The oddities of us
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Notorious SMC wrote: But CP's safe coz it's "online research". :jig: Exactly! :jig:
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some-it won't hurt you'... -Christian Graus on Code Project outages His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to he wall**-Shaun Wilde**
Yeah, I feel less guilty being on CP, as it was my team leader who keeps on singing the site's virtues (although I don't think he's noticed quite how much I post in the lounge and the soapbox :| ) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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Paul Watson wrote: and yet I am not 6'4", blue eyed, golden haired, neither is Meg for that matter (I assume.) :laugh: Fortunately not! Paul Watson wrote: Well done on introducing religion into the thread, now we just need politics and VB vs. C++ and our work here is done. It should be obvious to you that Hitler was an elitest and therefore would have been a C++ guy :~ *incoming - run for cover!!!*
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some-it won't hurt you'... -Christian Graus on Code Project outages His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to he wall**-Shaun Wilde**
Did he apply to do computing at College, but wasn't allowed in due to the fact that he could only code in VB? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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Colin Davies wrote: Go for it kiddie and I'll take the whole African continent offline for a couple of hours amd have it tracked back to you through hard spoofs Oooohh you called me a script kiddie. Now I am going to phone up my 13 year old l337 hacker network of friends and get them to DOSS your FOA through the USB IO on the XMLXSLWYSIWYG! And then I am going to tell my dad! Colin Davies wrote: Do you think Hitler believed in God ? Can't have. God created man in his perfect image or something. But to Hitler the perfect image was 6'4", blue eyed, golden haired Arians (like the space rocket!), and yet I am not 6'4", blue eyed, golden haired, neither is Meg for that matter (I assume.) So the existence of non 6'4", blue eyed, golden haired proves to Hitler that there is no God. Elementary my dear Davies. :rolleyes: p.s. Well done on introducing religion into the thread, now we just need politics and VB vs. C++ and our work here is done.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaNOPcode wrote: ...but in America, you're not allowed to thrust, moan or see anything...
Paul Watson wrote: But to Hitler the perfect image was 6'4", blue eyed, golden haired Arians And yet Hitler was a short, dark-haired, dark-eyed guy. I've always found that exteremly ironic. :-D I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]
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Paul Watson wrote: But to Hitler the perfect image was 6'4", blue eyed, golden haired Arians And yet Hitler was a short, dark-haired, dark-eyed guy. I've always found that exteremly ironic. :-D I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]
Not only that, he had jewish ancestors too :suss:
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some-it won't hurt you'... -Christian Graus on Code Project outages His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to he wall**-Shaun Wilde**
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Megan Forbes wrote: The oddities of us Is this message a direct attack at me ? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining. Said by Roger Wright about me.
That's a relief...until now I thought I was the token CP odd person... :laugh: Anna :rose: www.annasplace.me.uk
"Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
- Marcia GraeschTrouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Add-In for Visual C++
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Paul Watson wrote: I think the anonymity of online discussions allows us great freedoms which we normally do not feel in "real" social situations. This so true. Although, I always felt that people who spent loads of time in chat rooms were really sad. I somehow manage to con my conscience into believing that me spending time on CP is not the same, as we are interested in the very technologies that allow these sorts of forums. Does this mean I am lying to myself and am infact a closet case? :~ Paul Watson wrote: They judge me on what I say which comes from what I think. Ditto to what I wrote above :)
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some-it won't hurt you'... -Christian Graus on Code Project outages His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to he wall**-Shaun Wilde**
Megan Forbes wrote: This so true. Although, I always felt that people who spent loads of time in chat rooms were really sad. I somehow manage to con my conscience into believing that me spending time on CP is not the same, as we are interested in the very technologies that allow these sorts of forums. Does this mean I am lying to myself and am infact a closet case? I actually find it refreshing to be able to chat to people from all over the place, and chatrooms are a good way of doing that. Having said that, there's a lot of them I'd never go near if you paid me, and people can be every bit as odd in their behaviour online as in person... At the end of the day, I'd far rather spend time with a friend in person that chat online. However, some of my friends are a long way away and I'd rarely see them otherwise. Anna :rose: www.annasplace.me.uk
"Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
- Marcia GraeschTrouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Add-In for Visual C++
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Online is just a medium, like air is a medium for real life conversations. I totally agree. I really make no distinction as to whether forums and chat rooms are for cool people or not. It's a great way to make friends with people who it would have been otherwise impossible to meet. Of course, my real life conversations are usually a bit more serious (okay, maybe they're wacky too). I really enjoy going to the college pub and hanging out with friends but I'd say I enjoy posting on CP just as much (and plus, lightweights like myself don't get wasted). Brad Jennings My latest nickname: Kidney Stone (Nickname courtesy of my roommates)
Brad Jennings wrote: Brad Jennings My latest nickname: Kidney Stone This too will pass. Chris "what makes CP different is the people and sense of community, things people will only discover if they join up and join in." Christian Graus Nov 14, 2002. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Those leaks are driving me crazy! How does one finds a memory leak in a garbage collected environment ??! Daniel Turini Nov. 2, 2002.
