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White bird,
in a golden cage,
on a winter`s day,
in the rain.

White bird,
in a golden cage,
alone.

The leaves blow,
Across the long black road.
To the darkened skies,
in its rage

But the white bird just sits in her cage,
alone.

White bird must fly
Or she will die

White bird,
dreams of the aspen trees,
with their dying leaves,
turning gold.

But the white bird just sits in her cage,
growing old.

White bird must fly or she will die.
White bird must fly or she will die.

The sunsets come, the sunsets go.
The clouds pile high,the air moves slow.
And the young bird`s eyes do always know.

She must fly,
She must fly,
She must fly.

White bird,
In a golden cage,
On a winter`s day, in the rain.

White bird,
In a golden cage alone.

White bird must fly or she will die.
White bird must fly or she will die.
White bird must fly or she will die.

Thanks for letting us know! I hope she gets her technical problems ironed out soon. She's missed!

I'm glad to hear that Letty is okay




Aha, now what will everyone do while the big boss is away for a few days

Oh, poor Miss Letty - I hope she'll back soon.
I miss her too! Here is a little computer song for her

Bill Cutter Crash Stuff
Its one of them days, when you dont wanna log on
Errors by the ton, everything is gone
You dont really know why, but you wanna justify
Ripping the case apart
No technical contact, and if its a Compaq, the monitor will get a crack
Your best bet is to shut up you stupid newbie

Its all about the MS Windows errors
I think youd better quit, loading that bit, or the system will have a fit
Its all about the MS Windows errors
I think youd better quit, loading that bit, or the system will have a fit, pu nk

Its one of them days, felling like the systems trash
First system to crash, ends up with a big gash
Yeah right Im a maniac!
Youd better watch your back, cause Im messing up your program
Tech supports stuck up, it just locked up, Im ready to give up
Your best bet is to shut up you stupid newbie
Its just one of them days

Its all about the MS Windows errors
I think youd better quit, loading that bit, or the system will have a fit
Its all about the MS Windows errors
I think youd better quit, loading that bit, or the system will have a fit, pu nk

My systems locked up
My suggestion, is to keep your distance
Cause right now Im furious!
Weve all crashed this sh*t, and threw a really big fit
All those tech support jerks
you wanna step up?
I hope you know I access a server, Ill hack your system with furvor,
And if my day keeps going like this, I just might crash something tonight
I access a server, Ill hack your system with furvor,
And if my day keeps going like this, I just might crash something tonight
I access a server, Ill hack your system with furvor,
And if my day keeps going like this, I just might crash some COMPAQ TRASH TONIGHT!

Give me something to crash
Give me something to crash
Just give me something to crash
How bout that Compaq Trash!

I access a server what?
A server what?
A LINUX Server what?
So come and crash it.

Its all about the MS Windows errors
I think youd better quit, loading that bit, or the system will have a fit
Its all about the MS Windows errors
I think youd better quit, loading that bit, or the system will have a fit, pu nk

Alfred Dreyfus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Alfred Dreyfus (October 9, 1859-July 12, 1935) was a French military officer best known for being the focus of the Dreyfus affair.

Born in Mulhouse, Alsace, France, Dreyfus was the youngest of seven children in the family of a Jewish textile manufacturer who had accepted French nationality in 1871. The family had long been established in Alsace. He was accepted into the École Polytechnique for initial military training and thorough scientific studies in 1877 and graduated in 1880 as a sub-lieutenant. His entry into the military was very much influenced by the experience of seeing the Prussians enter his hometown in 1871 when he was 11 years old. From 1880 until 1882 he attended at Fontainebleau for more specialized training as an artillery officer. On graduation he was attached to the first division of the 32nd cavalry regiment and promoted to lieutenant in 1885. In 1889 he was made adjutant to the director of the pyrotechnical school in Bourges, and promoted to captain.

