You Know You're a Geek When...
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A few months ago, I noticed that I hadn't received an e-mail that I'd sent to myself from work. After a bit of investigation, I finally discovered that I had added my own work address to my spam filter, because an e-mail I had previously sent myself had a generated subject line that I must have decided was spam, when I received it. So I'm with Groucho Marx -- I would never want to receive an e-mail if I were the sender.
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Mark Wallace wrote:
I would never want to receive an e-mail if I were the sender.
No wonder: no-one wants to receive an e-mail if you are the sender. BTW please stop posting in the Lounge. ;P
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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A few months ago, I noticed that I hadn't received an e-mail that I'd sent to myself from work. After a bit of investigation, I finally discovered that I had added my own work address to my spam filter, because an e-mail I had previously sent myself had a generated subject line that I must have decided was spam, when I received it. So I'm with Groucho Marx -- I would never want to receive an e-mail if I were the sender.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark Wallace wrote:
an e-mail I had previously sent myself had a generated subject line that I must have decided was spam, when I received it
Which makes my suspicion strong: are you the guy who keeps spamming the QA board? :suss:
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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You know when you're a geek when your first thought is to post about it on Code Project so all the world can revel in your geek foolishness.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Pot - kettle? :laugh:
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Pot - kettle and proud.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Mark Wallace wrote:
an e-mail I had previously sent myself had a generated subject line that I must have decided was spam, when I received it
Which makes my suspicion strong: are you the guy who keeps spamming the QA board? :suss:
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
are you the guy who keeps spamming the QA board?
Hey, the pills really work!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark Wallace wrote:
I would never want to receive an e-mail if I were the sender.
No wonder: no-one wants to receive an e-mail if you are the sender. BTW please stop posting in the Lounge. ;P
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
[My articles]CPallini wrote:
BTW please stop posting in the Lounge.
No can do. I get far too much joy from causing misery.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I got an email on my iPhone that had the subject line "Soap Container". I deleted it before I realized I didn't know what it was about (was bulk deleting emails and that one got deleted by accident). Since I had just Friday modified some code that wrapped an XML message in a SOAP container so that it could be sent to a web service, I assumed that somebody noticed the newly committed code and decided to suggest an alternative way of wrapping the message. I thought "maybe they noticed I was concatenating a bunch of strings and are going to suggest that I use a single string and string.Format to combine all the parts of the strings". I thought to myself, "that's not a bad idea". Being curious if I was correct, I resolved to later RDP into my work computer to check my email (which had auto-forwarded to my iPhone earlier). I just now checked my work computer and I realized I had sent the email to myself (from my home email to my work email). By sending myself an email that said "soap container", I intended to remind myself to pick up a small container to put liquid soap into so that I could bring it to the gym to shower with. I did that because the store I planned on buying it from was closer to my work than to my home and I thought getting an email at work would remind me to pick up the container on the way home. It had nothing to do with SOAP. :-O
You actually never know you're a geek. :)
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
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CPallini wrote:
BTW please stop posting in the Lounge.
No can do. I get far too much joy from causing misery.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
OK, here you are the knife... :-D
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
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aspdotnetdev wrote:
I resolved to later RDP into my work computer to check my email (which had auto-forwarded to my iPhone earlier).
It would be funnier if you also auto-forwarded your iPhone e-mails to your work computer. That will probably bring your iPhone, your work computer, Apple, and the whole universe down. :laugh:
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When my iPhone email account gets full, it sends responses saying "message not delivered - mailbox full". I once came into the office to find about 500 emails in my inbox of this nature (they were bouncing back and forth). I have since blocked those emails and try to keep my mailbox clean.
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A few months ago, I noticed that I hadn't received an e-mail that I'd sent to myself from work. After a bit of investigation, I finally discovered that I had added my own work address to my spam filter, because an e-mail I had previously sent myself had a generated subject line that I must have decided was spam, when I received it. So I'm with Groucho Marx -- I would never want to receive an e-mail if I were the sender.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Happened to me too. All the email I send from my home computer to my work computer gets tossed into the spam/junk folder.
