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Paul Watson wrote:
Tell them that we use herds of Antelope to lure the lions away from the strip whenever we need to land our Junker Jus
Only you Paul.. only you!
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Brian Dela
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The question is, how many take you seriously ?
Its like sometimes when I'm feeling particularly bad I make a joke about getting a body transplant.
Yes, some have....
Elaine (bemused fluffy tigress)
The tigress is here
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You should be worried... Your beloved website is misbehaving...
My "Assert Enhancements" articles did not show up in the "June articles" survey. Also, my "Win32 Library" article is currently not showing in the "July Articles" survey.
Chris, could you add my Win32 article in the survey. For fairness, could you also add my June article on Asserts into the survey as well.
Anyway, how do you send a message to another CPian without having to broadcase to the whole community.
Thanks,
Wes
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I left North America about 2 weeks ago for a quick trip to Oz. Before I left CNN was 24/7 war. No current affairs, no weather, no international news stories that weren't Iraq related.
This wednesday, 10 days after I left, I come back to find CNN back to it's current affairs format. One of the main stories being about a sick overweight goldfish in a restaurant tank that could no longer swim, and so had been suspended in its tank on a framework of drinking straws and string and was being fed peel mashed peas by restaurant staff and patrons.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
a sick overweight goldfish
It's exactly this sort of hard-hitting story that makes US news the best in the world. I'm so proud...
[edit: pardon me - that second sentence was supposed to be in a separate paragraph... in a separate post... on a different website...]
- Shog9 -
I'd show a smile but I'm too weak
I'd share with you, could I only speak
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Shog9 wrote:
on a different website
you mean CP isn't the internet
Matt Newman Sonork: 100:11179
"Two things have come out of Berkley, Unix and Acid, we do not belive this to be a coincidence" Linux sucks twice as fast and 10 times more reliably, and since you have the source, it's your fault. -Ca1v1n
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Is that amount for real?
I suppose I should be happy then. I generally get about a 100 emails a day (mainly spam) that I have to sift through. On Monday's I sometimes have to delete about 300, but that's pale in comparison to 139,475!
Um, well, have fun checking your inbox.
<nobr>(*Falcon).Jeremy
141² 150 162² 145 143² 164
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Chris.... Do you get notifications of every single post on CP or something!!?!?!?!? Seriously... Where do they all come from!?!?
Or is that just downloading your entire Mailbox to a different machine?
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Brian Dela
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It's all fan mail :P
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
It's all fan mail
.. Yeah yeah... sure it is
Hey Chris.. Is there still an Editors position open??? I'll hopefully be getting a net connection in my flat in the next few weeks, so if there is a position open at that time would I be able to grab it?
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Brian Dela
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Ah.. You were proabbyl downloading one of the MSDN newsgroups yeah?
<edit> .. proabbyl.. ok.. that beats anything I've ever posted before... Should read "probably" Chris... </edit>
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Brian Dela
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You been signing up for those free "images" by email again??
Matt Newman Sonork: 100:11179
"Two things have come out of Berkley, Unix and Acid, we do not belive this to be a coincidence" Linux sucks twice as fast and 10 times more reliably, and since you have the source, it's your fault. -Ca1v1n
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i need the project (code) please send it sir. as i want submit it at 2 may . please hurry up. thanking you
I love our readers - every single one of them - but sometimes they confuse me.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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That's purely unintelligible.
BTW, can we get an RSS feed for this board as well? Since you use it as your personal blog, I'd love to be able to drop an RSS feed for it into my aggregator.
Hawaian shirts and shorts work too in Summer.
People assume you're either a complete nut (in which case not a worthy target) or so damn good you don't need to worry about camouflage...
-Anna-Jayne Metcalfe on Paintballing
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- On landing, the captain gives you the current temperature and the current hockey score
- It's snowing
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I've been doing the travel thing for the last couple of weeks and had some fun experiences:
First, while trying to taxi out a power unit failed in the plane we were in so they had to jump start the plane. No biggie. Happens all the time they tell us. Then as we're taxi-ing the copilot comes on and says, a little sheepishly, that the landing gear is playing up a little. NOTHING to worry about - it just means they'd have to keep the gear down for several minutes to let it cool down. The point nis that it was about -6C with a howling wind outside. The landing gear had been sitting out in this for hours. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how landing gear that has been out in sub-zero temps for hours needs to be kept exposed to the cold to cool it down after a single take off. No - not gonna think about it.
Had to land in Toronto the day after their worst ice storm in ages. Did you know that planes don't have anti-lock brakes? We found that one out. Screeeeeech! Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech!! Very disconcerting.
Got out of the taxi in Toronto and experienced first hand what an ice storm does to steps. zip! WHAP! Lucky I had my laptop, diskman and camera in my backpack to cushion the fall.
I was walking out on those moveable walkways out to a plane and a luggage car crashed into the base of it. Why do these things happen to me?
Contrary to the scaremongering airports are not actively screening for SARS. A girl sat behind me from Toronto to Vancouver and coughed up - at a rough count - both her lungs. Oh - and if you are going to wear a mask, you need to place it over your mouth. Having it hanging around your neck doesn't work quite as well.
