2003/11/09
It is unseasonably cold. But, warmer weather will prevail today and tomorrow...streaking up to at least ZERO!...Woo-hoo.
Yesterday Catherine and I attended a dinner meeting of the Manitoba Humanist Association
The meal was not too great but the price was reasonable. The table talk was good as we sat with the future president Barrie Webster and his wife Phyllis and a white-bearded long-haired 'Winocerous' by the name of Barry hammond. We were also joined at the table by the evenings speaker, Leslie Hughes. Leslie is a famous, local, free-lance current affairs writer. After Leslie's speech she opened the floor to questions. She fielded questions on journalism, spirituality, and gossiped about media people that she knew. She is a great story teller, and very intelligent too.
The association showed it's intelligence by electing me a 'large member'...er, a 'member-at-large'. I get to sit on the executive and go to more meetings. Wonderful thing, that...you get to make decisions that nobody else wants. Oh well, here we go.
We were gone for about six hours and the dog was patiently waiting at the door was soon as we got home. She must have peed for a solid two minutes. Here is a wee joke before I go:
Murphy's Laws of Computing:
-When computing, whatever happens, behave as though you meant it to happen.
-When you get to the point where you really understand your computer, it's probably obsolete.
-The first place to look for information is in the section of the manual where you least expect to find it.
-When the going gets tough, upgrade.
-For every action, there is an equal and opposite malfunction.
-He who laughs last probably made a back-up.
-A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.
-The number one cause of computer problems is computer solutions.
-A computer program will always do what you tell it to do, but rarely what you want to do.
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Yesterday Catherine and I attended a dinner meeting of the Manitoba Humanist Association
The meal was not too great but the price was reasonable. The table talk was good as we sat with the future president Barrie Webster and his wife Phyllis and a white-bearded long-haired 'Winocerous' by the name of Barry hammond. We were also joined at the table by the evenings speaker, Leslie Hughes. Leslie is a famous, local, free-lance current affairs writer. After Leslie's speech she opened the floor to questions. She fielded questions on journalism, spirituality, and gossiped about media people that she knew. She is a great story teller, and very intelligent too.
The association showed it's intelligence by electing me a 'large member'...er, a 'member-at-large'. I get to sit on the executive and go to more meetings. Wonderful thing, that...you get to make decisions that nobody else wants. Oh well, here we go.
We were gone for about six hours and the dog was patiently waiting at the door was soon as we got home. She must have peed for a solid two minutes. Here is a wee joke before I go:
Murphy's Laws of Computing:
-When computing, whatever happens, behave as though you meant it to happen.
-When you get to the point where you really understand your computer, it's probably obsolete.
-The first place to look for information is in the section of the manual where you least expect to find it.
-When the going gets tough, upgrade.
-For every action, there is an equal and opposite malfunction.
-He who laughs last probably made a back-up.
-A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.
-The number one cause of computer problems is computer solutions.
-A computer program will always do what you tell it to do, but rarely what you want to do.
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