On Tue, 12 May 2009 08:51:01 -0400, Kyle wrote:

> Chambers wrote:
>> Have you ever gotten up for work, showered, gotten dressed, and went
>> out to wait for the bus only to realize that it's 3:30 in the morning,
>> and you could go back to sleep for 3 more hours?
> 
> When I get up in the morning for work, it's dark outside.  One day, I
> woke up to see a bit of daylight, realized I was late, got a shower, got
> dressed, and then walked out the door to darkness.  WTF?!?  I had fallen
> asleep in the afternoon and had woken up just before dark, thinking it
> was morning.  GRRR!!!

I hate when that happens.  I do that on occasion.

Once (when I was teaching) I was flying home from Columbus, OH (via 
Cincinatti, OH) and I fell asleep before the plane took off and woke up 
after it had landed.  I don't remember the take-off or landing at all, 
just being in a moving airplane.

When I woke up, I had no idea where I was (other than "on a plane").

Jim

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> I have a friend from years ago who used to keep a dream journal.  He 
> remembers distinctly waking up one night and writing about the dream in 
> the journal, but when he woke up the next morning, the pages were blank.  
> He'd apparently had a dream in the dream, dreamed that he had woken up 
> and written his entry and then gone back to sleep.
> 
> He said it was quite a pity, because he remembered the dream-in-a-dream 
> was good but not what it was.

I love it!

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009 21:21:20 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
>>> Wait, what? Auditors? Harm you? Paranoid much?
>> Well, it *is* their job to prove that I'm doing my job wrong
> 
> Well, no, not really.  It's their job to prove your company is following 
> the laws that they're required to and to document areas where compliance 
> isn't being met.

In practice, auditors that don't find violations are like cops who don't 
give out any tickets because people are all obeying the law. The auditor's 
job may be to show your company is following the rules, but their 
performance is judged on how many rulebreakers they find. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> That's one of the things that always got me in those classes - I'd also 
> often get done so early I wondered what I'd missed.

I often worried about it, but in this particular class, I was the only one 
who handed in the first homework on time, with about 80% of the class 
admitting they hadn't even started, so I wasn't too concerned that it was 
too easy.

That was the one where I'd gotten f'ing sick of all the tedium of 
programming, and put off the first 4-week homework assignment until about 5 
hours before the class started.  Led to surprisingly modular code. ;-)

There have also been times in (say) math classes where I just completely 
skip a question, and the prof doesn't count it off, because it's not there 
at all to grade. I try to correct such problems, but only once. If the prof 
insists he counted right, I'll only point out the problem the first time. :-)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> I have a friend from years ago who used to keep a dream journal.  He
> remembers distinctly waking up one night and writing about the dream in
> the journal, but when he woke up the next morning, the pages were blank.
> He'd apparently had a dream in the dream, dreamed that he had woken up
> and written his entry and then gone back to sleep.

http://bash.org/?451603

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I have a friend from years ago who used to keep a dream journal.  He
>> remembers distinctly waking up one night and writing about the dream in
>> the journal, but when he woke up the next morning, the pages were blank.
>> He'd apparently had a dream in the dream, dreamed that he had woken up
>> and written his entry and then gone back to sleep.
> 
> http://bash.org/?451603

IT'S NOT JUST ME! :-D

(I was about to post this exact quote...)

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009 13:56:07 -0500, Mike Raiford wrote:
> 
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Flying is pretty common for me.
>>>
>>>
>> I've had several dreams where I'm attempting to land a 747 on a highway.
>>    Usually I'm successful, then wind up taxiing the plane all around
>> town, being careful not to snag any telephone poles.
> 
> Mine tend to be without the aid of aircraft.  Just floating/flying, 
> seeing my neighborhood from a bird's-eye-view.
> 
>> NOTE: I have no clue how to fly a jet like that. If I'm ever at the
>> controls of such a beast .... :/
> 
> Get on the radio and call the nearest tower (hopefully the frequency set 
> correctly) and ask for the vectors to an airport with an instrument 
> landing system.  Ask for the frequency of the ILS on the active runway 
> and the tower frequency (so you can notify the tower you need to make an 
> emergency landing).  Ask the tower for a precision radar approach to the 
> ILS.
> 
> Use the autopilot heavily to adjust altitude, heading, and airspeed.  Set 
> the NAV1 radio to the ILS frequency and set the autopilot to use the NAV1.
> 
> Set the autopilot also to follow the glidescope.
> 
> And make damned sure the altimeter setting is correct.  You don't want to 
> hit the ground until the right moment.
> 
> Oh, and put the landing gear down.  That helps.

*Jots this down* I'll keep that in mind, should I ever need to act out 
the heroic efforts of poorly acted action at 35,000 feet film. ;)

> (Can you tell I spend too much time flying simulators?  And in particular 
> 747s?)
> 
> Jim

Heh. I have FSX. I've played around with the Airbus A380 (I think?) Love 
it when I approach the airport and start getting "Sink Rate" and "Pull 
Up" messages. :D Though, I can land properly in FS, but basically in 
free-flight, I've never tried to use the NAV equipment or talk to the 
tower...



-- 
~Mike

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Kevin Wampler wrote:

> Also fun: recursive dreams (but these are pretty rare for me).

Ugh on the recursive dreams. Those usually end in a somewhat terrifying 
sleep paralysis episode for me ...



-- 
~Mike

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> http://bash.org/?451603

I would like to use this opportunity to mention how much I positively 
HATE web filtering software. iPrism seems to think that this site is 
adult content.
-- 
~Mike

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Darren New wrote:

> Any good packages (better than Blender, say) for modeling such a thing 
> and building a 3D walkthru?  I tried it with a custom front-end to POV, 
> but the need to do bounding made it really tedious. Maybe I'll redo it 
> without using real lighting and it'll render at more than 
> pixels-per-hour without excessive work.

I want to play with skecth-up one of these days... supposed to be easy 
to work with, but I don't know how well it will do with interiors.

-- 
~Mike

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