09/18/11 - DVCers Take Over the Dream (S.S. Member Cruise 2011) - Thread #13

[M & N Potter]

michael, please reply to my PM

Done.

 

[TIGGERmetoo]

Any techies out there that can help me? Tim's hard drive on his MAC laptop died so he bought a new one today. Couldn't get anything off old hard drive so I am trying to transfer music and pic from my desktop mac. I bought a 32GB flash drive and copied my music and transferred to new mac pro. Also did most of the pictures. Went to finish the photos and got the message there wasn't enough space on the disk. I knew there was because I only had 500 or so pics to move. I put the flash drive in my mac and is says: Capacity: 32.04 GB; Available: 20.6 MB; Used: 32.02 GB on disk. I have deleted all the files on the flash drive. When I click on my devices is doesn't show any files. Is there a way to totally erase the flash drive or reformat it?

 

[M & N Potter]

I saw this on another site (yippie, yappie, yahooie) and thought that it needed to be shared:

The best out-of-office email ever written.


You know the worst thing about going on vacation? Writing your out-of-office email message. It's always one of the last things on the to-do list along with buying mini-toothpaste, and it's definitely the least fun.

Do you leave contact information? Do you overstate or undersell said contact information's emergency purposes? Do you point people to a poor, helpless co-worker in your absence who will probably resent you the entire time you're gone? These and many other questions (like, is saying where you're going TMI?) plague me the night before I'm headed out of town.

Thankfully, Gizmodo has provided us neurotics with the perfect specimen of an out-of-office email message. They found a vacation auto-reply of a guy named Josh Kopelman, that will now serve as my model for all future away messages—give or take a few key details. Josh's stroke of genius in full:


I am currently out of the office on vacation.

I know I’m supposed to say that I’ll have limited access to email and won’t be able to respond until I return — but that’s not true. My blackberry will be with me and I can respond if I need to. And I recognize that I’ll probably need to interrupt my vacation from time to time to deal with something urgent.

That said, I promised my wife that I am going to try to disconnect, get away and enjoy our vacation as much as possible. So, I’m going to experiment with something new. I’m going to leave the decision in your hands:

•If your email truly is urgent and you need a response while I’m on vacation, please resend it to interruptyourvacation@.com and I’ll try to respond to it promptly.
•If you think someone else at [the company] might be able to help you, feel free to email my assistant, and she’ll try to point you in the right direction.
· Otherwise, I’ll respond when I return…

Warm regards,

Josh

Let's examine what Josh has done. First he's humanized the auto-reply robot message. Second he's implied that not only would you be interrupting his vacation if you reach out to him, but you'd also be upsetting his wife, which somehow feels much worse. Thirdly, he's created an email account that forces users to write the words "interrupt your vacation" in order to follow through with the disturbance, just in case someone has forgotten what they're about to do. Josh, you are a psychological mastermind. Hat's off.

 

[friends with mickey]

Post 442 reminded me of one of my favorite cars The Hurst Olds 442, yellow trimmed in racing black, 1972, Sweet car and really fast

 

[M & N Potter]

Post 442 reminded me of one of my favorite cars The Hurst Olds 442, yellow trimmed in racing black, 1972, Sweet car and really fast

Wasn't there a Hurst Shifter Girl?

(I'm just being to lazy too go the juilioogle .... )

 

[Truffle]

Wasn't there a Hurst Shifter Girl?

(I'm just being to lazy too go the juilioogle .... )

Yes there was!

 

[friends with mickey]

Wasn't there a Hurst Shifter Girl?

(I'm just being to lazy too go the juilioogle .... )

Yes there was and I seem to remember a photo calender as well

 

[M & N Potter]

Yes there was!

Yes there was and I seem to remember a photo calender as well

I thought so.

 

[friends with mickey]

Dan and Michael,
I know you guys are race fans now. Did you have cool cars to run when you were growing up?

 

[Truffle]

Dan and Michael,
I know you guys are race fans now. Did you have cool cars to run when you were growing up?

Nope, not really. Although that depends upon what you mean by cool cars... It is a kind of long and convoluted story. I think it will be best told on the high seas...

 

[friends with mickey]

Nope, not really. Although that depends upon what you mean by cool cars... It is a kind of long and convoluted story. I think it will be best told on the high seas...

OK, something to talk about on the trip then

 

[Truffle]

Here is a picture of a tree from Erb Park in Appleton from their storm the other day that Michael asked me to post:

 

[Steamboat WillyNilly]

Wasn't there a Hurst Shifter Girl?

(I'm just being to lazy too go the juilioogle .... )

Julioogle to the rescue!!!

 

[M & N Potter]

Dan and Michael,
I know you guys are race fans now. Did you have cool cars to run when you were growing up?

Nope, not really. Although that depends upon what you mean by cool cars... It is a kind of long and convoluted story. I think it will be best told on the high seas...

Dan is right. The cars we grew up with is kinda an odd story. Wait until we are out on the ocean blue.

I am much more of the race geek than Dan is ... not so much of a fan of the goobers ... (NASCAR) ... one of my favorite sayings is "real race cars do not have a roof, fenders or drivers named Dale."

 

[friends with mickey]

Julioogle to the rescue!!!

Thanks Junior, that brings back memories of my teen age years

 

[M & N Potter]

Julioogle to the rescue!!!

AWESOMESAUCE!

(We still will not let you wear the thong however! )

 

[Steamboat WillyNilly]

Thanks Junior, that brings back memories of my teen age years

Was that in your Spank Bank?

 

[M & N Potter]

Here is a picture of a tree from Erb Park in Appleton from their storm the other day that Michael asked me to post:

Thank you Dan! This is just one example of some the damage here ...

 

[friends with mickey]

Dan is right. The cars we grew up with is kinda an odd story. Wait until we are out on the ocean blue.

I am much more of the race geek than Dan is ... not so much of a fan of the goobers ... (NASCAR) ... one of my favorite sayings is "real race cars do not have a roof, fenders or drivers named Dale."

And they don't always have to drive in circles either

 

[Truffle]

Thank you Dan! This is just one example of some the damage here ...

And what a fine example it is too!