Re: biz cc

2011-01-16 Thread Rick Root
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Erika L. Rich elr...@ruwebby.com wrote: Get a card that gives you perks. Miles or points. I'm glad Michigan got Hoke instead of Miles. You're always getting screwed with Miles and you never know what the hell Miles is gonna do! Rick

Re: Evanescence

2011-01-11 Thread Rick Root
I *loved* their first album, beginning to end. Hated their second album. Never really gave the third album a chance. But I still listen to their first album fairly regularly. Rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: Bank lowers man's credit score after he asked who owned his mortgage loan.

2011-01-06 Thread Rick Root
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Casey Dougall ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com wrote: Complete misreporting... Exactly! Aye! Motion carries. Big f'ing deal, so his credit score went from 780 to 740. 740 still puts him in the top 2-3% and I highly doubt that his insurance went up because of

Re: Bank lowers man's credit score after he asked who owned his mortgage loan.

2011-01-06 Thread Rick Root
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM, G Money gm0n3...@gmail.com wrote: I dunno.i though it was all bullshit. I paid off the TV and the furniture set the next day, and my score shot back up. Stupid. That's because your credit limit to available credit ratio got a lot more favorable. Closing

Re: Throwing political correctness out the door: N. Korean Parody - I gotta feeling

2010-12-29 Thread Rick Root
I am not offended by this video. A little disappointed because I was hoping for a Bananaphone parody. It's not as funny as this one though, and this one is only offensive to Lady Gaga fans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VHSqJINm7M Rick

Don't Ask Don't Tell

2010-12-22 Thread Rick Root
So, when Gunnery Sergeant Hartman asked Private Cowboy Do you suck dicks? and Are you a peter puffer?, would this be a violation of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

commercial SVN hosting

2010-12-21 Thread Rick Root
Any of you using a commercial SVN hosting service? I have a client who clearly needs to get his site into some kind of source control and I'd rather not teach him how to run a SVN repository, nor do I want to host one for him. Rick

Re: Proud uncle moment

2010-12-20 Thread Rick Root
nice! On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Scott Stroz boyz...@gmail.com wrote: Check out my nephew on the trumpet. Kids got talent. http://youtu.be/i5GPN9xyhwY -- Scott Stroz --- You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can wonder what the f*k happened. -

Re: new top 50 most common passwords list

2010-12-15 Thread Rick Root
Damn, I thought I was the only one using password On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Michael Dinowitz mdino...@houseoffusion.com wrote: Zillions of years ago when consumer computing was still in its infancy, there was a list of the 50 most common passwords. A master h...@ck3r could break into

Re: Dick Cheney charged in Nigeria for making over US180m in bribes

2010-12-13 Thread Rick Root
I have a long lost cousin in Nigeria who recently died. He was apparently a price or something. I didn't even know about him until I got an email recently about it. The executors of his estate just need me to send my bank info and a $2500 processing fee in order to receive my inheritance.

Re: Westboro at it again. They are going to protest at Elizabeth Edwards' funeral

2010-12-10 Thread Rick Root
I hope those people burn in hell. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive:

Re: Westboro at it again. They are going to protest at Elizabeth Edwards' funeral

2010-12-10 Thread Rick Root
his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Rick Root

Re: Westboro at it again. They are going to protest at Elizabeth Edwards' funeral

2010-12-10 Thread Rick Root
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:33 PM, G Money gm0n3...@gmail.com wrote: Since there is no helldo you wish them to burn on earth? On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Rick Root rick.r...@gmail.com wrote: I hope those people burn in hell

Re: 4 feet of snow and more to go!

