Comments on: I think that I shall never see

By: KP

KP — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:36:38 +0000

What about Val Kilmer poems?

By: Becca

Becca — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:06:20 +0000

Hm, see people say that, but Word always does what I want and never what I don’t want. Am I a simple person or do I have Word whipped? You decide!

By: kb

kb — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:18:17 +0000

I hate Word because it tells ME what I want to do, not the other way around. Which is wrong. That’s my idea of who Bill Gates is, as well.

I never ate Hydrox because it subconsciously sounded like eating some form of bleach. HydroChlorox Acid or something.

By: Becca

Becca — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:29:07 +0000

Karen, oh I meant whether my old computer still functions. I’m sure the software does. Software never dies, only the platters fade away!

I do adore Word, though. I know, I’m the only one, but it has always worked great for me. But then I never used WP so maybe I don’t know what I’m missing.

Hey, it’s Billy G! One of the only people directly affected by me faking my way through Windows at my first job. Or maybe you never knew – I was good!

But see, that’s why I don’t eat 98% of what they serve at Virgil’s. Wait… you don’t think they mix the pork chops into the sweet tea, do you?

By: Karen Tintori

Karen Tintori — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:52:50 +0000

Billy G — Ah, but on a stone tablet, revisions are so “hard” to do.

Karen
ducking and running

By: Billy G.

Billy G. — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:42:00 +0000

Do you think they keep the meat and dairy separate at Virgil’s? Oh well, we’re all going to hell anyway.

Sadly, I remember a world before WordPerfect even existed. I think it was called “stone tablets and a chisel”.

Talk to you soon

By: sarpon

sarpon — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:53:24 +0000

I loved WP5.1. You played that keyboard like a virtuoso pianist conjuring a symphony from a Steinway. There are still some things I only know how to do with the keyboard (ALT – R – L – F = flush right, I have no idea what drop down menu that’s hidden in).

Plus, that blue is my favorite color.

By: Karen Tintori

Karen Tintori — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:55:12 +0000

Becca — Oh, WordPerfect 5.1 still works! We back up on a floppy disk every night when we shut down. Then when it’s time to turn in the manuscript to St. Martin’s, we convert the WP5.1 file to WordPerfect for Windows, then save as a Word file and email to our editor.

I like the latest version of Word — 2007 — it’s the first version of Word that doesn’t make me tear my hair out because of Word’s crazy propensity to do its own formatting, causing all sorts of delays in writing while we try to figure out how the heck to stop the indenting and other weird antics.

Karen

By: Becca

Becca — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:15:11 +0000

Sarp, actually, I read that the biggest base of remaining WP users is in the legal field and that they are fiercely loyal. Here’s my proof!

Karen, I still have a DOS running computer somewhere in my Dad’s house. It doesn’t even have a hard drive. And I used the IBM in-house word processor for it – it was called Writing Assistant, and I ran it from 3.5″ diskette. When I got my first out-of-college job, they used Word (my first time using Windows or a mouse! I just pretended I knew what I was doing). So I’ve never actually used WP, except to help my Mom out when she had tech difficulties.

What was my point? Oh yes, you’ve made me curious about whether it still functions!

Alfa, really? I would have thought that lard made for a perfectly textured cookie. I’m excited to know it didn’t.

By: Alfa

Alfa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:53:09 +0000

We always had Hydrox for dessert after a bacon cheeseburger.

No really. Oreos always seemed gritty to me.