BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat

Subject: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:02 PM

Oh I was feeling so deprived I was getting depraved!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:03 PM

Too true - been trying it all day - just in case.

Addicted - nah, not me!

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Cath
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:04 PM

But where has all the list gone?

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:06 PM

Select 3 days from the drop down menu and refresh to get the old posts back
G

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Leadfingers
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:06 PM

Select 7 days and refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: John O'L
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:07 PM

It's three times as long as it was a minute ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Max
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:07 PM

sorry, I've been in the woods for a few days. Thanks for the 17 phone calls and text messages.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:08 PM

in the woods? No compass, huh? *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Rasener
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:08 PM

Did you catch anything Max :-)

Thanks for getting it back on line Max.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Leadfingers
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:09 PM

At least its back and kicking Max !

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:09 PM

ONLY twenty contacts, Max?   We're falling down on the job!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:11 PM

That phone machine must have been blinking up a storm. Good to have you back!

What is it with these Google "choir shirt" ads, anyway?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: My guru always said
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:15 PM

Glad the Cat's back, got back home on Sunday and was getting withdrawal... Thanks Max!

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Big Mick
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:17 PM

It's as I mentioned over on The Annexe. If you old timers would think back, you would remember that this seems to have a habit of happening around Thanksgiving (think Deer Camp all you transplanted Midwestern USA members). This young man named Max has the sheer audacity to think he can just take off, enjoy the woods and family over a holiday weekend with no thought whatsoever to the loonies all over this globe that want to take up his time. The nerve of the guy (says Mick with tongue planted firmly in cheek).

Glad you had a good weekend, Max. Did you bother to hunt, or just enjoy the woods?

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: old girl
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:25 PM

thank goodness, I thought it was me, as I have changed from a mac to a PC & still having probs on how to work the thing

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Bill Hahn//\\
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:27 PM

Most people go the other way---PC to Mac.

Bill H

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:56 PM

No they don't Bill, I loathe Macs.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Charley Noble
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 07:14 PM

Max-

Glad to hear you had a weekend away in the woods.

We can survive. In fact I get much more done when Mudcat is down, even though I miss my "break times."

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 07:23 PM

Got my NaNoWriMo novel done, early, thanks to Mudcat being down!**bg** 50,580 words!

I guess it's good to know we're all watching out for ya, huh, Max? Hope you had a good time. Thanks for getting Mudcat back up.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 08:05 PM

Kat, 50,000 plus words in a MONTH? That's a pile of words. When I do 500 words a day, that's a pretty big day. I don't suppose you piled them up at random? *g*

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 08:29 PM

Nope - she subcontracted to a bunch of monkeys with typewriters who said they had a lot of previous experience....

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 08:40 PM

"a bunch of monkeys with typewriters"
But now parts of the book are exact duplications of entries in the Encyclopedia Brittanica; the theory was correct; sit enough monkeys at typewriters, and, sooner or later, it was bound to happen!

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 09:58 PM

LMAO...you lot are too much!

I am amazed myself, Ebbie. Found out I do better with a deadline; a graph showing my daily output is really motivating; I can shut off my Inner Editor; and, I really CAN write only when I have a free moment. (I used to think it had to be in the morning - my "productive time")Over 70,000 people signed up for it. At last count 2400 of us actually finished, but the final count isn't until after midnight on the 30th. You should think about it for next November: NaNoWriMo. Start your plots now! I first learned about it from hesperis. CapriUni is closing in on her 50,000, too and was a winner last year, too, if I remember rightly.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Nov 06 - 11:32 PM

Great.

I actually had "a life" there for about 24 hours. It wasn't much, but it was "a life", eh?

Now...well, you know... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 04:10 AM

Hope the deer got away to safety, not too worried about your fellow hunters.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 04:20 AM

Everytime it goes off I wonder is it just me... we ought to have some sort of, the mudcats off line hang out room... a waiting room... for those who are concerned it's just them...

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Big Mick
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 07:17 AM

Ella, you do have one. It is Jon Freeman's site The Annexe. Join as a member, and that is where many check in.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 04:07 PM

Although there are certain areas that the Prosecution is not allowed to raise, once those areas are opened by the Defense, examination by the Prosecution during redirect is permissible.

Mac OS X Spyware Sample Spotted

An F-Secure spokesman said:

          "This is easier to do than with Windows. After all, it's a Mac."

