Subj : PING Question To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Dec 04 2019 09:02:00 Hi Nancy! NB>>>> And probably not as useful/used anymore as it was at one time.... BM>>> Probably not. The article stated ladies wrote letters in there/some BM>>> of the anterooms (would suppose partially depends on the furnishings). NB>>> It was a different sort of society then, too... :) BM>> True, though now could sort of see the anteroom being used by a group BM>> hunched over their cell phones texting/getting caught up on messages. NB>> Somewhat the modern equivalent... :) Except that that generally is NB>> done out in the public, and not tucked away in a private anteroom... :) BM> Yes, walking down the sidewalk/aisle..... NB> And walking into light poles and trees, etc... ;) People, into manholes, traffic..... BM>>> At one time there was a rocking chair in there: was a display chair BM>>> from Infant Furniture. Recall somehow someone managed to damage and we BM>>> had to remove. NB>>> That's a shame.... That would have nice for a nursing mother... or NB>>> even just to calm a fractious baby... :) BM>> Yes, we were 'rather annoyed' the chair had been broken. I don't BM>> recall how it got broken; LIS was a floor display and it saw some BM>> rougher use than necessary on the salesfloor. NB>> I've seen some rather rambunctious kids (and even some adults) NB>> "trying out" display rockers and such.... BM> Yes...... We had an idiot cannon-ball on to one of the display BM> beds at the bedding department of the store. Was just a mattress on a BM> plywood frame; frame was smashed. I was arguing the guy should pay BM> for the replacement as willful destruction but management wimped out. NB> They probably didn't want to deal with his protestations about NB> how would he have known that it wasn't a full bed instead of just NB> a mockup... maybe that's the way he tests the beds at a furniture NB> store.... Maybe. As I recall it was something about customer relations, blah- blah-blah. I countered with we don't need that kind of destructive customer. (The 'customer' was long gone.) BM>> Yes. I've been out of using Windows as a primary system for some time BM>> and so not keeping up. The BBS and X10 (home automation) is on this BM>> Virtual XP -- the virtual operating system has numerous slow-downs BM>> just because it is a virtual system (running under/by/through/something BM>> Ubuntu/Linux). Need to update - But First! NB>> I'm not really keeping up, either... you know I'm only using DOS on NB>> my own machine (with a bit of Linux available in the background, have NB>> to switch into that when wanted)... Most of my knowledge is from NB>> observing others and from the Wizard's talk.... BM> I keep forgetting others (even around here) don't get into it as deep BM> as I do. Computers and TV.... The computer part can record Ch. 26 and BM> you can watch it on the TV (monitor) but the TV (tuner) usually can't BM> receive Ch. 26. Two separate systems using a common display. Guess BM> would be easier to understand if there was a TV over here and a monitor BM> over there. NB> Actually makes sufficient sense to me.... for a long while, our NB> "TV" was a computer monitor linked to a VCR that had a tuner NB> incorporated... that was before everything went digital... Yea! Someone gets it!! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... "I am filled with humidity." -- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis --- 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) .