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Sorry, I have to post this! My wife just wouldn't understand!!!

dkemppaidkemppai Posts: 315
edited 2005-08-15 22:15 in General Discussion
I've been working on some code here at work, on and off for a few weeks.

I had some functionality that I was trying to pack into·half of a page.
I was trying to get it into that half of a page, to help make the
code modular. This morning, I added my last sub to that code,·and
tested it. Everything works!· So, this is cool. Then I·looked at the
end of the page. My last command landed on the $xff boundry!

$FF!!!· I should go out and·buy a lotto ticket!

-Dan
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  • ElectronegativityElectronegativity Posts: 311
    edited 2005-08-11 04:13
    My wife has a masters degree in computer science, yet she still would not appreciate the glory of your accomplishment, but I do.

    Women; you can't live with 'em and can't live without 'em.

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  • PJMontyPJMonty Posts: 983
    edited 2005-08-11 04:44
    Actually, I believe it was Steve Martin who said:

    "Women. You can't live with them... you can't twist them into balloon animal shapes."
      Thanks, PeterM
  • BeanBean Posts: 8,129
    edited 2005-08-11 11:06
    "Women. You can't live with them... But what a glorious world it would be if you could."

    ha ha, just kidding wifey. Ouch.

    Bean.

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  • James NewtonJames Newton Posts: 329
    edited 2005-08-11 17:14
    First, tip 'o the hat to Dan... Nothing quite like a nice piece of code that just comes together perfectly...

    And now that we have totally hijacked this thread:

    "Women, can't live with 'em... they can't live with us..."

    Although·the wife and I·have some how managed to fake it pretty well for the last 14 or so years.

    http://techref.massmind.org/techref/other/lovers.htm
    http://techref.massmind.org/techref/other/womenvsmen.htm
    http://techref.massmind.org/techref/menvswomen.htm

    My personal favorite from the above: "If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him... is he still wrong?"

    And finally:

    An architect, an artist and an engineer were discussing whether it was better to spend time with the wife or a mistress.

    The architect said he enjoyed time with his wife, building a solid foundation for an enduring relationship.

    The artist said he enjoyed time with his mistress, because of the passion and mystery he found there.

    The engineer said, "I like both."
    "Both?"
    Engineer:"Yeah. If you have a wife and a mistress, they will each assume you are spending time with the other woman, and you can go to the office and get some work done."


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  • Guenther DaubachGuenther Daubach Posts: 1,321
    edited 2005-08-11 18:35
    James,

    seems as if I'm belonging to the "ripe stuff", as "the wife" and me made it for over 30 years now. Nevertheless, I like the engineer's POV smile.gif .

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    Greetings from Germany,

    G
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,568
    edited 2005-08-11 20:55
    My problem right now, is that my wife always seems to beat me to the punch. It seems as though she is able to ask me to do something
    a few milliseconds after the thought has already entered my mind or on rare occasion for example I'll be on my way up the stairs with clean
    laundry as she is in the other room asking me if I will carry it up the stairs. Arghhh!! - "yes dear" - As my wife and I are sharing 5+ years
    of marriage with two beautiful daughters, we have been sharing our friendship together for 22+ years.


    BTW) congrats!! Dan!! [noparse]:o[/noparse])

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    Parallax, Inc.
  • Paul BakerPaul Baker Posts: 6,351
    edited 2005-08-11 21:12
    A few weeks ago I saw an interview of the couple in the Guiness Book of World Records for the oldest living couple (combined age) and longest married couple. He was asked what the secret to a long and happy marriage was, his reply; "Knowing when to say, Yes dear." Sadly, he passed away about a week after the interview.

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  • Guenther DaubachGuenther Daubach Posts: 1,321
    edited 2005-08-11 23:07
    Beau,

    agree with you - and back to the topic. I never made it so far to _exactly_ fill one SX code page.

    Dan,

    you might seriously consider your winning chances concerning the lottery ticket. Just punch some numbers to find out the probabiliy for a win - I guess, chances for exactly hitting an SX page boundary ar much higher though smile.gif .

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    Greetings from Germany,

    G
  • dkemppaidkemppai Posts: 315
    edited 2005-08-15 18:18
    Guenther Daubach said...
    Beau,

    agree with you - and back to the topic. I never made it so far to _exactly_ fill one SX code page.

    Dan,

    you might seriously consider your winning chances concerning the lottery ticket. Just punch some numbers to find out the probabiliy for a win - I guess, chances for exactly hitting an SX page boundary ar much higher though smile.gif .

    You're probably right!·

    Wife and I have been married for 5+ years.·I have to admit, she's really good at trying to understand what I do for work and fun...·· ...but she just won't try to·learn to code·ASM for the SX...

    Anyway, just to see what happened, I told her about it. The she responded by talking about the cat ion exchange capacity of some material she was working with (she's an MS in Chem Eng)...·· ....needless to say we both·ended that conversation·right there and put a movie in the DVD player.

    Life is really good when your wife·makes you hit the·"Pause" button on your work...

    -Dan
  • YanroyYanroy Posts: 96
    edited 2005-08-15 20:52
    At least your (plural) wives understand the basics of technology.· Simple things like "batteries need to be charged" and "it doesn't work if you don't plug it in".· I'm not married, and I don't even have a girlfriend at the moment... partly because I almost never find girls with any concept of modern technology or electricity in particular.· And the few (7 out of 250+) women who are electrical engineering majors at my college are of course all taken :P
  • dkemppaidkemppai Posts: 315
    edited 2005-08-15 22:15
    Yanroy said...
    At least your (plural) wives understand the basics of technology.· Simple things like "batteries need to be charged" and "it doesn't work if you don't plug it in".· I'm not married, and I don't even have a girlfriend at the moment... partly because I almost never find girls with any concept of modern technology or electricity in particular.· And the few (7 out of 250+) women who are electrical engineering majors at my college are of course all taken :P
    7 out of 250, Wow that's a lot!· I think ours was closer to 1 out of 200.··I met my wife when I was on the cheer team (Stunt Team, not dance squad).·I was the·Chick Chucker, she was my Chucked Chick.·If you don't mind finding a Woman who's a Chem Eng (About 90% of women were Chem Eng Majors), try out for the cheer team! If you·can·handle all of the·ridicule and all of the beautiful women!

    Actually, it's sort of discouraging that not many women find electrical engineering interesting.

    -Dan
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