I must have some time on my hands..*G*
But, I thought of sharing some piccies of things which I have
encountered during the years which made me slap my forehead, as if to
say: "WTF didn't *I* think of that?"
Something so obvious, yet useful, that you can't believe it.
I don't care where they come from, but I know there are many Forehead
Slapper out there....so please share?
Forehead Slapper # 1 posted in ABPW. (That's #1, as in the first one I
posted, not the highest ranking in cleverness..LOL)
(I don't think they all need to be pictures, descriptions would count
too, right?)
0¿0
Rob--->who thinks news groups are for this kinda thing.
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:59:50 GMT, Dave in Fairfax <[email protected]>
wrote:
>I've NEVER had an ISP that didn't carry
>the APB groups. I've benn doing this for a while, so 99.9% seems
>like an unlikely amount of servers to not carry them.
ISP or USP news servers tend to carry alt.binaries.* groups, but don't
forget the medium or large businesses that run their own usenet
servers. These usually block all binaries for volume/pr0n reasons, and
many block alt.* entirely.
Two of my USPs offer non-binaries feeds. One (Gradwell) only does text
feeds. Supernews, my main feed, charges a different price for binaries
or non-binaries. As Usenet is now just a minority interest, it's some
years since I saw an ISP feed that wasn't poorly-supported rubbish. If
they "carry" a binaries group, it may only have a retention time of
milliseconds.
On 5 Jan 2005 11:23:16 -0800, Ray <[email protected]> wrote:
> How do you get to ABPW?
Turn left at greenland?
Sorry. It's alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking, but not all newsservers
carry it.
Dave in Fairfax wrote:
> Ray wrote:
>> How do you get to ABPW?
>
> Try this: news:alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking If it doesn't
> work, your server doesn't carry it.
Which is 99.9% of all news servers left on Earth, including both of the ones
I use.
Someone pointed me at:
http://www.delorie.com/wood/abpw/
but looking there now, I see nothing related to this thread. That has
proven to pretty much always be the case whenever someone references ABPW,
so I just ignore such threads as taking place in a universe I do not
inhabit myself. I'm sure these folks aren't talking about nothing, but
whatever it is sure doesn't ever show up on that site, or on the usenet
replayer site either.
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
Robatoy wrote:
>> so I just ignore such threads as taking place in a universe I do not
>> inhabit myself.
>
> It appears, here,
>
> http://www.delorie.com/wood/
>
> ...that the dates of the updates appear.
>
> It will show next Tuesday, I think.
Oh. I missed that. That explains why the pictures all seem to pertain to
things I read about last week, doesn't it? :)
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
Dave in Fairfax wrote:
> I'm sorry that the link doesn't work for you and that your ISP
> doesn't carry the NG, but I've NEVER had an ISP that didn't carry
> the APB groups. I've benn doing this for a while, so 99.9% seems
> like an unlikely amount of servers to not carry them.
I've been doing it for awhile too, both at home and for other people. Since
1991 only one ISP's news feed has carried binaries, and they stopped
carrying them in early 2002. My current ISP doesn't carry them, nor does
my U. of Berlin account. I really haven't seen an alt.binaries.* anything
since early 2002.
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
Ray wrote:
> How do you get to ABPW?
Try this: news:alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking If it doesn't
work, your server doesn't carry it.
Dave in Fairfax
--
Dave Leader
reply-to doesn't work
use:
daveldr at att dot net
American Association of Woodturners
http://www.woodturner.org
Capital Area Woodturners
http://www.capwoodturners.org/
PATINA
http://www.Patinatools.org/
> Dave in Fairfax wrote:
> > Try this: news:alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking If it doesn't
> > work, your server doesn't carry it.
Silvan wrote:
> Which is 99.9% of all news servers left on Earth, including both of the ones
> I use.
I'm sorry that the link doesn't work for you and that your ISP
doesn't carry the NG, but I've NEVER had an ISP that didn't carry
the APB groups. I've benn doing this for a while, so 99.9% seems
like an unlikely amount of servers to not carry them.
ATT carries the NGs if someone needs an ISP that is everywhere and
DOES carry the NGs.
Just a member, no financial considerations.
Dave in Fairfax
--
Dave Leader
reply-to doesn't work
use:
daveldr at att dot net
American Association of Woodturners
http://www.woodturner.org
Capital Area Woodturners
http://www.capwoodturners.org/
PATINA
http://www.Patinatools.org/
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:19:40 -0500, Robatoy <[email protected]>
calmly ranted:
>In article <[email protected]>,
> "Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Diapers.
>
>To use to wipe stain or as a source for stain?
Ahhh! You guys are finally catching on to the actual -source- of RBS,
are you? This is very good!
