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Errata Blog
A blog about the current moment…
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You were born a Billionaire
You already were given 3,153,6000 million heartbeats for every year you were going to live.
On average, 2.5 billion heartbeats in a lifetime.
How will you spend them?
Will you spend them living your own life – up to your own potential – or spend them dreaming of living someone else's life?
You first
“None of the books available to me claims that the rascasse is venomous, but my rascasse du nord has a groove on the front face of each spine in the dorsal fin, and I refuse to step on it until someone else does."
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/10/27/the-soul-of-bouillabaisse-town
You'd be surprised.
"There's a lot of morons out there, don't get me wrong, but it seems a step too far even for a fool."
I see proof everyday…
Src: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11980339
You Are Not Normal
Quetelet applied the same [Astronomical] thinking to his interpretation of human averages: He declared that the individual person was synonymous with error, while the average person represented the true human being.
“Et voila.”
Or more precisely: “C'est pas normal.”
House Building
Digging 4
We whacked away at the track with my crowbars and his sledge hammer. For at least a couple of hours, with him talking about all these techniques he'd heard would work.
Helen was pretty good with that sledge hammer.
But in the end it was a wash.
Next day, Tuesday, up came the pros from ABSolutions.
Francois (on the ground) and Cam (backside). Francois moved to 6 months ago from South Afrikans, where he was used to excavators that are 20 x bigger than my toy, and nothing can be moved by human labour. So he very elegantly used the machine against the machine, using the bucket to push in the idler to give us the slack we needed and then put a chain around the track and used the stick and boom to pull the track onto the sprockets..and then the same with the idler.
Frankly, it was practically poetic and graceful. In a muddy, clumpy, kind of way.
But I was giddy! With my digger back, I could roar across the hills and catch up on 2 precious days lost.
So I sped back and forth to cut the rest of the path and was getting somewhere:
But…life is cruel.
And it happened again on the same track.
It's embarrassing. Going to have to call back AB Solutions to help out again.
But I'm starting to think of the digger as my Stephen King thing…
Digging - Part 3
The digger was still missing a track.
So Gareth came up to help, on a National Holiday, no less.
Gareth was sure we would succeed. Then again, Gareth had never done this before.
We whacked away at the track with my crowbars and his sledge hammer. For at least a couple of hours, with him talking about all these techniques he'd heard would work.
I asked him where he was getting his information. He mentioned brushing up on a web page before coming up.
Ah.
Helen got in on the fun too and turned out to be pretty good with that sledge hammer while we both strained at the crowbars, trying to not show each other, or the lady in our presence, that we were actually about to bust a gut.
But in the end, it was a bust. The digger was still missing a track.
Gareth was wrong.
Dry .NET Blog
A blog about the latest code fragment that titillate me…
Link to more entries: NET Entries