Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...machine. When it did not spring to life right away, I figured it was just old age slowing it down and I puttered around my room for a few minutes while I waited for it to start. Rather than the familiar hum of the Cookie Monster start-up screen, though, there was silence. I glanced over and saw a blank gray screen, with a giant question mark blinking ominously...
Figuring there must be some mistake, I restarted it a number of times. I was no more successful than before, so I went to sleep, sure that after both the computer and I had a rest everything would be fine. However, the next morning, the screen was still blank. For the next day or so, I held extensive prayer rituals over the machine, and otherwise avoided my common room as much possible, not wanting to be in the same room with the dead animal...
...fifth, DeRosa advanced to the bat with runners hugging first and second and two outs. Brush worked a quick 0-2 count before throwing a 55 footer that ended up at the screen behind the plate, pushing the runners to second and third. Fortunately for the Crimson, mighty DeRosa watched a curveball nip the outside corner for strike three...
...huge hard disks found on late-model PCs get just as cluttered as the area under the bed. Sure, that Christmas screen saver was great in December, but now it's just taking up space on your system, along with dozens of programs you've probably forgotten about...
...COMPUTER'S WINNING AT chess that disturbs me; a simple calculator can beat me at math. But when the computer sitting across from chess champion Garry Kasparov is instructed to play, and its screen reads, ''I'd rather not,'' then I'll start worrying about whether the next person I meet is a Terminator. Independent thought is the advantage we humans (currently) have over ''thinking'' machines. CLAY LOOMIS Arroyo Grande, California Via E-mail...