Voice Command for iPhone

At 27 Jan 2008 08:53:47 -0800 SMS wrote:

> I miss a lot with Larry in my kill-file!


Why would Larry be in your killfile? The entertainment you miss...


> What a shame that Waffle House isn't out west. I ate in one in
> Florida last October, and that was enough to last me the rest of my life.

And miss out on the world's self-proclaimed largest purveyor of rasin
toast?

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Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 27 Jan 2008 08:53:47 -0800 SMS wrote:
>
>> I miss a lot with Larry in my kill-file!
>
>
> Why would Larry be in your killfile? The entertainment you miss...

Sometimes I get in the mood to kill-file everyone being a jerk on
Usenet, and Larry, with his "SellPhone" schtick finally fell victim to
one of these mass kill-file addition sprees. It makes my newsgroups
reasonably clean for a few weeks, then I have to do it again.

I wish Thunderbird would make it easier to add someone to a kill-file in
_all_ newsgroups. It can be done, but it takes about 10 seconds per
e-mail address. I also wish that someone would come up with a way to
kill-file based on keywords in the body of the message.

>> What a shame that Waffle House isn't out west. I ate in one in
>> Florida last October, and that was enough to last me the rest of my life.
>
> And miss out on the world's self-proclaimed largest purveyor of rasin
> toast?

I thought that they were the largest purveyor of grits. Grits are pretty
rare in California, but I like them having grown up in Florida.

Actually, considering the dearth of 24 hour restaurants around my area,
maybe Waffle House would be a good addition.

On Jan 27, 4:53*pm, SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
> Todd Allcock wrote:
> > At 27 Jan 2008 08:53:47 -0800 SMS wrote:
>
> >> I miss a lot with Larry in my kill-file!
>
> > Why would Larry be in your killfile? *The entertainment you miss...
>
> Sometimes I get in the mood to kill-file everyone being a jerk on
> Usenet, and Larry, with his "SellPhone" schtick finally fell victim to
> one of these mass kill-file addition sprees. It makes my newsgroups
> reasonably clean for a few weeks, then I have to do it again.
>
> I wish Thunderbird would make it easier to add someone to a kill-file in
> * _all_ newsgroups. It can be done, but it takes about 10 seconds per
> e-mail address. I also wish that someone would come up with a way to
> kill-file based on keywords in the body of the message.
>
> >> What a shame that Waffle House isn't out west. I ate in one in
> >> Florida last October, and that was enough to last me the rest of my life.
>
> > And miss out on the world's self-proclaimed largest purveyor of rasin
> > toast?
>
> I thought that they were the largest purveyor of grits. Grits are pretty
> rare in California, but I like them having grown up in Florida.
>
> Actually, considering the dearth of 24 hour restaurants around my area,
> maybe Waffle House would be a good addition.

I haven't moved an inch in the last thirty years and yet I now have
over 52 MEXICAN restaurants within a 2 mile radius of mi casa in NW
Metro Atlanta. None of these are open 24 hours but we still have
several Huddle Houses and Waffle Houses open 24 x 7.

And of course there is the hangout for Public Service at the Dunkin
Donuts now run by Indians.

You would think with that change in the poulation there would be zero
high tech demand in this area.
I stopped at the local AT&T store to buy another iPhone a couple of
hours ago and was immediately greeted by a young salesman who know my
name. He was excited as he wanted to show me he had bought an iPhone
for himself. He kept gushing on and on about how awsome it was. This
is the same guy who only three weeks ago had tried to convince me that
I should pick up an AT&T TILT because it was so versatile like a
little computer.

I happened to ask as they rung up the sale if their cellular business
had dropped off with regards the slowing economy and obviously no one
else would be buying iPhones now. All the men behind the counter
starting saying that it was the hottest cell phone by far at their
store out selling the next nearest cell phone by over two to one. I
guess all these foreigners haven't heard the USA is in a recession
yet.

At 27 Jan 2008 13:53:12 -0800 SMS wrote:

> Sometimes I get in the mood to kill-file everyone being a jerk on
> Usenet,

That'd certainly make Usenet a lonelier place!

> and Larry, with his "SellPhone" schtick finally fell victim
> to one of these mass kill-file addition sprees.

And yet _I_ continue to make it through? I guess I'm mellowing with age!
;-)

> It makes my newsgroups reasonably clean for a few weeks, then I have
> to do it again.

I haven't bothered with killfiles in a long time. As the old joke goes,
"even a broken clock is right twice a day." You never know where a useful
piece of information will show up- even our rabid iPhone fanboy Oxford
would occasionally post a useful link, despite his signal to noise ratio
being worse than that of an old KMart 8-track tape player stored in a
magnet manufacturer's warehouse.

> > And miss out on the world's self-proclaimed largest purveyor of rasin
> > toast?
>
> I thought that they were the largest purveyor of grits.

That too.

> Grits are pretty rare in California, but I like them having grown up in
> Florida.

I never "got" grits. The logic of naming a food after a synonym for dirt
always escaped me, plus the idea of putting butter on anything that
similar to cereal creeps me out. But, of course, every region has their odd
"specialties." I'm from Rhode Island originally, where kids drink coffee-
flavored milk (think chocolate milk, but made with a coffee-flavored syrup,)
cover our hot dogs in a meat sauce made by boiling ground beef, onions,
and celery salt in vegetable oil until it becomes the consistency of silt,
and often choose malt vinegar instead of ketchup as a french fry topping!


> Actually, considering the dearth of 24 hour restaurants around my
> area, maybe Waffle House would be a good addition.


The mere thought of the Waffle House brings to mind the comedy bit by
the late Bill Hicks where he tells of the time when a waitress saw
him reading a book at the Waffle House and instead of asking him "whatcha
readin'?", instead asked "whatcha readin' FOR?" to which he replied
"so I don't have to work at a Waffle House?"