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TDJ-- Advanced Made Easy, 04-14-08
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Tips du Jour
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Apr 14, 2008 08:22 PDT
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Monday, April 14, 2008
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Tim says: well, I'm back. Thank you for being patient. My fingers are
stiff but usable. The splints helped a bit, I suppose, but I suspect
(sooner or later) I may need to have some surgery. But for now, just
being able to type without making faces or grimacing is okay with me.
Many of you have continued sending in tips and jokes and get well pep
talks while my fingers were taped and unresponsive, and I thank you for
that. At any rate, I need more tips and jokes and gripes because I am
always hungry for more and never satisfied.
Did I say that? I guess that means I must really be back.
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TODAY'S TIP(s): COMPUTER Department
More Google Tips - Refining your search
Tim says: I recommend you visit Google and physically step through the
following tip as opposed to just reading it and scratching your head.
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You can pinpoint your searches more quickly if you use the Advanced
Search feature of Google. At
http://www.google.com
click on the Advanced Search link and you'll get easy fill in the blank
choices (you won't need to remember all the extra punctuation to get the
right search - Google will do it for you.)
First choice
* Find web pages that have all these words _____
* this exact wording or phrase _____
* one or more of these words _____
* But don't show pages that have any of these unwanted words _____
For example, if I wanted to know more about Wade Hayes, the country
music artist, but wanted to limit the genealogy hits, and not get hits
for every "Wade" or "Hayes" in the music business, I would enter this
way.
* all these words: music
* exact wording: Wade Hayes
* unwanted words: genealogy
Google lays it out for me:
music "Wade Hayes" –genealogy
OR if I wanted a recipe for a squash casserole that had tomatoes in it,
but no cheese
* all these words: recipe tomatoes
* exact wording: squash casserole
* unwanted words: cheese
Google lays it out for me:
recipe tomatoes "squash casserole" -cheese
Google also gives you more choices under "Need more tools?"
* Results per page: choose up to 100
* Language - you can choose english only
* File type: pdf? .doc?
Search within a site or domain: - have a specific site you want to look
through?
AND if you click on
Date, usage rights, numeric range, and more
you have even more options for focusing your search
Happy Googling!
--submitted by Helen Neal
{{{ TODAY'S GRIPE }}}
My gripe has to do with people who saunter through the crosswalk as
though they have no care in the world while you sit in traffic waiting
to make your turn.
I have some more thoughts about this, but it contained words like
squished and pedestrians in the same sentence, so I cut it.
--submitted by Beda
Tim says: truth is, in most major cities, pedestrians are given a set
period of time to get from point a to z before the little walking figure
becomes a hand. This period of time is supposed to allow even the
slowest folks (perhaps with stiff joints, broken toes, or whatever
working against them) to get across safely.
If I am reading your gripe correctly, I take it that you're talking
about waiting to "right turn on red" or something, which is a very fine
law and sure beats reverting to the old alternative of waiting for a
GREEN ARROW ONLY turn, which would probably please almost all
pedestrians and frustrate waiting-to-turn drivers. The way I look at it
is: the minor inconvenience is a livable compromise to both walkers and
drivers. And I would suspect that most drivers who feel the aggravation
of waiting for the pedestrians to clean the way for them, might also
become those same meandering pedestrians when they aren't, in fact,
driving a car and waiting to turn.
{{{ TODAY'S GRIPE FEEDBACK }}}
Hi Tim,
I read last week how you hate those stupid pop-up ads during TV shows. I
totally agree with you about this. Now, may I take that gripe one step
further?
I hate it when most of the stations shrink, distort or speed up the
closing credits, just so they can do more advertising. I feel that this
is a disservice to the viewer who may be trying to see who played what
character, and down right disrespectful to those persons whose names are
in those credits.
Thanks for allowing me to do some venting.
--submitted by Pete in NYC
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TODAY'S GROAN:
"Summer Thinking"
In the heat of summer, a fly was resting on a leaf beside a lake.
A hot, dry fly who said to no one in particular, "Gosh, if I go down
three inches I will feel the mist from the water and I will be
refreshed."
There was a fish in the water thinking, "Gosh, if that fly goes down
three inches I can eat him."
There was a bear on the shore thinking, "Gosh, if that fly goes down
three inches...that fish will jump for the fly and I will eat him."
It also happened that a hunter was further up the bank of the lake
preparing to eat a cheese sandwich. "Gosh," he thought, "if that fly
goes down three inches, and that fish leaps for it, that bear will
expose himself and grab for the fish. I'll shoot the bear and have a
proper lunch."
You probably think this is enough activity for one bank of a lake. But I
can tell you there was more.
A wee mouse by the hunter's foot was thinking, Gosh, if that fly goes
down three inches, and that fish jumps for that fly, and that bear grabs
for that fish, the dumb hunter will shoot the bear and drop his cheese
sandwich."
A cat lurking in the bushes took in this scene and thought, as was
fashionable to do on the banks of this particular lake around lunch
time.
"Gosh, if that fly goes down three inches, and that fish jumps for that
fly, and that bear grabs for that fish, and that hunter shoots the bear,
and that mouse makes off with the cheese sandwich; then I can have a
mouse for lunch."
Tim says: and then there was an owl in the tree hungrily eyeing the cat,
and a fly eyeing the owl waiting for the owl to eat the cat and poop on
the leaf beside the water on the lake...
"...that riggled and giggled and tickled inside her..."
--submitted by Ann Gardner
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