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    We have many names for fooles.
    Feel free to fill in the blanks.
    As anyone who knows me will tell you, I'm totally neurotic. When you said "We have many names for fools. Feel free to fill in the blanks," you weren't thinking of "Joel Klebanoff" as one of those names, were you? Or were you?

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    how exactly do I order a small black coffee? saying small black coffee works, though they will ask you if you want room left for cream, so something is lost in the translation. rd

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      Actually I was thinking of those who amuse us, much as the fooles of medieval times. Some may fill in the blanks with politicians, political pundits, project leaders, or even Joel Klebanoff! I could never say any of that. ;-) Dave

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        Actually a jester in Indian courts was a very knowledgeable, extremely sharp witted, and morally strong person. He played the role of a fool and said things to correct the king that ordinary courtiers dare not, out of the fear for their life. He was appointed by god fearing kings who feared that they might be corrupted but if coutiers kept correcting them, they will loose fear of the king. So a jester had royal immunity for his sayings. One such famous jester in the all mighty Moghul King Akber was Mulla Doopyaza. When the king declared a new religion called "Deen Ilaha" where he declared himself god, Mulla was in hot waters saving peoples life who refused to accept his religion. All this, while Mulla himself had to protect his religion. Three of his Akbar's "Noe Ratan" (nine jewels) i.e. Abulfazal, Faizi, and Beerbal were his sworn enemies and tried their best to belittle him. One joke goes like this. The trio once complained Akber that the king supported him unduly. The king denied saying Mulla was just too smart for all three of them and the king. The trio came up with a plan. The king put three eggs in the swimming pool. All three dived in the pool one by one and brought and egg. The king then gestured towards Mulla. Mulla jumped in the pool and found no egg. In those few second he figured out what was going on and found a counter. When he came out, he started cock-a-doodle-doo. Everyone laughed. The king asked, "Mulla, have you lost your mind because you found no egg". Mulla replied, "No your honor, all three are female hens and each laid an egg during the dive. I am a alpha male rooster and therefore laid no egg but shouted cock-a-doodle-doo". Turkish, Persian, and other Central Asian cultures are full of stories of Nasreddin.

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          "Hockey is nothing more than boxing on ice". I think the official definition is "Regulated Violence" or something like that. "Don Rickles used to make fun of hockey by calling people "hockey pucks" to insult them." Actually mr. Peter Pocklington, the owner of Edmonton Oiler was dubbed Peter the "Puck" Pocklington as a matter of honor when Oilers were two Stanley cups. Then Puck became a villian one he traded off Wayne Gretzky aka the "Great One" to an American team. He was then promoted to the status of super villian when he tried to sell Oiler to an American city. While Alberta remained the most pro-American province of Canada, Edmonton hated the Americans for a long time just because some American tried to buy Oilers. When I first went to Edmonton, I wore the cheap snow jacket that my brother bought in Pakistan. I did not realize it was Anaheim's. After watching "Might Ducks", I thought Anaheim was a fictional place and wearing a hockey snow jacket would be "cool" in Edmonton. I took it off the first day when people warned me that wearing the jacket of a rival hockey team would be suicidical in Edmonton. By the way, the Canadians don't say "Eh" so it would be more like "Cold aye?".

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            'By the way, the Canadians don't say "Eh" so it would be more like "Cold aye?".' Are you pronouncing "aye" as in "eye", like in "eye", "eye" captain? Or, as in a long "a" sound? I used to have a neighbor from Canada who said it was more like a long "a" sound but not like The Fonz as in a-a-a-a-ay. It could be more like a short, long "a" sound or a long, short "a" sound. It was definitely more pronounced and less clear after a six pack (each) of Molson. That's the long-and-short of it, I guess. Tom.

