86 Year Old Great-Grandmother Hoists The Jolly Roger

Helios, I laughed my hinder parts completely off. In fact, I'm trying to find where all of 'em fell right now. Let's hear it for Granny!

Seconded! If you don't read anything else this month, read this story!

My mother is 86 and I can imagine her and Alice getting along great. She was inspecting aircraft welds when the lady in the story was putting rivets in B-29s.

Helios:

We obviously need a new law to apply to you, contributing to the deliquency of an elder. :)

Helios, what a great story. Even funnier is she's a better geek than you! :D

I laughed my whole way through this!! Good on Alice!! And good on Helios for having the guts to teach her!!!

Somebody call up Arlo. This could lead to the Alice's Jolly Net anti-DRM Movement.

You can get anything you want, at Alice's Jolly Net.

Click right in, it's around the hack, just a lap around the CD track.

You can get anything you want, at Alice's Jolly Net.

You can get anything you want, at Alice's Jolly Net.

Click right in, it's around the hack, just a lap around the CD track.

You can get anything you want, at Alice's Jolly Net.

But...I really was only busted for litterin'...honest.

Darned few can appeciate your humor grouch...count me among that dwinding number.

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Still, welding rivets... weren't those hammered or shot into place?

>But...I really was only busted for litterin'...honest. don't forget 'creating a nuisance'.

Nice piece helios :)

We can only hope that we're that sharp 'if' we make it to that age. Discount the old folks at your peril!

From the article: "(don’t ask me what a “NadKnocker” is…I don’t wanna know.)"

Helios: Let me just ask if your Pa ever told you about the birds and the bees?

helios: >"Darned few can appeciate your humor grouch...count me among that dwinding number."

Dwindling? Folks are already running for the exits? Hey, I didn't actually ~sing~ about Alice.

I envy your good fortune in getting to know that lady.

Humor?

tuxchick2:

I'm sorry.

$ man -k humor humor: nothing appropriate.

I think it comes with a non-defective ping.

[edit:] (You realize I still blame you for the trauma you caused by revealing my non-audible ping, don't you?)

> Hey, I didn't actually ~sing~ about Alice.

Grouch: Send him the Ogg-Vorbis of you and your wife's duet of Alice's Jolly Net!

Meanwhile, I'm probably leaving the country now.

dcparris:

You have a mean streak.

I like that.

It would be cool if some *cough* talented *cough* singers + songwriters put something together along those lines for Alice. Kind of a show of appreciation for her and her generation still inspiring younger ones to stand up and fight. They weren't apathetic when the world faced a more direct, violent assault on freedom.

I'm so ashamed.

So ashamed.

So ashamed.

To think that people I communicate with could spread such evil.

Oh wait -- that's the Satanists.

Way to go, Helios!!

weren't those hammered or shot into place?...

You got my interest up, so I actually drove out to Gaines Ranch/Heritage and visited with Betty.

She seemed a bit miffed that I was not up to date on the science of high altitude aircraft design,

Yes, rivets were "hammered". High impact and high altitude aircraft rivets were individually strengthened by additional "Flux" welding. One by one, and each plane held thousands of them. Seems the anti-aircraft fire would cause nasty concusions with even near misses. When stuff started falling off the planes at 18 thousand feet, R and D decided additional welding was called for.

That's what Betty did. I have scheduled an interview with her concerning those days. While it has nothing to do with Linux, it has everything to do with what THIS generation could learn from that one.

Tom Hanks has been telling us that for years.

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Re: Welding Great! Learning something every day... [edited] Like this: http://www.rosietheriveter.org/

Really, really coincidentally, I tried to install PeerGuardian for Linux today (wanted it for Azureus), but I didn't succed, since I wasn't able to get te blocklist (wrong format error), and messing around in the update file didn't help.

I went out to check MoBlock, but it is offline at the moment.

Now, you are telling me Alice has got it working? That's just the greatest Linux story I ever heard. Would she be willing to tell me how I can get it working?

Update: MoBlock is back online. Will let you know if I can get it to work...

hkwint: >"Now, you are telling me Alice has got it working? That's just the greatest Linux story I ever heard. Would she be willing to tell me how I can get it working?"

How thick is your skin? I'd suggest calling her instead of meeting in person. Alice sounds like she'd be willing to peck heads.

> How thick is your skin? I'd suggest calling her instead of meeting in person. Alice sounds like she'd be willing to peck heads.

Actually, I think she would say RT*M.

LOL, tell helios that she'll be defecting to Debian soon.

Well,

I bet she started in the forums of the distro she uses first and foremost...so she STF (Searched the Forum): http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=2bb556efd...

With detailed instructions like that setup is a snap :)