lyndaj70

@lyndaj70 (293)

United States • Age 55

Joined myLot 19 years ago

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They're back!

ZaffireWolf @ZaffireWolf (480) • United States 5 Dec 07

Cultists may be a thing for California, but unfortunately they're plaguing the east coast as well, from Florida and even as far north as Connecticut. While the Jehova's Witnesses do not appear to be a dangerous cult like one that...

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lyndaj70 lol @ the ginsu knives! (joke): How do you keep Witnesses away from your door! A: Draw a chalk outline of a body on your front sidewalk and scatter some Watchtowers around it! Sorry, this thread made me think of that joke!

6 Dec 07

Does anyone here use Linux?

lyndaj70 @lyndaj70 (293) • United States 18 Nov 07

If so, what distribution do you prefer, and why? And if not, have you considered trying it?

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lyndaj70 Personally, both my laptop and desktop are running Ubuntu (grin!). I switched a while back! To me, it seemed one of the easier distros to set up, and getting DVD's to play was a breeze! Took me 2 hours out of the gate to enable DVD playback my first time, and...

6 Dec 07

Where do you prefer to do the laundry?

betsyraeduke @betsyraeduke (2669) • United States 4 Dec 07

Where do you prefer to do the laundry? Do you prefer to use your own washer and dryer at home or to go to the laundry mat? I usually only get a chance to do the laundry once a week. Therefore I prefer to go to the laundry mat...

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lyndaj70 I do not enjoy being stuck at a laundromat. They bore me to tears. I can get much more accomplished at home. Toss in a load, go do something, put it in the dryer, toss in another load, go do something else - fold the dry load, dry the wet one... It seems to...

5 Dec 07

They're back!

ZaffireWolf @ZaffireWolf (480) • United States 5 Dec 07

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lyndaj70 I am a Jehovah's Witness. We come around because we really do care about people, believe it or not. The purpose is not to just fill your house with magazines! As for computers, I work on them for a living. I play video games, watch tv and movies, and if you...

5 Dec 07

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To Ebay or not to Ebay

Impervious @Impervious (1147) • United States 5 Dec 07

I have been thinking about getting on ebay and selling something but am not sure what. So my questions are: 1. Do you use or have you bought something from ebay ? 2. Was there something that you were looking for and did not...

ebay

online purchases

shopping

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lyndaj70 I have used ebay for years! I mainly buy, but when I have things to thin out I sell as well. I have had very good luck there... when I sell, I generally just start out at a dollar and whatever it goes for, it goes for... it's just to get rid of it without...

5 Dec 07

toy advertisements, how much of an impact do they have?

serenidity @serenidity (641) • India 5 Dec 07

My daughter is not yet 2 and still enjoys watching cartoons. I do let her for 30 minutes or so in a day and I am so shocked by the number of advertisements of toys that come on that channel. I am even kind of scared that once she...

impact

toys

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lyndaj70 We had cable for a while; the kids would fight over the channels, yadda yadda and I got mad and had it disconnected! And guess what? To my surprise, my kids started asking for less stuff! No longer were they harrassing me for this toy or that movie -- I didn't...

5 Dec 07

Do you think a stay at home wife and mom should have to do everything?

TyNSethsMom @TyNSethsMom (136) • United States 5 Dec 07

I have been a stay at home mom for about a month now. When my husband gets home he will not help me at all with dinner, the kids, cleaning, ect. So I wonder if you are a stay at home mom should you have to do everything?

wife

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lyndaj70 When I was a stay at home mother, I had to do everything, include mow the lawn. When my mother was a stay at home mom, she did everything inside the house, and my dad did everything outside the house. My boyfriend has talked about me just being a...

5 Dec 07

One Laptop Per Child

CraftyCorner @CraftyCorner (5600) • United States 5 Dec 07

There is a budding program that is attempting to get a laptop computer into the hands of every child on the planet and get him or her connected to the Internet. The idea is that educating children via the Internet is cheaper in...

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lyndaj70 I have been following the OLPC project for a while now! Those "rabbit ears" actually enable the laptop to have a 3x greater wireless range than most laptops on the market! The LCD is a new technology: it can go from b/w to color, and the resolutions can change...

