Posts by sneekula

Old Indian, standing on the corner. Good-lookin' woman passes
by, on the way to work. The Indian raises his hand in greeting,
and says, "Chance!"

The same happens several days in a row. Woman walks past, The
Indian raises his hand, and says, "Chance!"

Finally, one day, she can't ignore it any longer, stops, and
asks, "You're an Indian, aren't you?"

He nods.

She says, "I always thought Indians said `How!' as a greeting."

Indian says, "Already know how, just want chance!"

California has 2/3 of the lawyers in the US because New Jersey got to choose first. They chose toxic waste instead.

Oh yeah California, where your hairdresser is straight, your plumber is gay, the woman who delivers your mail is into S & M, your Mary Kay rep is a guy in drag, and your lawyer is Perry Mason on pot.

Bigotry is very much alive and strong in the US. Professor Obama, who is half black half white, will have a hard time succeeding as a black man.

Already the hate e-mails are flying, calling him Osama and telling folks that he went to a muslim school in Indonesia.

After reading all the mind numbing squabble in some of the more political threads, this thread is one of the more enlightening ones:

Warmed over asparagus and egg au gratin.

Some coins are worth more in the metal used then they have purchase power. For instance the US 1 cent coin (made from zinc and copper).

Boston bean soup

Is that the soup also called the "Tooting Soup"?

