Recent content by gmax137

These things are not monolithic, at least in the US. Here, school systems are local, run by the county/town/city. Back in the 1990s I was working in Florida. One co-worker was a local woman, brought up in the Palm Beach County schools where she had a four-semester year round schedule - I...

I'm not sure if this one has been posted before. It makes me laugh every time I see "Roundy - Roundy"

I was also thinking about breaking it up into more sentences. My personal belief is that either parentheticals or em-dashes capture a more stream-of-thought style, where the author (speaker) is writing (speaking) off-the-cuff. Making it up as he goes along rather than keeping silent until it...

OP's "About" says Indonesia.

I heard this story on the radio years ago, under the "best practical jokes" heading Two friends (let's say Alice and Bob) bought 20 lottery tickets every week. Twenty individual quick-picks. One week it was Alice's turn to do the buying. That night she checked the tickets after the drawing...

Furry Worry were a moose Furry Worry had no hair to loose Furry Worry weren't furry, were he?

I had forgotten this thread. As a boy, every time I said "I forget," my father said, "I have forgotten" in a stern voice.

I was in a meeting once, and one guy said, "this is really a no-brainer." My co-worker Gerry said "that's why we're putting you on it."

Actually we can't say anything about how warp drive works. Maybe letting up on the throttle really does slow you down.

Don't miss an opportunity to see Tedeschi-Trucks. They're amazing live.

If I were writing that story, I'd book a few days in New Orleans and walk around the old cemeteries, maybe take in a few plantations along the river.

I hear a lot of people here (in the US) say, "buy one get one" while what they mean is, "pay for one, get two" but I guess "PFOGT" isn't going to make any sales.

Yes - my point was, don't expect to get hired to do that kind of work when you're just out of school, because at that point you're not the expert. EDIT: I guess it depends on who the client is. In my line, the clients were always someone else's engineering department. If your client is...

Well let's talk about "consulting." I have seen at least two different types of work done by "consultants." One type: the client says "We have all of the letters going back and forth between us and the regulator. I need a concise one paragraph summary of each, and a data base identifying...

Maybe you missed it, searching on "platypus" vs. @Orodruin 's "platypi."