Being recently divorced (last year), I started poking around at the various dating sites. Let's see, I don't smoke, I effectively don't drink alcohol (one beer a year doesn't make me a "drinker"), I'm a gamer (you'd be amazed at the number of women who think gamers are "childish"), and I'm not into sports (lots of women who go to football/baseball/hockey games). I do like going hiking in the mountains, snowshoes, skiing, I like bicycling. But I'm not a fitness fanatic which also eliminated quite a few women. I'm not religious which eliminated a few more.
After eliminating the mis-matches, I started paring down the other issues. Based on profiles, I got down to about 60 women in the area who might be an match based on shared interests. I received no replies to my e-mails but I did receive three unrelated emails. One from a women in Australia. One from a woman in Texas who had pictures of her daughter leaning on a car (which was a bit creepy). And one from a woman who plays guitars who appeared to be looking for a man in every city.
Amusingly on my birthday (hit 56), my match list dropped to zero. Every one of the women were looking for guys 55 or younger. So I expanded my search until I got to a couple of women in a 250 mile radius.
For some of us (a small percentage I suppose), the dating sites really aren't helping. And since women receive all the emails, they have the choice of who to go out with.
Humorously I was chosen to moderate pictures on okcupid for a bit. The guys do send some very suggestive emails (and some not so suggestive!).
First off, I thought the iPad was a logical extension of the iPhone not a whole cloth creation. Even at the time we were saying it was just a bigger iPhone.
Next. I don't think the table will replace the notebook/laptop for the folks who create. Sure, I can type a lot even with a keyboard on my iPad however I absolutely do not want to create websites on it. I certainly don't want to use OpenOffice on a Nook.
Third, the individual apps for each news organization, on-line marketplace, or forum isn't something I'm a fan of. In particular the individual sites have a bigger lock on your eyes. They can present advertising without a way to block it when coming through an app. Plus it's just one more thing that's potentially running on my iPad. I'd rather keep it to the websites and use the app for problematic sites like Facebook which regularly crashes Safari.
Yea, I saw the first one and was quite disappointed by the movie. I don't mind trimming bits to speed up movies. Books are quite long and can take days to read (or more for the slower readers or readers with less time to read) but adding extra bits and especially the wrong bits had me pretty unhappy with the experience.
The problem though is the big paper pretty much just prints stories from the AP and opinion columns from other newspapers. I stopped getting the physical paper a couple of years ago. The front page had a local story or two and there was a half to one column of news from the AP on most of the pages. The rest was advertising with several pages of advertising in the center of the 'A' section. I could have created a 4 page 'newspaper' from just the AP articles in the 'A' section. I found more interesting stories from the local 'City Paper' and the county paper, both of which I still receive.
I might consider using C# as a back end replacement for php assuming it has support to access a database like mysql but certainly not as a client side replacement for javascript. C# is a Microsoft scripting language that's equivalent to things like Perl, Python, and PHP. It would be something I'd use if I were more familiar with programming Windows type applications. Since I'm a Unix admin, I'm more likely to use Perl for general scripting and PHP for my backend work on websites simply because it's what I'm familiar with.
And mono isn't a complete implementation for non-Microsoft environments.
C# does seem like massive overkill to replace a moderately simple website and likely doesn't work on my OpenBSD server where PHP does:)
Why would you use C# to replace Javascript? I can possibly see it as a replacement for Java though. Are you misunderstanding the difference between the two?
My ex decided to get a 2 year contract for Xfinity about a month before she left. After 16 months, I realized I hadn't turned on and watched TV for at least the past 30 days, certainly longer. So I took the cable box/DVR combo down to the local Comcast outlet. I wanted to switch to higher speed internet and dump the box. Unfortunately since they now encrypt all channels, I needed to get a little decrypter box in case I wanted to watch the news or something.
Since I had 8 months left on my contract, I expected a high disconnect/change fee. Turns out it wasn't that bad. A few bucks a month for the disconnect fee totaling around $35 and I cut my cable bill by almost half ($132 before, $78 after). Since work lets me expense $50 a month, my cable bill is $38 a month.
Plus, we chatted for a few minutes about my setup and he checked my account. Turns out when the original (ancient) box died last year, they replaced it with a wireless cable box. He gave me a new box and a receipt that I had returned the box and said to just drop the old box off when I had a few minutes.
Seemed like a pretty good experience to me and I've never had a problem with Comcast. I've been with them since the mid 90's when it was telephone upload and cable download and have moved four times since then (so different cable plants).
