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understandbly dubious
Tuesday, November 6 2007
At our polling place, the Hurley town hall, Gretchen asked one of the poll ladies if it was legal for Hurley Republicans to send around a flyer bearing the Hurley town crest and a variety of anti-Democratic attacks. She said that she didn't think it was, and also that the Republican slimesite TownOfHurley.com had somehow been forced to remove the Hurley crest from its homepage.
On the way home, Gretchen dropped me off at the downhill neighbors' place so I could hopefully fix a computer that was running at
a pace only just suitable for keeping up with the geological processes unfolding around it. Other than an old copy of Norton AntiVirus (which, though no longer contributing to the computer's security, was still slowing it down the same as ever), it was difficult to say for sure what was wrong with it. Part of the problem with diagnosing a computer having this problem is that it takes forever to do anything, and by the time something actually happens in response to my mouse click I've forgotten my original motivation for making it. But one thing bears mentioning: if you've received any spam lately, it's possible it came from that computer. Short of reinstalling Windows XP (who has time for all of that tsuris?), all I could do was kill processes and delete items from its autorun list. People consigned to use computers like that one are understandbly dubious about the internet revolution.
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