I'm so stupid, I signed up and got the Zot.

I see this thread has slowed down a lot lately.

33,881 posted on 07/15/2005 12:53:18 PM PDT by tuliptree76 (I'm sailing on the wide accountancy.)

It's because of the lag, I'm sure. I timed one of my posts this morning. Forty-five minutes before it showed up where it was supposed to.

:o|

33,882 posted on 07/15/2005 1:10:25 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)

Yeah, kinda hard to carry on a conversation when your post comes up as 33,882 of 33,880.

33,883 posted on 07/15/2005 1:26:32 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Never underestimate the will of the downtrodden to lie flatter.)

33,884 posted on 07/15/2005 2:17:43 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)

Howdy!

What a beautiful day. The boys at Ft Lewis are practicing with some of their heavy artillery and it's making a lovely boom!

33,885 posted on 07/15/2005 2:18:54 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)

"Forty-five minutes before it showed up where it was supposed to. "

Speaking of which, I have information that says a certain item left Denver on the eleventh heading in your direction.

Any sign of it?

33,886 posted on 07/15/2005 3:13:25 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Mighty and enduring? They are but toys of the moment to be overturned by the flicking of a finger.)

To: Dead Corpse; King Prout; NicknamedBob; sionnsar

So who do we talk to (email) to get this 45+ minute lag taken care of? This is not good. If the thread is too long, then they should probably adjust the servers to handle something a little smaller. It won't be as much fun, but at least we can keep the castle from ruin...

*sobbing into hands, wearing sackcloth and ashes*

33,887 posted on 07/15/2005 3:26:36 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)

To: NicknamedBob

No, darnit! I have been looking for it all week. Let me guess...it's coming by USPS, am I right?

(I could say it will be here tomorrow, but if I do, and it is, you will think I have ESP.)

33,888 posted on 07/15/2005 3:28:33 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)

"...you will think I have ESP."

We have discussed your medical problems before, and while I sympathize, there's really nothing I can do...

I think the problem is, the snails tend to slow down in the dry country. It would be ironic though if you got your book on the same day the new Harry Potter book comes out.

33,889 posted on 07/15/2005 3:39:26 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Mighty and enduring? They are but toys of the moment to be overturned by the flicking of a finger.)

To: NicknamedBob

LOL!

I believe the snails are rather dehydrated. But it may be that our "regular" mailman has been trying to move and has called in with the "cardboard flu."

If he has, it means we have gotten the irregulars, and they are just not dependable, as they have to do this route in the heat after they have finished their own. They don't deliver a lot of stuff. Including letters/bills/ads, etc.

I like to email the PO about the lousy service and remind them that the UPS store is just down the street.... ;o]

33,890 posted on 07/15/2005 3:45:22 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)

UPS is rather expensive to send books.

I have confidence that it will arrive tomorrow.

Then, of course, you will disappear from view for a couple of days. Please remember to feed Hobbes.

33,891 posted on 07/15/2005 3:50:14 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Mighty and enduring? They are but toys of the moment to be overturned by the flicking of a finger.)

To: NicknamedBob

"UPS is rather expensive to send books."

It's actually WAY expensive to send books.
Hobbes, being the dear that she is, will remind me vigorously to feed her. She is good that way, adding an occasional "NOW!"

33,892 posted on 07/15/2005 4:39:39 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)

To: Monkey Face; tuliptree76; Dead Corpse; King Prout

Not only slow, but quiet on the thread.

Everybody watching Stargate? (I am!)

33,893 posted on 07/15/2005 5:06:23 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Mighty and enduring? They are but toys of the moment to be overturned by the flicking of a finger.)

To: NicknamedBob

I'm here...

I just can only post half fast..."Do not attempt to adjust your television set. We control the horizontal..."

Getting tired of the Internet having control of my postings...}:o[

33,894 posted on 07/15/2005 5:20:52 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)

The responses come up quickly in the pings listing.

Just one-on-one conversation, though.

We might as well be FReemailing our comments.

33,895 posted on 07/15/2005 5:35:22 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Mighty and enduring? They are but toys of the moment to be overturned by the flicking of a finger.)

To: NicknamedBob

33,896 posted on 07/15/2005 5:45:10 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)

To: Monkey Face; FRiends

*sobbing into hands, wearing sackcloth and ashes*

Ah, com'on, cheer up you Ray of Sunshine!

OK.

If not here, now,........when would you prefer to be? And where?

Would you be a homesteader in the 1800's, or a trader in Rome?

Anyone want to play?

Imagine if we were born at a different time.

Cool, eh?

p.s. I am so glad I live in a time, and place that has showers!

33,897 posted on 07/15/2005 7:30:57 PM PDT by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)

Apparently, in order now to travel backwards and forwards in time, you will need to wear a doughnut on your head. That rules me out then as I won’t countenance sugar crumbs reigning down on my balding bonce.

“One of the major difficulties of travelling backwards in time has just been solved, according to an Israeli theoretical physicist. And the solution, he says, is doughnut-shaped.

Trips in time have been theoretically possible ever since Einstein worked out that heavy masses can warp both time and space, and that objects travelling close to the speed of light tend to experience the passage of time more slowly.

Moving forwards in time is therefore easy. Certain short-lived cosmic particles, for example, can be seen on Earth. Their journey looks to us as if it has taken thousands of years, but the particle feels as though it has whipped across space in just a few minutes, and arrives on Earth before it has had time to decay. In effect, the particle has travelled into the future, living beyond its years.

But getting back to the past is more problematic. Researchers thought you would need all kinds of strange things to do this, including a neutron star (which we know to exist), worm holes (which we don't), and a kind of exotic matter that we can only imagine.

This is where Amos Ori from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, comes in. He says that according to Einstein's theories, space can be twisted enough to create a local gravity field that looks like a doughnut of some arbitrary size. The gravitational field lines circle around the outside of this doughnut, so that space and time are both tightly curved back on themselves.”

Link

Life isn't weird. It's just me.

;-)

33,898 posted on 07/15/2005 7:37:55 PM PDT by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)

Mmmmmmmm.... Doughnut....

33,899 posted on 07/15/2005 8:09:19 PM PDT by Genesis defender (If you are alone or depressed, meditate on Matthew 28:20.)

To: Genesis defender

33,900 posted on 07/15/2005 8:28:54 PM PDT by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)

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