worst weekend
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i have never had to work with a broken hand or injured finger. this weekend came really close. i was relinquishing a very intoxicated individual of his car key before he made a very poor choice and just about broke a finger on my left hand. it was all purple. phew! very happy to have my fingers in good shape as i have a major deadline friday. :-D
I almost got a DUI this weekend. I was unsure if I was fully sober, so I decided to take a nap in my car, which I turned on so I could use the heater. I slept there an hour and a half before a cop knocked on my window and informed me that I could be charged with a DUI for being intoxicated with the car on. Stupid law if you ask me, but luckily he said I could continue sleeping there as long as I needed and he didn't charge me with anything.
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i have never had to work with a broken hand or injured finger. this weekend came really close. i was relinquishing a very intoxicated individual of his car key before he made a very poor choice and just about broke a finger on my left hand. it was all purple. phew! very happy to have my fingers in good shape as i have a major deadline friday. :-D
jgasm wrote:
was relinquishing a very intoxicated individual of his car key before he made a very poor choice
You made the right choice and hopefully the indidual, once sobered up, thanked you for your actions. You may have saved a life. :thumbsup: Sorry to hear about the finger mashup, but hopefully it will heal up quickly. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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I almost got a DUI this weekend. I was unsure if I was fully sober, so I decided to take a nap in my car, which I turned on so I could use the heater. I slept there an hour and a half before a cop knocked on my window and informed me that I could be charged with a DUI for being intoxicated with the car on. Stupid law if you ask me, but luckily he said I could continue sleeping there as long as I needed and he didn't charge me with anything.
In the UK just being in the car with the keys in your pocket makes you liable to arrest. If you are pissed, that is. You can do that if you are sober.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Then I deserve your sympathy, for I have to work without one of mine on a permanent basis. Actually you'd be surprised at how quickly you would adapt, although with a non-functioning digit, as opposed to a missing one, they get in the way and you tend to keep knocking them, adding greatly to the enjoyment of your cow orkers with your screams of agony. :-D
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Henry Minute wrote:
Then I deserve your sympathy
not sympathy, but respect! :)
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I almost got a DUI this weekend. I was unsure if I was fully sober, so I decided to take a nap in my car, which I turned on so I could use the heater. I slept there an hour and a half before a cop knocked on my window and informed me that I could be charged with a DUI for being intoxicated with the car on. Stupid law if you ask me, but luckily he said I could continue sleeping there as long as I needed and he didn't charge me with anything.
It is odd that the charge is DUI, Driving Under Influence, and yet in most countries you can be charged with this for just sitting behind the wheel, with the engine running and you are not driving anywhere. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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It is odd that the charge is DUI, Driving Under Influence, and yet in most countries you can be charged with this for just sitting behind the wheel, with the engine running and you are not driving anywhere. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
In the UK there is a specific offence of "using a mobile phone while negotiating a junction", because if you are stationary it isn't a "moving traffic offence"...
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It is odd that the charge is DUI, Driving Under Influence, and yet in most countries you can be charged with this for just sitting behind the wheel, with the engine running and you are not driving anywhere. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
I guess it's more properly defined as "operating" a motor vehicle, and the law at this point is that if you can operate the vehicle (being inside with keys), then you are operating it. My passenger once almost got a DUI because they were so rowdy the officer felt they were going to take control of the car.
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Then I deserve your sympathy, for I have to work without one of mine on a permanent basis. Actually you'd be surprised at how quickly you would adapt, although with a non-functioning digit, as opposed to a missing one, they get in the way and you tend to keep knocking them, adding greatly to the enjoyment of your cow orkers with your screams of agony. :-D
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Try it with only one hand, mouse to keyboard, mouse to keyboard, all day long. My arm still gets sore from it (12.5 years later.)
That must really be a bummer! Do the accessibility settings not help?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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That must really be a bummer! Do the accessibility settings not help?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
When I first had to get used to it, I tried those type of settings, the only one that I found useful was sticky / toggle keys. The autocomplete in VS is a life saver though. My biggest fear is injuring my good hand permanently. I do injure it mildly quite frequently since I am always doing tasks one handed, which is not always the safest method. I have not tried the dvorak keyboard right hand layout. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Dvorak_Right.svg[^] but I think for development, the keyboard optimized for typing is less useful.
