[Info-vax] Raxco VMS Tuning Seminar Notes

[AEF]

On Oct 21, 9:48 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
>
> > That's twice in a week that I have welcomed and agreed with a post by
> > JF !

Scary . . . isn't it?

>
> As we approach the end of the world in december 2012, these unlikely
> events may happen more often as the clash between the 2 universes (yours
> and mine) becomes more and more imminent.
>
> But each time someone in the real universe agrees with me, it causes
> disruptiosn in the space time continuum and those will make the disaster
> of 2012 of even greater biblical proportions.

No, no, no. The world will end in 2012 for other reasons: People
saying "I should have did it," for example. There seems to be no hope
of this going away. "I will lay down" instead of "I will lie down." "I
was laying in bed," etc. When will we know for sure? When people start
saying "He's went" instead of "He's gone." Then it will be imminent.

Then there's aspect-ratio disease. People set their modern flat-panel
TV's to show the wrong aspect ratio, just so it fills the screen!
Perhaps this is thought of as being modern, hip, cool. Even worse,
sometimes the SAME website will have different videos of varying
aspect ratios, all of them incorrect!

Of course there's also apostrophe disease, but I have to admit even I
have suffered from that from time to time. Admittedly, this has been
with us for a very long time. Still, it doesn't help matters any. Once
seen, hand-painted on a store-front window: "We have Fisher
Stereo's".

Then there's the phenomenon of sound and picture out of sync. This
used to be limited to Godzilla movies and the like, but now it's
common on YouTube and is even creeping into television. I saw Seinfeld
at my Dad's last year and the lips kept moving after voice stopped!
This is a problem that was solved by Hollywood ca. 1930. (!) OK,
there's also the "I really don't want to bother to type all the
hyphens in a long (long being 4 or more words), multi-word modifier"
disease. Yeah, guilty as charged. OK, maybe we should make an
exception for that one. (!)

> Worse case scenario, instead of the end of the world, Sarah palin might
> get elected by the very people who are ardent believers in the bible
> (hence the diaster of biblical proportions :-)

Yeah, that won't help things much, either.

And then there are all the stupidness in the IT world! I leave it to
our resident expert to tell us about these. Oh, he already has!

>
> And if Sarah Palin gets elected, it will force 30-Rock to be cancelled
> bacuse Tina Fey will have to go back to Saturday Night Live full time to
> act as the official opposition to the government. All that because Hein
> agreed with me twice in a week :-)

Well, based on the one episode of 30 Rock I saw, this won't be a great
loss. OK, parts were funny.

AEF