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Given our economy, they probably are as well.
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That is because Piers sank a long time ago.
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Well, have a cake[^] anyway!
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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Helicopter is due here in ~4 hours. Looking forward to getting home. Feel sorry for the guys still stuck offshore because of the helicopter ditching a last week! We have only been impacted slightly due to having a different type of aircraft, so schedules been shifted by a couple of hours which I can live with.
Can't wait to get home and open up the ultrabook and probably find eveything I have coded for the competition using simulation, doesn't work! It is going to be a fun filled adventure no doubt.
Still waiting to here if the Audi has been fixed. Been with the garage now 5 weeks! - scared of the what the bill is going to be.
The Merc is in the bodyshop getting the bumper resprayed today, the misses dropped it off on Saturday, so should get it back Thursday morning. At least I'm not paying for that.
Kids went back to school yesterday after their two week tattie holidays, so at least the house will be quiet and empty when I go home (at least until about 4pm).
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Safe flight mate and have a large drink or six when you get home!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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I hope nothing crashes.
Not your computer, not your car, and certainly not your helicopter.
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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[ ^]
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It's a little blowy here in Toronto and we're expecting 100kmh gusts overnight (though it seems we've already had a few close to that). Hearing a few bangs as things fly about, but in general we're well out of the way of the serious stuff.
Anyone closer to the path? You holding tight? Must be a little noisy right now.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It's no big deal. You can hear the wind howl but as you can see the power is still on and it's pretty much right on top of us.
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Looks like there is no more internet connection on its way...
Seulement, dans certains cas, n'est-ce pas, on n'entend guère que ce qu'on désire entendre et ce qui vous arrange le mieux... [^]
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With close to a million people without power, we're probably missing a few members tonight, but according to CNN the actual casualties are still fairly low; let's hope it stays that way!
Which leads to another thought I had tonight, while reflecting on the fact that my email server is located in New York. Now that we're becoming more accustomed to having online relationships with people who we've never met, and these are often replacing real, eye-to-eye relationships, we need to come to grips with the fact that some of these people will simply disappear. I once calculated and posted the fact that, statistically, something on the order of 63 of our members will die each day, and we'll hear nothing about it. How will that affect our expectations for "real" relationships? I can think of a number of long-term impacts on the way we deal with relationships, none of them very desirable. Any thoughts?
We might as well discuss something while the power is out...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: We might as well discuss something while the power is out...
yeah - so why not death 
There's relationships and acquaintances. Members at CP come and go, and speaking for myself I don't mourn those that leave - and they may as well be dead. (some return from the grave, and some of them I'm pleased about, others I wish had stayed dead) but it's not like people you know and have real relationships with...
Those that do have real relationships that go beyond the type of casual CPmanship, I think would deal with the disappearance in the same way they would IRL - because they have forged real relationships; that said, hopefully if those relationships are real, then the other party is unlikely to just go offline without a mutter, in the same way someone is unlikely to just walk out of your life and disappear.
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The number's probably less than 63/day due to our demographic being generally young(ish), but yes.
Of those here, who would have a loved one post a message saying "au revoir" for the person that's shuffled off this mortal coil?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I actually have that written in instructions (not a formal will) to my closest friend, along with some other final wishes for her to carry out, if she will. I once, years ago, had a deadman switch rigged on my server to make some final postings on various sites, and delete a number of personal files that no one has any need to see, but I removed it. It's just a bit too scary to have something like that around, waiting to fire accidentally.
Will Rogers never met me.
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when I played WoW hardcore, we had a guild member from China that was an awesome player and all around nice guy. One day he simply stopped logging in. It was about two years after that that I quit playing, and in those two years we never heard a peep from him. Was saddening to wonder what had happened and to know that we would probably never find out.
I'm beginning to hate the news...the world was much nicer when I was illiterate
Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow.
You can't scare me, I have children.
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I'm in Johnstown pa. Sandy's expected to turn north somewhere east of here. The rain's currently trying to melt the layer of sleet that fell earlier off my car's windshield. It's not supposed to go below freezing overnight; so hopefully that mess'll be gone before I have to leave for work.
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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Devastation! See pic of damage here[^]
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Ho. My. God. !!
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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If you are looking for guy who was on that chair, I suggest you should look somewhere near Canadian border...
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Sandy was HR lady at my old company, but I was never close to her... if that you were asking.
On the other side Stack Overflow relocated their servers from NYC.
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Who is sandy ? is he an artist from Indonesia ?
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My next door neighbour is called Sandy.
She's a little odd, and can be annoying at times, but pleasant enough and yet to cause any damage.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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I was lucky. Some rain and wind. Not as bad as Irene was to us last year.
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Aside from the storm surge (~20 foot rise in water) I don't get why this storm was so hyped up. People in Florida (that see cat5's) must be confused at the coverage. This was hardly even a hurricane when it reached land. I think the hype is regarding the size of it. The Western edge is about to reach Chicago, with winds gusting (~30mph) before it.
It is getting annoying that every weather event in NYC makes national news (low power hurricanes, small blizzards).
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Keep in mind that, back on the East coast, they close everything for 2" of snow. I used to get a laugh out of that every time Washington, DC closed for a tiny storm, while I was driving to work down a mountain covered with 4' of the stuff and thinking nothing of it.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Glad not living in NYC. Traffic is going to be a realy mess for months with the subway out.
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