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17844. Ms. No - 12/15/2005 5:43:26 PM Nice, Jay! 17845. Ms. No - 12/15/2005 6:01:58 PM Wonk,
I'm a volunteer editor for an adult fiction website. It's as easy as putting your name on a list of people available to provide editing. There's always work, but there is no money and there are very few good writers so you have to do it because you enjoy it or you'll be beating your head against a wall in no time. Hell, sometimes I still beat my head against a wall.
17846. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/15/2005 6:34:49 PM Indeed, bravo Jay! 17847. jayackroyd - 12/15/2005 6:41:41 PM The latest in the Harris story is that he just bailed from his scheduled chat, posting one question and not answering it. I'd say he got a lot of questions he didn't want to answer. 17848. jayackroyd - 12/15/2005 10:08:41 PM Outright theft from Brad DeLong:
The Computer Help Catechism
Dad?
Yes?
Can you help me with the computer?
What's wrong?... Oh, spinning beachball of death I see.... What are you trying to do?
Print.
Print a document from Microsoft Word?
Uh-huh.
Did you save it before you tried to print?
I'm not sure.
What's the first rule of using Microsoft Word?
That it does not like me. That it is not my friend?
And so before doing anything major to your document, you?
Save.
Before you print?
Save.
Before you print preview?
Save.
Before you globally change margins?
Save.
Before you reformat all the paragraphs?
Save.
Before you save?
Save--there's something wrong there, Dad.
OK. I'm going to have to kill Word. Let's hope you saved your document...
17849. arkymalarky - 12/15/2005 11:53:15 PM Yugo, Jay! 17850. jayackroyd - 12/15/2005 11:58:21 PM 17847 was wrong. He simply didn't answer questions on the Froomkin topic. 17851. wonkers2 - 12/16/2005 4:14:01 AM Boy, the computer help catechism rings a bell! 17852. jayackroyd - 12/16/2005 5:14:29 AM wabbit has sent me 2 christmas cds to be burned for moties who want them. These are a huge collection of mp3s (looking at what she labled "vocals"). I'm happy to burn copies for anyone who wants a pair. Please email me at jay@ackroyd.org. 17853. Magoseph - 12/16/2005 2:07:43 PM Hello, everyone!
As far as the light switches, I suggest putting in compact fluorescent bulbs in places where lights are burned for long periods of time or used infrequently so in case he leaves it on, it is at least far more energy efficient. In areas where there is more frequent use, go to home depot and replace the light switch with a motion-detector light switch.
Very good advice, thoughtful, and I’ll get on this soon after the holidays. I know that I can’t change the reflex that makes me turn off a light in an empty room; I have tried, but it’s forever anchored solidly in what I am, I guess.
17854. alistairconnor - 12/16/2005 3:46:39 PM And good for you, Mago!
The idea that you should feel bad about it, simply because you can afford to waste the electricity... I don't get it!
Will the neighbours think less of you if your house isn't constantly ablaze with light? 17855. Magoseph - 12/16/2005 4:27:57 PM That’s not really it, Ali—I absolutely do not consider what the neighbors think of us because I know what they think and it’s what they thought ever since Flexy’s father founded this development. It’s true that I abhor unecessary waste, but my problem about the lights left on day and night is that I go around turning them off before I can stop myself. Even when I manage to think, “Oh, what the hell, who cares?, I still think they shouldn’t be on, so I turn them off.
Anyway, now that thoughtful gave me some ideas about how to minimize my involvement with the darn lights, I may be able to teach myself how to ignore them.
17856. alistairConnor - 12/17/2005 12:38:49 AM Yes, you think they shouldn't be on, so you turn them off. I understand that. It's perfectly normal to abhor unnecessary waste.
What I don't understand, is why would you want to stop yourself doing that? 17857. Ms. No - 12/17/2005 12:56:05 AM I think I understand. It's all well and good to wish to turn off lights to avoid waste. It's somewhat unnerving to feel one has an obsessive behavior no matter how well-intentioned. 17858. Magoseph - 12/17/2005 7:08:50 PM That’s definitely the crux of the matter, Ms. No, and it is obvious now that we cannot change. Flexy says he’s too old to change lifetime habits about whether or not lights should be on all the time and he wants to keep his energy learning how to keep alive and well.
It’s true that I’m reluctant to teach myself that it’s not necessary to be obsessive about turning the lights off. The reason is I feel I may also change other beneficial reactions to people or things that I know helped me survive unscathed as a teen-aged newcomer here. Of course, I feel these reactions could be eventually needed to keep alive and well.
In other words, we’re two selfish people who need to follow thoughtful ’s advice: As far as the light switches, I suggest putting in compact fluorescent bulbs in places where lights are burned for long periods of time or used infrequently so in case he leaves it on, it is at least far more energy efficient. In areas where there is more frequent use, go to home depot and replace the light switch with a motion-detector light switch. This way the lights will shut themselves off after so many minutes of undetected motion. 17859. wonkers2 - 12/17/2005 8:21:01 PM There are worse kinds of obsessive-compulsive behavior than turning off lights. Take the Cap'n for example. 17860. judithathome - 12/17/2005 8:56:02 PM I have a bit of that obsessiveness about lights, too. Keoni would leave every light in the house on if it were up to him...he likes LIGHT and I blame this on his growing up in paradise.
I like my house to be light, too, but with natural light from uncurtained windows. However, in wintertime, this isn't as possible as in summer. So I turn lights off when I leave a room and, in order to have a little bit of ambience, turn on small decorative lamps in rooms where it's darkest.
It slays me when I wake up late and walk into the garden room which has no curtains and has tall windows on three sides and see Keoni sitting there watching the morning news with the overhead light on and sunlight streaming through the east wall of windows....it's overkill, to me. 17861. wonkers2 - 12/17/2005 10:45:16 PM As long as you're not continually straightening the towels on the towel rack and scrubbing the bath tub, you're okay. 17862. judithathome - 12/17/2005 10:51:35 PM Whew...I guess I'm okay, then! 17863. wonkers2 - 12/17/2005 10:55:38 PM Remember the movie "Sleeping with the Enemy?"
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