Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXIV

[Krandall]

Time to start it off phresh.

[Peelz]

we did it! used to take a week....takes months now

slackers

[Krandall]

HEY.


You been slackin mr... oh look how much work I have to do.....

[Peelz]

I only go WITH the flow bro... don't pin this one on me. 

[Krandall]

Yea yea yea...


how goes the new job thus far? they have you workin both new and old still?

[Peelz]

going good. though I found that sitting on my A$$ in front of PC adds pounds.   New job is a little more stress, on call only once every 4 week-5 weeks most problems fixable remotely. ANd no more 6 week OT stretches, so overall, I am liking it.

Ever used Visual Fox Pro? It's what we use to manipulate data. ANd it sucks. Sucks so bad....they stopped producing it.

[Krandall]

Funny, I was just working with that maybe a month ago or so. We have a new product that came in that one of our financial divisions uses. In the back it uses foxpro. Pretty garbage language if you ask me.

[Colorado700R]

where's today in history?

[Krandall]

havent got that far yet.

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History

On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

On Sept. 1, 1907, Walter Reuther, the powerful president of the United Automobile Workers Union from 1946 to 1970, was born. Following his death on May 9, 1970, his obituary appeared in The Times.
   
On September 1, 1866, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policy.


On this date in:

1905    Alberta and Saskatchewan became the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada.

1942    A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.

1951    The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty.

1969    A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power.

1972    American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.

1981    Albert Speer, a close associate of Adolf Hitler who ran the Nazi war machine, died at a London hospital at age 76.

1983    A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace; 269 people were killed.

1998    Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th and 57th home runs of the season, breaking the National League record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.

2004    More than 1,100 people were taken hostage by heavily armed Chechen militants at a school in Beslan in southern Russia; more than 330 people, most of them children, were killed during the three-day ordeal.

2007    Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, announced that he would resign in the wake of fallout over his guilty plea in a Minnesota airport gay sex sting. (Craig later reversed his decision and served out his term.)

2009    A law allowing gay marriage took effect in Vermont.

Current Birthdays

Talk show host Phil McGraw ("Dr. Phil") turns 60 years old today.


71    Lily Tomlin
Comedian, actress

64    Barry Gibb
Singer (The Bee Gees)

53    Gloria Estefan
Singer

49    Dee Dee Myers
Former White House Press Secretary

35    Scott Speedman
Actor ("Felicity")

29    Clinton Portis
Washington Redskins running back

26    Joe Trohman
Rock musician (Fall Out Boy)

Historic Birthdays

Walter Reuther

9/1/1907 - 5/9/1970
American labor leader; president of United Automobile Workers Union (1946-70)
(Go to obit.)

69    Giacomo Torelli
9/1/1608 - 6/17/1678
Italian stage designer and engineer

67    Engelbert Humperdinck
9/1/1854 - 9/27/1921
German composer

66    James Corbett
9/1/1866 - 2/18/1933
American world heavyweight boxing champion (1892-7)

74    Edgar Rice Burroughs
9/1/1875 - 3/19/1950
American novelist; wrote the Tarzan stories

68    Francis Aston
9/1/1877 - 11/20/1945
English Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1922)

37    Marilyn Miller
9/1/1898 - 4/7/1936
American musical comedy actress

74    Carlo Gambino
9/1/1902 - 10/15/1976
Italian-born American organized crime leader

79    Dame Peggy van Praagh
9/1/1910 - 1/15/1990
English-born ballet dancer; founder of the Australian Ballet

45    Rocky Marciano
9/1/1923 - 8/31/1969
American world heavyweight boxing champion (1952-6)

[Peelz]

Funny, I was just working with that maybe a month ago or so. We have a new product that came in that one of our financial divisions uses. In the back it uses foxpro. Pretty garbage language if you ask me.

yessir. but I guess we save megabucks using it... It apparently will no longer be supported after 2010 is over

[Krandall]

1998    Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th and 57th home runs of the season, breaking the National League record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.

All natural right?

[Colorado700R]

On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.


The Polish Calvary (on horse back) charged the advancing Panzer divisions.....

Not a good idea

[Krandall]

Dog food for all!

[NaturalRaptor]

Just wanted to say hi and keep the new thread moving along!