Note 09/12/97 Friday 2:40 PM EDT: Copy of email to the White House:
To: 1600 Pennsylvannia Avenue
Internet Group:
I continue to work on the compter and make the usual rounds in
Greenwich. I chatted with a hippie type fellow down on Steamboat
Road at the pier yesterday. He said he was a local housepainter
here
and had lived in Key West, Florida for ten years. He said he was
part
of the group that uses marijuana that I don't approve of.
He told me something that I heard when I lived in Key West. He
said
that one could be murdered down there for $5. I was told that by
people
when I was there from 1976 to 1978 in the winter. Back then I was
told
that they also kill priests down there. Having lived down there I
determined that was probably a lot of hippie propaganda.
However the hippie told me there is Marijuana festival going on
in Burlington, Vermont. He also alleged that President Clinton
had murdered 70 Secret Service Agents, that I find unplausable.
He also said that the drug cartel runs the White House. He seemed
pretty sure of himself probably from his hippie contacts.
Needless
to say he and his house painting buddy are working the area.
On the Princess Di death, I propose an alternative scenario.
Perhaps her security people who left with her from the Ritz hotel
in two
cars,
had the lead car with the real Princess Diane take off in one
direction
from the hotel, and the backup car with the decoy group left the
hotel
and had the papparazi follow them. When they entered the tunnel,
the
second decoy car went on, while a truck in the tunnel dropped off
a
wrecked
vehicle quickly with crash victims and took off quickly, leaving
the
pursurers to see the assumed wreck. Obviously a lot of people
would
have to have been in on the operation.
Perhaps the rich "Dotty" who might have been a friend
of the Sultan of
Brunei whisked the real Princess Di out of the country to a new
place of
hiding and obscurity, perhaps in some location where many other
relatives
of the British Royal family live in obscurity.
This part about DI is just an alternative suggestion from what
the media
might have been misinformed. Question that don't make sense.
1. How was the body of "Dotty" thrown from the car when
the crash photo
shows his left rear door was still closed.
2. Why did it take a Paris ambulence one hour to drive six miles
to the hospital or average of 10 miles an hour.
3. What happened to the second car in the two car entourage that
left
the Ritz.
4. Were the Papparazi real papparazi or agents of some other
group.
These questions are based on watching the CNN reports and reading
the
internet reports.
I have not read newspaper accounts or news weekly accounts on the
incident.
As my grandfather Clarence Scott use to say, "Believe
Nothing that you
here, and
half of what you see."
Greenwich is pretty much the same as usual with lots of
distinguished
looking people here. My public housing building is very noisy
with roof
repairs going on.
The Greenwich Housing Authority sold one semi truck of Vermont
slate
back to Vermont,
and will probably have another truck of vermont slate in a week
or two.
I can't figure out what the town does not want to keep the old
slate for
similar buildings. Perhaps if the White House has a slate roof
you
could use our old
slate for repairs if you ever find it. Two fellows from India
were
inspecting the
slate two days ago.
Joan Warburg was sited in Greenwich yesterday. She has short dark
hair
and a very
dark tan, such that people don't recognize her. Her husband was
under
secretary
of the treasury in the Roosevelt Administration.
Bargains in Greenwich at the Grand Union, half gallon fresh
orange juice
$1.
Extra large 20 oz. box of Cheerios are $2. The new Mercedes Benz
from
Tuscalosa,
Alabama seem to have arrived, but I think the GMC is more
practical in
lots of
snow because it has more clearence.
I am no longer working on my internet directory, but I am
maintaining my
site.
I still do not have my heat paid for in the winter, so I have to
look
forward to
another winter of freezing in my apartment at 65 degrees which
averages
about
$120 a month a year for electricity, and when I kept it at 70 it
averaged $165 a
month. Needless to say with disability and chronic arthritis I
would
rather have
it warmer in the winter if I could afford it.
Averill Harriman's nephew is now an investigator for the New York
State
Racing Authority. Plenty of diverse people still moving here.
Bill
Gate's father supposedly
lives in Greenwich. Rocks are still staying private. As far as
security I would
imagine the Vanderbilt family are involved in owning Wells Fargo
Bank
and thus
Wells Fargo Security.
As far as IBM, the Watson's flag is still not flying.
That is my perspective, view from the poor side of town.
