Why is it...
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... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!
Ahoy! Martin Hughes
My wife is the opposite: constantly dimming lights that can be dimmed, turning off the rest. Me, i like having light when i'm working, eye strain makes me feel tired. But then, so do energy-efficient bulbs... maybe you'd be less irritated if you bought a few good ol' fashioned incandescents...
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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.
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My wife is the opposite: constantly dimming lights that can be dimmed, turning off the rest. Me, i like having light when i'm working, eye strain makes me feel tired. But then, so do energy-efficient bulbs... maybe you'd be less irritated if you bought a few good ol' fashioned incandescents...
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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.
Shog9 wrote:
maybe you'd be less irritated if you bought a few good ol' fashioned incandescents...
Nope, coming from a very long line of Welsh miners I have very, very, good, in fact exceptionally exceptional, vision in the dark.
Ahoy! Martin Hughes
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Shog9 wrote:
maybe you'd be less irritated if you bought a few good ol' fashioned incandescents...
Nope, coming from a very long line of Welsh miners I have very, very, good, in fact exceptionally exceptional, vision in the dark.
Ahoy! Martin Hughes
Where do you keep your canary?
------------------------------------ Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. - Charles Dickens
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Where do you keep your canary?
------------------------------------ Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. - Charles Dickens
Close at all times.
Ahoy! Martin Hughes
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... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!
Ahoy! Martin Hughes
All my home lighting is wired to a central controller. After the crew is off to school in the morning one button sets the house on cave mode.
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... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!
Ahoy! Martin Hughes
Along the same lines, what's up with the scented stuff? When I walk into my house, I'm berated with 10,241 different smells that instantly give me a headache.
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on! A post a day, keeps the white coats away!
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... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!
Ahoy! Martin Hughes
martin_hughes wrote:
I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed
Saving electricity in the bathroom too, eh?
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And then they yell at you for leaving a light on. Go figure.
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After a lot of hard work I have determined the perfect fight for that argument. Suggest she leave the lid closed when she is done and you will do the same. That way everyone has a relatively equal amount of effort. (Secret of course is men will probably then go in the sink but that is best left for T.V. sitcom's)
Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
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It's a Scott Adam's Dilbertism. Scott Adams publishes a news letter quarterly, in the news letter Dogbert answers questions "from stupid people" that write Scott Adams. Dogbert calls coworkers cow-orkers... I thought it funny and have adopted to describe my fellow comrads were I work...
MrPlankton
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It's a Scott Adam's Dilbertism. Scott Adams publishes a news letter quarterly, in the news letter Dogbert answers questions "from stupid people" that write Scott Adams. Dogbert calls coworkers cow-orkers... I thought it funny and have adopted to describe my fellow comrads were I work...
MrPlankton
The term predates Dilbert's popularization of it by years. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/cow-orker.html[^]
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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The term predates Dilbert's popularization of it by years. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/cow-orker.html[^]
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
funny, I like the referance to "scary devil monastery" as a referance to alt.sysadmin.recovery... have to remeber that.
MrPlankton
