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Posted on 06/17/2004 7:09:03 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
The Hobbit Hole will be Represented in person by 2Jedismom, Bear in Rosebear, Rose in RoseBear, Overtaxed, Penny1, RMDupree, Scott from the Left Coast, Wneighbor and Ramius (brother of the bride)
Thank you all for coming! And for everyone watching and participating from home via that camera, we hope you can enjoy the day ~almost~ as much as being there!
It does get cached. But sometimes with other sound files I've linked I've cleared the cache before test-clicking and it still worked, so I figured the test was reliable this time as well. So I'm still puzzled, but I do think you're right it has something to do with the caching. I guess I'll just have to find another site for Python soundbytes :)
Heh. Our pastor said right off he wasn't going to lecture the fathers this year, he'd let them off easy, but then he gives some sort of "quit ye like men" message every few weeks. He's good on that.
Appropriately enough for Father's Day, our denomination passed a call for the government to uphold marriage. Also called on married folk to work harder at their marriages... Pastor tied that in, which is something since it was only passed two days before.
It does indeed.
That's one of things I have a small problem with in my church. My pastor focuses a lot of his sermons on the role of fathers and the only time I've heard him speak of women was on Mother's Day.
I asked for an appointment to speak with him about where single moms fall in his view of things and when I showed up, his wife met with me instead of him. So I asked her and she said that I am actually serving both roles right now and she'd speak to him about it.
That was a month ago, and I haven't heard any change in his style yet. Then again, he could have said something this past Sunday when I was away. *smile*
But I wouldn't think that your job is any easier. Not by any means.
I could see him not wanting people to link if it was going to crash his site or something like that. But yeah, otherwise I agree, I don't see what the problem is. After all he got that soundbyte from "Monty Python" in the first place and it's not like he paid them for it :)
I like solving the problem, whatever it is, in as elegant a manner as possible. I like my code to fly clean and fast, like a steel splinter, keen and shiny and very very sharp. When I was told that I would be a computer scientist, a being superior to a plain ol' programmer, I was hurt.
There is still a place for system analysis, you know ... but don't hold yourself aloof from the wide world of computer science. You will find that your knowledge of architecture and assembler code will make program optimization so much easier.
You have to keep us old fogeys up to date, you know!
Roger that... just so ya' understand... college isn't about learning things. It's about learning that there is a great deal that you don't know, and will never know.
If you need confirmation of this, just hang out in a good ol' fashioned blue collar bar for a bit.
See? We just have to go back, OT! Next time, I'll get my crab cakes, and you can have the salmon-stuffed crab!
Is Miss Kitty pouting 'cause you didn't bring her leftovers?
Our pastor didn't really lecture the father's this year. What he did was kinda neat. He's really getting into the audio-visual stuff (and we've got some vey talented people who do the video work). He lead in with different types of father's and then went into Michael Reagan's remark about the gift of the knowledge of Christ that his dad left with him. The sermon was more encouraging than lecturing.
I'm wondering if he got some response from when his wife delivered the Mothers Day sermon (I know that don't happen in the PCA). She started with a whole list of magazine covers talking about all the things wimmin are stressed with. Okay, good start.
Then she went into about a dozen things wimmin need to be doing...
My problem isn't really that I disdain the other stuff. I want to learn everything! And like Ramius says, I can't. So, I know a little about networks, and a little more about practical hardware and a good deal of theory in most areas...
My father is a brilliant computer scientist. If he'd chosen, I know he could be a Ph.D at any research school he wanted, right now. But what he's proudest of isn't managing projects, it's the days he writes three thousand lines of code and they work. Smile... and I still want to grow up to be like my dad.
I used the systems analysis thing as an example. I really love solving a problem. The moment when the last piece falls in place and your fingers race across the keyboard. When you finally realize where the Heisenbug is lurking. Finding where your code is ineffecient and making it fast.
The clams were really good. I had a lot of them. :-)
I think our pastor's wife would be rather horrified if asked to give a sermon. And three of the four elders would have heart attacks. She'd give a sensible one, though! Six kids, homeschools 'em and they're turning out well... Dad keeps saying we should have an arranged marriage between their eldest girl and our second boy.
Moms are important. Kids know that right away. Sometimes it takes longer to figure out how important the dad is. And the parents who have to do both jobs, well, they have more than my respect.
Mmmmm... clams.
Well, I'm a-gonna hit the couch now, and see if I can get my sweetie to join me. We got a couple new DVDs we can watch.
What bothered us tho about that series is that, at that time, there was no provision for not having a perfect double parent, 2.5 angelic kids family. We were there dealing with major ADHD issues with Jr. And a friend was there as a single mom whose husband resented her even taking the kids to church.
See y'all Sunday evening! Keep me in your prayers for totally uneventful flights both ways!
Hullo! Goodbye! Have a grand time!
Sadly, some churches do that. They unintentionally alienate the very people that need them most.
My pastor is also my ex-boss. He's an attorney and I worked as a paralegal for him for about six months back in 1994 or so.
He's good people, but a little too analytical.
Oh, "Growing Kids God's Way"... is that the one where they want mothers to put their infants on feeding schedules? I know a couple families who used that. Um, their kids were all horrid brats, or spineless wimps.
Go sit with the users, learn what they do, and get them to write down their needs/desires/wants; then bring users and programmers together and hammer out what can be done; then DO IT.
That's what "system analysts" used to do ... geez, Ramius, what do they do nowadays?
I'm just an old programmer ... what do I know?
I'm gonna beat you there.... and bring ice cream!
Bear and Rose.... gonna watch Oh Brother Where Art Thou!
Hi and bye, Suzi. Safe journey and may God grant you traveling mercies all the way!
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