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alexpgpIt's been a long day, and I'm too tired to fire up the Windows box and Semagic. So, I've switched over to onegin and have fired up the lynx browser, which for some is the cybernetic equivalent of rubbing two sticks together to start a fire.
The interface is nothing to write home about, but it works. I'm looking at a screen with no word wrap, and I'm not even going to consider trying to write in Cyrillic. But that's not the point of the post.
After working the day in the store, Galina and I both took a short nap this afternoon before heading out to Feht's house. Maria outdid herself over the stove, and both Galina and I ended up stuffed with meat and fruit pies, all washed down with Chateauneuf du Pape (sorry for the lack of proper accents). Afterward, we watched a Penn and Teller DVD that featured what appear to be episodes from a series they have on the Showtime cable network. Feht noted that there are times when Teller's facial expression reminds him of me. (I don't quite know how to take that.)
Their series attempts to debunk various popular delusions, such as feng shui (they hired three 'experts' to rearrange a house, and the results did not coincide in any way, despite uniform statements from them that feng shui is a 'science'). Other subjects included bottled water (people generally could not tell the difference between tap water and the expensive stuff), creationism, and ESP. They were particularly viscious with pet psychics (the growth of which I was not aware).
After dinner and the entertainment (and probably inspired by it), we seriously started to talk about what we could do to achieve financial security. The basic question boils down to this: Do you have to be inherently dishonest to be successful?
It's my guess that some would say, that depends on your definition of dishonesty. Heck that's an essay in itself.
Cheers...
The interface is nothing to write home about, but it works. I'm looking at a screen with no word wrap, and I'm not even going to consider trying to write in Cyrillic. But that's not the point of the post.
After working the day in the store, Galina and I both took a short nap this afternoon before heading out to Feht's house. Maria outdid herself over the stove, and both Galina and I ended up stuffed with meat and fruit pies, all washed down with Chateauneuf du Pape (sorry for the lack of proper accents). Afterward, we watched a Penn and Teller DVD that featured what appear to be episodes from a series they have on the Showtime cable network. Feht noted that there are times when Teller's facial expression reminds him of me. (I don't quite know how to take that.)
Their series attempts to debunk various popular delusions, such as feng shui (they hired three 'experts' to rearrange a house, and the results did not coincide in any way, despite uniform statements from them that feng shui is a 'science'). Other subjects included bottled water (people generally could not tell the difference between tap water and the expensive stuff), creationism, and ESP. They were particularly viscious with pet psychics (the growth of which I was not aware).
After dinner and the entertainment (and probably inspired by it), we seriously started to talk about what we could do to achieve financial security. The basic question boils down to this: Do you have to be inherently dishonest to be successful?
It's my guess that some would say, that depends on your definition of dishonesty. Heck that's an essay in itself.
Cheers...
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Date: 2004-08-01 06:56 am (UTC)"That depends on what the definition of 'is' is.....?"
Date: 2004-08-02 01:42 am (UTC)Once upon a time..... my -then-husband and I bought a set (2) of drapes for the front room, not very expensive 'cause we had more children than money. When we got home and commenced putting the drapes up, I realized that we'd been charged only 1/2 of the actual price. Children'sFather ( and the only Breadwinner) said not to worry, that teller would not be punished for making a mistake, Big stores had under-ring funds to cover such eventualities, etc.
Loved the drapes, didn't want to take them back, and so forth, so I let myself be persuaded (not too hard, considering how broke we were) ...... and NEVER came to feel that what we'd done was okay or that the items in question properly belonged to us, even though we got some 20 years of wear out of them!
Ah, but that's when I was young and moral and trying to be a Good Example for my kids and a Credit To My Parents........ Never mind! ;-)