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(setting the wider scene): Woohoo!! no kids at home.
came home from a hard ride, figured may as well start the washing.
load up the machine with all the clothes, start it, wander off to the bathroom for a shower ...stopping on the way to grab a handful of peanuts to munch.
Wife asks, "why are you walking around naked?"
Well duh! ... (of course can't say that to the wife)
...so my actual answer, "because there's not enough space to ride my bike inside."
Sigh.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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I guess "because the kids aren't home" might have been taken the wrong way?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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...or the right way but he needed a shower first?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Kids being at home or not: Why should you have to hide your body at home?
I think there is ample proof from other (although mostly non-Western, at least the last 30-40 years) cultures that kids do have the mental strength to see the bodies of their parents without experiencing a mental breakdown. In my childhood, we always wore clothes when in public, but at home, we accepted each other's bodies.
When I became a daddy myself, I followed suit. We never tried to hide for each other. E.g. at home we all slept in the nude.
So my wife would never have asked the question. If she did, she would have been asking again and again and ...
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In Utah you can't be too careful. NPR article[^]
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I was considering adding "... but this is not the USA", but decided that it was too obvious to require mentioning 
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Member 7989122 wrote: Kids being at home or not: Why should you have to hide your body at home?
The Amazon delivery guy says he's not impressed.
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Earth's oldest asteroid impact 'may have ended ice age' - BBC News[^] - 43 miles / 70Km across, 2.2 billion years ago, it hit a Km thick ice sheet as part of a "Snowball Earth" and may have been partially responsible for our very existence by ending the ice age ... precarious place to live, planets, aren't they?
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OriginalGriff wrote: precarious place to live, planets, aren't they?
I haven't lived anywhere else yet so don't know.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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yeah but the earth being flat many pass safely above or below.
those big ones that come from other directions are a bit of a nuisance though,
it's hard to get the plug in without it going crooked.
but it's the space dogs that scare me more, at least those that like to play frisbee.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Shouldn't the dome save us?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Quote: Shouldn't the dome save us?
The Turtle's shell.
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This is the sort of thing that makes me not worry too much about climate change. It could all end a lot quicker with basically no warning. 
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Or, is it a coded guide to different types of programmers ?
From Lucy Cooke's description of tropical latitude penguins in "The Truth About Animals" [^] :
These birds have evolved creative strategies to avoid getting overcooked. Some species stand around panting like dogs, others are forced to seek out shade. Yellow-eyed penguins trek over half a mile inland (quite a marathon for those little legs) to raise their chicks in the cool of the New Zealand rainforest. Galápagos penguins avoid the brutal equatorial sun by nesting in uncomfortable-looking cracks of coastal lava rock. Humboldt penguins arguably have it even worse. Living on the barren coast of Peru they are forced to improvise shade by carving castles of crap from piles of their own mature manure. Fairy penguins solved the problem by shunning the sun altogether and becoming nocturnal. I have to admit that "improvise shade by carving castles of crap from piles of their own mature manure" reminded me of someone here, but, I decided not to mention that for fear of raising the temperature of any current brooders 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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It covers a heck of a lot of QA querists as well ... 
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That sounds like something i would do.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Quote: improvise shade by carving castles of crap from piles of their own mature manure.
Quote: That sounds like something i would do.
I am not coming to your place for dinner! 
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I'm a shut in, you're not invited. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Well, I would never think of you as a penguin If I had to choose a metaphor for you ... as programmer ... it would be: Dante, standing at the mouth of Hell, with the "shade" of Aeneas at his side, reading the sign that says: "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" (abandon hope, all ye who enter here).
And, overcoming fear, pressing forward into the chthonic inverted hierarchy of the infernal domains, following his passion for knowledge in spite of the great risk, and the remoteness of the chance he will ever find his lost Beatrice's salvific beauty.
cheers, from Tralfamadore, Billy Pilgrim
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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That's very sweet of you.
And a bit graphic, as is your wont. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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BillWoodruff wrote: improvise shade by carving castles of crap from piles of their own mature manure
Sounds like a vision statement for marketing.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Sander is a master of it.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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