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OriginalGriff wrote: Africa is hot. And dry.
Only in Winter. Well, in my side of Africa.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Which side of Africa is yours? The top side?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The very bottom bit.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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If you do well on the test you'll be rounded up with the others and placed in a special location for "rehabilitation". One can never be too careful.
On the other hand, if you appear clueless, you'll be tracked to senior management.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Bought a sound bar to go with the TV this morning - got fed up with the tinny sound, and saw a LG in my local supermarket. Since the TV is LG, and has an opto-audio out, I thought "That'll do!".
And then spent 1/2 hour to 3/4 hour trying to work out how to make it work....I even RTFM...before abandoning it as more difficult than I expected. 10 minutes later and I had a "lightbulb moment". Sure enough, the one, solitary AAA battery that powers the remote control is covered in shrink wrap plastic... 
I can't even cope with a damn battery anymore! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well, I can't say that I haven't done that myself. 
Then there was the time the remote felt like it had a battery in it, but it was just a weighted orange/purple/green plastic thingy. I still have it somewhere, I just need to find it and upload a picture of it.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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While very infuriating, I find these kind of situations very amusing.
Same thing happened when the battery on my guitar ran out.
Something was off with the sound - my first thought was: "Change the strings."
Ok, done still sounds bad.
Then I was playing with the settings on my multi-effect and amplifier for almost an hour.
Changing distortions, setting up the equalizer - anything I could think of.
The last thing I thought of were the two AA batteries that are used to power the active pickups on the guitar.
In the end the splitting headache was Occam's razor slicing my brain as it was trying to comprehend it's own stupidity. Such a simple thing, yet last one I thought of. 
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I'm a bass player and my first experience of Active electronics was pretty much the same. Apart from the fact that the battery compartment was wired backwards took me ages to figure out (I'm an EE by profession)... never trust 'em!
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Samsung writes it in the FM (to remove the plastic wrap).
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LG doesn't. And I took it out and checked the battery was the right way round several times...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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In the politest possible terms, I'll remind you that your best days are so so so over.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Just use this kind[^] of battery. It's rechargable, but for your application you will not have to do that very often.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Time to go fishing. Possible vacation, or holiday as some in Europe call it.
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Meh, that's nowt. I have been trampsing around all afternoon with my laptop to come to the coffee shop and download some work via free wifi.
I did not know my daughters had run down the battery watching YouTube while I was out this morning. There is no power point to use and I am miffed.
At least the phone works and has decided to download every frogging patch it can find via the wifi.
So it's Arabic coffee and back tomorrow. But I have the dentist tomorrow and THREE teeth to be extracted.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I have the dentist tomorrow and THREE teeth to be extracted
Oww! Good luck - I've had a few extractions (and normally bite the dentist) and they are never good news. Gin may help.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I freak out just getting them cleaned and can not handle drilling.
Extraction? I have about the same chances of survival as the empty Gordon's bottle in the bin
veni bibi saltavi
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OriginalGriff wrote: covered in shrink wrap plastic
'ealth an' safety, bach. 
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Count yourself lucky you can get single cells wrapped in shrink-wrap.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I count myself lucky if I can get single cells working between my ears... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Me too. Me too.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I'm sorry, but batteries are not modern at all...
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Joan Murt wrote: I'm sorry, but batteries are not modern at all.
That would depend entirely on how long you've been asleep... 
One hundred and fifty years would be about right
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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Yesterday someone replied to me and I never replied.
Today's Dilbert is the perfect reply which exemplifies that person's behavior (last panel, last person to speak). 
Scott Adams Nails It!!!
http://dilbert.com/[^]
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Hey, a link is already here today. 
Leslie strikes again.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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