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My goal for Progvember is to finish debugging and validating my integrated flow network. Once that is done, I can run my tests, draw conclusions and finish writing my dissertation, so I can graduate next year.
Actually the work will likely last into December, since I have to make a business trip to Indonesia. Oh well.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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My wife has signed me up. Here's what I'll be doing....
1. Convert small room currently used for storing crap into an office.
2. Cut big hole in family room wall and install 3.5m wide french doors
4. Put new edging along driveway (120m of the stuff)
5. Gut and re-fit pantry
6. Build fecking great deck outside family room so you can walk through the shiny new french doors onto it
7. Reclad the front of the triple garage (the current cladding at one end was smashed when my daughter attempted to reverse her car through it rather than the garage door).
All this MUST be completed by 1 December when her sister comes to visit. 
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone
"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
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You mean like the project that's been lying stagnant (80% done) for three years?
Or finally restoring the databases that I haven't bothered to deal with for six months?
I also have about two years of data access code changes to merge from various projects.
Actually the first and third of those now rely on the second. 
Or I could do some more reading-up on Java for Android. I bought an "in 24 hours" book on it more than a year ago and I'm on chapter two.
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AnalogNerd wrote: complete a project you've been putting off forever.
What I wanna know is where those 30 "free days" will come from.
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I'm somehow related to Poe, or so the ghoulish familial discussions claim upon.
Does kinda explain my humor a bit...
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MacSpudster wrote: I'm somehow related to Poe
You sure it's not this Po[^]? 
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Well, I do like that color...
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Marc,
It has been many years since I read that. Thank you for the link.
Several years back I ran into the collected works of Poe at a university book store (NAU. Flagstaff Arizona). I already had the collected works, but this one was different. It was arranged in chronological order, by the earlyest date of the original published manuscript (not later revisions). I was happy to see that two of my favorites (I have many) were his last - "Annabell Lee" (October 1849), and "The Bells" (November, 1849).
If you are interested, the book title is:
"The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe"
ISBN 0-89471-233-0.
Tam Mossman wrote the introduction.
The book may be obtained directly from the publishers at:
Running Press
Book Publishers
123 South Twenty Second Street
Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19103-4399
The cover page also lists Running Press as in both Philadelphia and London
Dave.
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Member 4194593 wrote: It was arranged in chronological order, by the earlyest date of the original published manuscript
That must be really neat to see the progression of his work.
Thanks for the book info - I'll take a look at it.
I'm planning on reading The Black Cat to my gf tonight as her Halloween treat, haha.
Marc
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Marc,
I'm glad you liked the info. Good luck trying to get the book. I must mention that I bought this book sometime around 2007. It should still be available, but it appears to be an educational text book, and you know those things get changed - "Publish or perish!"
Dave.
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I promised myself I'd quote Poe nevermode.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
___________________________________________
Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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_Maxxx_ wrote: nevermode.
Bob @ CodeProject-PC $ sed -e 's/nevermode/nevermore/' $POST_LOUNGE_4692052
Bob @ CodeProject-PC $
Keep Clam And Proofread
--
√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Appropriate sig!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
___________________________________________
Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Thanks. I hit that sometimes.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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I've heard several people bemoaning the merkin-ness of the Halloween and how we don't do it in Britain. I'm certain we were howking out turnips/neeps/swedes (the yellow ones - delete as applicable) when we were bairns, and I certainly remember trick-or-treating in the 70s as a wee'un.
I doubt the USians suddenly started doing the Halloween thing, especially as the English that settled there in the first instance were puritan & definitely against it. The most likely places to have exported this are subsequent settlers from Scotland/Ireland, so does anyone know if Halloween customs were more anciently established than in England?
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It is an old Celtic festival:
Halloween[^]
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Keith Barrow wrote: aboot
Here you go![^]
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Oh dear, and on a Canadian website too. I confidently expect a crack squad of moose to arrive at your door and politely warn you eh.
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I wouldn't be surprised. It's been a weird week. Don't ask.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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I suppose is Checkov were a Scott he would say Halloween originated with the Scots...
Saw a movie called "Centurian" about the Picts defeating a Roman legion. Too much Scot stuff.
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It was a thing over here but became A THING in the states before returning back as something much bigger through tv and film in the last twenty years or so.
When I was a kid bonfire night was much, much more of a thing.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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We never went trick-or-treating but we did make turnip lanterns (with a string handle that also went through holes in the lid to keep it on), and I also remember dooking for apples (basin of water, apples floating in it, grab one with your mouth!).
The closest to trick-or-treating I remember other kids doing was "Penny for the Guy" - hauling a Guy around in a cartie or something and asking for money (for fireworks), thus effectively blurring the line between Halloween and Guy Fawkes night.
The turnip lantern was also kept until Guy Fawkes when it was used to light sparklers.
This was all in Aberdeen in the early 70's.
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Just had my parents round, here for my son's first "dookie apple". They spoke about making the lanterns, dressing up and going round people's houses, that was in the 50s. So it's been around here for at least that long.
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Merry Christmas everyone!
For the clueless, see this[^]
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