Sean Dennis wrote to Dave Drum <=-
Congratulations on ditching Zuckermann's ca$h cow. The next time I go
on *any* of the so-called "social media" will be my maiden voyage.
Face- to-face, telephone, e-mail, mailing lists and Phydeaux are as "social" as I care to be. Not to mention that if you call my cell phone
it may be turned off. I'm not tethered to it as a substitute for real
life as many are these days.
I haven't left yet but will be soon. I have a few things that I want
to hand off to other people before I leave. I do have Twitter but
rarely use it. Twitter is good for getting out "system down" messages.
I do use something called Signal which is a chat program that allows
text, voice calls, and video calls to be used with strong end-to-end encryption. I have it on my cell phone, my laptop, and soon to be on
the BBS machine. I use it when dealing with backchannel BBS stuff.
I used telephone calls, email, and face-to-face for the most part. Back
"in the day" my sister conned me into getting an IRC account. As with
what I see of Farcebook, Tweet her, etc. the noise to signal ratio was
NOT in my favour. So, I shined it on and overwrote those sectors with
useful stuff .... like Super Mario Brothers. Of course this was in the
time when a 40 megabyte RLL HDD typically was around $400 .... SCSI
somewhat more.
I'd say the ball is in her court. She *can* contact you .... just
not via the information leaking, data mining Farcebook. I bet if
she needed a quick loan of $20, or her confuser fixed she'd find
a way.
She still owes me $50 so she won't contact me.
Then why would she be upset? Unless she wants to leech more $$$. I once
loaned a known "sponge" a $20 bill. A friend said "You'll never see
that twenty again."
I replied, "Or him, either. Good investment."
I've both a land line and a cell phone. My friends and family know
both numbers. My brother stays in reasonable touch. My sister -
not so much. Unless she needs something.
I want to get a POTS line for the BBS. Believe it or not, there's
several of my downlinks that would love to use POTS to transfer mail.
It's still more reliable than Internet connections out here. That
won't happen until I'm out on my own again though.
Ma Bell doesn't want you to have a POTS. My local outfit (AT&T) will
not install landline wiring any longer. And they'd love to get rid of
all their copper hard-wired infrastructure if only the Cmmerce Commission
would go along with the plan. I'm keeping my hard-wired land line for
the simple fact that in an emergency and power outage all the cell phone
towers will be down, too. But the telco has their own battery backed up
power. They work when little else does.
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
Title: Bayou Shrimp Creole
Categories: Cajun, Seafood, Stews, Chilies
Yield: 16 Servings
1 c Oil
1 Whole stalk celery; root
-trimmed off, sliced thin
5 c Onions; sliced
1 c Chilli sauce
1 ts Curry powder
3 lg Bay leaf
20 oz (2 boxes) frozen sliced okra
32 oz Tomatoes (2 #303 cans)
3 lg Bell peppers; cored, sliced
Leaves of the celery stalk;
- chopped
1 ts Thyme
Salt, red & black pepper
1/2 c Chopped parsley
5 lb Shrimp; cleaned, deveined
Heat oil in lg. frying pan. Add green peppers, celery,
celery leaves and onions. Cook over low heat, stirring
until vegetables are slightly softened. Add remaining
ingredients except shrimp. Cover and simmer for 1 hour,
stirring occasionally.
Refrigerate for 24 hours. Add shrimp 1 hour before
serving; heat thoroughly.
Serve over hot cooked rice.
Courtesy Telephone Pioneers
Meal Master Format by Dave Drum - 13 November 1998
Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
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... Celery is just water, neatly organized into lines.
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