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I just watched a film on videocassette. Brings back some good old times! After the movie I almost forgot to rewind, but I remembered just in time.
For those of you less than approx. 18 years, this is what I'm talking about[^].
I sure feel old though (and I'm only 24)...
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
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That's nothing. I just watched a movie on this[^].
/ravi
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Hah! When I were a kid, this[^] was a movie for us!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Good morning! I would have bet that you meant this[^]
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Nah! Only the toffs could afford that when I were a kid. We had to work up the chimneys 26 hours a day, 8 days a week.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Sounds more like my time in the military. We used to march under water for days, having only dry bread to eat and nothing to drink.
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Loved that when I was a kid
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
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How would you like four big boxes full of tapes? I have them down in the basemant and really don't know what to do with them. And the recorder sits in the shelf, next to the 8 bit Ataris and the C64s.
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Is the C64 also on offer?
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We just had to euthenize our 18-year-old cat with dimentia, hyperthyroidism, and cancer. I have had her since I was 1 year old.
RIP. Lulu. 1994-2012.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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Sorry to hear old friends are hard to let go.
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Why is common sense not common?
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert.
Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy
Please stand in front of my pistol, smile and wait for the flash - JSOP 2012
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Condolences
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
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Gate Meow, Gate Meow, Paragate Meow, Parasamgate Meow: Bodhi Svaha !
~
Confused by Windows 8 ? This may help: [ ^] !
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My condolences.
/ravi
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Condolences.
We had six cats at home at a point of time - three generations of them. Sadly, one by one, all of them succumbed to the road traffic in front of our house. I know how it feels to lose loved cats.
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One of the saddest moments of my life was when I unintentionally caused to the death of a young kitten. It's not a pleasant experience.
My condolences.
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My condolences, It's hard to lose a life long friend.
All of my software is powered by a single Watt.
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Sorry to hear that Zac... my condolences.
RIP Lulu.
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It never gets any easier to say goodbye to a cat.
They leave such inappropriately large holes in your life.
My condolences to you all - but I'm sure it was for the best for Lulu.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Zac, I'm sorry to hear that. My wife and I have said farewell to some much loved companions ourselves. They leave a big space. We usually fill the space ours leave by getting more!
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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So do we.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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You have my sympathies . We had to do the same with our cat Raphael, who was 15, about six months ago. I still have a picture of him as the wallpaper on my phone . It shows him in a characteristic pose: laying upside down on my daughter's school books, waiting for someone to pet him.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Me too lost 2 old friends like you did, except that for me it was 2 dogs of mine I really do miss both of them though..
RIP Lulu.
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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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anyone following bb? any good/interesting news in sight?
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thewazz wrote: anyone following bb?
Why on earth would you do that?
thewazz wrote: any good/interesting news in sight?
In the last 3 years, what, if ANYTHING, has BB had to say that was good? The company has one foot in the grave and no way to keep from putting the other foot in.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19850385[^]
I'm not actually interested in the case, but I have always wanted to be able to say "The butler did it!" without getting hit by the wife. (She also gets testy when I tell her I think the murderer was Hercule Poirot)
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Teasing your wife in the Lounge is almost off-topic
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in the kitchen with a knife?
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In 'Curtain, Poirot's Last Case' the little Belgian IS the murderer.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Not the only one either. Did you not consider it suspicious that wherever he goes, murder follows? And he is always the one who "works out" who is guilty?
Occams razor says: Poirot did it and pinned it on the other guy!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Cannibals capture three men. The men are told that they will be skinned and eaten and then their skin will be used to make canoes. Then they are each given a final request. The first man asks to be killed as quickly and painlessly as possible. His request is granted, and they poison him. The second man asks for paper and a pen so that he can write a farewell letter to his family. This request is granted, and after he writes his letter, they kill him, saving his skin for their canoes. Now it is the third man's turn. He asks for a fork. The cannibals are confused, but it's his final request, so they give him a fork. As soon as they do, he begins stabbing himself all over and shouts, "The hell with your canoes!"
/ravi
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They'd just ground his dead body up into a mashed heap and use it as inner stuffing for their canoe.
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He was given a final request, why didn't he just asked to be freed?
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My dear fellow, how splendidly clever! Clearly you're experienced in these matters. I wonder what Aunt Agatha would have to say to all this.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: I wonder what Aunt Agatha would have to say to all this.
Good one there!
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I first saw that as "Captured by Cannabis". Which reminds me...
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Did you hear about the cannibal that passed his friend in the jungle?
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KAOS Agent: I'm a sportsman. I'll let you pick the way you wanna die.
Maxwell Smart: Oh. Ok, eh, how about old age?
--Get Smart, 1968
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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Perhaps the banks though it was payback time
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I always keep a modest cash reserve for issues like this.
Especially on a Friday, not being able to withdraw funds can disrupt your plans.
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Whee!
I ordered a new table saw last week, and Sears informed me that it would be available for pickup in two weeks. So I was surprised to get a call yesterday informing me that the saw was ready, a week early! Weekend plans out the door, I picked it up - with the help of a couple of husky clerks - and brought it home. That sucker weighs over 300 lbs! As anyone who has dealt with Sears knows, "some assembly required..." I assembled the beast, aided by a large volume of beer, as instructed by the manual. All went well until the part where I'm supposed to turn it over; the instruction, quite reasonably, start with the unit upside down until the legs are assembled. What to do? Its 300+ lbs versus my 135 lbs. It's an easy call as to which of us will win the gravity game.
I tried levers, I thought about using a cable puller attached to the roof beams, but none quite fit. After an hour or so of fiddling with different ways to improve my leverage, I remembered a useless piece of kit I bought last year to move a pair of engines for a 1936 Ford, then put away for lack of any other purpose:
The right tool for the job[^]
Dad was right - there's no such thing as "too many tools!"
Will Rogers never met me.
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