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              Hassan wrote: 'Yes I am aware of the tradition of Newfoundland aka "The Rock" in producing quality comedians.' You've been out of the country long enough not to know that the "in" province for comedy these days is Saskatchewan. Ever since it debuted three years ago, the show Corner Gas has been a hit on Canadian television. And fans of the show are flocking to Rouleau, Saskatchewan to see where the show is taped. Actually, many people stop for gas at the Corner Gas set thinking it's a real gas station. Anyways, you may see it soon on American TV. Broadcast rights have been sold to an American syndicator, and shows may start appearing on US stations. Cheers! Hans

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                  Lots of interesting topics there, Joel. I am surprised that people still complain about spam. My ISP offers Postini which is an extra couple of bucks a month but it catches all spam plus everyone I designate as spam. More importantly, it lets almost all good email through (not too many false positives, as they say. Sounds like a rant in there somewhere). Spam was way down for awhile but recently picked up big time. Which gets me to the next point. Most of that spam is not really an attempt to persuade you to buy something, but to own your computer and you along with it. I've lost track of how many ways they are doing it now. All I know is is that I've disabled a lot of stuff in Windows recently. Which gets me to my next point. A video with audio played when I visited a tech site recently. I haven't disabled enough yet. rd

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                    Ralph, Yes, between my 3 spam filters my spam was way down for a while, but it's crept back up again as the spammers have found ways to bypass the filters. I hadn't really thought about disabling stuff. I like that idea. Although, I figure that the only way to be completely safe is to disable absolutely everything and go for a walk. That sounded like a good idea to me until I thought about the implications for earning a living. Joel

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                      If you are so sick of the spam, you might want to explore the services of some email service providers who provide unlimited email addresses for a small sum per year. My cousin is one of such persons whose nerves can not stand junk mail. So he pays $35 a year to an email service provider. In return, when he has to order something from bestbuy, he will create a email address bestbuy@ihatespam.com. After completion of transaction, he will delete that account and then open another one called bestbuy2@ihatespam.com etc. Now bestbuy may sell his address to some sucker who can send viagra ads only to see it being returned as invalid email. I send email to hassan@ihatespam.com. If he would receive spam on this address, he will delete the address and give me hassan2@ihatespam.com only and only if I can come up with a good explaination as to how did the addres, known only to me, got into the hand of a spammer.

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                        I have had excellent luck with with GMail. It includes a spam filter that has caught all but about 3 spam messages in the last several months and only had 2 false positives (and I can easily understand why it thought those two were spam). I don't have need of any secondary spam filters. Also you can give out a special form of your gmail address so that you'll know who sold it if it starts getting spam. If you address is foo@gmail.com and you give your address to bestbuy you could give them foo+bestbuy@gmail.com. You'll still get the email at your gmail address, but you'll be able to see who is sending stuff to that address. Another idea for helping to fend off spam from an untainted email address is to never give it out to anyone but your most trusted friends. For any situations when you need to give an email address and you don't have any need to keep the email private you can use mailinator.com. Just make up an address (such as fefifofum@mailinator.com) and give it to them. Then go to mailinator.com and check for any email sent to that address. Anyone can see the email if they look at the right address, but any spam sent to that address will just get deleted after a bit and never bother you. (There are other similar services as well.)

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                          Joel, Look on the bright side...you said you were going to "walk to Starbucks"...You have a Starbucks within walking distance!

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                            Mary Ann, I'm sorry, I don't understand. Doesn't EVERYBODY have at least one Starbucks within walking distance? Oh sure, there may be a few remote villages in third world countries without one, but that must be it, right? I have a Starbucks about a block a way. If you count "walking distance" as 15 minutes walk, I have at least six Starbucks within walking distance, more if I walk briskly. That's how I know that all is right with the world. Next you're going to tell me you have to drive to do shopping, take in a movie or eat at a restaurant. Come on, how naive do you think I am? Joel (aka the downtown urban snob)

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                              "Doesn't EVERYBODY have at least one Starbucks within walking distance?". In Toronto downtown maybe yes, outside no. In neighboring city of Hamilton, HELL NO!. It is a Tim Horton city and if you throw a cap in air there, the chances are that it will land on a Time Horton customer.

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