Wallace says my shoulder injury is off the critical list. But yesterday he thought I had the plague, so figure that out. Did I ever tell you about Ernie Kelly, a town bully. Actually, he wasn’t so much a bully as a fourteen year old in grade five. Ernie had a long needle made in shop class out of a coat hanger. Whenever any of the kids had even the smallest zit, Ernie would prescribe “Lance it!”Now Ernie pronounced his last name “kuh-LEE” and so did you if you knew what was good for you. I wonder if he knows how many kids he gave complexes to, the way he would take out his Zippo and run the flame up and down that needle. “Gotta stair-lize it for ya.” I believe Ernie became a town councilor in Spedden, Alberta. Or did he wind up in jail with all his friends?
Time to correct an error. I have been mistakenly referring to Mitch’s machine as a “trike” when in fact it is called a “trikke”. Looks like I’m about to find out if my search and replace feature works. Sorry ‘bout that, big guy. Thursday is Jimbos Karaoke and I was there to finally hear Eddie, the great-nephew of Bill Monroe. He’s certainly got a distinct country style and I explained to him why I was seeking a guitar player who could not play much at all. That is correct, I do not need a good guitar player. I actually sang “Secret Agent Man”, the first time I’ve dared to present something that was not from my regular song list.
The fact that others may already know this does not impress me, for they were raised around the technology and did not figure it out for themselves. Tomorrow I will investigate the possibility that the reason both Ahead Nero and NTI [popular disk copying software] have special video disk options that nobody ever uses. If only it turns out to be that simple. It would also mean that not one of the many books and optical disk manuals I’ve read over the past four years has ever mentioned a single word about Karaoke.
File Maker is ill-designed for some features, but it is still a superior product to MS Access (the relational database that comes bundled with Windows). I’ve gotten it to produce a report to discover it is then difficult to get that report off the monitor so you can see the files again. Also, the report then disappears into the machine without any direct way to reprint it. Nor have I found any way to do compound queries, File Maker seems to only have native ability to do single-field matches. I understand almost anything could be scripted but it would be nasty of them to require such monumental effort for basic functions.
Oops, I’ve just been admonished for using jargon. What is “bundled” and “scripted”? Bundled is a phone company term adopted by the computer industry, it means a group of features that are generally not sold separately. This practice often surprises honest people who understand service to mean something that works. Take a look at your bill and you will realize how many different things the phone company regards what you are getting when in fact all you may have is plain old telephone service. If it were not for harsh government regulation saying the phone company must bundle dial tone with phone service, they would probably charge extra for it.
Scripts are another computer term. These are generally small programs that list a series of steps for a computer to perform. When you issue a print command, the computer executes a script and out spits your document, at least in theory. These scripts are very finicky and there are far too many of them. They are not a good thing if you have to construct them yourself, for they tend to be computer-specific. They are not plain English no matter what anybody claims. Scripts are usually only necessary when somebody else intentionally left something out--you will find a lot of scripts in Android "programming", which explains why they run slower than real browsers. You see, they unbundled it and every other function became an extra.
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