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My (our) first PC was an IMSAI 8080. Some friends and I bought it in California during a 3 month motorcycle trip from Anchorage, AK to California. 48K RAM, 4 floppies made double sided with a hole punch, and a teletype and punched tape reader from an auction. Added a 10 MB, 14 inch dual platter HD from a PDP-11 (took my several months to design and build to interface board then write the assembly code for CP/M). Heh, happy days!
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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stoneyowl2 wrote: took my several months to design and build to interface board then write the assembly code for CP/M). Heh, happy days!
More or less a glorified parallel port, bit banging the signals to the hard drive in software?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Just made some Chinese (style) Pork Balls for supper tonight (Prawns and Pork Balls with Singapore Noodles) and ... I had to taste them to make sure the seasoning is right. Honest.
Now I just want to eat the whole bowl full, and Herself isn't home for lunch for another hour and a half. Bwwa!
What's your plan for lunch / supper today, folks?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: What's your plan for lunch / supper today, folks?
Nothing special. A pair of "Wiener's" (Vienna sausages) with potato salad I had made yesterday.
Just after work I have to pepare a feta cheese salad and herb butter for a barbecue tomorrow. Then head over to build up the tent. Afterwards to the pub (Friday is my pub day).
But your post tells me to have the Wiener's before making the salad to avoid having the same problem as you 
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Dinner - Local Mexican restaurant: Chile Colorado, ceviche, chips and salsa, fresh guacamole made at the table. Yummy to my tummy.
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How about thermonuclear chile relleno burritos?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yeah, the explosive diarrhea is not my thing. Also, I dislike very much - chile relleno anything.
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I am going to grill 2 or 3 gilthead and a big bowl of salad, maybe some pieces of home made garlic bread on the grill too.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I dont eat till 7pm. Keeps the fat off. 
(And oddly also keeps the brain sharp in the day, and energy levels up)
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Well - maybe eggplant parmesan (Trader Joe's pre-breaded eggplant are amazing). On the other hand, the garden's gone crazy this year (lots of rain and extreme heat) - so maybe a pound of fresh cherry tomatoes, assortment of hot peppers, garlic, onions, herbs sauteed into sauce and poured over rotini. Of course, with cheese melted thereupon.
Or - fried rice heavily laced with ToFurkey Sausages (think pepperoni - almost indistinguishable, except for the grease). Another place to put the far-too-many hot peppers.*
* I have seventeen assorted types (mystery-seeds: you know when they grow). No Habanaro this year - next year they get grown deliberately.
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Embedding a Flash application (I know) training module into an application.
It has a JavaScript LMS adapter.
Which has a JavaScript SCORM adapter.
I want to use it with my existing Angular v1 SPA. "Too easy," I think, " it's all JavaScript." So I start studying the SCORM API, which it turns out was finalized in 2001, which is when the application adapters were written as well. Nary a callback in sight, and promises weren't even a gleam in the W3C's eye yet.
I slowly realize, to my horror, that it will be impossible to directly implement the SCORM API directly in my SPA code. Even though they're all written in the same language, they simply will not talk to one another. I need to create...an adapter.
So we have a Flash app, with a JS adapter, with a JS adapter, with a JS adapter, with a JS engine, which talks to my C# back end, with a SQL back end, and whatever meta-language reality is written in. I skipped a few, I know.
I plan to be hung over tomorrow.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Nuh sod Flash. All you need to do is to convince them they only need a command-line based training interface. 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I have been an avid user of Code Project for a looong time, I can't even remember the first time I was on the site learning how to code.
But anyway I would like to know who writes those funny taglines in the newsletter? Here is an example of an extremely funny one:
Quote: Researchers create safer lithium-ion batteries that harden on impact
Explosive, and now with shrapnel!
Who comes up with this stuff cause it's hilarious 😂 
"Dreams really do come true."
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I think it is Kent himself. And there has been some monokinis involved at some point, but that might be Sean.
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Well thank you Kent, for providing me with much needed comic relief. It is very appreciated
"Dreams really do come true."
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All Day Coder wrote: Well thank you Kent( @Kent-Sharkey ), for providing me with much needed comic relief. It is very appreciated
FTFY
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All Day Coder wrote: I have been an avid user of Code Project for a looong time
Ya, 6 months IS a long time.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Well this is a new account because I lost my old account I had created back in 2002.
"Dreams really do come true."
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6 generations of house flies!
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We measure time in human years, not in dog years. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Like you, I appreciate the snarkastic taglines in the Daily Newsletter/Insider News. It's a great way to start the morning. Keep up the good work Kent and Sean! Your wit does not go unnoticed!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Preach on brother, what is your favorite tagline? 
"Dreams really do come true."
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All Day Coder wrote: what is your favorite tagline?
Too many to process since every day brings a few zingers! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Indeed. Had to up-vote this.
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My favorite feature on CP is the Insider by Kent. It keeps me coming back every day.
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