From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #156 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Sunday, June 14 1998 Volume 03 : Number 156 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Fun with Word ["Melissa R. Jordan" ] Re: Alloy: Fun with Word [CJMark@aol.com] Alloy: Fun with Word ["Stephen M. Tilson" [IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: Fun with Word Stephen M. Tilson wrote: > > Does Bill Gates have a problem we don't know about? OMIGOD! Amazing! Think the little Microserfs have too much time on their hands? How in god's name did you hear about this little gem? Finishing up the last of three speeches for The Boss -- this one to be presented before So. Korean President Kim Dae Jung. I'm feeling a wee bit of pressure on this one -- guess I should leave out the Love Boat jokes for the sake of decorum, eh? BTW, any of you hear about the unfortunate incident at the White House last week at a black-tie reception for Kim Dae Jung? A Korean video artist waiting in the reception line to meet Clinton and Kim had the misfortune to have his tuxedo trousers drop to his ankles as the presidents approached him, revealing the fact (live on C-SPAN, no less) that he wasn't wearing any undies. Oops. Washington can really be a bizarre place... Cheers, Melissa - -- Melissa R. Jordan Owner/Artist, Compass Rose Studios Unique Wearable Art in Large Sizes & Handstamped Handicrafts http://www.erols.com/jamesq/crs/welcome.htm ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 03:21:51 EDT From: CJMark@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Fun with Word Hey Miles.. In a message dated 98-06-12 23:18:07 EDT, you write: << 1. Open a new document in Word 2. Type "Unable to follow directions" (without the quotes) 3. Highlight the entire sentence you just typed 4. Click Tools; Thesaurus (or hit shift-F7 to open the thesaurus) >> That was funny!! Thanks for a laugh!! Ciao for now.. Mark ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 16:00:42 -0400 From: "Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: Fun with Word Melissa asked "where in the world" . . . This little gem came from an occasionally anarchistic SIG (Special Interest Group) I participate in on Compuserve called TAPCIS (The Access Program for the Compuserve Information System) which is the name of the offline reader/composer program Europa and I use to talk with our friends online, and that I use to access the SIGs and files available on Compu$werve, where I have been hanging out since 1987. TAPCIS is an elegant program that seems to attract the cream of the CIS crowd. All Sysops use it to manage the forums (SIGs) for which they are responsible. It evolved as a method to maximally utilize the pay-by-the-minute system CIS used to have. For example, in 87-88 before I had TAPCIS I could easily generate CIS charges in the realm of $200.00 per month(!); after switching to TAP my bills dropped to $25.00 or less with no loss of utility or enjoyment of what CIS has to offer. I could go on about this, but would fain bore you, dear reader. Let me summarize my thoughts by stating my opinion that Compuserve is still one of the single greatest human and information resources available today. S/\/\iles ********************************************************************* Chaos exists as raw material from which to create order. ---Darwi Odrade ********************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 17:58:50 -0400 From: Beth Meyer Subject: Alloy: It's official, and it's on the web Hi, folks; Well, it's official now -- this morning I received the piece of paper that attests that I am indeed Dr. Beth. Wow. While it seems like just a formality, Georgia Tech has put me through so much bureaucratic nonsense -- unstated requirements for the minor, losing my candidacy forms twice, assuming that I was still a master's student -- that I halfway expected to walk onto the platform and have someone yell, "Wait! She didn't meet her gym requirement! And she still has a library book checked out!" I would not have made such a big deal of it to this list, except for an interesting aspect that I learned from the speakers this morning. It turns out that they simulcast the entire commencement ceremony live on the Web. Of course, they couldn't have actually ANNOUNCED this to us sometime BEFORE the ceremony -- no, that way, people might actually have been watching it. However, as I write this, a recorded version is still there. If anyone on this list is interested and has way too much time to kill, you can bring it up and fast-forward to actually see me receive my diploma. (This feature has the added advantage of allowing people to see the significant bits without actually having to sit through a 3-hour ceremony.) The technical details are below. I must say, I would not normally dish out so much to a "mailing list" that is just about myself and not about the official topic. But then, as has been expressed so much more fluently by others recently, this is not just any old "mailing list." It is most decidedly a community in the best senses of the word. I want to thank you all again for so much support, throughout this difficult process and here at the culmination of it. Just as we all have shared the sorrow of community members who have lost friends and loved ones (Crackers and Ian come to mind), so I