And, OMG, this is posted by CMDRTaco himself!!!
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Good Heavens! Email me! I'll come on over and build a solution for you.
(I built a rosewood/teak/mahogany serving tray for a Rockefeller that remains one of his favorite possessions.
Do you doubt that I can resolve your modest request?)
And I build pergolas, redesign island properties, create virtual realities, whatever.
What I do not understand is how a man of your considerable gifts has not already resolved this issue 15 times over.
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I am a bit appalled here, to read this. What's the big deal? You need support for a laptop that allows for air circulation. Fine. Use your imagination while gazing into the nearest available dumpster. Mount whatever you find on a cantilevered sheet of scrap plywood and get on with your life.
When my eldest son moved into the front room of my two room apartment I built for him a cantilevered support for his monitor, the whole task requiring about 45 minutes,
then assembled shelves for his clothes, another 30 minutes, then installed myself on a scrap of carpet at the foot of my bed in the back (bed) room and added a wall mounted spotlight and read and studied there for two and a half years while he found his way. At 22, he joined FaceBook to write PHP, C++, and MySQL, starting at $80K,
more than twice what I have ever earned. Just get out of your own way, make it happen, giggle, and proceed. I mean, REALLY!
Why bother? THAT's the first question to answer. The answer is: because you can say whatever you might have to say to every single person alive and connected to the Internet ON THIS PLANET! Speak up! You have been around for awhile. Perhaps you have learned a few things, perhaps you remember when....
My father, age 84, acts as an editor at the Melrose Silver Stringers, thanks to a reachout effort on the part of MIT: "Any of you Seniors care to participate on the InterNet? Yeah, sure, I'll try that."
I have attended editorial meetings of this group, among whom age 70 means newbie. The experience remains with me, warm, powerful, encouraging. The point here is that if the Web is made available to Seniors, they'll jump on it, and they will party, and show us disaffected adolescents, among whom I count myself at age 56, how folks can just get together and have a grand time once they have outlived their youthful excesses.
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Good Heavens! Email me! I'll come on over and build a solution for you. (I built a rosewood/teak/mahogany serving tray for a Rockefeller that remains one of his favorite possessions. Do you doubt that I can resolve your modest request?) And I build pergolas, redesign island properties, create virtual realities, whatever. What I do not understand is how a man of your considerable gifts has not already resolved this issue 15 times over.
I am a bit appalled here, to read this. What's the big deal? You need support for a laptop that allows for air circulation. Fine. Use your imagination while gazing into the nearest available dumpster. Mount whatever you find on a cantilevered sheet of scrap plywood and get on with your life. When my eldest son moved into the front room of my two room apartment I built for him a cantilevered support for his monitor, the whole task requiring about 45 minutes, then assembled shelves for his clothes, another 30 minutes, then installed myself on a scrap of carpet at the foot of my bed in the back (bed) room and added a wall mounted spotlight and read and studied there for two and a half years while he found his way. At 22, he joined FaceBook to write PHP, C++, and MySQL, starting at $80K, more than twice what I have ever earned. Just get out of your own way, make it happen, giggle, and proceed. I mean, REALLY!
Why bother? THAT's the first question to answer. The answer is: because you can say whatever you might have to say to every single person alive and connected to the Internet ON THIS PLANET! Speak up! You have been around for awhile. Perhaps you have learned a few things, perhaps you remember when.... My father, age 84, acts as an editor at the Melrose Silver Stringers, thanks to a reachout effort on the part of MIT: "Any of you Seniors care to participate on the InterNet? Yeah, sure, I'll try that." I have attended editorial meetings of this group, among whom age 70 means newbie. The experience remains with me, warm, powerful, encouraging. The point here is that if the Web is made available to Seniors, they'll jump on it, and they will party, and show us disaffected adolescents, among whom I count myself at age 56, how folks can just get together and have a grand time once they have outlived their youthful excesses.