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I've heard a Chinese story.
One day, a man visits a carpenter at work, and observes that he is having a bad day at work - the wood he is working on is chipping into pieces, and he is not able to accomplish even simple tasks; the carpenter is visibly angry. Evening approaches, and it is time to go home; and the carpenter's anger still continues. The man accompanies the carpenter to his home and observes; the carpenter gestures with his hands on a bush at the entrance to his house. At that moment, astonishingly, the carpenter's anger vanishes, and his mood becomes cheerful. As he enters his house, he greets his wife and children with a wide smile, and spends the rest of the evening and night in a cheerful mood. Next morning, this cheerful mood continues, till he reaches the entrance of his house, where the bush is located. At the bush, the carpenter again gestures at the bush, and his angry mood returns. Thus, it is the bush which separates his workplace mood from his home mood. He "deposits" his workplace mood on the bush, and is always cheerful at home, irrespective of his workplace tensions and worries.
However, in this age of 24/7 connectivity, with notifications of official emails reaching us 24/7, this concept of a "bush at the entrance" seems next to impossible. .
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Amarnath S wrote: the carpenter gestures with his hands on a bush at the entrance to his house
I can't shake the feeling something got lost in the translation, but I think we all get the point.
And the problem-solver in me is thinking it would be more efficient to move that bush to the construction site. I don't want to be the guy sitting next to him during a commute.
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You lost me at "significant other". My SO is Visual Studio. 
/ravi
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 This is something that took me over 20 years to figure out with my wife, who doesn't work outside the home. I've now become pretty good at unwinding on the 20-25 minute drive home. If I reach home and I'm still grinding away work-wise, I'll tell her I need some time to unwind, go to my office and relax a bit.
Even now, every so often I'll have to tell her I'm going to be an S.O.B. for the evening, and will spend most of the evening to myself.
Software Zen: delete this;
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OK, yes, the company Christmas do is always rather quiet ... but I do win "Employee Of The Month" every time.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Do you give yourself a bonus for that?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Just a small token of the companies appreciation, obviously. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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are you sure? one-man-band??
who cleans out who's litter box?
"Employee of the Month" well sure, but you're still taking crap from the cat though.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Well he does think he's in charge ... and he's not far wrong, either. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: he's in charge
The other words in your statement are neither useful nor necessary.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yes, but then you are also Hadley[^] from the accounting then.
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Sure, but if contracts don't work out, you're the first one sacked!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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No, I'm the last ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I like it!
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Are you tooting your own horn? 
Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!
JaxCoder.com
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OriginalGriff wrote: OK, yes, the company Christmas do is always rather quiet
I don't see this as a downside...
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Well, who'da thunkit?[^]
I'm waiting for the follow-up research that proves that accessing the Internet has the effect of shrinking many people's brains.
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I'm worried about the bleeding hearts saying we shouldn't punish or even admonish criminals anymore because they were, "born that way."
Perhaps even suggest we pay them welfare (generously so they don't feel 'poor' enough to steal more), give them preference in jobs (coz not doing so = discrimination) etc. etc. etc.
on seconds thoughts, hmmm, doesn't sound so bad.... where should I go for brain smallening smallerizing reduction surgery?
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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lopatir wrote: I'm worried about the bleeding hearts saying we shouldn't punish or even admonish criminals anymore because they were, "born that way."
Might be an idea to set brain-size requirements for lawmakers, judges, policemen, etc, though. God knows enough of them nowadays are vicious, nasty b@st@rds[^].lopatir wrote: where should I go for brain smallening smallerizing reduction surgery?
Um, I think that clearly demonstrates that it would only be vanity surgery.
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That was the first word that came into my head when I read the headline.
Pinch of salt required.
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Try Terry Pratchett's retro-phrenology (Discworld) - shaping the head in order to create the desired characteristics.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The key phrase is "may have", and like all research it is largely speculation.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: The key phrase is "may have"
To me, that shows that serious scientists were involved. "Lesser" scientists would have declared it as an absolute -- so, way better than astronomy, but not as trustworthy as Maths.Richard MacCutchan wrote: like all research it is largely speculation
Anyone who argues with that is obviously lacking experience.
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