Re: [NTLK] newtontalk Digest V2 #482

From: Oliver Brose (oliver.brose_at_t-online.de)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 17:23:34 EDT


>From: Karel Jansens <kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be>
>Subject: Re: [NTLK] You know your a Newton power user when.........
>Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:27:33 +0200
>
>
>On Monday 01 July 2002 19:42, Oliver Brose wrote:
>> From: Rich Lindsay <rich_at_www.thisoldnewt.com>
>>
>> >On Sunday, June 30, 2002, at 05:22 PM, Rich Lindsay wrote:
>> >>> 1. You use the back-light as midnight illumination to change your
>> >>> child's diaper
>> >>
>> >> 2. You start to pick up Fred's Accent/Dialect
>> >
>> >3. When you are half asleep with a snoring spouse , you tap them on the
>> >forehead with your fingernail to get them to stop.
>>
>> 4. ... you're standard answer to almost any bare facts question is "I
>> don't have the slightest clue, but hang on for a second - ah, there
> > we are" by now.

>5. When you start writing your abbreviations on a piece of paper and are
>waiting for them to expand...

>6. You keep writing on your 17" monitor and get really surprised when
>nothing shows up on the screen.

7. ... you use two Newts to work on a single bilingual note
simultaniously to take full advantage of their different dictionaries.

Oliver :)

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