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Yesterday, I took the day off work to spend with my 10 year old daughter at the Special Olympics. As a parent of a special needs child, I see how hard they work to get what they have and we celebrate every victory every athlete has.
While my daughter has been involved for years, it was mostly skills clinics, not competitions. This year, she was competing in her age group for softball thrown and standing long jump.
At the end of the day, I asked her what the best part was: getting her ribbon for placing 4th in softball throw. While she did better in standing long jump, it was her the first athletic award she received that meant the most. It was something she earned, not just a participation ribbon.
As someone who did well in track-and-field at her age, I see her work much harder than I ever had to and she is much more appreciative than I ever was.
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That's a good story in a week with a lot of bad news.
Well done to her and what a good attitude.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: As someone who did well in track-and-field at her age, I see her work much harder than I ever had to and she is much more appreciative than I ever was.
Congratulations to both of you!
I'm a runner. My greatest admiration at races goes not to the winners up front, but to the slobs (like myself) who chug along and finish in twice the time of the winners. It takes guts and a certain lack of mental stability to go out and spend five hours or more on a marathon course, when you know the winners finished in two hours and change.
Obligatory The Oatmeal comic: The terrible and wonderful reasons why I run long distances - The Oatmeal[^]
Software Zen: delete this;
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Oracle lobs copyright lawsuit at HPE | InfoWorld[^]
Headline: Oracle says HPE was involved in an illegal scheme to sell Solaris support services to Oracle customers
The case involves an area of the tech industry known as third-party maintenance and support, in which customers buy support services from a third party for less than they would normally pay their primary vendor.
Can't we all just get along!? 
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke). 
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Can we make it so they both lose?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Can we make it so they both lose?
That really is the perfect solution.
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
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Seriously, I can sign up for a 12 week class at Hack Reactor and became a "software engineer." What ever the elephanting that is....
More contracts for me in clean up mode.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: sign up for a 12 week class at Hack Reactor and became a "software engineer."
12 weeks?
Seems like a long time in the Internet-age.
Shouldn't take more than 12 days.
I could probably just Google the stuff on my iPhone and become a software engineer.
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
modified 23-Mar-16 8:48am.
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raddevus wrote: I could probably just Google the stuff on my iPhone and become a software engineer.
Surely you just need to change your CP profile and signature?
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Wastedtalent wrote: Surely you just need to change your CP profile and signature?
Good point. If it's on there, it must be true.
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
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12 minutes more likely.
Just teach people how to Google, and press CTRL+C and CTRL+V... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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You forgot Ctrl+A! Back to the classroom with you. 
"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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No, I'm talking beginners course. In that one you select the text using the mouse.
CTRL+A is covered in the Advanced course!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Shouldn't take more than 12 days...
Pathetic ! It shows that your luck the degintiy what you do or you don't even have one. You just random person, do nothing to be someone.
Kist.
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Yes, that really is Amber Riley and Rikki Lake backing Michael Hyatt in a Dream Girls pastiche[^]. Oh, I know all you butch coders won't get it but some days you just have to praise whichever Lord you happen to think worthy of it and sing Hallelujah for good old TV!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Strange, but why does that make me feel happy?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And to top out the day Ginger Zee had Carrie Ann uttering the B word (no, not that one!!!) last night on DWTS! You just don't know what you're missing!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: You just don't know what you're missing!
True.
Nor who Ginger Zee and Carrie Ann are.
My loss, I suppose.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Excuse the tardiness- bought about purely by my antipodean location.
`v’ (3)
Easy peasy one for Easter (and because I didn't have time to do any better)
Clue 0. YY
PooperPig - Coming Soon
modified 23-Mar-16 6:56am.
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EGG
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The yolk is on you.
Three Nothings
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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It's all white - I didn't think it would be the solution!
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Cracked me up!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Shelly you'd heard that before?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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