[P1] the whirring is back! was:new ibook problem...

[Fran Dollinger]

Brian Olesky wrote:

>On 5/7/03 4:45 PM, "Fran Dollinger" <fran at dollingers.com> wrote:
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>>I read that book and knew right away what the reference was but I was
>>under the impression that to 'grok' something was to have a deep
>>understanding of that thing.
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>And you were right. See below, picked up from the Dictionary channel in
>Sherlock:
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>tr.v. Slang grok·ked, grok·king, groks
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>To understand profoundly through intuition or empathy.
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>[Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his Stranger in a Strange Land.]
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>Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
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Great book, great author....I've read and still own 30 or more of his works.
Him & Vonnegut....yeow!
Now to keep this OT...Apple is sending a box for my poor little iBook. 
Maybe after the 3rd return they'll do something really cool like return 
me an 800MHz!! Chances are?...Zip?

One can dream! ;-)

Fran

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