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May 15th, 2005, 06:49 PM
Bonker Gudd

MartinLiss

:afrog: BIRTHDAY :confused:
May 15th, 2005, 06:56 PM
szlamany

Re: MartinLiss

Time zone wise - tomorrow though - heh?

Happy Birthday Marty!
May 15th, 2005, 07:07 PM
Dillinger4

Re: MartinLiss

Happy BDay Marty. :wave: So what do you have planed?
May 15th, 2005, 07:09 PM
mar_zim

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happy birthday martinliss.
May 15th, 2005, 07:12 PM
mendhak

Re: MartinLiss

Isn't there a legal limit to the number of b'days you can have? :afrog: :D
May 15th, 2005, 07:13 PM
dglienna

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Happy Birthday Martin!
May 15th, 2005, 07:35 PM
Jacob Roman

Re: MartinLiss

Why don't you ban the same number of people as your age :bigyello:

That would make up for birthday spankings :sick:
May 15th, 2005, 07:46 PM
mar_zim

Re: MartinLiss

Quote:

Originally Posted by mendhak

Isn't there a legal limit to the number of b'days you can have? :afrog: :D

do you think he exceeded the legal limit? :D
May 16th, 2005, 12:02 AM
SLH

Re: MartinLiss

Probably not for the first time in your life.....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
May 16th, 2005, 01:50 AM
visualAd

Re: MartinLiss

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jacob Roman

Why don't you ban the same number of people as your age :bigyello:

That would make up for birthday spankings :sick:

Theres only 50,000 members :lol:

Happy Birthday Marty

http://www.monroehistoricsociety.org...amb%20cake.jpg
May 16th, 2005, 03:30 AM
BodwadUK

Re: MartinLiss

I didnt know Martin was welsh :afrog:
May 16th, 2005, 08:29 AM
MartinLiss

Re: MartinLiss

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dilenger4

Happy BDay Marty. :wave: So what do you have planed?

In celebration of my birthday and to prove to myself I'm still alive I run the San Francisco Bay to Breakers 12K race. This year was my 24th year in a row. The race is run every year on the 3rd Sunday in May and that works out to actually be my birthday every seven years (this year it was the 15th while my birthday is the 16th). Each year my wife and I drive into San Francisco, usually with a friend or two, and stay in a hotel for the weekend. They watch the race while I run. We also do some sightseeing and have a couple of nice meals.
May 16th, 2005, 08:30 AM
MartinLiss

Re: MartinLiss

Thank you all for the wishes and the cards :)
May 16th, 2005, 11:08 AM
thegreatone

Re: MartinLiss

Happy 64th mate :)

http://img201.echo.cx/img201/3206/birthday2xp.png
May 16th, 2005, 12:17 PM
RobDog888

Re: MartinLiss

Happy B-Day Martin. :thumb:
Its time to cut the cake visualAd posted. (is that a sheep or rabbit?)
May 16th, 2005, 02:30 PM
Shaggy Hiker

Re: MartinLiss

Wow, all that time.

Let's take a moment and reflect on all the changes Martin has seen in his years with programming. Look at all the complex instructions, and complicated languages that are around now. We have RISC, we have CISC, etc. Back in Marty's day, there was a REAL Reduced Instruction Set! Those abacuses (abaci?) only had ADD, INC, DEC, and SUB, though it was all very object oriented.

Then came the slide rule, and everything changed (actually, I remember using one of those myself).

Happy birthday. By the time you have worn your feet off, there will probably be some pretty good virtual road races you can run in.
May 16th, 2005, 02:48 PM
sciguyryan

Re: MartinLiss

Happy birthday, hope you enjoy it :)

Cheers,

RyanJ
May 16th, 2005, 03:24 PM
si_the_geek

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Happy Birthday Marty!!
May 16th, 2005, 04:37 PM
Jacob Roman

Re: MartinLiss

That was totally done on DirectX :bigyello:
May 16th, 2005, 04:44 PM
SLH

Re: MartinLiss

Or any program where he made pure black transparent.
May 16th, 2005, 04:50 PM
si_the_geek

Re: MartinLiss

:lol: definitely DirectX

(or maybe Photo Editor :blush: )
May 16th, 2005, 04:59 PM
MartinLiss

Re: MartinLiss
Quote:

Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

Wow, all that time.

Let's take a moment and reflect on all the changes Martin has seen in his years with programming. Look at all the complex instructions, and complicated languages that are around now. We have RISC, we have CISC, etc. Back in Marty's day, there was a REAL Reduced Instruction Set! Those abacuses (abaci?) only had ADD, INC, DEC, and SUB, though it was all very object oriented.

Then came the slide rule, and everything changed (actually, I remember using one of those myself).

Happy birthday. By the time you have worn your feet off, there will probably be some pretty good virtual road races you can run in.

