Good thing you have two monitors! (Or do you still have that third you borrowed and showed us on the blog a while back?)
You do know that you can open my buddy info in a separate window, and have linebreaks and other cool modern computer stuff?
That quotation is pulled from the depths of my memory of one night when Diane, Matthew and I went to the First Parish in Concord to hear Philip Pullman speak. It was, after all, you guys who introuduced me to him when you brought back his book Northern Lights (The Golden Compass in the States) from your trip to the UK.
Trying to think of an even longer away message,
Your godson,
Charlie
michael
That’s a 42 inch wide image across three monitors.
The info window, for me, provides your profile but not your away message, and a wand over pops up your away but only momentarily, which is fine for short messages. The only other way to get it is to click like I’m sending you a message, but then you see me lurking.
In her book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, essayist Anne Lamott tells a story about her older brother who, at age 10, had to write a report about birds for school. She describes her brother, “surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead.” Lamott’s father approached him, put an arm around his shoulder, and said, “Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”
adam
Diane looks like a 12-year-old Catholic schoolgirl in that primly-collared dress … Too cute!
And a perfectly appropriate reference to a great book, with a well-chosen title. One of the funniest ever, and simultaneously very wise.
pesky godson
Michael,
Good thing you have two monitors! (Or do you still have that third you borrowed and showed us on the blog a while back?)
You do know that you can open my buddy info in a separate window, and have linebreaks and other cool modern computer stuff?
That quotation is pulled from the depths of my memory of one night when Diane, Matthew and I went to the First Parish in Concord to hear Philip Pullman speak. It was, after all, you guys who introuduced me to him when you brought back his book Northern Lights (The Golden Compass in the States) from your trip to the UK.
Trying to think of an even longer away message,
Your godson,
Charlie
michael
That’s a 42 inch wide image across three monitors.
The info window, for me, provides your profile but not your away message, and a wand over pops up your away but only momentarily, which is fine for short messages. The only other way to get it is to click like I’m sending you a message, but then you see me lurking.
In her book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, essayist Anne Lamott tells a story about her older brother who, at age 10, had to write a report about birds for school. She describes her brother, “surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead.” Lamott’s father approached him, put an arm around his shoulder, and said, “Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”
adam
Diane looks like a 12-year-old Catholic schoolgirl in that primly-collared dress … Too cute!
And a perfectly appropriate reference to a great book, with a well-chosen title. One of the funniest ever, and simultaneously very wise.