buzzsawmonkey 5/25/2020 5:01:27 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 34:

a little archy is always appreciated

BTW, did you ever read the story about Don Marquis going on the wagon? He wasn't seen in any of his regular haunts for some time, then one day strode into a bar he'd formerly frequented, and announced, "I've conquered that Goddam will-power of mine.  Gimme a drink!"

buzzsawmonkey 5/25/2020 5:41:42 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 5/25/2020 6:04:31 PM

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In #2 buzzsawmonkey said: Confirmation that Washington State is counting gunshot deaths as "coronavirus."

We need common sense coronavirus control!

buzzsawmonkey 5/25/2020 6:13:11 PM

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I just spoke to a friend today---the first person I know personally who's actually had the Dreaded Virus. He apparently spent a miserable couple of weeks at home under a doctor's care.

Guess what he took for it? Can you say "hydroxychloroquine?" I knew you could.

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buzzsawmonkey 5/25/2020 6:30:09 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 3:
lmfao

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 4:

The dreaded Trump hoax chemical? Amazing he survived.

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 6:
There was a movie made where the idiots gibberish became presidential advice and the name of it is escaping me at the moment. Peter Sellers

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Reply to turn in 9: I’m expecting buzz to hazard a guess at least :.)

buzzsawmonkey 5/25/2020 6:37:00 PM

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Reply to turn in 9:

"Being There."

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 11: thank you, kind sir

Kosh's Shadow 5/25/2020 6:38:35 PM

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In #6 buzzsawmonkey said: It would be interesting to do a burlesque of the dialogues of Socrates,  called "The Dialogues of Bureaucrates," in which an interlocutor seeks guidance from a government employee and receives only gibberish in reply.

The science fiction version would have Vogons as the beaurocrats.

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 11: how are you buzz?

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Reply to turn in 14: and Kosh?

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Reply to turn in 10: Do I know buzz?

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Reply to turn in 17: I say flicker but you get the idea.

buzzsawmonkey 5/25/2020 6:48:46 PM

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In #14 turn said:  how are you buzz?

Oh, hanging in.  My spring semester classes just finished, which is great---the "distance teaching" took far more time than my usual procedure of going in and lecturing, which was a strain, but there's a possibility that my having to write out a bunch of stuff I can normally say off the top of my head could lead to a book or something.

Business is pretty much dead, but if I can actually whip myself into doing something productive I may be able to come up with some interesting things.  It's not like I don't have a bunch of projects that have been languishing.

And yourself?

turn 5/25/2020 6:52:15 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 19:
-but there's a possibility that my having to write out a bunch of stuff I can normally say off the top of my head could lead to a book or something.

MOST DEFINITELY

As for me I’m being a numb and loving it after having worked so long to do absolutely nothing above having fun as much as possible given the circumstances.

turn 5/25/2020 6:54:24 PM

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Reply to turn in 20: bum

lucius septimius 5/25/2020 6:56:14 PM

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The picture at the top reminds me of my dad and one of his friends.

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Kosh's Shadow 5/25/2020 6:57:48 PM

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Reply to turn in 15:

Doing fine. Still have a job, even if I have to go in to it, not work at home. But that isn't so bad, as my 25 mile commute now takes 35-40 minutes instead of at least an hour. I just have to watch out for idiots going 100 in a 45 MPH zone. (Seriously)

However, working where I am, with so few people, reminds me of video games like Half-Life.

Kosh's Shadow 5/25/2020 6:58:35 PM

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In #17 turn said: Kosh I have a stupid question. Can the page be made to flicker when a new post is made such that a waiting poster is alerted a new comment has indeed been made?

Not easy to do. I will think about what I can do  for that.

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Reply to lucius septimius in 22:

And rightly so! From what I remember .

Kosh's Shadow 5/25/2020 7:00:31 PM

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In #23 turn said: 23 Kosh if you can tell me about what you are progressing and programming these days. Still radar freq?

I'd have to shoot you first/

Defining a standard to connect various sensors and the software interfaces so their data can be combined and used in various ways.

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 24:

That environment sounds foreign and strange to me as I don’t know let’s just say weird.

lucius septimius 5/25/2020 7:02:13 PM

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Reply to turn in 26:

Howdy, turn.  Good to see you and to have the opportunity to ignore your posts once again.

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 25: thanks just a crazy idea that might boost traffic

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 27:

Holy s#%^ say no more I value my life my friend.

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Reply to lucius septimius in 29:

im experiencing a figment of my imagination in other words? ha so nice to chat with you

Kosh's Shadow 5/25/2020 7:08:50 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 27:

I find it interesting that I hadn't used Unix in a job since 1999, but I passed their coding test and I'm using Linux at work., but ddAnd using Git (which some people think is so hard to learn)

I think starting to learn programming when I was around 15, and then learned FORTRAN, 1130 Assembler, LISP, and APL in about 2 years made a big difference. I still don't know which rich alumnus of my public high school was paying the price of a VW Beetle a month to rent a computer for general student access.

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 33:
I always knew you were good!

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Reply to turn in 35: revo is like “Waldo”

buzzsawmonkey 5/25/2020 7:21:05 PM

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Time to take a short walk to the garden and ready the Celestron C8 for viewing. Here are Arcturus and Spica respectively

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Time to take a short walk to the garden and ready the Celestron C8 for viewing. Here are Arcturus and Spica respectively

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Kosh's Shadow 5/25/2020 7:24:15 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 37:

Reagan: Win one for the Gipper

Biden: Win one for the gaffer!

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Kosh's Shadow 5/25/2020 7:25:58 PM

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In #37 buzzsawmonkey said: Joe Biden's private campaign aircraft is called "the Gaffe Zeppelin." Like him, it is a gasbag.

His campaign will be like a lead balloon, to crash and burn. 

turn 5/25/2020 7:26:14 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 41:

~Claps~

Occasional Reader 5/25/2020 7:31:13 PM

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While out for a walk with little OR this evening, he pointed to a flower that had a sort of globular, spiky appearance (no idea what is is), and cheerfully said, "it looks like a coronavirus1"  (Which it did.)

He's doing remarkably well (in my humble and utterly objective opinion) in terms of both having a solid "child's understanding" of what's going on; yet remaining unfazed by it.  All the same, I hope this is all but a dim memory by the time he's in 4th grade.

buzzsawmonkey 5/25/2020 7:31:25 PM

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doppelganglander 5/25/2020 7:35:44 PM

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Reply to turn in 44:

Good to see you, turn!