2010-12-07 Thread Rick Root
Man, imagine what 4 feet of snow would do here in Raleigh! Back in 2000, we had 22 of snow fall one day... it was a Sunday, thank goodness, but the weather forecast saturday night had called for 2 to 4 inches which we got 5-10 times over. :) RDU International Airport re-opened on Thursday

Re: Baby names

2010-12-06 Thread Rick Root
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:10 AM, G Money gm0n3...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pushing for Ashley. Not sure why, just like the way it sounds. My wife had a co-worker with that name whom I always referred to as Hot Ashley. So the name would've been okay with me, but my wife might've disapproved! lol

Re: Baby names

2010-12-06 Thread Rick Root
pretty sure all the Ashley's I've known were hot... So, name your kid Ashley, andy ou'll be destined to be fighting off the boys! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

SHOCKING NEWS!

2010-12-06 Thread Rick Root
Consumer Reports says ATT is the worst wireless carrier! http://bit.ly/gst0ld (duh) ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive:

Re: SHOCKING NEWS!

2010-12-06 Thread Rick Root
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Ray Champagne r...@raychampagne.com wrote: You know, I have no problem with the data network with the iPhone. The places I don't have service, I wouldn't expect to have service. But in fact, in those places, you *WOULD* have data service with Verizon ;) I'm

Re: the social network

2010-12-06 Thread Rick Root
Um... I don't not forgot On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Ras Tafari rastaf...@gmail.com wrote: does anyone know how to not download that movie not mentioned in the subject line from something wholly unlike torrents :)

Re: SHOCKING NEWS!

2010-12-06 Thread Rick Root
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Rick Eidson cfh...@kchost.net wrote: I have been a Sprint customer for about 11 years. I have watched everyone complain about their services and I have complained about Sprints... But when I think about it I figure each has there faults. I will stick to

Re: SHOCKING NEWS!

2010-12-06 Thread Rick Root
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Erika L. Rich elr...@ruwebby.com wrote: We've got a friend who works for Verizon ... they rolled out the 4g iPad this past weekend ... the iPhone is scheduled for January, yet again ... Since they had the MyFi adapters with the iPads at the verizon store, I

Re: Baby names

2010-12-05 Thread Rick Root
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Scott Raley sra...@itc-llc.com wrote: We had same type of thing and did google for rare girl names We didn't choose from the top of the list but we chose Jocelyn because after finding it we looked through the phone book and found none close by in the area

Re: Adobe site

2010-12-05 Thread Rick Root
Um, it *IS* on the download page. It's in the select list labled All Products The Featured Products on the download page are all consumer products. ColdFusion is not a consumer product, it's a server product, and a niche one at that. Doesn't bother me at all that it's not listed on their home

Re: att uverse

2010-12-04 Thread Rick Root
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:36 PM, morchella morchella.delici...@gmail.comwrote: yeah. TW is not an option for them in Florida. I guess its an ok set up. i just keep getting grumpier.. regular price for Time Warner's basic digital cable package, without DVR service, is like $60 or $70/month...

Re: att uverse

2010-12-03 Thread Rick Root
It's not a terrible deal, although the cable companies will usually give you digital cable, internet, and phone for $100/month for the first year. We had U-Verse for about 2 months before cancelling and switching back to Time Warner. Here's why: #1 - the set top box that was supplied responded

Re: Baby names

2010-12-03 Thread Rick Root
I so know what you mean. When my wife and I were coming up with names for our daughter, it couldn't be the name of someone I'd dated, and it definately couldn't be the name of anyone I knew who was fat or ugly =) I think women are actually MORE rational about baby names than men. Or maybe it's

Re: Happy Hanukkah!

2010-12-02 Thread Rick Root
My daughter (age 8) asked me the other day if we could celebrate Hanukkah and of course I told her No, we can't celebrate Hanukkah, we believe in Jesus! and she s aid Aww... but I want to play dreidel! lol. I suppose we could celebrate Hanukkah - after all, Jesus was Jewish. rick

Re: Happy Hanukkah!

2010-12-01 Thread Rick Root
Drink your gin and tonica! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive:

Re: 2TB, $89.99, USB Powered

2010-11-29 Thread Rick Root
I buy stuff from Buy.com pretty regularly. I quit buying from Tiger Direct when I figured out that almost everything they have is hceaper at NewEgg, except the refurb crap they're constantly selling. Rick ~| Order the Adobe

Re: Is it April first?

