I recognized the name Tom Selleck, but I had to look up google
images to put a face to the name. Now I have the face with the
name, but I still don't remember what TV show he is/was on.
Where did this thread come from anyway? Apparently it's a
response to Lawrence Akutagawa from 2016. Lawrence hasn't
been on this group for a long time, status unknown (dead or not),
unfortunately. The moniker of the current poster is "iwidner",
not previously seen in soc.retirement, to my recollection.
I'd just gotten through resetting the three panels in my Forte
Agent newsreader (left: newsgroups, top right: headers of posts
within thread in the current newsgroup, and bottom right:
text of the post currently being looked at), so that I can see
all three at the same time again. It's confusing as heck when
the panel setup becomes uncombobulated for an unknown
reason. I always have a devil of a time recombobulating the
setup after that happens. I solved it this time just by
pressing "z" when I wasn't in a mode that would take that
as me meaning to type the letter "z". Then, with the
help of Merlin, the three panels magically reappeared
correctly. I'll have to try to remember that "z". I found
the instruction for it in an obscure place in Forte Agent's
bewildering (to me) "help" instructions for managing
the panel layout. It was a big surprise to me when
pressing "z" when not in typing-mode actually worked!
After recombobulating my newsreader, I found
that Tom Selleck is the same age as me (74), but
that and what his face looks like are still the only things
I know about him. There was text that I could have
read about him, but I didn't read it because I wasn't
interested.
Oh well, sorry to anybody who read this far, but
that "z" might be useful information to anybody else
who uses Forte Agent - the only possibly useful thing
in this whole rambling post of mine.
I thanked Merlin because there's more of a chance
that he was a real entity who might still have some
power, than the utterly crazy Jehovah fantasy which
is of great interest as an astonishingly peculiar
emanation from the evolving human mind, but
otherwise of no interest at all except for the
repercussions of that bizarre fantasy on human
history.
Oh well, I guess I'm done now. My sincere
apologies to anyone who might have read this far.
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