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AKA??
AKA --> Also Known As
Sheep AKA Sheep 
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Wrong day - I can't do it tomorrow... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Well, everybody seems to be busy tomorrow. So, here is my guess
Is it EWE?
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That's correct. You are up for tomorrow's FSOW, not CCC - just to be clear. 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Agent__007 wrote: You are up for tomorrow's FSOW
Aah that feels great, thank you 
Agent__007 wrote: not CCC
Well, okay. I'm happy with FSOW. Have never got to win CCC though
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Surely it's SIS, two sheep mutually related? If it's EWE the arrow should only go one way indicating parent/child. And you're supposed to be a coder? I don't know what things are coming to! 
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I originally made the CCC clue (ok, not made but recollected solving it long time ago) and wanted the FSOW to have the same answer. I know that was a poor choice to represent the palindrome.
But then again, if "1223344546" is "Bookkeeper"[^] and "1234567" is "Plumber"[^], then this one is not that bad, is it?
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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2 and a half hour early, i didn'T have a chance
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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HobbyProggy wrote: i didn'T have a chance
I thought you weren't interested in anything woolly...
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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If i can use it as a jacket, why not
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Who do we reckon ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Flipper!
(But...I thought yesterday would be a walkover, so I clearly know very little about the game)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Strangely I find myself rooting for the Pumas, even though they are obviously outclassed.
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turns out its the convicts
B
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Not looking forward to next weekends results. Should be a good match if the Wallabies can bring their A game!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Beautiful artwork. Thanks for sharing.
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Lovely artwork. You are a lucky man cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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WOW! She is VERY talented!
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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She has a lovely delicate touch. Very impressed.
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Have you ever thought about creating some piece of software but then you "design" it and "code" it in your mind and then think, "eh, why even put fingers to keyboard?"
It's an odd thing, kind of a Programmer's Block.
I think of the brain as the First Tool of Code Creation and if I can get it to work properly then I can do a lot.
I try to keep things simple:
1. decide what I want
2. make a plan
3. take action
4. adjust where necessary.
Sometimes you need some different ways to think about why your brain is trying to stop you. I stumbled upon this book
(BrainBlocks: Overcoming the hidden barries of success -amazon[^] ) recently and it has given me some new angles on why I get stuck. I like it because it breaks different blocks down into specific challenges and how to overcome them:
1. self-doubt
2. procrastination
3. impatience
4. multitasking
5. rigidity*
6. perfectionism
7. negativity
*Edit: had 8 blocks listed because I had typed rigidity block twice. There are only 7 blocks described.
Have any of you read the book? Do you find you are blocked at times when you go to create a large overwhelming project? Just curious.
Also, this is a great quote from the book:
Action is the essential ingredient to success.
The book is focused on getting you to move, create, do it!!
modified 26-Oct-15 10:23am.
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newton.saber wrote: Have any of you read the book?
Haven't, and probably won't, or if I order a copy, probably won't finish it. I doubt it'll help me, I've got so much else to do already, I don't have the patience to read a whole book for a few gems of wisdom, besides, my concentration keeps getting interrupted by other tasks, and being 50+ years old, I'm not sure my thinking is flexible enough anymore. 
newton.saber wrote: Do you find you are blocked at times when you go to create a large overwhelming project?
All kidding aside, years ago I discovered the solution to feeling overwhelmed on large projects, and it's this recursive process:
- Break the project down into smaller, well defined pieces
- Is the smaller piece small enough? By "small enough", what I mean is, can I accomplish something meaningful in a very simple way? (Sort of the other side of the coin of the Insider News' post about writing stupid code.) If not, recurse, breaking the piece down even further.
Action is the essential ingredient to success.
Absolutely. By the way, the beauty that I find in my approach is that it typically spawns numerous cool (what I think is cool) pieces that I then pick from and write articles about!
One other thing that I do, and this is really to avoid an aspect of my personality--I can imagine the end result so well that I discovered, years ago, that just in the imagining of the end product, I'm deriving so much emotional gratification that I never actually start the project! Sounds crazy, right? So, the other "trick" that I do is to stop myself from investing emotionally in the imagination and instead focus on the doing. (I can just imagine, haha, the innuendo's that my comment will result in!)
Marc
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Marc,
Great nuggets of wisdom here.
I've found these to be the keys to getting going too.
Especially...
Marc Clifton wrote: Break the project down into smaller, well defined pieces
Also, you are so right about:
Marc Clifton wrote: I find in my approach is that it typically spawns numerous cool (what I think is cool) pieces that I then pick from and write articles about!
And this does seem to be a key to the issue with being done before even beginnning...
Marc Clifton wrote: imagining of the end product, I'm deriving so much emotional gratification that I never actually start the project!
Great stuff, thanks.
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Hi Marc,
This:
Marc Clifton wrote: I'm deriving so much emotional gratification that I never actually start the project! Sounds crazy, right? So, the other "trick" that I do is to stop myself from investing emotionally in the imagination and instead focus on the doing.
This has been my second biggest stopper in my life, ever since I was a kid. I feel like not only getting the satisfaction from my imaginary success, but also consuming all my energy that drives me towards that achievement. And I still dont have a solution for it, except "be aware, stop thinking/dreaming, find something else to focus".
Do you have any tips on how to "stop investing emotionally in the imagination and focus on doing"? I would love to hear!
Kerem
"The primary trait of a good programmer is laziness. Nobody works harder to do nothing than a good programmer." - MehGerbil
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