A while back I was helping Leigh Ann's friend get her computer on line and had to access my long unused Yahoo e-mail account. And look what I found, but the Bund mailing list all the way back to the beginning, which for me was 11/22/03.
Which got me thinking about the book. What I'm missing are my posts, as there was no "sent" folder that saved my messages to you guys in those days. I have five of my posts from 11/03 to 2/07, and about six megs of your guy's stuff.
It almost brought tears to my eyes reading those old, pre-storm posts. The biggest obstacle to a "meet" were difficult wives and the early out. But it did bring to mind the idea that if edited, the old mailing list at least could be put into a coherent book form. Just the titles from the e-mails were funny enough, tracking the threats by the interlinked titles. We almost quoted the entire "Band of Brothers" DVDs just in titles.
What gaps do you guys have in your archives? Start playing with them, put them into a Word format or something and slap them together. Tell me what you think.
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My archives are complete back to 11-'05... when the power came back on for the new computer. All previous posts seem lost in dead machine.
There is the off chance that I backed up the old 'puter with CD's, but I'll have to look for those files in the nearly infinite places I stashed items for the move.
I'll work on it, tho..
How do you take Outlook files and convert them? I can't open the files in WORD, and I have nearly 1100 posts just since the storm (mind you, that's ALL posts... mine and you guys), so opening each in Outlook and saving them as WORD files is a daunting and time consuming task.
Have either of you done this before without cutting and pasting?
I've only ever cut and pasted them. 1100. Holy crap. And that's SINCE the storm? Damn.
Dude... these frigging files are HUGE! 1,064 posts from 11-23-05... with another 2+ years worth on CD somewhere... that's a whole lot of cutting and pasting.
We need a better plan for how to format this stuff.
Ideas?
I have 1,201 going back to 11/23/05 of just us three. I "had" all of the ones going back until we first met (what was that, right after the 2000 election. I wasn't at the Grand during the recount, but I think was a few months into the Bush presidency, just prior to 9/11)but, the old computer died a month or so into the Las Vegas move, so I hope you guys have it all between the two of you.
By the way, "tears in your eyes reading about when difficult wives and eo's were the biggest obstacle to a meeting." Were we in person I'd give you the traditional soft hit to the shoulder and say, "ya big lug." Anyway, not to get too gay, just thought it was a nice sentiment, good times.
(Boy if I ever run for office that "too gay" comment will come back to bite me now that all of our inner Bund thoughts are a matter of public record huh? ha! Not like the "pink mafia" will be my voting bloc anyway ... double ha!)
By the way, what do you think of an early title to the completed works in book form - "Caustere."
Can anyone tell me what that is? If you know you'll instantly realize how clever it is, and by extension ME.
R
Ok, space losers, what did I tell you? I really think, just as an experiment, that all we can do is cut/paste the similiar threads to one word file. So instead of 1200 posts you narrow it down to, say, four or five hundred files. At least it's printable, or something like that.
No one said it'd be easy.
Hey, am I the only one with pre-Katrina posts? Damn it, I don't have MY posts, which are the best, funniest, most pertinent and most readable. It's like trying to piece together a letter from Athanasius from the writings of Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus or references from Augustine, for crying out loud.
You aren't that clever, Ryan... "caustere" is the Latin root of "encaustum" which is what we call iron-gall ink (the prefered ink of the middle ages). I think it means "eats" or "to eat" because I know iron-gall ink actually eats into vellum and leather and renders itself indellible that way. Anyway, I am sure its a verb... nearly sure.
How is that "clever"? We eat too much?
In response to James I can only hope to find the old files (pre-Katrina) on a back-up CD. Otherwise, they are lost.
T
Think I got it, now...
"caustic" right? I was too literal again, wasn't I?
Close, it literally means "bite" because the iron-gall ink actually does "bite" into the parchment. I thought it was "clever" becuase that ink was used to record history, prose and the like centuries ago and our emails are the modern day incarnation of that ink/parchment.
Also "clever", because I learned all of this from that book you gave me (you'd probably define GAVE as "stole") The Year 1000. It's just a working title, nothing permanent.
Because you eat too much? Come on ... I may sometimes think you're an overblown, 2nd Amendment hating, high tax loving, pinko, Bolshevik .. but I'd never say anything unkind.
FR
Jerk... I LOVE that book.
So much, in fact, that I had to buy a new copy.
Those two authors have done a fantastic job... the wrote another about the Magna Carta called 1215, and another about the culmination of 400 years of Christian-Islamic conflict with the fall of Constantinople called... shockingly enough... 1453.
Buy these books, Ryan... they are fantastic! You'll just never see MY copies...
T
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