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[Sand]

An intern or resident is a different story.  They've earned their credentials.  

No interns havent. Thats why for nearly everything other than aspirin they have to run it past the attending. They were only slightly less annoying than the med students.

Bleh. Lets go back to talking about apples!

[Morat20]

Oh god, I've been spoiled by C#.

I've been pushed to C++ coding at work, and found myself aghast at how weak enumerated types are, and at the total lack of toString() functions for basic variable types.

What do you mean I can't do convert my freaking integer to a string with a single, instantly obvious method?

Not to mention the code I'm learning/fixing was written in thwhat I call "C programmer's first try at doing Object Oriented Code" which means it's a mess, the GUI libraries I'm using are a major iteration out of date (and they don't plan to upgrade yet) which means I'm having to dig through depreciated methods...

And I'm stuck using fucking Borland 6 because the higher, higher-ups can't spring for a cheap-ass Visual C/C++ license that would at LEAST do basic object/method checking (so I don't have to recompile because it's GetSize() and not getSize() or vice versa) as I type, and whose color coding doesn't recognize objects and classes....

Which is why I have a request in for miniGW and Eclipse CDT for 'assesment'. Migrating this bitch of a project is going to suck though.

[Sky]

I realized last night that I really miss page swiping at home where I don't have a mac with a magic mouse. I know I've mentioned how awesome they are in the past (right clicking is still really spotty imo), but it's amazing how quickly that feature became second nature and I have to think "oh, yeah, click on back button". So primitive.

[WayAbvPar]

Are you talking about Mouse Gestures type stuff or is there more to it?

[Sky]

The surface of the mouse is a multi-touch device, like a laptop's trackpad, but you use the mouse for pointer movement and it (supposedly) clicks like a normal mouse. Mostly scrolling, zooming and swiping...nothing I'd shell out what Apple is charging for, but I snagged one out of a new iMac box at work and love it.

http://www.apple.com/magicmouse/

[naum]

I realized last night that I really miss page swiping at home where I don't have a mac with a magic mouse. I know I've mentioned how awesome they are in the past (right clicking is still really spotty imo), but it's amazing how quickly that feature became second nature and I have to think "oh, yeah, click on back button". So primitive.

Right click works super for me.

You do get used to the page swiping, scroll with inertia (like is done on iPhone/iPad), ease of zooming, etc.… …it would be difficult to go back to the Stone Age and use a regular mouse…

I've also got this installed to further enhance and setup/define your own gestures, though the main one I have added is 3 finger click == middle button click…

[Strazos]

I realized last night that I really miss page swiping at home where I don't have a mac with a magic mouse. I know I've mentioned how awesome they are in the past (right clicking is still really spotty imo), but it's amazing how quickly that feature became second nature and I have to think "oh, yeah, click on back button". So primitive.

Or, you could just use a mouse with more than just 2 buttons and a scroll wheel.

[naum]

I realized last night that I really miss page swiping at home where I don't have a mac with a magic mouse. I know I've mentioned how awesome they are in the past (right clicking is still really spotty imo), but it's amazing how quickly that feature became second nature and I have to think "oh, yeah, click on back button". So primitive.

Or, you could just use a mouse with more than just 2 buttons and a scroll wheel.

Sorry, not better nor even approximating equivalency. Using a pad with gestures != multi-button mouse with scroll wheel. Is like going back to a manual typewriter after using a touchpad. Seriously.

[ghost]

I wondered how long it would take someone to use the Casey Anthony mask as their avatar.   

[Sky]

So we have this little black cat that lives in the woods behind my house. It's full of awesome hunter cat power, I once saw it padding along in front of my woodpile with a dead chipmunk in its steely jaws. We call it "little b" (Bart of course being 'Big B').

Saturday little b took down a grey squirrel right in front of my back patio. It's a small cat, barely larger than the giant squirrel. But I think the squirrel being fed by the neighbor lady worked against it, more fat than muscle. Little b then trotted off with the dead squirrel to the hedgerow to feast and nap.

Bart lost his mind watching this. I think he now thinks little b is his astral projection.

[Paelos]

So I take it the other cats in the area are starting to figure out Sky might be the crazy cat man? 

