Musing about corks, old friends and olive branches

=====>Yes, I too have sorely missed them, Arch. However, they deserted us after a few stupid trolls. I guess they figured we weren't worth hanging around for! *SOB* Just a bunch of sensitive "artistes!" They're gonna miss the latest developments in LDD technology and your Musings. Pretty high price for a snit!*G*

Leif

Arch, as yet I have not suffered any ills nor did I suffer from trolls, but I do not post here very often simply because there are no questions I am capable of answering.

I lurk, as you call it, every single day hoping that somewhere someone needs just the information I have locked away in the grey matter!

More time is spent on WOW than anywhere else because I just love looking at the beautiful pieces my fellow turners make.

I will have to visit this "Wood Central" I have never heard of it before.

Regards, Peter Charles Fagg Freshwater, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.

Each can do but little! But if each DID that little, ALL would be done!

Personally, I've just been busy, COCinC. I wander by, I read a few, I don't read what seems irrelevant, and I simply have had little time to delve, ponder and respond. But you might have meant Mr. L'Hote, anyway. Hope I can get some stuff about the new shop building finished this summer, so I can put a bit more time into turning again.

Maybe I'm just too stubborn to leave. Actually, when I started turning seriously, I started reading rcw. I learned a lot from a lot of very good turners and "met" some very nice people who had the patience to answer my stupid questions over and over again. I have a lot of gratitude for a lot of folks. Unfortunately for all of us who are still here, a lot of these people did drift away for various reasons. Yes I do lurk over at Wood Central (and comment occasionally), but I still hang around here too. To tell the truth, I miss those guys (and gals) who drifted away. Thanks for noticing I'm still here. And there.

Barry

PS I'll second that motion. I'd love to see some of our old friends back here.

Right! Sometimes "artists" are fickle. If I ever get to be one, I may be fickle too. Or worse! (My wife says I already am.)

Barry

Hello Arch.

I still lurk here too. I check out what is going on almost every day. I just don't post much anymore.

But to tell you the truth... I still come here mostly to read what you have to say on the state of the world and woodturning. I love a post that make me think about things. You my friend are the master of such posts.

I hope we can meet in person some day, but for now I will have to be content to read your musings. So please keep them coming!!

Best wishes, Dave

David Peebles Lyons, Ohio Revolutions Woodturning

Well hello Ruth. Good to see you again. I've been wondering about you recently - weren't you fixing on moving to a new house and leaving the farm, chickens and other menagerie?

Hey Owen, I read your posts just about all the time! Yes, sadly I did sell my place. I do NOT miss the house at all; 150 yr. old farm house, no insulation, no elec. on 2nd floor, etc. but I really miss my barn, shop, garden, cats and chickens. My shop is temporarily set up in a garage behind my one son's transmission business. It's ok but it's not my barn!

Ruth

Ruth, I can feel your sadness. But comeonnow, you know it just wasn't fair having that stained glass, the window on the world, the company of chickens and all that. Last January or so I moved from my drafty, cobwebby, old sagging garage to a dedicated roomlet in our basement. It may be small at 8'x11' and have no window on the backyard but it's clean, warm and well lit. I may just have to look into a stained glass door for my little turnery.

We live in a c.1920 home with no insulation and heat on the second floor so I can certainly sympathize with you on some level - tho our winters aren't anywhere near as cold as yours. What did you do for your electricity needs?

Amen to that, Arch. While I started to read WoodCentral when the trolls hit, I stuck here too. There have been way too many good discussion started and ffriendships made here to abondon ship.

I do have to admit, however, that my participation on any and all discussion groups has significantly tailed off in the last couple of years. There is too much content and too few hours to get through it all. A don't look at the AAW or Wood magazine discussions. I don't view the AAW photo page either. I really dislike the multiple posts across many groups. If I got to pick, we would only need r.c.w for discussions and WOW for photos. All the rest are redundant. Unfortunately, I don't think this proliferation of groups will be reversed.

Joe Fleming - San Diego

Owen, I had electricity downstairs and I only used the upstairs to sleep and I knew where the bed was! : )

Question: how do you reply to a post and delete all the previous posts or at least be able to take only what you wish to respond to and have that appear?

Ruth

Hi Ruth,

For most newsreaders, selecting the text then hitting reply will copy only the selected text into your reply message. Might get more specific help if we knew your brand of reader.

LD

Looks like you're posting through Google rather than using a reader, so I would suggest the normal Windows functions of highlight, cut and paste. There's a Mac equivalent, but I'm out of the classroom for so long I've forgotten.

Which was copied from Xerox! No wonder Windows is sooo bad, it's a copy of a copy. :o)

I heard it all came from Geos.

It ain't a computer unless the first thing on the screen is A:\

Yes, I'm going through google (as George noted), is there a better way to access the group? I read you response, hit "reply" at the bottom of your post, then I get a small box to type in. I highlight, cut, hit delete, hit backspace, nothing works outside this little box. I'd bet there's a setting for how I'm reading the group so I get it in a different format, have searched everywhere, can't find it.

Any suggestions, anyone? I really don't like it when a complete post gets re-posted in a response.

Pay-to-play types of places, and others like

of course, but check first with your Internet Service Provider to see if they provide access to usenet. If your Yahoo e-mail means Yahoo is your ISP, I believe they dropped usenet access. If not Yahoo, try to use your newsreader to set up an account with the name: news.(your ISP).net,com, etc. Example frontiernet is your ISP : news.frontiernet.net There's even a freebie over in Germany that some folks use, perhaps others can come up with it.

George, That freebie place in Germany was news.individual.net, but they went over to a pay system about a month ago. There is a freebie place in Italy, news.aioe.org, but they don't seem to be as reliable. I have trouble with downloads from them. Martin

Are you accessing the internet from a regular service provider? Which one? (Mine, for example, is EasyStreet here in Portland - as a dial-up account.)

Then, what computer operating system are you using? Windoze 98, XP, TP or Mac OS 8, 9 or X?