http://www.deselbybowen.com/parlando/

I can understand people who don't want to expose their bank accounts to PayPal -- that's clearly risky. But you can also (as I have) set PayPal to work by charging your credit card, which means you benefit from whatever fraud protection your credit card has.

If you don't have a credit card, OK, I wouldn't use PayPal under those conditions.

A perverse part of me is pleased to hear that the connectivity is lousy on Martha's Vineyard. Another part says, "Hey, how come they can't get this right?" Both parts remember that they grew up on the island (well, summers anyway) when you could barely get AM radio stations -- WBZ from Boston, a New Bedford station, and late at night maybe WABC and *maybe* WOR from New York with Jean Shepherd's show, if you had a whole lot of antenna wire wrapped around your room.

John

Patrick, thank you for spending the time and frustration to fix the link. I hope that VP is going well.

I continue to urge you all to get your blood pressure checked regularly, and to take the occasional reminder look at Jim's post about strokes, here -- http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010240.html.

Today is the ninth anniversary of our first date (made possible, in part, by matchmaking by Our Hosts) and, as I'd suggested last year in the ICU, this year, we're going to do something really boring together. Not sure what, yet, but really boring.

I'm one of those OldFarts who don't trust PayPal (or myself, when books and other delights can be bought via it) but think I have a RealMail @ (Vicky R.) and expect to use it RSN.

Best Wishes to All There.

*shakes head*

Seems both longer and shorter.

I've used PayPal for several years as a buyer and not had problems so far. Use a credit card, the one with a lower limit I keep to use online. Never a bank account — if I did, would be separate from others. online-use-only. I like the idea of the auto subscription, but only if it can be easily and securely cancelled by the subscriber, which does appear to be a problem at the moment.

I've used PayPal for several years as a buyer and not had problems so far. Use a credit card, the one with a lower limit I keep to use online. Never a bank account — if I did, would be separate from others. online-use-only. I like the idea of the auto subscription, but only if it can be easily and securely cancelled by the subscriber, which does appear to be a problem at the moment.

One niggle for Patrick. I really dislike this trend of saying "x-year anniversary". That's the default. "X/st/nd/rd/th anniversary" means that. Extension is awkward and redundant. If you mean anything else, that's when you need to qualify: 6-month anniversary; 3-week anniversary, and so on.

It's like saying "carjacking" — hijacking in a vehicular sense by default refers to a car or truck. If you're speaking of an aeroplane, ship, train, motorcycle, skateboard or whatever, then you can specify if you want.

But “hijack” does apply to both vehicles and airplanes, the dictionaries say, so you can use it for anything, since ships and skateboards are also vehicles in the broad sense.  Journalists’ attempts at smart neologisms such as “carjack” and “skyjack” have never really caught on.

Perhaps it's different there, but "carjack" is now almost universally used when a car is hijacked in Australian media. Most don't bother to make up a new word like, say cycle-jack, railjack, or skaterjack, they'd say "a bicycle, train, or skateboard was hijacked".

The only person I know who has been talking about monthaversaries lately is male. (He is, arguably, not a boy: at our age I think "man" and "woman" fit better.)

(I was reminded of this last Friday: at the insistence of the bride's mother, I spent the night before the wedding rooming with my best man rather than in our hotel room. This meant hearing him snore and then stop, over and over. I could live with the snoring, it's knowing my good friend is damaging his health that hurts.)

What I find amazing about the Judge Clay Land / birther lawyer Orly Taitz cage match, is that he fully expects her to continue her futile quest.
Today a $20,000 sanction. Tomorrow jailed for contempt of court? One can only hope.

Sorry. I need to keep better track of my tabs.