Yes, I was immobile when I transferred to the new computer though it's
basically the same - Win 8
I'll wait on Win 10 till they force me
maybe I'll be rich and can go back to a Mac
So Win 8, resentfully - I'm really a DOS 3 boy
but they keep changing things, pretending newness and improvements because
for so many everyday purposes what we have is ok
what really gets me is when it tells me to get my supervisor's permission
-- look sunshine I hiss at the imagined programmer I was hacking BBCs when
you hadn't been thought of...
and much good that does me and my blood pressure
L
On 23 December 2015 at 15:48, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ha
>
> I take the LRB, so also can get it all online (but only read the blog
> there, really (or older pieces I want to revisit. Prefer to read the paper
> version, even if I am months behind.
>
> Ah, new improved laptops etc, which then demand you get to know them,
> rather than the other way about….
>
> Doug
> > On Dec 23, 2015, at 4:23 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > There is that. I've been there. It wasn't quite that.
> > I'm in two minds about Symonds Roberts anyway and wasn't greatly bothered
> > when they withheld his work -- he and or others have to earn their
> crusts.
> > I can get most things that interest me via my college affiliation; but I
> am
> > on a newish laptop now and need to get it adjusted by the techs to cope
> > with their adoption of various Micros.... Can't even bear to type the
> > word....
> > I dare say I might manage it myself but am too busy, or think I am, to
> mug
> > it up; but lack the organisation to go in and see people who have.
> > I joined the LRB mailing list a few years back when Denise Riley
> published
> > her poem around the death of her son; and since then have taken what I
> can
> > get from their mailings. Sometimes I only get part of an essay; and that
> > can be conceptually interesting... Sometimes frustrating.
> > What appealed to me in what I sent was the litany (sic) of certainty
> under
> > MSR's title. And it would be wonderful to hear it sung by a choir!
> > Oh oh oh everyone
> >
> > L
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 22 December 2015 at 16:15, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Having spent a fruitless hour yesterday on something else, I sympathize,
> >> Lawrence.
> >>
> >> Yes, indeed.
> >>
> >> Doug
> >>> On Dec 22, 2015, at 8:50 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> *Poem: ‘Rehearsal for the Day of Joy’**with apologies to Michael
> >>> Symons Roberts and LRB*
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> >>
> >> Douglas Barbour
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >>
> >> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuation 2
> >> (UofAPress).
> >> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >>
> >> Done in by creation itself.
> >>
> >> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> >> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> >> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
> >>
> >> Robert Kroetsch.
> >>
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
> (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> Done in by creation itself.
>
> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>
> Robert Kroetsch.
>
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