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By sven (Mon May 17, 2004 at 05:44:54 PM EST) (all tags)
On our whiteboard at work we have a collection of "world records" related to the people in the team.
  • Earliest Jolt Cola: 5:35am
  • Longest time a file has been checked out: 8 months 2 days
  • Most teapots in a single refresh: 3
  • Longest variable name: 57 characters
  • Oldest undetected bug: 2 years 5 months 13 days
  • Most chicken schnitters in one week: 3
  • Funniest spam name: Amos Proctor
Inside: More photos, aviation news, broken trains

Explanation of some world records

The teapots one refers to the windows pipes screensaver where some of the joints are occasionally replaced with teapots. A chicken schnitter is a chicken, bacon and cheese schnitzel with salad, in a roll. I've never had one but I hear they're quite good. The funniest spam name refers to the sender of the spam. Alva Cummings is another good one.

More photos

I've uploaded all the photos of France from our holiday, and reorganised the gallery into sub-albums for each country. My favourite French photo is a monkey gargoyle on Notre Dame Cathedral. I haven't uploaded the rest of Britain and Ireland yet because I accidentally deleted them. Now I have to scan them again. Bah. I'll start doing that this evening.

As I go through these photos I continue to be amazed at how much better my SLR camera is than others. There are lots of examples of my fiancée's Canon Elph focusing on the wrong area, and where her photos are significantly less clear than mine. Catacombs for example (SLR, Canon Elph). I like my SLR camera a lot. I'm not surprised that it's better, but I am surprised at the extent of the difference.

More aviation news

On Friday Virgin Blue launched a $48 for 48 hours sale offering many routes for $48, including Perth-Adelaide, Perth-Melbourne, Perth-Sydney, and Perth-Gold Coast. Sadly the seats were very limited, and the news spread rapidly resulting in the website being completely overloaded. I looked for Perth-Melbourne and Perth-Adelaide but couldn't find flights on the dates we were after. My fiancée's parents found some Gold Coast flights, but the website was so overloaded it kept timing out on the payment screen. Qantas didn't come close to matching these crazy fares. There was $114 Perth-Adelaide, and $159 Perth-Melbourne (down from $215ish).

There are rumours going around that Qantas is about to place an order for some Airbus A340s, which they may use to start direct Perth-London services. Of course it's just a rumour, and Airliners.net is certainly not overly concerned with accuracy, but it's an interesting proposition.

Train

The train I was on this morning broke down. I've never seen them do that before. There were some very annoying girls sitting right near me, though they became about twice as annoying when the train stopped. They were about 16 and were on their way to TAFE. One of them decided that we would be stuck on the train forever, was afraid she would get claustrophobic, and was also scared that another train would crash into us. I don't think she was joking either, I think she was just incredibly stupid. She was very happy when the train moved. I was very happy because she finally shut up.

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Chicken Schnitter by creo (6.00 / 1) #1 Mon May 17, 2004 at 06:20:07 PM EST
Do you work in East Perth around Adelaide Terrace? I used to go to a lunch bar at the back of bankwest named Tonys (or Eastside) on Hay Street and live off exactly what you have described.

I laugh at your puny world record. Mine is 6 - one day I was feeling particularly hungry and knew I would be working late so I bought 2. I had 1 on each of the other days of the week.

Hmmm Per-Lhr direct - I don't know about that. OK if you are in business, but I look forward to Singapore so I can stretch my legs after being cooped up in cattle class. Of course if the plane is faster and cuts the travel time by 3 or 4 hours then I'm all for it. I've got that damned trip to look forward to in 4 weeks time :-( (plus the added bonus of the Helsinki leg to add 3 hours on). I hate it.

Re train. That's unusual from what I remember. The only time I have heard of train problems is when they get jumpers. My Mum had to be transferred off a train she was on because of a jumper - they had buses turn up, and when she got off they could see the persons legs sticking out from under the carriage. Inconsiderate bastard.

On that note time to get back to code.

Cheers
Creo.

"I shall do what I believe to be right and honourable" - Guderian


Schnitters and long flights by sven (3.00 / 0) #2 Mon May 17, 2004 at 07:09:32 PM EST
Do you work in East Perth around Adelaide Terrace?

No, I work on Stirling Highway near UWA. The source of our schnitters is Mothers on Broadway (if you know of Mothers you'll know that the schnitter-eaters are risking food poisoning every day).

I laugh at your puny world record.

You are indeed the schnitter king, though one of my workmates challenges you to a schnitter eating competition. He claims that he could eat six in a single day.

Hmmm Per-Lhr direct - I don't know about that. OK if you are in business, but I look forward to Singapore so I can stretch my legs after being cooped up in cattle class.

I know exactly what you mean. The direct flight would supposedly be about 18 hours, similar to the new direct flights from Singapore to New York, so there must be some people who will endure it.

