Re: FLASH: flash loading

[William Skyvington]

Rick Turoczy kindly informed us that there is


> a detailed example that you can break and tweak at

>

> http://24.130.49.24/source/till_8_5_98/statusloader(f3).fla


When supplying URLs of this kind, it would be polite to point out that the

automatically-downloaded stuff is for Bill boxes. It would be better still

if Mac users were offered a corresponding URL.


It's funny to feel like a giant Dodo bird. A philanthropist with a lot of

money (Bill?) should put us surviving Mac users into cages and exhibit us

to school children before we become extinct.


By the way, can somebody tell me, in simple terms, why all the messages in

this list have the term "FLASH" in the subject header?


I remember a delightful cartoon (on the wall of one of the myriad

Dilbertian cubicles I've frequented during my professional existence) in

which the master of a suburban household, shown smiling idiotically with a

can of paint and a brush in his hand, has just dabbed crudely-painted names

on all the objects in his universe: "DOOR" on the door of his house, "TREE"

on an innocent willow in his garden, "CAR" on the family automobile, even

"DOG" on the back of the intrigued children's pet. No major object is

missing an identifier. And the caption (which I'm paraphrasing from memory)

translates the master's contentment: "THAT SHOULD PUT SOME CLARITY INTO OUR

EXISTENCE." The cubicle dweller in question was a celebrated Lisper who got

momentarily lost in Paris (Hi, Harley!), and the obsession with naming

things surely rang a bell in his MIT mind.


Dabbing the term "FLASH" on all the messages in this list certainly puts

some clarity into our existence.


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