Subj : Re: newspaper was: moving or To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Wed Apr 01 2020 18:03:34 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 25-Mar-2020 07:57 <=- BM> Very foggy out there this morning: "noticeable" up here on the hill so BM> is really dense. That's what you get for being so close to a large river... NB>>> It's more the wanting to have the reply start on the first page, as NB>>> far as I'm concerned.... :) And sometimes one just can't snip too NB>>> much without losing the sense of the thread... BM>> Agree with the 'snippage loss'; sometimes difficult to figure out how BM>> to abbreviate what had been said. NB>> Other times though, we've veered far enough away from the top of the NB>> chunk that one can more easily just chop away at the top... ;) BM> True, and unless I know before I start to reply to that section for me BM> it would be a major job to copy and paste to the new post as this BM> editor tends to start shifting the left margin over one space when BM> pasting so my text would get a stairstep left edge. Right margin is BM> kept, but what was fitting before would start line-wrapping and becomes BM> a mess. Nice editor otherise. My editor is more friendly than that... :) But what I was saying was that sometimes one can just let the old part of the section go to oblivion since it is now past.... ;) I'm less likely to be putting into a new message.... or did you mean when you start to reply, it gets all mushed up...? I'll do whatever "fussy editing" is needed to get the lines a reasonable length (either shorter or longer).... BM>> The good news is I don't think we have to worry about dial-up charges BM>> and running up the bill. Not saying some people aren't using dial-up BM>> but if they are probably have subscribed to the flat-rate usage option. NB>> Even I only use dial-up in a pinch... ;) But yes, I have flat-rate NB>> coverage, and the package even covers US long-distance, which I think NB>> is pretty typical nowadays.... Things are a lot different from the NB>> early days of bbsing with long-distance charges and all... :) And NB>> the mail moves from one bbs to another over the internet now, so the NB>> sysop isn't incurring ld fees either... BM> Right. I had a bit of a shock with the international long distance: BM> needed to call my Aunt in Austria as she was in the hospital and the BM> international card on the cellphone wasn't working (did before, had BM> time). Gave up, call via the land line. No problems getting through. BM> Get the bill the other day: three calls of 11 minutes total cost me BM> more than when I buy international time for the cell phone which gives BM> me a little over two hours! Indeed... international long distance can be a totally other story... unless you have some sort of special plan just for it... Did you find out why your cell phone card didn't work....? NB>>> Ah, well... Your interests are enough different from mine that I can NB>>> see where you'd have more of a problem... My station, being public NB>>> radio, has no commercials, and with live local announcers with a good NB>>> library has a much less limited playlist... but, on the other hand, NB>>> it's classical music, not "oldies" or "adult contemporary"... :) BM>> Different people, different preferences. Makes for a good balance. :) BM>> Do have a few 'lite classical' playing on my Pandora station. ...Not BM>> sure if this one counts: Beethoven played by the Piano Guys. NB>> It would count as lite classical, at least... ;) BM> Yeah!! And Strauss the Junger was the 'lite' music composer for BM> the times. And the waltzes, polkas and marches from the entire Strauss family are still quite popular today.... :) Especially for New Year's Day concerts from Vienna and here in the States as well.... :) BM>> And I'll pop this one in while I think of it: did stop at the gas BM>> station on the way home; no coffee-flavoured M&Ms yet. The woman who BM>> was to order was off but the other woman knew all about it. Vendor was BM>> in last Monday (of this week) so might have been ordered/requested. BM>> And the woman I talked to also likes the coffee-flavoured M&Ms. NB>> Potential progress, anyway.... ;) Now, hopefully, for your sake, NB>> the vendor will be able to get and deliver the goods.... ;) BM> Would be nice! Planning on finding out tomorrow as will venture into BM> the world to do a bit of shopping and as my gas points expire on BM> Saturday to get gas while I'm out. One of these days, you'll find out, one way or the other.... NB>>> Recently the Public stations group here took in an independent local NB>>> newspaper.... which added more local reporters to their "stable"... BM>> So far the local semi-independent public station