AKICILJ: A few unrelated queries

[carbonel]

1. On Windows 7, in the Windows Explorer (not to be confused with Internet Explorer), I have a bunch of folders in the Favorites section. This, as it says, gives quick access to the most-used folders. A couple of days ago, the version of my Downloads folder in the Favorites section started acting as if the only contents of said folder were music:

Comments

[timill]

#2 (search was "new students have never lived")

[carbonel]

Thanks! All the search terms I'd tried were too general. If I'd remembered "mindset," that would have helped.

[mrissa]

It's the Beloit list.

[carbonel]

Thanks!

[beamjockey]

I've only been using Windows 7 for three weeks, so take this with a grain of salt

[carbonel]

Yes, Details. Drat -- I thought I was giving all the necessary data in tedious detail, and I missed that one.

Thank you -- that fixed the problem at least for now. I hope it'll stay fixed permanently. If not, I'll add it to the list. For some reason, Windows Explorer also sometimes loses the file extension on known file types. I know how to fix that one, but it's an occasional pain.

[sraun]

If you get your MP3s out of it - preferably by saving them directly to somewhere else - that should help. I've observed that Windows 7 likes to format folders based on either first or most file types found.

[beamjockey]

Snopes on the 20-minute-after-the-hour silence.

Refers to a 1948 book on superstitions. Not helpful in identifying an SF story about this, but may indicate that the idea does not originate in an SF story.

[carbonel]

That superstition may have been the source for the story, but the story goes beyond it.

SPOILER ALERT!

SPOILER ALERT!

SPOILER ALERT!

SPOILER ALERT!

The idea of the story is that people have been, without knowing it, waiting for the voice of some deity. And the last line of the story has a voice coming from nowhere (at 20 minutes after the hour, naturally), saying something like, "And now, my good children, I have come home."

Freshman List

[iraunink]

What you're looking for is the Beloit College Mindset List

http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/

Re: Freshman List

[carbonel]

Thanks.