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In January, one of my Muay Thai instructor's best young students broke his ankle and foot in a car accident. The rub is that this kid was scheduled to fight in June. Long story short, I was asked to fill in and said ok. I've been dieting and training like crazy ever since.
I'll be stepping back into full contact competition for the first time since I was 22. To date myself , it's been 13 years. Now, I getting really excited and felling a bit of trepidation. So, if my feet don't get too cold, I'll be fighting agin for the last time in 30 Days.
Anybody else got something exciting coming up next month?
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
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Does a 200 km bike ride count?  (See my sig)
Good Luck. We are never to young to take on a challenge. 
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Chris Meech wrote: Does a 200 km bike ride count?
By all means! I don't know that I can handle the chaffing. 
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
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Chris Austin wrote: Anybody else got something exciting coming up next month?
I'll have finished prototyping and designing by the end of this month and expect to be coding like a wild man in June. 
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: I'll have finished prototyping and designing by the end of this month and expect to be coding like a wild man in June.
Coding What?
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
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I've seen a few of these before...but now the Chicago Tribune has put together the top 50 worst album covers[^].
My vote goes for #31. 
And without further ado, I leave you all for 1 week of vacation. Woo!
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit.
From my latest post: "It's sobering to watch: the whole country stops for 2 minutes as a siren is blast to remember the 22,437 victims of terror and soldiers who died in defense of Israel..."
The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul
Judah Himango
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We're currently working on speeding up and improving the forum search and we're stuck on a question that only you can answer.
1. When searching the forums, do you need to specify a date range? If yes, do you need to specify a specific date range, or would an option such as "Only search recent posts" be sufficient, where "recent" equals a month?
2. When searching the forums do you need to search lots (over 4) at a time, or would the option of searching 1,2, 3 or all forums at once be sufficient?
cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Almost never need to search by date.
I usually want to search 1 specific forum. Can't remember when I needed to search multiple forums; I'd just use Google for that.
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit.
From my latest post: "It's sobering to watch: the whole country stops for 2 minutes as a siren is blast to remember the 22,437 victims of terror and soldiers who died in defense of Israel..."
The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul
Judah Himango
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- No. An option to restrict the search to the last 6 months would be nice.
- I always search a single forum.
If you're looking for feedback re: searching the programming forums I'd be happy to drop you an email. Possibly with a TimTams attachment.
/ravi
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I usually search a single forum. Sometimes two. Three... maybe once. I did have a FF search toolbar definition written up to search all of them at one time, but that was so pitifully slow that i couldn't really use it for anything anyway. One at a time is probably fine.
I do like searching more than the last month of posts, and would not find the feature very useful without the ability to search at least back to the point where i joined the forums. When it comes to the programming forums, i can't see how a single month worth of search results would be useful at all.
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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1. From date to current is all I use and it's rarely more than a year back.
2. A single forum is fine, rarely more than 2 on a search.
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One day Mike was wandering around and saw a new building. The sign on the building said The Orange Playroom and underneath that in smaller letters it said Everyone Welcome. Mike walked in and found many other boys and girls there, talking, laughing, and playing a game that Mike did not recognize. Some of the boys and girls walked up to Mike and said hello, and right away he felt comfortable at TOP (which is what everyone called it), and with the TOPians (which is what they called themselves).
Mike continued to stop by TOP, nearly every day. He began to learn the strange new Glass Bead Game that the TOPians all loved to play, and found that he had a knack for it. Then one day something changed. He noticed garish posters on the wall, advertising products he did not recognize or did not want. The posters began to annoy him. "How can I play the Game with those garish posters all around?", he loudly asked. The other TOPians were silent at his protests. Finally the proprietor of TOP came over to see what all the fuss was about. "The posters are distracting me from the Game!" Mike exclaimed. "They make me lose my concentration, and that is bad. They go or I go!" he announced.
All the TOPians was shocked. Mike was respected by many, and they could not understand his bold statements. They understood it even less when Mike actually left, but soon TOP was back to normal, with people talking, laughing, and playing the Game.
All of a sudden, Mike returned. He was welcomed and treated to many happy greetings. Once again, Mike felt comfortable at TOP, and fell right in with the usual activities. He became even better at the Game, and in no time he was the #1 Player. Then one day something changed. Many TOPians simply ignored his mood swings - they respected him enough as a Player to forgive the occasional outburst - but some TOPians considered his tirades as negative and provocative, quite a departure from the usually civil atmosphere at TOP. Mike began scoffing at these long-time TOPians, scorning them as "vanilla people" who don't understand the benefits of diversity.
Mike did not know that the Magister Ludi, the creator of the Glass Bead Game, was standing nearby and overheard what Mike was saying. "Mike," said the M.L., "You are the #1 Player, but you understand nothing. You can have strong opinions, and still be respectful of others. You can criticize, and still be civil. You can disagree with others, and still be a constructive force at TOP. That you have chosen not to do so, means that you have failed to understand what the Glass Bead Game is all about." With that, the M.L. turned and left TOP. The TOPians stood silently, waiting to see what Mike's response would be.
Go in peace, my friends.
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OK - yesterday was flambe day in the lounge, and today is morality play day. What's tomorrow going to be? Mime day? Existential Despair day in the lounge?  Nice try at subtlety - shame you missed.
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martin_hughes wrote: lunacy in the style of martin_hughes day
That should be fun, although tomorrow I intend to spend in the garden in the style of Pete O'Hanlon, possibly followed by in the pub in the style of a p!ssed Geordie.
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"Every time I tried to go to the copy room to print out my reports I just couldn't make the trees stop screaming! Why is my coffee orange every time I smell the lemony freshness of my desk?"
Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river. The river gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your contract says you can't use concrete or steel - the client only provides timber and cut stone (but won't tell you what kind). Gravity changes from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope.
Welcome to my world.
-Me explaining my job to an engineer
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It's hot. Really hot. Since the morning, we've been at no less than 30°C. And it's cloudy. And it's been this hot all the week. Yesterday we were at 32°C even when the rain was falling. Some of my few useful neurons are melting. I type a line of code and I sweat. It's like being on the beach, but without... the beach.
Anyone else's neurons are melting too?
Stupidity is an International Association - Enrique Jardiel Poncela
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Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: Anyone else's neurons are melting too?
I live in England, so of course not. When the temperature reaches -5 degrees, I might relent and change out of shorts into jeans.
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Well, I knew that England is cold and rainy, but... not even in the middle of the spring?
Stupidity is an International Association - Enrique Jardiel Poncela
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