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Mark_Wallace wrote: It's the birthday of the "Space Telescope". I very much doubt that Edwin Hubble's birthday falls on the same day.
Touche. You should be able to read my mind though -- I clearly said "Happy Birthday Hubble Space Telescope" even though I didn't write it.
At least, that's what my gf keeps telling me, about reading her mind. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: that's what my gf keeps telling me, about reading her mind.
But that comes with benefits. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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Marc Clifton wrote: that's what my gf keeps telling me, about reading her mind
My missus is convinced that I can read her mind but I ignore her.
That gives her carte blanche to blame me for everything, because I should pay attention.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: It's the birthday of the "Space Telescope". I very much doubt that Edwin Hubble's birthday falls on the same day.
True (he was born on 20 November 1889) but to the general public the name "Hubble" is associated with the space telescope and not with the man.
Last Saturday the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum had a special day celebrating the Hubble, with several astronauts from Hubble missions talking about their experiences. I spent most of the day handing out NASA material on the Hubble to museum visitors; although in talking to the visitors I sometimes brought up Hubble-the-man I don't recall a single time that a visitor initiated a discussion of anything but Hubble-the-telescope.
Fun fact: you can in part thank the Hubble for the CCD in your camera. Some of the early proponents of the HST wanted to use analog video to return images to Earth, but others, including NASA's first Chief of Astronomy (Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, in whose honor NASA named one of its four fellowships), held out for using the newly-invented CCD, and (after pushing its development to improve its size and sensitivity) they won - and as they say, the rest is history.
For readers interested in a brief summary of Hubble-the-man and his contribution to cosmology, try http://www.pnas.org/site/classics/classics2.xhtml ("pnas" := "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences")
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It's still just a lump of hardware.
The man was so much more.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When I saw this[^] I had to share! 
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London marathon be buggered.
It was the Beijing marathon, here.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My missus ran in a four-miler, last year (they do it every year, but I do everything I can to make her forget).
I have absolutely no interest in running (I was a long-distance runner as a kid; I've done my bit), so I just walked the route, and met up with her at the end.
I beat a good quarter of the participants. I've never seen so many people put so much effort into going slower than they can walk.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Chris is awake and beating the hamsters into submission!
I don't think he's too happy with the Chinese at the moment: his "lazy Sunday" has gone - but he's on it, so we should be clear pretty soon.
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Looks like everything is back to normal... 
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Not quite - there are still 81,576 items in the moderation queue!
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/puts down smoking keyboard.
Not any more.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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"If you've done 81,576 impossible things this morning, it's time for breakfast at Milliways!"
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You should be able to slide the space bar like the pump action for a shotgun in cases like this! 
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Shouldn't someone be paged if the queue hits 100?
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If they are in the moderation queue, they aren't being displayed, so no problem.
It would only be an issue it the site couldn't handle the load, and that doesn't seem to be a problem.
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Yes, the existing system worked, but you can't expect mere mortals to click that many big red Xes.
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I tried.
Gawd knows I tried.
And I wasn't the only one!
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I hit a few hundred, but knew the task was bigger than all of us.
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It might be an idea to add a multi-kill to the moderation queue for cases like this: when you delete, you get a popup saying "the same member has nnnn other posts in the queue" with an option to delete them all at the same time?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Or "there are nnnn messages that all say mmmmmm, kill all?"
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Nice idea. What should the icon look like? A mushroom cloud?
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Leslie Neilson in a Mountie uniform? He did play Fraser's Dad's friend Buck on Due South.
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