Why I Support President Bush and the ZOT!

[thousand dollar hamburger]

I think he has a sincere desire to help everyone. he has even gone out of his way to embrace people like Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy. He does not hold grudges as shown by his willingness to bend over backwards to allow terrorist supporting nations to operate our ports. We need this type of benevolent leader.

Our President is not a cheapskate, as he has opened up our budget to give to anyone who might need anything.

Aliens from all nations are welcomed into our great country without having to deal with mundane bureaucratic State approval. Cutting government red tape -- that's the Bush way!

Yes, our Prseident even realizes that occupying as many countries around the world as possible is the best way to spread American ideals.

We are truly lucky to have this great man. I suggest that at 10:00 AM EST, we all stand up in unison and shout -- HOORAY FOR BUSH!!!

[fanfan]

Want my translation of all that?;-)
Based on my own limited understanding, of course.....

"My internal CD-RW is fried--now it's a fancy cupholder ;)"

My CD re writer died, and is now a fancy cup holder.



"So I had to go up to school to test my webpages on my BSD live CD (FreeSBIE 1.1). It works, so I'm happy. 8^)"

You had to take a CD to school to test it, it worked, and you're happy.




" Now if I can find their default theme (Sn33z) and use it across the board..."

Now, if you can find and use a fault across the board...

Where did a board come into this, and who's fault is it?

Can you tell I'm not to good with computer jargon?

[fanfan]

Hello!

How's your weekend?

[rzeznikj at stout]

OK, simply put,

The first point is correct. I need to replace the cd drive.

The second point is also correct. I used a CD (that contains an entire operating system) to test my website and it worked.

Point #3: Sn33z is a Fluxbox (a *nix desktop system) theme. I would like to find versions to use on Windows and my other Linux desktops.

That's OK. A lot of people I know aren't good with computers...;)

[fanfan]

LOL!

I think the concept of the third sentence is just way beyond me!

It's like when people post in French, sometimes I sorta get it, and sometimes not at all.
Computer language is like that too, but I love to learn.

Now I'm thinking about how much I have learned.
In 1993 we bought our first computer, a compac.
We had dial up, by way of long distance, on AOL.

I loved it!
I crashed it all the time...I had no idea what I was doing!
LOLOL!


Sorry for going on so much, this brought back good memories for me.

Thanks!

[Soaring Feather]

Hi BOB, oh my gosh you're funny!

[NicknamedBob]

Welcome aboard, Miss 'Feather.

I wasn't trying to be particularly funny about our upcoming space maneuvers. I hope you're referring to the comment about kicking the table leg.

This will be a complicated process. We have to match speeds with the planet Mars, transfer our three mass rotation to a stable two-mass configuration, bring the Flying Castle to an atmospheric entry vector, and de-orbit smoothly to a landing position inside a nice round crater on the surface of Mars -- and not break any dishes in the kitchen or spill anybody's drink or the water in the moat.

So it's kinda tricky, see?


Did I mention we'll be doing this with almost the last of our rocket propellant?

Now, where did I leave my slide rule?

[rzeznikj at stout]

OK. I'll try to simplify these things a bit further:

A desktop environment is the graphical interface. When you start your computer, this is what displays the icons, folders that you can point and click on. It's the look of your computer.

Themes and icons customize a desktop environment.

Windows offers one desktop environment based on version. Basically, whatever Micrsoft has programmed into Windows is what we get.

On the other hand, Unix-based (and derived) systems (e.g. Unix, Linux, etc.) has several different desktop enviroments for you to select when you start your computer. The most common ones are KDE, GNOME, XFCE, and Fluxbox (Flux). Here, I select which one I'd like to use at the login screen.

What I'd like to do is take the theme from one of my Desktop environments and apply them in other places--as a Windows theme and as complete sets on my other Linux environments.

[Tax-chick]

Pretty good. Vlad hasn't been too difficult, and the remaining children have been outside a lot!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Oh don't worry about the kitchen. With the special padded racks nothing will break.

That is, assuming that everybody put their dishes away.

[Soaring Feather]

Thank You.

Yes, it was kicking the table I had in mind.

Well, I have a lot of space graphics which are fun. Should be interesting backing the ship into the crater. How many pilots we gonna have?? LOL


Some good Si-Fi should come out of it at any rate. You're good at that.

[NicknamedBob]

"How many pilots we gonna have??"

On the Flying Castle, we'll have positions available for two hundred pilots. That's because each "motor" is a "lifeboat" as well.

Should the very worst scenario take place, and the Castle appear to be in danger of being lost, we will have two minutes or less in which to evacuate to the Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactor/Rocket Motors which are our motors, our shuttles, and our lifeboats.

With a destroyed Castle habitat, those who survive would have to make their way in the shuttle lifeboats back to the orbiting Habitats A and B, and prepare for return to Earth.

That, of course, is the worst case. What we plan to do is land safely on Mars, do a bit of exploring, perhaps set up a subsidiary dome on a nearby crater, and eventually return to our sister habitats.

Where we go from there has not been decided yet.

[King Prout]

I explained why a clean cut is better than a crush cut or a jagged tear, as part of the double-grim "respect" speech.

I also explained that a shrp blade is less apt to turn in the hand and bite the wielder, but I doubt they'll grok that one until they feel that old, old, sicknin' sensation...

[King Prout]

not a bad one, true.

[Soaring Feather]

Flying Castle is it?? Well, now my curisoity is peaked.

we will have two minutes or less in which to evacuate to the Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactor/Rocket Motors which are our motors, our shuttles, and our lifeboats.

We will need transporters out there. I have a few left over from Star Trek days. Now these boats you're talking about, who is the Supreme commander out there?? My gosh 200 pilots is a huge crew. How you gonna keep track of them all?? LOL

[King Prout]

hehhehheh!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They are the retrained crews from the ten nuclear submarines that I got as a Christmas present.

Having few job prospects on Earth they opted to join us

[King Prout]

updates will follow as the next rounds occur, never fear.

[rzeznikj at stout]

Did they get their uniforms?

[NicknamedBob]

You're planning to re-engineer us and organize us less than two weeks before we land?

The Flying Castle has a transportation system. It is a network of tubular elevator runs, with spherical elevator cars. They can transport one directly to the shuttle thrusters for evacuation.

Links and descriptions of some our previous discussions and adventures are available on my home page, as is a "cooks tour" of the Flying Castle labeled Chapter Seventeen.

[Soaring Feather]

They are the retrained crews from the ten nuclear submarines that I got as a Christmas present. Having few job prospects on Earth they opted to join us

Oh sounds like a zany crew aboard. Lady we need some Flying Castles for this trip, you in??