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  • X Xiangyang Liu

    harold aptroot wrote:

    Talking with a girl,

    He could be having a brain-storming session with the girl ... about web design, of course. :-D

    My .NET Business Application Framework     My Younger Son & His "PET"

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    ely_bob
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    Most likely looking for user feedback. :laugh:

    I'd blame it on the Brain farts.. But let's be honest, it really is more like a Methane factory between my ears some days then it is anything else...

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    • C Chris Maunder

      You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster. :doh:

      cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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      Muhammad Gouda
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      Write code in my signature

      foreach(Minute m in MyLife) myExperience++;

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      • C Chris Maunder

        You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster. :doh:

        cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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        John Stewien
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        - all the phone numbers you give people are SkypeIn numbers. - you find yourself often having a conversation about how keyboards aren't as good as they used to be. - your 2 yr old daughter can log into a PC, use a mouse to play Purple Place on Windows 7, navigate youtube like a veteran, take photos with a compact digital camera and review them on the LCD, but can't speak English yet.

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        • I IncredibleMouse

          You know you are NOT a geek when you ask someone what they do for a living, and after they reply with software applications developer, and you respond with - "Oh that's great becuse I'm having a problem with my computer...." :mad:

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          Muhammad Gouda
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          Wow, I guessed this happens only in my country

          foreach(Minute m in MyLife) myExperience++;

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          • B Bort1980

            This joke not only makes sense, but is also funny... There are 10 typs of people in this world - those who understand binary and those who don't.

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            Muhammad Gouda
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            Bort1980 wrote:

            There are 10 typs of people in this world - those who understand binary and those who don't.

            L like it so much :thumbsup:

            foreach(Minute m in MyLife) myExperience++;

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            • J John Stewien

              - all the phone numbers you give people are SkypeIn numbers. - you find yourself often having a conversation about how keyboards aren't as good as they used to be. - your 2 yr old daughter can log into a PC, use a mouse to play Purple Place on Windows 7, navigate youtube like a veteran, take photos with a compact digital camera and review them on the LCD, but can't speak English yet.

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              Muhammad Gouda
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              John Stewien wrote:

              your 2 yr old daughter can log into a PC, use a mouse to play Purple Place on Windows 7, navigate youtube like a veteran, take photos with a compact digital camera and review them on the LCD, but can't speak English yet.

              Perfect match :cool: So, my 2.5 years son proves my geekness

              foreach(Minute m in MyLife) myExperience++;

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              • D dybs

                And if the girl happens to be a fellow geek (my wife happens to be quite a geek herself)?

                The shout of progress is not "Eureka!" it's "Strange... that's not what i expected". - peterchen

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                firegryphon
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                No this only applies if you both stare at your feet.  If any eye contact was made, then you still lose your geek cred.

                ragnaroknrol: Yes, but comparing a rabid wolverine gnawing on your face while stabbing you with a fountain pen to Vista is likely to make the wolverine look good, so it isn't exactly that big of a compliment.

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                • C Chris Maunder

                  You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster. :doh:

                  cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                  User 7084642
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                  You put a semi-colon at the end of each line in a Word document........

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                  • U User 7084642

                    You put a semi-colon at the end of each line in a Word document........

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                    Andrew Wiles
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                    Hey - someone stole my profile! I am not a number (7118204), or at least I didn't used to be! Has anyone else been seeing any weirdism's with member account information!

                    www.it-workplace.com
                    "If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

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                    • A Andrew Wiles

                      Hey - someone stole my profile! I am not a number (7118204), or at least I didn't used to be! Has anyone else been seeing any weirdism's with member account information!

                      www.it-workplace.com
                      "If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

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                      Andrew Wiles
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                      And now I am back as me - that is very, very disturbing.......

                      www.it-workplace.com
                      "If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

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                      • C Chris Maunder

                        You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster. :doh:

                        cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                        MattPenner
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                        I met a girl in 1993 and asked her if she had an email address. She said "A wha? :confused:". She gave me her snail mail address. She's now my wife and checks her Facebook page daily on her iPhone. I guess it all worked out, right? :-D

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                        • M Muhammad Gouda

                          John Stewien wrote:

                          your 2 yr old daughter can log into a PC, use a mouse to play Purple Place on Windows 7, navigate youtube like a veteran, take photos with a compact digital camera and review them on the LCD, but can't speak English yet.

                          Perfect match :cool: So, my 2.5 years son proves my geekness

                          foreach(Minute m in MyLife) myExperience++;

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                          MattPenner
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                          Ha! That's great. :) I wanted to get my daughter a onesie that says "Child process" on it, but my wife had to draw the line somewhere.

