Neanderpundit

And I may have deleted a few comments, I still have over 11000 to go!!! If I deleted your comment accidentally do please comment to make sure you still can. If it doesn’t let you through email me at mhardig at aol dot com.

Aw, bugger I did it again, accidentally. Sorry, folks.

In Burroughs “Western lands” he describes a type of Assassin who is trained to act on the mention of a specific word “beetho”. An Assassin would ingratiate himself into the company of his intended victim or victims, and at some point a visitor would yell “beetho!” which would subliminally activate the assassin and cause him to kill everyone in the room.  The beetho caller would yell his magic word and bugout quick lest he be among the chosen.

 

So many times, I wish this were not fiction. So many times I want to walk into a roomful of people and yell “BEETHO!”. And today may be no different.   When management sends you an invitation to a “Company gathering” and then gets pissed off when everyone declines, and then makes the gathering mandatory, that is a surefire way to raise morale. Definitely. Yeppers.

 

Have a file. On a computer so old the case is made of a thin veneer of granite. It has a floppy drive. The floppy drive does not work. I need the file. Any ideas? (Compaq Armada 7710 for those who are inclined). A serial port, a parallel port, NO usb ports.