On 12/1/2012 12:11 PM, z z wrote:
> Steal away :-) Here are some more fun ones.
>
> Scrabble board cookie with piped letters weaving together holiday words.
> Or make all the little scrabble tiles also with the letters piped on.
> Play scrabble. :-)
>
I know a few Scrabble fanatics...

S Viemeister wrote:
>
> On 12/1/2012 12:11 PM, z z wrote:
> > Steal away :-) Here are some more fun ones.
> >
> > Scrabble board cookie with piped letters weaving together holiday words.
> > Or make all the little scrabble tiles also with the letters piped on.
> > Play scrabble. :-)
> >
> I know a few Scrabble fanatics...

Way back in the early 80's, my first computer was the Commodore Vic20. I
learned programming with that one. One weekend, I decided to see if I could
make a computer version of Scrabble, just for the fun of it. I started on
Friday evening and I finished it about 4am the next morning. It was a good
version, graphics and all. There was no computer game of that at the time.

Well, I wrote to the company that held the copyright to Scrabble....Selchow
and Righter (that spelling is wrong, I'm sure). They wrote me back with,
"Thanks but we already sold the rights to a computer version to (some
software company)." They gave me their address.

So I wrote to the software company to see if they were interested in seeing
what I did. They responded, "Thank you but we already have a team of
programmers working on this game."

A team of programmers working on it? I did this in one long night. WTH?

So anyway, I just accepted defeat but I watched for their game to come out
on the market. About 6 months later, it arrived in the computer stores. I
bought it, tried it, and it wasn't near as good as the version I programmed
in one night. damn!

To this day, I think I should have contacted a copyright lawyer and found a
way around the copyright. Maybe I could have called it "Scramble" instead
of "Scrabble."

Gary

On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:35:36 -0500, Gary > wrote:

> To this day, I think I should have contacted a copyright lawyer and found a
> way around the copyright. Maybe I could have called it "Scramble" instead
> of "Scrabble."

Unfortunately, life is littered with woulda, coulda, shoulda and 20-20
hindsight.

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

sf wrote:
>
> On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:35:36 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>
> > To this day, I think I should have contacted a copyright lawyer and found a
> > way around the copyright. Maybe I could have called it "Scramble" instead
> > of "Scrabble."
>
> Unfortunately, life is littered with woulda, coulda, shoulda and 20-20
> hindsight.

LOL! Yeah...."in my next life, "

I love to play scrabble on my Kindle :-)

Wrong day to mention computers to me-they just upgraded us this wk at
work-new computers (flimsiest plastic yet), giant monitors allowing for
split screens (nice), even new mice (unneccesary cost).

In addition to that damned waving banner on my saved Word documents, now
I can no longer have individual one-click direct shortcuts to them (or
to various folders) on my taskbar-they all instantly run and hide inside
bigger ones.

Now I have to keep the shortcuts on my desktop which kind of defeats the
purpose of the new monitors. And I can't switchout the icons to be more
indicative of what the shortcuts lead to like I used to.

Is it any wonder it takes 20 people to do the work it used to take 8
people to do? Every time I come up with a shortcut that helps me, life,
aka Microsoft, comes up with another way to obstruct it.

On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 13:56:57 -0600, (z z) wrote:

> I love to play scrabble on my Kindle :-)
>
> Wrong day to mention computers to me-they just upgraded us this wk at
> work-new computers (flimsiest plastic yet), giant monitors allowing for
> split screens (nice), even new mice (unneccesary cost).
>
> In addition to that damned waving banner on my saved Word documents, now
> I can no longer have individual one-click direct shortcuts to them (or
> to various folders) on my taskbar-they all instantly run and hide inside
> bigger ones.

Go to Recent. You'll see your recently accessed documents and folders
there.
>
> Now I have to keep the shortcuts on my desktop which kind of defeats the
> purpose of the new monitors. And I can't switchout the icons to be more
> indicative of what the shortcuts lead to like I used to.

Did you try this?
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13631...s-7-and-vista/
>
> Is it any wonder it takes 20 people to do the work it used to take 8
> people to do? Every time I come up with a shortcut that helps me, life,
> aka Microsoft, comes up with another way to obstruct it.

Although I have Word set so it saves in 2003 format, I like the rest
of it. You can even put a Quick Access bar under the Ribbon so you
can get to the print button or whatever it is that you use all the
time and want direct access to. I was a happy camper as soon as I
figured that one out. No idea what you were talking about when you
said "waving banner" though. I've never seen that. I especially like
the w7 search function. It's super fast and if it's on my computer,
it will be found with just one or two key words.

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Thanks for the link-I am not the administrator so that is one issue, but
the comment about 7 and unpinning from the taskbar before changing the
icon might help me with a few. In the past I always did the simple right
click/properties/change icon on any icon on the taskbar. I think the
techies hate it when we change out icons because they want uniformity
when they show up to work on multiple computers, but we want
functionality for ourselves.

Recent is same song second verse-when I am on the phone I want one click
and only one click before my document is on screen (without a damned
waving flag)-otherwise I might as well print them out and tape them to
the furniture like everyone else does.

One click or two clicks might sound trivial to some of you but if you
perform these actions a hundred times a day the time adds up.

I minimize the ribbon takes up too much space my eyesight is still 20 20
lol. I customized the ?quick access bar? to add all the command icons I
want (switch to all commands and scroll thru selecting all the ones you
want (including quick print.)

Another new program to deal with is Adobe XI I think it's called-when I
click on rotate I want rotate to hang around for awhile because it
always takes two rotates to get a fax right side up-instead I have to
laboriously go back to the beginning for the second rotate-I haven't
investigated that one further yet to see if there is a workaround.