djl-DJL-P3 humour humor Piclist

VanHorn: Cheap plastic soled dress shoes. I measured an inch spark, nice and fat.
Brand name, VanDeGraff, I think

Winter: Ah, you can't beat a good masochist. Well, actually, you can...

Singer: Days are short in south hemisphere now and weather
is cold. So posts are going north especially on
week-end.

Brown on lightbulb changing:
Roman B. knows where you can get light bulbs changed for
free and they also throw in a new socket.

Scott D. knows how to do the change process in 3 less steps than anyone
else but it takes more time. He also knows a way that takes 1 more
step, but cuts the total time in half.

Bob Blick will also show that light bulbs are most useful when in
motion, and has a contraption that can detect failure and change said
bulbs automatically (of course whilst still in motion).

Finally, a few will point out that the bulb should not be forcibly changed,
instead it should be motivated to change by providing an environment wherein the bulb can change itself.

Students/Newbies DEMAND help on changing and the subsequent blinking their light bulb.
Wouter refers them to examples on his web site and mentions his light bulb programmer.
He even sells light bulbs in small quantities!

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Tweed, Lathrop:
Most fish tank pumps pump air, not water.

But water pumps are out there. I know because I bought the pump for my
temperature controlled water bath at a pet shop and it was sold as a
"fish tank pump". Of course that was in 1980, so maybe the fish have developed
better technology by now.
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Jinx:
Quite often I see answers to posts I don't get until some hours later, if at all.
And sometimes don't see either posts or answers, but I think maybe I'm imagining those..

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Guess:

>If nothing else I'd like to get some more opinions on some of the questions >I'll ask in the future.

Hmm. My crystal ball is low on batteries, but I'll give it a try:
No,
Yes,
You forgot to set the bank,
Yes, 20MHz just like the manual says,
No, You need a bypass cap,
You left the watchdog timer on,
You left PGM floating,
RTFM (duh!),
Yes, Xiafan says all your problems can be solved with a PicKit2
RTFM,
Byron says all your problems can be solved with a bootloader.

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Pefhany, referencing the engineer's sacred text "Dilbert":

> Hm, *what* country is *that* ???
> And how do you *know* it is the only PIC available ?

Probably the People's Democratic Republic of Elbonia. They only have one
PIC and it's a 16F84A, replacing the older 16F84 that was destroyed by
angry mobs in the popular uprising of 1998.

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Pemberton,Blick,Taylor,Peter,Ferguson:

I've just been digging through my junk box and found a pair of laser
pointers. .... Another option would be a scanned display ...
(in case you can't tell, I'm looking for yet another strange/unusual
  project to stave off boredom and I've run out of ideas!)
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Yes, you can use the polygon mirror/motor....
The real drawback is brightness - you'll only be able to use it in a dark room.
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Avoid the brightness drawback, turn the pointers around, paint directly on the retina.      You did ask for twisted.
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You could sell these as a kit. Alas the box would have to be large
enough to hold the supplied white cane and opaque blind man's
'sunglasses' needed for completion.
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They make fold up canes, so the box wouldn't have to be that big.

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Bill (or Pookie?) on dealing with static :
I was taught that rinsing glass photographic items under cold tap water
would remove any static charge. This should work for kitty also.
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Jinx and Barry G. on learning of BAJ's successful doctorate dissertation:

Ah to be in the ranks of all those other illustrious doctors -
Crippen, Zoidberg, Seuss, Pepper, Scholl, Smith (oh the
pain, the pain of it all)............... ;-)

Dr Who?



James: Yeah, ok I don't have time for this right now, I have to go find my wife a wooden statue of a cat... Don't ask...

Lathrop and Young on the sawstop:
(www.sawstop.com)
>It is neat to watch them shove a raw hotdog into the blade and it
>> stops. Not very practical if you are mowing rocks though.

Or trying to saw hotdogs.
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Who said AVR[Chat] guys have no sense of humour? Madsen,Weston : Subject: Cobol for AVR

Cobol is the colour blue if I'm not mistaken.
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Are you thinking of COBALT ?
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No no, Cobol is from Battlestar Galactica.
Adama is always talking about the 'Lords of Cobol".
My goodness, was he referring to a bike-riding gang of programmers?
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Pearce,Mayfield,Lag,Nicholas,Scoville,Annapragada:
Subject: Indian Moon Mission

