Chaos Manager

Reply to Would You Talk to Your Spouse This Way? in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

My wife and I fight on occasion. It's more of a loud verbal disagreement on how the children should be disciplined and is not done in front of the kids. My wife (rightly) calls me an asshole (see *points at card in hand* I 'm a card carrying member of UAA (United Assholes of America)) and she (rightly at times) refers to herself as a bitch. More due to behavior at the time than anything else. I don't think I've called her that myself, though. I've

Reply to A Week From Now... in Politics JoeUser Forums

What will I remember? The fact that Bush has some decent speechwriters on staff. I can appreciate his speechwriters efforts. I never have like the way he delivers them. Sometimes (like when he was reading the section of the Marine's letter to his family) his emotions, devotion and humanity come out. Othertimes, it feels like he's a bumbling his way through Freshman Speech at the county high school. Come to think of it ... some of the speechs by the freshman in Speech class are

Reply to Better Way in Politics JoeUser Forums

That's about all we can hope for Khaine over the next 4 years - that he doesn't screw it up too bad. Although, starting with proposing a tax increase after being in office less than a week? That's just plain screwed up. Especially when there's a major surplus in effect.

Reply to The State of the Union 2006 in Politics JoeUser Forums

Remember Mary Sue Terry? Thanks, Doc. I had almost managed to forget. *shudder* You had to go and remind me.

Reply to Why not do a story on this mans injuries and recovery? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

How about all these people that feel the same way that I do , maybe just not as strongly - Link_1093777.php/Some_US_troops_question_Woodruff_coverage Link_2125109.shtml The problem is JU's conversion of HTTP entries as links ... it doesn't parse them very well. It ends the link early. If yo

Reply to The State of the Union 2006 in Politics JoeUser Forums

What's his claim to fame? He's been an almost non-entity as the commonwealth's Lt. Governer for the last 4 years. Until he through his hat in the ring for governer last year, I bet most Virginian's had completely forgotten about him (I know I had. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/JU/smiles/Tongue.gif" b

Reply to Better Way in Politics JoeUser Forums

The good thing I can say - I didn't vote for him. So, does that make me a not-bumbling idiot ('cause I'm actually a VA resident ... that qualifies me for idiot automatically)? Tim Khaine is best described as Mark Warner II - so y'all can see what you need to look forward to in 2 years. Mark Warner has not been very secretive about his desires to run for the Democratic nomination in 2008.

Reply to Home From The Road in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Glad to see that everythings working out. It's always nice when you realize that you're finally back where you got derailed and can continure on with your life. Good luck!

Reply to Wife Aggro in Gaming JoeUser Forums

My wife very understanding because she's used to me allowing her to watch shows (and movies) that I absolutely have no interest in watching. As long as I come out of my cave every now and then (and that'll be easier since we moved and the computer is in the living room), she doesn't mind. Of course, I don't neglect family time, or wife time, and I still manage to take care of everything that's needed around the house, so she's very understa

Reply to Who does this sound like? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Hehe. I about laughed when I heard this particular quote on the radio during my drive into work. al-Zawari(sp?) can be such a comedian at times. I mean, this is the guy who's people beheaded a man, filmed it, and then got it played on global TV? And he's calling Bush a butcher? Pot, meet Kettle.

Reply to Count your blessings in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Thanks doc. I was reminded again this past weekend how nice they are. We moved from Petersburg to Hampton (job moved) so they got put to work. Those that could help, helped. The others ... encouraged. My daugther, bless her heart, was little miss encouragement all weekend. Everytime we turned around, she was poking her head out one door or another and saying "Y'all are doing such a good job." <img src="../images/smiles/smile.gif" borde

Reply to Cat's are Weird! in Pets & Nature JoeUser Forums

That would be hardest part of having to give up a pet, is not knowing what happens to them. At least you know she is being loved and taken care of. We just ran into this. Recently moved (just this past weekend, as a matter of fact - still sore). Our new apartment doesn't allow pets, so we had to give our s

Reply to I never really thought about them.... in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Hmmm... I've always been accused of being a bit of a square, so I'd have to go with the pro-rectangle crowd ... Seeing as a square is just an equal-minded rectangle...

