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Speaking about the founding of the United States, on Dutch television I'm watching a series of documentaries about the voyage of the Mayflower that started in the Netherlands.
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Some years ago I lived in Chicago . While working at my desk w/ my leg lightly pressed against the desk's leg I felt the pressure increase by a bit . I knew instantly it was an earthquake as I did not move my leg to cause it . The desk moved perhaps a tenth of a millimeter . That evening it was so reported on the local news . So I survived the great Chicago Earthquake
"I once put instant coffee into the microwave and went back in time." - Steven Wright
"Shut up and calculate" - apparently N. David Mermin possibly Richard Feynman
My sympathies to the SPAM moderator
“I want to sing, I want to cry, I want to laugh. Everything together. And jump and dance. The day has arrive — yippee!” - Desmond Tutu
“When the green flag drops the bullshit stops!”
"It is cheaper to save the world than it is to ruin it."
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I'm glad you made it through, Dave! My last was almost 30 years ago; things have been pretty tame since moving to AZ. The last one, the double quake that hit Landers and Big Bear City in the Peoples' Republic of California, caught me on the sleeping on the third floor of a mountain cabin. Well, the first one did - by the time the second hit an hour later, I was quite awake! I started out the door to check for gas leaks, but seeing my first ever live mountain lion sitting at the top of my stairs, very twitchy, made me reconsider. Initial reports on that first hit set it at a magnitude 9.1. Being centered just a couple of miles away, that was quite a memorable day. I no longer get out of bed for anything less than a 7. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm definitely refusing. 
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Wonderful.
Dylan would have laughed too.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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one of my mother's favorite poems 
as someone who often was a wild-man in daze of yore, i have always found a deep something in the fourth stanza:
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night. now, tamed (broken ?) by age, i am left with a ghost of a roar
i'm sorry to say mother, like Dylan Thomas, went out not raging, or grieving, but, in an alcoholic stupor.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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No one on my team is working on the same stuff as I am! 
Let me tell you, that makes for a very poor code review experience! 
modified 10-Jan-22 23:43pm.
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Or the best code review experience! No one knows your code better than you, so go over it carefully with your rubber duck.
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Well, you only have to do three lines of code a day - how hard can it be? 
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Sometimes, ahem, I do more than that!  
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Well yeah - but the extra one is just a comment ... 
"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 work alone... yeah! yeah!... with nobody else..." -- (George Thorogood)
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One of the main but often overlooked points of a code review, is that someone else knows your code.
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Exactly!
Works best when they start already knowing a bit of it, unfortunately!
If, only, for motivation... 
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That's the history of my (working) life.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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You're a legend too!
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Not bad a throw, for a 1.5 million kilometers away hole...
Obligatory link, Where Is Webb? NASA/Webb
modified 10-Jan-22 23:55pm.
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Bitcoin heading for worst yearly start since at least 2012[^]
Quote: Cryptocurrencies are likely to remain under pressure as the Fed reduces its liquidity injections,” said Jay Hatfield, chief executive of Infrastructure Capital Advisors. “Bitcoin could end 2022 below $20,000.
Currently, it's at just under $40,000 - but if lots of you sell, it'll plummet. If you don't, you could lose a packet. If few of you sell, it might be stable or even recover. Decisions, decisions ...
I'm not gloating, I'm just glad I have never been tempted to "invest" in crypto.
Do you have any? Or do you think it's just another pyramid / Ponzi scheme at heart?
"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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Genuinely I have no cryptocurrency of any form, and neither does Herself.
Just not a natural gambler, I guess.
"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 know! I was just messing with you!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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