Hey, who flattened the hills?

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Serge Wautier says:

August 8, 2005 at 11:34 am

And of course, since you’re neither curious nor logical, you didn’t wonder where they put the hills ! I’ll tell you: Yesterday, I went for some biking in my neighborhood. And guess what : They put hills where it used to be fairly flat !

I was wondering but now I know: These are your hills ! Please come and take them back !

Freak says:

August 8, 2005 at 7:57 pm

And guess what, the planes probably run QNX, but definitely not Windows, otherwise the Blue Angels would Blue Screen! Windows shell team is rubbish so LongWait realtime capabilities will be rubbish anyway.

HAHAHAHA!!!1!

Ryan says:

August 8, 2005 at 10:40 pm

And guess what, the planes probably run QNX,

>but definitely not Windows, otherwise the

>Blue Angels would Blue Screen! Windows shell

>team is rubbish so LongWait realtime

>capabilities will >be rubbish anyway.

>

>HAHAHAHA!!!1!

It’s sad when the high point of your day is posting some insulting drivel on someone’s blog. I would say the guy is just jealous because he has never produced anything noteworthy in his entire life, and most likely never will. However jealousy is probably too high of an emotion for this person to experience, he is probably just an angry bitter loser sitting in some crappy flat somewhere telling himself how clever he is and cursing the rest of the world for not acknowledging it. To the OP I would suggest you make your way back over to /. before you miss the daily circle jerk, don’t forget your picture of Linus Torvalds.

The Old New Thing says:

July 19, 2006 at 10:01 am

If it’s not one thing it’s another.

Date:	August 8, 2005 / year-entry #217
Tags:	non-computer
Orig Link:	https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050808-17/?p=34663
Comments:	4
Summary:	This weekend, I went to a friend's house on Mercer Island to see the US Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team perform. They do this every summer as part of Seattle's Seafair festival, but this was the first time I got to see the show up close and personal. The I-90 bridge is closed for...