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and, hoping. for all of you, and your families, friends, and loved ones ...
it will be a happier new year than this past year, so eclipsed by the disruption of the pandemic.
meanwhile, i will continue to relish, as i know you do, the wonderful intellectual playground CodeProject provides.
cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: intellectual playground
Shirley, you jest. 
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Whatcha tawkin' baht? I'm an intelectutool!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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A happy new year to all of you, and looking forward to a more enjoyable future...
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Here we are!
The best year since 2020! 
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"That's the best [something] I've seen all year" doesn't have much impact for a while.
Saw an example of an awe-inspiring egg-corn 2 days ago. There was a supporter of Donald that was dressed up and frankly, looked a bit like a Dr Seuss character - perhaps the Cat In The Hat.
Somehow, the word we use to describe a method of solving/calculating something was turned into something that seemed to describe a lady and repetitious behaviour. You see, she kept talking about Olga's broken Rhythm. They broke the Olga Rhythm you see!
It is the best egg-corn I've seen all year. Shame it was the 2nd of January instead of a few days earlier though.
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Did you hear that an iPhone and a firework were arrested on New Year's Eve?
One was charged and the other was let off.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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:groan:
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I hovered over the "roll eyes" icon for a while before going with a simple thumbs-up.
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It is such an old joke, hence my groan.
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I'd never heard it before! 
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And there was the tour guides description of a painting in an art museum: Happy Nude? Yeah!
As for the iPhone and the Firework? One thing they do have in common, which is that with either of them you're liable to get burned.
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It's not the first time the firework was arrested, he's got a short fuse.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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They were arrested after fighting in the sea. They were scrolling around, sparks flying. One was charged with assaulty battery; the other was not let off, but was given a rocket.
FTFY. 
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Hindsight really will be 2020.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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And you've waited how long to post this?
All your life?
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and even more important, this event will never happen again in all of time.
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2020 will always be hindsight.
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So at the end of the day your saying 2020 won?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Thank you CP staffers and regulars for creating a friendly and helpful climate here.
I just got done working really hard on ostensibly cross platform project but i couldn't compile on windows because my windows machine is down, and then @Randor came along with a shiny MSVC compiler and some C++ expertise and put in serious work helping me shore up my code.
And that's the sort of thing I have actually come to count on here, and it occurred to me that I do just now, and so that is the inspiration for this message.
Y'all are great. This site is great. There's magic here.
It's why you aren't getting rid of me any time soon. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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I expected your new job to markedly reduce your presence on this site, but it seems I underestimated your tenacity!
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You aren't getting rid of me that easily.
In seriousness though, I love to create, and so working inspires more creation. That and really, I only work part time, but in spurts, so I absences shall be abrupt and short lived.
You're stuck with me.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: I only work part time, but in spurt
In the fullness of time, and speaking of such things is very timely at this time, I realize a one-time mistake I made. Unfortunately, such is hindsight, that one can only pass on learned wisdom and hope it will help others.
Take my advice: next time be born rich.
OK - what's done is done and you really cannot blame yourself - yet, it does lead one to realize such mistakes, so early in life, can have long term consequences.
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I mean, I probably would have chosen to not be schizo if I had been able to make those kinds of choices. Money has never really been anything other than a temporary obstacle for me. I don't really care about money, or I should say, it's not money that motivates me. The only time i care about it is if i don't have any and i happen to need some. I've restructured my life such that this rarely happens.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Nothing about your on-line persona qua diva, your productivity, your obvious intellect, suggests schizophrenia.
The crucible of "not fitting in," the forge and hammered anvil of capricious social rejection in the often vicious rip-tides of adolescence, the presence of unusual abilities ... all these, in some unfathomable way, remind me of:
"I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so." Jorge Luis Borges May you have a blessed year.
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." Jalaluddin Rumi
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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