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[threaded]

Jolly good then. Have a virtual very large pie on me.

There, fixed that fer ya.

[AtW]

Jolly good then. Have a virtual cookie on me.

pie

[Board Game Geek]

I'm just saying that stage doesn't take the entire contract, and I manage it before I even know if I've got the contract..

Jolly good then. Have a virtual cookie on me.

[threaded]

Yes, because the day you switch off and do it on "automatic" is the day complacency bites you on the behind to teach you a valuable lesson.

Regardless of whether I have solved a problem 1001 times, if the same problem occurs, I go through a mental checklist for thoroughness each time. On the occasions I haven't, I've missed something.

I'm just saying that stage doesn't take the entire contract, and I manage it before I even know if I've got the contract..

[Board Game Geek]

Yeah, there's concentration, and then there's thinking. I'm not saying there is no work to be done, but, really, do you need to 'think' to do it?

Yes, because the day you switch off and do it on "automatic" is the day complacency bites you on the behind to teach you a valuable lesson.

Regardless of whether I have solved a problem 1001 times, if the same problem occurs, I go through a mental checklist for thoroughness each time. On the occasions I haven't, I've missed something.

[threaded]

Absolutely. It's called "concentration".

I'd rather the pilot of the airliner do that than ponder if Agatha Christie was a closet Messiah who wrote in Bible Code, wouldn't you ?

Sorry if I disappoint you, but I'm just a mere mortal who pales in your obviously Divine Shadow.

Yeah, there's concentration, and then there's thinking. I'm not saying there is no work to be done, but, really, do you need to 'think' to do it?

[Board Game Geek]

Are you saying you really need to think on the job? I find recently I spend most of my time doing word analysis on Agatha Christie novels.

Absolutely. It's called "concentration".

I'd rather the pilot of the airliner do that than ponder if Agatha Christie was a closet Messiah who wrote in Bible Code, wouldn't you ?

Sorry if I disappoint you, but I'm just a mere mortal who pales in your obviously Divine Shadow.

[threaded]

Gosh Threaded, you're so jolly clever.

I wish we could all be like you.

Are you saying you really need to think on the job? I find recently I spend most of my time doing word analysis on Agatha Christie novels.

[Board Game Geek]

Lets face in, in IT you really don't need to use your brain anymore. Most contracts I've had for the last 15+ years I've solved between the interview and the weekend, most often on the drive home. Sometimes have problems remembering the solution before the grind the handle part of the contract starts.

Gosh Threaded, you're so jolly clever.

I wish we could all be like you.

[threaded]

Didn't he (allegedly) donate his brain some years ago?

Lets face in, in IT you really don't need to use your brain anymore. Most contracts I've had for the last 15+ years I've solved between the interview and the weekend, most often on the drive home. Sometimes have problems remembering the solution before the grind the handle part of the contract starts.

[AtW]

Complements to shaunbhoy

Didn't he (allegedly) donate his brain some years ago?

[threaded]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...re/8303837.stm

Complements to shaunbhoy

[suityou01]

I say dear, I've just borrowed 5 times GDP and don't know what I've spent it on really. I just handed over to some bankers who fixed their balance sheets.

We've got to sell my stamp collection, car, star wars figures and this brooch just to make this months repayment.

[OwlHoot]

They've been flogging things off like this for several years - The Bow Street Magistrate's court site was sold to some hotel chain last year, and a couple of years ago they flogged Dartmouth Naval College.

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