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Re: Epson ET-2750 Manual and Solve Printer Problems

texasyank — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:48:39 -0000

I am trying to insert ink cartridge but the printer itself will not open. I have followed two sets of instructions but no luck

Re: Everybody Wants Some!! Movie Review (2016) | Roger Ebert

texasyank — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 01:22:04 -0000

I just got home from the film (loved it) and I haven't quite sorted it out, but what I keep coming back to are the movie's dream references.
1. Willoughby is a "Twilight Zone" freak, having videotaped every episode. The one episode clearly visible on a cassette is "Midnight Sun," which is a dream in its entirety, all but the familiar "It's a dream--but it's starting again!" epilogue.
2. Willoughby's name is an echo of the "A Stop at Willoughby" episode, in which a character on the verge of a nervous breakdown seeks an imagined refuge in a town from an idealized past . . . think about that in the context of his character's secret, and the conversation that attends it.
3. Finnegan, the team's designated intellectual, is of course an echo of James Joyce, who called "Finnegans Wake" his "dream book."
4. Alice in Wonderland. Say no more.
I would include the pipe dream of the glass bong, but that is both too easy and too obvious.
Is college an idealized life, a dream, if you're a jock or a cool theatre chick? Do we idealize a moment our lives and hope it never ends? Is (once again, Willoughby) baseball, the life, a dream of a sorts that will end when college does? (I disagree with you slightly, Ms. O'Malley: perhaps the axe-wielding team captain will join "The Next Nolan Ryan" in the big leagues, but probably no others.)
It is not uncommon for Linklater characters to fall into sleep as the Sun comes up ("Before Sunrise," "Dazed and Confused"), but we are confronted with characters tumbling into Dreamland at the exact moment their college careers begin.
Just some thoughts.

Re: The Corner | National Review Online

texasyank — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:48:11 -0000

You are correct, and I was wrong. My apologies.

Re: The Corner | National Review Online

texasyank — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:11:59 -0000

Your Yankee hatred distorts your memory. In the 1998 World Series, Tino hit his grand slam off Kevin Brown. The opposing manager was Bruce Bochy. And the Yankees were playing the Padres. (The Yankees and Indians can't meet in the World Series, as they are both in the American League.) but good stuff on Yogi.

Re: It's 3:00 AM, and your children are safe and asleep...

texasyank — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:53:16 -0000

Any residual harm, if any, will come from the message sent by the 3 am message:

Hey, Hillary, suck on this.

If they meant it, it was stupid. If they didn't mean it, it was stupid

Re: It's Biden

texasyank — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:29:14 -0000

If it's true . . . my streak of 100% Dem-correct since '84 kinda lives.

The others I had three weeks out.

This one was the equivalent of getting your bet down at three minutes to post.

Rank my streak, at an interest level, up with my fantasy picks next week; I just had to get it down.

Uber Blog, Uber Alles.

Re: Wait till morning!

texasyank — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:21:21 -0000

My prediction in 76 was that Julie Vee would think I was cool.

That, I got wrong.

But hey--will my streak continue with Biden?

Re: Wait till morning!

texasyank — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:29:31 -0000

Take it for what it's worth: I've been right about the Dem nominee at least three weeks before the announcement since 1984 (really 1980, but Mondale's re-up was foregone): Ferraro, Bentsen, Gore, Gore (another re-up), Lieberman, Edwards.

All but the last were determined by: If I were the GOP nominee, whom would I be most afraid of?

For Edwards, it was: what cloistered, insidery, heh-heh-he-think's-it's-calculated choice could Mr. Haircut-masquerading-as-a-statesman come up with?

This time? I thought Webb forever, til he removed himself.

I thought Bayh until today, when some noise began eliminating him.

So: WOW. Not that anybody cares, but I am really wondering, for the first time in 24 (counting Mondale II, 28) years. If I don't know, nobody knows. (Kind of like: If I'm not going to see "X-Files: I Want to Go Home," nobody is. You dig?)

The problem is the absolute dearth of talent on the Dem side. Really, and think about it: right now, if not Obama, who would the Dems run at the top?

Hillary, whose negatives are in triple figures?

Edwards? (Snicker.)

Biden, whose treatment of Bork and Thomas would send the 60-80 evangelicals up San Juan Hill?

Richardson, who looks more and more like Oliver Platt's older brother, the one who keeps asking him for a loan?

Dodd? (Snicker, snicker)

I mean, jeez, at least Bensten and Gore and (kinda sorta) Ferraro brought something to the table.

It suddenly occurs to me: Unless Bayh can bring Indiana (probably not) or Kaine can bring Virginia (maybe, but if Obama can win Old Dominion he's looking at 350 Electoral votes, minimum), Barry's best bet is to find someone who won't cock it up.

So my guess as the choice? The one?

Vince Young.

Oh wait, wrong choice.

Make it Biden. Less vitriol from the churchies as Veep.

Christ, the Veep debate with (I think) Romney will be longer than a Yankees-Red Sox playoff game, but like same, will rarely be boring.

Enjoy the text. And remember: Obama HATES going first with this, because nobody can counterpunch like the former Annapolis boxer.

Re: Best conspiracy theory ever!

texasyank — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:32:44 -0000

Yeah, Cheney, whatever, but I have to share this. Right now I'm watching the greatest sporting event in the history of the world: the beach volleyball match between May/Walsh and the Brazilian women. Oh, baby.

You know what's cool? The abbreviations across the Brazilian bikini tops read "BRA." Heh.

Re: THE highlight of the 2008 Olympics

texasyank — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:23:44 -0000

The only comparable swimming match in my lifetime is the US women's 4 X 100 freestyle relay victory over the hugely favored (and, as it later turned out, drugged-to-the-eyeballs) East Germans in Montreal. In those days, the freestyle relays came last, as they do in most swim meets; Kornelia Ender and Co. had, to that point, won 11 of 12 women's golds, and so improbable was the US victory that the East Germans, almost reflexively, filed a protest, claiming US anchor Shirley Babashoff had left early. In the ABC studio, cum gold medal, Babshoff laughed them off: "Her fingermail was touching and my toenail was touching." A great moment--like this one.

Re: Dubya, coming soon to a theater near you

texasyank — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:54:27 -0000

hoya: Good point. I remember seeing a forgettable piece of medical/crime hoakum called "Malice" (Alec Baldwin, Nicoke Kidman). Afterwards my date nailed it: "That movie was three scenes away from being 'Airplane.'"

Imagine Bush staring at a map of Iraq while the chamber chorus from "The Omen" chants in the background. Closeup: Iraq. Close-up: Bush's sweaty face. Closer close-up: map, with the words "Baghdad" visible. Closer close-up: Bush's eyes. Map, Bush, map, Bush--now trembling. Close-up of Bush's hands shaking.

Would this not be a piece with the promo?

Re: Dubya, coming soon to a theater near you

texasyank — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:09:47 -0000

The thing about Oliver Stone is, if you take his work as what it is--agitprop--it's quite watchable. It's hardly the point ticking off the 278 or so inaacuracies or outright falsehoods of JFK, because any adherence to established record is hardly the point. JFK was a brilliant look at a paranoid mind (Stone's), even if inadvertant. I would suspect more of the same.

Re: McCain's dishonest, dishonorable attack ad

texasyank — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:26:27 -0000

Is the ad false?

I hope so. Until Obama denounces his "hundred years of war" comment, anything goes.