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And it was a fryinghtening encouter!
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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And as encounters go, it was a bunner ...
"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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Did you meet McDonald Trump?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Even better when the frozen turkeys explode.
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I’m the CIEIO... 
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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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Funny that tickles my McRibs
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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I was on my way to a meeting, on my bike. I did a u-turn at the lights, skirted between some cars and up on to the pavement. And, just ahead of me was Donald Trump. As I got alongside him I slowed to match his pace - but stayed on my bike. He looked at me and, waving his finger at me, said: "You didn't think I'd be here, did you?". I admit I was surprised. I thought he was going home yesterday.
We got to the meeting and it transpires that Donald has stayed on to see a video that Matt, (one of my work colleagues), has done! I'm thinking: "Was it really worth staying on for this?". In an attempt to be diplomatic, (unusual for me!), I ask: "Couldn't we have just put this on a DVD and posted it?" And then my alarm went off...
... so we'll never know!
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He lives rent free in the minds of so many people. Amazing. 
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0) Read 2 books so far ( Shoe Dog, The Happiest Man on Earth ) and on to third one ( Dare to Lead )
1) Learning a programming language that I may never use ( Rust. Just out of curiocity. )
2) Need to do some certification that work will ask for next year. This is on todo list. May get to it in next few days.
3) On call support for work while everyone is on leave. So far only couple of support issues from clients so going well in that regard.
How are you all coping this holiday season ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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virang_21 wrote: Learning a programming language that I may never use ( Rust. Just out of curiocity. )
I was doing the same thing with Go. 
Go is an interesting language and the book I am reading[^] has Brian W. Kernighan (of C fame[^]) as one of the authors. It's interesting to see him with a new language after all these years.
How do you like Rust? I plan on reading a book on it in the near future.
What book did you read?
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raddevus wrote: How do you like Rust?
So far it feels like any other language with its own naming convention for most of the things. Same same but different (like library is called crate, compiler is called Cargo, something that looks like .NET namesapce is called trait ). Easy to grasp coming from programming background.
raddevus wrote: What book did you read?
Just their online manual.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Quote: lift my spirits and increase my concentration.
Strange! When I lift a glass of spirits my concentration goes to hell!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I've been re-reading Harry Potter. 
And trying to write up a little documentation of my vintage (camera) lens collection.
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Interesting, if you write them and make public i would love to read. I'm an avid amateur photographer.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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More of an inventory.
These are all Asahi Super-Takumars, if you're interested.
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Looks like they're Pentax lenses?
Never heard of them, I've had nikons for many years.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Ah, well move up to Pentax.
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Too much invested to trade and too old to be retrained.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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I started learning rust and I learned just enough to realize I would never use it.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Covid hasn't interfered with my plans, but another lockdown has wrecked tennis and fitness training for the next month. The last time it happened, I got a fair bit of code written. My tennis pro's sons are probably going a bit stir crazy, so I got them memberships to chess.com for Christmas.
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Greg Utas wrote: Covid hasn't interfered with my plans
Greg Utas wrote: lockdown has wrecked tennis and fitness training for the next month
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