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Yep. I'm investigating how much beer I have to drink and what size hockey stick I'll need in order to qualify for Canadian citizenship.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Support: Hello, Bluebean* credit card division, how may I help you?
Paul: I need more money
Support: Certainly what is your card #?
Paul: 555....
Support: Ah, Mr. Watson. What can I do for you?
Paul: Like I said, more money please.
Support: First you will need to pay off your current balance, then we can increase your limit.
Paul: So would I be phoning asking for more money if I was able to pay off my current balance?
Support: I guess not.
Paul: Can I transfer some money from the budget account?
Support: No, first you need to pay off you...
Paul: Yes, current balance. Great budget feature.
Support: You can always get another card with us.
Paul: You mean you can't give me more money on my current card, but you can let me have another card with lots of money on it?
Support: Certainly! And because you have a good credit history, the new card can have a bigger credit limit.
Paul: How long?
Support: Couple hours, we have all your details already. How much do you want?
Paul: How much can I get?
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I did not take it, but thought it all a bit bizarre.
* No, really. That is their name. Bluebean.
Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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There's a guy on his balcony in the apartment opposite mine singing Italian Opera at the top of his lungs to the street below.
See - it isn't just coffee commercials where this stuff happens.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I know that marketing over matter is an important ingrediant to success of a modern business but How in Hell does Microsoft manage to stay ahead of the rest?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I assume they did the same as AOL: convinced grandmas that they _are_ the internet.
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I appreciate, that MS develops user-friendly applications - but you can't deny that M$ misuses its monopoly in operating systems to force their own proprietary "standards". Many applications only run under a special Windows-Version.
Java
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From my old man:
Don't wait for the iron to be hot to strike. Hit the bloody thing and keep hitting it till it gets hot.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Don't wait for the iron to be hot to strike. Hit the bloody thing and keep hitting it till it gets hot.
Sounds a bit like my Dad, in the past his favorite quote was:
Do unto others before they do unto you
He's become more mellow in old age though
John Hudson
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http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]
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My father's advice:
I don't know why you kids are running, I've got the car keys.
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Carl Lambrecht wrote:
I don't know why you kids are running, I've got the car keys.
Obviously you come from a more refined neighbourhood, on Merseyside where I used to live the kids would just rewire the ignition
John Hudson
Chris Maunder standing in front of mirror remarks: Nothing says "you're not normal" more than the little things.
http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]
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Or the great:
If you love somebody, you can let them go. If they love you, they will come back. If they don't; hunt them down and kill them.
When it comes to maths and me, the wheel's going but the hamster's dead.
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Ben Ashley wrote:
hunt them down and kill them.
John Hudson
Nick Rowan enforcing Law and Order in the Lounge: Oi! Don't start on me now, I'm just the UN Peacekeeping force.
http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]
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...putting a beer in the freezer to cool it and pulling it out 2 hrs later. Solid.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
...putting a beer in the freezer to cool it and pulling it out 2 hrs later. Solid.
A bottle of beer in the freezer for exactly 1 hour and 15 minutes creates the perfect beer slushy.
-Nick Parker
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...my brother, taking the solid beer out of the freezer, and microwaving it until slushy. And then using it to unnerve the people playing quarters.
Your sincerity about keeping the soapbox organized and civilized is so obvious. I solute your effort.
-- Anonymous, 10/18/03
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I'm reading the book 'Faster than the speed of light' by Joao Maghueijo, which lays out his theory of a variable speed of light. I've been reading this book everywhere - in elevators, walking along the street, in subways.
So Friday night I'm sitting in the subway train reading voraciously, occasionally looking up to catch air and let the brain spin back down to normal when this quiet spoken middle aged asian gentleman next to me grins at me and says "good book". "Very good book" I agreed. We tentatively started mentioning bits we liked the best - and within a minute we were into a full scale discussion on Cosmology vs Budhism and the value of speculation vs. theory based on empirical results. I come from a background in Mathematical Physics where I was taught to let go physical reality and images in order to free the mind of preconceived ideas and allow the mind to embrace the mathematics in order to perceive a reality outside everyday experience. He comes from an Eastern upbringing which teaches that speculation without an empirical basis or method of testing will invariably lead to dead ends instead of truths.
We soon came to a compromise that allowed for potentially testable speculation based in reality but not necessarily directly relatable to any specific physical process. At the next subway stop he got up, bowed slightly and walked away grinning.
It was the happiest 10 minutes of my Summer.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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...or maybe they aren't tomato plants after all.
I was just out on the balcony admiring the rain when I glanced down at a neighbours balcony and noticed a nice crop of leafy green plants.
No wonder Canadians seem more laid back than their southern neighbours
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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If large red balls appear on the plants, then they are tomatoes.
If brilliant yellow flowers appear, then I'd get to know your neighbours better.
Chris Meech
"what makes CP different is the people and sense of community, things people will only discover if they join up and join in." Christian Graus Nov 14, 2002.
Oh and for those that ask programming questions in the lounge. Seek the truth here[^].
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I'm over here for at least a couple of years and figured the most sensible thing for me to do is spend whatever free time I have seeing as many places as possible.
So - suggestions welcome.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
So - suggestions welcome.
Well, if you want to make it to the Mid-West, stop in Iowa[^] (can you find the binary on our state website?), I'm sure Heath and I (and others) would be able to meet with you and we could have CP get-together.
-Nick Parker
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Plenty of places in and around the Bluegrass State (KY). There's Mammoth Cave, the Corvette Museum (both kind of close to Bowling Green), the Horse Park (Lexington), plenty of others.
Not far away are the great Smoky Mountains (Tennesee/N. Carolina).
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
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Have you been to the west coast much? Washington, Oregon, and California are all worth visiting.
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Lake Tahoe[^] - was just there this weekend for a wedding. Beautiful.
I've also heard that Lake Louise[^] is stunning.
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