2010-11-24 Thread Rick Root
I don't know whaty ou're talking about but I can do an aromatic stuffing in a 15 pound turkey and have it be done in about 2-1/2 hours. http://www.charbroil.com/ProductInfo/54-95-1936/The-Big-Easy-Infrared-Turkey-Fryer.aspx Got myself one of these babies and it works great.. 10 minutes a pound.

Re: babysitter money

2010-11-19 Thread Rick Root
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Paul Ihrig pih...@gmail.com wrote: how much do you guys shell out per hour? planning on seeing Harry Potter on Saturday. Shockingly, I've survived nearly 9 years without ever once hiring a babysitter who wasn't family. Even with my teenage neices/nephews, we

Re: trumpet winsock.

2010-11-19 Thread Rick Root
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Ras Tafari rastaf...@gmail.com wrote: if you know what that is, pre-googling it right now... then you are an old head on this thing we call the web... if not... well... NOOOB! Better yet, do you know what 7E1 and 8N1 mean? =) How about Kermit or XModem?

Re: trumpet winsock.

2010-11-19 Thread Rick Root
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Justin Scott jscott-li...@gravityfree.com wrote: Pffft...  my BBS had ZModem over 14.4k bps! I think my BBS pre-dated v.32bis by about 5 years :) Ric ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology

Re: trumpet winsock.

2010-11-19 Thread Rick Root
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:59 AM, G Money gm0n3...@gmail.com wrote: How about Kermit or XModem? XModem ruled! All of my first digital porn pics, were obtained with XModem..*sigh* you never forget your first love. XModem, or Porn? ;) hahahah

Re: trumpet winsock.

2010-11-19 Thread Rick Root
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: I forget the name of BBS/Portal you could dial in with on the C64...Compuserve was one of them... The big one that was more commodore specific was Quantum Link or QLink for short. http://www.qlinklives.org/

Re: trumpet winsock.

2010-11-19 Thread Rick Root
I'd always hang out in the dragonlance themed chatroom =) cuz I was cool like that. On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: That's what I was thinking...I was thinking QLink but wasn't sure ;-) Eric -Original Message- From: Rick Root

Re: Another teabagger bites it

2010-11-19 Thread Rick Root
I took great satisfaction knowing that two of the Tea Party's biggest whack jobs failed to win elections (Christine O'Donnell and Sharon Angle. And It pleased me even more to know that Sarah Palin's endorsed candidate in her own state of Alaska failed to win election .. and not only that, lost

Re: Another teabagger bites it

2010-11-19 Thread Rick Root
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Rick Root rick.r...@gmail.com wrote: I hope she wins the republican nomination for president in 2012.  I *DARE* the republican party to put her on the ticket again. I would love Sarah Palin as a presidential candidate like Michigan fans loved Ohio State head

Re: trumpet winsock.

2010-11-19 Thread Rick Root
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, I also remember how excited I was to get a 9600 baud modem. I never did have a 9600 baud modem - but when I was in the dorms at Western Michigan, we had 9600 baud direct serial connections in our

RichRod can Suck it

2010-11-19 Thread Rick Root
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:59 PM, G Money gm0n3...@gmail.com wrote: Michigan's current head coach is a smarmy, weasel of a man. I hate Rich Rod with a passion, and hope he fails miserablyand this from someone who ALWAYS roots for Mich over OSU. I can't argue with that, he is smarmy. I do

Re: RichRod can Suck it

2010-11-19 Thread Rick Root
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:11 PM, G Money gm0n3...@gmail.com wrote: Amen to that. Harbaugh is very impressive. Word is he's turned down an NFL job or two...i wonder if maybe he's waiting for another job to open, perhaps Michigan? Maybe. He's got a good thing going at Stanford, building a

Re: trumpet winsock.

