07:42 – More moving-related stuff today, getting ready for the next batch of stuff we haul up from Winston. Fortunately, there isn’t much more of that to do, because we’re running out of places to put it. But Barbara has done well getting everything organized and decluttered around here, other than in my office, which still needs a lot of work.
We decided to build our own firewood rack using concrete blocks and pressure-treated wood. That has the advantages of being fast, cheap, expandable to any size, and probably longer-lasting than one of those steel racks. We already have the blocks, so we’ll pick up the pressure-treated lumber at Blevins and get it built.
My firewood rack is some PT timbers the previous owner left as a base, with two steel fenceposts driven in at each end. I have a bunch of 4′ pieces of old cedar clapboard that I use the bridge the gap between the posts I put them in as I stack it, and pull them out as I use it. If I wasn’t so cheap I’d use PT plywood, but I had the old cedar in hand… š
I use one of those steel racks for my firewood stash. They last about 8 to 10 years down here and then melt. My current steel rack is four years old and most of the paint has now come off. I could sandblast it and repaint, nah, too lazy.
I think this is the model that I got but I paid $12 for it in the season ending throwaway pile at Home Depot:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Pleasant-Hearth-8-ft-Heavy-Duty-Firewood-Rack-LS932-96/203680970
Looks like Paul Ryan is going to go after Trump at the convention, “Ryan huddles with anti-Trump donors”:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/paul-ryan-mega-donors-donald-trump-220948
As might have been predicted, oh wait, actually it WAS: Open season on Trump from all corners. Or…it could all just be another sideshow for us gullible rubes out here. Make it look like a real donnybrook, as in professional wrestling, while the real winner has already long since been determined.
After awhile one starts getting really cynical about everything and that’s not healthy; for me it means time to back off a little and pay attention to real life here. On to installing more smoke/carbon monoxide detectors and fire extinguishers and working on attic space. And I see I have a chit-ton to do also in the back porch and back yard areas.
Heh
The comments there are mostly by idiots. I mean, “oh you should have training” and “there should be limits on magazine size”…. And I’m thinking what part of “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” is difficult to understand?
Sure, English evolves. But I’m pretty sure it hasn’t changed all that much in the last 200 years.
Heh, we went to a gun shop in Austin a few weeks ago. It’s off Burnet Rd in the Kramer Ln area. A road, maybe two, south. Nice store but it felt strange to me. I have Glock 40 S&W around here somewhere unless it’s at the bottom of Lake Travis. I do need to sort out the “stuff” around here. They had a Glock magazine for 30 rounds. Maybe $30, I forget. Kinda silly as it would hang out the handle a good 5 inches. I didn’t buy it.
On to installing more smoke/carbon monoxide detectors and fire extinguishers
I bought four new fire extinguishers yesterday for my commercial property. My new insurance company forced me to get a licensed fire inspection performed on my three buildings (two office and one warehouse). We now have seven fire extinguishers between them all. And they probably will work as three of the old ones were in the discharge zone.
The landscaper who rents my warehouse disclosed to me that he had a fire a couple of months ago and emptied his ten lb fire extinguisher (with a 1992 date!). He was working on a gasoline weed trimmer and the motor ignited. He had five of his hombres standing around and they all ran for the exits. He dropped the on fire trimmer on the concrete floor and walked the ten ft to the fire extinguisher. He then put the fire out and yelled to his hombres that the fuego was out.
I bought him a new ten lb fire extinguisher, the inspector charged me $85. It was the least that I could do. He has got the equipment to run five crews with fifteen men in the warehouse with lots of gasoline and oil. And other stuff that I do not want to know about (Harrie is licensed for all kinds of landscaping and has some really awesome chemicals).
“The comments there are mostly by idiots.”
It’s FaceCrack. Case closed.
And Ima just gon go way out on a limb and say there’s probably two to three or four times that quoted number of firearms here, and ditto with the ammo. And if Field Marshal Rodham wants widespread mass unrest and potential civil war, she and her administration can just go ahead and fire up their worst against us all out here and see what happens.
