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by elptacek 14y ago
To inject a bit of treacle, here... man am I ever glad I chose you as the father of my children. :-)
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by elptacek 14y ago
Tested this a bit more. It seems to work on Adium "only some of the time." I am told it works for Colloquy. It does not work for the Google Chrome Browser, TextEdit or Mail.
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by elptacek 14y ago
ETA: Yeah... I can't make this stick. So it kinda-sorta works, but is not a real workaround. Guess I'm glad I kept testing it... I found a workaround: defaults write $DOMAIN DisableDataDetectors YES Credit goes to: http://www.macosxtips.co
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Revenue Canada worker fired over video game creation(cbc.ca)
2 points by elptacek 14y ago|1 comments
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by elptacek 14y ago
Unconvincing anyone of their convictions is a quixotic undertaking. I've had a few women approach me over the last year and ask me how much I'm lifting, and I've seen them watching me from afar. Alas, the way I am built, I am only going to
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by elptacek 14y ago
Ah, that explains it. I do low bar and had forgotten there was such a thing as high bar. Do you suppose low bar works better if you have broad shoulders? Low bar certainly alleviates the sore neck problem. JoAnn definitely not bulky. And cr
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by elptacek 14y ago
Well, actually... Daniel the author neglected to tell Nicole the illustrator that the thumbs on the squatter (first graphic) are in the wrong position -- according to Rippetoe, not me. :-) Humor aside, lifting heavy works for women, to. Wom
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by elptacek 14y ago
Wow. Thank you for posting this. In light of the superstition of the day and recent events, I am reminded of Bill Hicks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMUiwTubYu0
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by elptacek 14y ago
Oh, that's why Call of Duty is always in the PS3. It all makes sense now.
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by elptacek 14y ago
In a somewhat related adventure, I am scheduled to give a talk soon (hopefully the same talk twice) about managing a security assessment project. I am hearing about this same sort of beheading happening in the infosec departments from vario
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by elptacek 14y ago
This is very much what I meant to convey -- anyone this intense needs something equally intense as a distraction. I swear it flips some kind of switch in the brain.
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by elptacek 14y ago
Do you have any hobbies where you make things with your hands? In particular, something that would require your full focus and attention to complete (or to simply not lose an appendage). The activities I do (or have done) that leave me phys
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by elptacek 14y ago
My guess is that it's a device that an employer would use to manipulate the employees who are filling in "temporarily" -- so that the employees feel something is being done and they'll only be doing the extra work for "a little while." So t
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by elptacek 14y ago
Squats, deadlifts, bench press, overhead press. But maybe I have a warped sense of 'fun.'
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by elptacek 15y ago
Or it's just fun to buy all the shiny, colorful, sparkly stuff and flounce about in it.
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by elptacek 15y ago
If I could upvote this twice, I would. The labels we use for each other are an elephant in the room. A lot of people came to this country and worked very hard to build it. Some by choice, others by duress. The ones who came by choice made m
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by elptacek 15y ago
Not true. We get dressed with other women in mind. We also shop off each other's bodies and generally take fashion cues from each other. This is why women in the Loop are wearing short skirts and strappy sandals and women in the far west su
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by elptacek 15y ago
Well, I guess I ought to weigh in on this one, since I am the interviewee in question. First, the story. During the interview, I was interrupted while answering a question with, "I think I have a tick." My brain immediately thinks, "He's on
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by elptacek 15y ago
Very nicely done. Reminds me of all the walking I did during my second pregnancy (we lived where Noe dead ends at Laidley).
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by elptacek 15y ago
Or pay to fuel your vehicle with it and then set aside an equivalent amount of cash and pay the balance off when the bill comes. Of course, if you don't own a car, you can pick some other thing that you'd ordinarily only buy with cash. Year
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One in five American men don't work: Where's the outrage?(finance.fortune.cnn.com)
61 points by elptacek 15y ago|104 comments
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by elptacek 15y ago
"None of this, however, dampens the urgency of her broader message. “Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being ‘different’ will pay off sometime after graduation,” she writes. “But no one expl
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Robots develop language to 'talk' to each other(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by elptacek 15y ago|0 comments
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Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake(technologyreview.com)
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by elptacek 15y ago
The welding program has all but completely shut down at my local community college. They auctioned off all of their machining equipment for fractions of pennies on the dollar about two years ago. If I want to complete any AWS certifications
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by elptacek 15y ago
PS: I've been in situations where it's hard to ignore the fact that I was passed over for something because of my gender. I have bouts of existential angst over it -- why do I persist in growing my skills set only to be passed over for some
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by elptacek 15y ago
So that's kinda what I had in mind. From general appearances, it does seem that squeaky wheels get oiled, regardless of how much they actually contribute to an enterprise. Slapping an adjective on bias is something of a false dilemma. I am
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by elptacek 15y ago
If you like this, you will also like this: http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-World-Physics-Everyone/dp/0674...
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by elptacek 15y ago
This article would have been irritating if it had proposed Yet Another Solution. But that might just be my bias -- I don't think there is a solution here, which makes me think there's not really a problem, either. It may just be that no mat
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by elptacek 15y ago
That would make you one of those exceptional managers who does not think complaints synonymous with criticism, then. But I have to ask, when your managees complain to you, do you always understand them? Seems to me that complaining, to anyo

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