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Good one Ravi!
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Gads, that old thing is still around? It was a whole bunch longer and a bit funnier when I told it about 35 years ago.
Still, it's interesting to see how these things evolve (devolve?) over the decades. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I just paused to think what my life was 35 years ago and came up with these memories:
- Finishing up a degree in Physics and had no idea what I was going to do with it.
- Sad that the band I was in was about to break up.
- Was hacking analog hardware.
- Hadn't yet discovered software.
- Had hair to my shoulders.
- Sad to see many close friends leave India for grad school in the US and UK. (I didn't make the move until the next year).
- Social networking meant shaking hands and talking to people face to face.
- My trusty black-body motor-driven Nikon FM rarely left my side.
- I enjoyed smoking cigarettes.
- It rarely rained.
- I assumed I was invincible and would always be healthy.
/ravi
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I am working on getting a bit of Test Software working, which is written in a language I don't like using features that are dangerous (to say the least!). I have battled with the dodgy layout of the ini file which I'm not allowed to change, altered the layout of the fixture trying to be inline with mods done by the customer ('I just want a circuit diagram of how it stands now', 'right you are, here some poor photos from a phone'). I just have to fix another two issue and it possibly work! If you are going to change the layout of some hardware, please for the sake of the poor so and so who has to replicate it, keep some change log/diagram of what has happened to it. 
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glennPattonWork wrote: If you are going to change the layout of some hardware...keep some change log/diagram of what has happened to it.
Gawd yes! Learned that one a long, long time ago - when I didn't and the hardware designer (rightly) tore me a new one because he had to minutely examine the patchwork quilt I had made of his PCB to work out WTF I had done...always, but always kept a day book and a pencilled over copy of the circuit diagram marked "MASTER" up to date since then!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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This project is made all the harder as we didn't design all of it (I am pretty sure that) the original designers are now laughing at us from there evil villain lair. Why couldn't the boss man let me totally re-write it in a language I know better rather than performing 'Op Turd Shine'. It's taking longer...
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Ah! You need a can of this: Kiwi special[^] - I think Lidl stocks it, or you could order it from RS / Farnel.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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All Documentation Is Out Of Date Immediately Upon Publication
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Well it always useful to have it in hand when the finger pointing starts as I'm sure it will...
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My county (Martin County )has 150,000 people, the annual budget is 500 million dollars. Palm Beach to the south: $3,884,240,421 for 1.37 million people!
Survey: Go Online Find your County and post your county budget / population
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Economies of scale[^] show why costs don't scale as you'd may expect especially around admin costs
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I am sorry but your post doesn't match the required formatting of Budget / Population.
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Cook County $3.5 billion 5.7 million. This being Cook County Illinois of course means that 3.4 billion goes towards political favors/payoffs and the rest? who knows. 
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My wife is from 'Da Heights. Yeah, we know all the games they play out there.
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It's primary election day today, I'm voting at 10am.............and 11am..........and noon...... 
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That's when he breaks for "lunch". The remaining "votes" will be determined after the customary 5th drink.
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3 times isn't bad for a dead person.
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I see you follow the line "Vote early, vote often."
Do they still let you vote after you die? (For those who may not know dead people vote all the time in at least Chicago and Cleveland).
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Corporal Agarn wrote: Do they still let you vote after you die?
Of course, you don't mess with tradition!
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Surrey has a population of 1.1m and is spending in the region of £1.8b.
The local authority, Woking, covers around 100,000 with a budgie just shy of £13m.
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Quote: with a budgie just shy
Can you get assertiveness courses for birds? I'd chip in
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$8,000,000 for 7,000 people.
I'm not really sure where the money comes from... I guess trickle down from fed/state? It's definitely not personal property tax, and there are almost no businesses here. Although we do have a landfill for NY City      
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