Thursday miscellanea #134

 

  • I don’t usually put images in Thursday miscellanea posts, but an exception is in order. My mother died ten years ago yesterday, and my sister Jenny found and scanned this fantastic image of Mom at 3 or 4, standing in front of my grandfather’s Ford.
  • I look at photos like that and try harder than ever to feel their perspective.  My grandfather and grandmother had a beautiful little girl, nearly right after he got back from World War II.  Judging from my mother’s age, that was a new car, or very close to it.  My dad would be in her life just 16 years later; me, just 21; my sister, just 24.
  • I tried a Detroit-style pizza for dinner on Monday night.  That means:  square, twice-baked crust, with the sauce on top.  I made it look like the picture.  It was tasty—you really have to work hard to screw up pizza irretrievably—but I’m not sure the sauce on top added anything but greatly enhanced mess potential.
  • Back to a real email client this week.  (Been webmailing exclusively since my desktop has been down.)  Grabbed the latest Thunderbird.  I still love this UI, which is essentially that of Netscape Communicator in 1996, but hey, when you get it right…  Anyway, after you give it your email address, it guesses at server names, and if it succeeds, you’re set up.  I wasn’t expecting that, but okay.  Then I tore my hair out looking for the “Leave messages on the server” option so I could uncheck it.  Guess what?  Wasn’t there.  Finally figured out that it set me up IMAP, not POP.  Grrr.  I’ve got it doing what I want now.
  • When Charles and I went to Trickfest 3 in 1999, we received custom Sharpies with the Cheap Trick logo on them.  (You know, so we’d have suitable instruments for autographs.)  Mine lives in my home study drawer, where I still use it to write on optical discs.  I wouldn’t have guessed a consumer-grade marker would last 12 years, no matter how well it was cared for.  It still smells like a Sharpie and everything.  Wonder how much more life it has in it?
  • Speaking of rock ‘n’ roll, Slade’s getting my sustained attention lately.  What a melody factory!  My new favorite of theirs is “Take Me Bak ‘Ome.”  The riff is just so…impolite.  Fine stuff.
  • Dad bought us dinner at The Brickhouse on Tuesday night.  I took a chance on the wings, and they were quite good.  I went with TNT, which is second-hottest; C-4 is above.  That next time, definitely.  Oh, and ask for Kayla.

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3 thoughts on “Thursday miscellanea #134”

  1. I love me some Thunderbird. When Apple’s Mail client went belly up, Thunderbird picked right up seamlessly. And I have to say, I don’t even use half of the capability of the program. Mozilla usually gets it right and this is no exception.

    Damn. Now I want some wings. Real, northeastern, Buffalo-style wings with blue cheese.

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  2. Kemtee, agreed. I don’t remember what the first release I used was, but it was 0.something. Good stuff.

    Charles, glad to hear it. We’ll have to get ’em back together sometime. Heh.

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