Hey all, I wrote up and I sent this list of classes to my HR guy as a joke, asking if I could take these classes instead of the useless company offerred ones ("The Leader In All Of Us" etc)... AND HE SAID YES THEY LOOK INTERESTING!! !HA HA HA HA Here's the list. Enjoy... - Carlos PY 502 - INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY OF CODING STANDARDS Credits: 3.00 Introduction to the world of coding standards; why some programmers go psychotic about setting tabs to 3.5 spaces while others prefer to use one space everywhere with no CR/LFs. Learn how to diagnose mental disorder by reading code comments as if they were animal droppings on the hiking trail. Three hours lecture each week. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 516 - CUBICAL PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Why cubical dwelling programmers often make the worst humans, and what you can do to help them. In depth dissection of : cubical layout and what it says about the programmer; the link between cubical beige color and depression; cubical size and the mental stewardship of the owning company; cubical warrens and their infectious ennui. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: 8.00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 402 - PSYCHOLOGY OF TAG READER CODE Credits: 3.00 Introduction to the insane, Escher-like minefields of tag reader source code. Research methods of psychology, including such topics as biological bases of bugs, bug development, bug perception, bug learning, mental disorder of programmers, and bug social behavior. Student MUST bring their own hip-wader boots. (BSSD) Assessment levels: EN 101/101A, MA 100, RD 110. Three hours lecture each week. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 548 - PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS Credits: 3.00 Managing software programmers has often been described as being as easy as "Herding 1000 Cats". This class will discuss programmers' tendencies to avoid teamwork and how teams affected glorious engineering efforts such as the Tacoma-Narrows Bridge, the Tower of Babel, the Leaning tower of Pisa, and the united states tax code. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 101 - BUNKER MENTALITY OF SURVIVING SIX LAYOFFS IN A YEAR Credits: 3.00 Pretty much self-descriptive. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology

Corinna John wrote: Is there a statistic about how many time this one has been re-posted yet? 123,456,789,012,345 times.

...does this mean the citi bank email spam scam will finally STOP? If they can finally really steal the info, maybe they will stop apamming me to get me to email it to them. May be worth it. :)

Re: Hurling == American Lacrosse? Close! Photos: http://www.laxphotos.com/[^] http://www.laxlinks.com/[^] Except, we use helmets (too many %$^%$# lawyers here) and, there is no "over the top" points, you have to get it in the actual nat (like soccer/football)...

1974 Honda CB360 (with 'historic' licence plates eh) 1988 Virago 575 (wife's, actually) Need more.

In Australia, the Federal Labor Party leader Mark Latham has called for withdrawal of Australian troops from Iraq, a fairly bold stance in a country that has long prided itself on its tight alliance with the United States. His party has also enlisted Peter Garrett, former lead singer for the rock band Midnight Oil, as a parliamentary candidate. "After his interest in the environment, Mr. Garrett is best known for the constant refrain of anti-Americanism in his music," observed the unimpressed editors of The Australian, the country's leading conservative newspaper. But according to the Melbourne Herald-Sun, Latham told a rally of supporters that Garrett "is giving Australian politics new energy and purpose." How do you Aussies feel about that? As a fan, in America, I'm ALL FOR IT! The time has come, to say Fair's Fair!

I BELIEVE that Koolaid in most of the cases on that page refer to "drinking the kool-aid" as in, "joining the mindset/cult no matter how harmful it will be to you", as in the 1970s "Jonestown" cult mass suicide/murder whereby all (most) of the members drank poisened Koolaid and expired. Kind of equivilent to this generations "taking the blue pill" as a willful, knowing blinder to ignore the bad stuff and continue on with the lemmings... I think...

Last weeks side bar was better: "Dick Cheany wows crowd by drinking glass of water while Bush speaks."

The fish may be dying due to bad chemistry or loss of O2, and then something or the other fish dispose of the evidence. The waterfall may not put in enough O2, which is why they sell the little air pumps that go to porus rocks (same ones I used in beer brewing!). Aslo, did you just dump in the fish, or place the water bag they were in submersed into the pond for a few hours then awhile with top open, to let fish acclemate to new temperature & then water chemistry. I know many small fish are fragile like that. The guys you bought them from should have given you hints. And, last resort, there are tones of web pages on the pods/fountain/fish hobby... enjoy! (and let us know the culprit so when I add a pond next week I'll do it right! ;)

What are weird "random" words at end of many spam emails? such as: differential snappy swaziland rigel rave dwyer picket or levfap kqlupb idrnvh gj lzvlr sec uiyuov iy ?????

At least it reminds me of a short story by Stephen King, but I cannot remember its title. HA HA HA that's because it was made from his short story! The Raft by Steven King

Why must one have a date for the attendance with lightrather? This is an interesting one. What is "lightrather" ?

Clickety links!

