Orkut rocks
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Nish invited me to join Orkut about 6 months back. But I never took interest in it. Only recently, I searched for some of my old high school with whom I have not been in touch with (I am extremely poor in keeping in touch with people) and found them. Slowly, slowly I have now come in contact with many of them. It's a joy to recall all those High school days. Those were probably the best times of my life. On a sad note, the town I found out that the town I grew up in is now a ghost town. The city probably had a population of almost 75-100,000. The city's economy was built around a Fertilizer Plant owned by the Government which was always a loss making venture. Government finally shut it down about 4-5 years back and this had turned the city into a Ghost town.:(
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan
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Nish invited me to join Orkut about 6 months back. But I never took interest in it. Only recently, I searched for some of my old high school with whom I have not been in touch with (I am extremely poor in keeping in touch with people) and found them. Slowly, slowly I have now come in contact with many of them. It's a joy to recall all those High school days. Those were probably the best times of my life. On a sad note, the town I found out that the town I grew up in is now a ghost town. The city probably had a population of almost 75-100,000. The city's economy was built around a Fertilizer Plant owned by the Government which was always a loss making venture. Government finally shut it down about 4-5 years back and this had turned the city into a Ghost town.:(
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
It's a joy to recall all those High school days. Those were probably the best times of my life.
Lucky you. I'm not really that keen to get in touch with most of the people I went to school with. Most were a bunch of complete w***ers.
Upcoming Scottish Developers events: * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
It's a joy to recall all those High school days. Those were probably the best times of my life.
Lucky you. I'm not really that keen to get in touch with most of the people I went to school with. Most were a bunch of complete w***ers.
Upcoming Scottish Developers events: * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Most were a bunch of complete w***ers.
more than half of mine still are. I actually went to the 20 year, although it was nice to talk to a few people who never talked to me in high school, and see a few people that did. I also had to deal with the competition to see who was more successful, and a girl named Paula putting her used bottles of bear on my table. Oh, but the look she gave her husband when he apologized to me for her behavior.... Someone wasn't getting any that night, or week, or maybe longer. Most of them (more than half) are complete... well, I'll just take your word. Still I went, ignore the bad they are only hurting themselves now.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
It's a joy to recall all those High school days. Those were probably the best times of my life.
Lucky you. I'm not really that keen to get in touch with most of the people I went to school with. Most were a bunch of complete w***ers.
Upcoming Scottish Developers events: * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
Agreed, I can count on one hand the people I knew in HS that I would ever want to see again.
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ
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Agreed, I can count on one hand the people I knew in HS that I would ever want to see again.
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ
There is probably room to add my list of people to the same hand
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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Agreed, I can count on one hand the people I knew in HS that I would ever want to see again.
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ
Ahh the advantages of a geek school! :cool:
Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Velopers, Develprs, Developers!
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
It's a joy to recall all those High school days. Those were probably the best times of my life.
Lucky you. I'm not really that keen to get in touch with most of the people I went to school with. Most were a bunch of complete w***ers.
Upcoming Scottish Developers events: * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
I'm not really that keen to get in touch with most of the people I went to school with. Most were a bunch of complete w***ers.
Thanks. I was scared always being the only freak that thought this way...
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Agreed, I can count on one hand the people I knew in HS that I would ever want to see again.
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ
Michael Dunn wrote:
I can count on one hand the people I knew in HS that I would ever want to see again
Same here. Just one or two of them...
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Most were a bunch of complete w***ers.
more than half of mine still are. I actually went to the 20 year, although it was nice to talk to a few people who never talked to me in high school, and see a few people that did. I also had to deal with the competition to see who was more successful, and a girl named Paula putting her used bottles of bear on my table. Oh, but the look she gave her husband when he apologized to me for her behavior.... Someone wasn't getting any that night, or week, or maybe longer. Most of them (more than half) are complete... well, I'll just take your word. Still I went, ignore the bad they are only hurting themselves now.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
the look she gave her husband when he apologized to me for her behavior.... Someone wasn't getting any that night, or week, or maybe longer
Yikes!
