New England Off Topic and Banter as Most Brilliantly Proposed by Cape Cod MINI

[jwardell]

Just a general notice.

Last night, a Mini was parked on the street in front of my house.
Then the first bar I went to last night, had a Mini parked out front.
Then, venturing to another bar a distance away, this too had a Mini parked out front.

This was not reported in the Hitchiker's guide for Earth. Oh yes, well it possibly could have been summarized out of the original description. But it leaves the important point:

You people are killing me! Please leave your Minis garaged our out of public view until I get mine!

[MaxaMini]

Quote: Originally Posted by bakerjc

Do I need to go find my autographed copy of "Steal This Book"?

We all have heros I guess.

I'd lend you mine but it seems to have gone missing. Stolen?

[GadgetGav]

Did all the pages of hitchhiker quotes kill of John's dial up connection..?

[LordWinslow]

I brought in my copy of the book just incase I need it again...

Winslow

[bakerjc]

Quote: Originally Posted by GadgetGav

Did all the pages of hitchhiker quotes kill of John's dial up connection..?

We can only hope.

[jcsinnh]

What a tool!

[GBMINI]

Steve, how's your spam & junk mail doing now - I got an interesting one this morning, looks like they tried to focus it (it refers to "mini" a lot!)
TO: GBMINI@minisontop.com
New Technology for the Third World, April 2004
Production Mini-plants in mobile containers. Worldwide Partners program
SN World Foundation will supply to countries and developing regions the technology and necessary support for production in series of Mini-plants in mobile containers (40-foot). The Mini-plant system is designed in such a way that all the production machinery is fixed on the platform of the container, with all wiring, piping, and installation parts; that is, they are fully equipped... and the mini-plant is ready for production."
More than 700 portable production systems: Bakeries, Water purification, Dehydrated food, Steel Nails, Fruit juice preparation, Tire Retreading, Reinforcement Bar Bending for Construction Framework, Sheeting for Roofing, Ceilings and Façades, Plated Drums, Aluminum Buckets, Injected Polypropylene Housewares, Pressed Melamine Items (Glasses, Cups, Plates, Mugs, etc.), Mufflers, Construction Electrically Welded Mesh, Plastic Bags and Packaging, Medical assistance mobile units, Sanitary Material, Hypodermic Syringes, Hemostatic Clamps, etc.
SN World Foundation has started a Co-investment program for the installation of small Assembly plants to manufacture in series the Mini-plants of portable production on site, region or country where required. One of the most relevant features is the fact that these plants will be connected to the International Trade System, with access to more than 50 million raw materials, products and services and automatic transactions for world trade.
Due to financial reasons, involving cost and social impact, the best solution is setting up assembly plants on the same countries and regions, using local resources (labor, some equipment, etc.) SN World Foundation participates at 50% (fifty percent) for investment of each Assembly plant.
If you are interested in being a partner in your country or region, you can send your CV to: SN World Foundation (click here) Worldwide Partners Program
By Sarah Mathews, Manager Program

[Cape Cod MINI]

Quote: Originally Posted by iancull

Steve, how's your spam & junk mail doing now - I got an interesting one this morning, looks like they tried to focus it (it refers to "mini" a lot!)

I haven't had any in the past week or so that came thru steve@mot.
They sure had you pegged with the "mini" stuff!
Most, but not all, of the spam to my comcast account gets filtered nicely.

[Windshadow]

Nothing as interesting as that... just a lot of folks far more concerned about the size of certain parts of my body than I am, then they want to sell me happy pills on the cheap or give me $23,148,327 for the use of my bank account.... these spammers all seem to be so concerned for my welfare it gives me a warm feeling all over

oh wait that is jus me getting hot under my collar

I get huge ammounts of Spam my Boss@windshadow.com address has been in use since 95 or so and my mail is now triple filtered.

Once by my ISP who dumps about 10,000 a month for me.
then I have Macafee Spamkiller 4.0.40.1 on an old PC that runs server side and gets another 100 to 200 or so a day... once a week I do a touch up of its brute force filters to keep it working well.
last I have the Apple OS X Mail with its baysen filters that gets another 5 to 10 a day only about 4 or 5 spams a week get through all that and each one that does adds to the training of the MAIL program's Filters as I mark them as Junk. Apple OS X MAIL (now at 1.3.7 (v615/613)) is a development of the old NEXT system MAIL which is in turn developed from a robust UNIX mail client but what a huge waste of bandwidth and time they cause world wide.

[jwardell]

Yep, I have my mail triple-filtered as well. ISP used to just mark spam with SPAM in the topic. Well it started hiting 200 a day and filling my mailbox so they now have them instantly deleted. Back then only about 5 a day were being missed by the ISP. Now, 100 day are being missed, and I have Apple Mail's built-in filtering catching most of them, then JunkWatcher latching on to Mail and grabbing a few more. I still end up with 3-5 a day that are missed, but that's not bad out of several thousand that must be coming in. And by the way I've never given my address out, businesses always get a different one. Thats the problem of having your own domain. And as you can see, it gets exponentially worse. Something major really has to be done, and I mean changing the mail protocol alltogether.

[Cape Cod MINI]

Today I heard the winds carry the anguished screams of a hundred or more southern New Hampshire middle school students as their young minds were being irreparably poisoned. The clamor and din was gut wrenching. Poor young souls and minds being tainted by the sub from hell.

[GadgetGav]

^HUH..?
Some kind of jibe at Secco..?

[bakerjc]

Sub teacher? Interesting. I've always thought of him as sub human.

I hope the kids are kind to him......

[bakerjc]

That said, take a look at this:

http://www.greyfoxbluegrass.com

'Bout 10 years or so I went for a number of years, it was always a good time. 4 days of semi-rough camping, excellent music, fun people.

Don't know if I'll make it this year, but thought I'd pass the info along. Got the flyer in the mail today.

[jcsinnh]

Double posters are tools.

Actually, my subbing accomplishes 2 things, well maybe 3. One, I got to get fingerprinted and I don't think the Stoddard Constable had ever done that before plus the state of NH confirmed that those name changes did work - neither the state nor the FBI (what OS do they use?) has any record of my being a crook other than my relationship with a fish. Two, Maureen gets me out of her hair and vice versa. Working at home times 2 in a tiny place can be loud and conflicting. Three, I can furtively take some hoodlum by those short hairs right above the ear and whisper to him, "Watch it buster or I'll send you to Sister Mary Tarantula." They believe me. Oh, and then there's the $60.oo per day and free hot lunch.