Oh wait, that’s right; they have APCs, F16s and B52s. All of which, by the way, have to be driven and maintained by other Murkan derps just like us, who live and eat and sleep and pee somewhere and have families. Jack up taxes and fees on firearms and ammo? Sure, but we’ll see more and more “noncompliance” and more home-made and home-built stuff; it’s not like the technology is rocket science. And a thriving black market that grows out here daily, if not hourly, anytime these sons of bitches start bloviating about “gun violence” and more laws and regs.
“I bought four new fire extinguishers yesterday for my commercial property.”
I got three new Kidde 6-pounders, with one in the kitchen-to-cellar doorway, one by the washer-dryer upstairs and the third will go out in Mrs. OFD’s shed/studio, which has a woodstove and multiple electrical outlets. Two older and smaller units will go in the attic and down in the cellar. I’ve now got new smoke detectors in the kitchen, living room, upstairs hallway, both bedrooms, and the studio.
And currently re-organizing this office layout; only the Windows 8.1 machine here now; the RHEL server and Fedora boxes went to the attic; the Fedora machine will be rebuilt with a SSD running NethServer (based on CentOS):
http://www.nethserver.org/
And running OwnCloud:
https://owncloud.org/
Off to my right in the office now are the Amazon Kindle Fire, the TecSun PL-880 multi-band, and the PowFung BF-F8HP (programmed with Chirp for this AO). The attic space will be running the Grundig Satellite shortwave and a Radio Shack scanner for now, with antennas extending out to the rear property treeline when I get around to it. Once I get the amateur licenses I’ll be upgrading the ham radio transceiver for up there and also building some QRP kits, an emergency go-box, and related projects, while learning to solder again and do CW.
I hope to have the workbench and computer station assembled and running well by Sunday night, all other factors being equal.
And currently re-organizing this office layout; only the Windows 8.1 machine here now; the RHEL server and Fedora boxes went to the attic; the Fedora machine will be rebuilt with a SSD running NethServer (based on CentOS):
Have you got a good roof (no leaks) ?
If U mean the attic, heck yeah. New roof as of five years ago. Never any sign of water leaks from outside anywhere in the house, and despite its proximity to the sixth-largest lake in CONUS and nearby multiple streams, nary a flood in nearly two centuries, i.e., since it was built, by peeps who knew what they were doing. Not to mention weathering countless blizzards, ice storms and wind gusts to 60-70 MPH.
Out my right-hand office window is the fellow ‘Nam vet’s house across the street and the 1857 brick church, which started out as Congregational back then (descendants of Puritans) and is now Methodist with a Korean preacher. And the town hall in between them both, also brick, forget when it was built but they just had a masonry crew scour the outside, which took weeks.
And out the window directly in front of me is a wall of evergreens, but I had a little chat with my next-door neighbor and agreed that he can trim that line of stuff down considerably and give his wunnerful stepdaughter’s place a better view out to the lake and us more light on that side of the house, which will be good. I’ll help him clean up all the dropped limbs and brush. I’ll also get him to backhoe an area and path through the middle of our rear stone wall so we can make more use of that space, maybe for berry bushes and another place to sit out until we can get the deck built. This will also get me a better idea of how to site multiple antennas.
Beeyooteeful sunny day with blue skies today here and some open blue wotta near the pier. I’m currently listening to VPR classical as I’m doing other office stuff and can’t fiddle too much with the shortwave right now. Maybe later tonight, see what I pick up from fah noth VT and how it compares with Mr. nick’s logs from fah south TX.
Speaking of which, as I plod slowly along toward my Tech and General licenses, how many current hams on here? Be nice to communicate in other than the usual boring pixels and I also wanna look into EchoLink. And SDR dongles; I’ve got one around here somewhere….
There is a secondary use for a fire extinguisher (powdered chemical), self protection. Sprayed in the face of an “attacker” it will leave the perp choking and temporarily blinded and then you whack the perp’s head a few times with it.
