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I know, Sheldon. 
This way it sounds more like carpe diem, right?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Anyone play (or have played) Cribbage? I remember many decades ago (between 3 and 6 ) learning and playing with my grandfather for hours. Played during high school, college and several workplaces when it was slow.
Relevancy is that I was cleaning up some old HDDs and found a cribbage hand generator and scoring application I had written some years ago. I was curious as to whether my anecdotal evidence of the average value of a cribbage hand was matched by a statistical analysis of many thousands of generated hands.
At that time when I wanted to learn a new language, I would see how hard it was to write a hand evaluator for scoring. I seem to remember doing it in FORTRAN, Q-Basic, VB 6.0, Forth, MUMPS, C, C++, PL/1 and a couple of others.
I guess it is time to write another one, in a 'modern' language, just for grins and giggles.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Played off and on over the years. Don't much anymore!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Yeah, me neither. And the 'kids' now-a-days wouldn't know a real deck of cards if it hit them in the face. Sometimes I am not sure they can count to 31!
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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stoneyowl2 wrote: I am not sure they can count to 31!
Sure they can press the number 3 then the number 1 then plus sign then the number one and equals! 
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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You've set the bar too high. They can only count to 20...if their shoes are off. Though, if they find (and recognize) a deck of cards, and their shoes are still off, that limit rises to 72
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"Sometimes I am not sure they can count to 31!"
...or even 15!!
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Used to as a kid. And then a few years ago I went to a meet-up kind of thing once a week. But not recently. Though I continue to buy up cribbage boards at garage sales and the like.
Cribbage scoring isn't a task I would take on.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Cribbage scoring isn't a task I would take on.
I think that it would be an absolutely ideal subject for a coding tutorial (and no, I'm not going to write it!)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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"One for his nob" chortle, chortle.
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If you bet on flightless seabird racing are you guaranteed a peng-win?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I thought they were called peng-wings!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I could answer directly, ostrich the point. I chose the latter. Can you tell me moa about it?
(A rather auk-ward reply.)
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I can tell ya anything. You're so gullible!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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brain ceased... was thinking about seabirds and only this came to mind: what flavor are they[^]
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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I told Orville, and I told Wilbur, and now I'm telling you: That joke won't fly!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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In my Humbolt opinion you are the King - nay the Emperor of puns. You lift up your chin-strap on your thinking cap and let fly with these Royal one liners.
The Key-we feel- is that you do not chicken out when you let a few turkeys slip in but keep flying forward with moa and moa puns. It is one of the rhea-sons that I keep rhea-ding your posts.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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I am a roc
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Bird race? As long as you don't break the cardinal rule, would be a tough one to swallow. If you don't win, you can always resort to robin banks. If we can place bets, I'd pigeon a few bucks.
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I'll put it on your bill.
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I was wondering if any of you have noticed an additional user account under Windows 10 with the first letter of your first name along with your last name ie. (dhutchings) for me. I recently installed Windows 10 Pro on a new laptop using my first name as the username. After the last Windows 10 update, I noticed a secondary account with dhutchings that I have no access to. At first, I thought it was a support account, but this username has a full profile with documents, music, pictures, etc. I asked a friend of mine about his Windows 10 machine and he has the type of account with his name in the same format. Like me, he uses his first name as his username. I may just be paranoid, but when I can't delete, alter, gain access to an account on a machine that I'm administrator on, it makes me question the security.
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To give a little more information, this computer does not have Office of any kind installed and I'm using VS2013 with SQL Server 2014 Developer. I've only used that username (dhutchings) once and it was a work domain. This is a new machine with Windows 10 Pro just recently installed and I've never remotely logged into it. It appeared after an update.
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When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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is your main account a local one or one of those online things?
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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My account is a local one and it's not part of a domain. It's my development machine and I don't log into anything online for it. I thought that it could be a Microsoft cloud account, but I don't use it and I don't log into Microsoft on this box. It wouldn't bother me so much if it didn't have a complete user profile, but since it's administrator with complete access to the machine, it concerns me that there is a way into the box outside my control.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Hmmm, I have seen this with account if linked to Office 365 & Visual Studio latest (2018??). I think it's so you log on remotely?...
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I thought that as well, but I don't have Office of any kind on the machine and I'm using VS2013. It showed up on an update previous to last Thursday's update.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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