Reply to The gag will come off. in Misc JoeUser Forums

Oh, I believe that Dharma's said that Dave is an E6 - mid-range NCO (Non-commissioned officer) - not a peon, but not quite senior management type yet. Still, a very good accomplishment. 'Specially considering what I've heard about the promotion opportunites in that particular field.

Reply to The gag will come off. in Misc JoeUser Forums

Senior enlisted - the kind of guys that have been in service for 20+ years (at least). The Army calls them Command Sergeant Majors (CSM) or Sergeants Major (SGM). Usually, the most experienced non-officer available in the unit. Oh, the enlisted folks are broken down into grades E1 - E9. E9 are the senior guys and E1's are the lowly peons that haven't even got rank insignia to put on their sleeves. Usually the guys in Basic Training fall in

Reply to Seeking help with Interactive Forms in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

The simplest way (at least for the enduser) is to use HTML forms that provide input boxes or dropdowns (like for months/days/years in dates, etc). These can then be validated (using what ever validation you require/desire) then either emailed to a point-of-contact or directly added to a database. For a decent web developer/html writer the creation of the forms, validation, and emailing them is straight forward. Putting them into a database

Count your blessings in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Every year, I get reminded of how blessed I am to have four very happy, healthy children. Even my autistic son is the picture of health. Each year, country stations around the nation participate in the Country Cares Radio-thon to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. They spend two days broadcasting in a fund raising effort for the wonder

Reply to Outside the Context... in Humor JoeUser Forums

"In the early days of Windows computing, an application ran on a desktop, in splendid isolation."

Reply to Update on Recording in Misc JoeUser Forums

Gratso, Maso! Sounds like things are just moving right along. Glad to see that you're enjoying yourself, even with the hard work involved.

Reply to Radio listener question - how long before repeats? in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

The length of the list varies from station to station. There's one in Richmond, VA that plays the same 10 songs or so ... over and over and over and over ... you can conceivable hear the same song twice within the same hour. Others, you might hear a song twice in the same day, but it's not likely. Others, like the station I listen to in Hampton, VA plays more request shows dur

Reply to Is it a question of Character?? in Misc JoeUser Forums

I guess the question comes down to whether you consider it a purely selfish act or if you feel justified in doing. With a cow or a chicken, I don't see it as a selfish act because it goes (directly) to nourishing my family. With a butterfly ... I would tend to lean towards it being a purely selfish act. The money doesn't DIRECTLY nourish or otherwise aid my family. Not saying that it can't be USED that way, but the beef doesn't have much choice but

Reply to U S Economy NOT Improving for the American Family in Politics JoeUser Forums

See, COL - no one says that air conditioning is a NECESSITY for life. It is a luxury. A very NICE luxury, but a luxury, nonetheless. Granted the life that I've described is closer to subsistence than anything else, but it's definitely a living. Living is a state of mind. I've met wealthy people that I would not consider as living - they don't enjoy life at all and everything is a burden to them. I've met middle and low income folks that a

Reply to Bryce, Blender, Vue, Terragen, etc. ??? in Customization Software JoeUser Forums

There's a book available called Real World Bryce 4 by Susan Kitchens. A VERY detailed book but works wonders. I've used it with Bryce 4 and Bryce 5.5. One of the BEST that I've seen (and I've seen several on Bryce). The material on Bryce 4 will carry over to Bryce 5.5 very well (most of that didn't change). The new material added in Bryce 5 (Tree lab and metaballs) aren't covered, but they're pretty well a) self-explanatory, b) semi-well co

Reply to U S Economy NOT Improving for the American Family in Politics JoeUser Forums

COL - $100 for food is very easy to do. One person - Raman noodles - 10/$1.00 - canned veggies - 3/$1.00. Bag of rice - Doing food for one for a month doesn't mean eating out every single meal. It means being frugal and eating what one can afford. And COL - basing the entire country on the bloated standard of living that Florida has - is fallacious. Also, in a

Reply to U S Economy NOT Improving for the American Family in Politics JoeUser Forums

For the 15 million (5% of the work force) You know something Col? That 5% of the work force that you spout about, and has been pointed out repeatedly, includes folks that CHOOSE not to work. Would you believe that folks like my wife (and Gideon's) and Texas Wahine and my mother-in-law (Pastor's wife) and