hope that you all can feel a little vicarious glow of happiness and pride now. Other than that, I guess the next time you hear from me, it will be from Boulder! Love, Beth - ------------------------------------------- How to see Beth graduate: Go to http://www.news-info.gatech.edu/ Then click on the appropriate link that says "1998 Spring Commencement." (You may have to install the RealPlayer software first, if you don't already have it.) When the video first comes up, showing an empty platform and empty chairs in front of it, that is just before the beginning of the ceremony. There should be a slider at the top of the window. If you drag that slider to the right, you should see a number at the bottom change. This is how you fast-forward -- the number near the bottom indicates time elapsed from the beginning of the recording. If you fast-forward to about 2:53:46, you will see the president of Georgia Tech conferring the degrees to the Ph.D. candidates. At about 2:55:07 and 2:55:20.8, you might be able to make me out as we walk to the front. (I'm the one adjusting my cap in both shots -- it kept sliding backwards. I walked behind an Asian woman, my friend Yiwei, and in front of a guy with a black shirt, my friend Larry. We were the three psychology PhD's in the ceremony.) I receive my diploma at about 2:59:20. Unfortunately, you can only see my back, and the announcer (who had a thick French accent) mispronounced "Meyer". You can keep going a little to see what the hooding process looked like. Fortunately for me, I don't think they showed me getting lost on my way back to my seat. (Here I was, thinking that I would be unemotional about the whole thing -- and then, when I stepped out onto the platform, I went into a total daze.) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beth Meyer US West Advanced Technologies Pager: +1-404-866-1362 4001 Discovery Drive, Suite 370 FAX: +1-303-541-8264 Boulder, CO 80303 bethmeyer@mindspring.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 16:58:05 -0600 From: Keith Stansell Subject: Re: Alloy: It's official, and it's on the web Congratulation Dr. Meyer, Your celebratory beer is waiting at the Wynkoop, my treat. - -- Keith Stansell Denver, CO __________________________________________________ http://www.concentric.net/~kasman ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 17:07:41 -0600 From: Keith Stansell Subject: Re: Alloy: It's official, and it's on the web Funny, if you turn the 28.8 version of the ceremony to 2:57:30 on the counter, it sounds like a "Stephen Michael Tilson" gets a Doctorate in Mathematics. Hmmmm, where have I heard that name before? Keith Stansell Denver, CO __________________________________________________ http://www.concentric.net/~kasman Dr. Beth Meyer wrote: > How to see Beth graduate: > > Go to http://www.news-info.gatech.edu/ > > Then click on the appropriate link that says "1998 Spring > Commencement." > (You may have to install the RealPlayer software first, if you don't > already have it.) When the video first comes up, showing an empty > platform > and empty chairs in front of it, that is just before the beginning of > the > ceremony. There should be a slider at the top of the window. If you > drag > that slider to the right, you should see a number at the bottom > change. > This is how you fast-forward -- the number near the bottom indicates > time > elapsed from the beginning of the recording. > > If you fast-forward to about 2:53:46, you will see the president of > Georgia > Tech conferring the degrees to the Ph.D. candidates. At about 2:55:07 > and > 2:55:20.8, you might be able to make me out as we walk to the front. > (I'm > the one adjusting my cap in both shots -- it kept sliding backwards. > I > walked behind an Asian woman, my friend Yiwei, and in front of a guy > with a > black shirt, my friend Larry. We were the three psychology PhD's in > the > ceremony.) I receive my diploma at about 2:59:20. Unfortunately, you > can > only see my back, and the announcer (who had a thick French accent) > mispronounced "Meyer". You can keep going a little to see what the > hooding > process looked like. Fortunately for me, I don't think they showed me > getting lost on my way back to my seat. (Here I was, thinking that I > would > be unemotional about the whole thing -- and then, when I stepped out > onto > the platform, I went into a total daze.) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Beth Meyer > US West Advanced Technologies Pager: > +1-404-866-1362 > 4001 Discovery Drive, Suite 370 FAX: > +1-303-541-8264 > Boulder, CO 80303 > bethmeyer@mindspring.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 01:31:43 +0100 (BST) From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: Fun with Word At 23:10 12/06/98 -0400, /\/\iles the \/\/icked wrote: > > >Does Bill Gates have a problem we don't know about? > >1. Open a new document in Word >2. Type "Unable to follow directions" (without the quotes) >3. Highlight the entire sentence you just typed >4. Click Tools; Thesaurus (or hit shift-F7 to open the thesaurus) > >Go ahead and try it. > >/\/\iles the \/\/icked > I did. All it said was it couldn't find a match and suggested 'unabridged.' Maybe it's becasue I have a UK Thesaurus. What do YOU get when you do it? Slarv ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #156 ***************************