Old Man

Re: The cranky thread I guess so, but when you need to be doing all these contortions just to maintain communications with your mainframe--are they really saving money?

Re: The cranky thread VT220 emulators? What the hell are you running?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Just some silliness http://www.geocities.com/tempest_raiko/

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Today I got to play with play-doh, paint a yellow school bus, play with blocks, and sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". My kid had fun too. Then I came to work.

Re: The cranky thread I can relate, it's been like that for me for... well, my kid's eighteen months old now...

Re: The cranky thread Dear colleague: Today you told my superior that I am "not responsive to e-mail". So I went back to see which of your emails I was not responsive to. It turns out that you haven't emailed me all year. If you want me to be more responsive, perhaps you should try giving me something to respond to. Perhaps you should try not making baseless accusations about me to other people. I do nothing but put out the fires that you and your department ignite on a daily basis, and what do I get? Stabbed in the back. Because you can't wait another 48 hours for your new laptop. My toddler is more reasonable than you. I'll tell you what: if you think I am unresponsive to your tantrums, then fine. So shall it be henceforth. Most sincerely, Old Man

Re: Musings on Random Musings Marketing's doing a pretty poor job of that. Just look at their share of the budget.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Soylent green is people!!!

Re: The cranky thread It's bad enough a helicopter crashed here killing some hapless vacationers; must there be wall to wall media coverage for an entire week following the event? Especially when absolutely no new information comes up from one day to the next. There were no witnesses and the NTSB isn't talking. Quit running the same front page story.

Re: The cranky thread Exactly.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Who?

Re: The cranky thread Smells before 8 A.M.: Peanut Butter Stale Drool Someone cooking some nasty kind of sausage elsewhere in the building Fresh Drool Milk Vomit Secondhand smoke from some exotic cigarillo Diesel fumes Children's Benadryl (Cherry Flavor) Carpet Cleaner Lysol Laundry Detergent Bleach Febreze

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Quick Googling turned up this link. No idea of the veracity. http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutenglish/numberwords

Re: The cranky thread I have so many things to do that tracking them becomes another significant thing to do. And then I look at the list and freeze up.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What did you eat for lunch? A: The green M&Ms. Not the red ones. The green ones.

Re: Tuala Morn Discussion At least you can do yours. I can't trace mine back more than five generations--we have the sneaking suspicion that someone ran away from somewhere and took steps to not be found. The stuff I can trace is all of British Isles descent, and the surname is ultimately misspelt Scottish.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Pearl Harbor can easily be described with one word: Bruckheimer. Don't rush to add it to your Netflix queue.

Re: Designing Sword Schools From a purely creative standpoint, virtually all martial art styles started out with a philosophy or inspiration that dictated how the art developed. Wing Chun was based on 'occupying the center', the space squarely in front of the opponent, and deflecting opponent attacks to make room for your own. So lots of blocking and punching, very little dodging. Bruce Lee's philosophy in developing Jeet Kune Do was speed through economy of motion--lots of quick attacks and a more emphasis on dodging. Tae Kwon Do's philosophy is that the legs are much more powerful than the hands and so the legs are the primary weapon in that style. Brazilian Jiujitsu contends that most real fights wind up as wrestiling matches anyway, so it concentrates on takedowns, holds and locks. Aikido's philosophy is one of redirecting your opponent's energy and using it against him and consists almost entirely of block/throws and joint locks. And let me quote Wikipedia on the differences between Northern and Southern Shaolin kung fu: That's all unarmed combat but sword styles are the same way. Ittosai's philosophy was one of simultaneously blocking and attacking with the same sword motion. Musashi's was that people have two hands and should use two swords independently (but by most accounts Musashi was huge and had fewer str min issues). I'm not up on fencing but I know the lunge was designed as a quick, efficient in-out attack from range; Bruce Lee was inspired by that maneuver. So to design sword martial arts out of thin air, just make up philosophies of your own and go from there. An art based on entanglement with sword and main gauche would have disarms, blocks, and holds. A style based on attacking the foundation (feet) might have trips and high-dcv strikes. One based on the scorpion would have one-hand grabs and overhead strikes. YMMV.

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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER There were formations of Zeros flying around for a few months while they filmed Pearl Harbor. Horrifically bad movie, but being able to look up and see these beautiful planes fly past at low level was wondrous. In spite of their history.

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Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread Paid off the car, got the title in the mail today. Stephanie is mine, all mine. Well, mine and the wife's. Well, the wife's.

Re: The cranky thread A year and a half, and I don't think the kid really has anything to do with it (except for inflicting sleep deprivation on both of us).

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