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Im still new too running, Tuesday/ I ran/walked 4 miles, Id run a mile then walk till I caught my breathe (about 3 mins) then run. My Time was 44:19.I felt good after that. Weds/ I decided to do the same for 3 miles (trying to get around the 30 min mark)but my calf pulled on me about half way had to walk back. I wasnt tired at all. It feels like my mind and lungs have plenty of gas in the tank, but my body needs to keep up. How long should I lay off for, before I start back? And when I pulled my calf I was running a shell path, can that make any difference on your body when you run? And should I run one day and take the next day off till Im able to run without walking. Thanks for all the advice I get. Shawn
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This post is the last in a series on Actions in WCF Data Services. The series was started with an example experience for defining actions (Part 1) and how IDataServiceActionProvider works (Part 2). In this post we'll go ahead and walk through a sample action provider implementation that delivers the experience outlined in part 1 for the Entity Framework.
If you want to walk through the code while reading this you'll find the code here: http://efactionprovider.codeplex.com.
The center of the implementation is the EntityFrameworkActionProvider class that derives from ActionProvider. The EntityFrameworkActionProvider is specific to EF, whereas the ActionProvider provides a generic starting point for an implementation of IDataServiceActionProvider that enables the experience outlined in Part 1. There is quite a bit going on in the sample code, so I can't walk through all of it in a single blog post, instead I'll focus on the most interesting bits of the code:
Data Service providers can be completely dynamic, producing a completely different model for each request. However with the built-in Entity Framework provider the model is static, basically because the EF model is static, also the actions are static too, because they are defined in code using methods with attributes on them. This all means one thing – our implementation can do a single reflection pass to establish what actions are in the model and cache that for all requests.
So every time the EntityFrameActionProvider is constructed, it first checks a cache of actions defined on our data source, which in our case is a class derived from EF's DBContext. If a cache look up it successful great, if not it uses the ActionFactory class to go an construct ServiceActions for every action declared on the DBContext.
The algorithm for the ActionFactory is relatively simple:
When an action is actually invoked we need to convert any parameters from WCF Data Services internal representation into objects that the end users methods can actually handle. It is likely that marshaling will be quite different for different underlying providers (EF, Reflection, Custom etc), so the ActionProvider uses an interface IParameterMarshaller, whenever it needs to convert parameters. The EF's parameter marshaled looks like this:
public class EntityFrameworkParameterMarshaller: IParameterMarshaller { static MethodInfo CastMethodGeneric = typeof(Enumerable).GetMethod("Cast"); static MethodInfo ToListMethodGeneric = typeof(Enumerable).GetMethod("ToList");
public object[] Marshall(DataServiceOperationContext operationContext, ServiceAction action, object[] parameters) { var pvalues = action.Parameters.Zip(parameters, (parameter, parameterValue) => new { Parameter = parameter, Value = parameterValue }); var marshalled = pvalues.Select(pvalue => GetMarshalledParameter(operationContext, pvalue.Parameter, pvalue.Value)).ToArray();
return marshalled; } private object GetMarshalledParameter(DataServiceOperationContext operationContext, ServiceActionParameter serviceActionParameter, object value) { var parameterKind = serviceActionParameter.ParameterType.ResourceTypeKind; // Need to Marshall MultiValues i.e. Collection(Primitive) & Collection(ComplexType) if (parameterKind == ResourceTypeKind.EntityType) {
// This entity is UNATTACHED. But people are likely to want to edit this... IDataServiceUpdateProvider2 updateProvider = operationContext.GetService(typeof(IDataServiceUpdateProvider2)) as IDataServiceUpdateProvider2; value = updateProvider.GetResource(value as IQueryable, serviceActionParameter.ParameterType.InstanceType.FullName); value = updateProvider.ResolveResource(value); // This will attach the entity. } else if (parameterKind == ResourceTypeKind.EntityCollection) { // WCF Data Services constructs an IQueryable that is NoTracking... // but that means people can't just edit the entities they pull from the Query. var query = value as ObjectQuery; query.MergeOption = MergeOption.AppendOnly; } else if (parameterKind == ResourceTypeKind.Collection) { // need to coerce into a List<> for dispatch var enumerable = value as IEnumerable; // the <T> in List<T> is the Instance type of the ItemType var elementType = (serviceActionParameter.ParameterType as CollectionResourceType).ItemType.InstanceType; // call IEnumerable.Cast<T>(); var castMethod = CastMethodGeneric.MakeGenericMethod(elementType); object marshalledValue = castMethod.Invoke(null, new[] { enumerable }); // call IEnumerable<T>.ToList(); var toListMethod = ToListMethodGeneric.MakeGenericMethod(elementType); value = toListMethod.Invoke(null, new[] { marshalledValue }); } return value; } }
This is probably the hardest part of the whole sample because it involves understanding what is necessary to make the parameters you pass to the service authors action methods updatable (remembers Actions generally have side-effects).
