04-X-2007.
Ths must have been on UA
Went on a smoker's strike since yesterday. I could endure much longer, but the cowards started taking it out on our kids. Can't go around defending them, got to work at times. So I remain a smoker, just one who is on smoke strike. Like a Golden Nugget customer on a hunger strike :).
I'll keep defending smokers' rights wherever they make sense, and nag anyone who is too racist towards smokers. Had an idea last night, when I accompanied my wife (we went out for a smoke break, with me not smoking, but all the same): the antismoking campaign was always a bunch of cheap psychology, con art, slimy dirty tricks and anything from the book of psychological warfare they could come up with - just as dirty as any other anti(gay, -hippy, -communist, -you name it) campaign - and it worked.
Mmmmmm... could just turn the tables and start thinking of some really nasty ways to use the same dirty tricks to show emperor's clothes to the sleepy masses. Don't expect them to awake in my lifetime plus some, but may at least enjoy a few moments of fun along the way.
Chatted with Jan and found that the main reason for slowness is that, in IDE, fox has entries in MRU lists which point to nonexistent folders. E.g. it took me 30 seconds for it to open the project, because it still mentioned d: drive in places - and that's the m: disk now (or w:?) - because d: drive was now the memory card from Fujica. As soon as I took the card out, it flew. In Feds on a laptop this could well be image files on absent mapped drives, and they may be (stupid m$) rechecked each time, and while you wait that out, youth passed.
Further down the chats, I see we had yet another of those „who's got this open, I can't do a build“. Which means we still didn't have source control and worked on Jan's server, in file sharing. Which was fine as soon as nobody tried to do something that required compiling a .prg while the compiled version was in use by someone else, or recompiling the whole project or the database. The „who's got the ... open“ was a frequent thing in the chats.
At about sunset, went for a walk around the 'hood, with my lady, Fujica in hand. Lots of shots of them little lakes and creeks (if you can call them so, it's rather stagnant water) and lots of ducks. This is just 100m beyond the end of our street, on the main six lane thoroughfare.
On production of garbage, with Kristin:
I think we are both right. Most of the junk does get forgotten; some of the junk gets preserved for whichever other value it may have (Ed Wood's movies achieved cult status, right?).
I think a lot of my sympathy for both R'n'R and SF come from the fact that we weren't exposed to the full spectrum of the market. Somebody had to decide what to import, and we were lucky that in most cases those were the people who loved their fields, and most of the junk never made it into SFRY.
Nowadays, I'm receiving regular catalogs from SFBC.org, and keep throwing them into garbage. Once in a couple of years I do buy some (and then I regret a choice or two). Why? Because now I have to weed out the Sturgeon's percentage myself... and their sales department is not helping at all. They advertise all the books the same.
Some linguistic exchange with Harry:
OK, so what does "He sold" mean?
- he used to work in retail
- we got a good price for him at the slave market
- he's the one who did the selling (as an answer to "who sold this thing?")
- he betrayed
- none of the above
- any of the above
And, ahem, mind your language when I'm around:
>is it possible to launch internet from a fox application ?
Isn't it a bit late? Internet was already launched a couple of decades ago :).
What were these stereotypes called before we had stereo? Monotypes?
Mentions: Feds, fox, Fujica, Harry McDouglas, Jan Brenkelen, Kristin Peiser, Majkrosoft (m$), UbiquAgora (UA), in serbian
11-X-2007 - 31-X-2025