I thought you were going to suggest tying the other end of the string to a door knob across the room and slamming the door. It worked on my loose teeth when I was a kid.
My wife and I adopted three children from three different ethnic groups when they were infants (less than 6 months). They're all in the 3-4 age range now. One is a mayan indian boy, one is a typically hispanic girl, and one is a vietnamese girl. They look totally different from each other. In spite of this, people keep asking us if they're natural triplets. This of course is a great source of hilarity for my wife and me. Are they triplets?
Yes... man, was that a wild summer. Are they all yours?
Shhhh, she doesn't know she's not the mother! My favorite question is people asking whether they speak english.
My CS degree is from UCF. UCF was great. But I tried to start my career in orlando and got nowhere. I found myself competing for low paying salaried jobs against people from colder states with masters degrees who were willing to pay the sunshine tax. Florida sucks. Let me count the ways. Florida is a state full of rich people and the poor people who serve them. Incomes are low. Housing costs were high. Bugs. Oppressive heat. Air conditioners in public places are frequently tired and insufficient. High humidity ensuring 90 degree evenings. Frequent food poisoning from inadequate refrigeration. Torrential rain. Skin cancer from an oppressive sun. Bugs. Hurricanes. Did I mention the bugs? First, there's love bugs. They're these annoying flies that swarm and fuck in mid air. When your car hits them, you have 8 hours to wash them off. If you don't they eat through the paint on your car. I had to stop my daily 2 mile jog because I kept inhaling bugs. Then there are several varieties of roach, the best being the Palmetto Bug. This is a giant flying roach. Nice. Then there's ants. At one point we had 5 varieties of ant in our house. They go after everything. Leave dirty dishes in your dishwasher waiting for a full load? Expect ants in your dishwasher. Ever put a half used box if cereal in your pantry? Expect ants floating in your cereal in the morning. Leave dirty dishes in your kitchen sink? Ants. Food crumbs between the keys in your keyboard? Ants. Only inside the fridge was safe because they didn't like the cold. I had ants in my car at one point. Then there's the fire ants. Giant spiders. Mosquitoes... People were building houses with conduit built into the walls that the exterminator could access outside your house. Sprays bug spray right into your walls.
At least you don't have to shovel sunshine! Bite me. Florida sucks. Leaving was the best thing I ever did.
You mean the genes that make it really hard to have children right at the end of natural child-bearing years?
This is politically incorrect and maybe even a little crazy, but modern western civilization is dysfunctional and unnatural. The female human body was designed (by God, evolution, or both, take yer pick) to get pregnant and have children from the ages of maybe 16 to maybe 25. Is it really such a surprise that an upwardly mobile career woman decided to have children at the age of 30 and discovers she can't? Or how about what our society says is the "right" way to do things, that is, go to college, get a career, save some money, then start thinking about children? Does this sound natural?
Here's a better life: Meet your spouse in high school. Get married and start having children immediately. Stay married until you die. Work from home in a business you've created. Home school your children. Grow as much of your own food as you can. Avoid debt.
If society makes this difficult or impossible, it's because society is broken. Rather than spending all our time trying to figure out how to have blue-eyed babies, maybe we should figure out how to live and be happy with sane lifestyles.
It would have proved interesting were she have had say tropic sprue [wikipedia.org] and you were to treat her with the immunosupressants.
I take a medication that's used to treat Crohn's disease (Enbrel). It's a shot i self-administer twice a week. I take it for severe plaque psoriasis. It's a freakin miracle drug. Without out, those spots you see on peoples' knees and elbows cover 50% of my skin severely limiting my mobility, lots of cracking and bleeding. During a flair, it feels like a second degree burn... on 50% of your body. And it's rather disfiguring. Anyway, while it technically is an immunosupressant, I have virtually no side-effects. I don't even get sick more often. And I don't have an increase in infections of any kind. It's a tumor necrotizing factor inhibitor, so I think it's fairly targeted. Based on my experience, I doubt it's dropping my white blood cell counts much. It wouldn't be such a terrible drug to try out, although it is expensive and takes a while to start working, at least with psoriasis.
Most people don't realize how big a deal this is. I was talking to an IT recruiter lady one day. She was telling me about how it cost her $1200 for front brakes on her landrover discovery. Most cars aren't that much, but $600 for front brakes is common. I can do it in my driveway for around $50 depending on the car. And it's not hard to do at all. The repair cost justification for accepting a car loan payment for a new car with a warranty sort of falls apart.
At some point it's better to just rewrite the thing from the ground up. Especially once you start moving platforms (if your code is architecture specific enough like a kernel) or definitely when you start moving between languages (when you start integrating somebody else C code in what used to be another one's Perl script).
This is obvious to developers, but a completely alien idea to business users or executives. To them, that 20 year old crap application is a valuable asset. And to suggest that they throw it out and replace it is like suggesting that they burn down their office building and buy a new one.
I'm really getting jaded with this whole IT thing. I'm seriously considering moving to a small town and doing something completely different. Maybe I'll be a mail man, or open my own auto shop.
80% of the code in business fits this description. With 20 year old legacy code written by 50 consultants, then upgraded in India, then ported from one platform to another to another, and a database engine switch or two. Code gets senile. What do they expect? Good thing we're all just commodities... human lego bricks easily replaced with cheaper plastic.
Now THAT is a nerd's nerd. At the age of eleven, names a planet after a Roman god. I can just picture it now. "Grandfather, I rather think that naming it aaaafter the god Pluto might be the most appropriate course."
No kidding. My daughter would try to name it after, like, you know, oh my god, myspace.
I think you're insane. They only way I would bike anywhere in florida is with a window air-conditioner strapped to my back. Believe me it would be an improvement.
I agree. Vasectomy is the way to go. The procedure was a bit frightening and bizarre. But I healed very quickly. Also, for the less-of-a-man crowd, there is absolutely no way to tell without a microscope. No woman would ever know unless you told her. I don't even have scars.
Having sex using a condom sucks. It's is like eating steak with a balloon on your tongue.
It's worse than that. If you use the CPI calculation that was in place the day Ronald Reagan took office, the current rate of inflation is around double what they're reporting today, well into the double digits.
And to fend of the partisan accusations, Bill Clinton modified the calculation again making it even worse.
When Reagan and Volker decided to "break the back of inflation", they meant wage inflation. That's why wages have been stagnant for so long. But don't worry, inflation in every form is right around the corner.
How about Pussification Flu? Anyone who is offended by that name, well, they probably deserve to be.
In other words, get a fucking grip. It's the flu. Get over it already.
I don't get it either. Is this really any worse than any other flu virus? The flu kills people all the time. How many people died from this flu virus so far? How many people died in car accidents today in the US alone? Smoking? Child birth?
And what's up with the reported number of deaths? First it's a few, then it's like 150 in mexico. Then the WHO says, oh sorry, it's only 9. WTF? How hard is it to count dead people? And why when the WHO reported their new number did I get the distinct impression that they were lying?
- that would be a mistake, I live in Canada, it's no joke. Our cancer patients have to wait for over 70 days now to start getting critical treatment, our emergency rooms are filled with people who are waiting for 8-16 hours to get service and half of our people do not have a physician, forget about getting an appointment with a specialist in less than 3-4 months (sometimes 6-9 months).
You do not want to remove competition, what you do want is to add competition.
Have the government run a competing system, then you'll get somewhere.
I'm sure that Canada has its health care system problems, but I don't think you realize how bad it is here in the US. I'm an independent consultant. My wife doesn't work. I can't go out an get individual health insurance because they refuse to cover three of my kids because they have asthma. They're happy to cover the rest of my family though. Just don't use the coverage or they'll drop you. And if you have a major claim, they deny it and force you to sue. Oh, and the drugs for my medical condition cost $1200 a month. But prescription drug caps mean I exhaust that in a few months.
So I've created this convoluted business relationship with this other company. They employ my wife as their employee and give her group health insurance. Then bill my corporation for her services. Works great. But it costs $3000 a month, up from half of that two years ago.
So I'm currently negotiating a salaried job with a significant pay cut because I actually end up taking home more... all because of health insurance.
I'm sure your system sucks. I'm sure our system sucks more. A lot more.
maybe if your new sink is capable of 1000 gpm (gallons per minute) and the pipes can only provide 100 gpm. but that's only if you care about using your new sink to its full potential.
The bathroom stalls where I work are always full. There's not enough toilets for the number of butts. They could certainly benefit from upgraded bathroom bandwidth.
I would argue that she's still choosing her mate by fitness.
I would argue that it goes like this:
When women aren't ready to get married, it's appearance, personality, resources.
When they are ready to get married, it flips around: resources, personality, appearance.
When I was younger, I was a dork with a lot of potential. Women wouldn't give me the time of day. Now I have resources, I've learned people skills, and unfortunately for them, I'm happily married with kids. But that's attractive to them also, since women want someone who has someone and don't want someone who doesn't. I'm not saying that I have women following me around, just that dating would be ridiculously easy for me now.
