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[ny biker]

From a meeting at work yesterday:

Me: to fix this error we need to add single quotation marks around the variable name in the query.

Manager: So we need to add a semi-colon.

Sigh.

P.s. Congrats to Sheila!!

[katluvr]

NY Biker,
Not sure if this is similar to your punctuation (or in your case "coding"?) confusion. But a doctor friend of mine was taking a history of a patient and also asked for the spelling of the child's name. I don't remember the name but when she spell it it out she said: L-A -"top common"-K-e- etc…. Instead of staying apostrophe, it's "top comma"

Always makes me giggle now when I see a name like that.

[ny biker]

NY Biker,
Not sure if this is similar to your punctuation (or in your case "coding"?) confusion. But a doctor friend of mine was taking a history of a patient and also asked for the spelling of the child's name. I don't remember the name but when she spell it it out she said: L-A -"top common"-K-e- etc…. Instead of staying apostrophe, it's "top comma"

Always makes me giggle now when I see a name like that.

I like "top comma" -- it sounds like common sense to me, and is easier to spell and pronounce than "apostrophe."

I really can't figure out if people here don't understand what I am saying or if they are just not listening (or bothering to read my emails.) It happens pretty often. If I say "this actually has nothing to do with apples, the problem happens when we try to peel an orange" the response I get is "so I should test apples?"

[lph]

I like "top comma" -- it sounds like common sense to me, and is easier to spell and pronounce than "apostrophe."

I really can't figure out if people here don't understand what I am saying or if they are just not listening (or bothering to read my emails.) It happens pretty often. If I say "this actually has nothing to do with apples, the problem happens when we try to peel an orange" the response I get is "so I should test apples?"

This happens to me all the time. And to my dh too. It never ceases to amaze us how many people who cannot absorb information given in writing. Or who consider written information sort of a vague guideline, something that needs to be confirmed in person. I have coworkers who will ask me something by email, I'll answer concisely and to the point, and THEN they'll come over to me to hem and ha until I repeat the answer in person.

I'm getting a little better at giving that information in the first place. By, for instance, by capitalizing the most important phrase in an email, or by repeating essential info. But in conversation I think very many people only listen for a split second, then answer to what they THINK you're talking about, rather than what you're actually talking about. And a lot of the time they're thinking more about what to answer next than actually listening.

If they seem to be thinking a lot about apples, it takes a moment to really park the apples and get on to oranges :-)

[OakLeaf]

What happened in Charleston is beyond words. But I don't want to convey the impression that it's not on anyone's mind. How I envy those who are still capable of rage and hope; I am reduced to grief.

[salsabike]

Oak, I have all three of those.

[Crankin]

I had the most amazing visit with my best friend from my teen years, who was in town. We met for breakfast Saturday morning, then she came to my house to meet DH. On Sunday, we went to a celebration of life luncheon for my HS boyfriend, along with our other good friend, who I do see every so often.
Her life has been good, but hard. When I met her, at the beginning of 7th grade, her dad had just died and her mom moved the family to our town, from the inner city. I never realized how much she was affected by having a working, single mother, in the 60s. I mean, no one was even divorced or moved when I was a kid. It turns out, it was probably a blessing her dad died of cancer at age 35, because he had the Huntington's Chorea gene. Both of her siblings have the disease and she was here to visit them. One is on life support and her husband is insisting on this. Her brother lives in a state hospital and is doing well. I can't imagine this. She ended up marrying her high school bf and having 2 kids after they moved to Richmond, and then they divorced. She had some rough years as a single mom, but has a very good career as a federal defender paralegal, and is now remarried.
The weirdest thing is that we speak and sound exactly the same! We even swear the same way. There were several points in our conversations, where we said the exact same thing. I was able to talk about things I haven't discussed in years.
At the end of the luncheon, the 3 of us stayed and talked with 3 other women who were there. We talked about all of the crazy sh!t we did as kids, despite the fact we weren't really bad kids. One of the other women was astounded when she heard me describe some of this stuff... she thought I was a perfect angel. I haven't laughed so hard in a long, long time.