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Accept that never, for one moment, in the fictional construction of the illusion of a personal self with continuity in time you experience as your life, has there been a "proper" way to think because thought itself is inherently empty: thought, master illusionist who summons someone from nothing, creates you: the greatest-show-on-earth.
A flickering of a candle making its last shadow on a wall before it is blown-out by a high-wind, and, then, lit again by unseen hands ... which you expend enormous energies on: in order to experience an imaginary, continuous, steady, glow.
Handle the night before, before the day after: works for the who I believe I am that experiences typing a final period: now.
bill
p.s. if you send me US $50 I have a special handkerchief actually sanctified by the tears of a virgin vegetarian, which I know will have immediate glorious effect on your predicament of spellbound as a result of heinous mischief of negative-energy demons. Also effective for hangovers, and acne.
all right, yes, I lied: there were more periods, but sometimes in the esoteric arts one must practice what Sufis call taqqiya, or spiritual deception.
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Simon Lee Shugar wrote: Have you found a way to "wake" your brain up?
Not on the same day. Usually I try to get through the day somehow and hope that the next day it's better (which it usually is).
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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Some meetings I feel like I work with a few people where their brains are not working. 
Looking through my old VB6 code usually fires me up. I want to "fix" all the code. But generally a cup of coffee is all I need to keep going 'til noon.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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A lot of people are suggesting the dark brew to me but I'm very much a Tea drinker, may add a few more lumps to my additional 3 sugars though.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Yeah, today's one of those to be honest.
I find that you've just got to put up with it and arrange the task list so you have easy ones to do today.
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You must feel like a politician or a member of royalty!
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I am really stuck at this particular coding problem since few days now, so I stayed very late last night at the office to resolve it (... and unable to fix it).
Anyways, So as I left frustrated for home at the middle of the night. I saw our whole building security team sitting near a car, on the benches, looking inside the car.
Now 4 guys were sitting parallel to the car on a bench facing the driver side window. and other 3 were sitting perpendicular on the bench facing the driver side - side mirror... then I saw a smartphone laying on the driver side window glass, and all the 7 guys were watching a movie on the phone.  4 directly from the phone and 3 using the side mirror ...
This made me chuckle the whole way back home. 
The angle was perfect, the height was perfect, and I dont see any other sitting arrangement so that 7 people can watch a movie from a tiny smartphone. Out of the box thinking, who needs a TV? 
If I ever need a developer for my company, I am going to interview these guys first (it's much better option to teach them programming).
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Nope - you only need one of them.
The guy that got them to sit like that...
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I wouldn't accept you for the job. That was a perfect video opportunity that you missed.  An example of muddle-headed thinking there.
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Oh snap...
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Think yourself lucky you didn't think of it.
Imagine for me: you are a Building Security Officer, and you and your six mates (who are generally not too bright, and not-disinclined to physicallity or they wouldn't be doing that job) are watching a film when you are being payed to guard the building. Suddenly, one of the employees starts videoing you goofing off, presumably so he can show it to management and you all get fired - what are you all going to do?
Do you enjoy hospital food?
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Well, even if I have filmed it and showed it to the management, they would have all laughed and showed that video to other members. But no one would have gotten fired. In most of the buildings the security guard will fall asleep and, no on will care.
We Indians have very high tolerance for people not doing their job (this is slowly changing). Specially people at lower level. And we are too emotional to fire anyone (this is also slowly changing), specially people of lower-middle income group ('what his family will do?' has more importance over 'why he is not doing his job?').
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It was the same here, forty or fifty years ago (maybe less). Trust me, it'll change! Accountants will take over, and start getting rid of "dead wood" in order to save a penny a unit (and score a huge bonus for firing half the workforce)
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Once had a nickname for the president of a company: Neutron Neal. Hire specifically to get rid of "dead wood". (and others)
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Accountant definition of "Dead wood": "Not an accountant"
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That is about the time frame of my 'Neutron'. I had not (at the time) heard of Jack Welch but others probably had.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Accountants will take over, and start getting rid of "dead wood" in order to
save a penny a unit
I appreciate having my stock options be worth more when people who are not actually doing anything for the company no longer work there.
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I hope those using the mirror can read the subtitles reverse.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Do you really think that our over-the-top acting Bollywood movies requires sub-titles?
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Rutvik Dave wrote: very late last night... I saw our whole building security team sitting near a car
Errr...presumably you took your computer with you.
Rutvik Dave wrote:
If I ever need a developer for my company, I am going to interview these
guys first
But hopefully you don't put them in charge of security for the application.
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A young family moved into a house next door to an empty plot. One day, a gang of building workers turned up to start building on the plot.
The young family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all the activity going on next door and started talking with the workers.
She hung around and eventually the builders, all with hearts of gold, more or less adopted the little girl as a sort of project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit with them while they had tea and lunch breaks, and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important.
They even gave the child her very own hard hat and gloves, which thrilled her immensely.
At the end of the first week, the smiling builders presented her with a pay envelope - containing two pounds in 10p coins. The little girl took
her 'pay' home to her mother who suggested that they take the money to the bank the next day to open a savings account.
At the bank, the female cashier was tickled pink listening to the little girl telling her about her 'work' on the building site and the fact she had a 'pay packet'.
'You must have worked very hard to earn all this', said the cashier.
The little girl proudly replied, 'Yes, I worked every day with Steve and Wayne and Mike. We're building a big house.'
'My goodness gracious,' said the cashier, 'And will you be working on the house again next week?'
The child thought for a moment. Then she said seriously:
'I think so. Provided those wankers at Jewsons deliver the f***ing bricks on time.'
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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I believe the house was being built for Leslie Nielsen
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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It has been pointed out here in the office that it was an old gag, but I had honestly never heard it before.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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