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I wish we could have real snow. It doesn't have to happen often. This tropical heat in RSA is really annoying.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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Grew up in Northern Ontario... don't miss the snow.
The 2 winters I distinctly remember:
1. sometime in the early '70s; we had 5 feet of packed snow in the back yard. Built tunnels that we could run on top of and not have it collapse.
2. 1987 - living in Southern Ontario; went home to visit my parents for the week. Big storm; snowed in; 6 foot drifts in the driveway. My brother worked on day with a tractor and 4 foot wide blower to clear the driveway. Shut the city down, and this a city that knew how to react to snow. There was too much to clear in one day. Called work to say I wouldn't be in the next day.
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And that, my friend, is why the saying goes: "Jamaica, No Problem!"
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Me too. 
I'm just a little north of you, in southern CT. Oh the fun.
Scott
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Yeah - you (as will we) will be getting the worst of it.
Just one thing: A smiley face? Really?
So many emoticons from which to choose and you go for delirium.
Must be a New England thing.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I was feeling lazy - it's Monday. It was the first one.
How's that?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: My little part of the world (Long Island, NY)
I think I've located your problem 
(Hey, I went to college out on the island... The winds off the north shore are just evil, that's the only place my car ever did a 360 in an intersection)
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Assuredly, I'll be snowed indoors on Tuesday and it'll be pointless to start digging out until Wednesday. Then there's digging out.
You're doing it wrong. It's much easier to remove 3-4" of snow repeatedly than a single much thicker layer once. The thin layer can be pushed to the edge of your sidewalk/driveway so the only actual shoveling you need to do is to lift it onto the pile at the edge. If you let the snowman poo pile up high you're going to have to move it the entire distance the hard way.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well - it'll be snowing all night (it's already started), throughout the day, and into the next night - and the wind, which will be fierce, will blow it right back into the hole. I've watched a neighbor dig out walkways, then watched them dig them out again, when the blowing stopped.
It's being predicted at 2"-4"/hr: I don't think I could shovel it fast enough to break even. Maybe if I had a snow blower.
However - I'll give your plan a try when there's a more normal fall at a manageable time.
Maybe I'm just bummed out because it's really going to suck for days.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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If it's blowing, pile upwind and a few feet away from where you want to keep clear. A lot of the drift will either pile up on the front face of your ridge; or fall out in the still air immediately behind it.
Can't help with the faster than you can move it problem; sometimes it sucks to be single and without any childrenslave labor. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Not single, but the laborers have grown up and moved on.
Worse: large-size son is currently enjoying St Croix - and will probably do something like send a picture of himself holding a small plastic shovel whilst on the beach. I raised him well.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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So that's why it will be up in the 70s today. You people have stolen all the cold.
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Don't take this personally
GenJerDan wrote: up in the 70s today.
but I hate you.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Cool!!!!
Dress up, go outside, have fun, make forts, jump around in the snow, throw nice snows balls around, ...
Start clearing the snow while it is going down, it will make your life easier.
I'd rather be phishing!
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This is why I ran from New England when I got the chance.
I and a cousin of mine in Florida had some fun irking my sister in New Hampshire this weekend. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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http://davidwalsh.name/sass-color-variables-dont-suck[^] His idea of a naming scheme sucks for exactly the same reason that named web colors do, in fact they sucketh mighter, even unto the seventh generation. Why? because the tool he uses will give you a near match, and ultimately the name might not mean anything to you. What colour is "Zinnwaldite"? Google images barely helps[^] - it ranges from grey, through pink even across to purple. The acual colour is more or less the same as tinned salmon.
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My opinion is to hunt down the author and give him Chinese Burns on both arms! 
veni bibi saltavi
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Keith Barrow wrote: the name might not mean anything to you
Which is not the point, I think. The point is to have a unique name associated to a specific color. You might as well use a GUID, but Zinnwaldite is cooler than ASDE4-DR152-15487-DE456.
As soon as the service is not free anymore (or is it already ? I did not click), it might get interesting This is an awesome business model : make people dependent of your free product, and then make it not free anymore...
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It is soooo necessary a service too. I mean it must be so hard to define css -
$blue='#369';
[...]
$navigationBackground=$blue
[...]
ul#navigation{
background:$navigationBackground;
}
[...]
veni bibi saltavi
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If we're going to get Biblical, this idea sucketh even unto the tenth generation.
There are a limited number of screen element types in any project, and enumerating them is not difficult; in fact, this is one of the jobs of a graphic designer. Assigning a decent colour scheme to these element types is likewise something that any competent graphic designer should be capable of doing.
If your project is so large that you cannot keep the list of screen element types in mind, you need a graphic designer to enforce coherence, name the element types, and assign their colours. If you can keep everything in mind, the suggested naming scheme is unnecessary.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: If we're going to get Biblical, this idea sucketh even unto the tenth generation.
I never really got the 10th generation thing. Numerologically, seven is much more gratifying.
But +1 for spotting it.
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Funny that he almost glosses over the only one best and right way just because it would have the same value in different variables (WHAT? THE HORROR!)
What happens when decide to use #292929 as the background color for your buttons? Do you rename $border-color to $border-and-button-color? Do you add another variable and duplicate the value?
Magic, No, No but
$color-button = $color_border
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"Substitute Stain Standard" (9)
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Sweet C₃ today!
Isn't it blasphemy to destroy your coffe with that?
Life is too shor
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I think I know what you're saying but it is wrong.
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