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I've never seen a sign for a lost cat. I feel like they typically just come back when they feel like it. You know after their done with their murder spree.
Edit: oh... ok... I'll just be naked then.
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Better you than me, it's the first day of school today, no time for spontaneous nudity!
*deep breath* Maximum effort!
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Also we're taking care of my dad's dog this week so he can go to California and tool around the desert on dune buggies on legal weed with his brother and sisters for a week.
That's how you do retirement right there!
Also we're taking care of my dad's dog this week so he can go to California and tool around the desert on dune buggies on legal weed with his brother and sisters for a week.
That's how you do retirement right there!
You aren't kidding that is some serious retirement right there.
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The problem with Labor Day, is that unless you really feel like going to a white sale at Penney's, or have been invited to a barbeque, you're pretty much guaranteed to spend the "holiday" working your posterior off on household tasks.
Or is that just me?
But since...
(a) WW rented a truck in Arizona to bring home the contents of his van and the small trailer he was hauling, and
(b) the first day he was back in California two weeks ago, he went to train, and one of his former students got over-eager and threw him weird and he screwed up his shoulder (so badly that his chiropractor sent him to get x-rays because he thought it was fractured. It wasn't.)...
well, guess who's been unloading and carrying everything and (finally) assembling the bookshelves and shelving the library by her lonesome?
But WW took care of lunch, dinner, KP, and the Home Depot run yesterday, and took Teensy Valeros with him to get the child out of my hair while I worked. And he's promised to tune up my bicycle so I can start biking to school with the kids as soon as this rain stops.
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Oh, and we've been dealing with flooding and rising lake levels (which is kind of a big deal, when your city is on an isthmus) but we should be fine as long as we don't get anymore rain.
Yup, we're f*$*ed.
Damn it, two beagles and two kids is no way to build an ark!
leaving your wife out of the equation? Worry not, that's what the abscondi-cave is for!
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Eh leave me alone in the house and there's a possibility I wouldn't buy bread but live on home made cakes and pizza. They're a thing too.
If I eat 2 pieces of pizza for breakfast everyday, how long will it take to finish an entire pizza(12 pieces)?
6 days.
Waitaminute. That sounded like a math problem! Are you trying to sneak math problems into this thread?!
If you're like me, it will take one day to eat the pizza.Eh leave me alone in the house and there's a possibility I wouldn't buy bread but live on home made cakes and pizza. They're a thing too.
If I eat 2 pieces of pizza for breakfast everyday, how long will it take to finish an entire pizza(12 pieces)?
And people say I have a a pizza problem. You guys saw my pizza right? It's a pretty big one so really finish it in one day?
I can see you guys chaining me in the kitchen and making me mass produce pizzas =(
after trying to sneak math into the thread I will be chaining you to something other than the kitchen!
Better you than me, it's the first day of school today, no time for spontaneous nudity!
have a good day!
*deep breath* Maximum effort!
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City I live near got nailed with some bad flooding this weekend, including one of the two FLGS in the area.
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after trying to sneak math into the thread I will be chaining you to something other than the kitchen!If you're like me, it will take one day to eat the pizza.Eh leave me alone in the house and there's a possibility I wouldn't buy bread but live on home made cakes and pizza. They're a thing too.
If I eat 2 pieces of pizza for breakfast everyday, how long will it take to finish an entire pizza(12 pieces)?
And people say I have a a pizza problem. You guys saw my pizza right? It's a pretty big one so really finish it in one day?
I can see you guys chaining me in the kitchen and making me mass produce pizzas =(
The bedpost? ;)
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Eh leave me alone in the house and there's a possibility I wouldn't buy bread but live on home made cakes and pizza. They're a thing too.
If I eat 2 pieces of pizza for breakfast everyday, how long will it take to finish an entire pizza(12 pieces)?
6 days.
Waitaminute. That sounded like a math problem! Are you trying to sneak math problems into this thread?!
