was having trouble in spite of his big robust pipes...
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Response 3 of 62: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (09:45) * 5 lines
It may be the Internet. Some folks give us real good reports,
even overseas. We're on a full T-1 from CRL. If crl has something
messed yp we can tell 'em to fix it. Get me a tracerout if you get a
slow connection and I'll forward it to crl for analysis. Sometimes
we can find the source and get them to fix it.
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Response 4 of 62: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (18:33) * 15 lines
my life today...
filled with excitment.
Ups and downs in varying degrees.
All alone with the kittens for a few days and happy for the break.
going to play with friends tonight.
thankful for a day where I will not be slave to the alarm...
thoughts of a bike ride (in Colorado *smile*) for tomorrow
or maybe a yard sale
an afternoon on the rollerblades (carefully avoiding hidden ice patches)
not very hungry but eagerly anticipating that first amber...
after a de-stressing hour or so at the gym!
Cheers to all (and to all a good night!)
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Response 5 of 62: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (21:00) * 11 lines
It's a hot, sweaty night here in Texas. I'm battling a recalcitrant
sound card. And heat. And waiting for wer's carpenter friend to come
by and look at some work on my cottage. Troubles with a connector on my
Piepline 50, so I've got to send for a replacement power supply.
I've got some questions to ask you in the home conference, wer and Stacey,
do you belong to that conference (I mean, is it on your cflist?).
Stacey, do you know the ch li command at the ok prompt? It's what sets up
your cflist.
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Response 6 of 62: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jan 31, 1998 (00:27) * 2 lines
just joined it, but couldn't find said questions...
which topic?
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Response 7 of 62: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Jan 31, 1998 (01:51) * 2 lines
Ooops, I forgot to ask. I will.
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Response 8 of 62: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Apr 10, 1999 (13:55) * 1 lines
and you did...
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Response 9 of 62: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Sun, Apr 11, 1999 (00:21) * 1 lines
gardening, an afternoon jog, baked a cake, finished a book...
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Response 10 of 62: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Apr 11, 1999 (01:24) * 1 lines
dropped by the Spring...
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Response 11 of 62: Leplep le Plep (jgross) * Sun, Apr 11, 1999 (22:31) * 18 lines
ate my hand, joined my esophagus to my stomach (with the hand i ate), established residence in etcetera, read about my cat in a thick large-print book about halitosis,
ate ice cream with my werewolf half-sister and let her eat me then crawled
back out of her stomach, talked to Jonah the Hebrew prophet about it and he
said i'm picking up on his technique too quick and it's got him worried,
talked to Shakespeare about lots more trashier stuff than we've talked
about up to now and he told me about boy problems he's having in Maryland
and other occupied territories, the lean goats that i own in the hills
were blown over by idle breezes and then they got back up and didn't think
much of it and then it happened again and then they began to enter it into
their personal philosophy and then they got up with big Texas grins on their
mugs (faces), an ugly old woman (Misty) took a hacksaw to my knee to make
an unnecessarily fine distinction about the working conditions her roadie
friend has to work under when he tours with the Offspring, then she
turned off spring.net and turned it back on for some high-octane hell-raising
fun, then with this wasted Keith Richard look she laid me down beside her
hacksaw and crawled up onto me and touched me with her body with an
inexplicable air of urgency that moved me very much even past the
happening wrist injury and very very very little else happened then.
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Response 12 of 62: wer (wer) * Sun, Apr 11, 1999 (22:55) * 3 lines
about like my day...
'cept, I think yours was
about a pillowful better...
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Response 13 of 62: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Apr 12, 1999 (20:09) * 2 lines
gotta watch those knees...
they're the most complex joint in the body ya know...
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Response 14 of 62: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Apr 13, 1999 (00:22) * 1 lines
and you're gonna miss them when they're gone
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Response 15 of 62: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jul 14, 1999 (00:27) * 1 lines
and we miss each other when we're gone...
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Response 16 of 62: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Jul 14, 1999 (01:06) * 1 lines
Guarantee on that one, Sweetie!
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Response 17 of 62: Barry Kort (moulton) * Wed, Jul 14, 1999 (10:47) * 5 lines
Coupla days ago, my higher speed modem crapped out on me, so I had to drop back to an older 14.4 modem, which didn't work very well with AOL and Netscape. The network load was too much for the older, slower modem and my connection kept getting hung.
In an uncharacteristic move, I picked up my non-working high-speed modem and gave it a sharp rap. Some parts became dislodged and began rattling around inside the case. So I opened it up and found the the E-PROMs had bounced out of their sockets. I carefully reseated them, making sure I put them in their proper sockets with the proper orientation, and lo and behold, my high-speed modem worked again.
