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It takes me a bit to parallel park. Don't have a lot of practice as most of my parking is done in lots these days. I do remember my driving test, though. I was frightened by the prospect of having to parallel park for the exam, and sure enough the tester did indeed ask me to parallel park...
On an empty street, between two driveways. 
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In my case, the instructor asked me to imagine there are two cars and told me to park in between them 
I tried hard, not to hit the imaginary car and succeeded too.
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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As invasive and somewhat creepy I find Google Now's attempt to understand my life, I also find it mostly useful (and fascinating) especially for flight reminders.
This morning I took one second to quickly check my phone and then put it back into sleep, then, wait, what?
For a split second it seemed like a Google death threat, or a scheduled event I'd rather not know of. The thought cracked me up, thinking of movies like A.I, Matrix, and basically any robot apocalypse, so I thought I'd share.
clickety[^]
The word "Die" translates to "The" in English.
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And your reminder about Google Now reminded me to get started with it again. I had to reset my phone this morning, without an auto-restore, also courtesy of Google, because I suspect some app somewhere was guzzling all my prepaid data.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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MatthysDT wrote: The word "Die" translates to "The" in English.
We know that!
We're all educated men, who watch the Simpsons!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Some of us even wondered why Bob would use the feminine die to refer to Bart, instead of the masculine der. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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There seems to be a raft of one line questions today, all starting "How can I ...", that appear to be written by a bunch of 10-year olds. Although that is an insult to my 10-year old grandson who designs and builds vehicles, buildings, aircraft etc, and makes movies of them (using Lego of course) but he does all the work largely unaided.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: using Lego of course
Ahh that takes me back to the time I was doing nothing else but building stuff with lego and lego technics.
Wonderful time 
*goes off in a day dream *
Tom
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What, Last Tuesday?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I so wish that where true.
I still have all the lego technics tho, I might have found something to do this weekend
Tom
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To be fair, I wouldn't actual mind answering these Q&A if they were submitted by 10 year olds, it the fact they are 18+ that gets my goat
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: questions today, all starting "How can I ...", that appear to be written by a bunch of 10-year olds.
The level of sophistication has improved.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
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It actually is, at least for me.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Everybody know me! I am "Muerte"!
Which movie ?
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The Life and Death of ...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Final Destination
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Charlie Bronson in Messenger of Death[^]? 
I don't quite remember, because I don't think Debbie was in that one...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Don't call me Mortie. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
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J: Well, hi Morty, my name is Jeff.
M: No, is Muerte - for death!
And also:
M: My name is Morty, my name is Morty.
J: Muerte..
M: I'll kill you.
I watch this movie about twice a year and it always cracks me up
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Me, this morning when i fell down the stairway 
still hurts everywhere, my face looks like i sh*t today, hope no one asks me at work
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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I would answer but I am BLUE today.
Great movie by the way.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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"The French Typo"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just started learning about Analytics, and here is a thought.
Among the many things we are now able to predict reasonably well, a few are:
- the taste of wine, without ever tasting it,
- the results of a baseball team,
- the risk of coronary heart disease (?).
Now, the question:
Can we predict the headlines in tomorrow's newspaper?
Most likely, the answer is 'no'. Does this mean that the number of variables is too too large, and finding relationships between them is next to impossible?
Your thoughts?
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An almost sensible answer -
The taste of wine depends on environmental variables
A baseball team is well a team and groups of teams are reasonably predictably
Heart condition can be determined and is influenced by environmental variables.
Tomorrows headlines are the whim of a single person, the editor and therefore are less predictable. However as a caveat, some papers are so consistent the quality of the headline is entirely predictable!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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...get your coat let me know... 
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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