8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC Part 13

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Like the new med Banner, Disser-formerCPer -made it for our Med cruise, really great.

 

[got2travel]

All together now:

"Fish are friends - not food"

And on that note:

Finding Nemo ride opens to the public on June 11! Went there on 5/18 and they had the divers and testers on the ride checking to make sure it works.

Of course soft openings are usually a couple of days ahead. They are allowing employees to ride it on Friday if I'm not mistaken. Some little told me.

Hey! I was there on 5/18 too.

 

[got2travel]

No I think he was probably pre warned about all of us. He did run out to the grocery store after our discussion but I think he just went after a few salad ingredients.......maybe some cucumbers........

Ya know, I never did find out what he ran to the store for. But he sure did hightail it out.

No fear, though, he called later to have me say good bye for him to my chat buddies. I think most were gone by then though.

 

[Downrivermama]

Thanks, Diane. She is OK today. They have their 1st practice for the July 4th parade today. She is pretty good about letting things roll off her back. She is a lot braver than I was at her age!

On Saturday, I worked backstage at the dance recital, so it's hard to get her flowers and give them to her. So a local florist had on their sign they now have Webkinz. She has been wanting one so we stopped on the way home and she got her monkey. Funny thing is she wanted to call it Chellee and the site said she couldn't use that name because it has a word not allowed in it! So now it's Chelee!

 

[captaincrash]

Looks like someone just has WAY too much time on their hands to do all that calculating!

<chuckles>

Lucky me eh?​

Not really...probably less than a minute with a working calculator.

Actually... in truth it was probably about 5 minutes ACTUAL time since I was flipping through my on line calandar counting days 28-30-31 at a time and using the windows calculator it was a breeze. I did some of the math in my head 2-3x too just to see if I was on the right track (no gross errors). I thought it was a riot that the significant figures went so far out and - of course copying the data takes just a heartbeat for a control click. Then you folks know I took a couple minutes to set up the centering, choosing font size and colors ... or editing a little something here and there.

Of course... I still COULD have made mistakes as it was pretty late... but I think I was reasonably accurate. AND... as usual I was multitasking and on other web pages as I drafted the numbers... We're planning a potential visit to yosemite, plus countless other things .....

<chuckles>​

 

[got2travel]

Checkin in..

How is everyone.. i am not even gonna think about ketchup.. busy at work as it is last month of a qtr.. anyone want to buy some software???

I had Eric graduation party Sat night with DH's side of family, then his aunt stayed over and we went to a wedding shower on Sunday.. Today is rain.. and then tonight is Boy Scout Court of Honor.. Eric graduates wednesday, and Geoff has finals wed-Fri..

But Geoff and I leave for SWW on Friday right after he finished finals.... will take us all day to travel.. We have to go from Chicago to NY to Tampa to Orlando..

Anyway, Hi to all... and be back soon..

Have fun on the trip. LOVED SWW last year. Had a blast.

Congrats to Eric on the graduation!
Good luck to Geoff on the finals.

 

[captaincrash]

So the difference between the two would be.... .

JK Tom!!!!

With great power comes great responsibility....

 

[captaincrash]

I don't get to take a vacation this year. <frown> I'm really jealous of all of the rest of you -- please post trip reports so I can live vicariously through you.

Please don't be glum...

... tell me... the chatter we get here is JUST like the sort of story swappin' we'd have on a voyage together ... only it's like we're all in the SAME cocktail party for 400+ days. And we've got a stenographer and LCD projector where we can share images! OK... maybe my imagination is getting a little vibrant now... but the notion has precedent, no?

So... join us on this voyage / cocktail party ... as I believe the price is right... <chuckles>

AND - what ever its' worth... I'm in your boat if you're referrin' to cruising this year. We've got no cruises planned aside from the one obvious voyage in '08... and nothing with DCL in '07 ... so far...

 

[daipp]

I have a question. How old do you have to be before people will say "He/she died of old age"?

My aunty had it on hers when she died at 91 but her mother (my granny) didn't at aged 87.