has its own news crew. BM>> (Might be just a crew of one or two!). Saw their microphone with BM>> nameplate on a story covered by a local TV station. Hmm: just thought BM>> of something: the radio station is affliated with a local university. BM>> Their news crew might be students getting their radio lab credit! NB>> Maybe not totally a joke... could easily have some students being part NB>> of the news crew, learning the ropes... ;) BM> I'm pretty certain at least one of the local TV stations does use BM> interns. Not a bad thing as they do need to gain real-life BM> experience, just sometimes can tell they don't quite have things down. BM> (We all had to begin sometime!) You'd have the same sort of things with new hires that were fresh out of school or whatever.... NB>>>> What I was trying to say is that WXXI is the designated station to NB>>>> turn to for emergencies... when that EBS test message comes out, and NB>>>> says, if this was an actual emergency, you'd be told where to tune NB>>>> to... WXXI 91.5 is the one that would be designated for people NB>>>> listening to the other stations... :) BM>>> Ah! Misread and misinterpreted that one. Not sure what is done here: BM>>> I don't recall the test announcements indicating a specific station BM>>> would be used. NB>>> I think the specific station is only designated in the case of an NB>>> actual emergency.... BM>> That's possible. ... Checking on-line -- somehow got to Spokane BM>> Washington's list so backed up the web pages a bit, got to Davenport BM>> but then didn't see where the listing might be -- will finish this and BM>> check later. NB>> OK. :) (and I saw it's in the next message) BM> You read ahead! ...Or came back and added the comment. I do tend to have read all the messages well before sitting down to answer them... and at least have scanned the subject headings before actually doing any replies.... So, added while replying, not a later addition... ;) This time, anyway.... NB>>> I think we might have a local company that produces the traffic NB>>> reports... TV seems to get pictures (from the few times I've happened NB>>> to see), radio just a listing of where the accidents or tieups (or NB>>> major construction starting) are, which the announcers read on the NB>>> air... And I think they are using helicoptors over the city to get NB>>> at least some of that.... ;) BM>> Maybe that explains the evening helicopter! AFAIK not big enough to BM>> need helicopters to report traffic conditions; most if not all are BM>> medical usage. NB>> Most of the helicopters use here is also medical transport, but there NB>> is one that seems to be monitoring traffic.... we also, of course, NB>> have a number of traffic cameras set up along the highways.... BM> We have something like eight cameras just on the I-74 Bridge itself, BM> some of which are identified as present but are blocked so might be BM> more for police identification. Also noted one camera needs to be BM> repositioned as is looking up towards the top of the suspension cables BM> instead of down at the traffic. Maybe that was intentional, at some point.... ;) BM> As for helicopters, not in use for traffic monitoring; I don't recall BM> anything about the various police/sheriffs/state police having one. Any that are used in regular traffic monitoring here aren't part of the law enforcement, just for seeing how bad tie-ups might be... they probably do report to law enforcement, though.... NB>>>> Back when I actually took a typing class, I was pretty good... until NB>>>> the teacher wouldn't let me look at my hands anymore... :) Typing on NB>>>> the computer in the dark actually helped my skills more than anything NB>>>> else... I still might look at my hands occasionally, but don't need NB>>>> to nearly so much... ;) BM>>> I pretty much also have to look at where my hands (and therefore BM>>> fingers) are in relation to where they are to the keyboard. Might be BM>>> able to look less at the keyboard if I wasn't a two-to-four-finger- BM>>> thumb-spacer typist. That's just the way I type and generally works BM>>> out rather well. NB>>> Yeah... I'm still not a proper touch-typist... but can often do the NB>>> corrections without recourse to looking... just keep trying until I NB>>> get it right.... BM>> "R - no! Y - no! 6 - no! T - yea!!!!" NB>> Yup... something like that.... ;) fortunately, I can get it quicker NB>> most times.... BM> I can generally type quickly and with some degree of accuracy -- we BM> won't say if the pointer of Accuracy Meter is on the left side or the BM> right!! At which point, we draw a discreet curtain over the scene.... ttyl neb .... Farts are just the ghosts of things we ate. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .