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I have lost so many people to cancer, some closer than others. And have had two biopsies myself (hoping that 3 ain't a fix!). I am so pleased that your Dad has had an early diagnosis, and sincerely hope that all ends up ok.
On a positive note I socialise with, or have worked with, survivors of cancer - they all had early diagnoses and the treatments worked because of that. Positive thoughts.
Another thought - I don't send Christmas cards, instead, in lieu of spending it on cards, we donate a sum of money to Cancer Research (in my case UK but there are equivalents in many countries) ... a fixed sum for everyone that my immediate family has lost. To be honest, it's getting expensive these days. But I would rather pay out that way than waste money on commercialism. And it's working ... there are as many survivors now as there are deaths. Research will work!
For the others that may read this - I encourage you all to donate in some way, small or large, to research into Cancer. #cancersucks (that was the polite one)
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Thank You for the words of encouragement! Great idea about the donations! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Don't apologise, just stand up tall and say proudly "Feck you Cancer! Feck You! And feck all your forms!"
veni bibi saltavi
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Speaking as a granfather, I think that dying that close to one another saves a lot of pain. I know a number of widows and widowers, and the loss of their partners weighs heavily on them.
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Do jokes about unemployed people just not work?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I guess it's a kinda payless business
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That was cheap!
Life is too shor
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You should just lay off those people, they didn't do anything to you!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: they didn't do anything to you!
They also didn't do anything FOR him!
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You know what they say about workers - "Lay off today, resume tomorrow".
/ravi
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Some workers have the patience of Job.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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But too much patience can be an occupational hazard.
/ravi
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That would not be kOSHA.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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 D'ole!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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You got everyone fired up, but ultimately, the replies to your thought seem redundant.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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That is pretty cool. 
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Pretty sure that sequence was an APOD at some point.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: just speak UTC on the wire. DST concerns should be the domain of the presentation UI local to clients.
The last project I worked on was as a sub group of our home office (in USA) development team. I had endless arguments about this, and could never convince the 'mercans (whose country spans multiple timezones) that UTC made more sense than local. In fact our system designer seemed to think that if your company was located close to the edge of a timezone your measuring of time would somehow be different from the people in the middle. It's a bit like the daily questions in a certain forum concerning the use of strings to calculate the difference between times.
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Where in the US? If they're close enough to me, I've got a LART and am not afraid to use it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well they are right on the edge of the timezone so you will never catch them.
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If it was internal/proprietary I'd just walk to the next cube and apply my LART until I got my point across or my arm got tired; but the abortion I'm swearing as is an induhstry standerp. Someone somewhere in the cluster elephant should've been able to tell the EE's to go back to their soldering irons and let the software people write the spec details.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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