I have this fear that they'll do something like: "It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again" "My name is Talking Tina, and I'm going to kill you" or "I'll be your friend till the end! Hidey-ho!"
According to a new update on their site (on the front page), the limited edition sale never happened but they are going to be at Toy Fair 2006 in NYC. Booth #5856 in the Urban Bazaar section.
There may be hope for the psychotically demanding toys yet. I'm just wondering how long it will take the guys from the RoboCup lab at my alma mater to get their grubby little fingers on a few of them and hack the things to be *really* entertaining.
Somehow I can see MS doing this for their next gen console. Every time you go to use a Playstation or Nintendo, you hear "smash him! throw him! play with meeeeee! you know *I* love you!!" =]
Each of the smaller towns is one zip code, and I know of at least a few of them in the area where I grew up wanting to expand into land that was in another county. I don't know if any of them have succeeded or not because I stopped paying attention to the political intrigues of that area a few years ago.
Our larger cities have multiple zip codes, but the smaller ones only have one. I don't know if they'd try to split that should they spill into another county or not, but my guess (knowing the officials from some of those areas) would be probably not.
They already have. I've gotten recruiting calls from companies in Chicago, St Louis, and New York that were using HR people in India judging by the time of the phone calls and the accents of the people on the other end of the phone.
As a non-old programmer/sysadmin (I'm only 25), I can agree with your physical hacking comment. I was an apprentice blacksmith (a little far away from the forge geographically, though that should change before summer with any luck) and almost everyone in the forge was a tech including the master blacksmith.
We volunteered at a historical village on the weekends to unwind from work. It was really amusing to watch the reaction of the people visiting the village after they asked what we did for a job when we weren't at the village. It also seemed to freak the visitors out that we were also almost all martially trained. =]
Business majors would have to be pretty far out of their normal stomping grounds to see it. It was on a floor with almost nothing but unix and matlab labs in a building that most business majors never saw more than the first two floors of if they saw it at all:P
If it were closer to the business majors, I might have had the theory that the book was bolted to the table to make it more difficult to beat MBA's with =]
At least it's not as bad as the Unix manual we had in one of the CS labs. It was mounted on rails and bolted to the table (taking up 90% of the length of the table).
My theory was that it wasn't bolted to the table to keep people from taking it, but rather to keep it from falling off and killing someone when it landed on them. I can just picture the legs of some poor freshman sticking out from under that paper monster, the rest of him having been squished into jelly from the book's sheer weight...
I think my alma mater was talking about doing something similar. When I attended, it was Pascal to C++ to C (OS and internetworking) and various other things for the specialized classes (languages, databases, ai, etc). Java was just an optional course.
I heard from a friend of mine who teaches there that aparently they replaced Pascal with Java, but that's fine because they still do C and C++ for the really core stuff.
Java's a great language, but sometimes it's nice to know how things really work. Heck, I didn't *really* understand recursion until I'd been through OS. Before that it was just sort of magic and hand waving to me.
"woot" from me too, though I never really got into World of Warcraft. My s/o and I do play Diablo2 together. It's really kind of nice.
The other positive thing about that relationship is that I'm dating someone else who knows how to use weapons, so if we ever feel the need to be violent, we can armor up and grab the blades. For right now, it's just an epee for her, but I'm working on teaching her Japanese and European heavy weapons as well.
Who says fights in a relationship can't be fun? =]
"It's not like the US had great resources when they started out."
Actually, when the United States started out, it had incredibly vast natural resources (Which was one of the two main reasons that the Crown didn't want to loose it - the other being taxes). At that time, natural resources (timber, pitch, molases, etc) were what made the world go.
Am I the only one who read that book and was less than impressed because it's really pretty much all common sense?
I seriously walked away from it going "someone had to write a book on this?" because it really seems more like a book for managers who don't understand that people aren't all the same (so don't have the same abilities and/or skill levels) and that the more people you have, the greater the chance for them to get in the way of each other after a point.
There are also a scad of usb coffee warmers, which I will admit would have been convinient when I was still working as an analyst because my coffee was almost always cold by the time I got to finish it.
"You know what happens when I get upset! That's it. I'm upset!" *thing pops out of his head and makes a noise before poping back in* "What the hell was that?" "I don't know. That's what happens when I get upset..."
At least it was after you finished your applications and not after you had accepted an offer from them. It also means that you can save yourself the application fees unless you've already mailed it out.
When asked how much notice I intend to give, my general response is "as much notice as I can expect from the company".
Unfortunately, a lot of companies (especially larger ones) want professional courtesy to be a one-way street.
That said, I can understand the behaviour of the article poster's company. Security practices suggest that anyone in a position of authorty over the systems have all access revoked when they quit (and often, when they give notice).
It may seem a little weird to people who are resigning from this sort of position for the first time, but that's just kind of the way it goes. The company is protecting itself from liability in our litigation-happy world.