On April 18, 1891 he was married to Lucie Hadamard (1870-1945) who would later bear his son Pierre and daughter Jeanne. A mere three days later he received notice that he had been admitted to the Superior War College. Two years later he graduated ninth in his class with honourable mention, and was immediately designated as a trainee at army headquarters where he would be the only Jew. Raphaël, his father, died on December 13, 1893.

At the college examination in 1892, his friends had expected him to do well and be attached to the general staff. However, one of the members of the jury, General Bonnefond, under the pretext that "Jews were not desired" on the staff, lowered the total of his marks by making a very bad report; he did the same thing for another Jewish candidate, Lieutenant Picard. Learning of this injustice, the two officers lodged a protest with the director of the school, Gen. Lebelin de Dionne, who expressed his regret for what had occurred, but was powerless to take any steps in the matter. The protest would later count against Dreyfus.

In an article from the Académie de Poitiers [1] the author remarks that "Dreyfus was a profoundly patriotic man, and if he had not been the victim of this affair he would certainly have been anti-dreyfusard. He was a haughty, intransigent man, linking very little with his fellow officers. He was a 'pisse-froid' as would then have been said in the army." In a report in 1891 on his admission to army headquarters a Colonel Fabre characterized him as "an incomplete officer, very intelligent and capable, but pretentious and whose character in not filling out, and with the conscience and manner required for fulfilling the conditions needed for being employed at army headquarters." This cold, aloof personality later proved a deterrent to some of his would-be defenders.

Dreyfus was arrested for treason on October 15, 1894 and the events that follow until his eventual exoneration on July 12, 1906 are chronicled in the article on the Dreyfus affair concerning which he was best known. On January 5, 1895 Dreyfus was stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.

On September 19, 1899, Dreyfus was pardoned and left the prison. During that time he lived with one of his sisters at Carpentras, and later at Cologny.

The day after his exoneration he was readmitted into the army with the rank of Squadron Chief. A week later he was made a Knight in the Legion of Honour, and subsequently named to the artillery command at Vincennes. On October 15, 1906 he was placed in command of the artillery unit at Saint-Denis.

Dreyfus' time in prison, notably at Devil's Island, had been difficult on his health, and he was granted retirement in October 1907. He was re-mobilized during World War I when he held assignments in the Paris region.

Dreyfus was present at the translation of Emile Zola's ashes in 1908 when he was wounded in the arm by a gunshot from a disgruntled journalist.

Two days after Dreyfus's death in Paris his funeral cortege passed the Place de la Concorde through the ranks of troops assembled for the National Holiday. He was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris. He is a distant relative of actor Richard Dreyfuss and of Seinfeld star Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

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

Good day WA2K.

Get that computer fixed and hurry back Letty. Miss you.

Today's birthdays:

1201 - Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274)
1261 - King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325)
1581 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)
1585 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)
1586 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria, regent of Tyrol (d. 1632)
1757 - King Charles X of France (d. 1836)
1796 - Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1840 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
1873 - Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)
1873 - Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939)
1879 - Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
1886 - Rube Marquard, baseball player (d. 1980)
1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (d. 1944)
1892 - Ivo Andrić, Croatian writer (d. 1975)
1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
1900 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)
1907 - Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
1908 - Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982)
1909 - Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
1911 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer
1915 - Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture
1920 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
1923 - Fyvush Finkel, American actor
1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
1936 - Brian Blessed, English actor
1938 - Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
1940 - John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
1941 - Trent Lott, American politician
1944 - John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002)
1944 - Nona Hendryx, American singer (LaBelle)
1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician (d. 1987)
1946 - Tansu Çiller, Turkish prime minister
1948 - Jackson Browne, American musician
1952 - Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne
1953 - Tony Shalhoub, American actor
1954 - Scott Bakula, American television actor
1958 - Michael Pare, American actor
1969 - P.J. Harvey, English musician
1969 - Amy Grissom, American artist and social worker
1970 - Kenny Anderson, American basketball player
1970 - Savannah, American actress (d. 1994)
1970 - Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
1971 - Michael Manna, American professional wrestler
1971 - Simon Atlee, British Photographer, most notable person killed in the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake (d. 2004)
1973 - Steven Burns, actor and musician
1975 - Sean Lennon, English musician
1978 - Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
1978 - Juan Dixon, American basketball player
1981 - Darius Miles, American basketball player
1986 - Laure Manaudou, French swimmer

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say Im a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

Source

Jacques Tati
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Jacques Tati (October 9, 1908-November 5, 1982) was a French filmmaker. He was born Jacques Tatischeff, the son of Russian father Georges-Emmanuel Tatischeff and Dutch mother Marcelle Claire Van Hoof, in Le Pecq, Yvelines, and died in Paris.