David

 

[captaincrash]

.......
crash..or 2004 cruise was effected by the sept. hurricanes-2 in between.
we made the last flight from altanta..to orlando...but then had to drive all
the way down to fort L. , * we should went down A-1a. on the way down,
we saw another disney bus...broken down. however, it was pretty neat
..seeing]the wonder & magic together. getting time off, requires a year in advance.
& we usually do a week @ the parks...so we usually make the best of it.
another reason besides scheduling, is celebrating a special occassion.
i think this one is getting oout of the house... , to me that's good
enough.

...

So you were disrupted by ... Hurricane FRANCIS? Were you on the special eastern that was shortened to a 4 nite western? Cuz that was our voyage! Our sailing had a Meyers bus which was chartered by DCL that broke down enroute to Fort Lauderdale - and the ship delayed embarkation so those passengers could reach the ship... We could only fly in as close as Charlotte - so we grabbed a rental car and drove to Jacksonville the evening before FRancis made land fall... and THAT was an experience.

 

[captaincrash]

Speel check has killed my ability to speel.

I could not get the tool loaded properly on my usual internet "ride" ... and the spouses' notebook is a mostly "closed" business machine... so we don't mess much with that one. So I am without the spell checking crutch and left to reveal my inability to spell to the DIS world gathered here....

You do have a slight competitive streak.....

Naw... I'm just fartin' around. WHo's countin' anyways???

Good morning all.


I woke up and DS has not made it home yet. Boy is he in trouble.

SO ... we trust your DS made it home safely... so what happened? Anything newsworthy... or if not then we understand.

Good morning everyone. It's good to see you're all still here. It's been hard for me to get on the internet at work this last month. We've been swamped.

In case I don't make it back again, hope everyone has a great day.

Great to see your're still hangin' out Susan! Welcome back aboard!!!

Gotta go now...
All caught up I think...
Adios...​

 

[yargrnhoj]

Here's my new favorite words ala my STs: Bdonktadonk


Now my Bdonktadonk days are over, but I love the word nonetheless!

Perhaps I could interest you in this?

JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank

http://www.amazon.com/JL421-Badonka...934747-8556602?ie=UTF8&qid=1178207885&sr=1-10

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Naw... I'm just fartin' around. WHo's countin' anyways???

Gotta go now...
All caught up I think...
Adios...​

Did you have too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Night all.

 

[lbgraves]

NOTE TO SELF:

G Hi Seas = CA = Roger the Nutmeg man

G for G = Dh of Kristina? (Andy)

G for L = Kristina - she's got that pretty little flower as her icon - go figure - can't remember names but I can remember icons.

Right?


( There is something visually or auditorily wrong with me! )

You aren't the only one! If someone changes their signature picture it throws me off. It gets to the point where I don't look over to the left to see the DIS ID...I just go by the sig.

 

[brack]

Caught up and gone. Later.

 

[jonesing]

Ridiculous Math Geek Post ALERT




Of course, the spike created by the release of AWE was quite significant, so we may need to go back to the calculation tables to figure our what kind of spikes things such as end of August and other mini-meets; assignment of rooms numbers; release of shore excursion lists; airfare coming on line; 105, 90 and 75 day booking windows; release of AWE on DVD; etc. will create....

<engineer's hat=on>
Let's just say those surges will be averaged out by the loss of posts from people on vacation or sitting naked in a sweatlodge smoking peyote, add a small SWAG factor and leave it at that...
<hat=off>

Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two slots in the top, a control knob, and a lever. "What do you think this is?"

One advisor, an engineer, answered first. "It is a toaster," he said. The king asked, "How would you design an embedded computer for it?" The engineer replied, "Using a four-bit microcontroller, I would write a simple program that reads the darkness knob and quantizes its position to one of 16 shades of darkness, from snow white to coal black. The program would use that darkness level as the index to a 16-element table of initial timer values. Then it would turn on the heating elements and start the timer with the initial value selected from the table. At the end of the time delay, it would turn off the heat and pop up the toast. Come back next week, and I'll show you a working prototype."

The second advisor, a computer scientist, immediately recognized the danger of such short-sighted thinking. He said, "Toasters don't just turn bread into toast, they are also used to warm frozen waffles. What you see before you is really a breakfast food cooker. As the subjects of your kingdom become more sophisticated, they will demand more capabilities. They will need a breakfast food cooker that can also cook sausage, fry bacon, and make scrambled eggs. A toaster that only makes toast will soon be obsolete. If we don't look to the future, we will have to completely redesign the toaster in just a few years."