BTW, my Wife had “safety training” at her hospital today. She got to put out a little fire with a chemical powder extinguisher (instructor remarked, “looks like you’ve done this before” to which she replied that I had trained her well). They also went through an active shooter situation and the hospital administration found they are greatly lacking in communications and preparations. I am going to hound the administration and the hospital board on that one.
If U mean the attic, heck yeah. New roof as of five years ago.
Sweet! So, somebody did do some maintenance on the house before you bought it.
Not to mention weathering countless blizzards, ice storms and wind gusts to 60-70 MPH.
We have had five hours of constant 90 mph winds here with gusts (hurricanes Ike and Alicia). Just in case one did not get the message, the wind switches direction in the middle as the eye bypassed us over on I-45. I guess that is just God’s way of pushing everything still standing back in place.
Maybe later tonight, see what I pick up from fah noth VT and how it compares with Mr. nickās logs from fah south TX.
Mr. nick is north of me by about 15 miles (swag). A little bit further north and we call that central Texas.
I got a rather painful education about calling virtual methods in C++ constructors and destructors this week. Set me back the entire week just figuring out what the problems were and working around them. This the ONLY case where Java and C# are better programming environments than C++.
Former ham here. I could walk in and pass the tech exam and probably the general, but other stuff is higher on my to-do list.
Iāll also get him to backhoe an area and path through the middle of our rear stone wall so we can make more use of that space, maybe for berry bushes and another place to sit out until we can get the deck built.
I take it this means that he owns a backhoe. Double sweet! Make sure to check those areas for pipes and cables first. I know this the hard way. Pipes may be usually deep but some cables may only be buried six inches deep. Like phone cables. I had a 25 pair phone cable buried in a four inch schedule 40 PVC pipe outside the office. The backhoe for the new well went right through it like butter. Took the AT&T guy three hours to patch the 25 pair cable and it has been noisy ever since.
All of which, by the way, have to be driven and maintained by other Murkan derps just like us
I bet Cankles et al are secretly funding robot and AI tech. Then they’ll have buttons marked: “Kill all WHITES! (except me)”, “Kill all BLACKS! (including Obola)”, “Kill Mr. OFD!”, etc. No need for humans at the derp level (that’s us).
Meh, no worries there. Just look at the outstanding success of other government software projects: Obolacare “Health” exchanges, the IRS upgrade, the FBI upgrade, et cetera ad infinitum.
New roof as of five years ago. Never any sign of water leaks from outside anywhere in the house, and despite its proximity to the sixth-largest lake in CONUS and nearby multiple streams, nary a flood in nearly two centuries, i.e., since it was built, by peeps who knew what they were doing.
BTW, the Brazos river (1/4 mile from the house, 1/2 mile from the office) came up 30 ft in 24 hours the other day. All of our ditches, bayous, and sloughs around here are back flowing.
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=HGX&gage=RMOT2
And I live just 40 miles away from the Gulf of Mexico, the biggest hot tub in the USA. The house is 72 ft above it and the office is 80 ft above it. The Brazos river drains into it. Of course, according to Al Gore, the Gulf of Mexico is going to be in my living room in a couple of years when Antarctica and Greenland melt.
Meh, no worries there. Just look at the outstanding success of other government software projects: Obolacare āHealthā exchanges, the IRS upgrade, the FBI upgrade, et cetera ad infinitum.
You forgot the most expensive software upgrade of all time, the FAA NextGen plane management system. $12 billion and counting. Of course, some of that is hardware. They do claim to be deploying it now though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Generation_Air_Transportation_System
“I am going to hound the administration and the hospital board on that one.”
Be sure to mention other incidents of active shooter situations at health care facilities, with the recent one in Kalifornia at the top; and to be a total dick, ask them if they plan to “profile” musloid staff and patients and visitors. Last I knew, no Catholics or Protestants or Jews or Buddhists or even Wiccans and atheists were doing that sorta thing at hospitals and suchlike.
