random chitchat

[Bud]

If you give people some working software, you only solve their problem.

But if you teach them to write their own software, you give them a lifetime of problems.

 

[daniel]

Bonnie could teach them how to make honey ... works great as a sweetener

She'd teach them to fly from flower to flower, drinking the nectar, and then come home and barf it into little hexagonal wax containers???

If you give people some working software, you only solve their problem.

But if you teach them to write their own software, you give them a lifetime of problems.

Good one!!! :biggrin:

 

[daniel]

This is the wettest spring in Spokane since I moved here six years ago. I'm going to miss the transit of Venus because it's solid overcast!

 

[daniel]

It's 3:26 p.m. Pacific time and the're showing the transit on http://cosmoquest.org/Hangouts/. anyone who's got clouds can watch it there. I think it goes for about 5 hours.

 

[Brian H]

(Employee in meeting, boss says focus on meeting deadlines, someone pipes up, "Why not focus on everything?")

A volunteer for down-sizing! I hope the boss thanked him.

 

[bonnie]

Huh??

 

[NigelM]

Huh??

C'mon Bonnie! Try to keep up.....

 

[bonnie]

C'mon Bonnie! Try to keep up.....

No. Seriously. I'm lost.

 

[Citizen-T]

No. Seriously. I'm lost.

Me too.

 

[daniel]

Happy birthday to everyone born on this date.

 

[ggr]

Me too.

I think the idea is that "focus on everything" is impossible and meaningless.

Back when I was young, and people hand built computers out of TTL and wire wrap, our department was building a computer called "Epsilon". Someone taped two quotes to it:

"Epsilon is the greatest error that will be tolerated"
"A step forward in all directions" (leaving you where you started)

 

[jomo25]

I think the idea is that "focus on everything" is impossible and meaningless.

Back when I was young, and people hand built computers out of TTL and wire wrap, our department was building a computer called "Epsilon". Someone taped two quotes to it:

"Epsilon is the greatest error that will be tolerated"
"A step forward in all directions" (leaving you where you started)

I agree with the sentiment, but I must be missing something to help me understand how this is related to the thread.

 

[daniel]

... I must be missing something to help me understand how this is related to the thread.

You mean "random chit-chat"?

 

[AnOutsider]

You mean "random chit-chat"?

Those posts were moved from another thread.

 

[daniel]

Those posts were moved from another thread.

Ah, I see, So am I the only person actually posting in this thread?

 

[Robert.Boston]

Maybe we could rename it, "Daniel's meanderings"?:smile:

 

[daniel]

Maybe we could rename it, "Daniel's meanderings"?:smile:

I'm okay with that. But the mods would then have to stop using it as a place to move off-topic posts from other threads.

 

[Trnsl8r]

We off topic yet? :tongue:

 

[goyogi]

We off topic yet? :tongue:

Not yet...

Will Tesla take into account my hemorrhoids?

Now we're off topic.

 

[Robert.Boston]

In the "random chitchat" topic, you're never off topic! Unless, perhaps, two posts appear to be correlated.