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Jim Thompson
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You know you>re an engineer when...
Just saw a license plate: NODECAF
And I>m wondering, what the hell... Node Caf ???
Finally realized it was No Decaf ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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Martin Riddle
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:22 am Post subject: Re: You know you>re an engineer when... |
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"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in message
news:658n84p7knl3s21qn5bbh90img0o1sn64i@4ax.com...
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| And I>m wondering, what the hell... Node Caf ???
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| Finally realized it was No Decaf ;-)
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Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode with the Woman>s name that rimes with a female body part ;)
Cheers |
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UltimatePatriot
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:50 am Post subject: Re: You know you>re an engineer when... |
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:11:58 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
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You know you>re an engineer when...
Just saw a license plate: NODECAF
And I>m wondering, what the hell... Node Caf ???
Finally realized it was No Decaf ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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The plate>s owner could be an engineer as well.
I do not like decaf either.
I like my inebriants just the way man discovered them usually. |
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UltimatePatriot
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:57 am Post subject: Re: You know you>re an engineer when... |
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:22:51 GMT, "Martin Riddle"
<martin_rid@verizon.net> wrote:
[quote]
"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in message
news:658n84p7knl3s21qn5bbh90img0o1sn64i@4ax.com...
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| Finally realized it was No Decaf ;-)
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Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode with the Woman>s name that rimes with a female body part ;)
Cheers
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Pussy Galore...
Oh wait... that is not even a rhyme! |
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Jeff Liebermann
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:25 am Post subject: Re: You know you>re an engineer when... |
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:11:58 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
[quote]You know you>re an engineer when...
Just saw a license plate: NODECAF
And I>m wondering, what the hell... Node Caf ???
Finally realized it was No Decaf ;-)
...Jim Thompson
[/quote]
One of the ham radio vendors registred the domain
<http://www.MorseX.com>.
He sells Morse code related equipment under the name of Morse Express
and Milestone Technologies.
However, if you don>t know about the site, most people read it as:
Mor Sex.
I>ve been assured that this was not intentional, but I don>t believe
it.
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150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
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Dirk Bruere at NeoPax
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:37 am Post subject: Re: You know you>re an engineer when... |
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Jim Thompson wrote:
[quote]You know you>re an engineer when...
Just saw a license plate: NODECAF
And I>m wondering, what the hell... Node Caf ???
Finally realized it was No Decaf ;-)
...Jim Thompson
[/quote]
MODAPRO
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http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party
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Frank Buss
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:43 am Post subject: Re: You know you>re an engineer when... |
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Jeff Liebermann wrote:
[quote]One of the ham radio vendors registred the domain
http://www.MorseX.com>.
He sells Morse code related equipment under the name of Morse Express
and Milestone Technologies.
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The software screenshots ( http://www.morsex.com/cm5.htm ) look like a good
old Turbo Vision Borland Pascal program. I wonder how many they sell.
Would be fun to build a morse key with an USB connector :-)
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Vladimir Vassilevsky
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:44 am Post subject: Re: You know you>re an engineer when... |
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Jim Thompson wrote:
[quote]You know you>re an engineer when...
Just saw a license plate: NODECAF
And I>m wondering, what the hell... Node Caf ???
Finally realized it was No Decaf ;-)
[/quote]
Looking at the toilet at the gas station: PORTA
Looking at the next toilet: expecting to see PORTB, but it is still
marked as PORTA. Thinking: aha, this PORTA must be the 16 bit port then.
Vladimir Vassilevsky
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UltimatePatriot
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: Re: You know you>re an engineer when... |
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:11:46 -0400, T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net> wrote:
[quote]In article <hian84d8150nckdgm8ij99bksq0qqkblbe@4ax.com>,
UltimatePatriot@thebestcountry.org says...
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:22:51 GMT, "Martin Riddle"
martin_rid@verizon.net> wrote:
"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in message
news:658n84p7knl3s21qn5bbh90img0o1sn64i@4ax.com...
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| Finally realized it was No Decaf ;-)
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Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode with the Woman>s name that rimes with a female body part ;)
Cheers
Pussy Galore...
Oh wait... that is not even a rhyme!
