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I just got my phone fixed and put iOS 13 on it. I cannot figure out how to delete unwanted apps now.
When I was a kid I knew a man named Shirley. What a hunk. Big muscular Swede.
I wish the game show "Name That Tune" would return. I'd be a whiz in the classical category. "Dennis, I can name that tune in 2 notes."
Everybody who remembers Groucho Marx, get out of your wheelchair and stand up to be counted.
remember the lucy episode with harpo?
Tomorrow is Tuesday. Tuesday is 5% off day for ancient people at my local grocery. I need some groceries.Tomorrow will be a blizzard here. F***!
Harpo & Lucy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHRzyOttJS0
Ever actually watch Harpo play the harp?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PYJgG1zZ_M and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4NtCy9MfYk
I want to go to bed soon.
...for me, curse of having older brothers, and as to the birthday timing and the yule holiday, mine comes three days before. Yeah, this is the kind of stuff that turns on into a curmudgeon in later life.
Two of my heroes...
...let me get my cane.
...that bit was well done.
...well went out for a bit of shopping and hit an incredible sale at Macy's got a nice long and thick red & black wool scarf (normally 40$) for 10$ on sale.
wool , not scratchy?
snow and sleet outside my window
sleet is noisy on window
can hear individual sleets
..nah I wear it all the time. Much nicer and warmer. Besides a scarf is usually worn over a coat.
the final days of wrapping for christmas.
wiggles toy i ordered from australia came yesterday. just in time to wrap and ship to texas.
1 cousin and 1 uncle left to shop for, think i'll make it easy on myself, who doesn't love a bottle of Baileys
a master of the scarf
That's definitely not the Master.
Non-complaint: Networking between my computers still working this morning. Yay!
Also non-complaint: I discovered on YouTube a series of videos from a group of guys about my age who worked on the same era computers I did. One of the guys is actually somebody I roomed with during college.
They show up in several different series but the one I'm following now is their process of repairing an old teletype machine. Back in the day, teletypes were the primary command input/output devices. No boob tubes. We're talking late '60s through the '70s here. Yeah, there were graphic display devices for huge machines but they were either secondary I/O devices or they were only for the huge multimillion dollar machines. The average half-million dollar, 3-rack "mini-computer" and even some of the big machines used ASR-33 or ASR-35 teletypes, that could print at a whopping 110 baud (5-bit characters per second. Capitals only, no lower case.) for their control console.
This YouTube series is still currently following their efforts to fix this abused old teletype. It's wonderful to see the old electronics and mechanical marvels up close. And sometimes even in slow-motion to catch what's actually going on with all the whirling gears and levers. What also strikes home for me is the wonderful old documentation. Such detailed and accurate diagrams. Back in the day when people actually knew how to write technical manuals. And back in the day when it was expected that the device they were explaining would last for years and years and was intended to be repaired.
For the old computer nerds in the audience who haven't found these videos yet: Here's the latest episode of the repair of the ASR-33 teletype. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG7sHxCRfoY
Previous episodes followed them through repair of the paper movement mechanism, bit stream generation, transmission of current loop signals, aligning print head, and much more. Today they've finally fixed the print mechanism by having to fabricate and replace a broken part.
Other video series that these guys have created highlight old "big iron" IBM computers. Running of FORTRAN programs from mag tape and punched card, etc. Very nostalgic for me.
Major Non-complaint: A no punches pulled, in your face, spotlight on the mystery of reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH-z9gE2uGY
but, he's wearing a scarf ?
mercurial
In the home screen, place your finger on the app you wish to delete and keep it there... wait a moment and the icons will start to shimmy and shake... this is normal because they are now nervous that you are about to kill one or more of them... select the app you wish to murder and hit the little "x" in the corner of the icon... (or if you were fast enough and still see the menu window, just hit "Delete App")...
You will then see a dialogue window informing you that- "Deleting this app will delete its data and traumatize its poor orphan children... unless it is backed up to iCloud, in which case it will live on and one day seek revenge"...
or something like that... don't feel bad, it's just a pathetic way the apps beg for their lives and try to fool you into buying more iCloud space which is actually not made of clouds but cotton candy woven by rats in Hoboken NJ...
Delete the sad little app and move on to the next...
You may continue murdering apps until your bloodlust is satiated... when you are done reveling in the destruction, fear and sadness you have rained down upon the quaking apps, hit the home button to stop them from shaking in fear...
if you don't have a home button, stick something in the hole where it used to be until the whole thing shorts out... or if you have a newer phone which deliberately doesn't have a home button, look to the top of the screen and you should see a "Done" button... you can tap that... or if your device is using the virtual home button, hit it or you can still hit the done button...
That was for iOS 13... iPad OS (13) is slightly different... In the home screen, place your finger on the app you wish to delete and keep it there... wait a moment and iPad OS will open up a menu window with (usually) several options... somewhere amongst those options will be "Delete App" in red... if you are too slow the menu window may disappear and the icons will start to shimmy and shake in fear... you can go about your app murdering as described above using either the menu window or tapping on an "x"...
Doh... replied to wrong post...
This was the one I was aiming for...
Yup, I should have remembered that... I used to watch that as a little kid... repeats on WPIX... or I had a time machine when I was little too... time travel tends to make one forgetful.
i cant tell if i have garlic breath from last night's garlic bread.
no one is sitting next to me
wonder if i'll be the favorite aunt this year, or will i lose out to the uncle giving cold hard cash
got my other nephew the hot wheels death star
In the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin and his classmate Susie give a presentation about Mercury, in which Calvin's contribution is full of questionable information: "The planet Mercury was named after a Roman god with winged feet," says Calvin. "Mercury was the god of flowers and bouquets, which is why today he is a registered trademark of FTD florists. Why they named a planet after this guy, I can't imagine."
how come the Skipper was a skipper and not a captain?
boat was too small?
gilligan wasn't a first mate he was a lill buddy.
bomb ketch is self explanatory
but what qualifies a ship to be a ship of the line?
Mercury was the messenger of the gods. He travelled from god to god (apparently they didn't all hang out in the same condo all the time) quickly because of his winged feet. (Although aerodynamically that is questionable.)
Mercury the planet was named for Mercury the messenger of the gods because it moves so quickly across the field of stars and from one side of the Sun to the other.
Non-complaint: The bad weather forecast for here isn't quite so bad. 3" of snow today, little wind. Perhaps 4" of snow, little wind tomorrow. Maybe an inch on Thursday, but clear skies again on Friday. Yay. I have a friend visiting from NYC staying nearby. He has a rented car and I get to go uptown with him where I can again have a decent restaurant meal, and go shopping in an actual department store (Penny's is the only one left around here) and I can pick up a pizza to freeze for future meals, and I can get to the liquor store for holiday supplies. I'm glad I'm not the one who has to shovel 8 inches of snow from the car.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skipper
How do I stop a whining girl from whining? It is getting annoying. That girl lives in my home.
noise cancelling head phones/ear buds ?