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daily status update:
"I accomplished nothing during the 7 hours after our lie down yesterday because I was too consumed thinking 'Holy elephant my back elephanting hurts' to concentrate on anything else. There were minor glimmers of recovery this morning, but the first part of this cluster elephant has already resulted in a >200% regression from the starting situation. I predict the only thing I'll do during the next 24 hours is to fill out a disability application from home." 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Have you seen any of your coworkers? A few planks wouldn't hurt.
Software Zen: delete this;
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When I lay on my belly my arms won't reach the ground! 
The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa. - Orson Scott Card
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He asked me if I want to take on a role as a "tender writer".
He obviously doesn't know me.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Give us the contract,
Or I'll murder you?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Roses are red
Sheep are off-white
I think I just stepped in
A big pile of shyte
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No, I don't believe that romantic novels are your style. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I've written just about everything except gay porn and romantic novels -- and I would never, Ever write romantic novels!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Maybe that a sign, is time to look into it 
Bryian Tan
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Bryian Tan wrote: time to look into it
By "look", do you mean "gaze with undying affection", or "regard with a fiery passion"?
The 16-38 year-old female reading public needs to know.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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PIEBALD gazed upon the plain white page, it was as yet unspoiled, immaculate. It held untold potential, for pleasure, for pain, for humiliation. But what did the page desire to be created upon itself? Epiphany? Denial? The page sat mute; it waited, patient as a yogi, to witness for itself what would become of it. To be unceremoniously soiled and sullied for certain, as all other such pages had had to endure at the hands of such a base creature. No page which entered this den would ever bear witness to a new sonnet. Nor Grand Unified Theories. Nor treatises on philosophy. No. It's fate was sealed. It would surely bear only tripe, at best.
modified 25-Apr-17 22:29pm.
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So you dont even work in IT?
--edit--
Come on Mark, dont be shy, justify your statement that: "I've written just about everything" if you work in IT?
modified 24-Apr-17 9:41am.
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So you don't even know what a tender is?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's the middle of a chicken breast...
--edit--
Or a small boat....
--edit--
Or a patch of sensitive skin?
-- edit--
Or is it a sweethart?
Hmm, gosh, I don't know, but I am sure you are just itching to tell me all about it! 
modified 24-Apr-17 9:52am.
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Hmm? No response?
I just wanted to know about your published work. Do you publish under Mark Wallace or another psuedo?
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Just because I respond to you once or twice doesn't mean I feed trolls.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I find it therapeutic. And it's a great way to spend time while a product meeting rages around me.
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"A thousand, with a Greek god and a half-wind, is combustible." (8)
The answer is Kerosene.
A thousand - K
Greek god - Eros
A half-wind - east north east (ENE).
And of course Kerosene is combustible.
Andy B
modified 24-Apr-17 9:23am.
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Methanol?
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Very close, and along the right lines, but not the answer I'm afraid.
Andy B
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So tomorrow is a public holiday in Australia ( ANZAC Day ) and my company decided to give everyone forced annual leave today ( Corporate spin is to get yourself relaxed = In reality reduce company's leave liability ) except for some skeleton staff in office. Now I got an email from one of my team member who is working today about a project. I am not happy that company is forcing leave as I like to take them together when I go overseas.
Should I reply or not ? I am thinking I should reply "I am not working on force annual leave day so I will reply to your email when I am back to work on Wednesday. "
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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I suppose it depends on the urgency (much like Q/A).
This may also be a good time to see how the sender can function on his own.
At least send an acknowledgment?
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Reply Wednesday!
You got no time today, too busy doing the nothings! 
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