The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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No movie. Vet visit. Someone must have followed me around, taking notes. ; )

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[Maybe it was a hidden mike....]

Nan, did you write that story? It's hilarious and fabulous. It certainly sounds like you, the way you talk here on WP. It's got your voice going.

I wish!

But I seem to have inherited her damned cat.

Definitions


• data, n.: An accrual of straws on the backs of theories.
• Davis' Law of Traffic Density: The density of rush-hour traffic causes a delay time of exactly 1.5 times the amount of extra time you allow to arrive on time.
• Davis' Dictum: Problems that go away by themselves, come back by themselves.
• dead wood, n.: Anyone in your company who is more senior than you are.
• decafalon, n.: The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
• decision maker, n.: The person in your office who was unable to form a task force before the music stopped.
• default, n.: The hardware's, of course.
• design, v.: What you regret not doing later on.
• DeVries' Dilemma: If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want hits the paper.
• diplomacy, n: Lying in state.
• distinctive, adj.: A different colour or shape than our competitors.
• documentation, n: Instructions translated from Swedish by Japanese for English speaking persons.
• Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
• double-blind experiment, n: An experiment in which the chief researcher believes he is fooling both the subject and the lab assistant. Often accompanied by a strong belief in the tooth fairy.
• Dow's Law: In a hierarchical organization, the higher the level, the greater the confusion.
• Drakenberg's Discovery: If you can't seem to find your glasses, it's probably because you don't have them on.
• Drew's Law of Highway Biology: The first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in front of your eyes.
• drug, n: A substance that, injected into a rat, produces a scientific paper.

Got any more goodies I could use as a signature on some of the other forums I frequent?

WP seems to be having a scripting problem , this is a test post

Merle

I saw that this morning, seems to have been cleared up.

You're about to have them all (all 5Mbytes of them) at your fingertips. You're installing Linux, no? So you'll get "fortune". I install all the standard english sets of fortunes.

The six dozen in "paradoxum" are quite good. E.g. "It isn't an optical illusion. It just looks like one." and "May I ask a question?".

Hello lau: I just finished installing linux on my laptop I haven't had time yet to explore all of its idiosyncrasies.
But I did get my network connection up and running and I was able to log on to WP obviously. Now I have to
reconfigure my browser and download all the plug-ins I have on my Win-XP partition. This is my 2000th post
I figure it would be better to spend it on trying out my new op-system than making a Whoop-Dee-Doo thead in the
Random forum.

Bad news something went wrong with the installation I tried to exit Linux and see if I had dual booting,
Seems I can't back into Linux. Fortunately I still have Win-XP. I'm going to try another attempt on my other computer
this time I'll use the whole hard drive for Linux.

Congratulations Richie on your 2000th post.

Sounds like the plan of a sensible man.

Congratulations, Richie! Welcome to the "2000 Club!!"

I really must go to bed, but Richie, don't panic!

You can always get back into the Linux you installed - that is, assuming you really did install it. The Ubuntu CD runs quite happily live. Unless you actually took the option to install, all you had was the CD going. Yes... you can get as far as browsing, etc, without ever actually installing.

If you did install, there's the possibility that you didn't let it use the MBR to install Grub. If so, you will need to use the CD as a boot disk to get into the installed system.

I actually use a floppy to boot my system, for silly reasons.

There really is no need to use the whole drive for Linux. I now have rather a lot of OSes on this box. They coexist fairly happily (except that the clever driver in XP that was supposed to be able to access Linux file systems was far too flaky for my taste.)

PS. Hey! I missed noticing my "all the 2s" post.

Amanda: drug that created those NIMH rats

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i am a scientific paper. like acid?

oh, nevermind...