For example when Data Services see's something like this: POST http://server/service/Movies(1)/Checkout
It builds a query to represent the Movie parameter to the Checkout action, however when Data Services is building queries, it doesn't need the Entity Framework to track the results – because all it is doing is serializing the entities and then discarding them. However in this example, we need to take the query and actually retrieve the object in such as way that it is tracked by EF, so that if it gets modified inside the action EF will notice and push changes back to the Database during SaveChanges.
As discussed in Part 2, we need to delay actual invocation of the action until SaveChanges(), to do this we return an implementation of an interface called IDataServiceInvokable:
public class ActionInvokable : IDataServiceInvokable { ServiceAction _serviceAction; Action _action; bool _hasRun = false; object _result;
public ActionInvokable(DataServiceOperationContext operationContext, ServiceAction serviceAction, object site, object[] parameters, IParameterMarshaller marshaller) { _serviceAction = serviceAction; ActionInfo info = serviceAction.CustomState as ActionInfo; var marshalled = marshaller.Marshall(operationContext,serviceAction,parameters);
info.AssertAvailable(site,marshalled[0], true); _action = () => CaptureResult(info.ActionMethod.Invoke(site, marshalled)); } public void CaptureResult(object o) { if (_hasRun) throw new Exception("Invoke not available. This invokable has already been Invoked."); _hasRun = true; _result = o; } public object GetResult() { if (!_hasRun) throw new Exception("Results not available. This invokable hasn't been Invoked."); return _result; } public void Invoke() { try { _action(); } catch { throw new DataServiceException( 500, string.Format("Exception executing action {0}", _serviceAction.Name) ); } } }
As you can see this does a couple of things, it creates an Action (this time a CLR one - just to confuse the situation i.e. a delegate that returns void), that actually calls the method on your DBContext via reflection passing the marshaled parameters. It also has a few guards, one to insure that Invoke() is only called once, and another to make sure GetResult() is only called after Invoke().
Part 1 and 2 introduce the concept of occasionally bindable actions, but basically an action might not always be available in all states, for example you might not always be able to checkout a movie (perhaps you already have it checked out).
The ActionInfo class has an IsAvailable(…) method which is used by the ActionProvider whenever WCF Data Services need to know if an Action should be advertised or not. The implementation of this will call the method specified in the [OccasionallyBindableAction] attribute. The code is complicated because it supports always return true without actually checking if the actual availability method is too expensive to call repeatedly. This is indicated using the [SkipCheckForFeeds] attribute.
The sample is on codeplex made up of two projects:
For most of you downloading the samples and using them to create a OData Service with Actions over the Entity Framework is all you'll need.
However if you are actually considering tweaking the example or building your own from scratch hopefully you now have enough context!
Happy coding Alex James Senior Program Manager, Microsoft.
Alex, I downloaded the code and built the project. How do I run it? What does it do?
Run the code, browse to service, hit the movies feed,
and you'll notice actions advertised in the atom
invoke them as described in Part 1.
If you have a breakpoint in your action method on the MoviesContext it will stop in the method,
and you can see how it works end to end, and perhaps you can then try adding your own actions.
Good luck
Alex, I have a pre-existing Service Operation on my service which returns an int. If I add a method to my OperationContext marked with an Action attribute and browse to the $metadata url for my service I get the following error:
<m:error><m:code/><m:message xml:lang="en-US">An IEdmModel instance was found that failed validation. The following errors were reported:
FunctionImportParameterIncorrectType : The type 'KLWines.KL4Model.QuotePOItem' of parameter 'quotePOItem' is invalid. A function import parameter must be one of the following types: A simple type or complex type.
FunctionImportBindableNotSupportedBeforeV3 : The 'Bindable' setting of function imports is not supported before version 3.0.
If I comment out the Service Operation which returns an int the problem goes away. If I comment out the method in my Operation Context marked with the Action attribute the problem goes away as well.
Any thoughts?
anyone figured out the above error?
