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Who would run cable at ground level, outdoors, without enclosing it in conduit? That's just asking for trouble. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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It is an enclosed cable, yet our gnawing friend still got through it. Sparky will be replacing it with something a wee bit more robust.
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Excellent! I recommend galvanized steel encased in concrete slurry. Rats are persistent, and have really weird appetites! 
We don't have them here, but rabbits and ground squirrels fill the niche. Rabbits will destroy anything you try to grow, while the squirrels will gnaw anything you wire. What's left, the pigeons crap on, and we're not allowed to kill them. Go figure...
Will Rogers never met me.
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First you say...
Roger Wright wrote: Rats are persistent, and have really weird appetites!
We don't have them here,
...but then you mention...
but rabbits and ground squirrels fill the niche. Rabbits will destroy anything you try to grow, while the squirrels will gnaw anything you wire. What's left, the pigeons crap on
...which sound a lot like cotton tailed dirt rats, bushy tailed tree rats, and winged rats. 
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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Make the most of it.
How many times in your life will you get to say "You're the dirty rat who killed my outhouse!" and mean it?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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@Marc-Cliftonn is now Owner at Higher Order Programming...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Ah at last, a Silver Bullet! 
Life is too shor
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He can sod off for all I care! Doesn't accept my requests on LinkedIn so he's history to me. 
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Doesn't accept my requests on LinkedIn so he's history to me.
I DID accept the invite the minute I received it! Then again, I did it on my phone which probably screwed it up, so give me a sec to do it again from my laptop...
Marc
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Your profile on LinkedIn may be a bit too serious, so Marc can't recognize you
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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They let you join LinkedIn? I joined long before they had any membership standards, but I thought we'd got mo selective since.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I just realized that I already connected to you in LinkedIn without knowing that it is you!
I accepted your request out of politeness, without knowing who the man is!
Maybe the NV-NW thing, but no mention of gin there!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Huh, I didn't know CP supported the @ tag thing.
I keep vacillating between "Owner" and "Chief Architect". Stupid LI doesn't let me change it to Chief Architect though.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Huh, I didn't know CP supported the @ tag thing.
Me either. Tag me, tag me. I want to see what it does.
Test drive... @Marc-Clifton
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Me either. Tag me, tag me. I want to see what it does.
@Jeremy-Falcon is an awesome dude.
Marc
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Didn't do anything for me. We broke CP!
Jeremy Falcon
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That because Marc enclosed the @ inside (unvisible) quotation marks...@ works only in plain text...You need more than that to broke CP
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Good catch. So what happens when you're tagged then? You up for tagging me?
@KornfeldEliyahuPeter
Jeremy Falcon
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I get an email from you and now I can sell it for spammers 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Marc's latest enlightenment is always fascinating; I congratulate him !
cheers, Bill
« There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. » Salvador Dali
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Hearty Congrats Sir Marc...::
Reach Heights..
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Yes, on 13th Oct 2004 I woke up and didn't have a cigarette - and I haven't had one since.
OK, there was a lot more to it than that: I'm not going to pretend it was simple and effortless. Even with the patches I found it difficult.
When I started, everyone smoked: you could hardly see across the programmers office most days (Heck, you could hardly see across the car if Mum and Dad were both in it for a long journey).
So how many of you do still smoke?
Cigarettes, or eCigs?
If you don't, then did you ever? Or when did you give up?
I'm just being a nosy person, that's all!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's been 9 years for me. It was tough at first but haven't had the urge since.
You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
The Theory of Gravity was invented for the sole purpose of distracting you from investigating the scientific fact that the Earth sucks.
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I gave up around this time of year, 14 years ago.
2nd best decision I ever made.
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I do smoke on occasion, mostly when I feel really bad for a long time.
For me it was always just cigarettes, but always when I quit I have the worst week and that is why I am very
reluctant to start again.
I started in high school and always had these times of smoking a lot or not smoking at all. The longest I smoked regularly
was about 6 months a few years back. Woke up one day and I have had enough of it so I quit. It wasn't easy but I managed.
Haven't smoked at all for about 10 months now. But I have also dealt with some things that were bothering me in the past
so I find it easier not to smoke. In addition I have other obsessions that make smoking something at the back of my to do list.
Also congratulations on not smoking for ten years 
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