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12007. judithathome - 11/9/2004 2:18:18 AM Gorgeous...absolutely gorgeous. 12008. Absensia - 11/9/2004 3:23:25 AM Yes, beautiful child! 12009. Jenerator - 11/9/2004 4:14:22 AM She's too cute.
Okay. Now I have to have a girl! 12010. tonedef - 11/9/2004 4:42:41 AM PsychProf, Hey back at ya. 12011. Magoseph - 11/9/2004 3:15:27 PM Hello, what's new with you?
The new coffee shop is trendy enough, but it does not have the same local flavor as the other two have--folks such as businessmen, old codgers, retired couples, teen-agers, housewives, etc. Therefore, I went back to the favorite one where gossip is pungent and rampant. I certainly was surprised to find out that one of our neighbors threw her husband out and moved in her woman lover.
I was rather shocked since the neighbor is old upper crust around here and snobbish to most. I wondered how she found the courage to flaunt her private life as she does now. I remember once she told me how much she admired me for seeking a new life in another country. She said that she never had the guts to move away from here. Well, she did it in a way, good for her.
Finally, Flexy is not quite fine yet for the operation—his blood pressure is still too high. It must be the cookies he sneaked in, as if I didn't know that. 12012. Magoseph - 11/9/2004 11:11:34 PM From Mind's Eye revisited:
12013. judithathome - 11/9/2004 11:18:21 PM Oh, I'd love to be sitting there against the fence on a cold day, bundled up in a sewater and feeling a crisp breeze off the water and being toasted just slightly by the sun...I love winter sunlight.
I have been running all over town today on my "day off", when I'm supposed to be doing nothing...except washing 5 loads of clothes. But I was supposed to be able to stay home all day and do that. Ah well, dinner is being prepared for me so there's that.... 12014. Magoseph - 11/10/2004 11:40:40 AM Hello, Mac. You know, Rev.Jackson's speech is even difficult to understand for Flexy--he has to listen carefully and translate for me.
How is your day shaping up? 12015. Macnas - 11/10/2004 11:47:50 AM So far ok Mago, the email server is down so that is at least one source of annoyance gone for a while. 12016. alistairconnor - 11/10/2004 12:14:58 PM I'm laughing. The ups and downs of our email server are a soap opera. 12017. alistairconnor - 11/10/2004 12:18:51 PM I'm doing some fascinating work on optimising database performance on a high-end cluster, fiddling with BIOS settings to favour I/O or memory access, etc... it may sound dry but I'm really enjoying it.
Specially since I've reduced the time of a crucial batch process from two and a half hours to 37 minutes...
It's all about making the trains run on time. 12018. Macnas - 11/10/2004 12:26:04 PM You'd get on well with a mate of mine, he built an alpha cluster a while back, and cut 6 hours off some process function or other. He tried to explain it to me, but when he started going on about quorum and the like, I had to call a halt, for both our sakes. 12019. PelleNilsson - 11/10/2004 1:18:33 PM In 1984 I put together a network optimisation program for Jordan using DBaseII and Basic. It ran on an Osborne PC with 64K internal memory and a 6MB stand-alone hard disk the size of an OH-projector. The processing time was about two hours. Fifteen years later after software (Pascal) and hardware upgrades the time was down to five minutes. These days transmission capacity is so cheap that nobody bothers much about optimization. 12020. alistairconnor - 11/10/2004 1:26:24 PM Hey listen Pops, in 1984 I was writing multi-user business software which ran on a Data Genera minicomputer the size of my desk. It had 128k of memory, and no hard disk at all: it ran off twin eight-inch floppies.
I swear this is true.
Optional addendum : And we used to live in shoebox in t'middle o't'road. 12021. Macnas - 11/10/2004 3:21:54 PM Did I ever tell you about the time my mate went out on a service call, to solve some disk problem?
He got there and found the 5.5 inch floppies were knackered, totally unreadable and refusing to boot, so he asked if they had made back-up copies.
"Oh yes" they replied, "we make copies every Friday, no fear of that".
They then produced the copies for him, consisting of an A4 binder with every copy they had ever made neatly inserted into clear plastic envelopes. Unfortunately (have you guessed yet? thought so..) they were photocopies.
Every Friday on the dot, they would photocopy the 5.5" floppies. Hence the knackered state of the floppies, and the total lack of back-up.
12022. alistairconnor - 11/10/2004 3:40:09 PM The people concerned wouldn't be Irish, would they?
... By any chance?
... Thought not. They were Computer Users. And/or Blondes. Same thing really. 12023. Magoseph - 11/10/2004 4:19:04 PM Ali, in the Business Section of the Milwaukee Journal this morning is the following article title: The Greater Milwaukee Committee is planning and paying for a trade mission to Cannes, France, next week to position the city's downtown as fertile ground for European retailers. Milwaukee is one of three U.S. cities, along with Washington, D.C., and Charlotte, N.C., that will exhibit at MAPIC, an international market for retail real estate that is expected to draw about 5,000 representatives of brokers, retailers and related companies.
As you can see, I live in a state that is not anti-French. I'm thinking of contacting the GMC. After all, I have a good résumé in sales experience and I can pay for my trips to France--I'm kidding, of course, since I can't leave my husband alone anymore, but it is tempting though, maybe just to offer my interpreter services if some French people come here to investigate...I could invite them over, at the very least. 12024. Macnas - 11/10/2004 4:22:47 PM Of course they were Irish. Probably Irish computer using blondes no less. But at least the manufacturers didn't have to cover the computer case in wool in order to attract people to use them, as they did in NZ.
That being said, this was back in the days when a computer was a mysterious magical box that sat there and....did ...stuff, or something.
Kind of like today really. 12025. judithathome - 11/10/2004 5:59:53 PM Magos, if you decide to do that...go to France for Milwaukee...I will volunteer to go along and keep you company. 12026. Magoseph - 11/10/2004 6:10:48 PM No, no, Judsie, you take Flexy and see that he takes his meds.
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