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My bad. I got the books mixed up I guess. I thought that was your book - probably because I bought that one and The Career Programmer at the same time.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Apress sent me Hank's book back then and I loved the title. Career Programmer is mine, as is Unite the Tribes. Haven't settled on a name for the other new one yet.
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Photography.
Writing.
Golf. (The creative part is coming up with reasons as to why I played so badly).
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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The few times I've played golf it was pretty much a break even game. I found as many balls as I lost.
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Rock-n-roll baby!
I need to update the page but this gives you a good idea.
https://soundcloud.com/stoodwalk[^] (The good stuff is further down.)
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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\m/ 
Fun stuff, man.
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I guess I fall under "other strange creatures of the night." I do comedy, mostly improv. I got paid $5 once for a show.
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That's not only creative, it makes you the bravest one in the herd.
I've stood on stage in biker bars where we would have paid good money for chicken wire, and that's still not as scary to me as doing stand up.
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Hmmm...
Guitar. Designing electrical substations and power lines. Designing and building various useful wood and metal objects. Landscaping. Decorating pigeons with red-tipped darts. Creating decorative arrays of different sized holes in paper targets using assorted high powered paper punches at long and short ranges. Drawing pictures of things I will never have the time or money to build.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Eloquent, as always. And you must have gone to a helluva decorating school. 
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Hehehe... My decorating skills are all home grown, not acquired from any school other than the one with the hard knocks.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I shoot fireworks. I'm a licensed pyrotechnician and have recently moved into fireworks choreography. I've been licensed for 13 years and have worked on the Red, White, and Boom show in Columbus, OH for the last 11.
I'd say it is a blast but that would be a silly play on words.
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Jason Gleim wrote: fireworks choreography
Oh, that's definitely going in the book.
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If you are interested, you can see the simulation of a show I designed for a contest in May that was part of Pyrofest outside of Pittsburgh, PA. It had to be 8 to 10 minutes, our original work, and the budget under $10K. It was actually pretty challenging. http://www.finalefireworks.com/node/1219417[^]
I didn't win... came in 2nd... but still had a great time. It takes a lot of creativity to develop a soundtrack and then design the looks that you are going to put into the sky. I don't see it as much different than other creative outlets... just a lot more transient and probably louder. Still, it is a pretty big rush to work on a show and then hear 500K people cheer for your work when the last of the finale goes off. 
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That's incredibly cool, man. Although it makes sense, it never occurred to me that thee would be visualization software for pyrotechnics. I particularly liked the shift when California Girls hit, and the report punches on How You Like Me Now.
I'm in the process of putting together a new band with a computerized light show, and what you're doing is very much like designing lighting. Except yours goes bang.
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S u n s h i n e wrote: They thought they could stop the train by standing on the tracks
Just pile enough people on the track and eventually it'll work
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Because less stupidity is not a tragedy
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Or neither,
I am guessing that these kind of "silly" and grave mob attacks are a sign of the rise of Anarchism [^]as a global "power".
It is a paradox that paradoxes would actually exist in reality.
That means of course that they don't exist.
However, they do!
∫(Edo )dx = Tzumer
∑k( this.Kid) k = this. ♥
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The accident was tragic, but perhaps the stupidity of the response was more so.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Neither. Their aim was to stop the train and that Train looks stopped to me. I think the word to describe it is 'Success'.
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Both 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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S u n s h i n e wrote: Unbelievable. They thought they could stop the train by standing on the tracks? Looks like they've been watching too many movies.
It's not like we don't have our share of elephanting morons who get their cars smashed trying to cross before a train because they delude themselves into thinking it can break as fast as their car.
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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