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How many people here are having theirs via Zoom? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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When they had them in an open bar they rented for the afternoon through early evening, I had the glorious pleasure of being assigned as the photographer. We're talking 300-400 shots/hour in a crowded bar full of drunks wanting their photos taken in groups that keep adding people one by one as they see what's going on - ad nauseam. Often people who shunned their image being captured when sober - and one Fat Mother-F***er senior manager even threatening my job if I took his picture and etc. etc. etc. A few years ago I stopped going.
Also, there was no vegetarian friendly food so I went hungry whilst everyone else partied and fed. My alcohol capacity is low so we're looking at a few beers (although did get some damn good beer a few times).
So, this year I won't go to the party they're not having, either. Hopefully the holiday bonu$ is still forthcoming (typically 1 wks pay).
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No parties here, we are just computer monks slaving away in isolation 
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Obligatory xkcd: Christmas Plans 
Does that make Christmas a moveable feast?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Holy Halloweenerschnitzel!
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AFAIK we're just not having one. The Zoom happy hours they tried in March/April were poorly attended; and that was that.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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nope, small bonus, no party, perfect!
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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I see my laptop crashing in the near future. It should take me a couple of hours to find the power button. 
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Guilty.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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a huge waist of space?
“Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.”
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Sometimes I have trouble stomaching your comments.
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At the rate of expansion how long will it be before the belt needs to be let out?
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Mike Hankey wrote: the belt needs to be let out
They can't let it out any more until they make another star... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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By definition a metal pillar cannot be a monolith.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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You are of course right: monolith= single rock (Ancient Greek: μόνος (monos) single, λίθος (lithos) rocky).
Goes to show even reputable joint like BBC have (semi)illiterate journalists ( Utah monolith: Has the mysterious metal object disappeared?[^]). In the words of Paul Simon: "...the man ain't got no culture"
Mircea
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: In the words of Paul Simon: "...the man ain't got no culture"
Is that better or worse than, "the only culture he has is lactobacillus acidophilus"?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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That's another culture
Quote: I knew a man, his brain was so small
He couldn't think of nothing at all
Not the same as you and me
He doesn't dig poetry
He's so unhip that when you say Dylan
He thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas
Whoever he was
The man ain't got no culture
But it's alright, ma, everybody must get stoned
Do you want to start "culture wars" here?
Mircea
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We have enough germ warfare going on as it is.
"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?"
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There is no good way to store good SQL queries for future use.
Just, no good way. 
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I keep a text file of 'em: "GoodSQLQueries.txt" it's called.
It's easy to copy'n'paste 'em when I need 'em. Or just use an SP.
What's the problem?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Well, I have something like that too, but it's difficult to find the right one amidst all of the other chaff.
I wish there was a way to categorize them or something like that. And don't offer me the idea of making sections in my text file, cuz i'm lazy (of course -- I'm a dev).
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I have sections in my text file ... because I'm lazy ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: I have sections in my text file ... because I'm lazy ...
That made me laugh too.
I would like:
1) way to pick tables and fields (returned in query)
2) have notes that remind me what the query does
3) have a good way to find them again -- this wouldn't be easy to do
I end up saving large SQL text files all over the place and then later searching through them and it takes just about as long to find them as it does to just think it all out again.
I'm just wishing over here. It would be very difficult to really create a good organizer. I guess I'm even lazier than I thought. (which I didn't think was possible)
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Visual has/had a code snippets kind of thing. Maybe that could be adapted.
"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?"
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You can also set it up in the VS toolbox as boilerplate code to drag and drop into an app - I use it for boilerplate SQL access to be "tuned" for a specific purpose.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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