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  • G Gary R Wheeler

    And the author is? (if it's you, very cool!)

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    El Corazon
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    Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

    And the author is?

    :laugh: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit my poetry is no where near as good, though easily found if you know what to look for. :)

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      Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

      And the author is?

      :laugh: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit my poetry is no where near as good, though easily found if you know what to look for. :)

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      Gary R Wheeler
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      :doh: All right dammit, stop laughing already. I last read The Hobbit in 1982, 26 freaking years ago. Half you damn punks weren't even an itch in your daddy's pants then. Stomps off, grumbling under his breath...

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      • G Gary R Wheeler

        :doh: All right dammit, stop laughing already. I last read The Hobbit in 1982, 26 freaking years ago. Half you damn punks weren't even an itch in your daddy's pants then. Stomps off, grumbling under his breath...

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        El Corazon
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        Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

        All right dammit, stop laughing already.

        actually, I was laughing that you even thought it might be mine. I do write poetry[^] but i am not THAT good of a writer. Oh there are some hidden and double meanings in a few of my poems and I have managed a little of constrained writing, but I am not a writer. :) I read the hobbit last about the same time, around '81 or '82. I am only a little younger than you if I recall, at least compared to some here. I was born in '65, graduated in '83 and entered the programming force in '86.

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          Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

          All right dammit, stop laughing already.

          actually, I was laughing that you even thought it might be mine. I do write poetry[^] but i am not THAT good of a writer. Oh there are some hidden and double meanings in a few of my poems and I have managed a little of constrained writing, but I am not a writer. :) I read the hobbit last about the same time, around '81 or '82. I am only a little younger than you if I recall, at least compared to some here. I was born in '65, graduated in '83 and entered the programming force in '86.

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          ResidentGeek
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          You young whippersnapper! I have a younger sister older than you!

          Caffeine - it's what's for breakfast! (and lunch, and dinner, and...)

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          • M Michael Dunn

            The sun will devour us all in 5 billion years anyway... :)

            --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ "That's what's great about doing user interface work. No matter what you do, people will say that what you did was idiotic." -- Raymond Chen

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            Rajesh R Subramanian
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            That leaves me worrying. :)

            Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP

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            • E El Corazon

              Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

              All right dammit, stop laughing already.

              actually, I was laughing that you even thought it might be mine. I do write poetry[^] but i am not THAT good of a writer. Oh there are some hidden and double meanings in a few of my poems and I have managed a little of constrained writing, but I am not a writer. :) I read the hobbit last about the same time, around '81 or '82. I am only a little younger than you if I recall, at least compared to some here. I was born in '65, graduated in '83 and entered the programming force in '86.

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              Gary R Wheeler
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              You're the same age as my little brother (who's 2" taller and 40 lbs heavier, but that's beside the point :-D). I was born in '61, graduated from college in '84, and started programming professionally in '80. I worked my way through college as a programmer / technical writer / slave.

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              • P Pete OHanlon

                Well, Google has joined in with the real world and started laying[^] off staff. I feel sorry for the DoubleClick staff who have been laid off.

                Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

                My blog | My articles

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                Chris Maunder
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                You'd be hard pressed to find any merger that didn't result in layoffs. We're programmers - surely we understand the concept of refactoring by combining repeated functionality into a single unit.

                cheers, Chris Maunder

                CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                  Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                  I feel sorry for the DoubleClick staff who have been laid off.

                  Well, i agree that it sucks to lose one's job. But... i have a really hard time working sympathy (for anyone besides myself) and thoughts of DoubleClick into the same thought. The company existed to advertise other people's products on other people's sites. That's what it's been known for, and if it produced anything of value on the side, well, this'll be the first i've heard of it.

                  Citizen 20.1.01

                  'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

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                  Dan Neely
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                  Simian therapists have made a fortune treating the monkeys they caused to be smacked around.

                  You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always get punched out when I reach 4.... -- El Corazon

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                  • M Michael Dunn

                    The sun will devour us all in 5 billion years anyway... :)

                    --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ "That's what's great about doing user interface work. No matter what you do, people will say that what you did was idiotic." -- Raymond Chen

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                    Dan Neely
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                    Baring a truely massive effort the sun'll cook us in the next 500m-1bn years. It's getting hotter as it ages (4.5bn years ago it was only 70% its current luminosity), and will reach the point where even 0% CO2 will be too much greenhouse gas and begin evaporating the ocean as stage one in making Venus 2.0.

                    You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always get punched out when I reach 4.... -- El Corazon

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                    • G Gary R Wheeler

                      You're the same age as my little brother (who's 2" taller and 40 lbs heavier, but that's beside the point :-D). I was born in '61, graduated from college in '84, and started programming professionally in '80. I worked my way through college as a programmer / technical writer / slave.

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                      El Corazon
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                      Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

                      I worked my way through college as a programmer / technical writer / slave.

                      ya got me beat! I gardened my way through votech after loosing my scholarships and dropping out of college. oh and I am the shrimp of the family at a hair under 6foot and probably heavier than your little brother, 275lbs and holding (I'd rather be loosing), but I am down from 478!

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                      • E El Corazon

                        Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

                        I worked my way through college as a programmer / technical writer / slave.

                        ya got me beat! I gardened my way through votech after loosing my scholarships and dropping out of college. oh and I am the shrimp of the family at a hair under 6foot and probably heavier than your little brother, 275lbs and holding (I'd rather be loosing), but I am down from 478!

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                        ed5756
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                        Yer all young punks! I was coding in Algol and Fortran way back in 1964 when the internet was not yet a gleam in Al Gore's eye and "loosing" was still spelled "losing."

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