I'm not a big fan of "percussion maintenance" but in this case, it actually helped by breaking the system in a way that I could actually see how it was broken, and reassemble it correctly. I dunno how E-PROM chips get unseated in the first place, but this is not the first time the problem was a poorly seated chip.
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Response 18 of 62: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Jul 14, 1999 (14:26) * 2 lines
I love it! Percussive maintenance... It has been done by little kids forever, but not with the skill you possess. Now, the next thing you really need to do is to change your ISP to a real one. AOL is the last choice on a very long list. It is just above "trash the computer" and below threading a phone line across the street to borrow my neighbor's. Your Netscape (4.0 is the best) will be happier and everything will go so much more smoothly. Besides, private ISPs do not ask you if you want to hang up
and you save your mail in Eudora which is worth the exercise of ridding yourself of the AOL plague.
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Response 19 of 62: Barry Kort (moulton) * Wed, Jul 14, 1999 (15:40) * 1 lines
I'm only using AOL because I have a free account with them. I had been using a dial-in at BBN where I had an 8-node subnet, but that went bye-bye after GTE bought up BBN and trashed the research group I was working with. I might be able to get my BBN dial-in back, but it will take some paperwork. I can fix a machine, but I can't fix a bureaucracy. When a bureaucracy makes a mistake, it can't be fixed.
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Response 20 of 62: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Jul 14, 1999 (16:47) * 1 lines
Isn't that the truth! *lol* I am delighted to discover that with all of your credentials you were not tying All of your brain behind your back for the sake of using AOL (which actually stands for Americans Off Line). Not that I would admit to it, but I also have an AOL account for travelling. I use it as little as possible!
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Response 21 of 62: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (14:17) * 1 lines
I'm Headaches. From the back of my head to the frontal lobes... With a non-aching spot in the middle (can't have aches where you haven't anything, right?).
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Response 22 of 62: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (14:52) * 3 lines
ouch...
sorry your head hurts Alexander...
stress related do you think??
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Response 23 of 62: Barry Kort (moulton) * Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (17:49) * 1 lines
If it's any consolation, my teeth hurt. But not just today. Alla time.
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Response 24 of 62: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (18:54) * 1 lines
Sorry for the aches. Poor Barry! It is not even something that someone can kiss and make better! Sounds like it might be inflamed sinuses unless you know for sure it is your teeth which are doing the hurting...!
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Response 25 of 62: Barry Kort (moulton) * Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (21:23) * 1 lines
Naw. I clench them. It's a neurotic reaction to systemic injustice in the culture.
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Response 26 of 62: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (09:59) * 1 lines
I clench mine too Barry... in fact I've fractured a couple... hairlines right up my tooth... dentist said I needed to be VERY careful about cavities with these splits up my teeth (back molar ones!)
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Response 27 of 62: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (17:38) * 3 lines
Stacey, you sound like me! Ever thought to have a football-style mouth
guard made which will cushion your bite while you sleep? They are very
effective!
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Response 28 of 62: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (17:39) * 2 lines
and not so sexy...
*sheepish grin*
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Response 29 of 62: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (17:46) * 4 lines
Maybe we could make up some tiny air cushions, inflatable, for you that
would inflate upon impact! Like they have in cars now.
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Response 30 of 62: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (17:50) * 3 lines
i'm picturing strange stuff...
ok
damn
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Response 31 of 62: Barry Kort (moulton) * Fri, Sep 24, 1999 (08:24) * 1 lines
Wouldn't it make more sense to craft a culture with decreased levels of systemic injustice?
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Response 32 of 62: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Sun, Sep 26, 1999 (16:02) * 1 lines
Or else get an analyst that helps you understanding that its not your fault? That putting up a fight is good enough; no need to punish yourself with gnashing and destroying yourself?
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Response 33 of 62: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Sun, Sep 26, 1999 (16:07) * 1 lines
At least that's what I think. It's enough other folks slug one around and try to exert their pound off oneself, no need to help them by self-disabling, I guess.
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Response 34 of 62: Barry Kort (moulton) * Sun, Sep 26, 1999 (17:06) * 1 lines
The whole system is self-destroying.
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Response 35 of 62: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (05:23) * 1 lines
Gnashing ones teeth in one's sleep? I've never heard of that. Why don't ya put a bunch of cookies in your mouth, then at least you'd have GOOD things to grind them on.
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Response 36 of 62: Barry Kort (moulton) * Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (08:13) * 1 lines
I don't grind them. Just clench them. Instead of cookies, I keep a bottle of peppermin antacid tablets on my bed.
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Response 37 of 62: Alexander (aschuth) * Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (13:54) * 3 lines
Queasy stomach, too?