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Note 09/11/97 Thursday 1:45 PM EDT: Up at noon. I went through CNET features - how to - Internet speed tweaks to check out my system. Global Exchange Carrier works fine with my Iphone 4.5 setup, but with their rates, I am not sure it is a bargain. One can test it on 800 numbers for free. Try "ping" or "tracert" with web address, such as "tracert www.mikescott.net" from DOS window to test your ISP routing. It is raining today, and I have yet to be out. Needless to say in the rain, they are not working on the roof. CIO
Note 09/11/97 Thursday 0:30 AM EDT: I posted my www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm Current Bookmarks. I also installed my OLE update for Win95 from Microsoft Technical Support Help Files, Service Packs, & Other Files. I am about to install for a test Global Exchange Carrier. I also changed the setting on my older Zoom VFP 28,800 modem by selecting, Control Panel, Modem, Modem Properties, Properties, Advanced, Advanced Connection Settings, by checking from Hardware to Software (XON/XOFF) in order to possibly stop the intermittent freezing of my connection which still happens occassionally. CIO
Note 09/10/97 Wednesday 9:00 PM EDT: I updated www.mikescott.net/nasa.htm today to reflect the next NASA launch. I went by the library this afternoon and some of the old guard were there, but certain regular members of the old guard were not. The library parking lot is progressing fine, and hopefully will be done within a couple of weeks before they start work on the new addition. I saw the U.S. Tabacco Skoll Racing Team Semi Truck passing by the library as I left. I read the usual four computer weekly news magazines I usually read, PC Week, Computerworld, Infoworld, Interactive Week. The weather was overcast today, and I am still on a day schedule. When backing up my system with Colorado Backup 3.0, I get a message of 600 Megabytes selected from the program when in fact the files selected are all the files and represent over 900 Megabytes. I surmize I am getting an incorrect byte count since the files selected reflect the whole hard disk. However unless I am getting better than 2:1 compression I would not be able to back up over 900 Mbytes of files on a Travan TR-1 tape, so it is still a question. I will have to study the Cheyanne Colorado backup program site to see if any information is posted about this. I finally got a backup of my system by following these directions:
INSTALLING THE HP COLORADO T1000e TAPE DRIVE
Special instructions for installing the HP Colorado T1000e in Windows 95:
1. Power down your computer.
2. Power up your computer.
3. Install the T1000e's data cable.
4. Install the T1000e's power cable.
5. Insert a tape into the drive.
6. Follow the Installation Guide's directions for Installing the Software.
If you are having problems:
A. Click the Uninstall icon.
B. Right-click on the My Computer icon.
C. Click the Device Manager tab.
D. Verify that the HPTAPE and TAPEDRIVE sections are deleted.
E. Go to step one above.
Note 09/10/97 Wednesday 11:00 AM EDT: Yesterday afternoon I tuned up a friend's 1977 Volvo. I also installed new ignition wires on my 1976 Volvo. I have about 95,000 miles on my Volvo. My Volvo is making a clicking sound when I go up hills. It is possibly the timing, but until I can get around to having the timing checked, I put a bottle of STP fuel injection cleaner in the car and filled up the tank. The car seems to be clicking less. We're have to wait and see. I tried backing up the computer, and the backup program keeps quitting in mid progress. I may have to buy a new backup tape. I took a friend for a drive last night. I am on a daytime schedule. The roofers have done about half the roof and are still working on gutter flashing. The have brought in lots of bricks to fix the chimneys. They also brought in plywood, I assume for the roof. On Monday they loaded up a semi truck full of the used slate and shipped it back up to Vermont. I assume the rest of the roof slate will fill up another semi truck full of slate. On Tuesday night at 10:00 PM, Greenwich was totally quiet without much happening. There was a lot of air pollution. The Greenwich Times keeps having articles about the Greenwich Police Department, but I have not had time to read them. All quiet on the Eastern Front. I recieved email that the *.tiff files posted by NASA GOES linked in my current bookmark can not be read with a regular *.tiff viewer. CIO
Note 09/09/97 Tuesday 11:30 AM EDT: On Monday I put Netscape 4.03 Professional Version on my system. I am having trouble making a backup of the system and need to clean my tape drive. On Tuesday morning I updated www.mikescott.net/bm.htm with more links from the current bookmark link. I listened to www.ttalk.com for what was happening in the computer world. I have a number of NASA links in my current bookmark including GEO ones. Greenwich is pretty much the same as always. I will probably spend the rest of the day reading the computer press in our local libray. CIO