5 Dec 07

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Does anyone here use Linux?

lyndaj70 @lyndaj70 (293) • United States 18 Nov 07

If so, what distribution do you prefer, and why? And if not, have you considered trying it?

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lyndaj70 Dapper Drake is a great system! What hardware to you have that won't work with Linux? I hate that some of the linux distros freeze your machine; I've had that problem with some of them myself so I can sympathize! Was it hard to get things set up how you wanted...

5 Dec 07

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Does anyone here use Linux?

lyndaj70 @lyndaj70 (293) • United States 18 Nov 07

If so, what distribution do you prefer, and why? And if not, have you considered trying it?

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lyndaj70 Mandriva is a good distro for those new to Linux; so is Ubuntu, IMHO. What made you decide to try out Linux? Do you use a modem to connect to the internet, or another method? It is definitely challenging to set up Linux; it is a lot easier now than it used...

5 Dec 07

saving energy in winter

lyndaj70 @lyndaj70 (293) • United States 1 Dec 07

In the winter, I close off my external dryer vent and attach an internal vent system to my dryer. You keep it filled with water to catch the lint, and when you run your dryer it fills your house with warm, moist air which keeps...

conservation

energy

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lyndaj70 OOH! I hadn't thought about baking bread on those days! Time for some home made dinner rolls! Thanks! L

3 Dec 07

Switching to digital book format?

lyndaj70 @lyndaj70 (293) • United States 2 Dec 07

I love books. When I left my husband, I had shelves and shelves fust bursting with all sorts of literature. Most got left, and I gathered he burned a lot to keep warm the next winter (grin). Anyhow, I still love to read, but I...

books

digital

manuals

Do you ever get bothered by constant requests to fix people's computers?

lyndaj70 @lyndaj70 (293) • United States 23 Nov 07

I work on computers for a living. The other day, I'm getting ready for work and a friend pops up out of the blue wanting to be shown how to do something bearing some treats from where she works as a bribe.... I go to my...

computers

friendship

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lyndaj70 Thank you for your response! I can tell you know what I am talking about... Like the ones who wake you up expecting you to stay up for hours to "fix" their problem on the phone and when you tell them the solution, they want another fix.... One time my...

2 Dec 07

why mylot reduced my earnings?

cozuni @cozuni (42) • Malaysia 2 Dec 07

it is reduced by $0.04. why is that so? anyone experience this too?? Does mylot penalise their users for not being active?

earnings

mylot

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lyndaj70 I wasn't active on Mylot for a while and lost almost 3 bucks... Guess they take it all away if you don't post for a while...

2 Dec 07

Men (boys) Denying Their Children Is Annoying

vmenard @vmenard (895) • United States 2 Dec 07

When Men (boys) get women pregnant then deny the child, I get annoyed. They call the woman all kinds of names. They weren't calling the girl names when they were trying to get her in bed. These men (boys)don't take responsibility...

abondened

children

men

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lyndaj70 Protection goes both ways: Let's be frank here, when a girl gets pregnant, who really pays: the girl! The guy ALWAYS gets off scott free! So if the girl doesn't want to risk getting pregnant, either she needs see to her own protection by using birth...

2 Dec 07

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Does this make sense to you?

speakeasy @speakeasy (4171) • United States 2 Dec 07

Here in the US, we all know that gas prices are rising, food prices are rising, and so are a lot of other expemses. The contractors who process the applications for visas and immigration requests have been receiving record...

government contractors

immigration

pay cuts

scrooge

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lyndaj70 That is our wonderful government bureaucrats at work. It's a free country: They can always find other jobs. One bright spot: at least no one got fired due to "downsizing." Not trying to downplay how horrible it is, but I AM pointing out how bad it could...

2 Dec 07

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Why don't the airplane provide free food?

Huying @Huying (388) • China 1 Dec 07

Today,I with my friends go to Washington.It takes us five hours from SFO to Wahsington.Before this,we took the chinese airplane and Korean airplane,they all gave us free food which are all dilicious.We thought American air is...

airplane

food

free

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lyndaj70 The airlines used to provide small snacks for short flights but don't anymore to save money. They figure by cutting that out they can help keep prices low. Perhaps the food would be a selling point for future airline business?

2 Dec 07

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