When I worked from home full time, I'd torn a tendon in my knee and had on a leg brace and was on crutches, so I just had on my robe, and since it was a little cold, over the robe I had on this Mexican poncho sort of thing - very colorful. So FedEx shows up with a package for me (a laptop) and I open the door... the poor guy was so shocked by my appearance that he dropped the laptop upon seeing me. (He kinda caught it with his foot, it wasn't damaged).
After that I swore that I'd always be fully and properly dressed, no matter what.

Where I work now, you could show up in the office in swim fins, trunks, mask and a snorkel and maybe it'd get a comment... but probably not.

Actually, oil comes from dead plants.

Have you talked to them lately? I had been pretty happy for a long time, then the other day I tried to change my phone number.

It took 3 calls, 2 wrong changes (on their part) and the most rude, belligerent customer service I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with. I am always polite, so I didn't start it.

I will however end it shortly.

Constructed properly that would work, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoilless_rifle

Perhaps because lions, bears, and tigers occasionally kill and/or eat people, and squirrels, rabbits, and cows rarely do?
Certainly that isn't the only factor, but it has played into it over the years.

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Actually, there are 'recoilless' rifles (and guns), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoilless_rifle . I have personally fired them, having served in the US Army. They make one hell of a boom, as it's basically a tube open at both ends - projectile out one end, lots of hot gas out of the other. (I've known a few people like that too)
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At the moment I DO have mod points... but I, like many others, tend not to moderate AC posts (up, at least).
Yes, it was funny...

If common internet usage is any indicator, you eventually will be out of work because so few seem to care about spelling and grammar... so then they'll just let the engineers write the documentation. (Sorry for expressing such a horrid thought so close to a Major Holiday ;) )
Actually I don't really believe that this will happen, but it is a scary thought.
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Spelling checkers don't help with grammatical context. I see that few people don't know when to use "fewer than" vs "less than", or the difference between "insure" and "ensure". They are indeed different.
If Joe SixPack (or for UK, "Joe Pint" (or equivalent slang)) doesn't know the difference, well, so what. When I see professional authors not knowing the difference, I am... disappointed, I guess.
And crap, I'm an engineer, I'm not even supposed to know how to spell.

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When I see or hear something like "different to" I instantly think "non-native speaker.". That does not imply anything about intelligence (to me at least).

Based on having worked for Verizon in software development, I can assure you that it's a miracle when almost anything works properly.
The really sleazy types were the marketing and management types. The stories I could tell... I feel unclean just thinking about it.

It means I can't see it, as in the apparent intensity as I see it is roughly about 1/4 to 1/3 what others see. Hard to measure things like that.
It also means that I wear a narrow palette of colors to stay out of trouble.

Great... and if you're color blind, you can't work in this language? Ever?
(Me, I'm blue-yellow colorblind, yellow looks blazingly bright, blue is mostly invisible to m)
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Ya know, I actually DID walk to classes, barefoot, in the snow. Yes, I was weird. (I growed up as a hillbilly. My mamma never could learn me to wear shoes much.) Now there were was only a very minor hill on the way, but the dorm was not 100 meters from the classroom building.

True, we only learned FORTRAN, using punch cards... then again I was a physics major, not a CS weenie. Those guys were too damned weird... imagine a physicist thinking another group was too weird to associate with.

We did have paper tape available on our KSR33s but it wasn't used all that much. We even had like 3 'glass teletypes' out of about 150 total terminals.

I don't even have a lawn any more.

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