Phiniac Rugged Pyrex Tank Riddle Contest

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Not at all, I find this conversation very interesting! My entire career has been "self teaching" LOL. There has been an occasion or two a little bit of guidance would have helped, but for the most part I just fiddle around until I get it right. Thats why I don't charge my customers by the hour because some times it takes longer to get it right. The computer programming has come in handy on a rare occasion when working with website and eCommerce, but some how I have stepped pretty far from my area of education. I originally went to school and graduated in 92' with a degree in Political Science and History. But a few years later when I realized there is nothing I wanted to do with those degrees I went back to school for computer programming. I graduated in December of 97' and gave birth to my daughter later that evening. I wanted to be a stay home mom and the internet was just getting popular so it seemed like a good way to work from the house! And besides, there were so few websites back then no one knew the difference between a good one and a bad one (most were pretty bad) I did not intend to do it for this long, but my business grew and I seemed to have a knack for design, so much so that customers started asking me to do print work as well! I've been doing it long enough that I am now comfortable doing doing it, but in the beginning it was rocky. Especially with the print work when people would throw terms like DPI and bleeds and CMYK and safe areas!

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I come from a print background--I can imagine it's a lot easier to drop/ignore all the stuff you need to get a physical print to turn out correctly than it is to try and pick up on what seems extraneous crap when you're used to WYSIWYG. What's funny to me is that my print background started out before computers--when I got out of it there was one "desktop publishing" program, and while it cost $1500 and required an 8088 to run (meaning people had to buy a new computer because the 8086 couldn't handle it, really) it didn't even come close to a Compugraphic typesetting machine. Ten years later, when I managed to get a computer of my own and start playing around, I laughed my a.. off seeing word processing programs that could only drive dot-matrix printers using pica as a measurement, and seeing graphic programs offering CMYK as a "colour profile."

I had a bunch of stuff typed out but it was crap. What wasn't pedantic was self-serving or seemed condescending. It's a new day in the Mountains--Ima play a riddle game ;)
 
I don't like the first one at all. It completely contradicts logic. Football IS a sport. If he doesn't like sports... then he can't like Football. ITS A SPORT! Anyway, since it doesn't make sense. I'll come up with one that doesn't make sense as well...

Mr. Kelley likes Roses but dislikes flowers. <--- See? Makes no sense. Roses ARE flowers... so he can't like them! Gaaaaahhh!!!
 
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