Perhaps the flights don't connect, but isn't it possible for you to avoid backtracking through LHR by flying Finnair to Singapore?

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harshbutfair // you know it makes sense
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Direct Flights by creo (6.00 / 1) #3 Mon May 17, 2004 at 08:22:49 PM EST
Both Finnair and Qantas (codeshare via Finnair) run Hel -> Sin but the problem for me was that due to the fun with my residency permit I did not know if i was staying past April.

I got a really good price for us from LHR -> PER return (I think GBP1840 for the 4 of us return), so I hedged and got those, just in case we got flicked. In the end we didn't, but we can't change our London tickets unfortunately. We still don't know if the Finns will let us back in once we leave - the joys of being in Europe on a non Euro passport. We wont actually know until a couple of days before we leave - it's going to be a major problem if they knock us back as we have a ton of stuff here at the moment.

I don't know Mothers - the only time I go on that side of town was in my younger years going to UEC parties at UWA. I do vaguely remember the occaisional trip to Steves and of course the Brewery Alehouse - don't know if those 2 are still going.

6 schnitters in a day - that's pretty tough, but if you do 2 for each meal it's doable, these days I would be struggling I think.

Cheers
Creo.

"I shall do what I believe to be right and honourable" - Guderian
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Photos, Luna Park and Trains by cam (6.00 / 1) #4 Mon May 17, 2004 at 11:17:57 PM EST
reorganised the gallery into sub-albums for each country.

I couldnt find the photos of France? I looked through some of your older galleries too, noticed one of old Luna Park in Melbourne. When my wife saw it for the first time she couldnt stop laughing. It is an evilly retarded looking Luna Park entrance, the Sydney is a clown type scary, but the Melbourne one looks flat out evil.

The train I was on this morning broke down. I've never seen them do that before.

WA's public transport system is more efficient and better than the NSW one then. Broken down trains was common on the Sydney rails. The Tangara's were the worst when they came out in 1989. I used to avoid them as they added 45 mins to your trip by breaking down at inconvenient and out of the way train stations. I wasnt alone in avoiding them.

Rational intelligence needs to be grown into, for some bizarre reason there tends to be a regression for a period around the mid-teen years.

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic


Ugh, found the French photos by cam (5.00 / 1) #5 Mon May 17, 2004 at 11:18:41 PM EST
Found them immediately after posting the parent comment.

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic
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Oops by sven (6.00 / 1) #9 Tue May 18, 2004 at 12:35:37 AM EST
My fault, I linked to the wrong page.

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harshbutfair // you know it makes sense
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Public transport by sven (6.00 / 1) #8 Tue May 18, 2004 at 12:27:01 AM EST
WA's public transport system is more efficient and better than the NSW one then.

More reliable perhaps, but better or more efficient is hard to believe. Whenever we travel overseas or interstate, we're nearly always impressed by other cities' public transport systems. But it may be because as tourists we tend to stay close to the city centre. I guess the main problem is that Perth's population is very spread-out, which must make it difficult to build an efficient train system.

The Tangara's were the worst when they came out in 1989.

It seems the Millennium trains far surpassed the Tangaras in that department. I've never been on one, but I hear they're very bad.

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harshbutfair // you know it makes sense
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... by Anonymous (6.00 / 1) #6 Mon May 17, 2004 at 11:59:21 PM EST
 



Brilliant! [nt] by sven (3.00 / 0) #7 Tue May 18, 2004 at 12:13:07 AM EST


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harshbutfair // you know it makes sense
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Most error messages from a single typo: 753 by ana (6.00 / 1) #10 Tue May 18, 2004 at 02:30:59 AM EST
In the old days of Fortran code, I would declare all my arrays at the top in one long, multiply-continued statement. Then one day I accidently mispelled DIMENSION.

Every reference to an array anywhere generated a compiler error message, or sometimes two, depending on the context, as it's possible to declare "statement functions" in Fortran thus:

CSC(X) = 1.0 / SIN(X)
But you have to do all those before any executable statement. So a good many array references violated this rule also.

K5: Because that dead horse ain't gonna beat itself --Armaphine


Schnitter by Sesh (5.00 / 1) #11 Wed May 19, 2004 at 12:59:07 PM EST
Didn't we have those (albeit of our own machiavellian design) when we were doing that Java course? I think we decided that those (with chips, gravy and salad) were the best use of our free lunch vouchers.

It's good to see they have a name.



Schnitter by sven (3.00 / 0) #12 Wed May 19, 2004 at 05:19:54 PM EST
We did indeed - I think that's where our love of schnitters may have originated. MP is the one who told us about the "schnitter" name. Apparently it's an Adelaide thing.

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harshbutfair // you know it makes sense
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