I am. I liked Quake 1, 2, and even Arena. I also liked Doom and Doom 2. And Duke Nukem 3d. And Command and Conquer. And Starcraft/Brood War. Hell, I'd love to be able to play Carmageddon again. What's wrong with having fun with a game vs being able to count the chest hairs on Duke as they wave in the gentle breeze?
And get off my lawn. It's dying under the snow there.
Heck, Windows itself supports rotating the display. I have a four monitor setup with one landscape in the center, one flipped landscape above it, one portrait to one side and one portrait flipped on the other. I used wall mounts and built a stand so I have roughly 4kx2k for development work.
Really there is a lot I can do without exposing myself to the rot that is TV/Movies. There are a few interesting shows here and there but nothing I'd miss.
With games and books plus the existing media, I can't believe I'll be totally bored. And push comes to shove, I can take a motorcycle ride and just enjoy the sights without the big black border around it:)
Sure, but how many male nurses are permitted in rooms with females unless they're attended by a another female? None of them? So why send a male nurse in if a female nurse has to be there anyway? And how many female nurses are permitted unattended in rooms with males? All of them? Can male nurses work on (don't know the right terminology) females in all stages of being helped? Can female nurses work on males in all stages of being helped?
Anecdote: I helped my daughter get interested in computers. When she was 8, she was using IBM Logo and turtle graphics. Now she's a DBA. My other daughter had no interest at all in computers. Even reading to her when she was young was something she fought. She's a motorcycle mechanic:)
I like to think of myself as competent although I'm actually a Sr Unix Admin. I have a _lot_ of scripts in place for various things and started off as a programmer.
I also am self-taught in a majority of what I do including programming. I bought a Z80 and then a Color Computer in order to create a program for generating cars for Car Wars (lots of tables:) ). From there I got a part time programming/cow chasing/surveyor job and then a full time job programming before I shifted into LAN Administration.
Back in 1980, there were computer magazines and the real helpful CoCo programming Basic books. Then BBS's where I wrote programs for PCBoard (Doors). Then the Internet at Johns Hopkins APL.
And I'm with you on the male student bias. With 16% of elementary school teachers being male, and 70% of divorces filed by females (I mean "women"), quite a few boys don't have male role models until they reach puberty. With a female oriented public school system (25% of _all_ public school teachers are male), it's no wonder 60% of college graduates are female. Colleges are starting to be concerned about the lack of male interest in college in part because when colleges reach the female tipping point, the schools are afraid women will stop going to college.
The problem on my side is we have a lot of legacy gear including Tru64 and old HP-UX 11.0.0 boxes that run critical applications. New systems are being rolled out on virtual systems for non-critical applications. I have a lot of scripts I write but they're for information gathering mostly.
I've looked at various tools like cfengine when I got here 6 years ago and more recently things like Puppet and Chef but find they aren't really built to solve my problem and many have clients that go on the systems or other software (Ruby, Python?) where the systems don't support it (the Tru64 systems for instance).
Since the scripts do what I need to do and since we're a pretty diverse environment, it doesn't seem to be a good idea to deploy something like Puppet on a subset of systems and maintain scripts on the others thereby increasing the complexity of the environment.
I am still on the lookout though and these articles are helpful (well except that all the ads crash my browser so I can't read the full article). I'm interested in Ansible because it requires no agent.
I live close to an airport (small one) where skydivers jump fairly often. In watching them, I see them diving quickly towards the ground and then at the last sec, pulling up enough so their feet skim the ground. It doesn't leave a lot of room for mistakes though and there have been a few accidents where someone misjudged the distance and *splat* ended it all. I guess it's thrilling enough though.
Personally I ride a sport bike. The bike will let me hit 77MPH in first gear so I could certainly make a mistake and end up in pieces somewhere assuming I actually regularly rode like that. But it only takes once at high speed to hit an animal (a small one at high speeds might make an impact), or a rock, or any number of things that cause loss of control.
Compared to what? I still have cable to my house, it's how I get internet access. It works pretty well in that even though I'm using Comcast, I've never had problems that I read about and only seldom had a problem that affected cable like a power outage (I _do_ have UPS's).
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Being recently divorced (last year), I started poking around at the various dating sites. Let's see, I don't smoke, I effectively don't drink alcohol (one beer a year doesn't make me a "drinker"), I'm a gamer (you'd be amazed at the number of women who think gamers are "childish"), and I'm not into sports (lots of women who go to football/baseball/hockey games). I do like going hiking in the mountains, snowshoes, skiing, I like bicycling. But I'm not a fitness fanatic which also eliminated quite a few women. I'm not religious which eliminated a few more.