So my advice is this: when you're 18 and most women won't give you the time of day, marry the one who does. She has the right priorities. You'll be a lot happier through your 20s. And 20 years later, you'll be laughing at the loser girls who wouldn't talk to you while they're now fighting over bald fat guys.
I have lived and worked in Orlando. I currently live in a Chicago suburb and work downtown. For working downtown, I drive to the train station, take the train, then walk a mile to work. I do this in bad weather. I carry a heavy backpack with toys, magazines, snacks, and my laptop. Sometimes I bring an umbrella that gets destroyed in minutes by the chicago winds. Yes it sucks. When it's really bad I take a cab. There is a bus that I can take, but I hate buses with a passion. The train is awesome though. It's heated an air conditioned. I can read, eat, sleep, drink beer, use the computer... my commuter train even has a bar car that serves alcohol.
But when I lived in Orlando, things were different. I agree that if I had to walk a mile every morning in florida weather, I would either be forced to take a poorly air conditioned bus, sweat, or find another job.
Europeans I think don't understand this about American weather. Draw a horizontal line through the middle of the US. Everything below that line requires air conditioning. This includes 8 o'clock in the morning in the southern states. The sun is utterly oppressive. In August, I get sunburns through my shirt if I'm in it for more than an hour. Walking a mile through 85-95 degree 95% humidity weather in the morning will make you look like you like you were caught in a torrential downpour.
In Europe and some parts of the US, elderly people die when their heat is turned off in the winter. In the south, elderly people die from heat stroke when their air conditioning is turned off. Yes it's that bad. So I have no problem with people driving to work in a car with working a/c. The weather in florida is so oppressive that it's a requirement. It's up there with refrigeration and hot water.
I remember reading one account of a guillotine execution that went wrong. The victim had a rather short thick neck. When the blade came down. it caught him on the back of the jaw bone below the ear. This stopped the blade from going all the way through and didn't kill him immediately. The executioners had to jump on the back of the blade to get it to cut all the way through his mandible. Great way to go out.
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I thought you were going to suggest tying the other end of the string to a door knob across the room and slamming the door. It worked on my loose teeth when I was a kid.
My wife and I adopted three children from three different ethnic groups when they were infants (less than 6 months). They're all in the 3-4 age range now. One is a mayan indian boy, one is a typically hispanic girl, and one is a vietnamese girl. They look totally different from each other. In spite of this, people keep asking us if they're natural triplets. This of course is a great source of hilarity for my wife and me.
Are they triplets?
Yes... man, was that a wild summer.
Are they all yours?
Shhhh, she doesn't know she's not the mother!
My favorite question is people asking whether they speak english.
My CS degree is from UCF. UCF was great. But I tried to start my career in orlando and got nowhere. I found myself competing for low paying salaried jobs against people from colder states with masters degrees who were willing to pay the sunshine tax. Florida sucks. Let me count the ways. Florida is a state full of rich people and the poor people who serve them. Incomes are low. Housing costs were high. Bugs. Oppressive heat. Air conditioners in public places are frequently tired and insufficient. High humidity ensuring 90 degree evenings. Frequent food poisoning from inadequate refrigeration. Torrential rain. Skin cancer from an oppressive sun. Bugs. Hurricanes. Did I mention the bugs? First, there's love bugs. They're these annoying flies that swarm and fuck in mid air. When your car hits them, you have 8 hours to wash them off. If you don't they eat through the paint on your car. I had to stop my daily 2 mile jog because I kept inhaling bugs. Then there are several varieties of roach, the best being the Palmetto Bug. This is a giant flying roach. Nice. Then there's ants. At one point we had 5 varieties of ant in our house. They go after everything. Leave dirty dishes in your dishwasher waiting for a full load? Expect ants in your dishwasher. Ever put a half used box if cereal in your pantry? Expect ants floating in your cereal in the morning. Leave dirty dishes in your kitchen sink? Ants. Food crumbs between the keys in your keyboard? Ants. Only inside the fridge was safe because they didn't like the cold. I had ants in my car at one point. Then there's the fire ants. Giant spiders. Mosquitoes... People were building houses with conduit built into the walls that the exterminator could access outside your house. Sprays bug spray right into your walls.
At least you don't have to shovel sunshine! Bite me. Florida sucks. Leaving was the best thing I ever did.
... because there's nowhere else to shop? Or because they're so under-paid or under-employed that they can't afford to shop any other way?
I keep getting robocalls in spanish. I speak french and japanese, but not spanish. Can anyone tell me what these are?