It's a food problem actually. After you've determined the duration a pizza will last, you can figure out how many pizzas/and or cakes you need to bake a week to keep up with your consumption.
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Waitaminute. That sounded like a math problem! Are you trying to sneak math problems into this thread?!
It's pizza: there's a πr² baked into each one.
It's a food problem actually. After you've determined the duration a pizza will last, you can figure out how many pizzas/and or cakes you need to bake a week to keep up with your consumption.Eh leave me alone in the house and there's a possibility I wouldn't buy bread but live on home made cakes and pizza. They're a thing too.
If I eat 2 pieces of pizza for breakfast everyday, how long will it take to finish an entire pizza(12 pieces)?
6 days.
Waitaminute. That sounded like a math problem! Are you trying to sneak math problems into this thread?!
hrm. I dunno..
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Waitaminute. That sounded like a math problem! Are you trying to sneak math problems into this thread?!It's pizza: there's a πr² baked into each one.
I knew it!
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I can see you guys chaining me in the kitchen and making me mass produce pizzas =(
Tsk Tsk kitty…
No one would ever chaining you to the kitchen to just slave away like that.I mean, how would you be able to clean the rest of the house if you're chained to the kitchen!
The bedpost? ;)
That's…An incredibly good try though
Still leaves me with a messy house, so no.
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I can see you guys chaining me in the kitchen and making me mass produce pizzas =(Tsk Tsk kitty…
No one would ever chaining you to the kitchen to just slave away like that.
I mean, how would you be able to clean the rest of the house if you're chained to the kitchen!The bedpost? ;)That's…An incredibly good try though
Still leaves me with a messy house, so no.
*Knocks Evil Alter-Ego over the head*
Mort kitty get to decide when, where and how she does or does not get chained up!
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Also, get this place tidied up...it looks like a hurricane passed through this house!
If nothing else the guy is a heck of a salesman but supposidly dice can be weighted or shaped wrong and it can cause them to roll a certain trend.It is funny how we gamers have superstitions about our dice.
I got one of those shiny sets of solid metal dice (copper, I believe).
The d20 rolled, unbelievably poorly. So I started tracking it. The mean should be 10.5. After 200 rolls, mine was at 7.9. I stopped using them.
I have been much happier ever since.
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I can't handle too much grease at once, so as much as I love pizza, it has to be good. Good Value Walmart crap almost had my body explode from grease build up.
As for the cap's kid being...not so much a kid...the idea that I am now old enough to have waited until I was 18 to have a kid, and that kid to have waited that long...that I'm "legal grandpa" age...well that terrifies me more than most things should.
Who knew? 30 no biggie, 35 pretty depressing, 36...oddly terrifying. Honestly it's probably just on top of the upside down life.
Closer to 40 than not feels strange. For the first time in my life I feel old. My walks wind me like they never did. My beard comes in white in patches. My right knee just feels like hurting when I put more weight on it than I'm used to...a lot. I now feel the same around 20 somethings as I once did only around teens; alienated by a culture I find stupid and annoyed by a seeming unending amount of idiocy and ignorance.
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I don't mind that it's 86 degrees outside, but I could do without the 80% humidity.
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The bedpost? ;)after trying to sneak math into the thread I will be chaining you to something other than the kitchen!If you're like me, it will take one day to eat the pizza.Eh leave me alone in the house and there's a possibility I wouldn't buy bread but live on home made cakes and pizza. They're a thing too.
If I eat 2 pieces of pizza for breakfast everyday, how long will it take to finish an entire pizza(12 pieces)?
And people say I have a a pizza problem. You guys saw my pizza right? It's a pretty big one so really finish it in one day?
I can see you guys chaining me in the kitchen and making me mass produce pizzas =(
that...might help... >_>
<_<
If nothing else the guy is a heck of a salesman but supposidly dice can be weighted or shaped wrong and it can cause them to roll a certain trend.It is funny how we gamers have superstitions about our dice.
