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I have a stack of scripts that I’ve read – I’m in the lucky position where I get offered things – but I haven’t wanted to direct many of them.
FreeBSD has a nicely tuned network stack and extremely good reliability.
Sometimes you just give everything you have, and you do your absolute best, and it doesn’t stack up.
My dad likes Stack$ a lot. He’s actually the first guy my dad has liked!
I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I’d won a stack of books for being the best student in a number of subjects. The pile included several 60-leaved notebooks that I decided to fill with short stories.
While the set-up of my home kitchen looks very different from that of a restaurant, theres one thing that has remained from my years as a line cook: the stack of sizzle platters thats always by my side. And its not going anywhere.
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.
Stack the cards in your favour, and in a casino, you’ll get arrested and put in prison, but in business and in life, it’s the right thing to do.
Risk-taking is my thing… I think of my company as my chip stack.
Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?
I work in my attic, and the view is next door’s chimney stack.
I’m usually reading too many books – in fact, I’m usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I’d be injured.
As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I’m working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I’m on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
Obviously, I need to be more efficient, but as far as my numbers go, I just want to see W’s starting to stack up on that win column.
We always had ‘Vogue’ in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in ‘Vogue.’
I found the brick-making process fascinating – how, after being burnt, the brick would come out strong. I liked to sit on the stack of bricks and look as far as I could. I’d do the same at a hillock near my school – just sit on top at leisure and enjoy the feeling of being on top of the world.
It was an incredible resource. I’d sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the ‘Talk of the Town’ sections.
I have slavishly dedicated myself to the construction of an image that nobody but me sees. Nobody but me is pondering the question: How does Maggie Rowe stack up against others as an overall human being?
Unfortunately, I’m not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I’d have stack’s and stack’s and stack’s of different act’s. I got a lot here – I know what I done.
The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and then I start doing phone interviews and archival research and then the travelling.
I haven’t seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don’t know how it will stack up with Survival, but that’ll be up to the critics.
I was once doing a gig with Tim Vine; he was backstage, and there was one of those long strings of polystyrene coffee cups. He picked up the whole stack of about 20, walked on stage and then said: ‘Bloody hell this coffee’s hot!’ which I think is the funniest thing anyone has ever said.
When I was cast in ‘Batman v Superman,’ I was sent a huge stack of comics. They provided a ton of information about Cyborg and how he has evolved as a character over the years.
Apple really has no presence in business, and we think Vista’s going to have a huge presence in business. We think we’re going to help the corporate IT stack save money.
I never settled because I wasn’t meant to pack toilet rolls or stack shelves.
Note to academics: Aristarchus’ track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun.
I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me stack 45s, stack about ten of them, and when one would finish, the next record would drop. It was like I was DJ’ing for the house, picking out certain songs and so this song would go after that song.
When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I’ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain’t gon’ make it no more.
Prior to inventing the Geyser Tube toy, dropping a stack of Mentos into a bottle of soda was not always an easy task. The Geyser Tube makes it easy to get a perfect launch every time at heights of 30 feet or more. Tell me… who doesn’t like to see soda shooting 30 feet into the air, all in the name of science?
I spent many, many hours in the stack at the University of Washington library just wandering around, when my dad was working, as a kid.
In Spanish, I record a lot of single-voice tracks, and in English, I ‘stack’ a lot of voices, so it’s very different, and I think I got so used to recording in Spanish for six years that it was really refreshing and challenging to get in and record ‘Double Vision’ in English.
I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian’s quiet smile as I’d bring back one stack and exchange it for another.
After the music that had been created by my family, I thought there was no way I could stack up.
Distributed ledgers are inherently harder to attack because instead of a single database, there are multiple shared copies of the same database, so a cyber stack would have to attack all the copies simultaneously to be successful.
I’ve always been a Marvel fan. As a kid, I would pick up a two-foot stack of comics and read them in the back of my dad’s car on long journeys across the States. That’s how I used to make friends – I’d meet up with other kids, and we’d swap comics.
When you can say, I get up in the morning to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution, it keeps people coming back. And I will stack our workforce up against anybody, anywhere, any day.
When you’re pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.
We’d realized in the first ten years we’d built an infrastructure competence deep in the stack – reliable, scalable cost effective data centers to grow the Amazon retail biz the way we needed to. But we’d built Amazon so quickly that a number of the pieces of the platform had become entangled.
Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren’t many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.
I sketched out what I believed to be my optimal strategy for ‘Jeopardy:’ Play fast, build a stack, bet big, and hope for the best. In my mind, playing a seemingly risky game actually minimizes my chances of losing.
The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.
I don’t have a stack of scripts that, when I get home, studios are clamoring, saying, ‘Has Bob read ours yet?’
I get ‘The New Yorker,’ and I’m usually about three issues behind. But I do catch up. The problem is that it always seems like homework, but then you start reading it and go, ‘Why am I not doing this all the time? These are such great stories!’ But, yeah, that stack gets so big and dense.
You don’t have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don’t – you’re working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.
My whole business philosophy is based on a risk-reward ratio. But it’s got to stack up. If it doesn’t, don’t do it. You might as well go to a casino.
I don’t have a stack of scripts.
And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn’t stack up to the list myself.
I’m not thin, but I’m strong – plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.
I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important.
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