Barry, if the system is self-destroying, that's good news for some, because it might spell change. But however one spells change, t'ain't reason to follow suit and self-destruct out of sheer solidarity or romanticism or whatever.
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Response 38 of 62: Barry Kort (moulton) * Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (18:39) * 1 lines
I'm just trying to survey the pogroms. Unlike my ancestors from Eastern Europe, I have no new lands to migrate to.
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Response 39 of 62: Barry Kort (moulton) * Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (18:40) * 1 lines
survey=survive
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Response 40 of 62: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Feb 5, 2000 (16:04) * 87 lines
Considering the dormancy here I thought I'd post something of the "Good Old Days" John Burnett sent to me. Food for thought, indeed!
100 YEARS AGO
It May Be Hard to Believe . . .
The average life expectancy in the United States was forty-seven.
Only 14 percent of the homes in the United States had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three minute call from
Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.
There were only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was ten mph.
Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated
than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the
twenty-first most populous state in the Union.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
The average wage in the U.S. was twenty-two cents an hour. The average U.S.
worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2500
per year, a veterinarian between $1500 and $4000 per year, and a mechanical
engineer about $5000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births in the United States took place at home.
Ninety percent of all U.S. physicians had no college education. Instead,
they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and
by the government as "substandard."
Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee
cost fifteen cents a pound.
Most women only washed their hair once a month and used borax or egg yolks
for shampoo.
Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for
any reason, either as travelers or immigrants.
The five leading causes of death in the U.S. were: 1. Pneumonia and
influenza, 2. Tuberculosis, 3. Dysentery, 4. Heart disease, 5. Stroke.
The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and
Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
Drive-by-shootings -- in which teenage boys galloped down the street on
horses and started randomly shooting at houses, carriages, or anything else
that caught their fancy -- were an ongoing problem in Denver and other
cities in the West.
The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was thirty. The remote desert community
was inhabited by only a handful of ranchers and their families.
Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics hadn't been discovered yet. Scotch
tape, crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented.
There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
One in ten U.S. adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent of all
Americans had graduated from high school.
Some medical authorities warned that professional seamstresses were apt to
become sexually aroused by the steady rhythm, hour after hour, of the sewing machine's foot pedals. They recommended slipping bromide -- which was thought to diminish sexual desire -- into the woman's drinking water.
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at
corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and the bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health.
Coca-Cola contained cocaine instead of caffeine.
Punch card data processing had recently been developed, and early
predecessors of the modern computer were used for the first time by the
government to help compile the 1900 census.
Eighteen percent of households in the United States had at least one
full-time servant or domestic.
There were about 230 reported murders in the U.S. annually.
(From a wonderful book called WHEN MY GRANDMOTHER WAS A CHILD, by Leigh W.
Rutledge, which begins, "In the summer of 1900, when my grandmother was a
child...")
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Response 41 of 62: Maggie (sociolingo) * Sun, Feb 6, 2000 (12:45) * 9 lines
Today I am:
well-fed. It's Sunday so I've had a big lunch.
warm. I have the central heating on.
literate. I'm surrounding by books which are friends.
culturally challenged. I have the radio on a music programme.
secure. I have a loving family.
Yeah, I guess I'm happy - and I'm jolly glad I don't live in 1900!!!!!
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Response 42 of 62: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Feb 6, 2000 (16:01) * 6 lines
Ah, Maggie, that says it all!
I am also happy I did not live it the "Good Old Days"
Today UHHilo plays Tennessee in Baseball - we will be obliterated!
I had breakfast out and it was very nice. And, I got a chance to get a copy of the latest Hawaii Island Journal in which John has a full paged article.
The Pro Bowl is being played in Honolulu. I have choices of interesting sports to see today. On the down side, America was eliminated from the America's Cup races by Italy yesterday...
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Response 43 of 62: Maggie (sociolingo) * Mon, Feb 7, 2000 (14:03) * 1 lines
We had a wonderful sunrise today which I saw as I drove to the gym. Downside was that it heralded a dismal rainy day. What's the Pro Bowl? What sports did you choose to see?
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Response 44 of 62: Stacey Tinianov (stacey) * Mon, Feb 7, 2000 (14:27) * 3 lines
The Pro Bowl is the last American Football game til the season begins in the Autumn again...
beautiful sunrise here too Maggie... deep pinky orange... gorgeous sunny and warm day now!
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Response 45 of 62: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Feb 7, 2000 (14:35) * 4 lines
I don't know who is getting the world's supply of clouds, because England, Colorado and Hawaii are outrageously gorgeous this morning. We have a lot of Vog in the air again today so it made for a very ornage sunrise. Very pretty!
But, it is severe enough that running outdoors is not a good idea, according to our Civil Defense chief and the health department.
