WELL,DANGITALL
Itneverfails.I starta post(oneachofmysites)that'smultipart andsomethingonmy computerbreaks. Bynow youshouldhavefiguredoutwhatitis thatbroke.Itbrokea few days after myfirstpost (rightaboutthe timeIwasready todo mynextpost). Itriedfixingit,butthat didntwork(obviously)andamonaweirdenoughschedulenow that Ihavenot yet been able to get anewone.Ifiguredenoughtimehaspassed though thatyoudeserveanexplanationofwhy you'regoingto have to wait stilllonger.Sorry. In the meantime ifyou'rebored,check outmy latest addiction(which I blameon Meredith). It'scalled In Passing. ReadMeredith's review foran explanation so youdon'thavetosufferanymoreofthis
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This reminds me of an email I got from a buddy while I was in college. After researching into a project we had due, he attempted to relay some of the information he had located. Unfortunately, he happened to be in our crappy library and relying on its even crappier computer system. As a result, he found himself using a keyboard which was unable to input the letters 'c', 'r', or 'f'.
Now, these may not seem like terribly important letters, but try writing normally and see how often they crop up. As an example, take my last sentence. Without these letters, it would read: "Now, these may not seem like teibly impotent lettes, but ty witing nomally and see how oten they op up." Still marginally legible, I admit, but would seem rather strange to be coming from someone over the age of 5. To compound to his problem, he was trying to relate some highly techincal electrical engineering (eletial engineeing) specifications about substrate thickness or some other such highly entertaining information we were forced to look up during those days.
Instead of letting his email be reduced to incoherence due to the keyboard glitch, my friend, being the adventurous sort of person he is, chose to rephrase his entire email so as to omit the use of any word which contained the problematic characters. With the help of his cranial thesaurus, he managed to succeed at his task, but not until producing one of the oddest sounding emails I have ever received.
Fortunately, I saw him later that day so as to inquire about his mental state and ensure that a breakdown had not occurred. We even developed our own form of verbal communication based off this experience. It sounds like pig-latin, at times, only much less understandable for those involved in the actual dialogue.
-J
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