“Just in case one did not get the message, the wind switches direction in the middle as the eye bypassed us over…”
Interesting, ya larn sumthin’ new every day here. We don’t get many hurricanes up this way but we have gotten some of the outer effects when they hit the coast.
“…little bit further north and we call that central Texas.”
I see. Okey-dokey. But this is most certainly northern VT. We’re just a few miles from Quebec.
“Former ham here. I could walk in and pass the tech exam and probably the general, but other stuff is higher on my to-do list.”
Roger that; maybe I’ll have mine by the time you do the walk-in.
“I take it this means that he owns a backhoe. Double sweet! Make sure to check those areas for pipes and cables first. I know this the hard way.”
Good tip, thanks. Will do. It’s possible but not probable. Yes, he’s got a little motor pool of various small tractors and plows and backhoes and suchlike and LOVES to do various projects with them between the two properties; we’re in between them, but he’s a good guy, and probably a saint for what he has to put up with in regard to the two stepdaughters, wife and FIL over there. Anything to get him outta the house, we’ve noticed. Esp. since he retired from IBM.
“No need for humans at the derp level (thatās us).”
What Mr. SteveF said, and also: they run on juice and nets and can be hacked and cracked and smacked. Even turned against their operators, lol.
“Of course, according to Al Gore, the Gulf of Mexico is going to be in my living room in a couple of years when Antarctica and Greenland melt.”
Ah yes, famous geophysicist and climatologist Dr. Algore, who ain’t fit to breathe the same air his late relative Gore Vidal did. Multimillionaire Algore, with multiple mansions all over the country and a fleet of planes and automobiles churning C02 into the atmosphere…that Al Gore???
Between gummint incompetence and malice aforethought and outright evil, we will all have our hands full over the next decades. Best to give it all a wide berth, think and act local, and spend more time in meatspace rather than gazing at pixels.
Just sitting on the roof with his belongings and waiting for the water to go down. He knows that if they leave, there will not be anything there in 24 hours:
http://www.chron.com/news/article/I-10-still-closed-at-Tx-La-border-6921425.php
I like the officer checking things out, “You boys need anything?”.
BTW, that there is Deweyville in The Great State of Texas. Just 140 miles northeast of here (I am on southwest side of Houston).
“He knows that if they leave, there will not be anything there in 24 hours…”
Naw, people is just people…nobody would bother his house…lol. I wonder how he got the washer and dryer up there along with all that other stuff. Damn. Glad all we gotta worry about here are ice storms and blizzards and local goblins that might try to break in. Dat wotta look awful close to me…
…and I bet venomous reptiles be swimmin’ in it, too…
I wonder how he got the washer and dryer up there along with all that other stuff.
Usually a couple of six packs of beer. I am amazed how close to the edge some of that stuff is.
Dat wotta look awful close to meā¦
We got three inches of water in our house in Dallas in 1989 at 5am in the morning. There is no shock like swinging your feet out of bed into water. My wife still teases me about the, “Baby, we are flooding. You grab the baby, I’ll grab the boy, we’ve got to get out of here”.
ā¦and I bet venomous reptiles be swimminā in it, tooā¦
And poisonous reptiles too. And garter snakes (they bite too). And gators.
“Mr. nick is north of me by about 15 miles (swag). A little bit further north and we call that central Texas.”
This is what is known as “humor”.
I always have to think a minute when they refer to east Texas. That’s us, and South Texas is the border, and west Texas is desert, oil, and mexicans. Central TX is everything in between.
Mr Lynn should hie thee to Rosenberg tomorrow for the hamfest. Some swapmeet, some classes, some vendor areas, all good fun.
And maybe Mr Ech too.
To add to the tally, I’m a general class ham. Started studying for the Extra, but it is an order of magnitude more knowledge, and there aren’t that many additional privileges. I recommend taking your Tech, passing it, and immediately taking your General. You want HF privileges from a prepper standpoint. Same price too, just tell the examiner that is what you would like to do.