The Onion News[^] headline: David Blaine Starves Self Of Attention For 33 Days :laugh:

Dear Mr. ?, I am an Uruk of Mordor, charged with the discovery of a number of valuable treasures within Moria. It has come to my notice that the mithril horde previously owned by Ori of the land of Moria has been found by one of our cave-trolls. Under our laws, the horde will be shared between our lord Sauron and the local Balrog, but so far neither knows the extent of the treasure. Sir, I come to you as a respectful businessperson in order that we may derive some profit ourselves from this venture, I would wish that I could arrange for the transfer of half of the find to yourself, costing roughly 20,000 silver pennies. From this amount, I will then arrange for a further such that 25% remains your own, 5% goes for sundry costs (including hire of strong Rohan horses for use in transportation), 5% is given in bribe to the cave troll to ensure the quantity reported to our respective Lords is adjusted, 65% belongs to myself and my fellow Orcs. In order that this be accomplished, I ask only that you provide detailsof:

• Your willingness to participate in this venture,
• Confirmation that you will not speak of this venture to anyone else, or wear any magic rings,
• Your race and land of residence,
• The location of your local Palantir or identity of your preferred message-carrying bird or beast,
• Your given name, and any name you are known by in the Western lands,
• The number of ponies you possess.

I look forward to your returning correspondence, which can be whispered to any passing magpie. I trust that you will ensure that no other dark feathered birds come to hear of this transaction. -- Ugluk Bako, Treasure Review Panel, Moria

In a study of 47 distinguished British writers and visual artists, I found that 38 percent had in fact been previously treated for a mood disorder; Here is part of the article: Manic-Depressive Illness and Creativity by Kay Redfield Jamison, published in Scientific American, February, 1995, Vol. 272 Scores of influential 18th- and 19th-century poets, notably William Blake, Lord Byron and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote about the extreme mood swings they endured. Modern American poets John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Delmore Schwartz and Anne Sexton were all hospitalized for either mania or depression during their lives. And many painters and composers, among them Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Mingus and Robert Schumann, have been similarly afflicted. Biographical studies of earlier generations of artists and writers also show consistently high rates of suicide, depression and manic-depression--up to 18 times the rate of suicide seen in the general population, eight to 10 times that of depression and 10 to 20 times that of manic-depressive illness and its milder variants. Joseph J. Schildkraut and his co-workers at Harvard concluded that approximately half of the 15 20th-century abstract-expressionist artists they studied suffered from depressive or manic-depressive illness; the suicide rate in this group was at least 13 times the current U.S. national rate. In 1992 Arnold M. Ludwig's survey of 1,005 famous 20th-century artists and writers, he discovered that they experienced two to three times the rate of psychosis, suicide attempts, mood disorders and substance abuse than did comparably successful people in business, science and public life. The poets in this sample had most often been manic or psychotic and hospitalized; they also proved to be some 18 times more likely to commit suicide than is the general public. In a study of 47 distinguished British writers and visual artists, I found that 38 percent had in fact been previously treated for a mood disorder; three fourths of those treated had required medication or hospitalization, or both. And half of the poets -- the largest fraction from any one group -- had needed such extensive care. Modern medicine has confirmed that manic-depression and creativity tend to run in certain families. Studies of twins provide strong evidence for the heritability of manic-depressive illness. If an identical twin has manic-depressive illness, the other twin has a 70 to 100 percent chan

There was an article in Scientific American back in the 80s that studied how many "great artists" were Manic/Depressive and correlated their phases of art with their phases of, er, episodes. Very interesting. Couple of years ago I went searching on the net for the article to no avail. Perhaps it'll be available now.... hmm

Remember: Englands definition of a "Billion" (a million million) is deiiferent than the USA's definition of a "Billion" (a thousand million). Perhaps the definition of a Trillion is also diferent???? :confused:

Awhile back I was playing hex-based WW1 dogfighting games at http://www.youplay.it[^] - called Blue Max, pretty neat implementation of the hex based games. It's blocked from my work so I can't confirm it's still up & running (let me know, eh?). Somebody mentioned Tobruk - loved it! still have it on my shelf. Wanna get a few players and up a play by email game? Nevermind - It's been too long anyway - it would take me a month just to read the directions again!

What say we rename Csharp to Cpig-pen?? The "#" is also known as a pound sign, crosshatch, number sign, sharp, hash, crunch, mesh, hex, flash, grid, pig-pen, gate, hak, oof, rake, fence, gate, grid, gridlet, square, and widget mark. octothorpe (OK-tuh-thorp) noun The symbol #. [The symbol # is derived from a shorthand way of writing lb, the abbreviation for the Latin libra (balance), just as $ is a shorthand way of writing US. Octothorpe is an alteration, influenced by octo-, of earlier octalthorpe, probably a humorous blend of octal (an eight-point pin used in electronic connections) and someone whose last name was or ended in "thorpe", and whose identity is subject to speculation. It may be James Edward Oglethorpe, an eighteenth century English philanthropist, but more likely it is an Olympic athlete, Jim Thorpe. In the early 1960s, Bell Labs introduced two special keys in its innovative touch-tone telephone keypads, "#" and "*", for which it needed fresh names. Having eight points, "octo-" was an obvious first element. Since the engineer involved in introducing this innovation was active in a group seeking the return of Jim Thorpe's medals from Sweden, he whimsically added "-thorpe", creating octothorpe. (Jim Thorpe was disqualified because of his professional status, but his medals were restored posthumously.) The "#" is also known as a pound sign, crosshatch, number sign, sharp, hash, crunch, mesh, hex, flash, grid, pig-pen, gate, hak, oof, rake, fence, gate, grid, gridlet, square, and widget mark.]