After eliminating the mis-matches, I started paring down the other issues. Based on profiles, I got down to about 60 women in the area who might be an match based on shared interests. I received no replies to my e-mails but I did receive three unrelated emails. One from a women in Australia. One from a woman in Texas who had pictures of her daughter leaning on a car (which was a bit creepy). And one from a woman who plays guitars who appeared to be looking for a man in every city.
Amusingly on my birthday (hit 56), my match list dropped to zero. Every one of the women were looking for guys 55 or younger. So I expanded my search until I got to a couple of women in a 250 mile radius.
For some of us (a small percentage I suppose), the dating sites really aren't helping. And since women receive all the emails, they have the choice of who to go out with.
Humorously I was chosen to moderate pictures on okcupid for a bit. The guys do send some very suggestive emails (and some not so suggestive!).
[John]
That was a headache to read.
First off, I thought the iPad was a logical extension of the iPhone not a whole cloth creation. Even at the time we were saying it was just a bigger iPhone.
Next. I don't think the table will replace the notebook/laptop for the folks who create. Sure, I can type a lot even with a keyboard on my iPad however I absolutely do not want to create websites on it. I certainly don't want to use OpenOffice on a Nook.
Third, the individual apps for each news organization, on-line marketplace, or forum isn't something I'm a fan of. In particular the individual sites have a bigger lock on your eyes. They can present advertising without a way to block it when coming through an app. Plus it's just one more thing that's potentially running on my iPad. I'd rather keep it to the websites and use the app for problematic sites like Facebook which regularly crashes Safari.
[John]
Yea, I saw the first one and was quite disappointed by the movie. I don't mind trimming bits to speed up movies. Books are quite long and can take days to read (or more for the slower readers or readers with less time to read) but adding extra bits and especially the wrong bits had me pretty unhappy with the experience.
[John]
The problem though is the big paper pretty much just prints stories from the AP and opinion columns from other newspapers. I stopped getting the physical paper a couple of years ago. The front page had a local story or two and there was a half to one column of news from the AP on most of the pages. The rest was advertising with several pages of advertising in the center of the 'A' section. I could have created a 4 page 'newspaper' from just the AP articles in the 'A' section. I found more interesting stories from the local 'City Paper' and the county paper, both of which I still receive.
[John]
I might consider using C# as a back end replacement for php assuming it has support to access a database like mysql but certainly not as a client side replacement for javascript. C# is a Microsoft scripting language that's equivalent to things like Perl, Python, and PHP. It would be something I'd use if I were more familiar with programming Windows type applications. Since I'm a Unix admin, I'm more likely to use Perl for general scripting and PHP for my backend work on websites simply because it's what I'm familiar with.
And mono isn't a complete implementation for non-Microsoft environments.
C# does seem like massive overkill to replace a moderately simple website and likely doesn't work on my OpenBSD server where PHP does :)
[John]
Why would you use C# to replace Javascript? I can possibly see it as a replacement for Java though. Are you misunderstanding the difference between the two?
[John]
I imagine that if there were anything else, you'd be using it.
[John]
Hey, It's all about the Pentiums, baby.
[John]
Comcast:
My ex decided to get a 2 year contract for Xfinity about a month before she left. After 16 months, I realized I hadn't turned on and watched TV for at least the past 30 days, certainly longer. So I took the cable box/DVR combo down to the local Comcast outlet. I wanted to switch to higher speed internet and dump the box. Unfortunately since they now encrypt all channels, I needed to get a little decrypter box in case I wanted to watch the news or something.
Since I had 8 months left on my contract, I expected a high disconnect/change fee. Turns out it wasn't that bad. A few bucks a month for the disconnect fee totaling around $35 and I cut my cable bill by almost half ($132 before, $78 after). Since work lets me expense $50 a month, my cable bill is $38 a month.
Plus, we chatted for a few minutes about my setup and he checked my account. Turns out when the original (ancient) box died last year, they replaced it with a wireless cable box. He gave me a new box and a receipt that I had returned the box and said to just drop the old box off when I had a few minutes.
Seemed like a pretty good experience to me and I've never had a problem with Comcast. I've been with them since the mid 90's when it was telephone upload and cable download and have moved four times since then (so different cable plants).
[John]
I was going to humorously respond to this, but you're just a fucking idiot.
[John]
You just made my year. Thank you very much.
(Off to buy Carmageddon...)