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                          • C Chris Maunder

                            You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster. :doh:

                            cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                            User 3837070
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                            Your 12 year old son is taking directions from you to debug an IP problem. Your wife wants a new RAID for the server for our wedding anniversary. There are more computers in the house than people (5 people, 3 cats, 9 computers RUNNING, who knows how many as parts...) You are building a new house and worry about the network infrastructure before the room layout. The cost of computer upgrades affects the family budget more than the cost of gas. Your 3 year old can use a mouse (yes, all three kids could at three...) Your 12 year old son is more interested in the OS and file types on the MP3/4 player you are buying him than the music he will listen to. Your 9 year old daughter prefers digital horses to real ones. Your kids are learning Japanese from subtitled Anime and know that they have to wait for BitTorrents to bring the next episode. Your forms of relaxing hobbies are electronics, model trains (electronics) and the stereo (electronics). When you take your children to the Museum of Flight they ask to see the simulation systems reboot to understand the underlying OS and hardware. Your son's favorite shirt is "There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't." You meet your wife in the SF section of a bookstore. I am sure there are more examples, but you get the idea.

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                            • C Chris Maunder

                              You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster. :doh:

                              cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                              Joeinorange2
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                              The icon on your Microsoft Mary app is 'The Cat In The Hat'. This really happened. joe / oc / virginia / usa / 3rd rock

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                              • C Chris Maunder

                                You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster. :doh:

                                cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                                virang_21
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                                These are 10 commandments of being geek (There can be many more... This is not bible) : 1 > You still love your good old pants. 2 > You like pizza and cola 3 > That computer in your bedroom is connected to more equipments then just modem or router. I hope you got a switch too... 4 > Lots of computer books in your bookshelf. 5 > Robotic alarm clock .. maybe D2-R2.. 6 > You still like Star wars, Lord of the rings, star trek,.and movies and series on those line. 7 > You remember lines from those movies and use as often as you can.. 8 > You like to upgrade your gadgets every now and then. 9 > Friends asks you to fix their computers. 10 > You feel amazed by how you remember your passwords for 50 different techy-geeky subscription sites.

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                                • M Marc Clifton

                                  Chris Maunder wrote:

                                  You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster.

                                  You need a woman in your life! (ok folks, don't take that as "to do the dusting" but "to tell him how HOW to do the dusting"!) Marc

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                                  Trevortni
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                                  Marc Clifton wrote:

                                  You need a woman in your life!

                                  Are you responding to the quote you included, or to the thread itself?

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                                  • J John Stewien

                                    - all the phone numbers you give people are SkypeIn numbers. - you find yourself often having a conversation about how keyboards aren't as good as they used to be. - your 2 yr old daughter can log into a PC, use a mouse to play Purple Place on Windows 7, navigate youtube like a veteran, take photos with a compact digital camera and review them on the LCD, but can't speak English yet.

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                                    Trevortni
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                                    John Stewien wrote:

                                    your 2 yr old daughter

                                    John Stewien wrote:

                                    can't speak English yet.

                                    Because you insist that she be fluent in Klingon, Elven, and Assembly before being exposed to such an irrelevant language.

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                                    • A Anna Jayne Metcalfe

                                      I don't think they're up yet (though slides from some sessions are[^]) In the meantime however there are summaries of all of the sessions here[^] to give you a flavour of what the conference is all about.

                                      Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"

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                                      Westley Cooper Thorn
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                                      ...you read this.

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                                      • V virang_21

                                        These are 10 commandments of being geek (There can be many more... This is not bible) : 1 > You still love your good old pants. 2 > You like pizza and cola 3 > That computer in your bedroom is connected to more equipments then just modem or router. I hope you got a switch too... 4 > Lots of computer books in your bookshelf. 5 > Robotic alarm clock .. maybe D2-R2.. 6 > You still like Star wars, Lord of the rings, star trek,.and movies and series on those line. 7 > You remember lines from those movies and use as often as you can.. 8 > You like to upgrade your gadgets every now and then. 9 > Friends asks you to fix their computers. 10 > You feel amazed by how you remember your passwords for 50 different techy-geeky subscription sites.

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                                        dybs
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                                        virang_21 wrote:

                                        These are 0A commandments of being geek

                                        FTFY :) Dybs

                                        The shout of progress is not "Eureka!" it's "Strange... that's not what i expected". - peterchen

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                                        • C Chris Maunder

                                          You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster. :doh:

                                          cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                                          RubenG
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                                          ... you start dictating c++ code while sleeping... on a girl's lap... while alone with her... :|

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