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It is odd that the charge is DUI, Driving Under Influence, and yet in most countries you can be charged with this for just sitting behind the wheel, with the engine running and you are not driving anywhere. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
I just assumed that DUI, in this case, meant "Dreaming Under the Influence".
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In the UK just being in the car with the keys in your pocket makes you liable to arrest. If you are pissed, that is. You can do that if you are sober.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
I wonder if I could go to the passenger seat to keep warm. I'm not sure, because I was told that a friend of a friend got a DUI because they were walking toward their car with the car key in their hand, which showed intent.
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Try it with only one hand, mouse to keyboard, mouse to keyboard, all day long. My arm still gets sore from it (12.5 years later.)
That must suck alot. :)
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That must suck alot. :)
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Then I deserve your sympathy, for I have to work without one of mine on a permanent basis. Actually you'd be surprised at how quickly you would adapt, although with a non-functioning digit, as opposed to a missing one, they get in the way and you tend to keep knocking them, adding greatly to the enjoyment of your cow orkers with your screams of agony. :-D
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Try it with only one hand, mouse to keyboard, mouse to keyboard, all day long. My arm still gets sore from it (12.5 years later.)
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I wonder if I could go to the passenger seat to keep warm. I'm not sure, because I was told that a friend of a friend got a DUI because they were walking toward their car with the car key in their hand, which showed intent.
IIRC in SA, you must be behind the wheel with the engine running. And not have enough bribe money. :rolleyes:
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I almost got a DUI this weekend. I was unsure if I was fully sober, so I decided to take a nap in my car, which I turned on so I could use the heater. I slept there an hour and a half before a cop knocked on my window and informed me that I could be charged with a DUI for being intoxicated with the car on. Stupid law if you ask me, but luckily he said I could continue sleeping there as long as I needed and he didn't charge me with anything.
Not too closely related, but it reminds me of a (probably apocryphal) story from my hometown. This is a smallish town in northern Wisconsin where it's winter five months a year, so there's not much else to do but go out for drinks. Keep in mind that this story is from many years ago, when DUI was not treated as severely as it rightly is now. Anyway, the story is that the police were known for sitting and waiting outside bars, arresting anyone they could, even if it was borderline. One night, a guy stumbles out, fumbles with his keys, dropping them several times before unlocking the car. Gets in, hits the wipers unnecessarily, futzes around with the lights, blows the horn by mistake, and so on. The police come over to arrest him, and take a breathalyzer. He blows 0.00. They try again, same result. As the story goes, he was that night's decoy. While he distracted the police, all his buddies were able to jump in their cars and get on home.
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Not too closely related, but it reminds me of a (probably apocryphal) story from my hometown. This is a smallish town in northern Wisconsin where it's winter five months a year, so there's not much else to do but go out for drinks. Keep in mind that this story is from many years ago, when DUI was not treated as severely as it rightly is now. Anyway, the story is that the police were known for sitting and waiting outside bars, arresting anyone they could, even if it was borderline. One night, a guy stumbles out, fumbles with his keys, dropping them several times before unlocking the car. Gets in, hits the wipers unnecessarily, futzes around with the lights, blows the horn by mistake, and so on. The police come over to arrest him, and take a breathalyzer. He blows 0.00. They try again, same result. As the story goes, he was that night's decoy. While he distracted the police, all his buddies were able to jump in their cars and get on home.
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I almost got a DUI this weekend. I was unsure if I was fully sober, so I decided to take a nap in my car, which I turned on so I could use the heater. I slept there an hour and a half before a cop knocked on my window and informed me that I could be charged with a DUI for being intoxicated with the car on. Stupid law if you ask me, but luckily he said I could continue sleeping there as long as I needed and he didn't charge me with anything.
A guy I know got arrested for drink driving and lost his license after going home with a pizza one night, not having house keys but having car keys, so got in the car to eat the pizza. Or that is his story anyway, I suspect he drove home. Many years ago someone around these parts was done for being drunk in charge of a wheelbarrow.
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