"With this in mind, we can formulate a more intelligent solution to the problem. First, create a class of breakfast foods. Specialize this class into subclasses: grains, pork, and poultry. The specialization process should be repeated with grains divided into toast, muffins, pancakes, and waffles; pork divided into sausage, links, and bacon; and poultry divided into scrambled eggs, hard- boiled eggs, poached eggs, fried eggs, and various omelet classes."

"The ham and cheese omelet class is worth special attention because it must inherit characteristics from the pork, dairy, and poultry classes. Thus, we see that the problem cannot be properly solved without multiple inheritance. At run time, the program must create the proper object and send a message to the object that says, 'Cook yourself.' The semantics of this message depend, of course, on the kind of object, so they have a different meaning to a piece of toast than to scrambled eggs."

"Reviewing the process so far, we see that the analysis phase has revealed that the primary requirement is to cook any kind of breakfast food. In the design phase, we have discovered some derived requirements. Specifically, we need an object-oriented language with multiple inheritance. Of course, users don't want the eggs to get cold while the bacon is frying, so concurrent processing is required, too."

"We must not forget the user interface. The lever that lowers the food lacks versatility, and the darkness knob is confusing. Users won't buy the product unless it has a user-friendly, graphical interface. When the breakfast cooker is plugged in, users should see a cowboy boot on the screen. Users click on it, and the message 'Booting UNIX v.8.3' appears on the screen. (UNIX 8.3 should be out by the time the product gets to the market.) Users can pull down a menu and click on the foods they want to cook."

"Having made the wise decision of specifying the software first in the design phase, all that remains is to pick an adequate hardware platform for the implementation phase. An Intel 80386 with 8MB of memory, a 30MB hard disk, and a VGA monitor should be sufficient. If you select a multitasking, object oriented language that supports multiple inheritance and has a built-in GUI, writing the program will be a snap. (Imagine the difficulty we would have had if we had foolishly allowed a hardware-first design strategy to lock us into a four-bit microcontroller!)."

The king wisely had the computer scientist beheaded, and they all lived happily ever after.​

You know, computer science stemmed from math, in fact, many schools still run their CS programs out of the Math Dept.

 

[yargrnhoj]

<engineer's hat=on>
Let's just say those surges will be averaged out by the loss of posts from people on vacation or sitting naked in a sweatlodge smoking peyote, add a small SWAG factor and leave it at that...
<hat=off>

Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two slots in the top, a control knob, and a lever. "What do you think this is?"​

One advisor, an engineer, answered first. "It is a toaster," he said. The king asked, "How would you design an embedded computer for it?" The engineer replied, "Using a four-bit microcontroller, I would write a simple program that reads the darkness knob and quantizes its position to one of 16 shades of darkness, from snow white to coal black.​

​

What I want to know is why does a toaster go all the way up to 'burnt beyond recognition' setting? My toaster goes up to 7 and at 4, the toast is already very dark. Do people really eat charred beyond belief toast?

 

[yargrnhoj]

You aren't the only one! If someone changes their signature picture it throws me off. It gets to the point where I don't look over to the left to see the DIS ID...I just go by the sig.

That's why I changed mine.

Maybe I will randomly change mine daily. Pick a random number and choose that avatar?

 

[yargrnhoj]

Please don't be glum...

... tell me... the chatter we get here is JUST like the sort of story swappin' we'd have on a voyage together ... only it's like we're all in the SAME cocktail party for 400+ days. And we've got a stenographer and LCD projector where we can share images! OK... maybe my imagination is getting a little vibrant now... but the notion has precedent, no?

So... join us on this voyage / cocktail party ... as I believe the price is right... <chuckles>

AND - what ever its' worth... I'm in your boat if you're referrin' to cruising this year. We've got no cruises planned aside from the one obvious voyage in '08... and nothing with DCL in '07 ... so far...

Yeah, I will just have to enjoy others' pictures this year. Not only do we have no cruises planned (not unusual since we only cruise every few years), we cancelled our 14-day trip out West to save money. So we're going nowhere at all until late 2008, which I hope we can still make.

 

[yargrnhoj]

For all the people who are confused by math and statistics:

"I was reading an article today where it said 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese.

There are five people in my family.

I wonder which one is Chinese?"