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Old 10-17-2008, 04:58 PM   #16
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Old 10-17-2008, 04:58 PM   #17
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Old 10-17-2008, 06:04 PM   #18
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Old 10-18-2008, 02:57 AM   #19
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Yeah, I know, it's old, and is probably a tad funnier if you've worked on an IT help desk (or probably any kind of help desk), but....



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Old 10-19-2008, 05:36 AM   #20
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Yeah, I know, it's old, and is probably a tad funnier if you've worked on an IT help desk (or probably any kind of help desk), but....
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I TA'ed in high school. This was more than enough to appreciate the humor.
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Old 10-20-2008, 09:28 PM   #21
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Old 10-20-2008, 09:40 PM   #22
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I saw a book once. It looked friendly and harmless but as I reached out and touched it, it cut me. Never again.
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Old 10-20-2008, 09:52 PM   #23
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I saw a book once. It looked friendly and harmless but as I reached out and touched it, it cut me. Never again.
I did that once too. It really hurt.

No, wait, that was a large shark. Took my whole body off at the neck(*). Then it terrorised the local beach. They made a book and a movie out of it - it was called "Far From the Madding Crowd". There was some last minute changes to the text/script.

(* It grew back though)

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Old 10-21-2008, 08:48 AM   #24
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Would've been nice if that video showed how the search function works. I always have trouble with that...
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Old 10-21-2008, 09:12 AM   #25
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Oh yeah, I've came across one of those as well, and it was indeed annotated, in a very weird way. It had these smaller, brightly colored pieces of paper stuck to different "pages" (i think they were called) of the book. And on the smaller paperthingys who attached to the pages of the book by a strip of sticky residue people had scribbled their notes, but there seemed to be no way of erasing or changing them.

Very odd indeed....
These were called "sticky notes", as some of us know all too well.
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Old 10-21-2008, 10:29 AM   #26
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And if you held it under the wrong light, you couldn't make out the text on one side against the text on the other side (and why anyone would imprint text on two sides of a see-through display is still beyond me).
That particular Book, as they were called, was probably from an alluvial deposit of quartz, Instead of the dead wood petrifying, quartz minerals may have seeped in, rendering the screens crystalline instead of opaque.

The test of whether it is dead wood or crystal is to wipe it with something greasy and see if it becomes even more transparent, and thus has a high dead wood content. (Marc, reference Simpsons episode where Homer wants to get fatter in order to be disabled and work from home. See also "reaching broom.")
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Old 10-21-2008, 11:55 AM   #27
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These were called "sticky notes", as some of us know all too well.
Thanks for letting us use your cranial container for this again, PH. I've been having to use Slite's nose and pshwynk's finger and they don't stick too well there. [sudden image of pshwynk's finger in Slite's nose - let's not go there] But would you mind clearing off some of those old notes and let us have a little room for some new ones, please?
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Old 10-21-2008, 01:25 PM   #28
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Yeah... like the DRM note. That's so old news.
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Old 10-21-2008, 03:46 PM   #29
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I heard the first ones were made of "vellum" (from Wikipedia)

Vellum (from the Old French Vélin, for "calfskin"[1]) is mammal skin prepared for writing or printing on single pages, scrolls, codices or books. It is generally thin, smooth and durable, although there are great variations depending on preparation, the quality of the skin, and the type of animal. The manufacture is involved: animal skin is cleaned, stretched on a frame, and scraped with a curved knife. To create tension, scraping is alternated by wetting and drying. A final finish may be done abrading the surface with pumice, then chalking to accept ink.[2] Modern "paper vellum" is used for a variety of purposes, especially for plans, technical drawings and blueprints."

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Gee... when you put it that way...

Hurl!!
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