What would you change?
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
If you could wave a magic wand, what (non-technical) things would you change to make your life better?
Other people. Buncha twisted, scheming, perverted hypocrites. And Bloody Marys. Not enough bartenders know how to make 'em right. Hmmm... other people into Bloody Marys... Oh - and cigarettes would give you super-human endurance instead of reduced lung capacity. Myself. 'Cause it wouldn't be fair to all the people i'd fixed to have to put up with an imperfect me. But i'd wait until after i'd enjoyed a few perfect Bloody Marys and nutritional cigs first...
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Rid the world of Celine Dion. All religious groups get along. Have the money and looks of Catherine Zeta Jones. (Before anyone freaks, I'm a girl.) A winter home in Australia. My pets never die. (Then again my cockatoos will probably outlive me.) Be a master programmer so I can stop bugging people at CodeProject for help.
leckey wrote:
Before anyone freaks, I'm a girl.
Too late, I already freaked out before I got to this part. :laugh: Jeremy Falcon
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put a 100% buffer between "required" and "recommended" calirie intake.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
To master my own mind
You obviously mastered something prior to mastering your body, but the mind wasn't it. The mind is also a bit player in the things you just mentioned. The same source that you drew on to accomplish physical things will aid you in achieving your goals. "The Last Samurai" - From Katsumoto's son as Capt. Algren practices with sword master Ujio: "Please excuse. Too many mind." "Huh?" "Mind sword. Mind people watching. Mind enemy. Too many mind. No mind." And yeah, a taco does sound good now that you mention it. :-D Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Christopher Duncan wrote:
"The Last Samurai"
Is that a good movie btw? I'm not a Tom Cruise fan, so I never really bothered to see it. But, I've heard people talk about it positively. Jeremy Falcon
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Bloody Marys, yeah! And, just to be specific, cute, single type females who are into Bloody Marys, right? :-D As for the cigarettes, I just don't get it. Smoking tobacco is kinda like non alcoholic beer, isn't it? :cool: Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Christopher Duncan wrote:
As for the cigarettes, I just don't get it.
Hard to explain... there's just something delightfully wrong about going hiking and then stopping off for a bloody mary and a cigarette. Kinda like going for a cheeseburger and milkshake after a visit to the dentist...
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V8 and orange juice is an excellent breakfast, i've found. :cool:
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Techies enjoy a better standard of living than many, and we get paid to do what we enjoy. Still, most people have goals, dreams and desires of a better life, even if they don’t believe it’s possible to achieve them. If you could wave a magic wand, what (non-technical) things would you change to make your life better? Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Damn, non-techncial, there goes my flying car... To make my life better, what magic wand wave result would I want: For all people to accept that my opinion may or may not be identical to theirs without them reverting to calling me an idiot for believing differently. But that may be too much to ask for so how about a four lane highway to Hawaii? Mike Poz
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Techies enjoy a better standard of living than many, and we get paid to do what we enjoy. Still, most people have goals, dreams and desires of a better life, even if they don’t believe it’s possible to achieve them. If you could wave a magic wand, what (non-technical) things would you change to make your life better? Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
I'd make it so I could buy lemon, lime and bitters when I'm in the USA. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
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I would book all the first class seats for all flights everywhere, and allow anyone who is a software developer to move from stinky cramped coach seats into the first class seats for free!
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Stan Shannon wrote:
Free humanity from all collectivist ideological principles.
But, but... as you gather followers, wouldn't that make this yet another collectivist ideological principle? :) Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Christopher Duncan wrote:
But, but... as you gather followers, wouldn't that make this yet another collectivist ideological principle?
The question wasn't about followers it was about magic wands. In any case, cooperation isn't collectivism. People can work together in their own self interest without being a collective. "You get that which you tolerate"
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V8 and orange juice is an excellent breakfast, i've found. :cool:
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Mixed together? :confused: Jeremy Falcon
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Mixed together? :confused: Jeremy Falcon
Yup. The V8 tempers the sharpness of the orange juice, and the oj brightens up the taste of the V8... try it sometime.
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Yup. The V8 tempers the sharpness of the orange juice, and the oj brightens up the taste of the V8... try it sometime.
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Shog9 wrote:
try it sometime.
Thanks for the tip. Jeremy Falcon
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I'd make it so I could buy lemon, lime and bitters when I'm in the USA. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
Christian Graus wrote:
I'd make it so I could buy lemon, lime and bitters when I'm in the USA.
That must be one powerful drink. :laugh: Jeremy Falcon
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Christian Graus wrote:
I'd make it so I could buy lemon, lime and bitters when I'm in the USA.
That must be one powerful drink. :laugh: Jeremy Falcon
It's sprite ( which I would call lemonade ), lime cordial and bitters. IT's very nice. I managed to get ONE between my two trips to the USA, and an assortment of very strange things, even after I worked out that in the USA, lemonade is lemon cordial. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
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I would book all the first class seats for all flights everywhere, and allow anyone who is a software developer to move from stinky cramped coach seats into the first class seats for free!
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If you could wave a wand and institute flat tax, why not make that no tax?
Try code model generation tools at BoneSoft.com.
BoneSoft wrote:
If you could wave a wand and institute flat tax, why not make that no tax?
I considered that, but frankly, that's an impossible situation. And in fact, I'm happy to pay a certain amount of my income for a variety of things. But in this day and age, I would like the ability to specify exactly where my tax money goes. I may want it to go flowers, and you may want it to go to guns, and that's fine. But I'd at least like to control where my taxes go, rather than let some idiot politician steal it for his salary, his mistress, his pet projects, his lobby, and last of all, some remote possibility of representing my interests. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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Marc, O.T. but looks like someone wrote an article just for you : A Complete ActiveX Web Control Tutorial[^] It shows how to write the control, how to insert it into an HTML page etc. :-) Regards, Nish
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Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
It shows how to write the control, how to insert it into an HTML page etc.
Very cool! Thanks for the link. BTW, Justin whipped together a simple .NET/C# demo for me that got the job done. :jig: Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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Planning on getting around to that anytime soon? :) Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Yup. I'm always planning on changing that, but I'd hate to see where it might lead. ;) BW
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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brianwelsch wrote:
I'd get rid of my procrastination and my fear of success.
I imagine that those two conditions work well together. You can keep avoiding the effort required to get a higher paying job and promotion, which should assuage your fear of getting a higher paying job and promotion!! :-D
:) I strive to maintain balance in my life. BW
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright