Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 804

Dylrob · 03-11-2010, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

All is as it was before. Many such journeys are possible.

(Star Trek, "The City on the Edge of Forever")

"All is as it was before... well except for that homeless dude that got vaporized."

Silly Guardian.

kindlekitten · 03-12-2010, 01:26 AM

*so lost*

WT Sharpe · 03-12-2010, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Dylrob

"All is as it was before... well except for that homeless dude that got vaporized."

Silly Guardian.

WT Sharpe · 03-12-2010, 08:29 AM

My Kindle was once dropped on cement so hard that the back came partially off, and another time it slipped out of my hands and when I tried to catch it, I instead sent it sprawling across an asphalt parking lot about 15-20 feet. The first time it suffered no permanent damage, the second time it survived with minor scratches.

This morning it slid off my lap and gently hit the floor and died! I have committed Kindlesaughter!

I just placed a next day order to Amazon for a new one.

If they come out next week with a touchscreen K3, I'm killing somebody!

Verencat · 03-12-2010, 08:38 AM

I'm sorry for your lost. Let us know when the funeral is, so we can send you flowers.

Why is it that it's always the tiniest bump that breaks objects? It's so annoying! I hope you next K2 arrives quickly and safely, and that it stays with you for years. I also hope that no K3 with a touch screen gets out before loooooong years...

FlorenceArt · 03-12-2010, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

My Kindle was once dropped on cement so hard that the back came partially off, and another time it slipped out of my hands and when I tried to catch it, I instead sent it sprawling across an asphalt parking lot about 15-20 feet. The first time it suffered no permanent damage, the second time it survived with minor scratches.

This morning it slid off my lap and gently hit the floor and died! I have committed Kindlesaughter!

I just placed a next day order to Amazon for a new one.

If they come out next week with a touchscreen K3, I'm killing somebody!

Ack! Sorry to hear about this. Enjoy the new Kindle

WT Sharpe · 03-12-2010, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Verencat

I'm sorry for your lost. Let us know when the funeral is, so we can send you flowers.

Why is it that it's always the tiniest bump that breaks objects? It's so annoying! I hope you next K2 arrives quickly and safely, and that it stays with you for years. I also hope that no K3 with a touch screen gets out before loooooong years...

I'm thinking this would be a good time to perform an autopsy. Always wondered what's on the inside of these buggers.

omk3 · 03-12-2010, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

My Kindle was once dropped on cement so hard that the back came partially off, and another time it slipped out of my hands and when I tried to catch it, I instead sent it sprawling across an asphalt parking lot about 15-20 feet. The first time it suffered no permanent damage, the second time it survived with minor scratches.

This morning it slid off my lap and gently hit the floor and died! I have committed Kindlesaughter!

I just placed a next day order to Amazon for a new one.

If they come out next week with a touchscreen K3, I'm killing somebody!

What do we learn from this experience? If your reader is about to fall down, make sure it crashes down hard (and preferably in a spectacular fashion). Gentle handling will break the screen every time. You have to be cruel to be kind.

Is Kindleslaughter a crime? What about Kindlecide? Was it a crime of passion?

yvanleterrible · 03-12-2010, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I'm thinking this would be a good time to perform an autopsy. Always wondered what's on the inside of these buggers.

Keep the battery for the next one...

GeoffC · 03-12-2010, 08:56 AM

keep the books for the next one

enjoy the new one *when it arrives*

kindlekitten · 03-12-2010, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

My Kindle was once dropped on cement so hard that the back came partially off, and another time it slipped out of my hands and when I tried to catch it, I instead sent it sprawling across an asphalt parking lot about 15-20 feet. The first time it suffered no permanent damage, the second time it survived with minor scratches.

This morning it slid off my lap and gently hit the floor and died! I have committed Kindlesaughter!

I just placed a next day order to Amazon for a new one.

If they come out next week with a touchscreen K3, I'm killing somebody!

oh noes!!!! well at least you have the nook for the interim. don't fret on the K3 too much, you know how Amazon has been about the new and improved stuff in the past

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Originally Posted by Verencat

I also hope that no K3 with a touch screen gets out before loooooong years...

NOOOOOOOoooooooo!!!!!! don't

wish no K3s on us!

WT Sharpe · 03-12-2010, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Keep the battery for the next one...

Great idea!

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

keep the books for the next one

enjoy the new one *when it arrives*

You know it! Good thing all my books are backed-up.

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Originally Posted by omk3

What do we learn from this experience? If your reader is about to fall down, make sure it crashes down hard (and preferably in a spectacular fashion). Gentle handling will break the screen every time. You have to be cruel to be kind....

Well, the screen didn't break, it just kind of made its own bit of abstract art.

But you're right. If ever I see it again making a gentle two-foot slide to the floor, I'll smack it as hard as I can before it hits to keep it from breaking!

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

... well at least you have the nook for the interim ...

But all my good stuff's on the Kindle!

DixieGal · 03-12-2010, 09:13 AM

Oh No, Tom! That is one of those moments when your heart falls down into your tummy. So, tell me... why didn't you upgrade to a 505? (runs for cover, giggling maniacally)

Libby Cone · 03-12-2010, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

I'm presently wondering how "texting" is done in France and other countries where the language has a heavy use of accents and diacritics (beyond just your regular old single critics?). I'm ridiculously particular about my text messages - they have to be spelled and punctuated properly, which is why I almost never send any. Are there separate keys for e and é and è on cellphones there?

Japanese has lots of homonyms; when one is texting, a little drop-down menu comes up when there is an ambiguity.
I have a book, I'jaam, (I haven't read it yet), about an Iraqi prisoner who writes a memoir in Arabic using no diacritical marks. It's a PB, which means I'll get to it after I've read all the stuff on my Kindle.

WT Sharpe · 03-12-2010, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

Oh No, Tom! That is one of those moments when your heart falls down into your tummy. So, tell me... why didn't you upgrade to a 505? (runs for cover, giggling maniacally)

I did think about one of the Sony touchscreen models, but decided to stick with the devil I know!

On the other hand, I do with I'd bought a Sony Daily Edition instead of the Nook.

03-12-2010, 01:26 AM	#12047
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	so lost

03-12-2010, 08:29 AM	#12049
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	My Kindle was once dropped on cement so hard that the back came partially off, and another time it slipped out of my hands and when I tried to catch it, I instead sent it sprawling across an asphalt parking lot about 15-20 feet. The first time it suffered no permanent damage, the second time it survived with minor scratches. This morning it slid off my lap and gently hit the floor and died! I have committed Kindlesaughter! I just placed a next day order to Amazon for a new one. If they come out next week with a touchscreen K3, I'm killing somebody!

03-12-2010, 08:38 AM	#12050
Verencat Wizard Posts: 2,615 Karma: 96491 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Montreal, Qc Device: xxx	I'm sorry for your lost. Let us know when the funeral is, so we can send you flowers. Why is it that it's always the tiniest bump that breaks objects? It's so annoying! I hope you next K2 arrives quickly and safely, and that it stays with you for years. I also hope that no K3 with a touch screen gets out before loooooong years...

03-12-2010, 08:56 AM	#12055
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	keep the books for the next one enjoy the new one when it arrives

03-12-2010, 09:13 AM	#12058
DixieGal Hi There! Posts: 7,473 Karma: 2930523 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Lauderdale Device: iPad	Oh No, Tom! That is one of those moments when your heart falls down into your tummy. So, tell me... why didn't you upgrade to a 505? (runs for cover, giggling maniacally)