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My dads version was slightly longer.
You spend the first year with teaching them to talk and walk, and the rest of your life to shut up and sit still.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: How probable is that on a scale?
I would say a lot based on my experience with my kids. My older daughter is 10 years old, the twins (boy and girl) 4 and a half, my wife 34 and I'm 47 years old. You have no idea how many times I have been surprised/amazed by all of them (it's the age variety supporting it). What I do is to accept their signals for what they really like, and the way they understand and interpret information, and believe it or not I'm learning a lot.
A small story to let you know what I mean. My son loves CARS (Disney cartoons) and last year he asked to play online games with McQueen and other heroes from the movies. I found a few on Disney website and he started playing with Luigi who supposed to collect as many tires as possible from the ones they fall from a roof. The first three times he was doing nothing than looking carefully the tires falling. Then he played three more times trying to place Luigi at the (one and only) best possible position without moving him left and right during the game. The third try was the last time he played that game by making a score that my daughters and my wife could not break. Personally I was shocked because first of all I caught my self using his findings (for a really relaxed play) by adding a few left and right moves to make a slightly better score, and then when I helped him to compare our scores he told me that I made a lot of effort for "a not big deal" difference!!!
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When my oldest son was learning to talk, he did the usual "dog", "cat", "Mom", "Dad" etc. but one of his first 50 words was "California", which he said perfectly.
...needless to say, better than Arnold.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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H.Brydon wrote: ...needless to say, better than Arnold.
Oooooh!!! So this is what Arnold was trying to say. I thought it was CONANian.
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My granddaughter ( will be 3 in January) and I have identical Android tablets (something I find very amusing). A couple of weeks ago when we were visiting, she grabbed mine. Couldn't find her ABC-TV viewer app on the menu screen. No problem to her, she just went into the Google store, got it and started playing her favourite Peppa Pig. wte? Her grandma can't even turn it on (or swipe to scroll when I show her a long page on it).
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Seems like a waste of perfectly good vodka!
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Loads of text messages have been sent with vodka. Most of them "I really still love you, let's get back together" only much worse spelled. And often sent to the wrong person.
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It's like smoke signals but with wasted booze.
I wonder what baud rate they get?
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"The researchers had difficulty in explaining how their concept differs from the old smoke-signals that the native Americans used. Probably because there is no difference, and practical uses seem to be comparable. The conclusion was that more research (and funding) would be required."
Get a elephanting job.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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They have one.
What you have missed is the subtext: They have a job that involves copious testing of booze that is supplied to them for free and expected to disappear during the day...
Now, when I was twenty, that would have been my ideal job! 
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What's age got to do with it? 
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I hardly drink at all these days... 
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That's it...
Last cheque signed, ledgers closed, coat on...
GIN TIME!!!!
For those that do, have a good 'un.
For them as don't have a good time anyway.
See ya'll later.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Have a good one Dave,
I'll be sticking to the Port, with a dash of brandy 
Merry Christmas!!
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Ahhhh...that's a relief.
Now he's gone we can put our feet up on the furniture, relax and get comfortable...thought he'd never leave!
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I think I will take my shoes off too. I might as well get comfortable since I have to work both Monday and Tuesday next week  . I have only been working here for four months, so I have only earned about 40 hours of Paid Time Off.
For those who are unfamiliar with PTO time in the US, this is used for vacation as well as sick days (Wikipedia[^]).
Oh well, I figure the traffic will be light 
[Desperately looking around for a glass half full of Christmas spirit]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: I have to work both Monday and Tuesday next week .
...I take it you're not hourly?
...I'd work a half day on Christmas Eve if anyone on the rest of my team was coming in.
"I need build Skynet. Plz send code"
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Alaric_ wrote: ...I take it you're not hourly?
That term always confuses me. Some people mean "paid by the hour", other people mean "annual salary, working a fixed number of hours per week".
I have an annual salary and work 40 hours per week. If I leave early one day, I can make it up later on, but that is kind of hard to do with the two weeks ahead of us. We are closed down on the 25th, 26th, 27th and on January 1st as well.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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...haven't been back on the forum since I posted that. Sorry it took so long to reply:
I mean "hourly" to mean that I charge my customers for every hour I work. Typically, this means I work 40 hours and get paid 40 hours. But if someone wants to play the "this is an emergency so we need you to work extra" game and I work say 60 hours...I get paid for 60 hours work. If someone thinks they're going to have me come in on a Saturday, they will have to pay me for my entire weekend...48 hours at my rate on top of my normal weekly hours.
"I need build Skynet. Plz send code"
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Widely reported in the UK, the ceiling in the Apollo theatre partially collapsed on the audience during the performance of "The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time".
I dunno about you lot but I must get tickets for it when it reopens again sometime in the new year. If a play is that good that it literally brings the house down, then I want in.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Septimus Hedgehog wrote: If a play is that good that it literally brings the house down, then I want in.
The critics had conflicting opinions about the performance. If I were you, I'd wait until the dust settles.
/ravi
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There could be rubble ahead and moonlight...
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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