2010-11-19 Thread Rick Root
, by Rick Root. Rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331990

Re: web designers vs. web developers

2010-11-12 Thread Rick Root
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Maureen mamamaur...@gmail.com wrote: I really resent that stereotype.  I shave my beard every day. hah. And we thank you for that ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: Anyone heard of grooveshark

2010-11-12 Thread Rick Root
Grooveshark has been around quite a while. I found it to be extremely poorly organized... But then, I pay for Rhapsody so I don't really need a service like grooveshark. Rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald

2010-11-10 Thread Rick Root
Today is the 35th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The 729 foot ship carrying 26,000 tons of iron ore was sunk by hurricane force winds and 25 foot waves on Lake Superior. http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/09/edmund.fitzgerald/index.html?hpt=C1 Music Video by Gordon Lightfoot:

Re: Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald

2010-11-10 Thread Rick Root
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote: Geez. You don't expect boats to sink on lakes 0_0 No, you sure don't! And there hasn't been anything like this since! Mostly because captains don't challenge lake superior storms any more :) rick

Re: Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald

2010-11-10 Thread Rick Root
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote: What are you saying? That you have almost sunk on a lake in a boat? I almost sunk once! The little plug at the back of my boat came out while I was on the lake, and my buddy and I were sitting out there shooting the shit when he

Re: Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald

2010-11-10 Thread Rick Root
n Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote: the 'plug' came out? as easy as that? It just...whoops! popped out? Yup, it was a drain plug at the back under neath the prop. There are two kinds ... one with little twist things to tighten and one with a sort of tab that

Re: FW: Bill O'Reilly threatens Washington Post writer

2010-11-10 Thread Rick Root
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote: Bill O'Reilly wants my head - literally. On Thursday night, the Fox News host asked, as part of a show that would be seen by 5.5 million people: Does sharia law say we can behead Dana Milbank? He then added, That

Re: Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald

2010-11-10 Thread Rick Root
Here's a web site that sells shipwreck maps for all 5 great lakes (and others) http://www.lakesuperior.com/catalog/wreckmap.html rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: Big, evil industries funded which party

2010-11-10 Thread Rick Root
I'm willing to believe that big evil industries give a lot of money to dems ... it's called buying favor. The oil industry doesn't need to buy favor with republicans. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: ad on youtube...

2010-11-01 Thread Rick Root
I remember those things... On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 6:21 PM, morchella morchella.delici...@gmail.com wrote: nice On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skEccqJFFU0

Re: Can anyone in the DC area help me out?

2010-10-28 Thread Rick Root
I'm going to the Michigan-Illinois game next weekend and have no intention of buying tickets in advance because I've *ALWAYS* been able to get decent seats at face value (or less) every time I've tried - though of course, I've never tried for one of those games where Michigan and Ohio State are

Re: So what's the GOP's big plan? Tea Party lets it slip

2010-10-27 Thread Rick Root
Compromise also drives spending. I'll allow this if you allow that It's never I'll give up this if you give up that Rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: 5000 year old wooden door found buried in Zurich

2010-10-23 Thread Rick Root
Can we just blame christianity for the dark ages? Religion in general can probably be blamed for blocking progress. Rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: Wild bunnies crippling cars at the Denver Airport

2010-10-15 Thread Rick Root
Suddenly, I'm thinking of ways that bunnies could be used in horror movies. Like, maybe in the next Resident Evil, there could be packs of ravenous zombie bunnies... but.. they look so cute... here bunny! here bunny! ... no... NO!!! NO!!! RGGGHGHGG On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:52 PM,

Re: Wild bunnies crippling cars at the Denver Airport

2010-10-15 Thread Rick Root
, Rick Root rick.r...@gmail.com wrote: Suddenly, I'm thinking of ways that bunnies could be used in horror movies. Like, maybe in the next Resident Evil, there could be packs of ravenous zombie bunnies... Check out an old movie called Food of the Gods Bunny rabbits ate some weird glowing goo

Re: Wild bunnies crippling cars at the Denver Airport

2010-10-15 Thread Rick Root
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:19 AM, G Money gm0n3...@gmail.com wrote: Check out an old movie called Food of the Gods Bunny rabbits ate some weird glowing goo and turned into monsterous, murderous rabbits. Movie making at it's finest. awesome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSwwZ1n6KU

Re: Wild bunnies crippling cars at the Denver Airport

2010-10-15 Thread Rick Root
I found a trailer for Night of the Lepus... it looks pretty terrible! And it suggested this too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3HgNR=1feature=fvwp I'd forgotten about the killer bunny in the holy grail! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3HgNR=1feature=fvwp Rick

Re: Electronic devices

2010-10-15 Thread Rick Root
Android phones are pretty nice, I'm a fan of my HTC Droid Eris except it's slow (only like a 350mhz processor). Problem solved with the HTC Droid Incredible (1ghz) But, like others have said.. no smart phone is really suitable as a laptop replacement and neither is an ipad. If you need to

Re: Map of the social world

2010-10-14 Thread Rick Root
is Skype really that big? On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome :-) XKCD is always cool! On 14 October 2010 12:58, Michael Dinowitz mdino...@houseoffusion.comwrote: I can hear people now: it's just a cartoon it can't be real my sites bigger than

Re: Big brother is on your friends list

2010-10-14 Thread Rick Root
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Michael Dinowitz mdino...@houseoffusion.com wrote: A privacy watchdog's freedom of information request has revealed a government memo encouraging agents to befriend people on a variety of social networks, to take advantage of their readiness to share -- and

Re: GO BLUE!

2010-10-08 Thread Rick Root
I'm perfectly happy seeing the Yankees pummel the Twins, and then I can root for the Rangers to pummel the hated Yankees. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: GO BLUE!

2010-10-08 Thread Rick Root
Since this is the GO BLUE thread... My prediction for Saturday is Michigan 42, Michigan State 34 ... take Michigan to beat the spread and the over =) Michigan State's defense isn't that great, they merely exposed Wisconsin as a fraud last weekend. They won't be doing the same this weekend, and

GO BLUE!

2010-10-07 Thread Rick Root
Sparty's gonna get his ass kicked by Denard on Saturday. Doesn't matter than Michigan's pass defense is 120 out of 120 ... MSU isn't gonna stop Michigan. The over/under is around 65. I'd take the over ;) Rick ~| Order the

Re: GO BLUE!

2010-10-07 Thread Rick Root
btw, screw you and your minnesota twins ;) On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:21 PM, G Money gm0n3...@gmail.com wrote: pffft.the real game of the week is tonight. GO PURPLE CATS! On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Rick Root rick.r...@gmail.com wrote: Sparty's gonna get his ass kicked

Boardwalk Empire

2010-09-23 Thread Rick Root
anyone else watch HBO's new series Boardwalk Empire? I caught the series premier last night, thought it was pretty good. Rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: When's Adobe releasing this product?

2010-09-21 Thread Rick Root
heheh On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Kris Sisk ks...@gckschools.com wrote: I want a copy :) http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/10643/1201271267/Obi.jpg ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: The Wall Live. Wow

2010-09-17 Thread Rick Root
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: I Gilmour with the fake Pink Floyd band. in 1987 or 1994? 1987 was just Gilmore and Mason I think but 1994 was Gilmore, Mason, and Wright. Either way, I think they put on a fine show. I can't stand Roger Waters' solo music -

Re: How do you manage Bookmarks across browsers?

2010-09-15 Thread Rick Root
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote: You have Chrome, Firefox, IE9 etc. How do you manage your bookmarks across all of these? I manage them by not using bookmarks. :) Rick ~| Order the Adobe

Re: End of desktops, WAS: Re: Been to Google today?

2010-09-08 Thread Rick Root
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Robert Munn cfmuns...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else thinking about the end of the desktop or already gone through it? I have only a laptop at work. But i have it attached to a big monitor and a keyboard. The only time I ever use it as a laptop is when I have to

Re: anyone in earls path... besides me?

