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As coincidence has it my dad was talking about her just last weekend.
He said he'd seen a movie about her (not with, but about).
We still haven't found what movie he was talking about though... 
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It's HEDLEY Lamarr![^]
(Sorry, just kidding with you. In Blazing Saddles, they make fun of the name Hedy Lamarr)
Anyway, I guess she wasn't very famous in your neck of the woods. I'm just curious as to why you're impressed? Because she was married SIX times?  
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I'm impressed because of the mixture of her nature - she was almost everywhere...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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What's being married six times got to do with it? She was a mathematical genius. The significant thing about her invention was that it was given to the nation without payment. Imagine the royalties her heirs would be earning if she hadn't done that. Modern communications couldn't function successfully without the invention.
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By now, the invention (invented during WWII, don't forget!) would have been out of patent protection.
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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Dan Neely wrote: Now what am I going to do when I need to be distracted...
Reading the below thread "Things you do when distracted" would be a good start.
Jeremy Falcon
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My answer was reach out and touch the plama globe and watch the lighting change. None of the other ideas in that thread seem as fun. 
I did turn on the lightup base for my Lichtenberg figure cylinder (mine is similar to the one in the upper left)[^] again; but that's a purely passive toy.
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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Perhaps you should take your pastimes to the kitchen[^] and make some Jesus toast.
Jeremy Falcon
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I used to have a plastic brain in a bag, and when you squeezed it fake blood spurted out of the top of the brain. Most satisfying when talking to custards on the 'phone - until the bag developed plastic fatigue and burst... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I had a USB lava lamp which was cool to stare at but I think it died in an awful and cooked the USB bus! be careful what you plug in cheap desktop curios look cool but may not be quite cosher! 
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My desk toy(s) are small marble statues of owls - not much to go wrong. And the marble DOES have a soothing effect when handled. I just can't throw one at the developer that made the impressively wrong coding decision - I might break something (and it would be me!).
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As with every work morning, I was preoccupied thinking about what I needed to do today and started thinking about one the coding problems left over from Friday. As I walked toward my front door, I pulled out my car key and hit the unlock button. For a split second, I wondered why the front door didn't unlock.
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Hit the reply button in the CP Lounge?
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Honesty up-vote awarded 
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I've done that several times, but to enter, not exit, the house.
The other thing I've been caught doing is waiting for a stop sign to turn green. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: The other thing I've been caught doing is waiting for a stop sign to turn green.
I don't even want to admit the amount of times I will do this. Most of the time I sit there at a green left arrow when I'm turning left, just waiting for the entire light to turn green.
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Cue Richard Lewis... "It started right up."
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Done it many a time (entering not exiting), why shouldn't I have a button for the front door to open it rather than having to juggle whatever I have in my arms to get the right key on a bunch into a small hole to get in?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: As I walked toward my front door, I pulled out my car key and hit the unlock button. For a split second, I wondered why the front door didn't unlock.
I've been wondering why we can't have simple keyless front door locks since I started seeing cars with remotes a number of years back. There're a few units on the market now, but they all appear to be smarthome/internet of pwn3d things products; not something I'd want controlling my front door. (You in the back muttering about the windows that are unlocked because they have a fan in them or are just open an inch or two for ventilation, STEU. That's not the point.)
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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Dan Neely wrote: I've been wondering why we can't have simple keyless front door locks since I started seeing cars with remotes a number of years back.
Or using thumbprints for entry. Surely that's gotta be more secure than a key.
Jeremy Falcon
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Go ahead and lend out your thumb to the neighbours to feed your cat while you are on vacation
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I would assume you could do it like the iPhone, and add more than one finger print the scanner would recognize. Could always add them to the system before you leave for vacation. I mean, even garage door openers have a vacation mode, it could too.
Jeremy Falcon
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Remains unpractical; let me expand the example - you wake up in the hospital, your cat/dog/crocodile needs to be fed.
A key is a simple, cost-effective token, a physical secret.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You just like to argue man. Having it being physical in no way makes your situation easier. I got better things to do than argue.
Jeremy Falcon
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