[John]
I am. I liked Quake 1, 2, and even Arena. I also liked Doom and Doom 2. And Duke Nukem 3d. And Command and Conquer. And Starcraft/Brood War. Hell, I'd love to be able to play Carmageddon again. What's wrong with having fun with a game vs being able to count the chest hairs on Duke as they wave in the gentle breeze?
And get off my lawn. It's dying under the snow there.
[John]
Heck, Windows itself supports rotating the display. I have a four monitor setup with one landscape in the center, one flipped landscape above it, one portrait to one side and one portrait flipped on the other. I used wall mounts and built a stand so I have roughly 4kx2k for development work.
[John]
Really there is a lot I can do without exposing myself to the rot that is TV/Movies. There are a few interesting shows here and there but nothing I'd miss.
With games and books plus the existing media, I can't believe I'll be totally bored. And push comes to shove, I can take a motorcycle ride and just enjoy the sights without the big black border around it :)
[John]
Sure, but how many male nurses are permitted in rooms with females unless they're attended by a another female? None of them? So why send a male nurse in if a female nurse has to be there anyway? And how many female nurses are permitted unattended in rooms with males? All of them? Can male nurses work on (don't know the right terminology) females in all stages of being helped? Can female nurses work on males in all stages of being helped?
[John]
Heh, I didn't start programming until I was 23. Of course that was in 1980 :)
[John]
Anecdote: I helped my daughter get interested in computers. When she was 8, she was using IBM Logo and turtle graphics. Now she's a DBA. My other daughter had no interest at all in computers. Even reading to her when she was young was something she fought. She's a motorcycle mechanic :)
[John]
I like to think of myself as competent although I'm actually a Sr Unix Admin. I have a _lot_ of scripts in place for various things and started off as a programmer.
I also am self-taught in a majority of what I do including programming. I bought a Z80 and then a Color Computer in order to create a program for generating cars for Car Wars (lots of tables :) ). From there I got a part time programming/cow chasing/surveyor job and then a full time job programming before I shifted into LAN Administration.
Back in 1980, there were computer magazines and the real helpful CoCo programming Basic books. Then BBS's where I wrote programs for PCBoard (Doors). Then the Internet at Johns Hopkins APL.
And I'm with you on the male student bias. With 16% of elementary school teachers being male, and 70% of divorces filed by females (I mean "women"), quite a few boys don't have male role models until they reach puberty. With a female oriented public school system (25% of _all_ public school teachers are male), it's no wonder 60% of college graduates are female. Colleges are starting to be concerned about the lack of male interest in college in part because when colleges reach the female tipping point, the schools are afraid women will stop going to college.
[John]
I only had to read your .sig twice :)
[John]
Agreed. Just being picky :)
[John]
The little bird is Twitter not Facebook.
[John]
The problem on my side is we have a lot of legacy gear including Tru64 and old HP-UX 11.0.0 boxes that run critical applications. New systems are being rolled out on virtual systems for non-critical applications. I have a lot of scripts I write but they're for information gathering mostly.
I've looked at various tools like cfengine when I got here 6 years ago and more recently things like Puppet and Chef but find they aren't really built to solve my problem and many have clients that go on the systems or other software (Ruby, Python?) where the systems don't support it (the Tru64 systems for instance).
Since the scripts do what I need to do and since we're a pretty diverse environment, it doesn't seem to be a good idea to deploy something like Puppet on a subset of systems and maintain scripts on the others thereby increasing the complexity of the environment.
I am still on the lookout though and these articles are helpful (well except that all the ads crash my browser so I can't read the full article). I'm interested in Ansible because it requires no agent.
[John]
I live close to an airport (small one) where skydivers jump fairly often. In watching them, I see them diving quickly towards the ground and then at the last sec, pulling up enough so their feet skim the ground. It doesn't leave a lot of room for mistakes though and there have been a few accidents where someone misjudged the distance and *splat* ended it all. I guess it's thrilling enough though.
Personally I ride a sport bike. The bike will let me hit 77MPH in first gear so I could certainly make a mistake and end up in pieces somewhere assuming I actually regularly rode like that. But it only takes once at high speed to hit an animal (a small one at high speeds might make an impact), or a rock, or any number of things that cause loss of control.
[John]
Abalone
[John]
Compared to what? I still have cable to my house, it's how I get internet access. It works pretty well in that even though I'm using Comcast, I've never had problems that I read about and only seldom had a problem that affected cable like a power outage (I _do_ have UPS's).
[John]