I got one of those shiny sets of solid metal dice (copper, I believe).
The d20 rolled, unbelievably poorly. So I started tracking it. The mean should be 10.5. After 200 rolls, mine was at 7.9. I stopped using them.
I have been much happier ever since.
more proof of math perfidy!
I have no earthly idea why, but I roll better as a paladin.
Even with electronic dice.
It feels very odd, to be sure.
Another day of playing whack-a-mole with VDI issues. Seems like our virtual environment is dropping their IP addresses. Looking into it further, seems like the guy who set up the DHCP scope did two things that I highly question: the lease is set to 1 hour (WTF??) and the failover was not setup to the second DHCP server, even though that server was set up with identical scopes. I need a +3 stupid bane baseball bat.
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The problem with Labor Day, is that unless you really feel like going to a white sale at Penney's, or have been invited to a barbeque, you're pretty much guaranteed to spend the "holiday" working your posterior off on household tasks.
Or is that just me?
Meh. I like to think laziness and/or chronic depression inspired many of us to sit on our laurels and do jack squat for labor day. And today. And probably tomorrow...
I don't mind that it's 86 degrees outside, but I could do without the 80% humidity.
Absolutely. Luckily for me, I work in an air conditioned office. Unfortunately for you, you don't. But you get to play with a concrete saw. I just want to use one half the time out of frustration and anger.
What's interesting to me is the difference between cultures in the U.S. and Europe.
NobodysWife is suffering greatly in Portugal because none of the buildings are air conditioned, because electricity is too expensive to make it worthwhile.
So it's 96 outside, 86 inside, and everybody's just used to it so no one minds...
I don't mind that it's 86 degrees outside, but I could do without the 80% humidity.Absolutely. Luckily for me, I work in an air conditioned office. Unfortunately for you, you don't. But you get to play with a concrete saw. I just want to use one half the time out of frustration and anger.
Yeah but I've only built one new project in the last two and a half weeks, otherwise it's just flood repair.
Tomorrow we're starting a big project though, walls and then a patio around a fancy new pool, should be fun!
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So how's everyone else's day?
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What's interesting to me is the difference between cultures in the U.S. and Europe.
NobodysWife is suffering greatly in Portugal because none of the buildings are air conditioned, because electricity is too expensive to make it worthwhile.
So it's 96 outside, 86 inside, and everybody's just used to it so no one minds...
hell.
That sounds like hell.
So how's everyone else's day?
Those minis are nutritious, I am sure.
What's interesting to me is the difference between cultures in the U.S. and Europe.
NobodysWife is suffering greatly in Portugal because none of the buildings are air conditioned, because electricity is too expensive to make it worthwhile.
So it's 96 outside, 86 inside, and everybody's just used to it so no one minds...
Amanda's new rental house has zero air conditioning. Due to the humidity, there's not even a difference in temps between outdoors and in. And it's hit 92 here. Hottest part of the day is usually around 3-4pm, so it may go up to 93-95 today. Humidity in Peoria is only 50% today, so it merely feels like 100 outside right now.
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Amanda's new rental house has zero air conditioning. Due to the humidity, there's not even a difference in temps between outdoors and in. And it's hit 92 here. Hottest part of the day is usually around 3-4pm, so it may go up to 93-95 today. Humidity in Peoria is only 50% today, so it merely feels like 100 outside right now.What's interesting to me is the difference between cultures in the U.S. and Europe.
NobodysWife is suffering greatly in Portugal because none of the buildings are air conditioned, because electricity is too expensive to make it worthwhile.
So it's 96 outside, 86 inside, and everybody's just used to it so no one minds...
jesus. Christ. That is insanity. I am pretty sure I would start taking damage in her house.
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Am I rapidly approaching the point of, "People who use hard coding in their programming should be branded on the forehead and never be allowed to work in or near computer programming again."
