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Connecting => Introductions => Topic started by: mint_bass on September 24, 2004, 02:18:52 AM

Title: Im back !!!!!!!!!
Post by: mint_bass on September 24, 2004, 02:18:52 AM

i have returned to the club after a break due to access problems i hope you are all well and look forward to talking to you soon
 
andrew

Title: Im back !!!!!!!!!
Post by: bracheen on September 26, 2004, 12:16:53 PM

Hi Andrew, welcome back. I'm glad you got your access problems straighted out. How's school going and the band?
 
Sam

Title: Im back !!!!!!!!!
Post by: mint_bass on September 30, 2004, 03:10:38 AM

the band is going well just now i have just started using a wah pedal which is harder than i first guessed especially when singing but i am at least getting the hang of multi tasking
 
 and i just started my third year at uni need to stick in this year as this is the last one hope all is well with you sam
 
andrew

Title: Im back !!!!!!!!!
Post by: mint_bass on September 30, 2004, 03:31:09 AM

im working on my bands website so that should contain some photos of my alembic for you to check out and i will finally put a picture on the website  
 
andrew

Title: Im back !!!!!!!!!
Post by: pookeymp on September 30, 2004, 08:20:25 AM

Welcome back Andrew and best of luck with school.
 
Mikey/
 
P.S.  Oh Yeah...we're waiting for some pictures.

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Post by: bob on September 30, 2004, 11:02:50 PM

Hey minty, nice to have you back.
 
No one else here writes quite the same way you do - total lack of punctuation, caps, even sentences  (though ultimately, they do seem to be complete). At first I found this a bit unsettling, but after a while, it grew on me - and I've missed it. :-)
 
Hang in there, only one more year.
-Bob

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Post by: mint_bass on October 11, 2004, 05:11:35 AM

thanks bob never really pay attention to sentence structure when i am on the internet as i have to all the time when working at university so it is just nice for once to not have to worry about capitals and sentences and the like. (oh thats a full stop)
 
there is one really poor quality photo of jazzmine my epic on the website but you can just about see her. www.childrenofthemint.s5.uk (http://www.childrenofthemint.s5.uk)
 
talk to you soon
andrew

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Post by: bob on October 11, 2004, 10:22:57 PM

Funny... I happen to be a programmer, and I've learned over the years that the more comments you write, the less code you need, and the better it is likely to be (now, and in the future).
 
I never use caps there, even when leaving notes - by name - to others working on the stuff. I do tend to be fairly particular about semi-colons, dashes, commas, and parens, for the sake of clarity - but can't ever decide whether a full stop is in order, at the end.
 
Sometimes you just have to get the thought down. That's what counts. And maybe that's why I have this somewhat curious affection for your writing style, even though it's not what I do here.
 
(can't seem to get to your photo right now)

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Post by: adriaan on October 12, 2004, 01:26:03 AM

Bob,
I wonder how many programmers we have in the club? And I agree that writing comments seems to cause a significant drop in the number of lines of code you write, however I'm a stickler for punctuation. Perhaps I do drop some full stops at the end because there's plenty of them in the code ...

Title: Im back !!!!!!!!!
Post by: pookeymp on October 12, 2004, 07:35:33 AM

I'm a bit of a stickler for grammar and punctuation in commenting code as well.  I even proof every post & email I send out...no matter how large or small.  I guess it's partly due to being a proofreader for an advertising agency for a number of years before getting into programming.
 
But yet, I do find that in these posts, as well as emails, I take the liberty of using ... in place of commas, semi colons and periods in many cases.  I just like the way it looks for some weird reason...and I figure I can get away with it.  Wouldn't do it in a letter, of course.
 
Mikey/

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Post by: adriaan on October 12, 2004, 08:22:50 AM

Hey Mikey, I'm a proofreader-turned-programmer too. So how many ... - nah, there can't be any more weirdos just like us, right?

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Post by: pookeymp on October 12, 2004, 09:38:19 AM

Hey Adriaan,
 
I can't imagine any more of us out there...could there be??!!!
 
Wow...look at that...both proofreaders-turned-programmers...both born in 1965...where does it end?
 
Mikey/

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Post by: adriaan on October 12, 2004, 03:28:28 PM

where does it end?
 
Yikes, can't you be a bit more positive-minded?

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Post by: pookeymp on October 13, 2004, 09:07:51 AM

No negativity intended...
 
where does it end translated:
what other similarities will we find?
 
MIkey/

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Post by: adriaan on October 13, 2004, 03:03:21 PM

Mikey, in case you didn't notice: you went from born to end in under two seconds. I think I was entitled to a little irony there.  
 
Now where did they put the irony key on them new-fangled keyboards?
 
(Message edited by adriaan on October 13, 2004)

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Post by: pookeymp on October 13, 2004, 09:03:21 PM

Aaahh!!!  I see your point...
 
I guess my statement could have been the inscription on a tombstone

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Post by: adriaan on October 13, 2004, 11:07:32 PM

LOL