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  • S Shog9 0

    My wife is the opposite: constantly dimming lights that can be dimmed, turning off the rest. Me, i like having light when i'm working, eye strain makes me feel tired. But then, so do energy-efficient bulbs... maybe you'd be less irritated if you bought a few good ol' fashioned incandescents...

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    You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.

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    martin_hughes
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    Shog9 wrote:

    maybe you'd be less irritated if you bought a few good ol' fashioned incandescents...

    Nope, coming from a very long line of Welsh miners I have very, very, good, in fact exceptionally exceptional, vision in the dark.

    Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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      Shog9 wrote:

      maybe you'd be less irritated if you bought a few good ol' fashioned incandescents...

      Nope, coming from a very long line of Welsh miners I have very, very, good, in fact exceptionally exceptional, vision in the dark.

      Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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      Dalek Dave
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      Where do you keep your canary?

      ------------------------------------ Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. - Charles Dickens

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        Where do you keep your canary?

        ------------------------------------ Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. - Charles Dickens

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        Close at all times.

        Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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        • M martin_hughes

          ... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!

          Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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          Robert Surtees
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          All my home lighting is wired to a central controller. After the crew is off to school in the morning one button sets the house on cave mode.

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          • M martin_hughes

            ... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!

            Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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            Steve Echols
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            Along the same lines, what's up with the scented stuff? When I walk into my house, I'm berated with 10,241 different smells that instantly give me a headache.


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              50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
              Code, follow, or get out of the way.
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            • M martin_hughes

              ... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!

              Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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              hairy_hats
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              martin_hughes wrote:

              I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed

              Saving electricity in the bathroom too, eh?

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              • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

                And then they yell at you for leaving a light on. Go figure.

                Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
                Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway
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                Thought that was the toilet seat?

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                • Z Zhat

                  Thought that was the toilet seat?

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                  Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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                  After a lot of hard work I have determined the perfect fight for that argument. Suggest she leave the lid closed when she is done and you will do the same. That way everyone has a relatively equal amount of effort. (Secret of course is men will probably then go in the sink but that is best left for T.V. sitcom's)

                  Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
                  Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway
                  Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.

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                  • J jeron1

                    MrPlankton wrote:

                    cow-orker

                    don't wanna know. :)

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                    MrPlankton
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                    It's a Scott Adam's Dilbertism. Scott Adams publishes a news letter quarterly, in the news letter Dogbert answers questions "from stupid people" that write Scott Adams. Dogbert calls coworkers cow-orkers... I thought it funny and have adopted to describe my fellow comrads were I work...

                    MrPlankton

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                    • M MrPlankton

                      It's a Scott Adam's Dilbertism. Scott Adams publishes a news letter quarterly, in the news letter Dogbert answers questions "from stupid people" that write Scott Adams. Dogbert calls coworkers cow-orkers... I thought it funny and have adopted to describe my fellow comrads were I work...

                      MrPlankton

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                      Dan Neely
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                      The term predates Dilbert's popularization of it by years. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/cow-orker.html[^]

                      Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                      • D Dan Neely

                        The term predates Dilbert's popularization of it by years. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/cow-orker.html[^]

                        Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                        funny, I like the referance to "scary devil monastery" as a referance to alt.sysadmin.recovery... have to remeber that.

                        MrPlankton

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