Quoting Maurice Kinal to Strawberry Shortcake on 06-Aug-2017 02:44 <=-
Hey Strawberry!
The very first fidonet message from the new raspi3 rootfs. I was
going to wait until gcc-7.2 was official but I got bored and managed
to load the new rootfs from a microSD partition.
At the moment I am
not sure the tagline is correct - should be Spanish for "Don't cry for
me I've got vi." - and would appreciate if someone out there in the
know could either confirm or suggest a proper translation. However as Fernando Lamas said, "It is better to look good than to feel good.",
and from this angle it looks marvelous. :::evil grin:::
... No llores por mí tengo vi.
-!- GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu)
! Origin: Pointy Stick Society - Ladysmith BC, Canada
(1:153/7001.47825)
Why am I not surprised....? <G>
The message seems to look good, though... ;)
Just a little behind on my messaging at the moment, it's been a
busy week plus....
Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 12-Aug-2017 03:16 <=-
Why am I not surprised....? <G>
I am guessing it is because I've become too predictable in my old age.
The message seems to look good, though... ;)
Excellent! As a previous post stated, better to look good than feel
good.
Just a little behind on my messaging at the moment, it's been a
busy week plus....
Always nice to hear from you when you can.
Or at least, you were acting true to expectations...
Best to actually be good...
Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 17-Aug-2017 03:33 <=-
Or at least, you were acting true to expectations...
And that is a good thing? <patent pending>
Best to actually be good...
True but he (Fernando Lamas) only gave us two choices; looking or
feeling good. Not only that, he stated that it is better to look good than feel good.
And do we have to take his word for gospel....?
Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 19-Aug-2017 03:36 <=-
And do we have to take his word for gospel....?
Yes. For one Billy Crystal made a successful career from it, and
given Fernando is no longer with us, it has become impossible to get
him to alter it. It is etched in stone sort of speak.
But still doesn't mean we have to agree with it.... ;)
Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 24-Aug-2017 00:40 <=-
But still doesn't mean we have to agree with it.... ;)
True. Today finds me not being agreeable with either looking or
feeling good. I am calling it casual Wednesday.
I trust that today is better than Wednesday was
Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 28-Aug-2017 03:24 <=-
I trust that today is better than Wednesday was
About the same as far as looking/feeling good, although I probably
feel pretty good about the eldest grandson liberating the raspberry pi from me. He told me that he tried getting into raspberry pi summer
camp but it was full. He didn't know that I had one so he was quite surprised when I offered it to him as consolation. I think he'll
benefit from it more than I would have. Besides he is likely to stick
to the straight and narrow whereas I was far too aggressive with it in
my quest for 64 bitness.
Also the neighbours haven't been around much so I decided that this is
a good time to bring the wireless hotspot up to speed. Working on it
as we speak.
that explains some of the pulling back on the experiments
Hopefully he'll enjoy figuring it out
Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 30-Aug-2017 20:53 <=-
that explains some of the pulling back on the experiments
Yes it does. However I still believe it was a good idea and will
find out sometime in the future if it paid off.
Hopefully he'll enjoy figuring it out
I got the sense that he will. Also I gave him a bit of an edge
especially concerning getting real time clocks to work on that
platform. We'll see if he can come up with a case for that given
it's addition will require something new as the supplied one is
not thick enough to accomadate it.
Always something isn't it?
Encouraging the next generation...
How old is he...?
Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 03-Sep-2017 04:15 <=-
Encouraging the next generation...
That is/was the plan. I get the sense he propbably doesn't need much encouragement.
How old is he...?
Now that you mention it I've lost track but I know that he can't be
more than 14 years old given his older sister is definetly 15 years
old.
I believe she was the one that inspired a bragging rights msg in
DADS way back when. Also of note, she was in your neck of the woods earlier this year (New York City) as part of a youth leadership pow
wow of some sort. She never gave me all the details as our time
together was too short this year but did mention that twice she lost
her purse with money in it (USD) and both times had it returned with nothing missing. Now that doesn't jive with the tales we usually hear about New York City.
