#44443
10/13/2001 1:09 AM
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#44444
10/13/2001 1:16 AM
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#44445
10/13/2001 1:22 AM
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There must be a word or a term to describe this angst, Wordwind. If there isn't, we should coin one. Any ideas? "Download overload" is the best I can come up with for now.
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#44446
10/13/2001 9:05 AM
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Yes, like Max I mostly dream of ADSL! In the meantime I browse with three windows of IE open at once, so at least something *seems to be happening most of the time.
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#44447
10/13/2001 10:59 AM
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My dictionary says that factoid should mean a lie masquerading as a fact.
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#44448
10/13/2001 12:13 PM
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For me, the pages have been coming up faster the last couple of days--mostly. Has anyone else had this happen?
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#44449
10/13/2001 12:59 PM
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I've got broadband access at home, and it still ain't fast. Mind you, it's a bit better today.
To answer the question: vegetate, mostly.
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#44450
10/13/2001 1:54 PM
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My problem has been long waits for windows to change. I can't tell when it is AWAD server being asleep and when it is my ISP timing out. Pacbell's DSL leaves a lot to be desired.
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#44451
10/13/2001 1:56 PM
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Sip coffee (decaf only)
Dust the desk
Pat the dog (she's always at, or next to my feet)
Polish my glasses.
Clean the screen with"Endust for electronics."
Switch clothes from washer to dryer.
Fold dried clothes
Browse a catalogue (Christmas editions proliferating like hangers in an unused closet)
And when desperate and all the above done :
Blow on the screen to make it show stuff (it always worked for my Dad at stop lights)
sometimes it works --strains of eerie music in background
Reading this over it seems these are all girl things ... what do you guys do?
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#44452
10/13/2001 2:59 PM
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Jackie - Yes! It has picked up speed, back to its original tempo. We must be going through the same DNS. WW - AWAD is becoming, by far, a leader in "fluff free" load time, making next to no time (except a sip of coffee's worth) before my mouse is waiting for me... as my 384 SDSL has been beri-beri good to me. (...but then again, my concept of *patience seems to be askew...  ) "Hippopotamus", as a spacer, seems to produce a rather long second to me... but, my concept of patience *seems to be askew. 
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#44453
10/13/2001 6:04 PM
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We must be going through the same DNS.Ooh, musick, no one's ever tried that line before! Gave me shivers, it did!  Thanks for the feedback, you-all. I'll pass it on to --- oh, even at the thought of writing his name my hands get cold!---you-know-who. I don't want to send complaints only.  !
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#44454
10/13/2001 9:51 PM
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Being a very patient person myself, these are the things I do if the wait time is particularly long. I crank up my stereo and dance. I go find some matches to light some incense. I pick new music to dance to. I read from my books. I pick up after myself. I meditate. I do stretching exersises. By the time I do all these things, the next page has come up.
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#44455
10/14/2001 1:15 AM
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The consolations of Consuelo.
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#44456
10/14/2001 1:35 PM
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I turned the TV on a few minutes before the news came on this morning and what did I find? A nature show on HIPPOPOTOMI! Is this some kind of plot that everywhere I turn, I am being bombarded with HIPPOPOTOMI? PS I just purchaced this CD "The Flight of the Cosmic Hippo" by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.  [and crazier]
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#44457
10/14/2001 1:37 PM
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I guess I'll just have to be patient and all will be revealed!
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#44458
10/14/2001 2:03 PM
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It has picked up speed, back to its original tempo
It has certainly become more normal, rather than virtually not working. But from here it is still sometimes stickily slow.
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#44459
10/14/2001 3:09 PM
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old hand
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Well, I have this nice network access at UC, so it's pretty fast, but when it gets slow I generally just start googling for something or I just sit here. Right now I'm taking notes on the fall of communism for my intro to political ideology . . . exciting stuff.
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#44460
10/14/2001 3:11 PM
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Faster on weekends, slower on weekdays.
Volume?
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#44461
10/14/2001 3:48 PM
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#44462
10/14/2001 3:57 PM
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#44463
10/14/2001 4:05 PM
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If any political *scheme truly manifest its ideology... oh, never mind. WOW - I think you're correct... so there must be a very large number of people logged in that don't show their online status . I wonder if you could request a weekly "traffic report" from the giant head... er... top dog... mmm... big cheese... um... head hancho... ... head hippo?...
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#44464
10/14/2001 4:22 PM
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this some kind of plot that everywhere I turn, I am being bombarded with HIPPOPOTOMI?
Clearly that fertile aquarian has become the mother of all posts.
And speaking of maternal pride: The tale is told of three american-indian ladies, talking one fine afternoon while seated at their labors. The first, seated on a bearskin, boasted that her son was so fine a hunter that he had killed 20 deer that season. The second, seated on a buffalo hide, countered that her son had accomplished that same notable feat. But the third lady, seated on a hippopotomus (!) pelt, smiled quietly, secure in the recollection of her younger days when, as a warrior princess and Artemis, she had personally had equal success in the hunting arts.
Proving once again the Pythagorean insight that the squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides.
