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So, after about a month of working from home, where the only exercise I got was going from bedroom to office, and sitting on my butt all day, I reckoned my muscle wastage must have equalled that of an ISS resident, so I decided to go for a hike...
Oh my god! 300 meters vertical, 3 hours, 4 km. Absoloutely knackered. Legs feel like lead. ALmost passed out on the walk untill I got some bread and pate down me, with a liter of apple juice.
Holy crap, I have to do better than this. Its skiing season soon!  
Mind you the dog, a young and supposedly built for it type hunting dog, was totally wasted aswell. The first puddle we found it half emptied by drinking then lay in for half an hour it was that done it.
At least when I contracted in Belgium I had an 8k each way bike commute, in all weathers. That WAS good, I was as fit as a fiddle, stay up all night, drinking god knows what, I could take it! These days? Dear oh dear, what a sad pile of flab I am.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: in all weathers
Never liked it. Rain, wind, snow, hail, and a warm bus passing by.
Does wonders for your immune-system, not per se your mood.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Its good for you though. Really good.
Actually the commute I had wasn't bad. Quiet 'country' road through suburbs, across the ring, then through the middle of Leuven, which is a beautiful city so no exposure to busses.
Didn't have snow either. Had -8 C one morning, and oddly didn't get wet that often either. Must have been lucky with the showers I guess. 
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Beats sorting through a scrap heap for precious metals.
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8% grade is actually a fairly rough hike, even for someone in excellent shape.
But, yeah, get it shape!
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ahmed zahmed wrote: 8% grade is actually a fairly rough hike
It is, believe me. 
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I feel your pain... And I reckon many people with a 9 to 5 desk job.
You have to actively train your body in your free time or feel the consequences.
Unfortunately I don't like training and I don't plan on using up my free time doing something I don't like
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Don't panic, you're not out of shape; round is a shape, according to geometers.
As jobs go, I say it's still a notch above the guy who has to write the date on the splash guards in the urinals in the men's restrooms of the casinos across the river from where I live. I knew a guy who did that, and he was really annoyed with people who toss cigarette butts in there. He said it made them really soggy and hard to light.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I ran across this in some legacy code, and I hereby submit it to "the most redundant/superfluous code comment contest":
// Check connection
checkConnection();
Why do I hear, in my mind's ear, Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle drawling "Surprise, surprise!" when I see this comment?
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What I really love is when code gets changed but the comment does not. There was a huge thread on these types of things not that long ago.
//Check Connection
breakConnection();
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Does seem excessively redundant! 
I think even Gomer would know not to do this.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Mike Hankey wrote: I think even Gomer would know not to do this.
He'd run around screaming "citizens arrayest! citizens arrayest!"
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Mike Hankey wrote: even Gomer would know not to do this.
As I recall, he's an automotive mechanic, you don't think his wrenches are marked with their sizes? Seems redundant to me. 
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A good mechanic can tell the size of a wrench by looking at it so yeah that would be redundant to mark them.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Maybe, but I'll bet if you looked closely at the implementation code, it might draw a check box onscreen next to the word 'Connection" and place a checkmark into it. Encapsulation can do that! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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That's worth more points if it turns out that checkConnection actually does not check connection.
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It tries to open a connection; the catch block displays an err msg if it fails.
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Well then it's named wrong... It should have been:
tryToOpenConnectionAndDisplayAnErrorMessageIfItFailsThankYouAndGoodnight();
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B. Clay Shannon wrote: It tries to open a connection
That was my first hunch.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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// Check connection
checkConnection();
// Cash connection
checkConnection();
// Credit Card connection
checkConnection();
// Debit Card connection
checkConnection();
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: // Cheque connection
chequeConnection();
FTFY.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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czechConnection
frenchConnection
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It gets even better. I've even seen something akin to this in Basic...
Let x = 5
Jeremy Falcon
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