I used to love Dockers... before I finally got around to dropping some pounds (and before I hit my final growth-spurt)
I now wear a 32w/36l, and am dying for some decent, relatively inexpensive pants =(
Finding pants with the length greater than the waist is hard enough, but Dockers don't even come in above a 34 length (unless you manage to find their big-n-tall line, which starts at a 40-something waist.
I could definitely use a pair of the mobile pants, and one of my former favorites was a pair of Dockers stain defenders - great for the more clumsy individuals (or those who, like me, eat haphazardly at their desk).
Not to turn this into a clothing discussion, but do any other lanky geeks out there have pant-finding tips? (dress-casual for work)
I couldn't resist "rewriting" it in 'proper' limerick form, however...
There once was a troll found on slashdot Whose posts made him seem like a crackpot Something's wrong with his head Screaming BSD's dead Thanks to Darwin it's just hit the jackpot
It does lack some of the panache of the original...
AFAIK, a limerick must follow these general conventions: w S w w S w w S w - a w S w w S w w S w - a w w S w w S - b w w S w w S - b w w S w w S w w S w - a
"They had no idea what I was talking about. After that I wasn't particularly willing to entrust my credit card number to them at all..."
I used to carry the same sentiment, complaining if a merchant provided no "secure" means of credit card information transfer.
The problem is that although email may be a much less secure method of transfer than other commonly accepted means, the generally accepted methods are almost as insecure.
e.g. - when you patronize the local drive through, realize you don't have enough cash on hand to cover your embarrassingly large order and are subsequently forced to pay with your credit card, do you know what goes on behind the window once you hand your card over? What number of pimply-faced purveyors of fast-food goodness are given the chance to jot down your card number, just as if they were to brows through the inbox of your unsecured merchant?
Likewise, when you make a purchase at a store such as CompUSA, where they take an imprint of your credit card for their records - how do you know that the storage of the receipt is anything approaching secure; that they shred the receipt sufficiently after its use is fulfilled???
While I agree that online merchants with decent security policies on buyer CC information may make me fell more secure, it is really only semantics... For all I know, the person receiving my encrypted CC info just decrypts it, jots it down on a sticky note, and sticks it on his monitor for anybody to see so that he remembers to complete my order in the morning. (Very unlikely, yes - but very possible as far as I can tell...)
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So this leaves me wondering what happened to the http://reboot.fcc.gov/ initiative announced back in January which was built using Liferay ( http://www.liferay.com/ )
My favorite FreeBSD ports related reference:
/usr/ports && make search name=blah` or key=blah feature, right?
http://www.freshports.org/
News of new/updated ports as well as a searchable index of all ports (and you can navigate the site the same as your ports directory structure).
Also, on a somewhat related note, you know of the `cd
Happy New Year! (give or take a TimeZone...)
I used to love Dockers... before I finally got around to dropping some pounds (and before I hit my final growth-spurt)
I now wear a 32w/36l, and am dying for some decent, relatively inexpensive pants =(
Finding pants with the length greater than the waist is hard enough, but Dockers don't even come in above a 34 length (unless you manage to find their big-n-tall line, which starts at a 40-something waist.
I could definitely use a pair of the mobile pants, and one of my former favorites was a pair of Dockers stain defenders - great for the more clumsy individuals (or those who, like me, eat haphazardly at their desk).
Not to turn this into a clothing discussion, but do any other lanky geeks out there have pant-finding tips? (dress-casual for work)
Great limerick!
I couldn't resist "rewriting" it in 'proper' limerick form, however...
There once was a troll found on slashdot
Whose posts made him seem like a crackpot
Something's wrong with his head
Screaming BSD's dead
Thanks to Darwin it's just hit the jackpot
It does lack some of the panache of the original...
AFAIK, a limerick must follow these general conventions:
w S w w S w w S w - a
w S w w S w w S w - a
w w S w w S - b
w w S w w S - b
w w S w w S w w S w - a
(w=weak / S=strong / [ab]=rhyme scheme)
Cheers =)
"They had no idea what I was talking about. After that I wasn't particularly willing to entrust my credit card number to them at all..."
I used to carry the same sentiment, complaining if a merchant provided no "secure" means of credit card information transfer.
The problem is that although email may be a much less secure method of transfer than other commonly accepted means, the generally accepted methods are almost as insecure.
e.g. - when you patronize the local drive through, realize you don't have enough cash on hand to cover your embarrassingly large order and are subsequently forced to pay with your credit card, do you know what goes on behind the window once you hand your card over? What number of pimply-faced purveyors of fast-food goodness are given the chance to jot down your card number, just as if they were to brows through the inbox of your unsecured merchant?
Likewise, when you make a purchase at a store such as CompUSA, where they take an imprint of your credit card for their records - how do you know that the storage of the receipt is anything approaching secure; that they shred the receipt sufficiently after its use is fulfilled???
While I agree that online merchants with decent security policies on buyer CC information may make me fell more secure, it is really only semantics... For all I know, the person receiving my encrypted CC info just decrypts it, jots it down on a sticky note, and sticks it on his monitor for anybody to see so that he remembers to complete my order in the morning. (Very unlikely, yes - but very possible as far as I can tell...)