[OT] A Fairy Tale About Running Water and LiveCode...

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Tue Oct 11 15:01:07 EDT 2011


Ick!

On Oct 11, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I worked till late yesterday. I think it was about 2:00 AM or 2:30 AM when I
> slowly moved myself from my workstation to my bedroom. I coded for so long
> because I was trying to fix a bug in some software and things kept breaking
> until even my cat meowed at me compelling me to go to bed.
> 
> Rio de Janeiro summer rains are something that people from overseas are not
> familiar with. Rio can be 38C during the day and then, out of nowhere, lots
> and lots and lots of Rain will fall down. You can imagine something like the
> amount of water predicted for a month, falling from the sky in about one
> hour.
> 
> At about 4:00 AM, I woke up with mixed fellings, I didn't knew if it was all
> the thunder, rain and wind that woke me up or the fact that I woke up with
> the solution for the bug. It was there, clear on my mind, what I was doing
> wrong was dead simple. I decided to wake up and go back to the computer to
> fix the damn thing so that I could sleep. Heavy thunder and rain outside.
> When I reached my little office space, I found that even though all my
> windows were closed, water was pouring down my building. I am on the 18th
> floor with no other tall building between me and the bay, the wind is very
> strong. All the windows of my house were closed but water was coming down
> from them thru AC cuts and badly designed aluminum frames.
> 
> There was a small waterfall running on from the window to the cats litter
> box. There was water on the office almost near the computers. There was
> water on the floor of my bedroom but I switched from my japanese style bed
> to something so high that I almost need a stair to climb a month ago. Had I
> kept the japanese style bed, I would have felt the water earlier.
> 
> I was kept awake containing the water until about 8:30. Cleaning stuff. I
> forgot the bug solution. I remember I had it for a while. The floor is dry
> though.
> 
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