Hi STEWART!

[Lynne]

Here's some good fodder from a .ppt slide that is up in the meeting I'm attending right now:

Shared regulatory, economic effect, business objectives and context drive interoperability.

BPM using OMG BPMN is a proven method to describe shared semantics of interactions among business processes.

[Schmaffy]

[quote="Lynne"]Here's some good fodder from a .ppt slide that is up in the meeting I'm attending right now:

Shared regulatory, economic effect, business objectives and context drive interoperability.

BPM using OMG BPMN is a proven method to describe shared semantics of interactions among business processes.[/quote]

BPM??? Isn't that "beats per minute"???

[Lynne]

[quote="Schmaffy"]BPM??? Isn't that "beats per minute"??? [/quote]

HAH! Sadly, it's "business process modeling". Although I am doing some Stone stick control RRRL RLLL RRRL RLLL under the table during the presentations ...

[TOWOS]

OK!

I think we have done our best to make sure that Stewart stops reading the board, and goes back to crazy books like The Blind Watchmaker (seriously, I have it and it starts pretty well - with all the sex-music-plumage-pudenda stuff, but then it turns into a book written by the guy in A Beautiful Mind)...

At this point I think he knows that every fan board mirrors their object of worship... he knows all too well by now that his fans are a bunch of geekyloghorroicneuroticnerdygrammarjunkiesabsolutelyunstoppable cwazees

[Schmaffy]

BTW - this is from a previous MENSA "alternate definition" contest. I found it quite appropriate:

Circumvent (n.) - An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

[TOWOS]

Like I said....

[Chatchka]

I'm thinking of changing the color of my dining room. When I moved into this house everything was painted a beige color that had a pink tone to it. I moved from house to house in my childhood as a military brat and there is nothing that drives me crazy like a white wall -- I hate them. This particular shade of beige was nearly as bad. So when I bought the house I quickly painted every room I had time for, with bright colors. My dining room is a bright mango color called, oddly, sweet maple. Over time, I find this color to be increasingly intolerable -- kind of too clear and bright, like an egg yolk.

aside: I'm listening to a webcast in which a brilliant person just said "many of which is not." Seriously. Augh.

Now, back to my tale of paint. To fix the "eating on the sun" issue, I'm considering bringing the brightness of this room down a notch to a color more like parchment or sand. I like the idea of a buttery color, but don't want it to look too "eastery" or to lack sophistication. Tan is tricky because I don't want to end up with a pink or peach tone to the room, yet, I don't want it to be too neutral, which will eventually bug me too. The problem is that this neutral spectrum is treacherous -- some colors have undertones that don't come through until you paint a large area with them and WATCH THE PAINT DRY. This is why I have begun to consider khaki simply for the depth that it offers...

[Schmaffy]

When I painted my dining room two years ago, I made the top half a neutral "sandstone" color (with a touch of cream), and the bottom half sage green. A complementary-colored wallpaper border (at chair rail height) served as the dividing line between the two colors. It's quite soothing, and easy to accessorize.

Does that help?