2010-09-03 Thread Rick Root
Weather.com reads occasional comments from their facebook page and last night around 2:30 AM (I was awake for some reason), they read a question from a user on facebook that said: I wonder if it will hit North West Missouri ~|

Re: I call this 'thinning the herd'

2010-09-03 Thread Rick Root
I was thinking along these lines except I'd prefer to die of a heart attack at the age of 95, the heart attack strikes while I'm having sex with my 20-something beauty queen gold-digger trophy wife. :) On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I

Re: I call this 'thinning the herd'

2010-09-03 Thread Rick Root
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Scott Stroz boyz...@gmail.com wrote: Look at all the fucktards on this pier as waves from Hurricane Earl slam into it. http://bit.ly/dihNsQ The depths of human stupidity knows no bounds. You can't fix stupid. But, you can attempt to eliminate it from the

Re: Looks like Archos may have finally started nailing the Android market

2010-09-03 Thread Rick Root
I'd love to have one of these because a cell phone screen is too small for my tastes for web browsing. I have a problem with the Samsung Galaxy though, they're going to market it only through mobile companies it seems - so almost certainly you'll have to get it with some kind of 3g/4g service

Re: I call this 'thinning the herd'

2010-09-03 Thread Rick Root
The difference is that yours is presumably a hooker or a girlfriend. i've got a hot young wife! On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote: well what do you think I'd be doing at the time. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Rick Root rick.r...@gmail.com wrote

Re: NZ hit with 7.4 earthquake

2010-09-03 Thread Rick Root
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Re: anyone in earls path... besides me?

2010-09-02 Thread Rick Root
Here in Raleigh we might get a few clouds but that's about it. Good luck to all of you on the coast, here's hoping it stays off shore!! Rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

gunman/bomber in silver springs, md

2010-09-01 Thread Rick Root
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2005/04/12/VI2005041201240.html live coverage armed man goes into discovery channel building lobby hostage situation might have a bomb ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion

Re: Dangerous Sam?

2010-09-01 Thread Rick Root
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: The Bard's Tale was my first RPG on my C64. I wasted a lot of hours playing Bard's Tale and Bard's Tale II. I have fairly recently wasted a bunch of time on The Bard's Tale, played on a C64 emulator for windows. Even

Re: drum sets

2010-08-24 Thread Rick Root
I blame my parents unwillingness to buy me a drum set for christmas every year I asked on why I turned into such a loser. Congrats on being an awesome parent =) Rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: SOT: IT job vacancies up in first quarter

2010-08-23 Thread Rick Root
How can that be, isn't ColdFusion dead? On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:17 PM, John M Bliss bliss.j...@gmail.com wrote: In case you missed my tweet... At the same time, demand for specific skills, notably Sybase, C#, Coldfusion, .NET, SQL and Swing also increased over at least three consecutive

Re: A modest proposal for the islamic center issue

2010-08-18 Thread Rick Root
fuck people and their sensitivity issues. Get over it. This is america. If they can afford the real estate they should be able to put their islamic center where ever they want. Rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology

Re: Insane SGU (was Re: The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown)

2010-08-16 Thread Rick Root
I agree with Cameron's initial assessment. It was slow and not all that exciting. Relative to the other stargate shows (I watched 14 seasons of SG1 and SGA in about 2 years before watching the final season of SG:Atlantis live). It wasn't bad enough to quit on though because I found most of

Re: Dysfunctional contest

2010-08-12 Thread Rick Root
What is the purpose of applying logic of any kind to a discussion about writing massive amounts of code to do what lcase() does? =) ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: Dysfunctional contest

2010-08-11 Thread Rick Root
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Medic hofme...@gmail.com wrote: Haha. Now THAT is a nice waste of space. I like how you test for the existence of the letter before you replace it. that actually is pretty awesomely bad, because you could totally leave thoe if statements out and the code

Re: Star Trek

2010-08-10 Thread Rick Root
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:04 PM, CFTodd cft...@gmail.com wrote: And yes, the movie sucked (was better than Undiscovered Country). Toss up. SHARE YOUR PAIN! My pain is watching that movie! Rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion

Re: Dysfunctional contest

2010-08-10 Thread Rick Root
Relatively succinct but I'll be a lot of CF programmers would have to spend some time figuring out what that did =) I didn't know about those special replace sequences. Rick On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Michael Dinowitz mdino...@houseoffusion.com wrote: In ColdFusion, but less

Re: Anyone need a cannon?