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#44465
10/14/2001 4:28 PM
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#44466
10/14/2001 4:46 PM
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i have being trying to avoid this sudden, compelling involvement AWAD has developed for hippopotomi.. i keep finding, like some one in the deapths of DT's, hippos where ever i look.. but now, even i must add to the hippopotomadness.
what i have found to be mesmerizing --is the lovely image of the hippopotomi ballerina's, en pointe, dancing their way through Fantasia..
not being a thin, or even average sized woman, i took it as a complement when some one said i danced, and moved with the same grace as the lovely hippotomi of Fantasia..grace and elegance are not exclusively the possesions of the young and slender..
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#44467
10/14/2001 5:18 PM
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Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. I love them!
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#44468
10/14/2001 7:14 PM
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the lovely image of the hippopotomi ballerina's, en pointe, dancing their way through Fantasia.
I can't hear that music without Alan Sherman's words thereto ringing through my poor head. "Hello Mudder. / Hello Fadder. / Here I am at / Camp Grenada!" And of course, the Fantasia images further make comic the "Dance of the Hours" music. BTW, Helen, forget not that the Fantansia hippi in tuti were ardently pursued by slavering wolves.
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#44469
10/15/2001 6:52 AM
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While waiting for pages to download, I:
flick through my shelf of reference books;
stare at the person in the office across the corridor;
go to the loo;
make a cup of coffee;
get a bar of chocolate or an ice-cream;
open another window and go to a site which has long pages to read;
and if all else fails, work.
Bingley
Bingley
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#44470
10/15/2001 12:50 PM
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and if all else fails, work.yeah, that's a real bummer, ain't it!
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#44471
10/15/2001 1:04 PM
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RE: the Fantansia hippi in tuti were ardently pursued by slavering wolves.
yes, keiva, but women of grace and refinement are often persued by wolfs.. fortunately, as in Fantasia, the wolf don't always win. the hippo's are not unmindful of the wolfs, but they don't let the wolfs change their behavior. as a recall, the wolf all suffer a bad end, and the hippo's continue to their dance.
there is either a distinct lack of wolfs at AWAD, (first guess) or failing that, a distinct lack of being persued. not that i am complaining, i don't post here in hopes of meeting the perfect He-ppo.
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#44472
10/15/2001 2:55 PM
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Helen, I do believe you're mis-recalling the resolution, in Fantasia, of the eternal conflict between refinement and slavering. See the title of this post.
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#44473
10/15/2001 8:14 PM
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and if all else fails, work.Oh you poor dear . I know that feeling, when all you want to do it bounce around AWAD and there is your boss hovering around your desk. You have to practice the " concerned attention to a vital piece of information" look. Scrunch your eyebrows together while peering intently at the screen. Every four or five seconds press on "Caps Lock" a couple of times to make is seem as if you are moving through the document. It may happen that somebody will, after hovering around for a couple of minutes and not wanting to wait anymore, say "er, Bingley old chap." Then you move to the "oh all right let me just mark my spot since what you have to say is soooo important" move by doing the 'just one second' sign in a somewhat distracted way, with one hand holding up one finger just barely higher than your mouse - that'll prove you are so very concentrated in your work and they'll usually say "let me come back later". To which you just nod your head without taking your eyes off the screen. Just a suggestion of course _________________________________________________ I usually play Sherlock while waiting for page turns.
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#44474
10/16/2001 1:11 AM
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Bel, you are in fine form tonight, my friend! Loved your architecture post, too.
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#44475
10/16/2001 4:22 PM
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You DON'T want to know. Just trust us on this one.
TEd
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#44476
10/16/2001 4:24 PM
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tap. tap. tap. We're waiiiiiting [lecherous leer e-con]
TEd
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#44477
10/16/2001 4:59 PM
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TEd! While I enjoy this Board greatly, and yield to no one* in my admiration for our ladies, if any (ayleurettes? does that make me an aileurophile?), how could I post in such a state?
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*exception made for the admiration Faldage holds, in the specific case rather than the general.
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#44478
10/16/2001 8:37 PM
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Now wait a minute here TEd. Unless your computer is wayyyy different than mine, all I can fiddle around with is the mouse. Now, unless you are into some sort of freaky rodent fetish you'll have to elaborate for us ladies [pure and innocent looking face]
Oh wait, if you are at home maybe you have one of those flight simulators or game thingies. Then I suppose you could play with your joystick.[snicker, snicker]
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#44479
10/16/2001 8:47 PM
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TEd
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#44480
10/16/2001 8:52 PM
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re: nless your computer is wayyyy different than mine, all I can fiddle around with is the mouse. Now,
unless you are into some sort of freaky rodent fetish you'll have to elaborate for us ladies Bel, dear, not every one has a mouse any more.. some have touch pads, and lots of people these days got for balls, a track ball that is.. i suppose it should be singular.. computers only get one ball.. a trainer in the next cube over has a big red one.. i suppose it would be right to ask TEd if he has a big red one, too? or do you think he is a touchy kind of guy?
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#44481
10/16/2001 9:12 PM
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Oh, never mind. I can't do it. I just can't!
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#44482
10/16/2001 9:37 PM
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Ladies, one may presume that TEd's CPU ("Cental Processing Unit"} and related systems include ...
a hippopotaMouse!
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