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On Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:33:22 walt did opine thusly: |
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> On 07/27/2011 10:19 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> On 07/26/2011 06:07 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> >>> Anyone here knows at what time the Gentoo IRC channels are |
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> >>> usually active? |
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> >>> |
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> >>> In UTC, if possible :) |
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> >>> |
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> >>> (Still can't wrap my head around USA time zone codes) |
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> >> I'd like to commission a survey of, say, MS, google, and |
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> >> Oracle, to see who is wearing a wrist-watch, and who isn't -- |
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> >> and then sort them by job description. |
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> >> I predict that the ones with no wrist-watch are the one who |
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> >> are....well, I'll wait for the survey to be done before I |
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> >> announce my prediction.> |
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> > /me wonders where you are going with this... |
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> Downhill fast, probably :) Back in the day before cellphones, you |
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> needed to look a clock or wrist-watch to know what time it is. |
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> Back then I was surrounded by genuine programmer geeks, and I |
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> noticed that none of them wore a wrist-watch. I asked one of the |
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> geeks why he didn't have a watch and he replied "Why would I want |
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> to know what time it is? I can tell what time it is by how fast |
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> the mainframe responds when I hit carriage return." |
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> Another one showed up on most days wearing mis-matched socks. When |
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> asked why he did this he replied, "Why? Does it matter?" |
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> Well, I still can't answer his question... |
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I've got a bunch of those of my own :-) |
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Q: Alan, why do you wear those great big motorcycle boots and |
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protective trousers all day in the office, even to meetings? |
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A: It's cold. |
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Q: What are your working hours? |
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A: 12 per day on average. No guarantees on *which* 12 |
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Q: Holy shit, I can't believe you just sent that mail to ALL users. |
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Legal will be all over us now having hissy fits. Have you got a god |
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complex or something???? |
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A: [beams with genuine pride] why, thank you! |
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I reckon my head is just wired different to most folks <shrug> |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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