The Swamp

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:14 pm Hard to ignore the obvious implication here.

I feel nauseous just thinking about it.

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:37 pm Quick question: I'm working on a user interface, and one of the items is showing that a bottle has enough fluid in it to run a selected procedure. What's a word to describe that? All I can come up with is 'Valid', but it doesn't seem right. Any others?

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:46 pm Not sure you even need "sufficient" in there since the "OK" validates it.

brian wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:48 pm

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:46 pm Not sure you even need "sufficient" in there since the "OK" validates it.

Otherwise "Volume" would appear in two different columns though.

bfj wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 9:44 am They were named already before being adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Steve Mario.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 12:57 pm Just back from a funeral - 90 year old father of a good friend - and the Priest kept singing prayers in English.

It occurred to me that when you actually know the words that are being sung/prayed, they really are redundant and banal. They really should be in Latin or something more mysterious.

Same thing goes or Jewish prayers - when you really don;t know what is being said, there's a grandeur and a mystery to them. When it's done in English you get the feeling that everything that needs to be said could be said in ten minutes.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 2:53 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 12:57 pm Just back from a funeral - 90 year old father of a good friend - and the Priest kept singing prayers in English.

It occurred to me that when you actually know the words that are being sung/prayed, they really are redundant and banal. They really should be in Latin or something more mysterious.

Same thing goes or Jewish prayers - when you really don;t know what is being said, there's a grandeur and a mystery to them. When it's done in English you get the feeling that everything that needs to be said could be said in ten minutes.

Could not agree more. And a great statement on organized religion, it's much more powerful when it's shrouded in mystery. When you learn the reason for some of the traditions, it loses it's enchantment. Or it's downright disappointing. I remember reading The Jewish Book of Why, and so many symbolic acts are based on Middle Aged superstitions. As a kid, I was traumatized by shoveling dirt and rocks on my grandmothers grave. Years later, reading that it started as a superstition to prevent the deceased's ghost from haunting you, I was angry. My father later explained that we do it as a sign of respect, because you don't want some random cemetery employee covering the grave, and I am down with that, and always make sure to keep shoveling until the coffin is covered. Whether it's the real reason for the act or not, that gave it meaning to me, and it always means a lot to me.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 5:51 pm

Never knew about that ghost thing. Friend at the visitation last night told me that when she was a kid, she was at an open casket wake and her grandfather grabbed her hand and made her touch the deceased so that the dead person;s spirit wouldn't visit her in the future. 40 years later and she still shudders when talking about it.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 3:06 pm A lot of the rituals around sitting Shiva are batshit. I've never actually sat Shiva, but went to my great Aunt's apartment while she sat Shiva after the same grandmother's funeral. According to the book, you are supposed to pour water over the threshold of the house or apartment to prevent the ghost from haunting. Apparently ghosts can't pass through a doorway if there is a puddle.

ETA: I've only been to two open casket wakes, and I didn't get up to look at either corpse. Both were fathers of friends, and I never met the guys, so it felt weird to go up. I think I would have if it was someone I knew, but the idea of an open casket is weird to me.

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 10:38 am Being told to push the pause button on the current work project and knowing the decision on whether or not it will completely go away has led to a pleasantly surprising mental refreshment day.

I don't think I can be lucky enough that the plug will get pulled.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 3:33 pm

The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 3:06 pm A lot of the rituals around sitting Shiva are batshit. I've never actually sat Shiva, but went to my great Aunt's apartment while she sat Shiva after the same grandmother's funeral. According to the book, you are supposed to pour water over the threshold of the house or apartment to prevent the ghost from haunting. Apparently ghosts can't pass through a doorway if there is a puddle.

ETA: I've only been to two open casket wakes, and I didn't get up to look at either corpse. Both were fathers of friends, and I never met the guys, so it felt weird to go up. I think I would have if it was someone I knew, but the idea of an open casket is weird to me.

Never seen that at a shiva - and I've been to a whole bunch, from secular (as odd as that sounds) to ultra orthodox.

The sitting uncomfortably is nuts. Don;t see it too often, but just punitive.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 3:06 pm the idea of an open casket is weird to me.

Sabo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 10:55 am

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 10:38 am Being told to push the pause button on the current work project and knowing the decision on whether or not it will completely go away has led to a pleasantly surprising mental refreshment day.

I don't think I can be lucky enough that the plug will get pulled.

I have some work stress I wouldn't mind offloading in case you want to help your tag team partner out.

brian wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 9:49 pm At what point do you start wondering if a guy with two teen girls at a hockey game is a father-daughter thing or a sex trafficking thing?

brian wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2020 1:00 am It was about a legitimate 33 percent real question.