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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: GUEST,Mary Katherine Date: 26 Feb 08 - 01:02 PM Wow, Kat, the new computer is so....shiny!! Good job! Art, make sure you wear your dark specs when you're near the box. |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Rapparee Date: 26 Feb 08 - 01:02 PM Now if he ever needs guitar strings again he can just strip the insulation off any of those cables, untwist a few wires, and off ya go! It might be safest to unplug the cable first, however. |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Feb 08 - 11:36 AM Chris was right--good looking shirt! :-D |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: John MacKenzie Date: 26 Feb 08 - 11:27 AM Don't know much about Art but I know that I like. G |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: katlaughing Date: 26 Feb 08 - 11:11 AM Well, this might get us back on track, SRS....I've got pictures! Just in this morning. Click HERE for a picture of Art, the Happy Camper, and several of the new setup! Great job, again, Chris. Thank you!! |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Feb 08 - 10:18 AM The Google ads at the bottom are offering Lefse and Lefse supplies! A first at Mudcat, no doubt! My book discusses Akevitt and Juleøl. Sounds quite marvelous. I wonder what Art dreamed about last night? We've strayed seriously into another foodie thread after one night of his tossing and turning! :) SRS |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Rapparee Date: 26 Feb 08 - 09:11 AM Sending lutefisk might void Art's warranty. |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: bassen Date: 26 Feb 08 - 08:41 AM Ingen årsak! |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Big Mick Date: 26 Feb 08 - 08:29 AM Takk skal du ha , meg venn! |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: bassen Date: 26 Feb 08 - 08:22 AM Lutefisk is made by soaking stokkfisk (dried cod) in lye, then steaming, simmering or baking to prepare. Bacalhau or bacalao or klippfisk is salted, dried cod. You can make lutefisk out of that too if you want, like they do in the part of Norway where I live. It's the softening in lye that makes it lutefisk (literally "lye fish"). Lutefisk is good - once a year, at Christmas , with lots of Christmas beer and akevitt to wash it down. Skål! Bassen |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: MartinRyan Date: 26 Feb 08 - 07:11 AM So that's what they were trying to feed me on the magnificent Staadsrad Lehmkuhl Norwegian tall ship, years ago - lutefisk! Nearly put me off sailing.... Regards |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: John MacKenzie Date: 26 Feb 08 - 05:45 AM Luttefisk is obviously a first cousin to Bacalhau which I took a liking to a few years back, when I had a Portuguese wife. Giok |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: catspaw49 Date: 26 Feb 08 - 12:55 AM Great......that'd be a surefire way to NEVER get any help from Chris again...........Lutefisk my ass....................geeziz...................tryin' to kill the guy.................... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Feb 08 - 12:37 AM Actually, you'd like this book. I was mistaken. The book mentioned on the lutefisk site is Ekte Norsk Mat; my book is the same authors, but is Ekte Nork Jul, traditional christmas cooking. Cookies, pastries, cakes, breads. . . not a fisk in sight! I suspect that getting lutefisk too close to the Dell might void the warranty. Say--we could send Chris some lutefisk! We need to offer him a huge thank-you--without his help this would have been quite difficult to pull off. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: katlaughing Date: 26 Feb 08 - 12:02 AM Yes, it would be ludicrous to send one to Art!**BG** Maggie, I was telling Art my parents used to talk about the lutefisk and lefse up in North Dakota where I was born. I don't remember it as we left when I was a baby, but that didn't keep them from calling me their "little Norwegian!" I don't think I'd like lutefisk! I can't believe they cure it in lye, just like you said, Art! Oh, well, if they let it go too long, it turns into a handy soap! |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Art Thieme Date: 25 Feb 08 - 11:49 PM No, no lutttefisk, please. The computer is wonderful, but do NOT send luttttefisk. SRS, keep both copies for yourself. Or put one of 'em in the outhouse. (art) |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Feb 08 - 11:14 PM Lutefisk must be served hot on piping hot plates. Accompaniments vary from bacon or pork drippings, white sauce, mustard sauce, or melted butter which seems to remain a favorite. Boiled and steamed potatoes, stewed whole, dry green peas are a must as a vegetable accompaniment. The only other necessary additions are freshly ground pepper, lefse, or flatbread. In some parts of Northern Norway, lutefisk is served with melted goat cheese. How can you resist it--hot fish and goat cheese?! I have two copies of the cookbook mentioned at the bottom of that page, if you need one. . . |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Rapparee Date: 25 Feb 08 - 10:03 PM Place the lutefisk in water and boil, with uncrushed peppercorns and a little salt, for about fifteen minutes or until you can no longer stand the smell. Throw away the lutefisk and go out for dinner. |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Feb 08 - 08:43 PM Your spellcheck no doubt went nuts because there is only one "t" in lutefisk. :) Here are some recipes from the Sons of Norway. SRS (a daughter of Norway in spirit, if not actually in paid membership dues) |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Art Thieme Date: 25 Feb 08 - 06:22 PM People, I awoke this morning and it was still here!! Again, you all are too much. I spent the morning downloading updates of all the areas of the computer that needed that done. Mostly Symantec, but some HP too. This machine really is FAST. I slept great last night. Had a strange dream where two politicians were in a debate! (Where could that've come from?) One of 'em yelled, "That's ludicrous!" And the other responded, "No, it's you that's luttefisk!!" ----- And it went on from there... I told that to Kat on the phone today and I don't think she believed me. But that is accurate---just as it was dreamed. How the hell do you eat luttefisk anyhow? --- My spellcheck imploded on itself after that word confusticated it just now. I'll be getting word to as many of you conspirators as I can learn about having had something to do with this grand gift! To all of you, and to those who I miss finding out about, once again, THANK YOU! Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: John MacKenzie Date: 25 Feb 08 - 04:54 AM Wonderful, and faith in human nature, reaffirming news. Art enjoy your new toy, as much as we all enjoyed plotting it's acquisition. One more thing. Giok |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 25 Feb 08 - 12:32 AM it's been a loooong time |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Big Mick Date: 24 Feb 08 - 10:56 PM You are welcome, buddy. |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Rapparee Date: 24 Feb 08 - 09:52 PM Well, Art kinda deserves it. Now he has to git to work on all that crap he's got stashed away. |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: katlaughing Date: 24 Feb 08 - 09:48 PM I think I'll get some sleep, tonight. Last night was the second night we had Morgan over, but he was fine. Out like a light by 8p, slept all night, until I heard a teeny, quiet voice at about 630a say, "Mama can we get up now?" Anyway...I realised sometime in the middle of the night that I was dreaming about Art getting his computer! Dang thing, it was in technicolour and you all were there and we was all cryin' and laughin' and slappin' each other on the back and the dream just kept weavin' in and out of my sleep. I'd get up for awhile, brush the cobwebs from my brain, lie back, then wake again to realise I'd been dreamin' it again! It was Groundhog's Day all over, but lots more fun! I don't think I've been this excited since the Christmas we girls knew we were getting our first transistor radios, AM monos with one earplug! |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Rapparee Date: 24 Feb 08 - 09:22 PM If it ain't Upper River, it ain't worth sinkin' -- an real Old River Rat told me that fifty years ago. |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: catspaw49 Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:59 PM I bet Art likes the looks of THIS BOX even more than the others................ Goes like this Art.........Ya' see, its not that we like having you around here with bad puns all the time, although we do. And its not even that we would be lessened had you not started that brilliant and important Condom Thread, although we may have been. Actually what we do know is that you have so much great stuff to get filed and saved for future reference that we can't afford to trust the job to a worn out hamster ferchrissakes........... Think of it this way......Most of us support NPR and PBS in the hopes that our $$$ go to something WE want, like maybe traditional music, instead of another informative special on Ubangi tribesman which, although interesting, I could really give less than two craps about. So some of us decided that if we gave our support to ART instead of PBS we'd be a lot better off. Besides, I don't think any of us have ever had this much fun with NPR and PBS combined........(;<)) Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Rapparee Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:54 PM It's got a big old key in the back, Charley. You gotta wind it up every so often, but it's a six-day mechanism. Stilly (and Art), this one's for you. (Don't try to tell an old Mississippi River rat about steamboats and riverboats!) |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Charley Noble Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:38 PM My mother at age 90 got real grumpy when we pulled something like this over Christmas. The screen is twice as big and it's got a real keyboard unlike her old laptop. But she's more reconciled now that she knows she can still beat the chess game. Pleased we could be of help. But you're the engineer, Art. Be sure to slow down on the curves, and watch your "average" whatever that is! Is it really a steam-powered Dell? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Uncle Phil Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:36 PM Art, I'll bet you will have a lot of fun with the new machine, but I'll bet you won't have half as much fun as Kat and Maggie have had organizing this whole deal. They were the ones who made this happen along with their unindicted co-conspirator, Chris. - Phil |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:35 PM I have to one-up you on that, Rapaire. THIS is a pretty box of that type. And as it happens, my mother's first cousin, Norman Ronning, was the last captain of the Preston before the Corps of Engineers retired her. (This is the same cousin Norman who used to take mom poaching salmon when they were kids during the depression. And I don't mean how they cooked it). At work, some of the staff have "pimped up" their computers with neon lights and crystal clear acrylic cases, all sorts of nonsense. It would give me a headache to be long in a room with all of that stuff. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Joybell Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:29 PM Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!Such a wonderful place. Joy |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Rapparee Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:23 PM Shucks, Stilly, that ain't no pretty box. That's just a computer. Now, THIS is a pretty box and they don't make pretty boxes like that anymore! |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:08 PM Art, I kept telling people, it's just a box of air with a few things plugged in on the internal periphery. It's nice that it is a pretty box! SRS |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Rapparee Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:02 PM So are a bunch of other folks, Art. |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: katlaughing Date: 24 Feb 08 - 07:59 PM We just watched Annie. I AM fully-dressed because I have had a smile plastered across my face ALL day! |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Rapparee Date: 24 Feb 08 - 07:55 PM Art, Spider Solitaire is addictive. |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Bill D Date: 24 Feb 08 - 07:37 PM ☺ |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Art Thieme Date: 24 Feb 08 - 07:29 PM It's cold as a teachers wit out there!!!--- But here at Mudcat it sure is wonderfully warm!! PEOPLE, you all have made a grown man weep with joy this day. Simply unbelievable---all of you. It is a beautiful shiny metallic gray, looking for all the world like a stylish dinghy for an Air Stream trailer with a glowing blue light up front like the long spear searchlight headlamp on the 8-wheel-driver steam express running from Chicago to Portland, Oregon. It's four times faster than anything I've ever used before even with my prehistoric dial-up connection. I had no idea this was going down; Cat could've let the Kat out of the bag when I talked to her yesterday, but, no, not her! ----------It's a Dell, by the way, just so you all will know. Really, a huge thank you to all who are involved in doing this. I will strive to learn to use it wisely. But tonight I am speechless and having a ton of fun putting it through it's paces. Love to you all, Art |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Feb 08 - 06:55 PM Enquiring minds want to know: Does he, or doesn't he? (Have a cookie, that is!) |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Feb 08 - 06:19 PM "I've got a little list." [snip] There's the banjo serenader, and the others of his race, And the piano-organist--I've got him on the list! And the people who eat peppermint and puff it in your face, They never would be missed--they never would be missed! . . . CHORUS. You may put 'em on the list--you may put 'em on the list; And they'll none of 'em be missed--they'll none of 'em be missed! -- W. S. Gilbert |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: katlaughing Date: 24 Feb 08 - 05:45 PM It's t-h-e-r-e! Just had a great call from Art! I'll let him come in when and if he's ready. I'm to send him a list of you all..so I am off to do that. One of the best phone calls I've ever had, folks. The best of the Mudcat comes out this way and we are all blessed for it.:-) luvyakat |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Rapparee Date: 24 Feb 08 - 04:00 PM It is? When did that start? How'd I miss it? |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Amos Date: 24 Feb 08 - 03:59 PM Take your hand out of there, Spaw. This is a family site. A |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: catspaw49 Date: 24 Feb 08 - 02:53 PM Witch's tits and brass bras come to mind around here. Feel free to send some warmth! ...................***fidgets***..................... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Charley Noble Date: 24 Feb 08 - 02:31 PM Yes and no! Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Feb 08 - 02:29 PM twiddles thumbs and watches Spaw and Charley twiddle their thumbs. . . Go outside and play for a while, guys. I've been digging up bits of my garden. The squirrels and nuts and 'puters will keep. It's a sunny afternoon. In fact, it is an extremely beautiful day. Wouldn't you agree? |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: catspaw49 Date: 24 Feb 08 - 01:39 PM Are you nuts? You don't press a case ferchrissakes........It smashes the bottles and the brew is wasted,,,,,much lie your mind! You press pants and shirts. I probably need to explain that its not done while you're wearing them..............***pressing cases***..............geeziz............ Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Charley Noble Date: 24 Feb 08 - 01:27 PM With regard to "squirrel wheels": 'Among the many models of the good society no one has urged the squirrel wheel'. "So Galbraith remarks, yet living in affluent societies closely resembles a life on the squirrel wheel. This is the first aspect of the problem confronting those who live in a comparatively rich society. It arises because our aspirations get focussed on increasing income just as we have more of it than our parents or grandparents could ever have dreamt of. No sooner do we have more, than we want more….and so the wheel turns one more time, we re-adjust our beady eyes and begin to ascend the ladder again….with predictable effect." There are also links to such apparatus, and no doubt with a little more research we could find a medieval wood block print. Need I press this case? Or does the fur still fly? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline for a while From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Feb 08 - 01:20 PM You have to be aware of just which squirrel you're asking to step up to the computer! |
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