I am marinating some chicken breasts (will that word trigger the internet moral agancy?) with a mix of tomato puree, olive oil, crushed garlic, onion, lemon juice and parsley. I will cook those later and serve them with steamed broccoli and melted ricotta cheese.

~~~ stupid idot ~~~

Do you mean ipod or IDOT (Illinois Department of Transportation)?

I guess the Roman Empire and the Bush Empire are good examples of the decline with time. Maybe just a matter of entropy.

The problem is that I really don't like any of them.

But the ones I really don't want are the ones who would have government take over health care. They would likely remove the alternative medicines I need due to allergies to "save money".

Do they have an "Alternative Medicines" Lobby?

Someone has come up with a way to use coal without the carbon dioxide. They bubble the exhaust into sunlit tanks of algae.

That would produce one heck of a lot of algae. Someone has to come up with an algae powerd car to solve that surplus problem.

Why America Supports Israel. I don't know how accurate or true that is, but it is one theory.

Great site! If they are right, heaven help us.

I always though that the US supports Israel because they apply our proven principles to the native population to carve out a country.

Too hot to touch!

sneekula...I wouldn't have mind the 30,000USD bonus he got after expounding on my idea...

I am quite sure he will share it with you, if you only ask. Good luck in your new job then.

People that eat with their mouth open.

Give a rat's behind.

Supervisors/managers who are clueless about stuff and ask you...but then they take all the credit for it

I thought that was normal, all part of the job. An incentive for you to strive to become a manager too.

That's their problem, not yours, so long as you can recognize the reference. If you allow that to offend you, then you've given them power over you.

You are right, misspellings of that kind are childish stuff from the likes of Rush.

Nah, the real survival technique there would be a workable defense against the assaults of the 'bombers'. But keep the WMDs on hand; MAD might have a deterrent effect on some of them. Then again, it might not...

Offense is the best defense! How about a super slick preemptive strike weapon?

We must not be giving enough then. Let's double it!

That could lead to paper-cuts! Well, as long as they don't ask us to pay them in Euros.

We give money to Israel, and then had to give money to Egypt to keep our options open. Does that mean we may have to give money to India for the same reason? If I would live in India, that Pakistan stuff would scare me a lot!

If you beg real hard, you might get Queen Dani to remove that from the otherwise very good poll.

Also, in the title is the "you you" supposed to be a w?

Producing a good game, is not all about programming, but also producing a good sound effect, 2d art, 3d modeling, and writing.

Correct! Very good thinking.

People that deliberately misspell a politician's name, thinking they are so smart about it.

Driving around last night, an SDA lady got kicked off a bus for reading the bible to her kids on the way to church. http://cbs11tv.com/national/thrown.off.bus.2.620448.html ?

She might have been trying to brainwash the driver. That could clearly affect his driving ability.

You scored 9 points out of 30 possible.
That is 30 percent.

I got this score by close my eyes, chossing the second choice always.

Hehe, did you try the first choice?

First of all, this question has been asked by a lot of people already; yet not many of them have successfully achieve their goal. This question is years away from the achievement point.

Very good point! To write a good game using C++ might take ten years. To write a game about C++ may take an hour.

Can somebody explain to me how presidential elections work? Why are Clinton and Obama both Democrats? Aren't they sort of running against each other?

I don't get it...

These are the primaries, where each party selects their electable presidential candidate. A time when there is a lot of mud slinging and much blatant lying. A "hornets nest" of special interests, as everyone wants a free government handout!

I just cooked up a delicious smelling pea soup from my wife's recipe. Soon I'll break down and eat it (I like to put off my lunch as long as I can).

Hehe, throw some Kosher Ham into it and it will taste good too!

Anyway, you inspired me to make a pot of lentil soup later.

I am not old enough for that stuff!

Obama is the smoothest talker of the bunch. Hillarity Klinton wants to cut all the senior citizen's social security and medicare benefits, freeze all raises for the next 4 years, and cut all military pay and benefits. She has already written/sponsored a bill to do exactly that. That's terrible.

Why does someone always take a cheap shot at her name? Frankly, I didn't expect that from you AD. You should be ashamed.

Water

What kind of water, well, bottled, city, rain, river, flood, hot, glacial, ice, soda, effervescent, previously used, heavy, ethylated, ozonated, chlorinated, fluoridated?

Munching on some Raisinets (chocolate covered California raisins). Want to know more, check:
Raisinets.com

A bright blue wine would be interesting! I bought "Blue Nun", but it wasn't blue at all. What a letdown.

Wonder why they call white wine white, its mostly yellow. Milk is white!

Build a utopian society where every citizen is properly informed, educated, motivated and a thing of beauty and logic.

Of course the ultimate utopian society would have at its disposal the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. This has to be an integral part of its survival against the many "bombers" of the world.

I'd like to buy a smallish island. Seriously.

Hehe, until the first hurricane comes around and washes it and its only palm tree away.

Shouldn't that be in the C++ forum, where all the experts are?

Why not use code tags so the indentations are preserved in your Python code?

This should work:

def delete(self):
    fname = raw_input("First Name:> ")
    for ix, item in enumerate(self.list):
        if (item.name == fname):
            del self.list[ix]

Python has a csv module, but why has this thread been bumped into the Python forum?

Try this ...

# run an external program and get its output:
import os
prog = "bldroott.bat"
fin, fout = os.popen4(prog)
result = fout.read()
print result

The US gave Pakistan a couple of billion, and look what it created.

Toasted high fiber English muffins with omega-3 peanut butter and reduced sugar blackberry jam. Lots of black steaming hot coffee to fight my hangover.

I think most adverts are pointless. ~~~

They have one major point, they sell the product and they work very well doing so. Associate a product with a catching tune, and you can sell sandpaper for toilet paper.

Build a utopian society where every citizen is properly informed, educated, motivated and a thing of beauty and logic.

Today, what is the cheapest and most available/affordable form of energy?

... and the obvious answer is heat from burning coal and burning garbage (sorted).

Wow, it must suck to have your birthday on New Years day.

Not for the person having the birthday, but for the parents who missed out on a taxbreak for the previous year.

All the ingredients in our salad bar are organically grown.

Translation:
Using cow manure as fertilizer, a good chance for you to pick that bleeding Vero toxin producing strain of E. Coli bacteria.

On the sixth day, God turned to the Angels and said: "Today I am going
to create a land called Israel, it will be a land of mountains full of
snow, sparkly lakes, forests full of all kind of trees, high cliffs
overlooking sandy beaches with an abundance of sea life."

God continued, "I shall make the land rich so to make the inhabitants
prosper, I shall call these inhabitants Israeli, and they shall be known
to all the people on earth."

"But Lord," asked the Angels, "don't you think you are being too generous
to these Israeli's?"

"Not really," God replied, "just wait and see the neighbours I am going to
give them."

Two in the row, only my ex-roommate could do that.

I heard of wind energy, but this is a little different.

Most fights are because everything is wrong.

Scrambled eggs with Spam and hot coffee.

Good grief is the liquor store ever crowded this morning. Wonder if people need that stuff to celebrate or drown their sorrows?

Happy unsober New Year!

An engineer, a physicist and a lawyer were interviewed for
a position as chief executive officer of a large corporation.
The engineer was interviewed first, and was asked a long list of
questions, ending with "How much is two plus two?" The engineer
excused himself, and made a series of measurements and
calculations before returning to the board room and announcing,
"Four." The physicist was next interviewed, and was asked the
same questions. Before answering the last question, he excused
himself, made for the library, and did a great deal of research.
After a consultation with the United States Bureau of Standards
and many calculations, he also announced "Four." The lawyer was
interviewed last, and was asked the same questions. At the end
of his interview, before answering the last question, he drew all
the shades in the room, looked outside the door to see if anyone
was there, checked the telephone for listening devices, and asked
"How much do you want it to be?"

Downsizing and restructuring.