The Front Porch Swing

[Beekissed]

I've got six chicks that look a lot like your little black ones...a lot! Congrats on your successful hatch!

 

[bruceha2000]

You have to have a different kind of membership to start a poll. But, no, you are not too old and OK is always OK unless you spell it out....but this is a whole new texting generation and nothing is capitalized or punctuated~even when they come to these forums. No indentation, no caps, and one is lucky if they even use spacing between the end of one sentence and the beginning of another.

It's not that you are middle-aged, you and I~ and anyone else who remembers a cursive writing class in school~ are all just dinosaurs. We are very quickly going extinct and are even now considered obsolete.

DOH! Time to renew my Golden Feather membership!!! My apologies to all the good people at BYC.

I know there are twenty something year olds that can neither read nor write cursive. Hugely surprising news to me. In an NPR story a while back the "kid" had taught himself to read cursive so he could read (with great effort) letters from his grandmother (I think) but couldn't write it

Both my girls learned it in grammar school and they are several years younger than this guy. I guess it depends on the school system, some stopped nearly 20 years ago? BEFORE most people had computers and word processing software?? Almost before Al Gore invented

the internet? If they HAVE to (shudder) write on a piece of paper, it is either slow printing or "fast" printing so ppl no wat u r thnkng. And the kicker is: It ISN'T all that hard! No harder than learning the "print" letters. OK, who (besides Bee and me

) knows why the letters are referred to as "upper case" and "lower case"?

LOL>... Picking my teeth with WHAT!!?? Aint sticking THAT in my mouth.

Actually the lead in pencils is not really lead its graphite.

deb

Yep, knew that too.

Surprising how few do.
So, anyone want to talk about Rocky Mountain Oysters? My younger daughter likes smoked oysters. Given she is going to college in the mid west, I felt it necessary to let her know that Rocky Mountain Oysters are NOT the same thing on the off chance someone offered her some. You should have seen her face

And no, I have not availed myself of the opportunity to sample same.

I thought I'd share some pictures of a few of my new peeps. I think they are suppose to be austrolops and possible 1 or 2 ameraucanas.

What color are the bottom of the feet on the black ones? If white, they certainly can be Black Australorps.
And it sounds like maybe "Mom" needs (different) glasses.

Bruce

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

OK, who (besides Bee and me

) knows why the letters are referred to as "upper case" and "lower case"?

Bruce

Me! But I used to be a typesetter, so I have an unfair advantage.

 

[enola]

......because it sounds more professional than saying' big' letters and 'little' letters in the printing industry.......

Showing my age. ........

 

[bruceha2000]

......because it sounds more professional than saying' big' letters and 'little' letters in the printing industry.......

Um, nope

. I'm sure Leslie does given the source of the term is from manual type setting.

OK, reupped my GF. The membership page says "generic" members can create polls. Maybe the page needs to be updated. Not sure how one gets a Platinum Poultry membership, not listed in the store.

Bruce

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

If you're starting a new thread, down at the bottom of the editing window, on the left, there is a "+" for add a poll ...

Not sure if this feature is available mid-stream of an existing thread ... ? I don't see it down below the window I'm typing in now, so I doubt it.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:

......because it sounds more professional than saying' big' letters and 'little' letters in the printing industry.......

Showing my age. ........

Quote: Type setting by hand used Lead cast letter forms designed so that a person could grab them and set the letters in a clamping arrangement to form a page or paragraph. Those letters were held in contianers The upper cases held the capitalized letters The lower cases held the small letters.... Since more small letters are used in type setting there were more of them and you had to have them handy to do your work quickly.

Just thinking logically. Am I right?

I have seen one of those systems that used the lead letters but it was operated by someone who actually typed on an electronic typewriter.... Each letter was fed into the page by servos..... It was an amazing piece of technology.... At least the size of a small bedroom.

Even more amazing is All of the letters are backwards and yuou have to proof read the backwards letters or actually print a page in order to proof read.

Gawd this is a flash back to 1973.... I was dating a fellow who Ran an AB Dick printing press.

deb

 

[heartsizedfarm]

Cool! Nine chicks isn't too bad! You've proved it works, and that artificial incubation can be done without a lot of fuss and expense. I'd say it was a very worthwhile experiment. 

That stuff in bold is for sure part of the issue with me. And with Dad. He got a sick look on his face when I tried to talk to him about it. Then he suggested we could possibly have one of the guys do it. That seems kind of cruel, so I might just buck up and do it myself. 

Dad can be a pretty big softie about random things. We had a broody duck. We do NOT need more ducks at the moment. And this duck gets super mean when she's broody so Dad didn't want to reach under her to take the eggs away. And this duck is a terrible broody (she eventually starts eating her eggs, which means I find partially incubated but dead ducklings around the duck yard ... so sad). But this time she got confused about where her nest was so we couldn't even let her sit on a couple eggs. I wear long, thick rubber gloves when I'm out at the coop, so after we saw she had switched nests I reached under her and pulled out the new eggs (also gathered up the "old" eggs as we don't need to be selling those) ... Dad was there ... that poor duck watched her eggs go away in my hand, laid her head down in the hay nest, all stretched out, and made a quiet and pitiful sound, just laying there flat. Dad got all choked up. He keeps telling me "I never saw anything like that," all tearful. Me either, but it did break her of being broody for now, which seems less cruel in the long run.

I need to investigate the float thing ... I've read snippets about it, but never got the full story on what that's about. 

I do think we need to know if there was any development at all in those Delaware eggs ... 

Oh I sympathize with your sweet dad sympathizing with your duck mother. What a sad picture.

Didn't go to Ithaca after all. My daughter got the flu. I'll go next weekend.

Goodness you all got saucy while I was away! Raccoon souvenirs and whale souvenirs and even hyena souvenirs nudge nudge wink wink.

 

[wyoDreamer]

"Age" related question. As I said in my last post, I was Skype type chatting with my daughter. I answered a question with:
OK

She asked "why the caps". I said OK is always caps, otherwise you can type it out Okay (first word in sentence or okay otherwise).
She said the caps make it "sound" angry and I should just type "ok".
So I told her I am OLD and OK is always in caps (then used it later, in caps without thinking about it because it is ALWAYS caps

)
She said I'm not old, just middle aged.

So, am *I* nuts and OK is mad as in OKAY, OKAY!!!!! or is there some age "break" where OK in caps is just a generational thing??

For reference I am 58, merely middle age assuming I live to 88 or longer. My wife's definition of middle age is the middle third of your life which, by any measure, means I AM close to OLD(!) if not there already having no idea how long I will actually live. My mother died a few months shy of 75 (due to complications from an RA drug and the flu, before her time), her sister died last year at 92, my Dad turned 85 last year, his dad died a few weeks shy of 96. I have quite a range to "choose" from, unfortunate interactions with buses not included.

I think there is some way to make a poll but I don't know how.

Bruce

Bruce,
I do the "OK" and the "ok" drives me up the wall.
I am late 40's.

But your daughter is right, anything in caps means "intense" as in angry or extremely excited. Just the only way they have to express emotion in this internet/text based world we live in.

 

[Beekissed]

Bruce,
I do the "OK" and the "ok" drives me up the wall.
I am late 40's.

But your daughter is right, anything in caps means "intense" as in angry or extremely excited. Just the only way they have to express emotion in this internet/text based world we live in.

Maybe use emphatic statements in bold, followed by exclamation points? It's always worked in type.