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BillWoodruff wrote: I never want tp swim again !
Sort of gives you a sinking feeling, does it?
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when I see stuff like this, the only thing that enters my mind is what happens to the people when the glass breaks....and don't tell me the glass won't break.
Remember the Titanic -
"There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers."
Phillip Franklin, White Star Line vice-president, 1912
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Some years ago when I was a young adult a friend and I visited the Grand Canyon in particular the North Rim. There is an outcropping there you can reach if you carefully walk down a brief slope and step over a crevasse. I did so and sat down at the edge of the outcropping with my feet dangling over the yawning Grand Canyon below. I heard some woman state "He's going to fall." Some years later I woke up in the middle of the night bathed in a cold sweat thinking about that escapade. I did several such stupid stunts during that vacation. That was but one. Here is another. My Paltry Thoughts[^]
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Something I saw recently seemed say that more people have died in aircraft incidents at the Canyon than have died falling in, so don't sweat it.
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BillWoodruff wrote: if I told you the true story of how my Alpha+ daddy held me by my ankles over the bottomless pit
Well, my first reaction wouldn't help either. It'd be your daddy going into the pit. No excuse nor explanation either.
BillWoodruff wrote: you might have the nightmares I had.
Got a pet cat, years ago. Named "Well done".
He was in pain for some reason. So, I washed it with hydrochloric acid. After that, I took the loose hanging bones from its body (twenty something), before he begged me to kill him. That's a cat that says everyday that he likes me. Mostly around dinner time. But still, even the memory of the dream can stop me in my tracks.
Nightmares, can be crippling. Mine was just a dream, and still had effect in real life.
Having a nightmare based on real life, is something I cannot imagine.
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Goedzo is alive and well and is on a diet. No animals were harmed in this post.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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BillWoodruff wrote: Yes, I am afraid of heights
Same here. I'm fine in an enclosed space, looking out over a high area. In the open, forget about it. I even have trouble driving over long bridge spans over water.BillWoodruff wrote: my Alpha+ daddy held me by my ankles over the bottomless pit in Carlsbad Caverns
Even making 'allowances' for the time period
No, goddamn it. That's abuse, plain and simple. If you had a good relationship later in life, I'm glad for you. If you didn't, I'm not surprised.
Software Zen: delete this;
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So my grandpa died last Tuesday from, well, pretty much everything.
He had COVID, a urinary tract infection as a result from dehydration (as a result from not drinking) and he then got a heart attack.
He'd turn 88 next Tuesday.
The entire family got to say goodbye in the hospital the day before he died (although for most of his grandchildren he was already asleep at the time).
After that came the funeral planning...
My grandma and her children came together to plan everything.
On Thursday I got this weird cough, got myself tested for COVID, negative.
Then an uncle got a weird cough, tested, positive!
Long story short, pretty much half the family (and counting), including grandma, is tested positive.
That's kind of an issue if you have a funeral coming up.
Lots of panic, as you can imagine.
Ultimately, the funeral was outside, at his grave, for his children and grandchildren.
A church service was not possible so no streaming for all those who couldn't be there either.
Needless to say, we all kept our distance (except the positives, because they could accompany grandma).
All in all, a fitting end for a man who made a scene out of everything (like cracking a "joke" at the airport "if you're looking for my gun you'll have to search harder.").
I'm getting tested again tomorrow and again on Thursday and staying at home until then.
Thanks for all the great memories, old asylum seeker (as he used to say) ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Maximilien wrote: CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) + 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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God, I would have missed a guy like that.
Can imagine how you feel now. (Been there, like so many others)
Always remember the good memories!
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To put that in perspective, it's fun now that he's gone and we can laugh about his shenanigans, and we'll certainly miss him, but at the time it could be pretty annoying to the point where we'd rather not invite him
Like when we were in a restaurant and we just wanted to enjoy a dinner together, but he'd go out and (sometimes inappropriately) talk to all the people (who didn't always want to be talked to by complete strangers, mind you).
Heck, I'll even miss that 
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"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Grandparents: who grandchildren turned to before the Internet came to be.
RIP
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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My cousins and I practically grew up there.
My younger cousins who are still in school (there's something like a 16 year gap between the youngest and myself, the oldest) still regularly visit, but with phone or tablet, of course
I think it says a lot about my grandparents that their children and most grand children visit regularly (and some even weekly and daily) 
Heck, I used to go with them on elderly cruises, the youngest by 30-something years, but since grandma can't come with us on vacation anymore I'd go with them.
I gladly give up five vacation days to spend time with them.
All the other old people would say what a special bond we'd have and it's true 
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Sander Rossel wrote: like cracking a "joke" at the airport "if you're looking for my gun you'll have to search harder."
Yeah, not done, but I'd piss my pants from laughing if in line, declaring I'd forgot my handgrenades
Sander Rossel wrote: Thanks for all the great memories, old asylum seeker (as he used to say) [Rose]
I raise my glass to Bruinsma.
May he find peace and asylum.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I rarely need to use vi(m) (link, just in case there are young ones here ).
But it is strange how it is easy to get back into it, everything seems familiar.
Like having to reboot the computer because you forgot how to get out of vi. 
Seriously, muscle memory is a strange thing.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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The most important keystrokes in vi:
1. ESC - switch to command mode
2. :q - get out
I spentwasted more time than I care to admit before I learned these.
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or esc-:q! or esc-ZZ (uppercase)
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Or CTRL+ALT+DEL
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I was taking a course in C, back in the day, at the San Diego Supercomputing Center (ooh, sounds fancy). I'd been programming in BASIC on Commodore machines and had written assembly language extensions to scroll through source code and edit in place, basically like we do now without even thinking about it.
I was appalled to have to use vim. Felt like I was in the stone ages. All this computing power around me (the supercomputer was on the other side of a glass wall) and I had to use this for an editor?
The supercomputer must have been disguising an abacus.
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