At 10:29 AM 11/15/97 -0800, you wrote:
I mean, we have a house rule of "No computers
in the living room or
dining room, unless they're laptops or they're leaving,"
Hmmm... What a silly rule! 8^) (As for me, there is currently (at least
before I left for a weekend holiday) a Data General One & a Mac Plus in the
dining room, At least an Apple IIe, M100, Dash 030, and probably a couple of
others in the living room, Atari Falcon in the laundry room... Nothing
(yet) in the kitchen or bathroom...
Hey, for years one of the standard excuses for getting a home computer
was "Hey, we can keep recipes on it". For that of course, you really
want a membrane keyboard -- pasta sauce in a Keytronics is fatal.
And _of course_ a similarly protected laptop belongs in the bathroom,
when you're setting down to do some serious Usenet reading.
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]