2010-08-09 Thread Rick Root
I could make a cannon out of duck tape it would probably cost less. On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.ima-usa.com/product_info.php/products_id/3050 perfectly legal too.

Dysfunctional contest

2010-08-09 Thread Rick Root
Write a function to convert a string to lower case Do not use lcase() Example: cffunction name=toLowerCase access=public output=false returnType=string cfargument name=src type=string required=yes cfset var result = cfloop from=1 to=#len(arguments.src)# step=1

Re: Star Trek (Cat Fight Brewing)

2010-08-09 Thread Rick Root
Tim Russ made the best Vulcan out of all the series (sorry Leonard Not his fault, he was half-human! And Captain What'sHerName was strong (I know 'er name, but I'm Janeway. I liked Voyager, for the most part, though it was pretty predictable that Q was going to get them home. Speaking of

Re: Dysfunctional contest

2010-08-09 Thread Rick Root
Oh, I like! but.. heh, what language is that? =) Rick On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com wrote: def lowercase(string)  string.gsub(/([A-Z])/) {|c| (c[0]+32).chr} end regular expressions, closureshow much more convoluted can you get :

Re: Star Trek (Cat Fight Brewing)

2010-08-09 Thread Rick Root
Hah, okay, maybe I've just totally forgotten the forgettable end... (cuz honestly, at this point, I don't remember!) On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Mary Jo Sminkey mary...@cfwebstore.com wrote: Janeway.  I liked Voyager, for the most part, though it was pretty predictable that Q was going to

Re: Star Trek (Cat Fight Brewing)

2010-08-09 Thread Rick Root
Ah, we all love star trek time travel! It leaves us with great memories of Scottie trying to give voice commands to a mid-80s Apple Macintosh (I think) Computer... No, you have to use the mouse. picks up mouse like microphone Computer... (I f'ing hated that movie) On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at

Re: Cat Fight Brewing

2010-08-06 Thread Rick Root
I have two comments here. #1 - National Enquirer? Really? I suppose it's every bit as legitimate a news organization as FOX News is ... #2 - William Shatner was a way better captain of the enterprise, and he was awesome on Boston Legal too. Rick

Tigers

2010-08-06 Thread Rick Root
damn, my wasted no time diving into their second half slump. Last year they waited til September to tank (@#...@# twins) They were in first place on July 10th. Since then, they've gone 5-18 and are 9 games out. Oh well. It's sad that I'm already left looking forward to the Lions. By the

Re: Cat Fight Brewing

2010-08-06 Thread Rick Root
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:06 PM, denstar valliants...@gmail.com wrote: Enterprise was the best Trek of them all tho, hands down. The one with Scott Bakula? I liked it a lot myself.. I thought it had some really good characters and good stories.. I liked the wild west feeling of it. Made me

Re: 2012 - scary

2010-08-04 Thread Rick Root
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Ras Tafari rastaf...@gmail.com wrote: neutrino's entering the core http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/03/spectacular-northern-lights-signals-sun-waking/ I'm not sure this article is real. I mean, it's on a fake news site...

Re: Todo program

2010-08-04 Thread Rick Root
I've had my Dell Precision M6300 for about 2 years now I think. It's CPU, a 2.8ghz Intel X900 Core 2 Duo was the most powerful process dell offered on this laptop at the time. It's still pretty damn powerful for a laptop I think :) This CPU was like a $1000 upgrade on top of the standard price

Re: CFUnited in a leather corset...

2010-08-02 Thread Rick Root
Ah, good times! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive:

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