I've had to put a few of my dogs down over the years. Just did all I could and waited until I knew that they were not going to get better.

Just a few months ago my dog got really sick. I took her to the vet and all he found was that her liver was not functioning properly, but had no real cure. He gave me some pills to give her. I did but they did no good.

She wouldnt eat at all so I mashed chicken and Vienna sausages up and shoved them down her throat and also fed her chicken broth in a syringe for over a month...6 or more times a day. She finally started eating again and is doing great. But a few times I decided that I was going to have to shoot her. Glad I didn't.

Being a programmer myself, I would not surrender my source code to anyone. The hardware inside that the software is sampling is more likely to cause errors. Hardware gets old, ozidation, blockages, etc. Once code works, it works.

It would seem logical that if it reliably measures blood-alcohol in some controlled tests, it should just remain a black box to the users. Hardware and software.

Can't say I have. But if it would make me appear more sensitive and in touch.......

(sorry)

a DAY??? .0005!

If I put my puppy up, 1. Brings the term "dog lover" to a whole new meaning.

Alright man. I AM just waiting on the day that you come on here and are stoked because you just met the girl of your dreams...where you least expected it. Just like I say it will happen. lol

And I wouldn't mind if you sold a million books either. Probably make that search for the perfect woman easier...or at least a helluva lot more interesting. You can connect here from your personal Lear Jet barreling over the Caribbean, ya know?

My neighborhoods gone bad. I was at line in the little Arab store (ain't they all?) and waiting for an old couple to gather their stuff from the counter...politely. This young punk jumps in front of me and I told him "Hey parter. the line starts there" and pointed behind me. He starts hollering that I'm a racist and actually gets on his cell phone (while he's in line BEHIND me) and is telling whomevers on the other end "Im in the store with some KKK guy....blah blah blah". You just have to laugh at f**kin idiots. I did and I do.

YOung people especially have no respect for anything or anyone unless you just shut em down. Hopefully its one and not 10, cause you have a fight on your hands THEN. Or the few elitist rich who are so used to being served that they actually forget that the world ain't on their payroll.

Anyone remember when people were polite to each other? I do...vaguely.

Jackson is Mississippi. Been there. Was boring then too.

That ain't much of a lifestyle. Withering away to bones holed up in a room with shuttered windows all alone but for your tormentors.

How many bottles of germ-away and boxes of Kleenex will a billion dolars buy?

Famous or infamous. Nope.
I like that 999,999 in a million look. Never get stopped anyway.

It may not be as bad as you think.

I left Phoenix on a few hours notice to come and help out my brother with cancer and going through hell. I had a girlfriend there and didn't call her until I was in Albuquerque, NM. Told her I was driving to Louisiana and she asked me when I was coming back. I said "Never".

I saw it like this. She was WAY too young for me anyway and, if I had given her time to talk me out of it, she probably could have. And I know that she would have tried..or wanted to come with me.
Being a stupid male, that was the only way I could think of to do it at the moment. I've thought of a bunch since.

Maybe he didn't want you to talk him out of something that was best for him. At least your guy said he was coming back.

My folks were both artists. Painted in oils & acrylics and my dad did a lot of charcoal, water-color and sculpture. He was also a photographer and I spent a good many weekend nights in the darkroom "helping" him. But he also did things like knapping flint, making bows...all kind of stuff.

So I always liked art but could never draw anything except technical drawing (drafting). My pal and I built a 3-axis CNC router and I've had a great time making primary covers, 3-d "portraits" in wood and aluminum, etc. I just take some photos, prep them for 256 gray shades, and tweak them a bit then load the G-code into the computer. But I still get quite a sense of accomplishment when one comes out perfect. Is that ART?

You'll lose that friend trying to give advice, talk her out of seeing him, or even proving him a cheating liar.

Best just to let people make their own mistakes and live with them.

Thinks that make ya go hmmmm.

I've had a few emergecy surgeries. None scheduled.

I got a few bullets and some shrapnel taken from my left arm and chest, and some left behind in my left hip, left buttock (yeah!), and right thigh. I took 6 rounds and they left 3 in once and took one more round another time to my left shoulder that was left in.

Just the 4th of this month I had a heart attack and got 2 stents put into my Right Coronary Artery through my femoral artery in my right leg (groin) and again the 7th I had 2 more put in (Lower Anterior descending artery) . Same spot, different hole. A bit sore there.

Feeling GREAT. But actually, I never really felt bad for any of it.

haha I was just thinking about how much more I must weigh with all this copper, lead, steel and now cobalt-chromium in me. Still don't set off metal detectors though.

Oops. Oh yeah, Also I got a shard of metal shot into my eye and had to walk into the clinic where they proceeded to tell me to BE VERY STILL AND DON'T BLINK..and actually used a drill in my eyeball to gain access, then a syringe to get the shard, then a DEBURRING TOOL to clean out the hole. That was a trip. Just held still with my chin in a cup for that one. You WILL be still when they put a high speed drill into your eye. lol

Those are unit citations...but congrats to him also.

Keep em caged up until I need them. I like em up here,










not down here.

Mine are in my profile pics. My litte puppy was named Scrappy before I even got him. GOOD name though. He's an ambush predator. lol

You just won over like 99.5% of all men here. That IS code, right?

Siempre que consiga confuso, apenas cambio el tema a la termodinámica, a la extensión libre generalmente adibática y a los cambios en entropía de un gas perfecto. Esa manera, incluso si soy incorrecto, nadie lo sabe.

(And theres always the switching to another language ploy)



I am OUTTA here! Have a great night all. And hey Texas, you're a babe. GO OUT!

SEE?

Whenever I get confused, I just change the subject to thermodynamics , usually adiabatic free expansion and the changes in entropy of a perfect gas. That way, even if I'm wrong, nobody else knows it.