Last week in Hermit's Cave

"Jar Jar Binks - kill the bastard. Effin' computer generated tosser" -- Spinola "Not so much as a 'skip shite' button either" -- Flashy

"Spinola = piss-head Bill-Gates-worshipping journo who regularly wimps out of OOFGs" -- Dino Poll Roundup
Where is Tigger? How do you wibble a Tigger? Wait, I don't want to know.

FNG Roll call
ANTHANOS TRANQUILIS MAXGOLFER CMSMITH21

The time wasters club
TCB500 SKAFFMAN NEWORIGINAL BOB_DINOSAUR THEFLASHMAN SIDVISCOUS SDMAHANEY FRNHT451 CUPID_STUNT BO_NANZA

Weekly Folly
Seti team Well quite a slice of life, of what we see here on the forum. I started out the week with a little boasting and not a few technical complaints. Had a load of useless advice. In a turn of events Spinola came on to complain about the low quality of his hardware, and his inability to see the web proper. About here it gets scary, reeeaaalllll scary, when Spinola mentions that SDMYHIENEY saw him in his unmentionables. Mentioning Web-o-whatsit is the least of our worries. Talk like this is bound to get us all in jail, getting banned from Delphi is nothing in comparison.

List of Largest Retailers on the Web? Boooooooring.

2 GHz requires 45 amps, why?! Stupid @$^$(@&^@^%$) technical threads. - I would like to point out at that at the moment are two geeks sitting next to me using words like "paradigm" I may have to shoot the feckers - Anyways; newbie CMSMITH21 mentioned some Inq article stating that the latest generation of some proc was using 45 Amps of power on the Mobo. So there was a fair amount of wibble as to what this actually means. At least it was about actual metal and volts, and not some pussy ones and zeros, or the latest in some crap programming language.

Gazpacho and I pretty much sussed out the reality of it (less than ½ an amp in any one particular spot). Eventually we moved on (thank Jeff), about Tuesday Spinola was nice enough to mention booze. Frnht mentioned some tunes, and it all degraded into t-shirts and SDMYHIENY being scared of chickens.

ho hum Kenny came in to discuss his tour of the HMS Belfast. Or as it is more commonly known in Blighty the HMS Fscking Irish Bastards, starting trouble on bloody Easter Sunday of all days. Anyways, there was all sorts or warship talk.

Spinola came in with some drunken hallucination of seeing the USS Constitution in San Diego, amongst others. Turns out Alex had relatives aboard the HMS FIBSTOBESOAD. The conversation varried from the technical abilities, poor conditions below decks, and onboard conference facilities. Flashy briefly mentioned a visit with the relatives merryside way. The logistics of waging naval warfare was also a big topic.

Bosses and managers While Gazpacho brought up some boring kids game, we thankfully ignored him for the most part. Mr. And Mrs. TCB couldn't get off their asses to talk to each other, so there was a small holiday discussion here in the forum. To summarize: "Lets go to a brewery" "Not a problem everyone already thinks you're a drunken lout." After that it was basically a "What were they thinking geography lesson".

Blues Well I'm writing from the pub so this one is going to be difficult. Talk about your ramblings. Anyways here's a go. Crikey where do I start? Gazpacho complained about some ticket he got for Mass politicians being daft. We talked about Mip's (Louise) educational stuff, and her disbelief in the religious wankers. There was a longish discussion on the pros and cons of higher education, and or the lack thereof. There was a brief discussion of fools, considering this lot it was just a matter of not stepping on someone's toes. Maps admitted to some rather deviant behavior. Dino the purple dinosaur. Spinola treaded on some thin Ice, vis-à-vis, ever getting a ride again. There was a rather lengthy and boring discussion of UK insurance rates. Josh's macro inabilities. The fact that Flashy likes beans, no surprise there really. 199 bloody posts! Go find a pub you sousers.

Thoughtworks Kenny asked for a little career advice, we took the opportunity to take the piss out of some Indians (the dot kind). Right about Friday things got scary. Kenny had gotten a programming test. The result was we had one of my least favorite things on the forum. Actual code! {crrriiiiiiinngggge}. [Internet hates spikey brackets Sid, sorry. Ed.]

Well as you may have surmised I retreated to a pub in attempt to finish the summary early. Got a flight in the morning. So I'm on about my 6th Guinness and things aren't tracking very well. Mrs. TCB ventured out of Word association to give Mr. TCB a bit of Guff. The eternal Josh/Israel bashing continued on. Interestingly to note, after SGF asked about some geeky crap (pGina). One of those boring lead developer types for the actual crap showed up. Well I'm tired and semi-pissed so I'm off. Four quotes!

Hermie's Quotable Quotes
To: gas_appliance (THERMIONIC) 24-Oct 21:39
Quite some time. The amount of gear I have to pack to be able to travel is a real pain. And getting medical oxytank refills on the road is a hit and miss propostion. My auto insurance company isn't one bit thrilled about me toting a 5 foot oxy cylinder around to fill the pony tank.

One major difference between using this and being in a room full of people or a city full of humanity is I have the immediate ability to cut off that contact for as long as "I" choose. Try that at work....

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The Hermit

To: Flashman (THEFLASHMAN) 16-Aug 15:29
***I was being gracious and reasonable.
I missed this! Oh, I see, you're being fass, you're being faseti, you're lying.

Wow!! Windup!!

What will they think of next!!

The Hermit

Sid
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