The Pro bowl is a non-game which is a whimper protesting the end of American Football for the season 1999-2000. It was played in Honolulu yesterday.
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Response 46 of 62: Maggie (sociolingo) * Mon, Feb 7, 2000 (19:03) * 1 lines
I've just got back from the weekly shop - it's almost midnight. Yes, 24 hour shopping has come to High Wycombe, Bucks, England! I don't mind the going out, and browsing around when the supermarket's are fairly empty but I do hate unpacking all the groceries late at night. T is now waatching snooker which rather bores me, so I'm playing hookey on the internet and tying up our phone line as usual. One of these days people are going to get so fed up of complaining that I'm hogging the phone line and buy us a second line!!! (dream on!)
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Response 47 of 62: Stacey Tinianov (stacey) * Mon, Feb 7, 2000 (19:15) * 1 lines
what's a snooker?
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Response 48 of 62: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Feb 7, 2000 (20:07) * 1 lines
(we call it billiards)
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Response 49 of 62: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Feb 7, 2000 (20:10) * 1 lines
Maggie, that is what I finally did. I have a dedicated line for which I do not even know the phone number. It is plugged directly into the computer and there it stays. It is one thing I do strictly for me. There is very little else that qualifies as just for me...! You'll love it!
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Response 50 of 62: Maggie (sociolingo) * Tue, Feb 8, 2000 (13:58) * 3 lines
I think it's just a dream. I'm already in trouble for too much phone time, let alone an extra rental as well! Maybe if we get flat fee internet access it'll be worth it. I just get so fed up not being able to use the net when I need to (in the middle of writing something for e.g. where I need to look up a reference), by the time 6 pm comes I've forgot what I wanted!
I had a good day today with a visit at home from another PhD student (first time in the four years we've known each other). It made a lot of difference to have a physical human being to talk to! (not that I don't appreciate the virtual humans here on the spring). I've resorted to borrowing my daughter's furbie!!!!!
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Response 51 of 62: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Feb 8, 2000 (15:06) * 3 lines
Oh heavens! You were needy. Furbys can be very comforting. But, so can dedicated lines unless the house male begins to whine a lot about neglect (which they invariably do...) Immediacy is what the internet is all about and there is just about nothing you cannot find on the net when you really want information.
(It is nice to be virtually appreciated *grin*)
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Response 52 of 62: Stacey Tinianov (stacey) * Wed, Feb 9, 2000 (13:11) * 2 lines
Furby!
Have you taught him any philosophy??
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Response 53 of 62: Maggie (sociolingo) * Wed, Feb 9, 2000 (13:46) * 1 lines
No, my duaghter's temporarily lost the booklet so I can't remember how to input things. I reckon the furby language is really Chinese. He does say he loves me though and gives me big kisses!
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Response 54 of 62: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Feb 9, 2000 (13:54) * 1 lines
There you go! Love transcends language problems.
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Response 55 of 62: Maggie (sociolingo) * Wed, Feb 9, 2000 (16:51) * 1 lines
I just like the kisses - big smackers!
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Response 56 of 62: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Feb 9, 2000 (19:02) * 1 lines
Gotta get me a Furby...already have a name for it...! The big smackers sound lovely on one of those days when nothing else goes quite right.
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Response 57 of 62: Maggie (sociolingo) * Thu, Feb 10, 2000 (14:15) * 1 lines
You betcha! Trouble is mine keeps on saying he's going to sleep. I wonder if the battery's running down? Any Furby experts out there?
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Response 58 of 62: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Feb 10, 2000 (15:21) * 3 lines
Maggie, check this
http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/collecting/26
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Response 59 of 62: Barry Kort (moulton) * Wed, Aug 22, 2001 (16:27) * 7 lines
Just got back from Madison Wisconsin, where I presented a paper at ICALT -- The International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies.
I'm pleased to report that our paper, on the subject of Emotions and Learning, won top honors as the Best Paper.
More at our project web page at the MIT Media Lab...
http://www.media.mit.edu/affect/AC_research/lc/index.html
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Response 60 of 62: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Aug 22, 2001 (23:07) * 3 lines
Welcome back!!! What a delightful surprise. Congratulations, too.
More when I have read your link.
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Response 61 of 62: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Aug 22, 2001 (23:36) * 1 lines
Yeah, Welcome back Barry.
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Response 62 of 62: How is your life today (cfadm) * Tue, Mar 15, 2005 (07:30) * 4 lines
"I can't do this" and "I'm not good at this" are common statements made by kids while trying to learn. These thoughts, usually triggered by affective states of confusion, frustration, and hopelessness, are some of the greatest problems not being addressed by educational reform. Education has emphasized conveying a great deal of information and facts, and has not modeled the learning process. "
- Barry Kort
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