--
"Menja bé, caga fort!"
"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I must have some time on my hands..*G*
>
> But, I thought of sharing some piccies of things which I have
> encountered during the years which made me slap my forehead, as if to
> say: "WTF didn't *I* think of that?"
> Something so obvious, yet useful, that you can't believe it.
>
> I don't care where they come from, but I know there are many Forehead
> Slapper out there....so please share?
Diapers.
Silvan <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> I've been doing it for awhile too, both at home and for other people.
> Since 1991 only one ISP's news feed has carried binaries, and they
> stopped carrying them in early 2002. My current ISP doesn't carry
> them, nor does my U. of Berlin account. I really haven't seen an
> alt.binaries.* anything since early 2002.
>
While there are some things to be disliked about Verizon as an ISP (email
is sometimes flaky, and European & Asian IP's are blocked for the moment -
how silly can you get?), Verizon's newsgroups are excellent, including the
binaries. In the metro NY area, 3.0Mbps/768Kbps DSL is now $29.95 +tax &
fees. Probably coming soon to other ares as well.
--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid
In article <[email protected]>,
Silvan <[email protected]> wrote:
> so I just ignore such threads as taking place in a universe I do not
> inhabit myself.
It appears, here,
http://www.delorie.com/wood/
...that the dates of the updates appear.
It will show next Tuesday, I think.
In article <[email protected]>,
"Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >I must have some time on my hands..*G*
> >
> > But, I thought of sharing some piccies of things which I have
> > encountered during the years which made me slap my forehead, as if to
> > say: "WTF didn't *I* think of that?"
> > Something so obvious, yet useful, that you can't believe it.
> >
> > I don't care where they come from, but I know there are many Forehead
> > Slapper out there....so please share?
>
> Diapers.
To use to wipe stain or as a source for stain?
"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
> or non-binaries. As Usenet is now just a minority interest, it's some
> years since I saw an ISP feed that wasn't poorly-supported rubbish. If
> they "carry" a binaries group, it may only have a retention time of
> milliseconds.
Never thought I'd reflect on two Unix geeks with a large pipe (read ISP) as
being the "good old days".
--
www.e-woodshop.net
Last update: 11/06/04
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:47:27 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote:
> Ahhh! You guys are finally catching on to the actual -source- of RBS,
> are you? This is very good!
Apparently you haven't first hand (excuse the expression) experience with
this stuff. It's the source of BSY. It doesn't turn RBS until they're on
solid food.
- Doug
--
To escape criticism--do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard)
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:02:50 -0700, Doug Winterburn
<[email protected]> calmly ranted:
>On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:47:27 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote:
>
>> Ahhh! You guys are finally catching on to the actual -source- of RBS,
>> are you? This is very good!
>
>Apparently you haven't first hand (excuse the expression) experience with
>this stuff. It's the source of BSY. It doesn't turn RBS until they're on
>solid food.
No, I'm a solid, upstanding, 52 year old, _confirmed_ bachelor.
Though I've had girlfriends with kids that age, I played dumb.
--
"Menja bé, caga fort!"
www.delorie.com/wood has archive of both binaries wood and furniture.
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:13:55 -0500, Silvan
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Dave in Fairfax wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry that the link doesn't work for you and that your ISP
>> doesn't carry the NG, but I've NEVER had an ISP that didn't carry
>> the APB groups. I've benn doing this for a while, so 99.9% seems
>> like an unlikely amount of servers to not carry them.
>
>I've been doing it for awhile too, both at home and for other people. Since
>1991 only one ISP's news feed has carried binaries, and they stopped
>carrying them in early 2002. My current ISP doesn't carry them, nor does
>my U. of Berlin account. I really haven't seen an alt.binaries.* anything
>since early 2002.
"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> "Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>> >I must have some time on my hands..*G*
>> >
>> > But, I thought of sharing some piccies of things which I have
>> > encountered during the years which made me slap my forehead, as if to
>> > say: "WTF didn't *I* think of that?"
>> > Something so obvious, yet useful, that you can't believe it.
>> >
>> > I don't care where they come from, but I know there are many Forehead
>> > Slapper out there....so please share?
>>
>> Diapers.
>
> To use to wipe stain or as a source for stain?
Oh, you meant for woodworking!
Never mind.
Bob
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:01:04 -0500, Robatoy <[email protected]>
wrote:
>I must have some time on my hands..*G*
>
>But, I thought of sharing some piccies of things which I have
>encountered during the years which made me slap my forehead, as if to
>say: "WTF didn't *I* think of that?"
>Something so obvious, yet useful, that you can't believe it.
>
Here's a good forehead slapper for you (me):
what does this surely ingenuous device do?
James
[email protected]