My advice to the poster is to enjoy the two weeks' paid vacation before moving on to the new job. He handled things very well and shouldn't worry about it too much.
I think I probably speak for John and the others at O3 when I say thank all of you for the encouragement. It's been a learning experience getting the first issue out the door and we hope to have many successful issues in the future. (hopefully without John getting food poisoning again =] )
As it is, he's trying to talk me into doing interviews about the magazine and how we went about making it (I'm the exec editor). Personally, I think I'll sleep for a while first since I really haven't for a few days, but I look forward to being able to answer questions.
I feel your pain. My problem, though, tends to be my chest (I wear a 54 suit jacket because of my chest and shoulders). It's what I get for having trained with a sword since I was a kid and having been an apprentice blacksmith for a while.
3XL shirts tend to be the order of the day because 2X feel too tight across my chest.
There's a big difference between being negligent and allowing your kid to play around a swimming pool or bucket and pointing out where pollution caused by corporations, et al is occuring.
The second is something that affects a lot of people who didn't cause the problem in the first place and can continue affecting people in that area for years.
Whoever moded you insightful needs to have their head checked.
*chuckles evilly* I got to see a room full of people hit the floor when a Cap blew up in a machine located at the front of a lab. They thought someone was shooting at them.
Our supplier (which is staffed by a couple of people that I am now rather good friends with) got a laugh out of the story too. It was the first bad cap we'd had out of a couple hundred machines we ordered from them so it was just one of those things.
Still not as bad as the machine that literally caught fire one February morning a year or so before (different supplier). =]
I fail to see how a school can legitimately have a policy for abstinance. I can see how they would consider encouraging people taking condoms off of someone's shirt to be a bit disruptive, but a school policy of abstinance leads to a few rather unplesant questions.
1) what about sex ed, which is a required part of public education? (just saying "don't do it" does a lot of harm. The STD rates for countries like Japan, which lack sex ed, really show this. Consequently, Japan is working to improve this.) 2) do they refuse to educate girls who become pregnant? 3) can they refuse to allow other kids who have been rumored to have had sex (true or not) to come to school?
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I have this fear that they'll do something like:
"It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again"
"My name is Talking Tina, and I'm going to kill you"
or "I'll be your friend till the end! Hidey-ho!"
According to a new update on their site (on the front page), the limited edition sale never happened but they are going to be at Toy Fair 2006 in NYC. Booth #5856 in the Urban Bazaar section.
There may be hope for the psychotically demanding toys yet. I'm just wondering how long it will take the guys from the RoboCup lab at my alma mater to get their grubby little fingers on a few of them and hack the things to be *really* entertaining.
Somehow I can see MS doing this for their next gen console. Every time you go to use a Playstation or Nintendo, you hear "smash him! throw him! play with meeeeee! you know *I* love you!!" =]
Each of the smaller towns is one zip code, and I know of at least a few of them in the area where I grew up wanting to expand into land that was in another county. I don't know if any of them have succeeded or not because I stopped paying attention to the political intrigues of that area a few years ago.
Our larger cities have multiple zip codes, but the smaller ones only have one. I don't know if they'd try to split that should they spill into another county or not, but my guess (knowing the officials from some of those areas) would be probably not.
It is possible for a town/city to be in more than one county and, in some states (like Ohio), counties can have different sales tax rates.
You would think that the counties in question would come to an agreement on how to handle taxes, but you never know.
I just read that whole thing with no problem. I should go hide under the bed now...
They already have. I've gotten recruiting calls from companies in Chicago, St Louis, and New York that were using HR people in India judging by the time of the phone calls and the accents of the people on the other end of the phone.
As a non-old programmer/sysadmin (I'm only 25), I can agree with your physical hacking comment. I was an apprentice blacksmith (a little far away from the forge geographically, though that should change before summer with any luck) and almost everyone in the forge was a tech including the master blacksmith.
We volunteered at a historical village on the weekends to unwind from work. It was really amusing to watch the reaction of the people visiting the village after they asked what we did for a job when we weren't at the village. It also seemed to freak the visitors out that we were also almost all martially trained. =]
As a (now recovering) BOFH, I always got a giggle out of those stories.
Zen Master Greg is also a good read =]
Business majors would have to be pretty far out of their normal stomping grounds to see it. It was on a floor with almost nothing but unix and matlab labs in a building that most business majors never saw more than the first two floors of if they saw it at all :P
If it were closer to the business majors, I might have had the theory that the book was bolted to the table to make it more difficult to beat MBA's with =]
At least it's not as bad as the Unix manual we had in one of the CS labs. It was mounted on rails and bolted to the table (taking up 90% of the length of the table).
My theory was that it wasn't bolted to the table to keep people from taking it, but rather to keep it from falling off and killing someone when it landed on them. I can just picture the legs of some poor freshman sticking out from under that paper monster, the rest of him having been squished into jelly from the book's sheer weight...