Hi Alex,
I have a design question about using WCF Data Services and ServiceActions. We are writing an Azure application that sits on top of a database. It contains an aggregate of data from several other servers running at client sites. Our data structures are a common subset of several different data owners, so we don't know the full structure of their data. If we want to pass data back and forth, should we write an OData Service on our end that everyone can use and have them all implement the same API that implements some IDataServiceActionProvider?
Any advice is appreciated. We are building this from the ground up.
Can anyone please provide sample code how to invoke the service action method
public void RateAll(IQueryable<Movie> movies, IEnumerable<int> ratings)
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At the entrance of Malaga Cove Plaza in Palos Verdes, California, you will find this wonderful fountain ... a replica based on the fountain in the main square in Bologna, Italy, which was originally created between 1563 and 1566. Neptune, the god of the sea, surrounded by cherubs and sirens and the trickling sound of water, is worth visiting!
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Awesome writing why you not going to let them keep the baby?
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"Avril, I think you should be with me. I'm...well, I was planning on telling my mom about the baby when I got home," explained Deryck. We were having a bit of an argument. He was trying to convince me to come home with him as he left my house after yet another meeting with my parents.
"You haven't told her yet?! I thought you were going to tell her last week!" Thinking back on it, I didn't remember Deryck having said anything about a confrontation with his mom, or her reaction. And yet I did recall him saying something about talking to his mom soon.
"I don't think I want to go," I mumbled. I looked down at my feet and scuffed my toe against the hard wood floor.
"Please? I'm not sure I can face my mom by myself. She'll be so mad." Deryck looked scared. The tough guy who was supposed to protect me needed my help. "I think it might be easier if she sees you. Ya know, if she knows I haven't broken you heart or anything."
I could read between the lines and find what Deryck wasn't saying: his mom has a soft spot for teen pregnancy. Deryck was probably afraid to make a single wrong move, because he knew if he hurt me, both my mom and his would be pissed at him.
But I didn't particularly want to announce my pregnancy yet again. I had had to live through four announcements, and I still had to look forward to telling every other family member and schoolmate who needed to know. If I could be left out of just one of those announcements, I would feel grateful. On the other hand...I didn't want to leave poor Deryck by himself. It wasn't fair for me to depend on him for everything I needed and not give him anything in return.
Maybe I could use this as future leverage against him.... "Alright," I agreed. Then I turned my face up at Deryck and pulled the kitten face. "Buuut..." I drew out the word, letting him know that I was going to ask something of him.
"Oh, no," groaned Deryck. "Don't say I owe you." I smirked.
"I'll go talk with your mom...but you have to do something for me." My lips curled and I looked at Deryck slyly. "You have to...take me on a date on Sunday. It's Valentine's day. I want you to take me somewhere special."
Deryck smirked as well. "Ah, so that's what you're after, hm? Well, perhaps we could work that out...." I smiled.
"Well, then, I guess we'd better head to your house." I could feel Deryck's eyes fixated on my butt as I walked towards the door, purposely swaying my hips as I went to tease Deryck. Just to push it a little further, when I got to the door, I turned around and simmered to him, "Are you coming?"
"Later, sweetie," he murmured, walking briskly to catch up to me. "I promise: later." I smiled to myself, and allowed Deryck to wrap his arm around my waist as we walked down the block to his house. I could tell Deryck was about to burst.
"When does your mom get home from work?" I whispered into his hair.
"Mm..I think she's already home." We both knew that meant we'd have to wait another few hours for sex, at least.
Still, I couldn't keep my hands or lips off him, thanks to my hormonal state. I sucked the flesh of his neck, making sure to keep the marks under his shirt collar, where any hickeys would be hidden. "Avril," he gasped. Deryck's face was contorted into an expression of pleasure. "Avril, not here...." We were halfway between our houses, on the sidewalk, in plain view of everyone.
"Only if you promise we can get some private time in your room later."
"Of course." Deryck squeezed my waist. "But let's not fuck in the middle of the street, okay?" As we continued to Deryck's apartment complex, he muttered, "I didn't see the increased horniness side effect on the pregnancy warning label."
"Are you complaining?" I cooed. Deryck shook his head rapidly.
I recognized Michelle's car in the car port near her and Deryck's apartment, signaling that she had already arrived home from her afternoon job. Inside, I couldn't help being a little disappointed that she wasn't running just a little late. Twenty minutes with Deryck would have been all I needed.
Michelle was running around, cleaning everything in the small apartment when Deryck and I entered, holding hands. I wondered for a moment if all mothers have that pathological need to clean, since my mom had been doing the same thing the last time I saw her.
When she saw us, Deryck's mom straightened up and smiled. "Hey, you two," she said with a grin. She seemed to be a lot more accepting of our relationship, and a lot less awkward around the two of us than my parents. Probably a benefit of being a younger mother, I speculated. "How are you doing, Avril?" my boyfriend's mom greeted me.
I wasn't quite sure what to say. Finally I was able to manage a weak grin and an "I'm fine."
"Yeah, but, uh, Mom...we need to talk." Deryck's face was set in stone. I squeezed his hand a little, but he still looked nervous. Sweat was dripping from his palm and mixing onto my hand.
"Sure." Michelle looked a little suspicious, but I she probably didn't know what was going on. I don't think she could ever imagine her son getting himself into this situation.
The three of us sat down on the armchair and couch in the Whibleys' living room. I was sure not to get too close to Deryck – no matter how cool and calm his mom was, she was still a parent, and I felt nervous about PDA in front of her.
"So," said Michelle slowly. "What is it we need to talk about?"
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Haunted II
A mini-novella
As with Haunted, this book gave me shivers. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, this collection of short stories will make you think twice about every bump you hear in the night. It's quick to read, incredibly well written and definitely put me off ever going near a Ouija board.
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I was gifted this book and I have always been on the fence about actually believing in ghosts and spirits.... I have occasionally on important days in my lifetime smelled my grandpas pipe tobacco and have woken up from a extremely vivid dream actually talking out loud to him. Mind you he passed away in 1991. I have always wanted to believe I have had someone with me this whole time but then again I would blame it all on stress. With Haunted II ( I have to add I read this in a lonely waiting room in the hospital after dark and I kept looking over my shoulder ) there was a creepy way Willow told her experiences she so easily walked you through her stories like you were there with her. The hairs on my neck stood on end and although a quick read it was worth it. Happy Reading !
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If you enjoy ghost stories and paranormal happenings than you will want to read Haunted II by Willow Cross. Ouija boards have long been sold in toy and game sections of stores, but are they really a harmless toy or a gateway that allows sinister forces to attach themselves to a person's life. Harmless or open door to the paranormal you will have to read and decide for yourself.
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This selection of short stories are well written and will give you your Halloween scare if you are looking for some fantastic ghost stories. If instead you are looking to read about paranormal experiences then you are also a winner. Regardless of what you are looking for you can't go wrong with Willow Cross's book Haunted II.
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List<String> stringList = new ArrayList<String>();
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Is there a (easy) way to retrieve the generic type of the list?
If those are actually fields of a certian class, then you can get them with a little help of reflection:
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Short answer: no. This is probably a duplicate, can't find an appropriate one right now. Java uses something called type erasure, which means at runtime both objects are equivalent. The compiler knows the lists contain integers or strings, and as such can maintain a type safe environment. This information is lost (on an object instance basis) at runtime, and the list only contain 'Objects'. You CAN find out a little about the class, what types it might be parametrized by, but normally this is just anything that extends "Object", i.e. anything. If you define a type as
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As others have said, the only correct answer is no, the type has been erased. If the list has a non-zero number of elements, you could investigate the type of the first element ( using it's getClass method, for instance ). That won't tell you the generic type of the list, but it would be reasonable to assume that the generic type was some superclass of the types in the list. I wouldn't advocate the approach, but in a bind it might be useful. | |||
Generally impossible, because You might be able to reflect on the declared type of the field holding the list, though (if the declared type does not itself refer to a type parameter whose value you don't know). | |||
At runtime, no, you can't. However via reflection the type parameters are accessible. Try
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The type is erased so you will not be able to. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%5Ferasure and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generics%5Fin%5FJava#Type%5Ferasure | |||
The generic type of a collection should only matter if it actually has objects in it, right? So isn't it easier to just do:
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Ma~She's TORTURING ME! (Sunni)...sigh...
...sigh...what can I say? He's my firstborn...and a big momma's boy! Look at him looking at me constantly...Believe me, he is NOT being tortured! Does he look like he's being tortured? First, Maia led him down to the tie rack for grooming and cleaning his feet (torture, I'm sure!). Then she put some fly spray on him (REAL torture!) Then, she led him up to the round pen and lunged him. More torture, I guess. Finally, she put a saddle pad on him (REAL torture)! Then, she rubbed him with a handy stick. Oh, my! Life is hard for Sunni!!!!
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Isn't it funny how they keep one eye on you, when someone else is handling them. Sunni is so shiny, and look at that nice tail!
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Wheat: the Whole (Grain) Story
We live in a virtual sea of wheat. North Dakota leads the nation in growing it. Around the world wheat is grown on more land area than any other crop. Indeed, wheat is an important food grain in our diets.By: Gerald F. Combs Jr., Grand Forks Herald
We live in a virtual sea of wheat.
North Dakota leads the nation in growing it. Around the world wheat is grown on more land area than any other crop. It has been cultivated for some 8000 years, and its availability as a staple is thought to have been a major contributor to the development of civilizations in Europe and parts of Asia and Africa.
Indeed, wheat is an important food grain in our diets.
Of course, we don't eat wheat in the form it comes from the field. We make the grain into a seemingly endless variety of breads, cakes and pastas. We eat it in the morning hot from the griddle or flaked and covered with milk or yogurt, as snacks at work breaks, for lunch as tortillas or sandwiches spread with meat or cheese or peanut butter, for dinner as pizza or pasta dressed with tomato sauce or cheese and vegetables and sweetened for desert.
We eat wheat foods to celebrate birthdays and weddings, when we have guests and also just to feel good.
To make these many foods, the whole wheat kernel must be broken into tiny particles that can be readily hydrated to release the proteins and carbohydrates that give cohesion to the final products.
This process of milling goes back as far as wheat cultivation itself. Originally, it involved pounding the dry kernels with a wooden hammer; this evolved into the use of millstones that were turned by the power of humans or animals or falling water.
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However, the millers found it difficult to separate the dark bran particles from the wheat kernel's white, starchy center, so their stone-milled product had grayish color.
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All of this was made possible by the ability to produce a pure, fluffy, white flour of unmatched quality.
White flour is white largely because other parts of the grain, the darker bran and the germ, have been removed. That makes it easier to chew, easier to digest and easier to keep without refrigeration.
Removal of those parts leaves the kernel's starchy center, the endosperm, and yields fluffy, white flour that makes light and airy breads and pastries.
Most white flours represent only 72 percent of the original whole grain. The milling away of other portions of the grain results in the removal of valuable nutrients that the wheat plant puts into the bran and germ. Those nutrients include iron, several vitamins and fiber.
For this reason, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permits refined flour to be "enriched" with several nutrients that are lost in milling (iron and the vitamins thiamin, niacin and riboflavin) and mandates that most enriched wheat flours, breads, noodles and macaroni also be fortified with the vitamin folic acid.
Whole wheat flour is made by milling 100 percent of the kernel into a powder. Very similar whole grain products are made by recombining the separated milling fractions in the proportions originally present in the whole kernel. These are similar in appearance. Both are good sources of dietary fiber.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans suggest a daily intake of two to three servings of grain-based foods, or about half of the present national average. They specifically call for half of that intake being whole grain products and for limiting daily intake of refined grain products, particularly those high in solid fats and/ or added sugars such as cakes, cookies, donuts and other desserts.
Whole grain flours can be used in most cases instead of refined flours. Whole wheat breads are made with whole grain flour comprising at least a portion of the dough.
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The development of white wheat varieties has allowed bakers to produce whole grain products that are virtually indistinguishable from breads made using refined, white flour.
It pays to choose whole grain foods. They give you what your grandma might have called "roughage" but what health professionals call dietary fiber.
Americans consume about half the recommended amounts of dietary fiber (25 grams for women, 38 grams for men). Studies show that that consumption of two to three daily servings of whole grain products was associated with 20 to 30 percent reductions in risks to cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes and also to reduce risks to colorectal cancer or inflammation-related conditions.
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> Your interpretation? Shall I reinstall GNU gcc and abandon egcs?
I wonder. The above certainly implies that at least your particular
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In other news, I know I bitch about my room mates a lot... but I have just one more little thing to add. You know how I've mentioned they apparently forget things in the kitchen? Well, that goes for cooking things too. I talked before how an egg exploded in a pan before (that I actually forgot about until just now), but today was another little adventure into the almost burning down the apartment game. I walked into the kitchen to see some chicken in the oven. Okay, they're probably waiting to get it out after a little I think to myself. Later, I'm off to my last midterm but decided to check the oven. It's STILL IN THERE. Now it's black, and I knock on Lu's door for an answer. Turns out HaoChen (who's gone) put it in there for Lu. She knew it was in there. And she decided to TAKE A NAP.
You do not take naps if you're cooking something! If I hadn't checked before I'd left... good lord.
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It's always a funny thing to think about the traits you've picked up from your parents. No, I'm not talking about the way you say okay in that weird tone of voice like your mother. I'm talking about biology, specifically genes. On the outside, it appears that I've picked up more features from my mother's side than my father's side. Take a picture of my mom and me; you'll see the similarities. There's one other trait that comes from my mom's side that you usually wouldn't think about:
The hips.
As a fellow classmate said to me in high school, I've got some birthin' hips. (Should I take that as an insult?) Every woman on my mom's side of the family has them. This doesn't mean we've got booties though. No, we've got flat rears but the hips? Made for kids, apparently.
Even though I have a lot of my mom's traits, I have quite a few things from my dad's side. For one thing, I supposedly look identical to one of my aunts when she was a kid... Which I don't really want. There are many personal reasons why.
I also have acquired my dad's eye color, and apparently his bad teeth. Or so he tells me. I let it be an excuse as to why I've had three cavities in my life while my sister didn't even need to take her wisdom teeth out.
So from mom, we've got birthin' hips and face. From dad we've got eyes, teeth, and my shrimp allergy. Yeah, some great great uncle has a shellfish allergy. No idea until I had it.
That sounds about even. All in all, I think I've got some pretty swell genes.
Oh dear, I think I'm getting sick. It's what happens when you put your hands on your face all of the time. Terrible habit, should stop it. Night to you all!
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My Dad, the Man the Myth the Legend
well tonight my dad showed me some pictures after work i know he was a bit of a reptile freak when he was younger as he tells me stories about how he had red bellies in his room not even in cages and how he was given a diamond python to look after and all other amazing stories..
Also he had a pet kangaroo which he showed me and told me he use to take it everywhere.
His newspaper article (year 8- grade 2)
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thought this was cool enough to share also tell us stories about cool things your dad did as a kid
Wow, cool!
Dad used to drag us to a friends house who we called "snake man" There were snakes everywhere, lizards, turtles, a croc int the pool and i think even fox pups. Everytime we went there there was something new, like a joey. We got into trouble alot too cos we would fearlessly stick our hands into a random enclosure.
I think his real name was Murray Wilknson or something.. I have a newspaper clipping somewhere with him holding a magpie and telling people to not try to catch or kill snakes, leave them alone etc.
- 07-Apr-09, 08:32 PM #4
Nice to have a dad like that! ......mines flippin' useless!! (I wish I could use better words to describe him, but I don't really want a holiday from APS right now ). It's so important to involve your kids in your passions (if it also interests them that is), and give them some knowledge to respect our fantastic wildlife! Thumbs up for your old man mate
- 07-Apr-09, 08:46 PM #5
freakin' awesome!! very cool matey
Your Dad's the bomb, but I like mine too. Mine dropped a kitten of a cliff, when he was a kid, 'cause someone told him cats always land on their feet. Kitten landed on its feet but also sprayed gray matter everywhere. THE END.
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hehe thats heaps cool...
my mum was the animal person, she came from a farm...(that side of the family isnt too friendly with snakes though unfortunately...)
the closest animal thing my dad did was rode a sheep at a rodeo when he was really young.
(they stuck him on a sheep coz he was a city bum and they figured he couldnt really handle riding a bull).
...he still didnt last enough seconds on the sheep to qualify for a place, it bucked him off in like 2 seconds flat... haha,
hahahahhahahaha there brilliant stories! my dad doesnt even like mozzies never loan reptiles, and he cried when got a tattoo about an inch big on his shoulder. hahahahah my dad the man the myth!
It puts the lotion on its skin, otherwise it gets the hose again
"I call the big one bitey."
my dads a goose my sons dad is a legend
My grandparents ( closest thing to real parents I've got) are the funniest.... My grandfather is the mr fixit who could fix everything with a nail, calking gun and a coathanger. But he is a dog person fullstop! not keen on other animals... My grandmother is unbelievable to say the least... Was declared a genius at 60!!! a walking encyclopeadia of general knowledge and an artist... Also an avid animal lover (she was who first got me interested inherps as a kid).
Funny story invovling the 2.....
My Mormor (grandmother) has a penchant for helping any sick animal that she may find on the roadside (as a kid it meant the magic of having pet Kangaroos, emus, magpies....) but she once found an injured carpet python on the roadside and took it home to nurse it back to health - much to my Morfar's (grandfather) objection. a couple of months passed and the snake got healthy and morfar had also gotten sorta used to it (it had free reign of the house) until one day morfar sat on his recliner without first checking.... and got chomped on the ****!!!!
Needless to say the snake was released that day....
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