Laugh all you want. Back in the early 80>s friends of mine had the
registrations OI-812 and OU-812. This went on until about 1993 or so
when the DMV finally figured out what they meant and they yanked the
plates.
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Maybe in your state.
Totally available, and already taken here. |
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Martin Riddle
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"UltimatePatriot" <UltimatePatriot@thebestcountry.org> wrote in message news:hian84d8150nckdgm8ij99bksq0qqkblbe@4ax.com...
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| Pussy Galore...
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| Oh wait... that is not even a rhyme!
No begins with "D"
Cheers |
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Jeff Liebermann
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: Re: You know you>re an engineer when... |
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:43:19 +0200, Frank Buss <fb@frank-buss.de>
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[quote]Jeff Liebermann wrote:
One of the ham radio vendors registred the domain
http://www.MorseX.com>.
He sells Morse code related equipment under the name of Morse Express
and Milestone Technologies.
The software screenshots ( http://www.morsex.com/cm5.htm ) look like a good
old Turbo Vision Borland Pascal program. I wonder how many they sell.
[/quote]
Well, yes. It is an MSDOS program. No Windoze required. Hams are
*CHEAP* and tend to use ancient junk for computers. Most of my ham
junk is on an HP Omnibook 600 with a 75MHz 486 processor running MSDOS
something. Windoze is for masochists.
Incidentally, if you wanna build tiny Windoze applications in
Assembler, see:
<http://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm>
[quote]Would be fun to build a morse key with an USB connector :-)
[/quote]
Sigh. Perhaps Mor Sex will help.
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Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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John Fields
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: Re: You know you>re an engineer when... |
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:11:58 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
[quote]
You know you>re an engineer when...
Just saw a license plate: NODECAF
And I>m wondering, what the hell... Node Caf ???
Finally realized it was No Decaf ;-)
[/quote]
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I was thinking today it would be interesting if one of the
presidential candidates was named Joseph Ronix, and he had posters
made which read: "Elect Ronix." ;)
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T
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: Re: You know you>re an engineer when... |
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In article <hian84d8150nckdgm8ij99bksq0qqkblbe@4ax.com>,
UltimatePatriot@thebestcountry.org says...
[quote]On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:22:51 GMT, "Martin Riddle"
martin_rid@verizon.net> wrote:
"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in message
news:658n84p7knl3s21qn5bbh90img0o1sn64i@4ax.com...
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| You know you>re an engineer when...
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| Just saw a license plate: NODECAF
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| And I>m wondering, what the hell... Node Caf ???
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| Finally realized it was No Decaf ;-)
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Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode with the Woman>s name that rimes with a female body part ;)
Cheers
Pussy Galore...
Oh wait... that is not even a rhyme!
[/quote]
Laugh all you want. Back in the early 80>s friends of mine had the
registrations OI-812 and OU-812. This went on until about 1993 or so
when the DMV finally figured out what they meant and they yanked the
plates. |
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Wim Lewis
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:50 am Post subject: Re: You know you>re an engineer when... |
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In article <%sNik.103$JH5.9@trnddc06>,
Martin Riddle <martin_rid@verizon.net> wrote:
[quote]Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode with the Woman>s name that rimes with
a female body part ;)
[/quote]
Madame Bovary?
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Frank Buss
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject: Re: You know you>re an engineer when... |
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Jeff Liebermann wrote:
[quote]Incidentally, if you wanna build tiny Windoze applications in
Assembler, see:
http://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm
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Nice, but 13,824 bytes is a really big executable. I>ve created executables
as small as 181 bytes in assembler:
http://www.frank-buss.de/automaton/arabeske.html
Looks like it doesn>t work in Windows Vista anymore, I>ll get an Englisch
error message in my German Windows installation that the 16 bit MS-DOS
subsystem doesn>t support fullscreen mode. But on my VMWare Windows 98
installation it still works.
[quote]Would be fun to build a morse key with an USB connector :-)
Sigh. Perhaps Mor Sex will help.
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Looks like someone has already built such a device, maybe with CapSense:
http://www.cinahazegh.com/2006/05/30/the-amazing-morse-code-keyboard/
But it is a bit lame, it uses two different positions to enter tap and
dashes and it has a backspace position. I wonder why the SMS addicted
didn>t use already morse code :-)
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