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I got an email on my iPhone that had the subject line "Soap Container". I deleted it before I realized I didn't know what it was about (was bulk deleting emails and that one got deleted by accident). Since I had just Friday modified some code that wrapped an XML message in a SOAP container so that it could be sent to a web service, I assumed that somebody noticed the newly committed code and decided to suggest an alternative way of wrapping the message. I thought "maybe they noticed I was concatenating a bunch of strings and are going to suggest that I use a single string and string.Format to combine all the parts of the strings". I thought to myself, "that's not a bad idea". Being curious if I was correct, I resolved to later RDP into my work computer to check my email (which had auto-forwarded to my iPhone earlier). I just now checked my work computer and I realized I had sent the email to myself (from my home email to my work email). By sending myself an email that said "soap container", I intended to remind myself to pick up a small container to put liquid soap into so that I could bring it to the gym to shower with. I did that because the store I planned on buying it from was closer to my work than to my home and I thought getting an email at work would remind me to pick up the container on the way home. It had nothing to do with SOAP. :-O
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I got an email on my iPhone that had the subject line "Soap Container". I deleted it before I realized I didn't know what it was about (was bulk deleting emails and that one got deleted by accident). Since I had just Friday modified some code that wrapped an XML message in a SOAP container so that it could be sent to a web service, I assumed that somebody noticed the newly committed code and decided to suggest an alternative way of wrapping the message. I thought "maybe they noticed I was concatenating a bunch of strings and are going to suggest that I use a single string and string.Format to combine all the parts of the strings". I thought to myself, "that's not a bad idea". Being curious if I was correct, I resolved to later RDP into my work computer to check my email (which had auto-forwarded to my iPhone earlier). I just now checked my work computer and I realized I had sent the email to myself (from my home email to my work email). By sending myself an email that said "soap container", I intended to remind myself to pick up a small container to put liquid soap into so that I could bring it to the gym to shower with. I did that because the store I planned on buying it from was closer to my work than to my home and I thought getting an email at work would remind me to pick up the container on the way home. It had nothing to do with SOAP. :-O
Well, see it this way: it helped you think of a new way of wrapping the message. :-p
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I got an email on my iPhone that had the subject line "Soap Container". I deleted it before I realized I didn't know what it was about (was bulk deleting emails and that one got deleted by accident). Since I had just Friday modified some code that wrapped an XML message in a SOAP container so that it could be sent to a web service, I assumed that somebody noticed the newly committed code and decided to suggest an alternative way of wrapping the message. I thought "maybe they noticed I was concatenating a bunch of strings and are going to suggest that I use a single string and string.Format to combine all the parts of the strings". I thought to myself, "that's not a bad idea". Being curious if I was correct, I resolved to later RDP into my work computer to check my email (which had auto-forwarded to my iPhone earlier). I just now checked my work computer and I realized I had sent the email to myself (from my home email to my work email). By sending myself an email that said "soap container", I intended to remind myself to pick up a small container to put liquid soap into so that I could bring it to the gym to shower with. I did that because the store I planned on buying it from was closer to my work than to my home and I thought getting an email at work would remind me to pick up the container on the way home. It had nothing to do with SOAP. :-O
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I got an email on my iPhone that had the subject line "Soap Container". I deleted it before I realized I didn't know what it was about (was bulk deleting emails and that one got deleted by accident). Since I had just Friday modified some code that wrapped an XML message in a SOAP container so that it could be sent to a web service, I assumed that somebody noticed the newly committed code and decided to suggest an alternative way of wrapping the message. I thought "maybe they noticed I was concatenating a bunch of strings and are going to suggest that I use a single string and string.Format to combine all the parts of the strings". I thought to myself, "that's not a bad idea". Being curious if I was correct, I resolved to later RDP into my work computer to check my email (which had auto-forwarded to my iPhone earlier). I just now checked my work computer and I realized I had sent the email to myself (from my home email to my work email). By sending myself an email that said "soap container", I intended to remind myself to pick up a small container to put liquid soap into so that I could bring it to the gym to shower with. I did that because the store I planned on buying it from was closer to my work than to my home and I thought getting an email at work would remind me to pick up the container on the way home. It had nothing to do with SOAP. :-O
you could have checked the "Trash" folder for the deleted e-mail. :) I have simular experiences when I see street signs. I was passing a church sign that read "VBS training starts in June." I thought to myself, why would anyone want to learn Visual Basic Scripting, but at the same time, I was thinking wow, these people are true geeks. Then it dawned on me that they were talking about Vacation Bible Study.
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I got an email on my iPhone that had the subject line "Soap Container". I deleted it before I realized I didn't know what it was about (was bulk deleting emails and that one got deleted by accident). Since I had just Friday modified some code that wrapped an XML message in a SOAP container so that it could be sent to a web service, I assumed that somebody noticed the newly committed code and decided to suggest an alternative way of wrapping the message. I thought "maybe they noticed I was concatenating a bunch of strings and are going to suggest that I use a single string and string.Format to combine all the parts of the strings". I thought to myself, "that's not a bad idea". Being curious if I was correct, I resolved to later RDP into my work computer to check my email (which had auto-forwarded to my iPhone earlier). I just now checked my work computer and I realized I had sent the email to myself (from my home email to my work email). By sending myself an email that said "soap container", I intended to remind myself to pick up a small container to put liquid soap into so that I could bring it to the gym to shower with. I did that because the store I planned on buying it from was closer to my work than to my home and I thought getting an email at work would remind me to pick up the container on the way home. It had nothing to do with SOAP. :-O
...when you buy your SOAP at Frys.
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you could have checked the "Trash" folder for the deleted e-mail. :) I have simular experiences when I see street signs. I was passing a church sign that read "VBS training starts in June." I thought to myself, why would anyone want to learn Visual Basic Scripting, but at the same time, I was thinking wow, these people are true geeks. Then it dawned on me that they were talking about Vacation Bible Study.
ThomasVanderhoof wrote:
you could have checked the "Trash" folder for the deleted e-mail
Did that, but the iPhone doesn't allow me to read the message content of deleted emails (and, as far as I can tell, it doesn't allow me to restore them).
ThomasVanderhoof wrote:
why would anyone want to learn
ThomasVanderhoof wrote:
Visual Basic Scripting
ThomasVanderhoof wrote:
Vacation Bible Study
Don't know, some people are just religious about that sort of thing.
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...when you buy your SOAP at Frys.
Actually, I used to shop at this grocery store called "Fries Food and Drug Store". They sold soap. A prelude, I suppose. :rolleyes:
