July 15, 2009 at 7:39 am
Paul White (7/14/2009)
Bruce W Cassidy (7/14/2009)
Paul White (7/14/2009)
That always reminds me of a book - I think it was called "Good Omens" in which Conquest, War, Famine, and Death stopped at a cafe for a bite to eat and their horses were stolen.The Four Pedestrians of the Apocalypse just doesn't sound as good somehow...
:laugh:
[font="Verdana"]The book is by Terry Pratchett, and it was supposed to become a movie, but I believe the movie process has stalled. Shame.[/font]
I didn't know about plans for a film - could be awesome since I really enjoyed the book.
The co-writer was Neil Gaiman IIRC.
This is one of the few books I have actually laughed out loud when reading. I especially enjoy what War does for a living (I won't ruin it, but quite funny).
Gaby
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July 15, 2009 at 7:43 am
GilaMonster (7/15/2009)
A friend sent me this, I thought people here might get a laugh out of it.
I can only imagine how hard it was for the MS support engineer answering the question to keep a straight face...LOL If the original question was genuine and not a joke, I weep for the world.
Gaby
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July 15, 2009 at 7:47 am
Oh this is fun....
Got back from shopping, booted my computer and SQL wouldn't start. Checked the error log.
The log scan number (47:112:1) passed to log scan in database 'model' is not valid. This error may indicate data corruption or that the log file (.ldf) does not match the data file (.mdf). If this error occurred during replication, re-create the publication. Otherwise, restore from backup if the problem results in a failure during startup.
Now, where's my installation disk...... :Whistling:
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July 15, 2009 at 8:14 am
My favorite Terry Prachett book is "The Fifth Elephant." Poor Vimes... my next favorite after that would be the book about Death.
I don't remember which book it is from, but I fondly recall the little bit about dwarves being able to turn lead into gold.
Person - "Dwarves can turn lead into gold..."
Dwarves - "We can?"
Person - "If you could, would you tell anyone?"
Dwarves - "Well... no..."
Person - "Ah ha!!!!!!"
So much wrong and yet so much right about that little interchange. 🙂
-- Kit
July 15, 2009 at 8:19 am
Steve, funky display going on inthis thread.
And Gail, that was hilarious. I particularly liked the proof in the comments showing that the inverse was true, and that more data = less weight. Wonder how much the Thread doesn't weigh?
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July 15, 2009 at 8:27 am
jcrawf02 (7/15/2009)
Steve, funky display going on inthis thread.
The columns were compressed to remove unnecessary weight.
😎
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July 15, 2009 at 8:49 am
Kit G (7/15/2009)
My favorite Terry Prachett book is "The Fifth Elephant." Poor Vimes... my next favorite after that would be the book about Death.I don't remember which book it is from, but I fondly recall the little bit about dwarves being able to turn lead into gold.
Person - "Dwarves can turn lead into gold..."
Dwarves - "We can?"
Person - "If you could, would you tell anyone?"
Dwarves - "Well... no..."
Person - "Ah ha!!!!!!"
So much wrong and yet so much right about that little interchange. 🙂
Another great quote is: "The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it."
Gaby
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"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."
- Albert Einstein
July 15, 2009 at 8:54 am
Kit G (7/15/2009)
My favorite Terry Prachett book is "The Fifth Elephant." Poor Vimes... my next favorite after that would be the book about Death.I don't remember which book it is from, but I fondly recall the little bit about dwarves being able to turn lead into gold.
Person - "Dwarves can turn lead into gold..."
Dwarves - "We can?"
Person - "If you could, would you tell anyone?"
Dwarves - "Well... no..."
Person - "Ah ha!!!!!!"
So much wrong and yet so much right about that little interchange. 🙂
It's from The Truth.
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July 15, 2009 at 8:57 am
Gaby Abed (7/15/2009)
Kit G (7/15/2009)
My favorite Terry Prachett book is "The Fifth Elephant." Poor Vimes... my next favorite after that would be the book about Death.I don't remember which book it is from, but I fondly recall the little bit about dwarves being able to turn lead into gold.
Person - "Dwarves can turn lead into gold..."
Dwarves - "We can?"
Person - "If you could, would you tell anyone?"
Dwarves - "Well... no..."
Person - "Ah ha!!!!!!"
So much wrong and yet so much right about that little interchange. 🙂
Another great quote is: "The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it."
My favorite is: "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
There are a whole bunch here.[/url]
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July 15, 2009 at 9:00 am
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July 15, 2009 at 9:04 am
jcrawf02 (7/15/2009)
Steve, funky display going on inthis thread.
No idea, what's wrong there. Usually it's an embedded HTML code, but I don't see on there. Definitely something weird.
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July 15, 2009 at 10:53 am
Grant Fritchey (7/14/2009)
I hate to pop everyone's bubble, but wasn't it established a while back that the 666 number is either a mistranslation or a bad copying job and tha thte actual number is either 615, 616 or 665? In which case, if it's either of the first two, we passed it a while back.
Actually 666 is the first three same digit number that is impossible in sexagesimal numbering system. Think of the hours: you can have 1:11, 2:22, 3:33...5:55 but not 6:66 etc.
July 15, 2009 at 10:57 am
rf44 (7/15/2009)
Grant Fritchey (7/14/2009)
I hate to pop everyone's bubble, but wasn't it established a while back that the 666 number is either a mistranslation or a bad copying job and tha thte actual number is either 615, 616 or 665? In which case, if it's either of the first two, we passed it a while back.Actually 666 is the first three same digit number that is impossible in sexagesimal numbering system. Think of the hours: you can have 1:11, 2:22, 3:33...5:55 but not 6:66 etc.
Sure you can. You just have to break the rules a little bit. Used to know a guy who always told people he was six-foot-fourteen. He wasn't wrong, just unconventional.
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July 15, 2009 at 1:04 pm
I got a short email from Bob Hovious today. He says he's doing ok and for me to say hello to everyone, so ....
On Bob's behalf: Hello everyone.
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July 15, 2009 at 1:12 pm
My Twitter account just got suspended for suspected abuse. I wasn't abusing anything. This stinks. According to the documentation, they can suspend it for up to 30 days.
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