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Being a member of Code project and learning from the experts here surely makes me happy. That is part of what makes me happy to belong and to welcome. 
Thanks Code project Team.
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man or woman.”
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JSOP might actually quote The Beatles on this one.
Me, I just like to do what I find fun. If other people like or appreciate it, that's great. My hobbies satisfy this for me, and most of them I get to do with my fiancee or friends or even my pets. I think there is more than a coincidence there.
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True happiness is not having to worry about whether you're happy.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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A paycheck instead of a pink slip 
Steve
_________________
I C(++) therefore I am
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Ear plugs.
http://www.ohropax.de/[^]
So freakin' tired of trying to concentrate while surrounded by fund managers blathering in five different languages (not including various dialects of Swiss German). My brain is my own again.
Sigh of relief.
I too dabbled in pacifism once.
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I could use that. Spring's taking its toll and my collegues are all whistling and singing around me. Nice that they are happy, but it isn't exactly helping my concentration... 
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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Johnny J. wrote: Spring's taking its toll
And the women are wearing skirts and tank tops which doesn't help my concentration either. But I don't mind.
Look at me still talking when there's science to do
When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you
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Got someone in the office who insists on tapping his feet loudly every now and then, not to mention multiple cellphones ( all his ) ringing and beeping all day.
Sometimes 
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Mario Luis wrote: multiple cellphones ( all his ) ringing and beeping all day.
He's obviously a drug dealer. Snitch to CrimeStoppers, there might be a reward. It's a win, win opportunity.
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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Good for you. Some time ago I posted about my painful work environment. We relocated and its good now. My feeling is that employers that are so insensitive to the engineers' needs should be severely punished...
This[^] comes spontaneously to mind.
Life is too shor
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Whoa, take it easy Vlad! 
[EDIT] I once saw a movie about impalement - think the main character was called Debbie. Found it quite interesting [/EDIT]
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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Was Dallas mentioned anywhere?
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I prefer music - music that is louder than the wired voices inside my head.
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Either music or using a youtube player extension for firefox I like to watch videos while I work. Documentaries are good like Battle 360, Lost Evidence, anything with Brian Cox, Jim al Khalil, Louis Theroux or anything about Ernest Shackleton. I try to avoid Family Guy, South Park, Drawn Together etc. because I inevitably end up laughing so much that the tea I'm drinking comes out of my nose and wrecks my keyboard.
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jim lahey wrote: I try to avoid Family Guy, South Park, Drawn Together etc. because I inevitably end up laughing so much that the tea I'm drinking comes out of my nose and wrecks my keyboard.
ALOL...
I too dabbled in pacifism once.
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jim lahey wrote: Either music or using a youtube player extension for firefox I like to watch videos while I work.
How did people pretend to work before computers? Like right now, for instance, it looks like I am feverishly coding something brilliant. Hahahahaha.
I guess people had to doodle, but then there was evidence left behind. I just have to close my brow
Look at me still talking when there's science to do
When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you
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My first ever job was working for HM Customs & Excise at the cargo terminal of Birmingham Airport.
My job was to file all the paperwork, they generated a lot as there was very little in the way of computers.
The filing room was half the building and had those large cabinets you moved around by winding a handle to get access to the correct bits.
It had been taking the previous person a whole day to do the filing and there was something of a backlog when I started.
Within a week I had it down to an hour, maybe two on a busy day.
When I reported this I was told to drag it back out to the full day or they'd lose the funding for the extra post.
So I spent my days reclined in the filing room with the radio on. It was very peaceful, but spectacularly boring before very long at all.
As no-one ever came in and there were no windows through to the office or any public areas everyone simply pretended they didn't know.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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"Switzerdeutsch isn't a language, it's a throat infection."
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Heard it once...
I too dabbled in pacifism once.
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I have earplugs and am getting a set of noise-cancelling headphones, but I think that the real solution is for the people who work in open plan offices to just STFU and show some consideration for the people around them who might not want to hear their foot tapping, whistling, stapler bashing, humming, shouted phone conversations and flatulence from 30 feet away.
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viaducting wrote: flatulence
Hearing it is one thing... but then you have the silent smelly ones... 
Alberto Bar-Noy
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“The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!”
(C3PO)
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Alberto Bar-Noy wrote: you have the silent smelly ones
I certainly do!
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Alberto Bar-Noy
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“The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!”
(C3PO)
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Interesting how this bothers some people a lot more than others. I'm in a relatively loud open plan office and I can just zone in on my work and let it pass me by, unless there's an interesting conversation to jump into.
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Mel Padden wrote: So freakin' tired of trying to concentrate while surrounded by fund managers blathering in five different languages (not including various dialects of Swiss German). My brain is my own again.
I had to work like that for about a year. So happy not to have to deal with that. I have a decently loud workplace now, but it's mostly the database people. Brokers and fund managers? No thank you. Every day it was like a scene out of Glengarry Glenn Ross[^]. I used headphones and earplugs (nice ones I use for shooting), I still do use them here occasionally, but it's not as bad.
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