A chip off the old block
A good age for encouraging
There's good people everywhere
Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 11-Sep-2017 04:59 <=-
A chip off the old block
Perhaps his block but in this case his mother is a chip of this
particular block and by this time she is her own block with four of
her own chips to contend with.
Both of my chips are well past being chips by now I would think.
I did some homework and it turns out he is 12. I wasn't too far off
but at that age 2 years is a much greater error than it is at my age.
A good age for encouraging
Probably. I am hopeful that it helps the cause whatever the cause
turns out to be in the future.
Ok, then, he takes after his grampa
he's old enough to be able to master enough of it....
Can't hurt, anyway
Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 18-Sep-2017 15:46 <=-
Ok, then, he takes after his grampa
For his sake let us hope not. My hope is that he does better.
he's old enough to be able to master enough of it....
That I don't know but hope to find out in the near future. If he can figure out the real time clock I will be impressed. Beyond that maybe
a case that works for adding what the raspi people call 'hats' (the
real time clock is mounted on a hat) then I'll be additionally
impressed.
Can't hurt, anyway
That is what I am thinking. I am sure it will be worth the small investment and perhaps much greater.
Have you heard anything about how he might be progressing with the project...?
Very good idea to encourage the kid to think and explore...
Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 27-Sep-2017 19:49 <=-
Have you heard anything about how he might be progressing with the
project...?
Not yet. With school starting and all that I think he might be
distracted at the moment so we'll have to wait and see.
However he is nowhere near as chatty as I am so it might be awhile, perhaps even next summer of and when they come to the Island again.
Very good idea to encourage the kid to think and explore...
Agreed. Also it didn't cost that much money so I am guesstimating
that the expenditure is minor given the possibilities.
unless he can work it into some school project or other
Unless you get some feedback from his mom....?
Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 30-Sep-2017 04:39 <=-
unless he can work it into some school project or other
I think from his perspective that would be the ideal. Always nice
when one can get away mixing business with pleasure.
Unless you get some feedback from his mom....?
I am not holding my breath on that although last year she did phone me
on Christmas day. We'll see but I strongly suggest not betting the
farm on it.
It's a clear case of, "You never call, you never write, yadda, yadda, yadda."
Maybe you'd have to call her....? or call the grandson....?
Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 03-Oct-2017 03:01 <=-
Maybe you'd have to call her....? or call the grandson....?
Or both, as well as the granddaughters and the other grandson.
Speaking of playing favourites, my neighbour told me that my daughter
told him that she was my favourite. I had to chuckle when I heard
that.
Being careful not to appear to be playing favorites, eh...?
all in fun, of course
Only one kid, so no favoritism at play there...
Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 06-Oct-2017 04:03 <=-
Being careful not to appear to be playing favorites, eh...?
Something like that. I am not sure they even notice.
Only one kid, so no favoritism at play there...
I have two and my wife used to think the eldest was my favourite since
I treated them so much different and the youngest was often in
trouble, moreso than the elder one. However I love them both dearly
and I seriously doubt there is any favouritism at play, or ever was, despite what my former wife thought at the time.
As for the grandchildren I don't see them often enough to even get
the chance to see of any of them could potentially be a favourite.
what would benefit one might not the other, and indeed might even
prove detrimental
At least you have grandchildren
Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 12-Oct-2017 02:22 <=-
what would benefit one might not the other, and indeed might even
prove detrimental
Looking back, it seems to me it was more of "the punishment fitting
the crime" dealie. For example if I sent them to their rooms for time
out for the younger one that was punishment but for the eldest it
wasn't since she often willing went to her room to read books. She
was a real bookworm that one and it was virtually impossible to find a suitable punishment although she seldom required any punishment.
Speaking of punishments, often I would 'threaten' to send them off to
a Catholic girls school which rightly neither took as a serious threat
... which it never was. However decades later the younger one was
totally caught off guard when she found out the place actually
existed. All those years ago she thought I had made it up.
Same deal with math camp which her eldest son willingly enrolls in
every summer. She thought I made that one up too.
At least you have grandchildren
Yes. I definetly live a charmed life and probably don't deserve any
of it. :::evil grin:::
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