Originally a mime, in the late 1930s Tati recorded some of his early sporting cameos on film with some success and thus began his career as a filmmaker. His films have little dialogue or plot but are built around elaborate visual gags and careful sound design. In all his films, Tati plays the lead who with the exception of his first and last films is the gauche and socially inept Monsieur Hulot. With his trademark raincoat, umbrella and pipe, Hulot is among the most memorable comic characters in cinema. An important theme in Tati's work, most notably in Mon Oncle and Playtime, is the impracticality and ugliness of modern technology and design.

Tati's first major feature, Jour de Fête, is about a village postman who is influenced by a film shown at the village fair to go to extreme lengths to improve his mail deliveries. The film was shot in a new color process that turned out to be too difficult to process, so the film was released in black and white - until the color version was restored and released in the 1990s.

His second film, Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, introduces Hulot and follows his adventures at a French beach resort. It earned Tati an Oscar nomination (shared with Henri Marquet) for Best Screenplay.

Tati's next film Mon Oncle was his first film to be released in color and revolves around Hulot's hapless efforts to obtain a job. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1958.

Playtime, shot in 70 mm, was Tati's most daring and most expensive work; it took him nine years to complete and he had a modern city, dubbed Tativille, built on the outskirts of Paris. Narratively it had even less of a plot than his earlier films with a smaller role for the Monsieur Hulot character. The film follows Hulot and a group of tourists as they visit a modernist version of Paris. It failed commercially, leaving Tati in substantial debt.

Tati made two more films with far more modest budgets: Trafic which featured Hulot as an automobile designer travelling to an auto-show, and Parade a TV film about a circus. His final script Confusion, about television, was never produced.


Trivia:

Tati was voted the 46th greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

In an interview, Rowan Atkinson noted that Tati's characters were a source of inspiration for the creation of the British Mr Bean.

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

Thank you Bob and Raggedy.

You both do a great job here!

Instant karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin' to do
It's up to you, yeah you

Instant karma's gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin'
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin' at fools like me
Who in the hell d'you think you are
A super star
Well, right you are

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Ev'ryone come on

Instant karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognize your brothers
Ev'ryone you meet
Why in the world are we here
Surely not to live in pain and fear
Why on earth are you there
When you're ev'rywhere
Come and get your share

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Come on and on and on on on
Yeah yeah, alright, uh huh, ah

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
On and on and on on and on

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Like the moon and

Fastforwarding my Billboard #1 hits countdown to 1965, a classic from Lennon's collaborator/rival:

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it look as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
oh, yesterday came suddenly

Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
oh, I believe in yesterday

Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
oh, I believe in yesterday, Mm

and a Lennon classic from the number one LP of January '66:

There are places I remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends
I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
there is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
In my life I love you more

BBB


My daughter had the same problem last week. There is a nasty virus going around that is killing PCs.

BBB

Re: BBB


This is why I keep three computers running at all times... there is safety in numbers.

Hope to hear from you soon Letty... the station is not quite the same without you


BTW, I loved the wiki on McPherson... thx

Good evening, WA2K folks. When I have the chance, I will peruse all of our transcripts. Thanks to all of you for keeping our cyber station alive, and a special to my Irish friend, Mikey. As an early birthday present, I have a spanking brand new pc.

Back later when I get everything sorted out.

Glad you're back...and a with a new computer!

Now, get cable, letty. (Just joking. I have DSL and, for my neighborhood, it's not all it's cracked up to be).