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Now that's really funny. Power cuts in the UK and in the US while South Africa enjoys uninterrupted power. What next?
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Any thing to do with Halloween day?
All-Hallows-Even
"Never put off until run time what you can do at compile time."
- David Gries, in "Compiler Construction for Digital Computers", circa 1969.
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That is not the right answer, try again.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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dalekdavesmask
Hot article follows us - dalek (they are always chasing people, and have a hot blaster)
uncle at home with a short cut - dave (You might have nephews, and you've got a short haircut in your profile picture)
it heats one at first - mask (makes your face hot)
may cause distress this evening - you never know, it might fall off ... 
(This is an 'I ain't got a clue' response.... AllHallowsEven was my guess as well).
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When I was young, you were told not to accept sweets from strangers. Now children demand sweets from strangers, with menaces. 
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It's madness isn't it...
All year round, "Don't talk to strangers, don't accept sweets from Strangers, don't go out by yourself after dark etc..."
October 31st "Go knock on strangers doors asking for sweets, in the dark".
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In a few weeks Google will be retiring Google Buzz.
3D Lively (DEAD), Orkut (ALMOST DYING), Google Buzz (TIME TO SAY BYE-BYE), Google+
Google has tried many stuff to compete with Facebook and Twitter. Lets see what happens next!
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don't forget Google Wave...
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Yeah, Google Wave was showcased as a ray of hope for network admins, which was supposed to reduce mail exchange personal disk quota usage...
Regards,
Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji
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We did it! After 3 months of spending every weekend working on a 1992 Ford Taurus that has been sitting, non-operational, in the desert for at least 4 years, we got it to move under its own power tonight. My favorite lady is an awesome mechanic, owning nearly as many tools as I do, and though there's work yet to be done, It's Alive! 
I suspected a blown head gasket from the symptoms she reported, but once I cracked it open, I found not only a bad gasket, but a cracked cylinder head on the other side. I got her new (reconditioned) heads, a gasket set for the top end, and she had the intake manifold hot-tanked to clear out the scale left behind when some idiot used Stop Leak in the radiator. Once it was put together we tried starting it, but had no spark. I grabbed my fancy, old Tektronix 465/DM44 oscilloscope out of the closet to chase down the ignition pulses and found that the TFI module on the distributor wasn't operating, so we replaced that. Finally the damned thing started and I could do a little rough timing on it. The motor sounded good, but it sprang water leaks all over once it warmed up, and the temperature climbed at an alarming rate. It also was spewing exhaust from the connection between the catalytic converter and the exhaust manifolds. A little investigation proved that the lead donuts usually used as a gasket there were completely missing, so I replaced them. We replaced the radiator and the water pump, both of which were squirting water like fountains, and she bypassed a leaking steel heater hose with a rubber hose. It still leaks a tiny bit around the water pump, but I think I can fix that by re-torquing the mounting bolts. Being in the desert, you can imagine what the rubber parts looked like; we replaced them, all the belts and hoses. All the plumbing fixed, we started it again and it absolutely hums. I'll teach it the lyrics later.
But we still had the problem of the temperature climbing rapidly. We've both been crawling around junkyards to locate needed items, and she found a fan assembly that fit perfectly, so I installed that today. Problem solved. There was no key for the trunk, and the lock was damaged, so we removed the back seat to access the trunk and removed the damaged lock. I replaced that today, as well. But while we were in there, we found a perfectly serviceable spare tire, which we mounted in place of the one with no sidewall left. Denise topped off all the tires and, there being nothing major left to do, started it up and backed it off the concrete pad we've been using for a garage. It wasn't easy, since at first the transaxle wouldn't engage, but adding a couple of quarts of transmission fluid got it going. She worked it back and forth, made a couple of turns, but found that the transaxle would grab and fail, owing I think to a lack of a full charge of fluid. So we parked it, and next week I plan to replace the tranny screen filter and all the fluid. I think that will solve the problem, and she'll finally have a car to drive!
Time for a drink, I believe...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I believe it's about the adventure not the object... 
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.
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The correct question is, is she worth it? The answer is, yes, no matter what it costs. 
I know that I could have saved time and money by simply buying her a used car that runs well, but this is HER car, and it used to go, and then it didn't. I've fixed that, and that makes it worth it.
Will Rogers never met me.
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The modern version of dragging a freshly dead mountain lion back to her cave, I believe. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Exactly!
Will Rogers never met me.
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I am just amazed a 20 year old saloon could be worth $3000. At that price it is worth fixing up.
In the UK you wouldnt think twice about it, just throw it away and get another one. 
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Nothing to say.
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Is that the price for a car in "poor" condition?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Is that the price for a car in "poor" condition?
Look at the pics, do they look poor? No, its a decent car, no rust, years MOT, 160k miles on the clock (cars will run to 200+ k these days).
I got a 13 year old BMW a few years back form the UK, when I put it in for the MOT it passed first time. Didnt have to change anything,. It had done 170k miles. Suspension was good, shocks, wheel bearings, brakes, chassis, evrythiing was OK still.
You can get cheaper in the UK, The ford Mondeo for example, dead cheap, and a good car, they go on for ever, dont rust, dont f***up.
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Nothing to say.
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Roger Wright wrote: My favorite lady is an awesome mechanic, owning nearly as many tools as I do, ...
And there is also that pocket pencil knive of yours.
Bahh, I forgot she owns that too ...
Cheers!
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."
Ross Callon, The Twelve Networking Truths, RFC1925
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First I thought "Yeah... seen it last year", until I saw the strobes... 
Paul Watt wrote: I wonder how the neighbors feel about the strobe lights though
... or the cars passing by... or the toddlers makin' their "trick or treat"
PS: the kid @2:20 escaping the house...
(yes|no|maybe)*
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I wonder what kind of lights they're using that can produce so many colors. The only way that I can think of producing that effect is to string multiple LED light strings of different colors along each path, then select them with a MIDI sequencer. The cost of that would be amazingly huge!
Will Rogers never met me.
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He states in his description he's using RGB LED's this year, and 1,144 channels of control.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I bet the electricity company liked the whole jig the most.
They are going to raise a nice fat bill for this fellow at the start of the next payment cycle.
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