We’re getting the occasional sprinkle here in west Houston. The radar looks like most of it is stuck south of the loop. I really hope for a clear day in Rosenberg tomorrow. I’ve got a truckload of stuff to sell at the hamfest.
@OFD, I’m interested in what you can hear from up there. I’d think maybe more BBC, and maybe more of Europe…
Gotta find some more of the stuff on my list to sell…..
nick
“Usually a couple of six packs of beer.”
If I was still swilling booze, it would have to be a case of beer just for me with a pint or two of bourbon. I’d take it easy until the work was done, of course.
“There is no shock like swinging your feet out of bed into water.”
Yo, now you givin’ me flashbacks, homes; had that experience in SEA a couple of times, near the Mekong. Never again!
“And poisonous reptiles too. And garter snakes (they bite too). And gators.”
Did I miss sumthin’? I thought “venomous” meant the same as “poisonous,” or is you just pullin’ my leg here, makin’ fun at a poor ol’ recovering English major? Gators, too, huh? Screw all that; y’all can have it.
“I always have to think a minute when they refer to east Texas.”
During my various sentences served at Lackland in San Antonio, they all referred to that area as being in east TX; and when we had the security police and combat training, some of it at local Army bases, we had to beat the ground ahead of us first to startle the damn snakes away; I saw a coral snake once about three feet in front of me. This was both before and after my SEA deployments where I also met Mr. Cobra, Mr. Krait and Mr. Boa Constrictor. Screw all that, NEVER AGAIN!!!
“I recommend taking your Tech, passing it, and immediately taking your General. You want HF privileges from a prepper standpoint. Same price too, just tell the examiner that is what you would like to do.”
Roger that, thanks.
“@OFD, Iām interested in what you can hear from up there. Iād think maybe more BBC, and maybe more of Europeā¦”
I’ll splash it here at the end of the weekend and try to remember to do it periodically after that.
edit: right now I’m getting Radio Marti outta Miami, a U.S. gummint op for some odd reason, lol. Espanol, fairly clear but with varying intense buzzing noise.
Did I miss sumthinā? I thought āvenomousā meant the same as āpoisonous,ā or is you just pullinā my leg here, makinā fun at a poor olā recovering English major? Gators, too, huh? Screw all that; yāall can have it.
One rots the flesh and the other rots the nervous system. Not sure which. Coral snakes go after the nervous system. Cottonmouths usually have large amounts of bacteria.
Anuddah ting learned 2day:
http://knowledgenuts.com/2014/01/02/the-difference-between-poison-and-venom/
Seek, therefore, and ye shall find.
Just picked up Radio Habana, in English, and World Harvest Radio, also English, and a media outlet of the American Pentacostals. I seem to be picking up just East Coast stuff tonight so fah.
I always have to think a minute when they refer to east Texas. Thatās us, and South Texas is the border, and west Texas is desert, oil, and mexicans. Central TX is everything in between.
I’ve always thought of central Texas as bounded by I-35 (west side) and I-45 (east side), the north side of Houston (south side) and the south side of Dallas (north side). West Texas is BIG. To me, Conroe is central Texas.
The big question, come the split of the USA into seven or nine countries, will Texas be split at I-35 or I-45? I am thinking I-35.
Mr Lynn should hie thee to Rosenberg tomorrow for the hamfest. Some swapmeet, some classes, some vendor areas, all good fun.
Mr. Lynn has got so much on his plate with just the list freely supplied by Mrs. Lynn, aka “she who must be obeyed”. There is an uninstalled sink in the new bathroom that she is doing a slow burn over because somebody foolishly said he would have it done before Jan 1 of 2016. But, Mr. Lynn is taking Saturday off because I am exhausted. I’ve been working too many hours lately trying to get version 15.00 of our software out the door (and it ain’t close).
Venomous: it bites you and you die
Poisonous: you bite it and you die
(Gross simplification, of course, but good enough for a t-shirt.)
“But, Mr. Lynn is taking Saturday off because I am exhausted.”
The nerve of you! The brass! The sheer effrontery!
I’m checking the mail at the post office in the AM to see if Mrs. OFD’s check finally arrived, only a few days PAST the firm’s OWN 30-day window to issue them, a regular thing for many moons now, while their CEO’s salary has more than doubled from around $350k to over $750k in just the past year. Then I shall hie myself off to the gun show down at the Chittenden Fairgrounds in Essex (very near Burlap) after which a visit to Confession at St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral (now amusingly called “Reconciliation”) and then maybe to the local Staples down there (since ours up here was closed last year) and get a computer workstation/desk and chair on sale for the new NethServer and OwnCloud config in the attic. The weekend will be spent assembling furniture, basically, and stringing a bit of Cat-5.
“Poisonous” and “venomous” bring to mind certain political candidates recently for some odd reason. With any luck and in a just world, they’d all bite each other.
Well, my grape arbor isn’t built yet, and I’m 5 years into my master bathroom remodel. I’m really glad I just took down the drywall, and left the fixtures in working condition.
The list is so long, with something new pushing stuff back every day. I had no intention of spending the day cleaning the truck, but if I didn’t, I’d just keep reinfesting myself with the poison ivy. And since I’d already rented the RugDoctor, I might as well do the living room carpet, right?
A couple of weekends ago it was suddenly time to prune the crepe myrtles, and the other trees and citrus, to meet the heavy trash deadline…. and so on. No rest for the wicked.
nick
Iām checking the mail at the post office in the AM to see if Mrs. OFDās check finally arrived, only a few days PAST the firmās OWN 30-day window
I’m surprised they don’t use EFT. a lot of our contractors love it since they are on the road and a check sits in their mailbox. With EFT the $$ is in their account in two biz days after we get paid. I guess it’ts too much fun screwing with you.
Bands are pretty quiet tonight. Got the stations out of Tennessee, Alex Jones, and WTWW with their variety music program at 5.085mhz. Lots of variety, I like their program. EDIT Just started the Art Bell show. Haven’t really ever listened to it before, but I get the idea….
Of course I’m getting Cuba, radio Havana, but not booming in, around 6mhz.
nick
“The list is so long, with something new pushing stuff back every day.”
Mine is five pages and every time I think I’ve made a small dent in it, the dent gets filled in again, strangely. I hope your poison ivy is clearing up or is gone by now; I hated that chit when I was a kid; got that, plus poison sumac and poison oak. They used to use calamine lotion on me for that, ditto for sunburns, musta been an all-purpose skin treatment. For severe sunburn they put on a mix of baking soda and water, like a paste, which eventually cracked and fell off. I had it bad enough for blisters several times and will probably end up with melanoma or something worse. Gotta re-schedule a dermatology appointment with the VA docs soon. Haven’t had either the poison stuff or sunburn in many decades.
“No rest for the wicked.”
Can I get an “Amen” brothers and sisters? Indeed. I must be a wicked fellow indeed.
“Iām surprised they donāt use EFT. a lot of our contractors love it since they are on the road and a check sits in their mailbox. With EFT the $$ is in their account in two biz days after we get paid. I guess itāts too much fun screwing with you.”
They have that for the regular staff and office drones but not for the three-dozen independent contractors who travel all over the country and bring in ALL their revenue (other than gummint grants). And the screwing with us stuff has gotten worse in the last few months, too. Her checks are now always late and past their own thirty-day deadline and they always have some bullshit excuse; someone is always out sick or in surgery or at a retreat or on vay-cay and they seem to have LOTS of four-day weekends or the D.C. Metro is down, etc., etc. Never any backup drones to process those checks and all this was brought up at their big meeting in Lost Wages a few weeks ago; nothing heard about it since. It’s done a number on my credit rating as most of the bills are in my name, including the mortgage and it’s made life deuced inconvenient for a long time now. By the time we DO get paid, everything has piled up and is late, late, late. Can’t ever get caught up. So far in the last three months I’ve gotten my SS (direct-deposit of course) before she’s been paid. They owe her for four weeks now and soon it will be five, which amounts to several tens of thousands.