All it shows is that the spammers aren't totally disinterested in the miniscule base of Mac users. Be proud.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Amos
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 04:31 PM

Wow. A genuine piece of Mac malware? Goollllly. So now it's Mac 1, Windows 3,235,227? :D Proud, aye.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 08:32 PM

But Amos -

At least the malware writers have started to notice the Macs now!!!

Apple released 12 patches for OS-X about a month ago. As far as I could tell, they were pretty much the same as ones Windows was patching a year or so ago. Some buffer overrun vulnerabilities and such were identified (vaguely). But Apple hasn't released any descriptions of what they decided to patch, since they want people to keep thinking they're invulnerable.

You're safe if nobody notices you. You should be pushing the notion that only "starving artists" use Macs, so the criminals won't start trying to mug ya'.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Amos
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 08:53 PM

LOL!!! Funny notion when you look at the price tahs on the eye-candy festooning any Mac store....

But still, I love 'em, and I'll not deny 'em,
I'll take 'em with me wherever I go....


A

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 May 17 - 12:16 PM

There.

I KNEW there must be an old welcome-back-Mudcat thread to refresh.

Welcome the heck back. I missed Mudcat something awful.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: CupOfTea
Date: 05 May 17 - 12:27 PM

Thank you, Max. Presence missed and appreciated.
I hope the downed trees have now been reduced to useful firewood.

Joanne in Cleveland

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 May 17 - 06:31 PM

The only good thing about Mudcat being down is--I got to bed earlier!

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 May 17 - 12:09 PM

And when I woke up this morning,
The Mudcat Cafe was here to greet me,
thank the Almighty Creator of the Universe.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 06 May 17 - 12:27 PM

It's nice to have Mudcat back....I was getting withdrawal symptoms....

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 06 May 17 - 09:38 PM

me, too. When I log on Mudcat appears - but it didn't for dayyyyys!

Now the universe is back in place.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Nov 19 - 01:08 PM

'Twas the Sunday before Thanksgiving,
the pause before one of the heaviest travel holidays all year,
and the Mudcat was offline ...

now it's Monday, and the Mudcat is back. Thank heavens.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Nov 19 - 02:10 PM

It's the second week of deer camp, and all the guys are here...

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Nov 19 - 04:59 PM

CT, thank you for the splendid Thanksgiving Birthday dinner. Many wonderful things were said about you the man, husband and father.

I believe it was my missed opportunity to honor you as the Maestro.
I have known a half dozen or so composer conductors from orchestras and pits. I have been in the presence of Leonard Bernstein and John Williams but never interacted.
There are some who are generals and the musicians are their foot soldiers, but only the best have your humility and humble imprimatur.
I believe everyone has a spark of genius but there are some like yourself whose genius is more high voltage. There are composer, performer conductors who possess extraordinary talent and there are some who are possessed by it. You seem to be the former.

You are only 70. Composer John Williams is 91 this year and still borrows from Holst. You have kept your feet on the ground while keeping your head in heaven in the East and West. Your remarkable accomplishments and genres of music are to many to mention.
Your grand opera to consecrate the new opera house in Taiwan and your concertos alone, will make you musically immortal. Even how you handled the nuts and bolts of affording performances is powerful, like your visit with George Soros while he picked your brains.

Maestro Chen, I remind you that viewing far horizons are important !
It is always possible that the past can be seen as good practice for what is to come. Be confident that we are not forgetting, and we are anticipating the music that is yearning to be created by you, a masterful servant of art, some of which you say comes from God.
If so, go God go.

Your friend,
Donuel.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Nov 19 - 10:31 PM

Nice to see words from old friends who are gone. Mudcat misses them.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Nov 19 - 04:14 PM

Too true, Stilly.
Not to speak of
the links that no longer work! [e. g. The Annexe]

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Nov 19 - 04:43 PM

The Annexe: https://web.archive.org/web/20070110100618/http://www.jonbanjo.com/forum/forum.php

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Nov 19 - 05:07 PM

It was a mini-bummer when the Mudcat
went incommunicado for a few hours on Thanksgiving Day in the US --
thankful for the Mudcat, so I am,
and especially thankful to have it back.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Nov 19 - 05:23 PM

That Internet Archive (aka the Wayback Machine) is always a treasure!

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Dec 19 - 09:34 AM

Separated from the Mudcat again
on Tuesday December 10.

I still wonder what sj stands for --
the Society of Jesus?

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome back once more Mudcat
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 19 - 11:07 AM

Get over it or you will get Max's selfless but heroic job.