test please delete

[Diver]

echo!

[BrowneIssue]

There is no way that we will hit 50000 tonight if Diver is going to bed.

#48284





Well done!

[cailin maith]

echo!

Hello Flower

But doesn't include the 3,473 other posts we'll have made in the next 24 hours...

HTH.

Hello Sweety Zeity

[NickFitz]

Hello Chimp

Having a fun afternoon then?

Dogfish...... eh?

Absolutely!

Don't bother reading the dogfish story if you're planning on eating anytime soon...

[Diver]

I'm ill. major manflu in all its gross glory.
And today at the new house, I have ripped out the old bathroom, taken up the floor and joists in one of the reception rooms, hacked off the render and plaster in another room.
Now I am going to have a nice soak in a hot bath and then food and medicines.
So see you later

[NickFitz]

Hi Diver

I'm ill. major manflu in all its gross glory.
And today at the new house, I have ripped out the old bathroom, taken up the floor and joists in one of the reception rooms, hacked off the render and plaster in another room.
Now I am going to have a nice soak in a hot bath and then food and medicines.
So see you later

Bye Diver

[BrowneIssue]

He had similar routines for adding 200 or 1000 or whatever to the score

The reason for the sprite flicker was that it could take up to a quarter of a frame (about 5ms in the UK) to update the score as necessary

Reminiscent of a file conversion utility I was given to fix. Written in COBOL, it worked on an ICL ME29 but not on an ICL DRS20 because there was insufficient memory to compile it.

It was to convert a file from one character set (EBCDIC probably, I forget) to ANSI. It read in 100 bytes at a time and 100 times did 128 compares and 128conversions and 100 concatenations and then wrote out a 100 byte record. There was some other sorts of mentalness too. It had some appalling run-time. Management liked it because it took ages to run so "it must have been full of meaty goodness".

I converted the main loop into 3 lines of code (READ, MOVE from one format field to another, WRITE). It ran so fast that management were convinced I had cheated.

I later discovered the original had been written by one of the directors...

[BrowneIssue]

I was in Stonehenge at midnight once, just a few candles here and there and some people gently drumming or playing bodhrans - autumn equinox eve 1987, IIRC.

There weren't many of us there, but it was conducive of a contemplative state of mind.

Sometimes slow is good

Not like 1981 then? 40,000 of us!

[NickFitz]

Not like 1981 then? 40,000 of us!

It was always a much smaller crowd for the Equinoxes, and smaller still for Winter Solstice. I could never understand why the Government was willing to spend over £2 million a year stopping us going there for the Summer Solstice, but couldn't care less about the other three occasions

[BrowneIssue]

I shall never forget working in Swansea, watching the fabulous scarlet and crimson skies in the evening over Port Talbot. Absolutely stunning.

I spent a lot of money on a Caribbean cruise and saw nothing as impressive as the blood-coloured sunsets of Swansea Bay.

It's all the tulipe in the air...

Two Neath miners come up out of the pit early one day. Looking up one says:

"Here, Evan. What's that bright thing up in the sky?"

"I don't know Evans. Might it be the moon, or could it be the sun?"

"I don't know either Evan. Look see, why not ask that man sitting on that bench?"

"Excuse me boyo, you see that bright thing in the sky? Would that be the moon or would that be the sun?"

The 3rd party said "Sorry, boys, I wouldn't know. I'm from Port Talbot, see."