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Where do you find the time?
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[Andrew Kimery] “I figured all the time you saved using FCPX is why you can crank out some of those near-novella posts, Bill. 🙂
“(grin)
(Nodding to the eternal cloud in the direction of Mrs. Johnson, my high school “office machines” teacher – who clearly had no clue that she was helping create such a monster when she set up all those typing drills for yet another mediocre, largely disinterested student.)
And with apologies for never being able to edit, spell check, or otherwise clean up this copy. You’ll all have to suffer through “quantity over quality” since I don’t have the wit or time to pursue both.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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I don’t have any job at the moment.
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Look again, Ewan. On my iPhone there is a Facebook ‘Like’ button. I’m using mobile Safari on the latest software version on an iPhone 4S.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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The like buttoning mobile seems to apply to the thread and not an individual post.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Bill Davis] “(Nodding to the eternal cloud in the direction of Mrs. Johnson, my high school “office machines” teacher – who clearly had no clue that she was helping create such a monster when she set up all those typing drills for yet another mediocre, largely disinterested student.)
And with apologies for never being able to edit, spell check, or otherwise clean up this copy. You’ll all have to suffer through “quantity over quality” since I don’t have the wit or time to pursue both.”
There you go Bill, that explains a lot. Now I truly understand our stylistic differences and their origins.
The greatest influence on my writing style came from Mrs. Smith, my third grade English teacher. After she assigned a “theme paper” to the class, a single hand went up, and a fellow named Scott Wing asked Mrs. Smith how long that composition needed to be.
I’ll never forget the answer… Mrs. Smith said, and I quote: “Like a woman’s skirt, it must be long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to keep it interesting.”
Personally, I’ve always preferred short skirts…
David Roth Weiss
ProMax Systems
Burbank
DRW@ProMax.com
http://www.ProMax.com
Sales | Integration | SupportDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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[David Roth Weiss] “The greatest influence on my writing style came from Mrs. Smith, my third grade English teacher. After she assigned a “theme paper” to the class, a single hand went up, and a fellow named Scott Wing asked Mrs. Smith how long that composition needed to be.
I’ll never forget the answer… Mrs. Smith said, and I quote: “Like a woman’s skirt, it must be long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to keep it interesting.””
Third Grade? Term Paper? Really ? And I thought it was rough writing a term paper in 11th grade!
don walker
texarkana, texasJohn 3:16
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[David Roth Weiss] “There you go Bill, that explains a lot. Now I truly understand our stylistic differences and their origins.
“Yes David, I get it.
You are thoughtful and incisive and clever.
I am verbose, stupid and not worthy of intelligent consideration.
I’m absolutely sure that everyone here will be glad that you’ve cleared this up for all those who would otherwise be too thick to make up their own minds about such stuff.
I continue to stand in awe of your public service largesse?
: )
Point for you, sir. Well played.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Don Walker] “Third Grade? Term Paper? Really ? And I thought it was rough writing a term paper in 11th grade!
“Don, he said theme paper which is very different than a term paper. A theme paper would be about “cats” or “honesty.” Though I’m guessing the story is a bit fanciful and a bit tongue in cheek. I love the punch line, though.
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[Chris Harlan] “Don, he said theme paper which is very different than a term paper. A theme paper would be about “cats” or “honesty.” Though I’m guessing the story is a bit fanciful and a bit tongue in cheek. “
Oh……. DRW is one of my forum hero’s, I tend to believe anything he posts 🙂 Walter Biscardi was a hero, but he went over to the dark side……..
don walker
texarkana, texasJohn 3:16
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[Chris Harlan] “Though I’m guessing the story is a bit fanciful and a bit tongue in cheek. I love the punch line”
Actually Chris, the story is 100% true, and 100% accurately reported.
Both Mrs. Smith and Scott Wing really did exist, and the quote, “Like a woman’s skirt, it must be long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to keep it interesting,” was so memorable that I remember it today like it was yesterday.
It’s certainly one of the best coming of age moments I can remember from grammar school, and I wrote it into a script for coming of age movie that, so far, has never been produced.
David Roth Weiss
ProMax Systems
Burbank
DRW@ProMax.com
http://www.ProMax.com
Sales | Integration | SupportDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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