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Morning Rooftops and roads and glass and shiny bonnets sparkling orangey yellow in the day's first gleams from remnants of overnight tropical storms :)
Sounds nice!
And good morning!
..same here, what I did back at the old development firm I worked for now requires the minimum of a Bacehlor's if not Masters degree. Crikey I helped pioneer that stuff. Interesting in that I and a couple others who worked there were effectively hired at a local Sci Fi con. One of the things that the owner mentioned was he wanted people who could also "think beyond the box", not just "do".
Heady days indeed back then. Learned a heck of a lot while I was there as well pretty much using hte same process.
...went out for Hawai'ian BBQ yesterday My favourite place in the city is only about five blocks away. They used to have a foodie truck that would show up for lunch in NW Portland where I worked years ago.
Still a very good price and still much more than one can eat in a single sitting.
Hawaii sounds good, warms there
polleed 4 year olds, 4 out of 4 4yo want to be spiderman for halloween. not batman, not superman, not 4 musketeers.
2015 4 year olds dont know who yippie yappie and yahooie are
How many 2015 40-year-olds know who they are?
prolly have to poll the 50 + crowd :)
Complaint! I finally let loose my grip on $40 for a Blu-Ray player for my computer to fill the empty bay. Looks cool, runs fine, I'd even previously purchased (many months ago) Corel WinDVD Pro 11 so that I could play Blu-Ray movies. It was an OEM so it didn't come with instructions or software or cables but I had cables. I got the latest download from Corel. And who needs instructions?
I crawled under my computer desk (not an easy thing to do anymore), blindly disconnected the cables, heaved up the case onto the desk, opened it up, blew out the dust (outside, wearing a dust mask), inserted my new prize, cabled it up, heaved it back down under the table, crawled under the desk again (much harder this time), blindly felt around and reconnected all the cables into apparently the correct sockets. Turned on the computer, inserted a Blu-Ray disk, updated the software, and Ta-Da it worked!
Then I tried another Blu-Ray disk and it comes up saying it gets an "AACS" error (or something like that) which after much Googleing turns out to be that it doesn't like to run when the video circuits detect a DVI conversion to HDMI in the system. The first Blu-Ray disk still works though. I've got all the latest software updates and patches so this is probably a digital rights issue for some Blu-Ray disks. I think the issue is my video card which has both DVI and HDMI outputs. Bah, Humbug!
But the biggest issue for me is that apparently they've also sucessfully blocked any ability to get a screen snap of any Blu-Ray playing. I can get a screen snap from standard DVDs using that drive but not any of the a Blu-Ray disks I've tried, even when it plays. 
A thought for Wednesday morning...
these actually cat toys. marketing towards the discerning kittehs.
sounds like a major headache doh
How times have changed, and not always for the better. Now most places are just looking for a code droid.
Oh man, I wish there was a Hawaiian BBQ place here! I have some money set aside for treats on occasion.. I'd spend some!
Just fry up some Spam™ slices with pineapple rings on them.
Agreed, but even in my early days (60s, 70s) firms measured software progress in "Lines of Code" as if somehow quantity related to quality. As a network engineer/consultant In the 90s one of the best projects I worked on had only three very bright members in our team. We produced the product in 6 months and exhibited the it at an HP OpenView convention and competitors in the same market were wowed with the functionality and then flabbergasted when we described our development time and team size. Some admitting that they would have tackled the problem with a team of 10 or 15 and taken two years.
LOL, could work!
The only metric we use here is "completed features". and in my past 45 jobs nobody counted LOC. But I recall the days at EDS where every Friday was line-count day.. yecch.. yeah, glad we're past that.
Our development team is.. me. Yep, ONE software guy and ONE hardware guy. Bloody amazing we got this thing working at all. I did a line count for fun and just the ode I wrote (not ported) sits at 20 THOUSAND lines.

I can use the break I'm going to get, I suppose.
Back to polishing up my C++ and 3D graphics...
cucumber and carrots ranch dressing. tasty but not really satisfying.
A Hummus sandwich, leftover salad, and cheese here. I could use some meat, but.. dunno if I want to pay that much.
Octoberfest this weekend, but it's going to rain.. went last year and had fun but will pass this time. No bus stops nearby and it's a $25 cab ride one way!
So, I'm going to take the cab fare I would have had to spend and buy some fancy bratwurst to cook, and a few sixes of fancy German beer, and Octoberfest at home all weekend! This saves me more money as they charge admission (argh) and the food and beer is insanely overpriced (come on, a single bratwurst dog for $7 and $10 beer)!! 
Meh.
IMHO alcohol is highly overrated, a cultural fantasy. I've been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, burned it!
Beer is life! Well, beer makes me fat and happy vodka makes me stupid and happy, bratwurst just make me plain old happy.
My brain hurts, the new programmable rendering pipeline is three times more complex than the fixed-function one I used to use is hurting my brain..
Oatmeal and prune juice makes me plain old happy.
..scared now...
I thought it was for put roaches into the big swirly bowl (aka toilet)
You have reason to be. Worf said this about prune juice: "a warrior's drink".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgzbKe6_DN4
Prune juice makes me feel like a prune.
4 cups of coffee, still sleepy. Talking on the phone for 45 minutes, several times a day, is tiring.
Will sleep late this weekend!
long hard day packing, shipping, getting stuff off the floor on to shelves. gonna feel it tomorrow. my arms feel like rubber
*hands you a nice heating pad*
thanks. sits on heating pad :) and 2 aleves.
i need something special for dinner, for all my troubles today. there's a Green Cactus near my bus stop. cheesie steak quesadillas