When I started out programming consisted of
- Going to the punch room
- Typing the code line by line on Hollerith's cards
- Carefully placing them on their edges in a long, shallow, box
- Drawing a black line on them from the top left corner to the bottom right (in case you dropped them)
- Adding Job Control Language cards
- Taking the box to the computer room where another person fed the cards into the card reader
- Returning the next day to find out what your first error was
- Make corrections
- Submit again
- Find error
- Etc., etc., adnauseum.
May 16th, 2005, 07:12 PM
mendhak

Re: MartinLiss
Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinLiss

When I started out programming consisted of

Going to the punch room
Typing the code line by line on Hollerith's cards
Carefully placing them on their edges in a long, shallow, box
Drawing a black line on them from the top left corner to the bottom right (in case you dropped them)
Adding Job Control Language cards
Taking the box to the computer room where another person fed the cards into the card reader
Returning the next day to find out what your first error was
Make corrections
Submit again
Find error
Etc., etc., adnauseum.
At least you didn't need the .NET framework installed on your machines. :afrog:
May 16th, 2005, 07:20 PM
MartinLiss

Re: MartinLiss

Quote:

Originally Posted by mendhak

At least you didn't need the .NET framework installed on your machines. :afrog:

There were no "machines".
May 16th, 2005, 07:27 PM
debbie_82

Re: MartinLiss

Hapi Wee Day
May 16th, 2005, 08:59 PM
Shaggy Hiker

Re: MartinLiss
Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinLiss

When I started out programming consisted of

Going to the punch room
Typing the code line by line on Hollerith's cards
Carefully placing them on their edges in a long, shallow, box
Drawing a black line on them from the top left corner to the bottom right (in case you dropped them)
Adding Job Control Language cards
Taking the box to the computer room where another person fed the cards into the card reader
Returning the next day to find out what your first error was
Make corrections
Submit again
Find error
Etc., etc., adnauseum.
I have only heard rumors of that. Death by a thousand paper cuts! I don't think my father even had to suffer through that (though he's older than you, I think he was doing circuit board testing back then). I do remember the first calculator he got. It weighed several pounds, and had an LED display up to 10 digits. It was a thing of wonder, but I thought the slide rule was even more fascinating.
May 17th, 2005, 02:31 AM
BodwadUK

Re: MartinLiss

I thought you knew the guy who invented the Abacus? :afrog:

What presents did you get? :)
May 17th, 2005, 09:07 AM
MartinLiss

Re: MartinLiss

Quote:

Originally Posted by BodwadUK

I thought you knew the guy who invented the Abacus? :afrog:

What presents did you get? :)

Gift certificate, a multiple-picture frame (for pictures of my grandson), Cookbook, chocolate and I can't tell you the rest :blush:
May 17th, 2005, 09:56 AM
BodwadUK

Re: MartinLiss

OOOOH I bet you can but the fact is I dont want to know :afrog:
May 17th, 2005, 10:58 AM
mendhak

Re: MartinLiss

Quote:

Originally Posted by MartinLiss

Gift certificate, a multiple-picture frame (for pictures of my grandson), Cookbook, chocolate and I can't tell you the rest :blush:

Be glad the days of "getting-a-tie-on-every-occasion" are over. :afrog:
May 17th, 2005, 11:22 AM
szlamany

Re: MartinLiss

Quote:

Originally Posted by mendhak

Be glad the days of "getting-a-tie-on-every-occasion" are over. :afrog:

He didn't say he didn't get a tie - he didn't tell us what they did with the tie :p
May 17th, 2005, 11:28 AM
mendhak

Re: MartinLiss

Sometimes having a wild imagination can be a bad thing...
May 18th, 2005, 02:39 AM
BodwadUK

Re: MartinLiss

I wonder if he received the whip we sent him :afrog:
May 18th, 2005, 09:33 AM
MartinLiss

Re: MartinLiss

Quote:

Originally Posted by BodwadUK

I wonder if he received the whip we sent him :afrog:

Yes I did and I love licorice. Thanks!
May 18th, 2005, 09:42 AM
BodwadUK

Re: MartinLiss

I think I will send my gym shoes next time and see how tough your stomach really is :afrog:
May 18th, 2005, 09:46 AM
MartinLiss

Re: MartinLiss

Quote:

Originally Posted by BodwadUK

I think I will send my gym shoes next time and see how tough your stomach really is :afrog:

Oh, sorry. I guess you didn't get the reference.
May 18th, 2005, 09:53 AM
wossname

Re: MartinLiss

Quote:

Originally Posted by MartinLiss

I can't tell you the rest :blush:

Hope you got some batteries too ;)
May 19th, 2005, 05:24 AM
BodwadUK

Re: MartinLiss

I was trying to indicate laces :afrog: