Got rid of stuff via FreeCycle.
Went to work (though its nominally a holiday, but I like my job).
Did a pharmacy run for our 83 yr old next door neighbor.
Now, I headed for a old school, high tech Austin annual New Years' party. My wife is recuperating from too much fun at *some* for the 3 restaurants we (all) partied at here, Houston, back here ...
However -- no alcohol for me on this very wet & somewhat foggy night. [Won't take my recumbent THIS time!]
I wish us all good luck in 2013 (some 4 hrs 15 minutes from now)

You subposted to my /. vote post. Thanks.

I tried private email to the @bright.net one bounced. So off topic though it may be ...

I looked up your reference to Norilsk and was intrigued by the city "red
steep-riverbank" (about the most from my high school Russian I can
recall). It reminded of a pleasant half hour we spent waiting for LDS to
open for the morning.

http://www.colindaylinks.com/utah/saltlake2.html

See the cabin about half way down the page, or JUST the image at

http://www.colindaylinks.com/utah/images2/SLCTemple5.jpg.

Anyway, you see someone pays attention.

George

Thanks for the best description I can accept without immediate skepticism.

I recall the day in high school that President John Kennedy was assasinated. It also happens to be my birthday. So the day is never ordinary.

I haven't checked, but non-USA citizens probably have no official holiday Thursday. Possibly in their time zones there may be a US football game to watch outside of work time.

How /. members will we need to rate bling, do you think?

"On The Beach", by Nevil Shute

No other comes close for me.

And yet you (presumably) surrender to sleep every 24 hours, oblivous..

For you, with every wake period, your view of UNexisting remains the same.... as it will on that inexorable day.

I think it matters not which day that inexorable one is once you have reached your maturity.

I'm astonished at your reaction. I was one of the purchasers of the 1st run of the AmigaOne and has been THE computer I have used these many years. It has never needed repair. It was been upgraded on two separate occasions.

Mark me at the complete antipodes of your experience. Do you have hands on experience?

Please don't be anonymous. Can't build up any... well.. anything that way; and you gotta know you are worth paying attention to, no?

How about others watching hard work's relevance evaporate before new algorithms. Might not they show pique?

I guess the author is too young to have used PEEK and POKE or he'd never made that error.

For me the interest is raised if I write a few high level tests BEFORE doing any coding. Then code.

I suspect the heightened interest is the pleasure of writing to a spec and meeting a goal.

So often (80% of the time?) I then early on save a good bit of rewriting.