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In the New Yorker...
southendmd:
Talk about disorienting!
Many European countries use some variation of the AZERTY keyboard (also QWERTZ). This is the French one:
I borrowed a friend's laptop once and was hopelessly confounded.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on April 02, 2017, 10:51:16 am ---Not only do I pay my bills on the internet, but I have them automatically withdrawn from my account. I keep a fairly close eye on things as they go along, but if I don't set it on automatic I forget to pay them on time.
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And that, I say, is a good argument for continuing to receive hard-copy bills in the mail, and for writing checks to pay them. :)
Jeff Wrangler:
Everyone should read Jane Mayer's "Trump's Money Man" in the March 27 issue.
Because it's good to know your enemies. ...
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 28, 2017, 01:26:58 pm ---I am getting a huge kick out of the previously unpublished F. Scott Fitzgerald story in the March 20 issue.
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Back on March 28, Jeff posted this and I read the story "The I.O.U." after just returning from Pint's Pub in downtown Denver, where my Sherlock Holmes society met to discuss "The Naval Treaty". Surprise! There are several parallels: a nephew of an illustrious uncle clashes with him, has brain fever for ten months, has a spunky fiancee, and there is a disaster regarding a publication. Coincidence, or archetype?
Jeff Wrangler:
"Brain fever." How Victorian is that? ;D
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