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Ahh the advantages of a geek school! :cool:
Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Velopers, Develprs, Developers!
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
Linkify!|Fold With Us!Indeed :cool: At my high school -class focused on CS - we were wonderful group... Elementary, on the other hand had average IQ 80 :(
"Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. " - Morpheus
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
I'm not really that keen to get in touch with most of the people I went to school with. Most were a bunch of complete w***ers.
Thanks. I was scared always being the only freak that thought this way...
Daniel Turini wrote:
I was scared always being the only freak that thought this way...
You're not the only one. High school 10 year was interesting. Seeing how little progress people made...
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
the look she gave her husband when he apologized to me for her behavior.... Someone wasn't getting any that night, or week, or maybe longer
Yikes!
Paul Conrad wrote:
Yikes!
yup, I never did understand why Paula hated me so. Unless she is still angry at what happened to a friend of hers at graduation: Anna tripped, I caught her to prevent her falling, the horror that I would do such a thing she pulled away and fell off the stage, I let her fall that time and walked on. But that was her friend not her, and the hatred from that group was already 2 years set in, before that event. I just never understood and never cared to, which is why I ignored her trash on the table -- wasn't worth commenting on, and I knew it wouldn't do any good. And her husband learned a bit about his wife that evening. I don't think he liked it overly much though.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Paul Conrad wrote:
Yikes!
yup, I never did understand why Paula hated me so. Unless she is still angry at what happened to a friend of hers at graduation: Anna tripped, I caught her to prevent her falling, the horror that I would do such a thing she pulled away and fell off the stage, I let her fall that time and walked on. But that was her friend not her, and the hatred from that group was already 2 years set in, before that event. I just never understood and never cared to, which is why I ignored her trash on the table -- wasn't worth commenting on, and I knew it wouldn't do any good. And her husband learned a bit about his wife that evening. I don't think he liked it overly much though.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
her husband learned a bit about his wife that evening. I don't think he liked it overly much though.
Sometimes the truth comes out :rolleyes: When my wife and I went my 10 year, she was kind of wishing she went to high school with me because some of the people I hung out with were actually pretty cool.
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
It's a joy to recall all those High school days. Those were probably the best times of my life.
Lucky you. I'm not really that keen to get in touch with most of the people I went to school with. Most were a bunch of complete w***ers.
Upcoming Scottish Developers events: * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
Well, just remember, you're one of the wankers someone else doesn't want to get in touch with.
BW
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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Well, just remember, you're one of the wankers someone else doesn't want to get in touch with.
BW
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wrightbrianwelsch wrote:
Well, just remember, you're one of the wankers someone else doesn't want to get in touch with.
Considering the wankers I studied with, I'd be proud of that...
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Most were a bunch of complete w***ers.
more than half of mine still are. I actually went to the 20 year, although it was nice to talk to a few people who never talked to me in high school, and see a few people that did. I also had to deal with the competition to see who was more successful, and a girl named Paula putting her used bottles of bear on my table. Oh, but the look she gave her husband when he apologized to me for her behavior.... Someone wasn't getting any that night, or week, or maybe longer. Most of them (more than half) are complete... well, I'll just take your word. Still I went, ignore the bad they are only hurting themselves now.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
I went to my tenth, but never another after that. It was fun to see the changes in everyone. The jocks who got all the cute ladies in school were already going to seed, and the ladies who wouldn't give me a glance back then were all fat and weighed down with 2.4 kids, a large mortgage, and the seedy jocks they married. The dopers and boozers mostly had excellent careers, stable homes, and good health - go figure. I think I'll go to the next one, though, just for comparison.:laugh:
"...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
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Well, just remember, you're one of the wankers someone else doesn't want to get in touch with.
BW
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wrightbrianwelsch wrote: Well, just remember, you're one of the wankers someone else doesn't want to get in touch with. Hehe! :laugh: No, THEY are still the wankers for not understanding how profoundly intelligent, generous, and great in all respects I am, deep, deep, deep inside. :cool: