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I was somewhat obsessed with it myself ... 
I bought a new computer kitted out specifically for playing Doom II: DX/4 100, 32 Meg RAM, solid Graphics card, SoundBlaster, ...
Did you get the "Doom dreams"?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I was terrified the first time I played the game. I didn't get "Doom dreams" but we would dial the volume up on the speakers to get maximum effective crap your pants effects. 
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Yeah, I know what you mean. That first "dark area" ...
Even now the sound of an Arch-Vile seeing you raises the hair on the back of my neck. You knew there was trouble when you heard that!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I found your ToDo list:
- Move around on those chairs with wheels.
- Grab the good office supplies.
- Check for beer in fridge.
- Found nothing? Go to the nearest pub!
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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ToDo lint Done Bits:
1. Have motored around the office on a chair
2. Office supplies, already raided (got quite a nice stapler) is locked
3. Beer in the fridge, you are joking, care has to be taken Friday lunch times as we have random breathelizer tests
4. Pub opposite doesn't open 'till midday!
5. Post random s*** on CP
6. Stare a pidgeon feet on the sky light
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Tesco might be open. Just saying.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I would more supprised if they aren't, just in a village with one shop and a post office.
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Well for me it's the Construction Industry, Once your full time you get a high-vis jacket etc. I have only worn it three times twice on a customer site, once 'cause it was raining and I didn't want to get my usual coat wet. How can I get a job where you get tequila for elevenes...
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Work for a small SW co with a boss trying to be cool.
The champagne was when a few big contracts he'd been chasing for months came in right before Christmas.
Dunno what the Tequila was for, he asked if I wanted a shot at 4:50pm on a Friday. I declined because it conflicted with my 0% alcohol when driving policy; and I never found out if he was celebrating landing something or just splurged on a bottle of Patrón and wanted to share.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Not in the local supermarket. They are all buying stuff as if a famine was eminent. And all I wanted was something to eat as lunch and, if it's not asking too much, something to drink to get through the day.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I walk past the local council and government offices every day on the dog walk, and the car park is jam-packed... except on a Friday - any Friday - when it's mostly empty by lunchtime.
..and I pay my taxes for this... it's a disgrace, I tell ya.
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A_Griffin wrote: I walk past the local council and government offices every day on the dog walk,
They probably look out the window and say "look at that man being able to walk his dog during the day, it's a disgrace"
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Yeah but I work at weekends and into the evenings - I'll bet my bottom dollar they don't.
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glennPattonWork wrote: cue the tune!
OK, since you asked for it![^] 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Thats the one, Harlod Pinter doing his thing! 
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The Register spake thus: [^]Quote: Microsoft has advised customers that offensive language on Skype, in an Outlook.com email, or in an Office 365 Word document is a potentially account-closing offense under its updated terms of use.
The tweaked services agreement, which comes into effect on May 1, 2018, now includes the following code-of-conduct item:
Quote: Microsoft told The Register it does not listen to Skype calls, which is good to know. But the Windows giant added that it may examine private files and conversations that potentially breach the code-of-conduct if the biz receives a complaint from someone, be it a Skype chat or an email, etc.
If I am now a virtual citizen of a corporate nanny-state, I demand free soy-milk !
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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I can see the VPN business is going to get another boost (not that the naughty folk aren't already using them.) All these stupid ideas will do is scare even more honest folk into using encryption.
BTW: does routing through Antarctica contribute to the ice sheets melting? Them routers gotta be running red hot with every man and his dog using them.
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BillWoodruff wrote: But the Windows giant added that it may examine private files and conversations that potentially breach the code-of-conduct if the biz receives a complaint
I wonder how much they just snoop?
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Because it wasnt dead[^]
"Headless chicken survives for a WEEK since being decapitated and shows no sign of expiring" WTF?
If it really is decapitated then I am going for the 'some dinosaurs had a second brain in the pelvis and birds are related' angle.
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Mike the Headless Chicken[^] famously survived for eighteen months...
They are very dim creatures, even for birds. They are lucky they taste so good: they wouldn't have survived otherwise...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nice story, but not very believable. A headless bird can't drink, so how long can it last without water? Certainly not 18 months.
Edit:
Quote: He fed it a mixture of milk and water via an eyedropper
There we have it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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BS. Unless it's a Zombie, how should it survive the shock and the blood loss and without being able to eat or drink? A cockroach keeps on going for a while after losing its head. It does not have much of a brain to begin with and the wound is also not fatal. But even this bug dies of starvation when it can't find food or eat it anymore.
Munchies_Matt wrote: If it really is decapitated then I am going for the 'some dinosaurs had a second brain in the pelvis and birds are related' angle.
Wrong branch of the evolutionary tree. Birds are descendants of the Theropods, like the T-Rex. They never were so big that they needed a sparate 'procesor' for the rear legs.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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How does a crocodile survive the 'shock and blood loss' when a leg gets torn off? It not only survives it, it regrows a new one.
As for eating and drinking, it is being fed by the vet. Didnt you read the article?
As for evolutionary tree, you are aware that species and occasionally moved from one branch to another? Not saying this happened here, but that the 'tree of life' is not some hard and fast determined by physical laws thing, it is a man made taxonomy.
Anyway, as I said IF it is decapitated I am going for the second brain because there is no other explanation.
modified 29-Mar-18 2:53am.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Anyway, as I said IF it is decapitated I am going for the second brain like some dinosaurs have.
Sauropod[^], often quite large and presumably equipped with a second 'brain' because the distance between the actual brain and the rear legs was far to great to control them directly.
Theropods[^] (here one of the largest we ever found), are presumably the ancestors of the birds. They were not so large that they needed any special nerve knots full of hard wired reflexes.
Munchies_Matt wrote: you are aware that species and occasionally moved from one branch to another
No, they don't. We move them around as we please when we bring our models and theories up to date. In this particular case we have two groups of animals with very distinctive features, so that we can be fairly sure that nobody will move one of the Sauropods over to the Theropods any time soon.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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