just sign here sir BLIMEY you've got a lot of books

when i was working for s&s fulltime i got a courier quite often who had the MOST elaborate face-piercing architecture i haf EVAH seen (little bars through lips, nose, eyelids: it looked like someone had put scaffolding on his face — he was hot too, but kissing him would class as a Dangerous Sport, you could have someone's eye out etc)

ok sorry mark s this doesn't answer your question really but about that new computer: the imac?? is it really as lovely and banana jr-esque as it seems to be in the advertisements? why does apple continue to taunt me unless i buy their latest utopian uber-creation??!

erm well yes and no: OS X is hateful in design, and i want to switch back to OS9, which supposedly i can but have spent all day not being able to

it is of course nice being able to access elaborate websites quickly where my old computer used just to hang

i cannot yet plumb in my nice new printer as it requires a lead i failed to order

i have not yet switched from explorer (which i HATE) to netscape tho that is semi-laziness

all my dox are on my old pooter and will not be easily transferred for several days poss weeks

i have mixed feelings at the moment: i had my LC475 for seven years. it is Ñ i nowe notice Ñ in an indescribably filthy state, but that is love not neglect hmmm

can U not get "Opera" for mac mark? I have found that on my old M$ bawx it makes both netskrape & int explorer look a bit rubbish.

U could aslo d/l this program called "ircle" (Ned will tell U how if U ask, I'm sure) then U could apopear on the "#ilx" chat session relay thing which would be a very good thing indeed.

BTW I never worx0red as a courier, but used to go & doo home repais on people's broken \//-\X vacuum cleaners. The worst I saw was bad smelliness, & this is why I don't do housecalls anymore. When I was wif the bhangra group, the dholak player rented property. The worst he saw whilst collecting rent was skanky fux0r, appearing at door with big stiffy.

There was a notorious electricity board employee who used to come into our shop (his piece de resistance - after fitting new cable in a vicar's house, he mixed plaster on top of his grand piano) he told of going to deliver a cutoff notice to house in notorious BAD AREA he knocked on the door, & heard footsetps of GIANT SCARY DOG bounding towards him. CRASH! The door shook etc. HE delivered the notice by holding it in pliers and opening the letterbox w/a screwdriver. He recalled seeing the notice just vanish, leaving a scrap of paper left in the jaws of the pliers. The residents had claimed that they hadn't been receiving bills. Quite plausibly I think.

"doo" = do, "repais" = repairs etc etc. Really, I must get my monitor placed better.

omniweb!

you've probably already figured this out mark but you can get out of osX:

apple menu ---> system preferences ---> startup disk ----> macos 9.2.1 on macintosh hd (should already be installed). then restart your computer and it will reboot into macos 9.2

for all the preinstalled new macoX computers they put in 9.2 (you will notice that your computer sometimes will boot into 'classick mode' while in osX when it has to run an actual useful program) this will cause your computer to stall momentarily and then run slower

um...ok. back to couriers...

ok i just installed netscape hurrah

i will look into other suggestions norman

geeta yes i know how i am meant to switch OS as per basic moves, it just asks me questions on the way re getting on the net which are baffling me a bit, but i am tired and superstitious (don't do everything IN ONE DAY eg)

yes, COURIER ACTION PLEASE

I heart OS X.

That's just the registration information (it looks like OS 9, right?). I think you can skip it by hitting Command-Q.

why do you heart it? it is hideous...

oh it's all the ISP/DNS stuff that drives me insane, i am only one number away now

ooh, did you get one of those wee white daleks? want want WANT!

i really gotta put my Quadra 610 out to pasture...anyone care to lend me 4 grand?

X never crashes ever which is pretty cool i think but it doesn't feel like the snappy well-oiled machine os9 does.

First week living with Lydia last year, the phone guy - Darnell - comes at 9 in the morning to install the line. Darnell does what he has to do, and turns out to be a friendly funny dude, so we sit awhile in the kitchen drinking coffee and he makes phone calls every 20 minutes or so to cover his ass. He said he grew up in the same neighborhood as Biggie and remembers seeing His Bigness booking it down the street running away from some guys. All of a sudden this scrawny man/boy climbs down my fire escape and comes right in through my open window! "Hello!" I say, or something. Always polite! He mumbles something to me, sweating and swaying a little, Darnell's just sitting at the table, staring at him, I'm kind of backing away and moving forward at the same time, if that's possible. Then cackling laughter - Lydia. He's a friend of Lydia's. She climbs in the window with another dude, wearing: lowriders and a black bra, full stop. oh, and clutching a bottle of champagne, finishing a story and laughing hysterically. She sees Darnell and hits on him almost as bad as she hit on the cops who came to check out the burglary 10 months later. On his way out Darnell confidentially gives me his number in case we have any "parties". We never did have one, though.

i can never find the threads i WANT that i started but i can make myself laugh at the titles of threads i have forgotten i started

Ha ha, what a great random thread.

My funniest courier experience was in NYC, I was eating baby carrots while waiting for some delivery. Without thinking, I just took the baby carrots downstairs when I went to answer the door.

The delivery man looked at the carrots, looked at me, then burst out laughing.

I offered him one, but he said no thanks "Obviously, they're not doing you any good, as you're wearing glasses!"

He was under the impression that carrots somehow helped your eyesight, which I'd never heard before. But it obviously amused him intensely.

carrots are purported to help with night vision, but not with vision generally i don't think. reckon yerman was confusing his malaprops.

Well, I was happy to provide a laugh. I imagine his job could be quite boring.

Ahhhh....OS9....those were the days....

Everyone who ever comes into my house always says "wow you've got a lot of books", and I'm always half pleased because I love books and I know that they can only see half my books, and half embarassed because - well why have i got so many books? To people without loads of books does it look really pretentious I wonder?