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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
Home is behind, the world ahead, |
Count in binary. 1, 10, 11, 100, 101...
Back from my shopping. Got food for a while, and a UML reference that was cheaper than the school bookstore one, and a new manga. Yay.
Now I have to read a whole chapter of AI stuff. Think I'll do that over dinner - I made quiche, hope it turns out cuz the ingredients cost a lot.
Well, the song'll come out tomorrow...
Moore was an optimist. :-)
Like the saying goes... there are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. :-)
I remember manual IP subnet calculations in my early exposure to cisco static routes... I have utterly forgotten all of it. My brain exploded a couple of times in those days. Not a lot left anymore. Don't even get me started on the new "/24" and such notation on subnets. That stuff drives me out of my skull.
Now I have a CCNE from India that comes to me with thickly accented "Now here is what I am thinking about this... I am thinking that this thing is really messed up..."
I'm thinking that the days of modems and BBS's weren't really all that bad. :-)
Moore was an optimist. :-)
Like the saying goes... there are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. :-)
I remember manual IP subnet calculations in my early exposure to cisco static routes... I have utterly forgotten all of it. My brain exploded a couple of times in those days. Not a lot left anymore. Don't even get me started on the new "/24" and such notation on subnets. That stuff drives me out of my skull.
Now I have a CCNE from India that comes to me with thickly accented "Now here is what I am thinking about this... I am thinking that this thing is really messed up..."
I'm thinking that the days of modems and BBS's weren't really all that bad. :-)
Crud, I didn't know the first one but you got me with the second one.
Oops. My bad.
Just doin' muh job...
Heh, I had to reset some foreign student (German! I thought all our foreigners were from Asia) who'd gotten his DNS settings messed up. He was so pathetically grateful - and this is someone who supposedly knows about computers. Was showing me how he could ping websites but couldn't get to them. Heh.
The StoneyWolf "Scope-Ease". An aluminum ring with "wings", it clamps to the power-change ring of a variable scope. You can adjust the magnification setting of the scope with just your index finger, without major changes in your shooting position. Or so it says. I haven't put one on a scope yet, but the device includes several plastic rings and a non-slip strip that goes around the zoom ring. Then the aluminum outer ring is clamped with a set screw.
Osage, My humble Remington 700 is only a Stradivarius in comparison to my AR15 "fiddle". In the elite world of target rifles, it's merely the Chevy Corvette in a world of Ferraris, Lambroghinis, etc. In other words, 95% of the performance for 25% of the price. Remington 700, the Chevy smallblock of the rifle world.
hehehe...
I had a couple of interesting headaches today, but one of them was priceless. User in the Boston office was making noise and badmouthing my group because it was taking "forever" to copy a file from a server in SanFran.
Boston office has a 1.4Mb T-1 plus a 768K DSL failover backup. SanFran office has a 10Mb fractional T-3.
Turns out that the "file" in question was a macromedia director movie... about 320MB.
My response was "(obscenity redacted) Duh? Ever heard of FedEx?"
The Internet we have now is basically the same Internet we had five or six years ago. Yet now people have this expectation that they can create files of heretofore unheard-of size and pass them around like they are nifty pics of beach volleyball players.
Just shoot me.
I know which thread you've been on...
g'nite folks
Heh... I've been file-swapping files that size, so I know the sort of speeds you're talking about!
Mmm! Crustless Quiche of DOOM! This is almost a manly quiche, it's got so much meat in it.
Very nice...
I would certainly put the Remington 700 in the world of "classics". Perhaps also the venerable Winchester model 70. My dad has a pre-64 model 70 in .270 that is still a fine instrument. Nail-driver.
I've got a realy nifty Ruger M77 .270 with a Leupold scope that is maybe not in *that* league but it is still pretty nice.
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