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As geeks we are known for being somewhat anti-social, introverted, etc? It is amusing then to look at the Message Boards and see that the Lounge has by far the highest number of posts, followed by C++ (not even half the total number of Lounge posts), which is followed by the Soapbox. In comparison, the others can't compete at all (although my personal favourites are the Web Development and SQL / ADO boards). So is it perhaps rather the old case of "Birds of a feather flock together" and enjoy socialising in a place where we can also switch to dev message boards and discuss dev/tech issues? Perhaps we would be a lot more sociable if there were more geeky people around us in daily life (I guess living around the Redmond area would be like this)? What are your thoughts on this? It would be interesting as well to know what days of the week we post most on. Today is Friday :jig: , so does that mean we will all be more relaxed and enjoying CP time more, or trying desperately to finish off the week's work with little time for CP leisure(read "online research" ;P )?
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some-it won't hurt you'... -Christian Graus on Code Project outages His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to he wall**-Shaun Wilde**
I don't think we're antisocial, we just don't like talking to idiots about the plot lines in the latest soaps. So of course we relish the fact that through CP we have friends we can talk to about cool stuff. I was talking to our Java team at work the other day, and we were all joking around and laughing and it suddenly occured to me that the humour was so geeky that I doubt 5% of the population would have had any idea what we were talking about, let alone why it was funny. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
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That's a relief...until now I thought I was the token CP odd person... :laugh: Anna :rose: www.annasplace.me.uk
"Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
- Marcia GraeschTrouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Add-In for Visual C++
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: That's a relief...until now I thought I was the token CP odd person... :-) Gosh no, you are normal compared to most here, At least you are recieving treatment, unlike the rest of us. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining. Said by Roger Wright about me.
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I guess everyone relishes in the fact that messageboards are, on the whole, pretty anonymous, so you can talk about stuff that you'd probably be far too embarassed to talk about with real life friends with less worry of it coming back to haunt you later on :) I do think you're right about the "birds of a feather" element (even if the TV show of the same name makes me shudder when I type that phrase) as people can feel safe, knowing that the people who'll comment are like minded people, and so the kind of "social redicule" people may expect in real life is unlikely to happen. -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
benjymous wrote: "social redicule" people may expect in real life another curse of the geek... :~
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some-it won't hurt you'... -Christian Graus on Code Project outages His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to he wall**-Shaun Wilde**
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I don't think we're antisocial, we just don't like talking to idiots about the plot lines in the latest soaps. So of course we relish the fact that through CP we have friends we can talk to about cool stuff. I was talking to our Java team at work the other day, and we were all joking around and laughing and it suddenly occured to me that the humour was so geeky that I doubt 5% of the population would have had any idea what we were talking about, let alone why it was funny. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
Christian Graus wrote: the humour was so geeky that I doubt 5% of the population would have had any idea what we were talking about, let alone why it was funny. This happens to me all the time. Noone in my family even understand what I do at work all day, let alone any humour that could be connected to it
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some-it won't hurt you'... -Christian Graus on Code Project outages His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to he wall**-Shaun Wilde**
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Brad Jennings wrote: Brad Jennings My latest nickname: Kidney Stone This too will pass. Chris "what makes CP different is the people and sense of community, things people will only discover if they join up and join in." Christian Graus Nov 14, 2002. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Those leaks are driving me crazy! How does one finds a memory leak in a garbage collected environment ??! Daniel Turini Nov. 2, 2002.
This too will pass. :laugh::laugh::laugh: Brad Jennings My latest nickname: Kidney Stone (Nickname courtesy of my roommates)
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: That's a relief...until now I thought I was the token CP odd person... :-) Gosh no, you are normal compared to most here, At least you are recieving treatment, unlike the rest of us. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining. Said by Roger Wright about me.
Colin Davies wrote: Gosh no, you are normal compared to most here, At least you are recieving treatment, unlike the rest of us. ROFL! I hadn't thought of it that way. :laugh: I can recommend some good psychiatrists if it helps. :-O Anna :rose: www.annasplace.me.uk
"Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
- Marcia GraeschTrouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Add-In for Visual C++