimes complain-comment on soiled diapers left behind. At one time there was a rocking chair in there: was a display chair from Infant Furniture. Recall somehow someone managed to damage and we had to remove. BM>> Even in the business world there are the 'fights' between the Computer BM>> Guys and The Ones In Charge Of The Money. If the check won't get BM>> written could be the best system in the universe but.... NB>> Just have to convince the ones that control the purse strings NB>> that it is less money in the long run than the alternatives.... ;) BM> True, though that doesn't always seem to work. "Never heard of this BM> 'lynn ex' thing and my kids have 'winders' so we're sticking with what BM> my kids have." That one was semi-paraphased from something I heard BM> at the store some time back as a reason for why a store system wasn't BM> being upgraded/changed. ...Years later the register system did change: BM> recognized a modified Ubuntu boot screen with the five dots on it. NB> Obviously in the meantime, someone got educated... ;) IMO yes. Not just because I'm a fan of Ubuntu but did verify (to me and a few other semi-computer literate types) Ubuntu was a lot faster on the same hardware compared to whatever Windows was installed. (And not to be taken as a slam to Windows. Well, maybe a tiny one. ) ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Did you hear about the cigarette company that went up in smoke? --- 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) .