Subj : Various Things To : Daryl Stout From : Barry Martin Date : Sat Jan 07 2023 08:53:00 Hi Daryl! BM> Where do you think 'dirt' came from?! DS> The Good Lord created it. And who do you think played in it?! BM> Some have used a switch -- that stick. DS> Or a belt or strap. Strip 'em and whip 'em!! As the Proverbs DS> note: DS> 1) Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child. But, the rod DS> of correction will drive it far from him. DS> 2) Do not withold discipline from a child. For, if you beat him DS> with a rod, he shall not die. DS> I got more than my share of spankings growing up (I think my DS> brother got more )...but I consider myself better for it. DS> Nowadays, they say "You can't spank them...it'll ruin their DS> self esteem". Personally I agree. I think the problem occurred when excess occurred: both excessive spankings and excessive withholdings. ... And things "get interesting" because sometimes a child will misbehave to get attention while other times just 'devilish'. BM> Feet over there in the corner.... DS> Or the sculpture of winter precipitation in the shape of two DS> walking things..."two feet of snow". Saw that - also have seen birthday card: older man (like a uncle) tells the kid "you've grown another foot" -- and the kid does have three legs, plus through the window one can see a nuclear power plant in the distance. (Hey: I'm the one who brought to the radiologist a cartoon I found of a patient hiding who had put a pile of ashes on the X-ray table for the cartoon radiologist to find!) BM> So we're back to belly up to the bar, feet in the corner from that BM> explosion?! DS> Sort of like the mess in Congress right now, where they can't DS> get enough votes to get a speaker. The Republicans are in DS> disarray, and the Democrats are absolutely giddy. One Congressman DS> said "these folks are getting high on the smell of their own DS> farts". I head they were going to do so a study on second hand DS> flatulence, but they couldn't find any volunteers. Yes, I've been loosely following that. That's also holding up the swearing in of the newly-elected representatives. BM> Actually ended up free: I sent a check (that's how old it is!!) to BM> register and it was returned, I think by the family of the developer BM> and a note which between the lines indicated he may have died. DS> I use MultiMail, although when I was on the 32-bit system, I DS> ran OLX. I was talking about the off-line editor: here SEDIT. At the time I was checking through options I had the dictionary function and allowed taglines. ...I just need to remember to use the Ctrl-A for the dictionary function! BM> If the restaurant needed that extra 20% then their posted prices were BM> too low in the first place. DS> That's true. I ordered over $200 worth of groceries yesterday, DS> but that should last me the rest of the month. Except $6 for a gallon of milk, $5 for a box of crackers.... DS> I had ordered 2 orders from an area Wendy's earlier this week, DS> on 2 separate days. The first order was great...the second one, DS> the iced tea tipped over in the bag, soaking the food. In the DS> future, I may not order a beverage. I was going to order from DS> Subway, but it would've been $15 more. I would have called Wendy's to complain-advise of the mishap. The driver should have known of the wet bag on delivery to you. Either Wendy's didn't pack properly for the delivery or the driver did some interesting driving. (It is possible the driver had to swerve or suddenly stop to avoid an accident.) IMO Subway used to be good for the value but not any longer. BM> Doubt if it will work because of taxes. Sure, can round up or down but BM> in the long run even that doesn't work out because the displayed amount BM> is only to two decimal points and the actual math is to I don't know BM> how far. Occasionally the register would say the customer owed 1› on BM> an even exchange - I never made them pay (one cashier would try to make BM> her customer pay and I'd get involved. "But my register wil be short a BM> penny!" "Do you count the pennies at close?" "No." "So...." "But BM> I'll be short!" "But you don't count them."). DS> They probably want to embezzle the extra, and say there was "a DS> voided ticket". I think that happened several times while I was DS> working at a local Burger King over 40 years ago. The franchise DS> owner required the employees to take a polygraph test...but they DS> had to sign a statement saying they weren't being forced into DS> doing it. Yet, if they refused to take the test, they were fired DS> (sounds like coersion (sp?) to me). There was also a policy that DS> if the cashier had "cash shortages", the amounts came out of DS> their paycheck. Yet, one of the managers was dipping into the DS> drawer, embezzling stuff, and the blame fell on the cashier. The DS> franchise owner set up a 2 week suspension without pay, and DS> unfortunately, I fell under that hammer. DS> Now, if I counted the drawer at the start, and did every DS> transaction, then I'd take responsibility for the drawer. It DS> never occurred to me that a manager might be dipping DS> in/embezzling things. DS> Well, 3 days after the suspension began, it was payday, so I DS> walked in to get my check, and the owner asked where I had been. DS> I replied "2 week suspension without pay for cash DS> shortages...your rules"...and was heading out to my car to leave. DS> He said "Consider the suspension ended; I need you". To me, that DS> spoke volumes...that he felt I was not guilty of embezzlement. Right. For a while the store where I worked at implimented a single- cashier-per-till rule (well, corporate did). Piddled off a few customers as they were used to checking out a Position 1 and had to move to Position 2 because the cashier could not. And the auditers or score-keepers or someone at corporate for a programming error: If Register 1 was locked (because no cashier - break, whatever) then the 'points' in the downstream registers (#2, #3...) didn't get counted! 