[Morat20]

So we have this little black cat that lives in the woods behind my house. It's full of awesome hunter cat power, I once saw it padding along in front of my woodpile with a dead chipmunk in its steely jaws. We call it "little b" (Bart of course being 'Big B').

My mom's cat would leave the occasional dead bird for her.

What made that cat the most bad-ass cat in the neighborhood was when it did so after going blind (old age) and after suffering a stroke that left it slow and weak down an entire side of it's body.

I have no idea how it killed birds in that state. I can only assume it knocked them dead from the air through the power of it's predatory aura.

[Sky]

Yesterday it was camped out on the woodpile. I was thinking it was stalking a chipmunk (they like the woodpiles), but later I saw a small rabbit which is probably a delicacy in my neighborhood.

[Bunk]

Now you just need to train it to hunt deer, and presto! your orchards are safe!

[ghost]

Maybe you should get the cat a little crossbow.

[Lantyssa]

Someone should train it to hunt apples.

[ghost]

It would be pretty cool if you could get it to fetch the apples. 

[Sky]

Apple scab :( I have now learned to water the trees in the morning. Dammit.

[Polysorbate80]

I use 5-gallon buckets with a 1/8" hole to do slow deep watering on my trees.  Disease isn't my problem, though--it's the thunderstorms beating the hell out of the young trees.  We had a very late spring/summer and the weather since then hasn't been too good either.

[Sky]

Been a great summer, very sunny. With the evening watering, they've been really growing great. But letting them stay damp overnight has apparently promoted some fungi. So I'll just shift to watering in the morning so the tree has time to dry off properly. The tree with less fruit has grown a good two feet, I'm actually going to have to cut back the leader because it grew too much.

[ghost]

With this nasty ass drought we're having in Texas I'll be lucky if any plant life stays alive in my yard.  Well, excepting the crab grass, of course. 

[Minvaren]

Sky's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving televisions or apples approaches 1.

[ghost]

Sky's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving televisions or apples or the weather approaches 1.

 

In other news, I find it hilarious when my niece tries to get me to get Dr. Pepper for her with her Chick Fila meal.  Hello, your aunt is a pediatric dentist and your uncle is an orthodontist.  Not going to happen.   

[RhyssaFireheart]

I've decided that grass is really just a prolific weed that (almost) everyone happens to like having around.  There really is no other explanation for that stuff.

[Lantyssa]

The drought is encouraging me to go to a Southwest style of lawn.  My sagebrush and succulents are the only things doing alright.

[Merusk]

I've decided that grass is really just a prolific weed that (almost) everyone happens to like having around.  There really is no other explanation for that stuff.

That'd be because it's true.  Let it grow tall enough and you realize it's just another weed with a nice haircut.

Dandelions are also an ornamental plant that got introduced here and took the fuck off.   Same with Kudzu.

[Sand]

Maybe you should get the cat a little crossbow.

And some boots!

[ghost]

Better get your truckticles quick, before they're banned. 

[Morat20]

Better get your truckticles quick, before they're banned. 

I love those things. They're nature's way of saying "Do not, under any circumstances, have anything to do with the owner of this vehicle."

[Engels]

In other news, I find it hilarious when my niece tries to get me to get Dr. Pepper for her with her Chick Fila meal.  Hello, your aunt is a pediatric dentist and your uncle is an orthodontist.  Not going to happen.   

You sir, are the enemy of fun.

[ghost]

Did you guys know that truckticles were actually invented in Germany?  Sounds weird, huh?

[Chimpy]

Did you guys know that truckticles were actually invented in Germany?  Sounds weird, huh?

It doesn't matter where you are from, finding ways to get stupid American rednecks to buy plastic crap at several times the cost of production is a good way to earn enough to buy a ton of hookers and blow.

[Bunk]

So I saw Ranier cherries in the store yesterday and grabbed a bag on a whim. Yea. I'm going to be the dissenting voice here. The consistency and general taste was only mildly sweet and very dense - it actually reminded me more of a small plum than a cherry. I don't really like plums very much.

I'd rather my cherries tasted like cherries.

[ghost]

I think the lack of sweetness is what I like about them.  I don't think they're absolutely spectacular, but I do like them. 

[Minvaren]

With all this talk about fruit, I'm reminded that I need a (real) wine press...