|
16/12/2020 (or 12/16/2020)
162 + 122 = 202
The last one was more than 3 years ago, 15/8/2017 (or 8/15/2017)
|
|
|
|
|
Seems like an omen.
Souvlaki should we do about it?
| Ravings en masse^ |
|---|
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
Amarnath S wrote: The last one was more than 3 years ago
Perhaps 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066 0631558817488152092096282925409171536436789259036001133053054882046652138414695194151160943305727036575959195309218611738193261179310511854807446237996274956735188575272489122793818301194912 years?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
|
|
|
|
|
for some reason your reply runs right of the page and off the monitor screen. 
|
|
|
|
|
Perhaps the hamsters wanted to sweep under the rug that I have calculated Pi to the last digit. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
|
|
|
|
|
Through the years, there has been a few T-shirts I regret that I never bought. One had a great pi symbol at the front and the first 2000 digits of pi on the back. If I see anything like that again, I would buy it with without hesitating even a second.
|
|
|
|
|
Amarnath S wrote: Pythagorean Theorem Day
'Right' on! 
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nice, very complementary.
"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
|
|
|
|
|
Nothing obtuse about that!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
|
|
|
|
|
Cosh!
Must be a sine of the times.
|
|
|
|
|
I made a widget for my employer's website - it contains something like 2700 quotes that (of course display randomly) sourced from all sorts of people and place. This one should be well appreciated here:
If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats. - Lemony Snicket
| Ravings en masse^ |
|---|
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
Good one! One of the articles I posted here a long, LONG time ago was a fortune viewer. I now have almost 2000 of them and I added that one to the list. Thanks. Several of the entries are statements made by users here.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
|
|
|
|
|
OK - here comes a shameless plug:
Google "Balboos" and click on "Balboos' Contemplation's & Such" (this route to improve SEO - this choice is almost always on top).
On the right side are Quotes I made up over the years. I would love to become famous for them and be able to do the (paid) Talk-Show Circuit". They change as you go down the list - everyone should find some "blah" and other better than "blah".
Or, if you looking for a direct link, below is "Ravings en mass
| Ravings en masse^ |
|---|
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
You made me dig up that twenty year old 'fortune' program, with its 55000+ lines fortune collection, finding a few season related pearls. Like this one, attributed to Dave Barry:
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews called it "Hanukka" and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say "Merry Christmas!" or "Happy Hanukka!" or (to the atheists) "Look out for the wall!"
I didn't find the one I was sure was there: Again, Dave Barry talking about the perfect gift - the Christmas fruitcake, so heavy that you would need a chopper to cut it. But you don't need to; none ever eats that stuff, but store it until next Christmas for use as a gift to another relative ...
I am sure that was in some Fortune database, but apparently not in the one I saved. If any of you dig up another old fortune base and find it in there, please tell me!
Another food related cookie (some serve it for Christmas):
Yeah, if it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck -- shoot it.
|
|
|
|
|
trønderen wrote: If any of you dig up another old fortune base and find it in there, ple
My table was not dug up. I would periodically go to Google famous people for their quotes and daisy chain from their to other related persona. Each one type in by hand if selected.
I had some (self-imposed) constraints since this was on a page for all employees to view/use/enjoy/ignore:
Nothing political in any partisan sense (comments about politics, in general, OK. The source could be Ronald Reagan or Vladimir Lenin).
Nothing religious in for any particular religion (although sources could be biblical, Talmudic, Vedic, Fortune Cookies, etc).
I had to like it.
Not a fortune cookie, but inspirations and chuckles.
| Ravings en masse^ |
|---|
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
fortune -m fruitcake says
(food)
%
You can always tell the Christmas season is here when you start getting
incredibly dense, tinfoil-and-ribbon- wrapped lumps in the mail. Fruitcakes
make ideal gifts because the Postal Service has been unable to find a way to
damage them. They last forever, largely because nobody ever eats them. In
fact, many smart people save the fruitcakes they receive and send them back
to the original givers the next year; some fruitcakes have been passed back
and forth for hundreds of years.
The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound
some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear safety glasses.
-- Dave Barry, "Simple, Homespun Gifts"
%
Any recent ubuntu, and probably most other linuxes....
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
|
|
|
|
|
 and people complain about Windows bloatware... 
|
|
|
|
|
Your description makes me realize just how much I'm not a professional pastry chef.
Using, instead, the scientific method, I inspected a fruitcake and determined they are made by staining block of wood to the desired color and then, when dry, soaking it in brine until it is further preserved, and finally, in warm pond water to make it swell. Then, simply paint the appropriate images of alleged dry fruit to decorate (like decorating a tree, really, but without all the leaves in the way).
Who'd have suspected anything to do with actual cake?
| Ravings en masse^ |
|---|
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
Sounds like good advice to me, allergies or not.
|
|
|
|
|
Petting a cat's belly - when you can get away with it.
Eating something somebody else made for you
Spending two days writing code on your PC only for it to compile and run without a hitch on an IoT device.
Real programmers use butterflies
|
|
|
|
|
Clearly, as it's not top of your list, you've not experienced "Trader Joe's Dunkers" and some good hot coffee. One of those things that make your third item truly rise to the occasion, or, alternatively, allows you to reward yourself for the deed.
| Ravings en masse^ |
|---|
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
We have a local grocer that makes wonderful doughnuts. I like them better than Trader Joe's personally, but YMMV.
Real programmers use butterflies
|
|
|
|
|
Trader Joe's Dunkers ARE NOT DONUTS !
They are chocolate chip cookies, oblong in design[^], that have the flavor and crunch of real cookies. They call them "Dunkers" because they are, by their shape, amenable to dunking - something which I personally disapprove of as crunch is a part of the multifaceted perceptual delight.
Before the soft cookies took over.
And before the commercial "big brands" started to taste of machine oil.
You can get regular Dunkers (as I do) or go for an oral orgasm with those that have the chocolate coated back.
| Ravings en masse^ |
|---|
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
Chocolate chip cookies in coffee is an abomination.
Real programmers use butterflies
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
