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Try to eat it. Maybe it an be uses as a vaccine against Corona!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Calculus, in particular. More an invention than a discovery.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Well, if you get bored you could always write 'king documentation.
It goes without saying
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Nobody gets THAT bored!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Johnny J. wrote: Nobody gets THAT bored! said the man who's written 17 articles.
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Yeah, but all of them with ZERO documentation value...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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I had high expectations for me too but unfortunately I'm stuck implementing Locality Sensitive Hashing and bunch of useless stuff.
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Let me proudly be the first to admit that I intend to disappoint !
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Well, what else would Shakespeare have done anyway...?
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“Play” station!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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well, it has been said that if you put X number of monkeys in front of a keyboard ...
I'd rather be phishing!
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Good point. We've got 14,484,030 of them right now (as I write this)...
You think that'll be enough monkeys?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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sonnet:
~
i can't stop remembering
others in danger:
refugees, homeless
god, there's so much misery:
i can't look at it
without shivering
but, it's too hot to shiver,
and the heart grows cold:
damn my inertia!
ordinary miracles;
bones in the tar-pits:
i'm out of wisdom
all i want is a mirror
to show me comforting lies
~ i was talking to a friend about the current nightmare, and he said: "in spite of everything, i'm still an optimist: i think tomorrow is going to get better." i said: "well, i'm an optimist, too: i think today can't get worse."
last night at midnight (GMT+7), nationwide state of emergency declared. everything shut down for a month except banks, food stores, post office, hospitals. restaurants: take-out only, many shut down.
about time: the virus has been so under-tested/reported here, the number of Chinese tourists in Dec. ~ Feb. (on daily flights from Wuhan, and other Chinese cities, to major tourist destinations) ~200k.
as a US expat, there is no assistance from US-gov for any health related expenses. btw, i agree with that policy: the fraud that would occur would be massive.
i am almost certainly safer here than i would be in the US. here, my pension enables my enjoying a 3 bedroom, two bath house, with teak floors in a quiet, cooler, neighborhood; back in the US, i couldn't afford to rent a broom-closet in a slum with drug-dealers on the street-corners.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Good luck Bill - just keep away from people as much as you can ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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thanks, Griff, my lifestyle is probably sheltering-in-place already (compared to tourists, and other long-stay expats); i'm something of a hermit as long as i can bicycle a few miles and buy fresh soy-milk for about US$ 0.40 per liter, a big slow grilled over charcoal red-snapper (with stalk of lemon-grass inside) for about US$ 4 (enough meat to last me 2+ days), i'm okay
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I take it you are in the Philippines...?
Speaking to a friend right now, today was chaos... no parking to get into the Malls, long queues for everything... all day trip to get a bag of rice (Cebu)
Keep safe
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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Philippines: GMT +8. This body is west, and south, of there.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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in rsponse to a challenge by a CP friend
using System;
using System.Text;
namespace Musaeum
{
public enum SonnnetType
{
Classic,
Dantean,
Michelangeloesque,
Shakespearean,
Donne,
HaikuBased,
FreeForm
}
public static class SonnetMaker
{
static StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
public static string MakeSonnet(SonnnetType stype)
{
sb.Clear();
switch(stype)
{
case SonnnetType.HaikuBased:
return makeHaikuForm();
default:
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(stype), stype, null);
}
}
private static string makeHaikuForm ()
{
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
{
sb.AppendLine(j == 0 ? getLine(7) : getLine(5));
}
sb.AppendLine();
}
sb.AppendLine(getLine(7));
sb.AppendLine(getLine(7));
return sb.ToString();
}
private static string getLine(int n)
{
return new String('h', n);
}
}
} usage example:
var haiku = SonnetMaker.MakeSonnet(SonnnetType.HaikuBased);
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 26-Mar-20 6:39am.
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A bit of beauty to keep the kids occupied for a few moments...
River Birds[^]
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Here's an app idea for anyone who's bored: Shazam for bird songs.
I'd love to know the name of the bird that keeps waking me up a good hour before sunrise, I only know it by its Latin name of tweetius illegitemun
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: I'd love to know the name of the bird that keeps waking me up a good hour before sunrise,
His name's Ralph. He hates you, and takes great pleasure in waking you up.
Oh, the type of bird...that, I don't know.
For years now, I've had a woodpecker pecking on the 40-foot antenna just outside my window anywhere between 4:30 and 6:00am almost daily, from spring to roughly mid-summer.
Being made of aluminum, the loud clang-clang-clang wakes up the whole neighborhood.
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Ralph - I knew it!
I used to have a bird that pecked at my window, which was as bad as it was inexplicable, but a metal pole? You have my deepest sympathies.
To think that people complain about cats eating the wildlife ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I'm convinced it's part of some sort of mating call. If it's a contest between woodpeckers as to who can be the loudest...he wins.
He's also been making a lot of damage to trees in the area. Some of them look like this (not my picture, but you get the idea).
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Hardcover $119, paperback $2507. Well, I won't be getting it from Amazon.
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