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I have to make sure I have happy daughters as well. Life's hard. 
speramus in juniperus
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Could be worse. They could run off with musicians. 
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~10 years before that's even remotely possible.
speramus in juniperus
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That's okay. Go ahead and buy the shotgun anyway. You can never have too many marksmanship skills.
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Rifle. Shotguns are sort of a "point-in-the-general-direction" kind of thing as far as marksmanship goes.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Good heavens, man. Who ever heard of a "rifle wedding?"
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True  . I was just bemused at the notion of marksmanship with a shotgun.
Software Zen: delete this;
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True enough. However, it's somewhat related to my personal definition of marksmanship when it comes to handguns. I'm much more accurate with a 15 round clip than I am with a 10. I mean, sooner or later one of them's bound to hit the target, right? 
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Christopher Duncan wrote: I'm much more accurate with a 15 round clip than I am with a 10
I figure 6 rounds is good enough. If I can't stop her in six shots, I deserve to be raped.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I should know better than to drink coffee while reading your replies. Excuse me for a moment while I get something to clean the monitor with.
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There's a joke in there about shooting blanks, but I'm arsed (as our UK friends would say) if I can figure it out.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Kids are growing up earlier now a days.
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Most excellent! I suspect your wife is quite happy about being your wife. 
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Isn't this close to "I like writing so the solution is to buy my book and read about how I like writing...."
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I'm usually pretty good at circular logic, but that one leaves me dizzy.
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Two blondes are walking in the countryside. Suddenly they both fall into a hole and they can't get out.
The first blonde starts to shout: "Help!! Help!!" It does not seem to work, no help is coming.
She shouts again: "Help!!! Help!!", but still there is no help.
The second blonde says: "It might help if we shout together."
The first blonde then shouts: "Together!! Together!!"
[I'll see myself out]
speramus in juniperus
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A blonde goes into a New York City bank to get a loan for $5,000.00.
The Loan Officer asked for collateral, as the blonde doesn't seem to have much of a credit history and, thus, a low credit score.
The blonde offers her new 2013 Cadillac Escalade, >$50k in price.
The Loan Officer checks it out and, sure enough, it's good collateral and proceeds to provide the loan and takes the keys, noting it'll be parked in the Bank's secure underground parking area until the loan is paid in full.
A few days later the Bank's Loan Director, doing her weekly review of various loans, spots this loan. Perplexed, she digs in and discovers that this gal is a millionaire. She instructs her staff to direct the gal to her office when she comes in next time.
Sure enough, 2 weeks later the blonde gal comes back in, and she's redirected to the Loan Director.
The blonde wants to pay off the loan and asked what the payoff amount is. The Loan Director states it's $5,014.39, to which the blonde pays it in full and gets her keys back.
With much curiosity, the Loan Director inquired, "Permit me to ask a question."
The blonde says, "Sure, ask away."
Loan Director, "I hope you don't mind, but we do a little research on random loans and I noticed that you live in New Jersey and you are a millionaire. Curious, why did you need a loan for $5,000.00?"
To which the blonde replies, "Simple. It's the only place I can securely park my vehicle for 2 weeks in New York City for $14.39!"
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Ohh this is too muc, this is the ultimate Bad Joke.
One more thing stop calling it BJOTD if you you don't post a joke everyday.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: [I'll see myself out]
No need. We're happy to have you escorted.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A little rant against my school's policy on failing students (and pairing them with good ones).
I'm currently studying software engineering, I'm in my second year, and now we've got to do a project.
There's nothing wrong with the project itself but there is with the person I'm doing the project with.
The programming language is Java, which we learned in our first year, and he failed his exams twice.
You're allowed to fail for a few subjects if you pass them in your second year and he's doing them at the end of the second year.
This is my problem. I have to complete a project with a team member that lacks the necessary skills. He's not great with UML (the second thing he failed for) and he's dyslexic which means I can't put him on documentation duty.
The teacher (which is supposed to guide us)a said I'll just have to teach him because such situations also happen in 'real life'. Isn't teaching their job?
Nonetheless, I have tried to take his advice but I can't get my team mate to understand OOP concepts.
This isn't the first time I've been in this situation but I do want it to be the last.
So, what should I do? Ask another teacher's opinion? Make the project alone and hope for the best?
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nbgangsta wrote: The teacher (which is supposed to guide us)a said I'll just have to teach him because such situations also happen in 'real life'.
If you turn in a passing project and this guy gets credit the work force gets another dope with a degree.
Maybe you should find a different school - or drop the class and take it again somewhere else.
It doesn't sound like a school interested in excellence.
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You're passing judgment on the school based on one instructor?
I ran the Computer Science department at a local private college for 2 years, and I had 14 instructors. Some were good, some were not.
This could very well be an issue with the instructor. To recommend that he change schools because of one issue seems a bit drastic.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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The instructions from the instructor are so bad that I've a hard time accepting the idea that someone can pass off that advice without it being a policy of some sort. Sure, take it to the dean and if he gives the same "it's the real world" advice take your money elsewhere - because, that too happens in the real world.
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The difference is that he's PAYING for this education. The school is a business, and he's the customer. Deal with it like any other business complaint - take it to management.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Kevin Marois wrote: The difference is that he's PAYING for this education. The school is a business,
and he's the customer.
That wouldn't seem to be the case in the US. In the standard institution getting rid of tenured professor is basically impossible. And in larger institutions an individual student is a trivial participant in the economics. The larger schools make a great deal of money from governments, companies, donations, sales, etc all of which a single complaint about a the process of a professor is unlikely to ever even be seen. And a student leaving is a trivial event given often there are waiting lists for admissions and the drop out rates are so high.
It is however possible to get some action if more than one person complains. But, again noting the tenure of a professor and other classes they might teach, one might want to be sure that they really want to fight the good fight before challenging the one that hands out the grades.
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