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Re: Random Chat
« Reply #75 on: October 13, 2016, 07:43:10 AM »
Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. Very cool.

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Re: Random Chat
« Reply #76 on: October 14, 2016, 09:01:07 AM »
Gotta love that feeling when you get a new technical book and can't wait to try some of the stuff out.
Love the quiet time for projects

Anyone else got Geek projects planed for the off season?
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Re: Random Chat
« Reply #77 on: October 14, 2016, 09:34:26 AM »
Off season? What is this 'off season' you speak of?     >:D

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Re: Random Chat
« Reply #78 on: October 15, 2016, 11:00:38 AM »
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Gotta love that feeling when you get a new technical book and can't wait to try some of the stuff out.
Love the quiet time for projects

Anyone else got Geek projects planed for the off season?

We have this massive Pumpkin Festival this weekend, plus storms coming through, so you basically can't go anywhere, but it's great for projects.

E:   We should get some projects done this weekend, what do you think?

Me:   Yeah, I was going to learn Python.

E:   à² _ಠ


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« Reply #79 on: October 15, 2016, 12:13:25 PM »
yep, tho its Linux command line for me

is it worth WWlll? that's the first question in my flow chart. the interesting path is when the first question is answered with a 'maybe'
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Re: Random Chat
« Reply #80 on: October 15, 2016, 12:52:01 PM »
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Gotta love that feeling when you get a new technical book and can't wait to try some of the stuff out.
Love the quiet time for projects

Anyone else got Geek projects planed for the off season?

I'm organizing my comic books.  It's turned out to be a non trivial effort.

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« Reply #81 on: October 15, 2016, 01:22:13 PM »
I've been working on the blog and now I'm actually going to do some work-work for a job I contracted. Later I have an online chat scheduled with a friend (it's his birthday today).

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« Reply #82 on: October 16, 2016, 06:28:54 AM »
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I'm organizing my comic books.  It's turned out to be a non trivial effort.

the holy grail of projects LOL

i've been trying to do that one for years!  How are setting up the system?
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Re: Random Chat
« Reply #83 on: October 21, 2016, 08:11:55 AM »
Remember Doug Funny? Roger Klotz? Ren and Stimpy? You can thank voice artist Billy West for so many of the sounds of your Saturdays growing-up.

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« Reply #84 on: October 26, 2016, 03:52:01 AM »
so this came across my desk top this morning......
The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’: Robots That Could Kill on Their Own

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i'm just gonna hide my head in the sand for a while... the world is too crazy for even me at the moment
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« Reply #85 on: October 27, 2016, 05:53:16 PM »
An example of a good Bridge hand ;)
Yeah, I don't organize my hand just to annoy people

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« Reply #86 on: October 28, 2016, 09:05:20 AM »
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so this came across my desk top this morning......
The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’: Robots That Could Kill on Their Own

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i'm just gonna hide my head in the sand for a while... the world is too crazy for even me at the moment

Be safe, as the lifeguards say, sand is more dangerous than sharks.

This is one of Warren Ellis's newsletters, it contains a speech he gave at an Internet of Things conference, especially topical given the recent DDoS attack. Contains the word "gormless" which is quite a wonderful word.

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An example of a good Bridge hand ;)
Yeah, I don't organize my hand just to annoy people



The cards aren't ordered  by value in each suit! Totally bugging me. But here's a book recommendation that is both a great story and a tutorial on bridge, The Cardturner by Louis Sachar.

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« Reply #87 on: October 29, 2016, 09:47:10 AM »
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The cards aren't ordered  by value in each suit! Totally bugging me. But here's a book recommendation that is both a great story and a tutorial on bridge, The Cardturner by Louis Sachar.

OCD much?
just chalk it up to another one of alyssa's quirks

yeah a number of folks have suggested that book to me- honestly i have a hard time reading. <<-- ironic no?
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« Reply #88 on: October 29, 2016, 03:04:28 PM »
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OCD much?
just chalk it up to another one of alyssa's quirks

yeah a number of folks have suggested that book to me- honestly i have a hard time reading. <<-- ironic no?

Much? I don't know. More than sporadic certainly, maybe occasionally? Dangit there I go again.

We listened to The Cardturner on CD, was great like all of Sachar's books. We especially liked the foghorn sounds they used to bracket the technical descriptions of bridge so that people who wanted to could tune out. Now that I think about it, I can't remember any other books about bridge.

Picked up 2 books from a discount pile yesterday that looked like they would be scary reads. "The Secret Life of Puppets", with a really creepy cover and a "Complete History of the San Francisco Horror", published around the last time the Cubs won the World Series. When I got home and actually looked at them, found that the first was literary criticism and the other was about the 1906 earthquake  :-[

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« Reply #89 on: November 02, 2016, 03:59:10 AM »
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Much? I don't know. More than sporadic certainly, maybe occasionally? Dangit there I go again.

We listened to The Cardturner on CD, was great like all of Sachar's books. We especially liked the foghorn sounds they used to bracket the technical descriptions of bridge so that people who wanted to could tune out. Now that I think about it, I can't remember any other books about bridge.

Picked up 2 books from a discount pile yesterday that looked like they would be scary reads. "The Secret Life of Puppets", with a really creepy cover and a "Complete History of the San Francisco Horror", published around the last time the Cubs won the World Series. When I got home and actually looked at them, found that the first was literary criticism and the other was about the 1906 earthquake  :-[

actually downloading books might be interesting.  I'm not in the car much but I use to have an Audible subscription....... Anyone have another service they like?  I found Audible quirky but that was 10 years ago
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