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/ ____/___ _____/ /___ ______ ___
/ /_ / __ \/ ___/ __/ / / / __ \/ _ \
/ __/ / /_/ / / / /_/ /_/ / / / / __/
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Plumbing is one of the easier of do-it-yourself activities,
requiring only a few simple tools and a willingness to stick your arm
into a clogged toilet. In fact, you can solve many home plumbing
problems, such as annoying faucet drip, merely by turning up the
radio. But before we get into specific techniques, let's look at how
plumbing works.
A plumbing system is very much like your electrical system,
except that instead of electricity, it has water, and instead of wires,
it has pipes, and instead of radios and waffle irons, it has faucets
and toilets. So the truth is that your plumbing systems is nothing at
all like your electrical system, which is good, because electricity can
kill you.
-- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw"
Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College:
Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students,
and parking for the faculty.
With trembling hands he unfurled the ancient cracked parchment,
this was the place, it had to be. Uncertainly he began to mumble the
chant "rdbms, sql, third normal formal form, java, table, scalable".
Something moved... From outside they heard a scream and a thud.
The sales department had awoken.
After all, what is your hosts' purpose in having a party? Surely not
for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have
simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
-- P. J. O'Rourke
If mathematically you end up with the wrong answer, try multiplying by
the page number.
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an
opinion.
-- Anatole France
Real programmers don't draw flowcharts. Flowcharts are, after all, the
illiterate's form of documentation. Cavemen drew flowcharts; look how
much good it did them.
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
