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Cats help with work 
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Wow, cool photo. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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meh --- I think it would be better in color.
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Well they did have an awesome emoji and three, count em, three exclamation points.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I found this one back. The original cap. is somewehere mid 90's in Maastricht.
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Caught any fish allready?
Then again, in Germany close to the borders of the Netherlands, they had a flood of about 3 meters high last year, rushing through the streets. * No really all this climate change is just humbug *. Whoehahahaha
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Didn't see any fish, but many Eastern Brown Snakes, up to about 0.5m.
Unbelievable damage done by these floods, and the water won't get to the ocean until well into next year...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I know what it's like. In the '90s we had several floods from the Mosa river and the Rhine. I lived than in Maastricht. My feet didn't get wet. But the villages a few miles downstream had the water up to a meter high. Also there were several mudstreams in the villages, mainly because of silly ploughing by the farmers.
Government took than meassurements by broading the rivers. So the water couldn't rise so high.
But the violence of a swollen river is frightening.
The floods in Germany last year flushed away complete brick-and-mortar houses. This has never occured before.
It's time to take climate measurements, or else the human civilisation will be decimated.
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CatweazleMagic wrote: But the violence of a swollen river is frightening.
It is indeed.
We have a river at the bottom of the garden and normally it is about 15cm deep, and maybe two meters wide.
The channel it runs in however ... that's 30m across, and maybe 8m deep.
And when it rains on the mountains, 6 hours later it's full, and moving like a train. It can rip out fully grown trees, and carry boulders taller than I am down stream. Impressive to watch from a distance; frightening close up!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...about 15cm deep, and maybe two meters wide...
We'd call that a creek over here. If you can't pilot a motorboat on it, it ain't a river. 
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
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You never had floods that high before the climate changed (as it always has)? I'll bet you've some old-timers there who could tell tales.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
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I'm assuming it's a stock image; Google also shows her on a Canadian dentist's site in an article about "dental potholes". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I found that Walmart has some employees that were out-of-work from some highly technical fields, and they stayed a Walmart. It was easy work and they had an almost guaranteed long term job. Less stress. Stable company.
Walmart gets all types.
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Awesome! I should rotate the stock regularly and we can make a game of it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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*lol* I just remember a comment from your side 'Lovely dogs. Not quite on topic for this forum though.' 
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Shall I move this to the CodeProject.AI forum? 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Naturally lighted. As is.
Last year, about this time, we went exploring in the Mariana Trench and I turned off all the lights inside and out, then took this picture.
Pure, unadulterated beauty. Mariana, Mariana, here is your trench in all its natural beauty for all to see.
A bull whale came by looking for giant squid and stopped to check us out. With the lights on he looked like a shrunken rag with deep folds. With the lights off he looked natural. Oh Mariana.
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Are you sure that is not your bathroom at night, with the lights off and the door closed?
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Actually the DSV (Deep Submergence Vehicle) does not belong to me. But the camera does. It was a small camera that I bought at Walmart and I was taking photos with it. When we were below the light penetration depth, barely into the trench, not at the bottom of the deepest part, a male (bull) whale came by looking at us with our lights on. He left the area before I recalled that I had a camera with me. Later I thought that this would be a nice picture. I wanted to know if there was any light at all at that depth and I tested this picutre and found it to be totally black. It is real. This is the Marianas Trench at night, near to the top of the trench.
Again, this is not all the way down at the deepest part. My friends with the DSV said that they had never seen any whales that deep. Only the male whales go down to the trench and then they only go a little deeper, I do not remember how much more: maybe 1/2 mile or so. The US Navy knows how deep the whales go since the US Navy goes everywhere in the ocean, everywhere.
You guys have helped me a lot here. Maybe in a year or so when I go back, I might take some of you with me as long as there is room in the DSV. It is a big commercial DSV used by some deep sea platform builders that I used to supply water-proof concrete to. In case you wondered, regular concrete, here in the US, is not suited for this. The concrete that we sold to them was mixed with powdered volcanic ash which has tiny enough granules to make the concrete water-proof.
Although, as you seem to have suggested, this entire account with all of my information might be just some 14 year old kid making up stories on a much used computer, and when the neighbors come over after school we might laugh at how the adults fall for this stuff tell us secrets of how to program like a professional. Except for the part about my learning C and C++. I really am learning C and C++, or am I even doing that? You don't know.
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