I just finished testing all the practices for a course update. In the final practice, they invoke a web service, so the URL looks something like:
https://my.server.com/CreateAContact_Version3
Since our machines change, the author created a nice little web form that asks, "What is your server's address?", and you just put in "https://my.server.com".
Life is good.
Then in the SAME EXACT FILE she just hard-coded "CreateAContact_Version3".
So guess what? Our version changed. And the classroom machines have NO HTML editing software.
So the students get to open a 200-line HTML document in fricking NOTEPAD, search for and find the "Version3" string, and fix it themselves.
WHY didn't the author just have one more question, "What is your web service's suffix?"
I have no idea.
Because hard coding is a virus that affects 70-80% of all programmers.
And it should be a fireable offense.
Grrr....
Am I rapidly approaching the point of, "People who use hard coding in their programming should be branded on the forehead and never be allowed to work in or near computer programming again."
I just finished testing all the practices for a course update. In the final practice, they invoke a web service, so the URL looks something like:
https://my.server.com/CreateAContact_Version3Since our machines change, the author created a nice little web form that asks, "What is your server's address?", and you just put in "https://my.server.com".
Life is good.
Then in the SAME EXACT FILE she just hard-coded "CreateAContact_Version3".
So guess what? Our version changed. And the classroom machines have NO HTML editing software.
So the students get to open a 200-line HTML document in fricking NOTEPAD, search for and find the "Version3" string, and fix it themselves.
WHY didn't the author just have one more question, "What is your web service's suffix?"
I have no idea.
Because hard coding is a virus that affects 70-80% of all programmers.
And it should be a fireable offense.
Grrr....
none of this makes sense to me.
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none of this makes sense to me.Am I rapidly approaching the point of, "People who use hard coding in their programming should be branded on the forehead and never be allowed to work in or near computer programming again."
I just finished testing all the practices for a course update. In the final practice, they invoke a web service, so the URL looks something like:
https://my.server.com/CreateAContact_Version3Since our machines change, the author created a nice little web form that asks, "What is your server's address?", and you just put in "https://my.server.com".
Life is good.
Then in the SAME EXACT FILE she just hard-coded "CreateAContact_Version3".
So guess what? Our version changed. And the classroom machines have NO HTML editing software.
So the students get to open a 200-line HTML document in fricking NOTEPAD, search for and find the "Version3" string, and fix it themselves.
WHY didn't the author just have one more question, "What is your web service's suffix?"
I have no idea.
Because hard coding is a virus that affects 70-80% of all programmers.
And it should be a fireable offense.
Grrr....
I'm pretty sure he wishes he had my chop saw and hammer.
none of this makes sense to me.Am I rapidly approaching the point of, "People who use hard coding in their programming should be branded on the forehead and never be allowed to work in or near computer programming again."
I just finished testing all the practices for a course update. In the final practice, they invoke a web service, so the URL looks something like:
https://my.server.com/CreateAContact_Version3Since our machines change, the author created a nice little web form that asks, "What is your server's address?", and you just put in "https://my.server.com".
Life is good.
Then in the SAME EXACT FILE she just hard-coded "CreateAContact_Version3".
So guess what? Our version changed. And the classroom machines have NO HTML editing software.
So the students get to open a 200-line HTML document in fricking NOTEPAD, search for and find the "Version3" string, and fix it themselves.
WHY didn't the author just have one more question, "What is your web service's suffix?"
I have no idea.
Because hard coding is a virus that affects 70-80% of all programmers.
And it should be a fireable offense.
Grrr....
It's NOT math!
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none of this makes sense to me....Gobbledygook...
It's actually a really important idea in programming, and one that has led to innumerable security holes.
Suppose you want to protect your program with a password. Well, you need to store the password somewhere, right?
- A "normal" programmer would store the password "on the hard drive", in layman's terms, well-protected, but written there so that the end user could, y'know, change it.
- An "idiot" programmer would put the password directly into the program itself. So anyone reading the code would know it and could use it, and the end user couldn't change it. In effect, a permanent loophole into the system.
And yeah, TONS of Cisco and Netgear routers were found to have hard-coded administrative passwords, allowing anyone who wanted to to own the systems.
That's just one example.
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Am I rapidly approaching the point of, "People who use hard coding in their programming should be branded on the forehead and never be allowed to work in or near computer programming again."
I just finished testing all the practices for a course update. In the final practice, they invoke a web service, so the URL looks something like:
https://my.server.com/CreateAContact_Version3Since our machines change, the author created a nice little web form that asks, "What is your server's address?", and you just put in "https://my.server.com".
Life is good.
Then in the SAME EXACT FILE she just hard-coded "CreateAContact_Version3".
So guess what? Our version changed. And the classroom machines have NO HTML editing software.
So the students get to open a 200-line HTML document in fricking NOTEPAD, search for and find the "Version3" string, and fix it themselves.
WHY didn't the author just have one more question, "What is your web service's suffix?"
I have no idea.
Because hard coding is a virus that affects 70-80% of all programmers.
And it should be a fireable offense.
Grrr....
Ages ago (ages like in the previous millennium) I played Pool Of Radiance on my Amiga. The game had an issues with being installed on HD, always asking for a second game disc...
Somehow, using HEX editor, which also somehow translated the hexadecimal code in the second window into the ASCII code, I managed to edit the executable file by finding the reference to the DD0: and replace it with HD0:, which was enough for the game to look for the required files on HD instead of floppy...
And my brother, who was much more savvy in programming said it won't work! MUHAHHAHAHHA!
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I might also had used the said hex editor to edit the save files in the later games of that series to go past those riduncolously stupid AD&D racial level limits... Seriously, level 6 cap in game where all the other characters start around 10+ level?
Back when I had an Apple II I used to edit the floppy disks by hex-editing decrement operations into no ops. It only took a few hours per game to figure out which decrement gave you infinite lives.
It sure is hot today, no worries though, the torrential rain moving in tomorrow will drive down the temperatures, and probably devastate another third of the city.
Goddamn f*@$ing rain.
It sure is hot today, no worries though, the torrential rain moving in tomorrow will drive down the temperatures, and probably devastate another third of the city.
G*&+~#n f&+@ing rain.
Yep, we've hit 94, and we're also expecting rain for the next five days.
none of this makes sense to me....Gobbledygook...
It's actually a really important idea in programming, and one that has led to innumerable security holes.
Suppose you want to protect your program with a password. Well, you need to store the password somewhere, right?
- A "normal" programmer would store the password "on the hard drive", in layman's terms, well-protected, but written there so that the end user could, y'know, change it.
- An "idiot" programmer would put the password directly into the program itself. So anyone reading the code would know it and could use it, and the end user couldn't change it. In effect, a permanent loophole into the system.And yeah, TONS of Cisco and Netgear routers were found to have hard-coded administrative passwords, allowing anyone who wanted to to own the systems.
That's just one example.
I think that was how they protected h games back in the day. People would crack(? I am not sure what the slang is) the CD and get the code allowing them to play the game. Or something. I don't know, I was foolishly(possibly) into legal gaming at the time and insisted on doing everything above board.
Yep, we've hit 94, and we're also expecting rain for the next five days.It sure is hot today, no worries though, the torrential rain moving in tomorrow will drive down the temperatures, and probably devastate another third of the city.
G*&+~#n f&+@ing rain.
is that good or bad?
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We don't get Labor Day, and even if we did, it would be called something like Futchie-Dungle Eve and you'd have to walk around the town on stilts with roller-skates on the bottom wearing an unnecessarily revealing smock made of rosehips while singing,
"Hi ho, maidens, hi ho, swains,
May I mimble-thring your pydbe-oh this futchie-dungle eve?
Futchie-dungle eve, my nonny, toodle roodle aye,
Give us half a shilling or I'll punch yez on the conk"