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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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the beatings will continue until morale improves...
g'nad, don't the jury people have your name permanently asterisked as "unsuitable for jury duty, will vote for death if the case warrants - and it warrants"?
Well, I know MY morale has improved. Becky is back in bed now and I think I'll go lay down next to her to ensure she doesn't equate my being on the computer with being ignorant to her tricks.
Good night everyone!
There was a thread... and in searching I'm not finding it. It's gotta be here someplace... was a beautiful thing.
Two-master, about equal height. Square rig on the foremast, square tops'ls on the after (main?) mast, but a big gaff mainsail. I'm not getting good recall on what that's called, but I thought it was a barkentine.
But beyond that... really seriously pretty boat. All wood, with nice brightwork all around. [sigh] Haven't yet heard what finally happened to it. They were trying to yank it off the beach with a tug, but last I saw they had parted the hawser and were not making much headway on the problem.
Good night Ruthy - going to sleep myself.
At our church in DC Jr. was known as the "Strong-Willed Poster Child."
LOL... Apu accent... I have to be careful, since a key member of my staff has ~exactly~ that accent, and it just cracks me up. I have to sometimes just smirk, grit my teeth and walk away before I lose it. :-)
[Apu on the phone, talking to telephone company in Britain: ] "What I am thinking is this... that you are not paying attention to what I am saying... I know about my routers here and I am saying that they are properly configured and they are not the problem but I am saying that it is your router that is really f----d up. This is what I am saying to you..."
Of course, he's exactly right... but he drives the brits out of their minds. I have to just leave. :-)
My parents thought I was their strong-willed child until brother #2 came along. Of course by that time they'd beaten me out of most of my stubborness. He still gets beat on a regular basis and he's twelve. He'd end up a criminal if we let him get his way... as it is I think there's a good chance he'll end up a preacher...
Did you use the "Strong-Willed Child" book? I know my parents didn't like it but I forget why.
My dad has a story he likes to tell about dealing with an Indian company bigshot who wanted to inform him that they were not going to lose their shirt in this deal - but it came out "We will not be taking our pants off for anyone". Don't know how he kept a straight face in there.
Of course, this was the same guy his partner wished a happy Thanksgiving to. In email, and the guy was in India...
Brigantine, after some research, not Barkantine. Brigantines can be two masted, but apparently Barks, and Barkentine have to have three.
[sigh]
I think somewhere along the line we read it. And I think it's actually been updated.
We did a "Growing Kid's God's Way" class at our former church. When the guy said his daughters had ~never~ lied to him, I tuned him out.
Thing of it is, you can learn a lot of good principles for dealing with kids. But you gotta be flexible. They're all different.
Good night then! :-)
Cool.
Oh, yeah, that "Growing Kids God's Way" stuff is scary. When they say to put your breastfeeding infant on a schedule - well, that's just not right. I've known a couple families who used it and it wasn't good stuff. Either their kids were rebellious, or totally cowed.
Heh, and any parents who thinks their kids have never lied, probably deserves to be lied to anyway. Sheesh.
LOL... that's too funny.
The Indian guys I deal with have a good command of English. Much better than most of the other foreign students - better than some of the native students, actually. So no personally funny anecdotes.
My company has many Indian folk... in lots of disciplines. Some are better at english than others.
My network engineer has a great command of english, but it is clear that it will always be a second language to him, and the accent is very thick. Some of the other staff can't understand a word he says. I don't know if I have a good ear for it or what, but I end up having to translate sometimes.
But he talks Cisco like nobody's bidness. I got him from a major [unnamed] hosting provider, where he was their senior backbone engineer. The man has a gift. He's done some stuff with our network that is just Pure Magic.
One of my colleagues told me that the under-30 crowd in India, and the very old people, speak much better English than the population in between. He said when the British left, they took their educators with them and the education system pretty nearly collapsed. In recent years they've brought it back, and all Indian children learn English as their second or third language (they'll learn the regional dialect at home, use only Indian or Hindi in school, and sometimes learn neighboring dialects or other languages in addition).
I don't usually have trouble understanding their accents either. Now, the Chinese students... well, if they'd learn English...
Our current church was pretty big into GKGW for a while. Women in the nursery used to swear that the crankiest babies were the GKGW babies.
When we took the class, Jr. was 7. There was no provision for adapting to an ADHD child. There was a woman in our class whose husband didn't like her taking the kids to church, but he tolerated it. She got no help from him. There was no provision for that. Everything was the same formula supposed to work for every child.
Luke would have died on the GKGW feeding schedule.
There's a really nifty thing he just did with our WAN that I think is just darn cool... You can probably appreciate this:
We have 25 offices around the country, and each one has two internet connections, to different providers (usually a T1 and a DSL or wireless backup, but the two biggest offices have a T3 with a T1 and wireless backup). The WAN is VPN based using Cisco IPSec (3DES... yadda yadda). The routers in each office now do ~on demand~ tunnels, building up and tearing down VPN tunnels on the fly, fully meshing all the offices, but without the overhead of any permanent static tunnels, and using both circuits in each place to load balance and failover... automatically healing around outages.
I think its just the most wicked cool thing ever. I dunno if it is perfectly bulletproof, but it's pretty darn close.
Now... once I get Exchange to replicate and failover to another site... *that* will rock. :-)
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