Scored 285222 on blockout 5x5x18, 3rd best so far. Paid 25$ into my skype account, for phone calls.
At Firriver, a longish chat before the actual meeting.
00:02:06 David: Re: Umit's email...wondering if Laura might respond...Laura I dont know if you've had the 'pleasure' of dealing with the Halberd crew...also don't know what the complexity is in for instance adding colours to summary sheet...but might say we're looking at it...the provisions of the contract (which has gone thrugh several incarnations....back and forth with them) is to move towards 100 hours of programming time rather than 10 reports....In any case, maybe we can discuss tomorrow...either way they've used some of their 'Alotment'
That doesn't need to mentioned to Umit specifically (at this point anyways...)
00:12:18 Norman: Colour addition is the least; they wish to have a new feature in Feds that records a patient identification event. Then they want this reflected in their custom report (*19* versions and counting...), plus some other changes.
00:13:41 David: a 'witnessing' event?
00:14:02 Norman: BTW, that report is quite colourful as-is. They just want some text to be conditionally coloured.
00:14:18 Norman: No, not witnessing, from what I can tell from Umit's e-mail.
00:20:44 David: twit: back in about 2 hours
00:35:17 Laura: Sure, I'll respond to the Halberd email.
02:01:29 Oliver: @JanIn answering some questions from Stephanie Ainslie, I've discovered that my version of Feds has a problem with the get eggs/embryos > lab events without treatment system. I did a GTM with Laura and she has the same problem as I do on her version. I'll contact you in your morning (my evening to go through it with you). I've replied to Stephanie with the solution, but if it has a bug in his version, he won't be happy with my answers. :S Talk with you later
I had to reboot my machine, restart skype, update skype... and eventually got the skype's sound to work at the same time as GTM. Later I mostly switched to having one of them on one machine and the other on the nezavisni, so they wouldn't kill each other.
Worked on the Anzard (australian agency's system) and just went for creating an engine, basically a business object, which will handle all the data crunching and munching. Later, I extracted the common code into some agency_engine.prg, which then served all of CAAR, SHET, NPSU (the australian agency) and Belrap (belgian), but amazingly, not hfea, which was completely different.
On UA, about the current clusterfuck about Georgia, after I challenged the few to try to pronounce Tbilisi the right way, not inventing any fake vowels between t and b...
My apologies to everybody here for taking this into a direction which doesn't have much to do with anything relevant. I only wanted to give Grady a little poke in the rib for joining the general game of giving advice and knowing exactly what should be done about countries we can't even spell - or, in case of Gruzia, don't even know their proper names. My knowledge on the matter is maybe a millimeter or so more advanced - I've seen a few Gruzian movies (in Russian dub, save the singing - which was a real discovery), met a few Gruzins (at least that's how we call them) in their natural state (i.e. in the USSR, not as political refugees with whom you never know when do they think they need to pour hatred over their old country for the microphones), and my dad once visited Tbilisi and brought pictures and commented on what he saw.
Other than that... I'd rather be interested to see how can Saakashvili be the teacher's pet, when they still have Stalin's square and Stalin's statues over there? When he's handling his opposition not much better than Mugabe is? Just because he's the keeper of the pipeline?
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The whole Gruzian thing (btw, take a recorder and get these guys to pronounce the names... then analyze later) has got me very upset, because I have seen the whole setup of the late nineties, and that it's yet another "no matter what you do, your pants are falling and you will be bent over" situation where only one side is heard, only one side has people while the other has numbers... such a fucqueing deja vu that at some point I just hurled my glasses (the cheap ones I got for $4 - even when I'm mad I'm not insane) and started shouting at NPR. Wouldn't even count it as much damage if I smashed the radio, it's more than eight years old and wasn't much to begin with.
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Yet so many of these satellite countries have presidents who have graduated in the U.S... hmm... today's marionettes are probably wireless. Technology has advanced.
You know the story - CIA is spying all the world, because the US's greatest fear is to be surprised with another Pearl Harbor. Russian greatest fear is that they'll be surrounded like in 1919-20. So, the not-so-rhetorical question is why are the US doing exactly the thing that they know will deurinate the Russians the worst? How much fist thumping on the table is too much? Will the US governments be forever wagged by any dog who says "you're too soft on [insert threat here] (and I need to sell the weapons)"?
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Once I couldn't find where here was. I had to retrace my steps, because I remembered that when I said "I left here in the middle of the morning", it rang true. So I just had to find where the precise middle of the morning was, and there here was, exactly where I left it.