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"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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John C wrote: It's pretty easy to be the guy in the best shape amongst a group of average 40+ year olds
Sounds like my world. I feel like I'm not doing enough until I look around in the store and see all the folks my age hobbling around like they're 70 (I'm 47).
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Why we need new year's resolutions as what we are doing is wrong?? We should have daily resolution.
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Whoa whoa whoa, once a day? Hold up there pardner, once a year is bad enough, how about once a decade instead? 
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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I've made New Year's resolutions and stuck to them! For instance, last year I said I wouldn't reply to any forums and I've stuck to it...... DOH!
Remember, nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humour!
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The big thing I don't understand about new Year's resolution is why everyone makes them negatives. Surely it would be far better to come up with something like "I'm going to train to run a marathon" rather than the endless "giving up this or that".
I'm quite a fan of giving stuff up, over the last 4 or 5 years I've given up: Television, smoking, drinking and meat and I feel much better for having removed each of them from my life, but in each case I've decided that I wanted to remove the thing from my life and just got on with it. It makes no sense at all to me that people will spend what must be one of the most miserable months of the year (In the UK at least, where it's cold and dark and we can't even expect snow) wishing that they could have something that they've told themselves they don't want.
I'm working towards a couple of goals in the New Year and I'm sure that Jan 1 will mark the end of the Christmas period and the start of really concentrating on these things after taking a bit of a break for Christmas but I wouldn't see that as a resolution.
Russ
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: new year's resolutions are a waste of time,
I disagree. I made a resolution, in 1976 I believe, to put more things off. I haven't got around to making any more resolutions, so I conclude that this is a very effective custom.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
modified on Monday, December 22, 2008 12:07 PM
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I wish I could give up playing video games as much as I do. I got into them in high school, and now I play them way to often. I'm going back to school next semester to work towards as Masters in Computer Science while working a full-time software development job. There's no way I'll have time to play games, but I'm sure I'll still play them. They're just way too much fun! But there's so many better things I could do with my time.
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Corny-ness factor on a 1-10 scale...oh about a 9 or so. But mine is to do 1 act of random kindness a week (because I've been so fortunate). I believe in Karma.
What does an agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac do?
He lies awake at night wondering if there's a dog.
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My new year's resolution is 1280 by 800.
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I made a wine from cherriess. Take a look[^]. Bloody, isn't it? Funny thing: more I drink more I like it. Any ideas for a name? 
Greetings - Gajatko
Portable.NET is part of DotGNU, a project to build a complete Free Software replacement for .NET - a system that truly belongs to the developers.
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gajatko wrote: Any ideas for a name?
Cherry wine.
Gary Kirkham
Forever Forgiven and Alive in the Spirit
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
Me blog, You read
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I looked at his entry in Wikipedia, it said:
the Chicago Sun-Times called him "The Bruce Springsteen of the blues"
I would have to disagree, Luther was good.
Gary Kirkham
Forever Forgiven and Alive in the Spirit
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
Me blog, You read
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Luther *was* good. Jonny Lang covered this song on his second CD, but I prefer the original.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Christian Graus wrote: Luther *was* good.
That's the same thing I said, I just didn't include the *Ilionizations*. 
Gary Kirkham
Forever Forgiven and Alive in the Spirit
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
Me blog, You read
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*grin*, I was just agreeing with you. I wouldn't have bothered, except I thought I'd add that Jonny Lang covered this song.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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gajatko wrote: Funny thing: more I drink more I like it.
I've been known to say that about “Lao Cal”, very potent rice liquor that tastes like turpentine until you have a few sips.
After that it tastes pretty good, especially if you are washing it down with Bier Chang (Thai Elephant Beer, 6.4 degrees), until the next morning when you pay for your indiscretion.
Back me up here Big Daddy, what do you think "Lao Cal" tastes like?
gajatko wrote: Any ideas for a name?
Send some to my house and I will try it to get inspiration for a name.
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JimmyRopes wrote: Send some to my house and I will try it to get inspiration for a name.
