Posts by Islander
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Nope. Tho' i understood Amazon was underwriting the wifi fee for ebooks?
There is so *much* that needs to be done with the whole internet thang here-
off to make myself eggs benedict for tea (that's homegrown spinach, familygrown chook eggs, and Burgen sunflower&barley bread rounds. With Food-by-Chefs hollandaise (because I cant be bothered: I've just made ten filo pastry pies, with homegrown silverbeet, goat feta, and kumara innards...) -
Apropos of nothing, Google has gone all Suess
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StepDoh - yep!
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Apologies Mark if I'm being obtuse: I've been having 'differences of opinion' with several people of several b. different sites, but my loathing of the Kindle-attempted audio coup has been quite consistent. I just dont see any point in relitigating it, as it were-
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"voice recognition system that writes out audio books into text"
sayeth the Don.
Ye Gods! And (especially) Little Fishes! -
Don Christie, that is pure-yank-chain stuff!
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And I, for one, will bash the cutsie little leatherclad nasties - Kindles that is- into twitchie wee pieces of crap uh oh uh oh uh-huh. Hmmm.
A kind of ebook future may be coming - but it sure as shit isnt the Kindle/2 or any other 'digital reader' out there.
Islander, grinning, that Amazon took the sesible withdrawal route- -
Engrossing, the Groke. indeed-
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O dear. Chickenhawk meant two things to me: the bird, and (after spending 5 years on our country's IDPtribunal,) the cruiser. I was horrified to learn about the other meaning! No, actually, it just reinforced all my preconceptions about Amurricans who - o well, let's not go there again. Those fuckwitz are gone.
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O cool Heather W!
Isograms...and 'subdermatoglyphic' added to the list! (I'll keep thinking for a 16 tho - one of the oddities of my game is - I cant check dictionaries until I've thought of the word...)
I suspect an 18-isogram in English is beyond possibility- but the whole point is to keep on trying eh? (I play this game when I'm in waiting-rooms of one kind or the other.)