Unlike many of the posters' suggestions, I don't have the option of moving to where I work.
I work in an oil field in a cold state (not hard to figure out) and I live outside of Philadelphia.
There's no place to live, outside of the camp here... and it's more of a dorm than a home.
I'm away for two weeks at time. However, when I'm home, it's 100% home time. No office to go to, no work to think about. Working 12 to 16 hour days for fourteen straight days was hard to adapt, but I can't imagine going back to a regular job now. It's too good. Especially the offtime. I literally have six months a year off. If you can get that kind of deal, definately go for it.
If you're working a 9 to 5'er, no way. That's crazy. But if your job is a 12 hour job or 7 days a week, etc. It's not that bad. I've been doing this for 7. Been married for the last four of them, and have a three year old daughter. It's not easy, but as far as my wife and daughter know, I've always been like this.
The number one tip would obviously be make sure your home time is your home time, and it should reflect on your commute & work hours.
Hear Hear.
Nothing worse than a bad case of smug.
How is the Halliburton bag in terms of going through TSA at airports? Do they just assume that you're a g-man and wave you through? I'd like to get one, but I'm a frequent flier, and I suspect they'd bust by balls everytime I'd go through.
F*ck yeah...
I was thinking the same thing.
I beat Tempest 2K (maybe one of the best games ever) with that controller... hours at a time with that, no problem.
If it had six buttons instead of the three it would have been far more useful for that fighting game.... the ridicuoulsly bloody one. I forgot what it was called.
You know, it wasn't until I saw that new plug, that it clicked.
My 3 year old daughter has stepped on my Powerbook's cable a number of times. Each time it's cleanly pulled it out of the socket... sort of an RCA type thing. It's bound to break one day, but not yet.
My wife's laptops, however, "mysteriously" have always had power cable problems.
Now I know why!
I used to use Cmd-Space to open Spotlight and start typing to launch some new app.
Now it finds it (eventually), and when I arrow down to select "Top Hit" I can't hit RETURN or Cmd-O to actually launch it.
I have to wait for a second hit, arrow down, THEN back up to hit RETURN.
Yes yes yes! The Smart Playlist functionality is cool, and I use the crap out of it, but it needs parenthesis! It's kind of lame that you can either do an AND or an OR in a smart playlist, not both.
I'd like to make a smart playlist like [(Playlist is "Recently Added to Library") OR (NULL Album or NULL Track Number)] so that I can fix the ID3s or download an album cover. (now I use two playlists)
And while I'm complaining, how about being able to search for "No album artwork" without using an Applescript, but native to iTunes playlist rules? Oh.. and a folder structure for playlists like iPhoto finally got.
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It was called "phone".. it's still around on VMS.
Depending on the kind of prison he ends up in after forging those stock documents, you might be regretting that statement.
Plus you wouldn't be a virgin all that long.
At least not until the first shower anyway.
Are you sure? I can't think of anything on VMS that's case sensitive. Maybe passwords......
I'm waiting for Netcraft to tell me before I'm sure.
People think Yahoo/Hotmail are viable email services.
Look at this guy... He's running for Pa Senate, with a yahoo account. http://www.threesources.com/archives/002949.html
I work in an oil field in a cold state (not hard to figure out) and I live outside of Philadelphia.
There's no place to live, outside of the camp here... and it's more of a dorm than a home.
I'm away for two weeks at time. However, when I'm home, it's 100% home time. No office to go to, no work to think about. Working 12 to 16 hour days for fourteen straight days was hard to adapt, but I can't imagine going back to a regular job now. It's too good. Especially the offtime. I literally have six months a year off. If you can get that kind of deal, definately go for it.
If you're working a 9 to 5'er, no way. That's crazy. But if your job is a 12 hour job or 7 days a week, etc. It's not that bad. I've been doing this for 7. Been married for the last four of them, and have a three year old daughter. It's not easy, but as far as my wife and daughter know, I've always been like this.
The number one tip would obviously be make sure your home time is your home time, and it should reflect on your commute & work hours.
Hear Hear. Nothing worse than a bad case of smug. How is the Halliburton bag in terms of going through TSA at airports? Do they just assume that you're a g-man and wave you through? I'd like to get one, but I'm a frequent flier, and I suspect they'd bust by balls everytime I'd go through.
You're kidding right?
I always thought he was more libertarian than anything else. He's on board with killing terrorists over there, though.
I was thinking the same thing.
I beat Tempest 2K (maybe one of the best games ever) with that controller... hours at a time with that, no problem.
If it had six buttons instead of the three it would have been far more useful for that fighting game.... the ridicuoulsly bloody one. I forgot what it was called.
Unnecessary. There would be plenty of people willing to do it for free.
I think you need to reevaluate that.
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For a traveller on the ship it would only seem like months. For the people left behind it would be years.
Look here. http://members.tripod.com/wmhxbigguy/Theory/time.
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Eventually you can embarrass them to shut up.
If you're lucky enough to see their boarding pass, just say, "John you're times up. That'll be $100."
If you're bolder, "John, get your hand off my cock. Be a good boy."
If you don't know their name, just say you have Touretts.
I'm a frequent flier, and I look forward with sick-pleasure to annoying cell-phone yapping douchebags.
How about something more useful? Like wattage?
My 3 year old daughter has stepped on my Powerbook's cable a number of times. Each time it's cleanly pulled it out of the socket... sort of an RCA type thing. It's bound to break one day, but not yet.
My wife's laptops, however, "mysteriously" have always had power cable problems.
Now I know why!
I'm sorry. You must be new here. Usually these threads are full of speculation and wild-ass guesses, not someone reading article. Sheesh!
But 150+ Mb for a weather widget? The Mac widgets were pigs. Though, I don't think it was the individual widget's fault. I think Dashboard was funky.
Like I said, I've since turned of Dashboard and am using the Yahoo Widgets, with far less trouble.
I switched to the ex-Konfabulator, Yahoo! Widgets and now my PB doesn't seem to thrash as much. That, and I've added a number of additional widgets.
How about you? Don't be a leach.
It's "Save Ferris!" .... and "Vote for Pedro" .... wrong decade!
I used to use Cmd-Space to open Spotlight and start typing to launch some new app. Now it finds it (eventually), and when I arrow down to select "Top Hit" I can't hit RETURN or Cmd-O to actually launch it. I have to wait for a second hit, arrow down, THEN back up to hit RETURN.
Grr.
Beyond that, no problem with TIger.
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I'd like to make a smart playlist like [(Playlist is "Recently Added to Library") OR (NULL Album or NULL Track Number)] so that I can fix the ID3s or download an album cover. (now I use two playlists)
And while I'm complaining, how about being able to search for "No album artwork" without using an Applescript, but native to iTunes playlist rules? Oh.. and a folder structure for playlists like iPhoto finally got.