WHAAAT?! I would send MY wine to YOUR house? I have only two bottles (ooups now it's 1.5) and going to drink them up.  .
Greetings - Gajatko
Portable.NET is part of DotGNU, a project to build a complete Free Software replacement for .NET - a system that truly belongs to the developers.
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Can't blame me for trying.
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Chang is the most awful tasting beer I ever had. There are overtones of Formaldehyde in it. On the bright side, its the cheapest beer in Thailand.
Cheers
Garth
If Jesus played guitar, he would play it like Clapton and the devil would play it like Hendrix
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Garth Watkins wrote: overtones of Formaldehyde in it
I think you might be confusing it with Singha, which is rumoured to contain formaldehyde. I've actually grown quite fond of Chang, but to each his own. (I've had more than my share of both Chang and Singha.)
Last time I was there, there were some beers available at lower prices than Chang, but it's still a bargain.
BDF
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
-- Moliere
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Garth Watkins wrote: Chang is the most awful tasting beer I ever had.
I happen to like Bier Chang, but most tourists prefer Bier Sngha; which as Big Daddy has pointed out is rumored to have formaldehyde in it.
Bier Chang is a little potent and many tourists have gotten trashed drinking it because they don't know its alcohol content and they tried to down bottle after bottle like they do at home.
Just take a road trip through Khmer country in northern Kampuchea and you will find out what really bad beer tastes like. Unfortunately Bier Chang is not available there.
The only more or less palatable beer was Vietnamese Tiger Bier and as anyone who has spent time in SE Asia will know the only redeeming quality about Tiger Bier is that it tastes equally marginally palatable hot or cold.
Being marginally palatable hot is a requirement in Khmer country. There is no cold bier in SiSoPhan or BatDamBang for that matter, let alone in the many hamlets along the way.
The first thing I did when I crossed the border back into Thailand at AnarYaPraThet (PoiPet) was to go into the market and buy a Bier Chang with ice.
Aahh, the simple pleasures. ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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JimmyRopes wrote: tastes like turpentine
I'm with you on that. I've never really made it past one sip. Next time I have an opportunity, I'll be sure to test that.
Now Chang on the the other hand, I'm quite fond of that. Once while stationed in Khorat we frequently went to Linane's Irish Bar. On our last night there I ordered my usual and the waitress came back and said, "Finish for Chang." The three saddest words in the broken English language. I like to think that I single-handedly drank them out of Chang.
It's finally being imported into the U.S. So far the only place I've found it is the restaurant where my wife works as a chef. Unhappily it's only 5.0 -- not like the real thing. Probably can't withstand ice as well.
BDF
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
-- Moliere
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Big Daddy Farang wrote: I'm with you on that. I've never really made it past one sip. Next time I have an opportunity, I'll be sure to test that.
You need to wash it down with copious quantities of Bier Chang before it starts to taste palatable. Well it never really gets to the palatable point so maybe tolerable is a better way of describing it.
The ladies are a tough crowd to drink with. One look at them with their Khmer lipstick on (red stained lips from chewing Beetle) sitting around with a bottle of Lao Cal should be the first warning sign. I never drink more than one sip, or possibly two sips, with the ladies because they don’t have any Bier Chang to wash it down with. At least the men know to have beer.
Big Daddy Farang wrote: Now Chang on the the other hand, I'm quite fond of that.
Me too.
Big Daddy Farang wrote: Once while stationed in Khorat
Aahh Nakhon Ratchasima, I know it well.
It is the closest city to Buriram (2 1/2 hour drive) so we shop there when we need anything substantial and we take the kids to the zoo there for family outings.
Big Daddy Farang wrote: we frequently went to Linane's Irish Bar.
That I don't know. 
Big Daddy Farang wrote: "Finish for Chang." The three saddest words in the broken English language
Sounds like it.
Big Daddy Farang wrote: I like to think that I single-handedly drank them out of Chang.
Quite a feat.
Big Daddy Farang wrote: Unhappily it's only 5.0 -- not like the real thing.
Bier Chang lite! 
Big Daddy Farang wrote: Probably can't withstand ice as well.
Where's the tradition there?
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