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Woke up this morning (alright, is was almost noon), ate some breakfast, did groceries and some other chores, and decided to study.
I've got this Open University course called "Programming Language Design Concepts". It's pretty interesting, it compares languages, paradigms, and features, like types, type systems, variables, and memory. I read a lot of Ada, C/C++, Java, and Haskell.
So anyway, interesting as it may be it's still study and I'd rather not do it.
But I imagined that after a day of chores and study I could sit back on the couch, grab a bag of potato chips, and watch a movie or play a game.
So earlier this evening I grabbed my snacks and... Studied some more... 
I just woke up from this madness. What's gotten into me!?
I'm seeing a doctor first thing Monday morning... 
Alright, honestly, I hope I can keep this kind of enthusiasm 
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When you start doing it for a living your life will balance out by default.
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I have no idea what you're talking about... I've made my (pretty good) living as a programmer for over five years 
Actually things didn't go like this until I graduated from (another) University and started working! 
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Sander Rossel wrote: "Programming Language Design Concepts".
One of my favorite subjects. 
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Apparently so is mine, I've never studied instead of play games
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Don't tell the girls
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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When you are at rock bottom, pebbles can be tasty.
Edit:
Thanks, Sandor, you just gave me an idea for a sonnet in the grand guignol style I favor:
rock bottom's tasty pebbles
slow susurrus of slithering waters
dripping down total darkness' well;
my greedy thirst doesn't care that
the taste of bat or spider lingers
delicious the blindness in silence,
where paradox can meander, amusing
itself in endless mirror in mirror,
until i also reflect on reflection
how glorious to not have to forget
who i never was to become who i am:
my unknowing mind free of eternity
unfetters each moment's miraculous
oh, a body fades: but, rock-bottom
tasty pebbles keep shadows visible
© February, 2016 William Woodruff suggested background listening: Karla Bley, "Musique Mechanique" [^]
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
modified 8-Feb-16 5:48am.
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BillWoodruff wrote: suggested background listening
I need suggested psychedelic drugs for this
I might be the wrong crowd for your (or any) sonnet 
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Sander Rossel wrote: suggested psychedelic drugs for this
No drugs are required, just:
Practice forgetting to complain so frequently that you forget what "complain" means, and, in the wise words from the Kabbala tradition, "question everything, trust nothing."
Surrender the mind to the heart, and the heart to the soul, and the soul to nothing.
Of course, your mileage may vary.
cheers, Bill
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
modified 9-Feb-16 7:46am.
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Maybe I'll just go with herbal tea...
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And Herself turns to me and says "He's dead, you know - Leslie Nielsen"
Seems the news is getting around...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Life imitates art?
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Tell her you had a little hunch back at the office.
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Seems no onestold him though.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.1 Beta tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.
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Are you sure she has not created a lounge account secretly?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Oh yes, I'm sure!
She hasn't turned her computer on in well over two years, and she doesn't even touch Chrome on her tablet in case she breaks something.
I'll get her using the internet at some point, but it's very much a "softly, softly, catchee monkee" exercise - she doesn't like change and it takes her a long time to realise that it's an improvement in her life.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Besides... she has you, so why to learn?
I am quite younger than you, and in my case was something similar. She, at least, has learned how to use internet. For my tranquility, she does it quite secure. All what she is not 110% sure, she doesn't touch/click it and ask me. For the rest... she doesn't give a sh... and it is all on me
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
she doesn't like change
I've got one at home just like that. Had her for over 50 years so I don't think there's much chance of her changing now. Still, she looks after me tremendously well.
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I went literally years without a BSOD[^] in Windows 7 and now I seem to get them weekly with Win10 - on multiple machines.
Is it just me?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I haven't had a BSOD on Win10 at all - and don't think I had one on Win7 either (which was fairly remarkable).
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I haven't had a BSOD on Win10 at all
But judging from your earlier posts that's the ONLY problem you DIDN'T have...
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That's like saying dying is the only problem you never had at the doctor's office!
I guess that's still pretty good! 
hatfok
King Yiddum's Castle
Pegasus Galaxy
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It's more like passing out
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I've been running 10 on two machines for a few months and haven't BSOD'd yet. Also, I don't believe I ever had one on 7 either. 8 was a different story!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I had one, although that was because of NVidia testing in production with a driver that did some rather bad things.
Other than that, WinX seems to be quite stable (and fast).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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