I think my alma mater was talking about doing something similar. When I attended, it was Pascal to C++ to C (OS and internetworking) and various other things for the specialized classes (languages, databases, ai, etc). Java was just an optional course.
I heard from a friend of mine who teaches there that aparently they replaced Pascal with Java, but that's fine because they still do C and C++ for the really core stuff.
Java's a great language, but sometimes it's nice to know how things really work. Heck, I didn't *really* understand recursion until I'd been through OS. Before that it was just sort of magic and hand waving to me.
"woot" from me too, though I never really got into World of Warcraft. My s/o and I do play Diablo2 together. It's really kind of nice.
The other positive thing about that relationship is that I'm dating someone else who knows how to use weapons, so if we ever feel the need to be violent, we can armor up and grab the blades. For right now, it's just an epee for her, but I'm working on teaching her Japanese and European heavy weapons as well.
Who says fights in a relationship can't be fun? =]
"It's not like the US had great resources when they started out."
Actually, when the United States started out, it had incredibly vast natural resources (Which was one of the two main reasons that the Crown didn't want to loose it - the other being taxes). At that time, natural resources (timber, pitch, molases, etc) were what made the world go.
Am I the only one who read that book and was less than impressed because it's really pretty much all common sense?
I seriously walked away from it going "someone had to write a book on this?" because it really seems more like a book for managers who don't understand that people aren't all the same (so don't have the same abilities and/or skill levels) and that the more people you have, the greater the chance for them to get in the way of each other after a point.
Too late for #2. There really are heated keyboards.... asp?productID=10313
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There are also a scad of usb coffee warmers, which I will admit would have been convinient when I was still working as an analyst because my coffee was almost always cold by the time I got to finish it.
I always liked the one bit from Little Monsters.
"You know what happens when I get upset! That's it. I'm upset!"
*thing pops out of his head and makes a noise before poping back in*
"What the hell was that?"
"I don't know. That's what happens when I get upset..."
At least it was after you finished your applications and not after you had accepted an offer from them. It also means that you can save yourself the application fees unless you've already mailed it out.
When asked how much notice I intend to give, my general response is "as much notice as I can expect from the company".
Unfortunately, a lot of companies (especially larger ones) want professional courtesy to be a one-way street.
That said, I can understand the behaviour of the article poster's company. Security practices suggest that anyone in a position of authorty over the systems have all access revoked when they quit (and often, when they give notice).
It may seem a little weird to people who are resigning from this sort of position for the first time, but that's just kind of the way it goes. The company is protecting itself from liability in our litigation-happy world.
My advice to the poster is to enjoy the two weeks' paid vacation before moving on to the new job. He handled things very well and shouldn't worry about it too much.
I think I probably speak for John and the others at O3 when I say thank all of you for the encouragement. It's been a learning experience getting the first issue out the door and we hope to have many successful issues in the future. (hopefully without John getting food poisoning again =] )
As it is, he's trying to talk me into doing interviews about the magazine and how we went about making it (I'm the exec editor). Personally, I think I'll sleep for a while first since I really haven't for a few days, but I look forward to being able to answer questions.
I feel your pain. My problem, though, tends to be my chest (I wear a 54 suit jacket because of my chest and shoulders). It's what I get for having trained with a sword since I was a kid and having been an apprentice blacksmith for a while.
3XL shirts tend to be the order of the day because 2X feel too tight across my chest.
I miss one microbrew on campus. Really good oatmeal vanilla stout.
There's a big difference between being negligent and allowing your kid to play around a swimming pool or bucket and pointing out where pollution caused by corporations, et al is occuring.
The second is something that affects a lot of people who didn't cause the problem in the first place and can continue affecting people in that area for years.
Whoever moded you insightful needs to have their head checked.
*chuckles evilly* I got to see a room full of people hit the floor when a Cap blew up in a machine located at the front of a lab. They thought someone was shooting at them.
Our supplier (which is staffed by a couple of people that I am now rather good friends with) got a laugh out of the story too. It was the first bad cap we'd had out of a couple hundred machines we ordered from them so it was just one of those things.
Still not as bad as the machine that literally caught fire one February morning a year or so before (different supplier). =]
I fail to see how a school can legitimately have a policy for abstinance. I can see how they would consider encouraging people taking condoms off of someone's shirt to be a bit disruptive, but a school policy of abstinance leads to a few rather unplesant questions.
1) what about sex ed, which is a required part of public education? (just saying "don't do it" does a lot of harm. The STD rates for countries like Japan, which lack sex ed, really show this. Consequently, Japan is working to improve this.)
2) do they refuse to educate girls who become pregnant?
3) can they refuse to allow other kids who have been rumored to have had sex (true or not) to come to school?