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Dipo
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04-23-2002

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 7:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Would Target work for you Rissa?

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 7:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Rissa, Wal Mart and Target and also look at Barnes & Noble and other bookstores.

Oldtex
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03-06-2006

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 8:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Oldtex a private message Print Post    
Wargod, I hope your 2 kiddos know what a "Super-Hero Mom" they have.

Perhaps one day Caleb "Clapton" will write a song just for his Mom. OK Eric Clapton is my favorite and he does play a beautiful acoustic (sp?) guitar that will melt your soul.

Nickovtyme
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07-29-2004

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 8:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nickovtyme a private message Print Post    
Hastings is a good one for DVD's. They sell them new or used.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 9:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Oldtex, Clapton is awesome, his unplugged album is one of my favorites. May have grown up in the 80's but I have a soft spot for classic rockish type music.

This is a dumb question...but aren't dvd's set to specific countries? Or am I making stuff up? I'd swear I heard either here or in rl that if you bought dvds from another country they wouldn't play in a different country.

If that's not true and I'm nuts, lol, Target is a great place to get dvd sets. I picked up 2 seasons of Stargate SG-1 there for $16 or $17 each, granted those were on sale, but even the newer ones weren't real expensive (like $30-35.)

Heh, we hadn't even gone in for those but the prices were so good I picked em up for my own Christmas gift (saved Darren the trouble of having to shop.)

Nickovtyme
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07-29-2004

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 9:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nickovtyme a private message Print Post    
An Article on Region Coding

Evidently USA and Canada are in the same region.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 9:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I suspect that Canada and the US share the type of DVD. And I know my friends in New Zealand bought a DVD player that can handle more than one "code" because many times the movies or tv series would come out on code 1 (I think) DVDs for North America before comeing out in the code they use there, so they can order from here and also when they came on vacation, they loaded up with stuff too.

Yep.. looked it up.. Canada, US, US territories and Bermuda share code 1. Mexico and south would be incompatible with most of our players, unless we had a region free one, or all region one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

Wargod
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07-16-2001

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So wait, I'm actually kinda right about something techy??? Woo hoo!!!

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

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Woo Hoo Good Work War!

Major struggle ended. Think you did better than with the Craigs List guy. Seems like, with all his tweeking you around, perhaps his guitar had more damage than he was trying to portray.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

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Something was up cuz we never did hear back from him after Sunday morning!

Haha, I never got to tell you guys the best part! His teacher sent home a letter today letting us know what he expects from the parents and students. For them, he expects them to take their lessons seriously, practice at home every day, pay attention, and be ready every Friday for a quiz on what they learned that week. For the parents, we should remind them to practice everyday, help with fund raisers, attend their concerts (if available,) and supply their uniforms.

They have two scheduled concerts, winter and spring, plus may be asked to play at various events like 8th grade graduation, assemblies later in the year, elementary schools (towards the end of the school year some of the school groups go to elementary schools to showcase the different activities they have.) I told Caleb that'd be easy, I'm really excited at the prospect of going to a school concert and watching him play.

I asked about the uniforms and he told me the info was on the next page, so I flip over and start to laughing. Caleb is flipping between furious and embarrassment and trying to tell us he doesn't want to take guitar class anymore, lol. Uniform is a white button up shirt, black slacks, socks, and dress shoes....and a black bow tie! I about rolled on the floor laughing. I haven't had Caleb in a bow tie since he was a teeny tiny baby, lol. I can't wait to see how cute he looks in his little bow tie, while the poor kid is just mortified at the thought of it. He hasn't even owned dress up clothes (and that was just blue slacks and a short sleeve, white collared tshirt) in 3 years.

Rissa
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03-20-2006

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Thanks guys... added Target, Walmart, Hastings to the list (alrdy had Barnes and Noble.. bookstores I KNOW lol). I can always order stuff over the internet, just hoping to chop a few bucks off if I am south of the border anyway.

Poor Caleb!! My dd's had the same basic uniform for band (black slacks and shoes, white blouse (girls) or golf shirt (boys). The bow-tie is.... original. I can't see that the school is doing itself any favours, making a teenager feel uncomfortable in public just makes it more unlikely that they will pursue it next year.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 9:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
EMAIL PROGRAMS:

any suggestions? We had been using entourage (part of microsoft office) for years. Loved it. You could do so much with it; ie click on a name and get all emails from that sender, see the date and TIME it was sent, etc...

Well it crashed and burned and we cannot reload it. Looks like it was version 10.1.1.

Now I am so un-techy and I am so used to being babied by apple stuff (and by the way I am so very UNimpressed with my .mac email account) so please excuse me if my questions seem dumb. (Then again at least I am in the right thread!!)

But can we buy entourage separately? Is there any other email program that has lots of handy features? I have a mac.

TIA for any info!!!

Oh, right now we are using our internet provider's website email thing, but it is so cumbersome. Oh I just remembered the biggest thing I miss! In entourage, when someone sent you a photo, the photo opened right up in the email. Now I have to download it to open it.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 10:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Personally, I love gmail.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 6:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Interested in the answer to Julieboo's question, too. Hope someone can help.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 8:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
I guess everyone agrees with me! LOL Seriously, I recommend google mail to everyone I know and most of them have switched to it. www.gmail.com

Serate
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08-21-2001

Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 9:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
You recommended it to me and I didn't change. Course I'm just way too lazy to change.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 9:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Yeah, well you're an oddball anyway so you don't count.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

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twinkie, why do you like it/recommend it? Thanks for any info...(yep, Serate is odd!)

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

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I like it for several reasons and I'm sure I'm forgetting some. 1. It holds something like 10 gigs so you'll never fill it up. 2. If you don't remember someone's email addy you can just type the first letter and several suggestions of people you have emailed with before will pop up and then you can choose which one you wanted. 3. It tells you exactly what time an email was sent. 4. Attachments are a breeze to send and open automatically when you receive them. I was up late and just woke up so that's all I can think of right now but you can learn more about it at www.gmail.com.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

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Thanx Twinx! Looks like it hits my main criteria!! I do believe I will check it out!!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

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Is it really totally free? No catch?

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

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Yep. And its web-based so you can check it from any computer and if you get a new computer there's no hassle of importing your address book. Web-based is great.

Serate
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08-21-2001

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Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, August 22, 2008 - 12:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
And then if we switched internet providers, our email address would not change, right? (On another note, we are DYING to get rid of MEDIACOM--their customer service is beyond the worse customer service I have ever dealt with--but that is another story for another time). The reason we have not gotten rid of mediacom now is that since our email program crashed and burned, I lost all of our email addresses. So I am patiently waiting for more people to email me so I can save their email addys so I can notify them when we get a new email addy.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Friday, August 22, 2008 - 12:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Right. Your email stays the same no matter who your ISP is.