Posts by sneekula

What sort of thing do you wish a programmer on Programmer's Day?

May all your programs compile

May your fingers and eyes be well rested

May your seated flesh be less painful today

Happy bits ad bytes

Have a merry Pday

It's day 1111 1111 of the year, good programmer's vibes to you

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Here is advice from Rodney Dangerfield:
"If your doctor tells you that you are too fat, change doctors."

Programmer's Day is a whimsical "holiday" on the 256th day of the year celebrated mostly by computer programmers. The reason for this is that 256 is equal to 2 to the power of 8, which is equal to the number of values that it is possible to represent in a byte of data. Traditions include drinking, eating cookies, acting silly, coding silly programs, mini computer games, playing with old computers, etc. Programmer's Day usually falls on September 13th; on leap years it is September 12th.

Darn, I just found out, so I didn't celebrate it.

Did you celebrate this important day? How?

War on Poverty.
War on Drugs.
War on Terror.
War on Truth.

He is the candidate that represents Family Values.

efmesch might recognize this:
You are the master of your own actions.

A friend brought some homemade Christmas cookies over. I hawked the date-nut balls and the powdered sugar rum balls.

One of our temps put white-out on the screen, any easy way to clean that?

Maybe someone wants to start a new thread of vital statistics--we seem to have gotten off the track of this thread (I accept the blame for leading us astray--my apologies).

Your wish is my command master.

I could shed about ten pounds, so I must be fat. For that I am pretty jolly, not fat and jolly enough to play Santa Claus.

Do you consider yourself skinny, normal or fat? Let's be as honest as possible.

I work part time in a cancer clinic. No lack of skin and bones there!

Back to the title:
I cornered some inexpensive ham in the store, and will cook a split pea and ham soup for Sunday dinner.

Teamwork allows you to spread the blame.

My date was as ugly as sin.

Just a fun thread to collect cliches.

So post your best cliches. I am sure you'll give 110% in your effort, and you'll leave no stone unturned while you're looking. You may just have to take the bull by the horns, and try to be as busy as a bee.

A person with nothing has nothing to lose

There is no such thing as a person with nothing. You got your life, you got your food stamps, you got believes, you got your enemies and maybe even friends.

Nothing worse than a dishonest fool, so open your mouth and let people know.

Must be, you can make political hay.

Where are all the fat people you see?

In my neighborhood there are no fat people, some are a little more stout than others, that's all. You can exercise in front of the computer, I have my station rigged up so I can stand too.

This evening is Italian dinner night at a friend's home. I will be wearing my red shirt. A little pasta, a spicy sauce with tomato and mushroom, simmered zucchini in olive oil. In other words, she really knows how to cook.

To all my friends who sent me best
wishes for 2007, they did nothing. For
2008, could you please send either
money, alcohol or petrol vouchers.
Cheers!

Here would be a truly capitalist election:
Let the candidates come up with money (their own and supporters), the 10 richest candidates get on the ballot. The money gets pooled and split amongst the voters that elected the winning candidate. Voter participation would be very high!

The money would be distributed to the winner-voters in secret and of course tax free in order to keep the secret. Why should TV stations, radio stations, newspapers and magazines enrich themselves, when it is the voter who deserves to loot.

You could be right jwenting, it seems that elections are rigged in favor of the group that spends the most money. Obviously, the folks who give the spending money have much to gain.

One could argue, that it would be nice for the voter to have his/her vote bought outright. That would increase voter participation.

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be.

If you are where you want to be, you can stop thinkig. My boss is where he wants to be.

I will sauté some mushrooms and then scramble an egg over it. A toasted English muffin will round off the meal.

Start -> Control Panel -> Security -> Turn automatic updating on or off, select a setting other than "Install new updates automatically". It's the first thing I do whenever I set up my own box.

Thank you very much! I figured it had to be hidden in there somewhere. My default setting was to upgrade every day at 3AM, but I don't run my computer at 3AM, so it must have picked a random time whenever the computer is running. Well, I turned it off and will check manually for upgrades once a month or so.

The prime number in my life right now would be a scant increase in my emaciated pay check.

C language is to computing what C men are to procreation.

Roasted and salted peanuts. Glass of cranberry juice.

USD 100 for a 19 inch LCD computer monitor. Where was it manufactured?

Punishment would be that you are not getting the token gift ($100 check, the day off or cookies and milk) of appreciation for voting.

To prevent fools from voting is difficult right now too. Voter exams have been outlawed in previous times.

Got a well aged piece of cow in the supermarket. A few days past the date, so it was real cheap. I am going to grill it on the neighbor's outdoor grill and call it a steak dinner.

Change yourself, if you wish to see change in the world.

I have an HP notebook with Windows Vista. I slowly got used to the childishness of Vista, but I cannot get used to the surprise upgrades.

You are in the middle of something on the internet, then all of a sudden the program shuts down, the screen goes gray, after a while the OS tells you that you are being upgraded. Finally, the computer reboots, after the usual many minutes of power-up stuff, you are back. You are not in the program you left so abruptly, IE comes up with different settings, and on top of that my router connection has been changed to a neighbors router.

Any way to defeat this Bull, short of getting an iMac?

i think i'm having soup.

Are you making up your own soup, or are lazy enough to doctor up a can. I like Progresso Soup's "Italian Style Wedding Soup" ~

A snickers candy bar from www.snickers.com

A tropical fruit salad on top of cottage cheese.

hi do you play runescape?

Well, it's a thought.

Along with a reputation for wisdom comes success.

In most parts of the US voting day is a workday, giving the normal worker only a short time to stand in line and vote. Some states have made it easier to vote by mail and have extended computerized voting time. So yeah, making it easier to vote might help the working public.

Wonder if voting via the internet will ever be possible?

Giving everyone that votes a check for $100 could be an easy solution too, and would help the economy.

Since voting is such an important part of a Democracy, should it be mandatory to vote for all eligible voters to solve the alarmingly low voter turnouts?

Politicians have their own code of honesty.

I read once that they don't have drivers permits in Holland.

Here I though that cricket was a dark-colored, leaping, orthopteran insect with long antennae, making chirping noises.

If your bottled water is tap water, then you are lucky. It could be a lot worse.

Food at McDonalds is pretty "ho-hum". I will go to Pizza Hut with a couple of friends later. Their new deep dish pizza is a tasty deal.

There is always more talk than action.

Those iMacs are cool, my brother in law has one so I can envy him. I guess, if you sit in front of a computer a lot, you might as well have something that looks neat and unboring.

yeah i like Christmas Pudding with the fruit and alcahol soaked into it, set on fire. Its tasty

A nice English tradition I assume, have to give it a try without setting the whole house on fire.

If you need more time, you must create it.

From what i have heard, they have found up to 20 different dimensions! So yeah physics could show infinite dimensions.

In an infinite universe, why not? One of my dimensions is money, or the lack thereof.

Take a look at:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread98241.html

This forum could stand a balanced moderator like you AD! Please do us all a favor and apply for it.

I am up late this morning.