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Maybe try and get of the Pub by Friday, Saturday latest, if you're careful Sunday last orders, okay but don't stay too long for the lock-in...
veni bibi saltavi
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Will do mum!![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Good luck!!!
(A name change in order maybe?  )
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Hopefully, I don't want to jink it's yet... 
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glennPattonInThePUB wrote: jink it's yet
Too long in the pub then? 
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I hate typing on a touch screen, the awkward thing is this pub look at you odd if you use a laptop !
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Congratulations !
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Nice one! 
What is it doing?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Generally it seems to be a mix of hardware & software (me likeee!) and training users (!)
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Excellent! Money alright?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Money could be better, but it's increase on what I'm on now! 
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Somebody has had an interesting weekend[^]! 
SFW
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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"Unlawful possession of a cured vehicle"?
When the heck was wrong with it before he came along? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I thought it sounded like he might have been slightly pickled, but it could have been the car... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I have one lecturer in my past who was cited in a Nobel Prize. There are many here who have attended illustrious centres of learning. How many members have come into contact with a Nobel Laureate (discipline quite unimportant)?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 26-Sep-16 6:49am.
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I never took a full course from a Nobel Laureate, but when I was in University, Prof. Nevill Mott (Physics, 1977) visited the Physics department and gave a couple of lectures on his field (solid state physics).
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I hope you were there.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I wouldn't have missed it for anything. As I recall, the q&a after the lecture was extremely interesting.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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When I was a graduate student, my advisor was taught by an everything but Nobel Laureate, F. Albert Cotton[^]. Cotton is student of/co-author with Geoffrey Wilkinson[^] who is a Nobel Laureate.
Also, the prof I did post-doc work with is first generation from a Nobel Laureate, Henry Taube[^].
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Some people are lucky. Sounds like a top notch institution.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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The first of the two was Northwestern University (Evanston, IL).
The second of the two was the State University of New York at Stonybrook.
The latter is now called Stony Brook University - and the various departments were allowed to deteriorate from first-in-the-state (they wanted to make it Berkeley of the East in my day). My opinion is that (1) they wanted to make SUNY Albany (state capital) more like top of the heap, and worse, they completed building the medical school - which then got all the resources that should have gone to the real learning center. So, it's much more so-so than it used to be. Stony Brook University ranking - Google Search[^] Also, when I was there, there were no athletic teams to speak of (except student intramural teams, i.e, fun). No resources wasted on that. In those days, people went their because it offered a good education and a bargain price.
Anecdote: whilst I was doing chemical kinetics research, there was one main-frame in the chemistry department. There were various connections for real-time data acquisition. My guy had priority zero - as they were very quick experiments and they could not wait. Meanwhile, Paul Lauterber[^] also had a connection, he and his students were working on taking NMR images in two dimensions and then deconvoluting the data into an image. When I pushed the "collect" button - their work was halted until my data was collected. It may have only been for a few minutes, total, in CPU time, but I actually interfered with the development of MRI (for which he got a Nobel Prize).
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W∴ Balboos wrote: The latter is now called Stony Brook University - and the various departments were allowed to deteriorate from first-in-the-state (they wanted to make it Berkeley of the East in my day). My opinion is that (1) they wanted to make SUNY Albany (state capital) more like top of the heap, and worse, they completed building the medical school - which then got all the resources that should have gone to the real learning center. So, it's much more so-so than it used to be. Stony Brook University ranking - Google Search[^] Also, when I was there, there were no athletic teams to speak of (except student intramural teams, i.e, fun). No resources wasted on that. In those days, people went their because it offered a good education and a bargain price.
You went to SunySB too? When I was there, right around the millenium, the CEO of Computer Associates had just overfunded the CompSci department, so they had doubled the number of students without increasing the housing/services capacity... So many problems... On top of that, they jumped on the Java bandwagon in my third year, so were teaching baby-level intro courses to juniors... It was quite sad.
Only two of my CS courses were actually interesting and/or useful... A computer graphics course in C++ (We basically rewrote OpenGL... VERY hard, but awesome), and the requisite algorithms / data structures course.
But yeah... It was still known for CS in those days, but it's no Berkeley.
Actually drove through there a few months ago... Man, that place has changed... Barely recognize it.
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You missed the best of it - "The Bridge to Nowhere", for a start
The newly built Grad Chemistry Building.
Did you ever find the underground tunnel system? Probably blocked off by your time.
Interesting note: the original plan, after building the various buildings, was to only pave the vary largest main pathways. Then, student foot-traffic, as shown by the wearing of the grass, was to be used to determine where to pave next. And parking/parking stickers were free. The bullet-proof (actually, frustrated angry student proof) glass had not yet been put in the bursar's office lobby.
They never got around to the paving part - so one year a mass of students brought cups of mud to the bursar's office and put them, en masse, on the steps leading up to the University President's (Toll, at that time) office . . . to share the student experience.
And the year before I started I saw the Grateful Dead concert, last show, 4th row center . . . and . . . and . . . and . . . I'd love to be back there and do it all again.
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