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Originally Posted by SB900LE dig. Our church praise band worked up 'Everyday People' a couple months ago; we sometimes make 'adjustments' in lyrics. I lobbied for amending that sing-songy part in favor of better lyrics and a change in melody. No go. Oh man. I feel your pain. I guess suffering goes with church.

Originally Posted by fretless currently helping the resistance liberate France in COD 3 , tosses smoke grenade into thread . Video game? I'm telling myself, no, I do not need to go get Left For Dead...

Every time the spousal unit says she's going to get groceries from the grocery store 2 minutes away and it will only take half an hour, it inevitably takes 45 - 60 minutes. I mean {censored}, she just went back to go get catfood. That shouldn't even take 15 minutes.

Much earlier this year, I finally got Sly and the Family Stone's Stand!. Despite having it heard most of it 18 years ago, I had no idea they did "Everyday People." That nursery rhyme singing on it annoys the {censored} out of me. Other than that, I like the album.

Originally Posted by Hearafter I was writing "games" on my school's Apple II in 1986. Something like: 10 print "Enter your name" ?input name 20 print "Hello ?name, nice to see you" Run I tried doing something similar on a TRS 80 around 1982 or 83, IIRC. Thought I might try creating a game. 10 lines of BASIC later, I drew a blank. Then the Apple IIe and Wizardry showed up. Man, did that rock!!

Damn straight! I think it was '92 for me as well. Good old BBS days. Actually, I take that back. It was '89 with a friend. Didn't get my own computer until '92. Friend gave me one to use for a while then we went out and bought one. ...old fart geek snob... I had e-mail in '89. Take that.

I thought it was pretty good. Zamfir is just an old Chimp... what does he know about emoticons ...I been doing emoticons since 1992...young whippersnapper...

// = the emo haircut _ = non happy V = looking at the ground/crying //_V Guess it wasn't as good as I thought. Ah. I thought: // was a fall to the left side of the face. _ was the right eye. V was the emo kid being strangely happy.

Emo. I'm not sure I see it...I think I'm missing facial features...

You kids need to explain your emoticons.

Ahhh. Well, boys are boys. Damn straight. If you don't play the lottery, you never win. In other news, I'm very tired of financial institutions holding my money who update their systems on Sunday morning US time when I need info ASAP Euro time.

Begone, you satanic tempters of cheap online amusement. I must update my finances.

Ugh. *barf* I do not flirt with my kids. Didn't say you did. But I know what I was like when I was 12-13...maybe younger...

Ohhh dear god!!!! It's too loud in my house. I have to stop running my dayhome. I love the fact that I can come here, have conversations and not hear a single sound other than the clackety clack of my keys. God bless the HCBF. I can even talk about adult things without using hushed tones or bizarre metaphors. wink wink nudge nudge, know what I mean, know what I mean? Tell the kids to go play in traffic... Honestly, it's weird driving around US towns these days. Not a single clump of kids playing baseball/stickball, ridng bikes, or otherwise hanging out in suburban streets. ...maybe they're all over at Sugarskull's, hoping she'll flirt back.

Who is this Mr. Biehn of whom you speak? ...SAY HELLO TO MY LI'L FRIEN! Wait...

...Mrs. Thumper actually calls you "Thumper"? ...as opposed to 'Mr. Biehn'?

Great. My cat has fleas. We told you to use the special soap immediately in the shower when you get home from work...

It's common here for engineering profs here to give you the formulas you need(unless it's just a couple). Which IMO is the best. That makes life so much easier unlike the whole open book thing. Basically if you know what you're doing, you're fine. Open book tests here aren't like that here. I don't care what profs are suppose to do, that's how it works here. Bah...the few physics classes I took, you had to remember the freakin' formula or you were screwed.

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It's not the motivation, it's the depth of the deep sleep wave...

Alarm didn't go off this morning, so I not only slept through my computer science final, but I didn't get up until 10PM. I am now extremely well rested and have nothing to do but be extremely frustrated at myself. The thought of that kind of {censored} would terrify me in school, such that I never missed an exam. Do you have a way to make up the exam?

This kind of reasoning is why a lot of sys admins would scoff at the so-called certifications. There were only a few out there that really showed that you knew your stuff, CCIE being the big one. Most of the rest were basically memorization of loads of useless crap that you wouldn't likely see in the real world. You then end up with a load of people with their certs and no clue as to what's going on. So when we interview people, we typically discard the certs and go for the straight questions that are going to get us a decent idea about the candidates. From what you and I talked about 3 or so years ago, I always got the sense that the certs were a necessary but insufficient condition, i.e., that if you didn't have at least 3-4 certs, IT firms or departments wouldn't even look at you?

[ex-prof mode] Closed book teaches students to memorize and tends to increase the panic memory-dump/loss in many. Open book may be less efficient if there's a time limit - which puts an incentive on better studying in advance - but enables all students to put together material in a critical/thoughtful way without forcing them to rely on memory alone. I always preferred doing the latter for finals. I'd rather have thoughtful essays to read (at least some of them), than half-illegible panicky essays trying to fit the kitchen sink in there, to the detriment of synthesis of the information. For the profs worth beans, it's not about scaring the crap out of students or screwing with their grades for sheer numbers' sake, it's about creating the opportunity to show their insights and depth of absorption of the material. [/ex-prof mode]

Originally Posted by oldivor But it's so easy and the gui looks nice! Not that there's anything wrong with that...