2007 / 2008 target date. Polar 100km orbiter
Guess who is working on an instrument to go on it ... ;)
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Forrest Mimms?
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Oh, it's not Forrest Mimms. It's you... But you do have a copy of
"The Spacecraft Electronics Cookbook" Radio Shack #291-1075... Right?
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" What is the Radio Shack part number for the rad-hardened 555?"
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when will the first Indian takeaway on the moon open?! ;-)
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The Chinese are way ahead so ...you might be getting served Chinese takeout first..
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If you've ever had a vindaloo, you'll know that India has
been perfecting it's rocket fuel for many, many years!
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Ahh....yes well being Indian myself, I can attest to the near escape
velocity Vindaloo provides but still Schechuan chicken comes pretty close
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Robert, Danny, Lathrop
Re:Boot Camp software allows Intel based Macs to boot Windows XP:
How many people will now buy Macs with the idea:
"Well I've often wanted to try MacOS, but if it doesn't work out at
least I can drop back to Windows"
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... Seven ..... Eight if you count that one guy... ...
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     I think you're overestimating by 7 or 8.
Martin, Graziano:
>> I thought there was an L in that word. Is that the correct spelling?

cajones means drawers (the kind you put things into).
cojones means balls (not the kind you use to play soccer)

VanHorne:
I had a friend into motorcycles. It wasn't intuitively obvious to him
that Armor-All is not a good idea on seats and tyres.
Pemberton, Winter:
>> I'm about three-quarters of the way through Half-Life

Oh, you're at three-eighths life, then? :-)
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Newton, Barr,Pearce,Couture on Cats:

Some part of my brain that has obviously been totally damaged over time
wants to say that the solution to that problem is to have several more of
that same model mouse trap laid about so that no mouse in its right mind
will attempt to come close to the house. That seems to work for us. We have
only seen one (rather diseased) mouse anywhere in the area since we got
them. NEVER in the house.
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They also protect against polar bears in your house.
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Good point. I hadn't thought about it but I must admit that I haven't
seen a single polar bear in my house in all the time that I've had my
cat. :=)
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And Elephants. Except for the ones that have learned to hide in thimbles, of course.
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Hmm, when I was at school they hid in strawberry patches by painting
their toenails red ...
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Q: How can you tell if you have a elephant in your refrigerator?
A1: His footprints in the cheesecake
A2: You can smell the peanuts on his breath

And any furthur responses in this thread should be moved to [OT]
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WHAT?
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Save this email somewhere special.
I agree with Olin :-)

Russell

>> This part seems like the "why bother". If I remember right, the
>> earth tilts +-22.5 degrees over a year.
>> So if you point a collector at the equanox sun height, you're never
>> off by more than 22.5deg, and less than half that on average.
>>Cos(22.5deg) = .924, which means you have 7.6% loss worst case.
>> Cos(11.25deg) = .981, so you lose less than 2% averaged over a whole
>> year with no vertical (seasonal) adjustment at all. The daily sun travel
>> angle is much more, so tracking horizontally would be a bigger bang,
>> although also more complicated and expensive.
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RM, VanHorne, Newton, Smith, Hartford et al:
OR: how to go from solar arrays to hemmoroids in 120 posts

What DO you do about hail?

  Live in southern California.

    What DO you do about earthquakes :-) ?

       Stand near a lady with large breasts.

         That will be hard to find in Cali.

        Earthquakes are very overrated as a danger.
        http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds_dying.jpg

            Since I live in a country that doesn't have legal executions,
            does that increase my risk of dying in an earthquake? hides under my desk*

            ..the odds of dying from any cause is 1:1.

The odds of dying from ladies with large breasts, or the odds of dying if you
are a lady with large breasts is unfortunately absent. Immediate studies
are required, I feel. No, wait, I think, I think! What would Freud say?

   Well Sigmund Freud wouldn't say anything because he's dead,
.. but his Great- (-great?) granddaughter, Emma, would be very suitable to include in the study of these phenomena! ;-)
(She also has the extremely rare honour of having her name immortalised in rhyming slang, during her life.
That club is even more exclusive than, say, reigning monarchs, or people who have walked on the Moon! :-)

What is it?? haemorroid?

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Jinx on death:

>Are people killed by hail on a regular basis ?

Just the once Bob, just the once
(no Hindi correspondence entered into)

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RM,Lag,King,Winter,Couture:

... developers of arguably* the world's only commercially
sucessful non-aerospace non-military Stirling engines....
* I expect argument.

5 minutes or the full half hour?

No he's already had his arguement...

Oh no you don't! ;-)

That's just contradiction, not an argument!

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Then, there's the DIODE thread............

 


Vasile on Triacs:
>>Which is the right way to connect a TRIAC at 400 VAC?
>>Will it be between the phases or itīs to use only one
>>phase ( open one phase up ).

> the fact you even need to ask this question makes me seriously think you
> shouldn't be messing with 3 phase mains.

Why ? There are three pins on the triac ...
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