Small World
Our quarterly Mac users group meeting was last night and we had a couple of new faces in the crowd. As it turns out, both of the new guys work in IT for major oil companies in town and they're both passionate Mac users, so it's great to have their expertise in our group.
Anyway, during the course of the meeting another member expressed some frustration about the fact that his home page in Safari had been mysteriously set to something he didn't want. He wasn't sure how to designate a new home page, and so we told him about using the Preferences panel to do that. He asked, oddly enough, "what should I use for my home page?"
I flippantly (well, maybe half-seriously...) replied, "I think that the Fire Ant Gazette would make a great home page for you."
One of the new fellows, sitting in front of me, whirled around and asked, "Do you do the Fire Ant Gazette?"
"Yeah," I replied, "how do you know about it?"
"I used to read the Gazette when I was in Oman! It was how I kept up with west Texas!"
He didn't say if he was still reading it now that he's back in the States (if you are...hi, George!), but I was blown away by that revelation. It's truly a strange and weird world in which we live.
However, I don't think the guy with the Safari problem took my suggestion seriously.
Only the infected truly understand the disease.
Posted by: Eric at April 29, 2005 09:59 PMyou can now create a new banner-- "The Fire And Gazette--global readership"
That's pretty cool.
Posted by: jvjjr at April 30, 2005 07:54 AMThat's excellent!
You just never know who's reading this stuff we put out. :)
Posted by: kevin whited at May 2, 2005 08:07 AMAbout the publisher
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The Neighborhood:
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[Midland unless otherwise indicated]
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The Business:
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The World:
How very cool!
You know, Kman is very tolerant of my blogging habit, but he still shakes his head and thrust his fists against the posts and still insists he sees no ghosts.
Posted by: Cowtown Pattie at April 29, 2005 09:37 PM