Other than that, we’re doing OK, although wife has to get a full med checkup ASAP.
Back to the errands and chores tomorrow through Monday and then Wednesday I gotta pick up MIL from the airport around 6, back from Floriduh, and wife around 10, back from Kalifornia.
Queen refuses to return to London to meet President Obama
From the comments: “I think she is the last head of state that is a WWII vet. Truck driver for an AA unit.” Yep. Here’s a pic of a young Elizabeth in uniform standing next to a big ol’ army ambulance. And, IIRC, at least one of Churchill’s daughters served in the RAF.
Say what you will about British royalty, some of them have class.
What was Obama doing when he was the age she was in that pic, I wonder?
Smokin’ dope and bangin’ white chicks?
n
Smokinā dope and banginā white chicks?
Prob’ly.
Hmm, 9.800mhz, Johannesburg SA. 14500Km, good clear signal
n
“Say what you will about British royalty, some of them have class.”
Over the centuries they’ve repeatedly put themselves on the front lines in one way or another. And they don’t get the special snowflake treatment Algore got in ‘Nam, either. If not the kings, plenty of princes have served in all their wars. And the last English king to die in battle, of course, was Richard III, who died bravely and fighting to the end. Praise God that his body was found recently and given a proper burial service. He’d sustained over a dozen brutal wounds including one that took the back half of his skull off. The “Shakespeare” play about him was mostly dramatic license, writ large, but that’s the image that people think of and remember.
Little Barry Soetero was a member of some kind of dope-smoking clique and hung out with Pakistanis and homosexuals, mainly; didn’t seem like he’d be boffing too many chicks, white or otherwise. Larry Klinton on the other hand has been a complete maniac his entire life and in recent years has dialed on down into the teen and probably pre-teen years for his fun. In addition to all that, he was a champion dope smoker and coke vacuum for many years and facilitated major-scale dealing during his tenure in Arkansas. The senior Bush has also long been rumored to be a pedophile going WAY back, and like Larry Klinton, a major factor in large dope-dealing ops. The public image of these criminal bastard scumbags is nothing like what they’re really up to. Near as I can tell, the two least evil Presidents we’ve had since Eisenhower have been Carter and Nixon. And Ike had defenseless German POW’s starved to death and otherwise murdered during his time in Europe, not even counting all the poor Russians sent back in Operation Keelhaul.
And we’re supposed to VOTE for these pieces of shit every four years? OK, I’ll shut up now. Buenos noches, amigos.
Lynn wrote:
” Iāve been working too many hours lately trying to get version 15.00 of our software out the door (and it aināt close).”
I’ll re-write it in Pascal for you, cheap… š
OFD wrote:
āNo rest for the wicked.ā
Can I get an āAmenā brothers and sisters? Indeed. I must be a wicked fellow indeed.
How many hours did you spend in the confessional? Did the priest fall asleep?
FIFY
Lynn wrote:
ā Iāve been working too many hours lately trying to get version 15.00 of our software out the door (and it aināt close).ā
Iāll re-write it in Pascal for you, cheapā¦ š
Nope, I’ve got 500,000 lines of C++ code in our user interface. Based on the Win32 API. Over 100 man years of effort.
And then I’ve got 700,000 lines of F77, C, and C++ code in our calculation engine. Probably over 300 man years of effort.
“Iāve got 500,000 lines of C++ code in our user interface. Based on the Win32 API. Over 100 man years of effort. And then Iāve got 700,000 lines of F77, C, and C++ code in our calculation engine. Probably over 300 man years of effort.”
Ah, that’s nuthin’ – how about a student project?
Seriously, once you reach that kind of mass, maintenance must eat most of your time. Code rots. Dunno how it can, but it definitely does.
I’ve never worked on a project that size, but even on smaller ones: new version of a compiler, or a library, or whatever – and suddenly some obscure piece of code from 10 years ago doesn’t work right anymore. On a million LOC, well, you have a lot of obscure pieces of code.