You mean the genes that make it really hard to have children right at the end of natural child-bearing years?
This is politically incorrect and maybe even a little crazy, but modern western civilization is dysfunctional and unnatural. The female human body was designed (by God, evolution, or both, take yer pick) to get pregnant and have children from the ages of maybe 16 to maybe 25. Is it really such a surprise that an upwardly mobile career woman decided to have children at the age of 30 and discovers she can't? Or how about what our society says is the "right" way to do things, that is, go to college, get a career, save some money, then start thinking about children? Does this sound natural?
Here's a better life: Meet your spouse in high school. Get married and start having children immediately. Stay married until you die. Work from home in a business you've created. Home school your children. Grow as much of your own food as you can. Avoid debt.
If society makes this difficult or impossible, it's because society is broken. Rather than spending all our time trying to figure out how to have blue-eyed babies, maybe we should figure out how to live and be happy with sane lifestyles.
It would have proved interesting were she have had say tropic sprue [wikipedia.org] and you were to treat her with the immunosupressants.
I take a medication that's used to treat Crohn's disease (Enbrel). It's a shot i self-administer twice a week. I take it for severe plaque psoriasis. It's a freakin miracle drug. Without out, those spots you see on peoples' knees and elbows cover 50% of my skin severely limiting my mobility, lots of cracking and bleeding. During a flair, it feels like a second degree burn... on 50% of your body. And it's rather disfiguring. Anyway, while it technically is an immunosupressant, I have virtually no side-effects. I don't even get sick more often. And I don't have an increase in infections of any kind. It's a tumor necrotizing factor inhibitor, so I think it's fairly targeted. Based on my experience, I doubt it's dropping my white blood cell counts much. It wouldn't be such a terrible drug to try out, although it is expensive and takes a while to start working, at least with psoriasis.
Most people don't realize how big a deal this is. I was talking to an IT recruiter lady one day. She was telling me about how it cost her $1200 for front brakes on her landrover discovery. Most cars aren't that much, but $600 for front brakes is common. I can do it in my driveway for around $50 depending on the car. And it's not hard to do at all. The repair cost justification for accepting a car loan payment for a new car with a warranty sort of falls apart.
It's worse than that. Just move to Chicago. Lake Michigan is both our water supply and our sewer. It's also our "beach". :-/
Chicken! Fight like a robot!
I'm 6'5" and all legs. I drive a 350Z comfortably.
Yeah, but promiscuous mode was awesome.
The land fills will be better.
At some point it's better to just rewrite the thing from the ground up. Especially once you start moving platforms (if your code is architecture specific enough like a kernel) or definitely when you start moving between languages (when you start integrating somebody else C code in what used to be another one's Perl script).
This is obvious to developers, but a completely alien idea to business users or executives. To them, that 20 year old crap application is a valuable asset. And to suggest that they throw it out and replace it is like suggesting that they burn down their office building and buy a new one.
I'm really getting jaded with this whole IT thing. I'm seriously considering moving to a small town and doing something completely different. Maybe I'll be a mail man, or open my own auto shop.
80% of the code in business fits this description. With 20 year old legacy code written by 50 consultants, then upgraded in India, then ported from one platform to another to another, and a database engine switch or two. Code gets senile. What do they expect? Good thing we're all just commodities... human lego bricks easily replaced with cheaper plastic.
Now THAT is a nerd's nerd. At the age of eleven, names a planet after a Roman god. I can just picture it now. "Grandfather, I rather think that naming it aaaafter the god Pluto might be the most appropriate course."
No kidding. My daughter would try to name it after, like, you know, oh my god, myspace.
I think you're insane. They only way I would bike anywhere in florida is with a window air-conditioner strapped to my back. Believe me it would be an improvement.
I agree. Vasectomy is the way to go. The procedure was a bit frightening and bizarre. But I healed very quickly. Also, for the less-of-a-man crowd, there is absolutely no way to tell without a microscope. No woman would ever know unless you told her. I don't even have scars.
Having sex using a condom sucks. It's is like eating steak with a balloon on your tongue.
It's worse than that. If you use the CPI calculation that was in place the day Ronald Reagan took office, the current rate of inflation is around double what they're reporting today, well into the double digits.
And to fend of the partisan accusations, Bill Clinton modified the calculation again making it even worse.
When Reagan and Volker decided to "break the back of inflation", they meant wage inflation. That's why wages have been stagnant for so long. But don't worry, inflation in every form is right around the corner.
How about Pussification Flu? Anyone who is offended by that name, well, they probably deserve to be.