Security on greyhound buses is a joke. Actually it's worse than a joke. It's not a big issue in my mind but it was almost painful to watch how uninterested and how incompetent the guys at bus station were. Oh man...
Australian customs offices are the best. I'm not sayin' why though
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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o,god bless u
Are SARS very epidemic in Canada? and how many people have die of it?
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The street sweeping gnomes came out at exactly midnight tonight, and they drive big yellow trucks - three in a row.
I'm just wondering if they are cleaning up the piles of dirt and stones I see on the footpaths each morning - or replenishing them.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I'm just wondering if they are cleaning up the piles of dirt and stones I see on the footpaths each morning - or replenishing them.
ROTFLMAO... I don't know why but this had me in the knots for about 5 mins.. thanks Chris.
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Brian Dela
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LOL
About two weeks ago I flew into Edmonton to interview at BioWare for a job. My first thought was "CRAP, what a dirty town."
Damn snow dirt.
Tim Smith
I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.
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After 15 years of driving I now have my driving learners permit. The indignity of it all...
Those coming to Canada as free-loading, snowboard wielding, beer guzzling, questionable-substance imbibing, no-fixed-address back-packers are encouraged to hire cars and drive all over the Canadian country-side, scattering Moose and Mounties alike. But as soon as you step onto Canadian soil with the intent to pay Canadian taxes they suddenly get all nervous.
If you are a tourist you can drive for up to a year on an international licence. If you haven't seen one of these things then I encourage you to go and get yourself one. Or, if you want to save the $10, use a friend's digital camera, cheap HP printer and the poorest quality cardboard you can find and make your own. They really are that pathetic. But - they do have the singular advantage of being accepted in Canada. As long as you don't actually have a fixed address or social insurance number.
So in order to drive I need to pass a driver's test. In order to pass a driver's test I need to pass a written test. The written test involves standing in front of a Kiosk monitor and pressing 1 of 4 buttons in a way that makes the computer happy. For instance, a question will come up such as:
When approaching a stop sign you should:
a) Accelerate through the intersection while sounding your horn.
b) Attempt to run over the stop sign.
c) Lean out the window and throw an empty beer bottle at it.
d) Stop.
So I proceeded through this grueling exercise for about 5 mins until eventually the screen went blank. Dead.
I had crashed the driving test computer.
There was no Ctrl+Alt+Del so I went to front desk for tech support. It turns out that the test had finished and all I had missed was the final 'Congratulations!' page. The 'congratulations' page is, by the way, shown to everyone who takes the test. It doesn't mean 'congratulations you passed!' it means 'congratulations, you didn't pass out'. The testing officer looked up my results and was a little shocked to find that not only had I passed, but that I'd got a perfect 100%. She seemed genuinely amazed. Quickly glance up at the sample question above and tell me if you would feel comfortable driving in a town where it's an event for someone to get 100% in the written test.
So now I have to book my driving test. I figure that booking online was the easiest thing to do since the waiting room I'd entered 15 mins earlier had gone from 2 sorry souls plus one sorry Australian to about 500 angry souls and one startled Australian.
So I go to the online booking site and fill in the form. Licence number, post code, licence expiry. The post code on my learner's licence is wrong, so I enter the real post code and hit submit. Bzzzzzt! Wrong post code it says, and asks me to do it again. Fine. I reenter the info, including the wrong post code, and try again. Bzzzzzt! Wrong expiry. I check. I double check. I check a third time and ensure that everything on the online form matches exactly what is on my licence (which begs the question: why can't I just enter my licence number and get it to look up the damn info). But no - it refuses to accept that the bit of paper it printed out for me not 2 hrs ago contains accurate information.
So I'll keep trying and keep ringing. The problem is I can only keep trying to book online because, and I quote "Road Test Booking Online is available: Monday to Saturday: 6:00 a.m. to Midnight, Sunday: 10:00 a.m. to Midnight".
That's right. The first website in the world to have opening hours.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
That's right. The first website in the world to have opening hours.
At my college, we could only view our grades, schedule, etc. online from 7am-7pm, M-F. Major PITA for those of us who worked AND went to school.
Jon Sagara
You know the world is off tilt, when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest basketball player is Chinese, and Germany doesn't want to go to war.
-- Charles Barkley
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Chris Maunder wrote:
When approaching a stop sign you should:
a) Accelerate through the intersection while sounding your horn.
b) Attempt to run over the stop sign.
c) Lean out the window and throw an empty beer bottle at it.
d) Stop.
Maybe they figured you're an Aussie...;P
OK, just joking...
Vikram.
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1. Don't ask unnecessary questions. You know what I mean?
2. Avoid redundancy at all costs.
3. Avoid redundancy at all costs.
"Do not give redundant error messages again and again." - A classmate of mine, while giving a class talk on error detection in compiler design.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
When approaching a stop sign you should:
a) Accelerate through the intersection while sounding your horn.
b) Attempt to run over the stop sign.
c) Lean out the window and throw an empty beer bottle at it.
d) Stop.
Ahh, an easy one C, right?
Matt Newman Sonork: 100:11179
"Two things have come out of Berkley, Unix and Acid, we do not belive this to be a coincidence" Linux sucks twice as fast and 10 times more reliably, and since you have the source, it's your fault. -Ca1v1n
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