'Points'were something like number of customers per hour, which was used to calculate the number of cashiers that should be scheduled and other metrics. BM> Now if the register said the customer was owed a penny I always gave BM> them the penny, along with a comment of this being their lucky day or BM> something similar. Receipt said they were owed money. :) DS> GIGO -- garbage in, garbage out. Computers and cash registers DS> aren't smart...they only think they are. Just a little problem with programming. :) BM> Which is how the credit card should also be treated IMO. Yes, nice to BM> make a large purchase because have the credit and pay back over time BM> with a _reasonable_ interest for extending credit. I don't consider BM> 23% much less 29% interest reasonable. DS> And, they'd raise it higher if they could. This inflation DS> balloon is going to burst sooner more than later...and it'll make DS> the stock market crashes of 1929 and 1987 look like child's play. Possibly -- a lot of factors are in place now which weren't in 1929, guessing a few also from 1987. to avoid a runaway issue. The only thing I can do is be careful of my spending -- spend too much now I won't have for later. Of course that creates some problems now, so by me holding on to my money that creates problems. Can't win! (Thought I'm going to do what I think I need to do for me to win.) BM> I guess it's "goodie for him!" then. DS> As long as I have power, internet, food, and drink, and the DS> Post Office Box mail can wait 2 weeks between pickups, I can stay DS> home. Yup. The only thing I'd be a hare concerned about is the two weeks between mail box pick-ups: I'd check into their rules and regulations (ask!) about the length of time mail sits there before triggers an "is the customer alive?" type of thing. Don't want a "return to sender". BM> Which beats buy a new (as in replacement) car, though with several of BM> those thousand dollar bills in a shorter period of time might be better BM> to apply that bill money towards the new car. DS> I remember when a new car was around $2000...now, it's 15 times DS> that (approaching $30,000 in some cases). My first car was $2 less than $2000 and it was a very nice used car. Now that amount is probably barely covering something in the junk yard. Of course a bunch of other factors: I don't recall what the wages were. And I'm certainly glad the pricings for computers haven't followed that trend! ...Well, wasn't able to quickly find what I wanted but this'll do: a 1989 Tandy 5000 (unknown hard drive capacity) was $5,000 in 1989, or $12,000 today (suuuure: the post is undated!). I don't have personal equivalences as I've been building my own hardware lately but I recall the 1 MB (one mega-byte) hard drive I was considering for my DEC Rainbow 100 was right around $1000. I have a 3 TB (so x3,000,000 if my math is working right) and I can purchase one of those starting at $35! Flasback: a 10-pack of RX-50 format floppy dishs was $50!! RX-50 stored 400 KB!!! BM> I'm thinking warm and then it sticks to the skin better! DS> Besides the sticky glitter, there was the "nasty fart spray". DS> McCauley Caulkin (from Home Alone) visited the inventor of the DS> original Glitter Bomb (a former NASA scientist, who became the DS> victim of a porch pirate one day), and had "an updated plan for DS> him". The inventor was ecstatic. The new and improved fart spray DS> was so nasty, that McCauley lamented "I think I just ate a turd". :P BM> Not such a tough guy now! DS> Good dog. :) I wander past a dog in the extended neighbourhood occasionally who isn't used to me -- sort of recognizes me at first but isn't sure so he barks a little 'meanly'. I tell him he's is doing his job and therefore a good boy but it's me and I'm safe (not those exact words!) -- basically causes him to calm down as he sort of recognizes me and I'm not a threat. BM> It was a little foggy here Monday morning -- remember half-joking with BM> myself the fog was the left-over smoke from the fireworks the night BM> before. Tuesday (yesterday as I write this) was also somewhat foggy in BM> the morning and then really got foogy in the afternoon -- visibility BM> was maybe a third to half a mile. They were talking about the BM> possibility of snow showers in the evening but that didn't occur. BM> Maybe some tonight but accumulating only on grassy surfaces as the BM> ground is warm. DS> In some areas, both fog and smoke led to chain reaction highway DS> crashes, from the lowered visibility. They confirmed 3 tornadoes DS> in Arkansas from this past Monday. And in any case drive according to conditions. 25 might be too fast! BM> ... Odd headline: Man Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge. DS> I carry no electrical charge, and can be handled safely. Huh: electroencephalogram is flat! DS> See tagline below. DS> ... Chain Lightning: For when you can't stop with one bolt. Ugh! Now you're just being revolting! ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® .... "I love it when it stays light out until it gets dark." --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .