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This is turning out to be an ongoing thread, one of the longest non-game threads with current messages. That's a bit ironic, given the subject.
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And one non-author.
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Actually that doesn't sound at all unpleasant! **whips out the carrot juice** Spicy V8 is good. Then there are also beverages made from potatoes, grapes, barley, rye, corn, juniper berries, sugar cane, hops, malt, wheat, and other wholesome grains.
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What would be tricky would be to come up with a popular song from the last 40 or 50 years that did not reflect the influence of African-American culture.
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When I learned C I was already quite fluent in Pascal. Going to C from Pascal, I felt like I had been let out of a cage. Being let out of a cage is not a completely positive experience, because you now have to fend for yourself. I've dabbled with C++ and Java, but never did much with them. I've avoided C#, mostly because that scale just never seemed sufficienty under the fingers, and I preferred to think of it as Db. Most of what I was doing made much more sense in a procedural language rather than object-oriented. You said that C is ugly, but ((((((((((((((((((lisp))))))))))))))))))) has it beat. I was never destined to be a great programmer because I liked doing things just because they were cool. I liked things like recursion and operator overloading. These days, about all I write is HTML, PHP, and MySQL. I can handle any of those, but in real life I have to use them all together, and that's where I get confused. Each has its own syntax, such as when you need quotation marks and whether you need single or double, and such. I need to imbed MySQL commands inside PHP commands which themselves might be inside a line of HTML, so I get lost as to whose syntax I'm supposed to be using at the moment and what characters have to be escaped. Nice ugly old C sounds pretty good by comparison.
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Dinner in Dallas for Dozens, Discovery in Denton
glomph commented on JamesSavik's blog entry in jamessavik's Blog
Have you ever driven out to the little town where Larry McMurtry has his book store? It sounds like you'd enjoy it. -
Well, maybe a great place to spend summers when you are retired. As people age they generally have less and less tolerance for cold weather. A Canadian winter would be a big adjustment for a boy from Louisiana who doesn't think Houston summers are bad anyway.
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Focus is very important for CD players, and a challenge to them when moving around, such as in a vehicle. As for hair removal, what is good and safe and cheap to use on ears? I find that as I lose hair on the top of my head, more of it grows in and on my ears (and not just during full moons), but not long enough to comb over where I need the hair.
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Or else just drink things made from vegetable matter.
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I was going to respond to these messages, but I have a spelling problem: Is it "Here, here," "Hear, hear," "Hear here," "Here hear," or what?
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It's good to have this old thread back in the forefront to remind Myr et. al. that expressions of thanks date back before the recent whatever.
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I think it says something positive about the leadership team here that there could be so much crap going on for months without my knowing anything about it (and presumably similarly for others who read these forums as much as I do). I'm not one of the mega posters, and I don't get around to reading a good fraction of the stories, but I'd really miss this site if it went away. I have chosen not to volunteer for anything on the site only because I don't want to make a commitment that I can't honor in a thorough manner. In a few years, I hope that situation will change. I do thank Myr for what he has put together and all of the staff for what all you do, most of which we don't notice because it is done right. I will promise not to post any new chapters before the first of the year. The fact that I haven't written any so far and don't plan to write any after the first of the year makes that an easy promise to keep.
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The person below me is tired of all the games.
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--Groucho Marx
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I heard today that one of the goats in the neighborhood recently had triplets. I gather that is fairly rare.
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Fortunately, it's a marriage, and not just a Highland Fling.
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I use Safari, but do check out my own pages with Firefox. I like it just fine, but like Safari a bit more. I do hope folks will rush to dump IE 6. I created and/or maintain a few websites, mostly as a volunteer, and on occasion for cash. Some things that ought to be fairly easy to do will work fine in Safari, Firefox, and some of the less common browsers. But then you have to do the workarounds to get them to work in IE 6, or else at least make provisions for the site to degrade gracefully with 6. (IE5 on the PC is a whole 'nother story, a scary one at that. Fortunately, stats I see show almost no traffic from IE 5 users, so I ignore it now.) IE 7 supposedly supports much more of the CSS standards, for example, and doesn't need the workarounds. Maybe by the time I get into another big web project, IE 6 will be a memory.
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I'm not an author, and don't play one on TV. But I was going suggest that if I don't post here for more than a couple weeks, that I'm probably either dead or at least unconscious. But there's always sinility, or maybe I just got tired of having to log in every time I come to the site. What's with that? I thought the intended weekly login would be bad enough. Or then there's the possibility of just enough sinility that I can't come up with my password.
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There's snow and then there's snow. Warmer places often have what we call "wet" snow. It is pretty icy, and the snow is more like driving on ice than on a "dry" snow like those you get more often in colder climates. So places where it snows just a few times a year, not only are the drivers more dangerous due to inexperience in snow driving, but also the snow itself is usually more dangerous.
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Do you really believe anyone will pay attention to the meteor shower with Sex going on right below it?
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No sarcasm, but a reference to an historical event. It was before your time, so maybe I should have given more of a reference. There was a TV movie about it, but I didn't watch it. Many of the same principles are involved, even if we are more likely to think of the religious right as the fascists and the gays as the victims.
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Or a Nazi parade in Skokie, IL?
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Some years back I was visiting a friend and met his partner. The guy is pretty talkative anyway, but I guess was a little nervous about the situation and seemed to chatter almost incessantly. Not that I minded as such. It was all pretty interesting, and he's a nice guy, if a bit uncomfortable at the time. After some mention of his possible interest in having a family, etc., he said something like, "but then I have these tendencies." My friend said, "We've been in a relationship for nine years. I think that is more than a tendency." I am reminded of that conversation any time someone mentions homosexual "tendencies."
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How do you expect a "goat without a boat" [your words] to get to Australia?