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When my wife was expecting we had a 400 euro bet with her whether we were going to have a boy or a girl. I lost the bet but my daughter still likes everything I do ... action movies, basketball, football (that's soccer for some), etc etc. The only thing my wife gets to do is shop for teenage clothes.
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No single type of thing in particular but definitely enjoy making physical things in the real world vs. just software. So, metalwork, woodwork, auto repair and any other equipment (garden and farm tractors, attachments, etc), home remodeling stuff (tiling, wiring) and landscaping. I find though it's mostly just thinking about and designing in past years as with having small children there isn't too much time. . .but getting better. Wish I had more time!
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Kent K wrote: I find though it's mostly just thinking about and designing
That's the big similarity between carpentry and software development: the more time you spend working out what to do and how to do it, the easier and quicker the actual work is.
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A misting frame to help (I think) help to dissipate the heat from my AC unit more efficiently.
I'm not a programmer but I play one at the office
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That's a new one on me. I'll have to google it.
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There are various versions of such a thing. Many of them are designed to activate only when the AC is running, either by a relay attached to the 24 volt flow to the AC control mechanism or a device that trips a switch when the flow of air out the top of the AC blows up a paddle.
Mine is a simple PVC structure with strategically placed misting nozzles and a constant water supply. Yes, I know a waste. Which is why I discontinued using it until I automate the water flow.
Efficient? Dunno. I haven't worked on any figures for it since Texas summers are so variable.
I'm not a programmer but I play one at the office
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I built a deck on my first house, a kids playset (from wood that I cut and drilled holes in myself, not just assembled something all ready to go) at my second house, and installed hardwood flooring and new kitchen cabinets in my current house. So pretty much stuff with wood. If I could get the same pay (and cooperation from my employer), I'd love to alternate between software development and housing construction (maybe 4-6 weeks of development and 2-3 weeks of construction). I feel like my brain would be in better shape.
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jfren484 wrote: If I could get the same pay (and cooperation from my employer), I'd love to alternate between software development and housing construction
Damned straight!
jfren484 wrote: I feel like my brain would be in better shape.
Not to mention your body. Every time I start a project at home, all the old, familiar "I haven't done this in a while" pains start up, too.
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photography, chain mail, woodworking, auto repair, old house repair, ...
I think I enjoy photography the most because I can do it as pure creativity at the click of a button. Chain mail's pretty fun too because of the three dimensional puzzle aspect. I've also tried my hand at drawing and sculpture, and while I've done some passable stuff with both, I didn't enjoy them as much as photography as a creative outlet.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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patbob wrote: photography
heh.
I haven't been without a camera for at least 20 years. I think I've taken, on average, about half a photo a year.
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I have a small non-cnc milling machine and lathe from Sherline[^] and I make latches, handles, car parts, etc. out of metal.
I also work on cars as needed - have a 4-wheel brake and rotor job to do this weekend.
My favorite non-computer work is cutting, trimming and felling trees. It is hard and sometimes dangerous work that I have enjoyed for years, and can make some good money at as well.
Sincerely,
-Mark
mamiller@rhsnet.org
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So you do milling, and I construct and knock down walls...
Should I start believing in numerology, or something?
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I don't know about the numerology part, but you may have something there... 
Sincerely,
-Mark
mamiller@rhsnet.org
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I made a 20 foot carbon fiber canoe and raced it 340 miles down the Missouri River... It wasn't pretty, but it did pass the finish line! Never want to build another boat, it was tough!
Hogan
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heh.
It's like a lot of things: it looks really simple until you actually have to do it.
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A motorized merry-go-round using washing machine parts, a giraffe unicycle from a bicycle, remodeled our home (with a lot of help), some lathe work, wood toys, furniture, nothing recently.
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KP Lee wrote: a giraffe unicycle from a bicycle
You should put a clip of the giraffe riding it on youtube!
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So I spent an entire day moving everything from an old (gmail) email account to a new (gmail) email account.
Google's poor support for email migration is sad to say the least...
So after some work I almost got it how I want it, minor issues aside.
After that I had quite some issues getting my new gmail to work on my phone. Appearently there's some obscure security setting that disables 'less secure apps'... After searching for a while I found it and turned it off.
All I want now is sync my email and contacts with my Windows Phone. And then I learned Google simply stopped supporting Exchange ActiveSync last year. I had it on my old account, it's gone with my new account. That means my email is only synced at certain intervals and my contacts won't sync AT ALL! What the hell? Is being a pain in the other giant tech companies ass really more important than customer satisfaction?
It basically makes either my Windows smart phone dumb or my gmail account quite useless...
Plan B, I also have an outlook account, so I'll sync my gmail contacts to my outlook account and then sync the contacts from outlook to my phone... Except all of a sudden my phone won't recognize my outlook credentials. Why is everything so difficult? When will I be able to smile and enjoy life again? When does the hurting stop!?
Next year I'm getting an Android phone.
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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We went through an exchange-to-GMail migration and it hurt, but generally worked OK. GMail on my iPhone works a treat, and the outlook connector for GMail syncs everything nicely.
It's those magic, mystery settings that get you every time.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: exchange-to-GMail migration and it hurt
I guess most migrations do. People generally dislike change, and now I know why.
Chris Maunder wrote: It's those magic, mystery settings that get you every time.
And again next time! 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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OK, two things:
1. How happy would you be if some hacker decided to "migrate" all your personal stuff to a different e-mail account, and could do it all with just a few clicks?
2. Praise the lord that apple isn't involved in this mix.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: apple isn't involved in this
Well then it would just work, right? 
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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Well, itunes would work -- but let's not talk about how fast or how efficiently or how much to the user's benefit.
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1. It actually is that easy. Login to your old account and enable POP, login to your new account and sync all your email. The problem is that it doesn't sync labels making it a worthless tool since I use labels to organize my mailbox... Same goes for contacts, except that it doesn't sync photo's. I used a third party tool for the email which does copy labels and I guess I'll move my photo's manually...
If a hacker gets a hold of my gmail password he can really mess things up and copy just about my entire life to his own computer.
So why not make things as easy for me too?
2. Amen to that!
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
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