Howard,

What Rei and Gregorio said.

GnT,

Standard, but standard for a good reason, first murakami rec is windup bird chronicle.

How is it even possible to have Word or whatever open without having PTSD-inspired ctrl-S spasms every 5 minutes?

I don't like this as an introduction because it's too meandering and too weird. You have to get used to his style first, which is why you need Norwegian Wood as a gateway book.

He writes about the normal as if it's weird, and the weird as if it's normal. That takes a bit of getting used to.

I am fine with the opinion that that's his best book - though I think Dance Dance Dance comes ahead of it too - but I don't think it's the one that gets people to like him.

MS Word 2007. It may well have autosaved, but if so, I couldn't find it. I spent an hour this morning looking before I gave up in frustration and decided simply re-do the damned thing. I was working with four separate documents, and what I think happened is that I mistook the main piece I was drafting for one of the source documents from which I was taking text; when I exited Word, I wanted to keep the original version of the source document, so I refused the option to save changes. I think I stupidly had the wrong document up when I did that.

You're not being a dick at all. My move was absolutely moronic and should never ever have happened. I almost never draft documents cold, which is what I was doing here; normally, someone emails me a draft and I put it in the appropriate spot on my drive before I start working on it. So if it is saved, it's in some place I don't know.

I'm also not a Word guru; my assistant is. But I finished up last night long after she went home and I need to circulate this thing tonight. So it may well be that yesterday's version is saved somewhere, but if it is, I don't know where.

The general idea and structure, yes. The exact language, word for word? That still seems a little weird to me.

By the way, if any of you point out exactly where Word may have autosaved the file, I might put a bullet in my head.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827099

Howard: exact word for word is not surprising at all.

Sci: reasonable points for sure. I read wind-up first and didn't think it was too out there, but I can def see your point. Have you read Underground?

I have word 2010 and it autosaves every few minutes and recovers documents when I start it up again. It's actually kind of annoying because I write notes to myself using word that I don't wanna save, and then on reboot they all pop up again.

Is there anything that MS really excels at that Google Apps or whatever it's called doesn't?

Market share

Excel

Hi offtopic, if Icame to california would you hang out with me?

that sounds interesting, my writing style is hard to get used to to I will try to read Norwegian wood, but I cant say ill read [book] anymore because i never finish books. So i've told a lot of people I would read a certain book and then I never do.

what about other people if i go to california?

Underground - interesting as a study on witness unreliability. Bit boring otherwise. Have you read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running? That's my favourite non-fiction of his.

Performance and stand alone/offline option

Everything.

being expensive

A Golden Oldie

and a somewhat related discussion

wow, that thread was awesome. That might be one of the worst pole attempts Ive ever seen, loool

Its surprising to see El D use the caps lock so liberally. The LC is hard to find without asterisks. What kind of grab ass operation are we runnin tyler

Bryce,

When are you coming to CA? Meeting people from the internet still seems sketchy to me but I feel like seeing some friendly faces would do you some good so if Im around Id kick it with you if you want.

first song I ever learned all the words to! Seems like lots of musicians hate their 1 big hit, he certainly seems to still have lots of fun with it tho

Baby Got Back, by the seattle symphony

Awright...after this 7-1 split, I will really feel stupid when I hold AAPL until it craters!