In other words, get a fucking grip. It's the flu. Get over it already.
I don't get it either. Is this really any worse than any other flu virus? The flu kills people all the time. How many people died from this flu virus so far? How many people died in car accidents today in the US alone? Smoking? Child birth?
And what's up with the reported number of deaths? First it's a few, then it's like 150 in mexico. Then the WHO says, oh sorry, it's only 9. WTF? How hard is it to count dead people? And why when the WHO reported their new number did I get the distinct impression that they were lying?
- that would be a mistake, I live in Canada, it's no joke. Our cancer patients have to wait for over 70 days now to start getting critical treatment, our emergency rooms are filled with people who are waiting for 8-16 hours to get service and half of our people do not have a physician, forget about getting an appointment with a specialist in less than 3-4 months (sometimes 6-9 months).
You do not want to remove competition, what you do want is to add competition.
Have the government run a competing system, then you'll get somewhere.
I'm sure that Canada has its health care system problems, but I don't think you realize how bad it is here in the US. I'm an independent consultant. My wife doesn't work. I can't go out an get individual health insurance because they refuse to cover three of my kids because they have asthma. They're happy to cover the rest of my family though. Just don't use the coverage or they'll drop you. And if you have a major claim, they deny it and force you to sue. Oh, and the drugs for my medical condition cost $1200 a month. But prescription drug caps mean I exhaust that in a few months.
So I've created this convoluted business relationship with this other company. They employ my wife as their employee and give her group health insurance. Then bill my corporation for her services. Works great. But it costs $3000 a month, up from half of that two years ago.
So I'm currently negotiating a salaried job with a significant pay cut because I actually end up taking home more... all because of health insurance.
I'm sure your system sucks. I'm sure our system sucks more. A lot more.
maybe if your new sink is capable of 1000 gpm (gallons per minute) and the pipes can only provide 100 gpm. but that's only if you care about using your new sink to its full potential.
The bathroom stalls where I work are always full. There's not enough toilets for the number of butts. They could certainly benefit from upgraded bathroom bandwidth.
I would argue that she's still choosing her mate by fitness.
I would argue that it goes like this:
When women aren't ready to get married, it's appearance, personality, resources.
When they are ready to get married, it flips around: resources, personality, appearance.
When I was younger, I was a dork with a lot of potential. Women wouldn't give me the time of day. Now I have resources, I've learned people skills, and unfortunately for them, I'm happily married with kids. But that's attractive to them also, since women want someone who has someone and don't want someone who doesn't. I'm not saying that I have women following me around, just that dating would be ridiculously easy for me now.
So my advice is this: when you're 18 and most women won't give you the time of day, marry the one who does. She has the right priorities. You'll be a lot happier through your 20s. And 20 years later, you'll be laughing at the loser girls who wouldn't talk to you while they're now fighting over bald fat guys.
I have lived and worked in Orlando. I currently live in a Chicago suburb and work downtown. For working downtown, I drive to the train station, take the train, then walk a mile to work. I do this in bad weather. I carry a heavy backpack with toys, magazines, snacks, and my laptop. Sometimes I bring an umbrella that gets destroyed in minutes by the chicago winds. Yes it sucks. When it's really bad I take a cab. There is a bus that I can take, but I hate buses with a passion. The train is awesome though. It's heated an air conditioned. I can read, eat, sleep, drink beer, use the computer... my commuter train even has a bar car that serves alcohol.
But when I lived in Orlando, things were different. I agree that if I had to walk a mile every morning in florida weather, I would either be forced to take a poorly air conditioned bus, sweat, or find another job.
Europeans I think don't understand this about American weather. Draw a horizontal line through the middle of the US. Everything below that line requires air conditioning. This includes 8 o'clock in the morning in the southern states. The sun is utterly oppressive. In August, I get sunburns through my shirt if I'm in it for more than an hour. Walking a mile through 85-95 degree 95% humidity weather in the morning will make you look like you like you were caught in a torrential downpour.
In Europe and some parts of the US, elderly people die when their heat is turned off in the winter. In the south, elderly people die from heat stroke when their air conditioning is turned off. Yes it's that bad. So I have no problem with people driving to work in a car with working a/c. The weather in florida is so oppressive that it's a requirement. It's up there with refrigeration and hot water.
I remember reading one account of a guillotine execution that went wrong. The victim had a rather short thick neck. When the blade came down. it caught him on the back of the jaw bone below the ear. This stopped the blade from going all the way through and didn't kill him immediately. The executioners had to jump on the back of the blade to get it to cut all the way through his mandible. Great way to go out.