It's almost the end of the year...soon all these threads wil

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:59 pm

So...where the fuck is Stuart?

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:02 pm

Hey. Great thread cowboyangel!
Glad someone thought of this. Did you know that spamers get inspiration for Subject lines by reviewing eplaya Topic headings?

(you can't have a sock so just be content with talking to yourself)

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:04 pm

gee...that's funny!

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:04 pm

ya, I know....

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:08 pm

so...what the fuck are you waiting for? Go ahead...look at all 80 fucking or so pages, and pick your most favorite, unusual, spammer-like, dopey, etc etc thread!

sparkletarte · Post by **sparkletarte** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:29 pm

So....where the fuck is Chai Guy?

Lydia Love · Post by **Lydia Love** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:53 am

"soon all these threads wil..."

Wil? I assume you mean "will"

Will what??

Huh?

huh?

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:04 am

Lydia Love wrote:"soon all these threads wil..."

Wil? I assume you mean "will"

Will what??

Huh?

huh?

thank you, Lydia.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:34 am

phpbb software cut off the last 'l' in will, now forget the small stuff and come up with the goods

BlueBirdPoof · Post by **BlueBirdPoof** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 11:35 am

googling "the goods" got me this:

That should tell us something.

BlueBirdPoof · Post by **BlueBirdPoof** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:06 pm

then this

and on the same page

BlueBirdPoof · Post by **BlueBirdPoof** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:06 pm

BlueBirdPoof wrote:then this

and on the same page

f*ck

BlueBirdPoof · Post by **BlueBirdPoof** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:09 pm

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Looks like very wholesome liturature to me.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 4:22 pm

now I know what happened to Amelia

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:04 pm

my avatar holds the key

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:28 pm

is that center camp or the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?

Bambi of Finland · Post by **Bambi of Finland** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:55 pm

It is Space Mtn. At Disneyland in Anaheim. A favorite rollercoaster Darkride through space. What parts are you working on Stuart?

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 11:22 pm

I've been in space and on mountains....so does that mean I qualify as a visitor?

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 12:03 am

Wow, I always wanted to be part of the space program when I was young. During the Apollo program I got one of those 3ft. tall models of the Saturn-V. It was my favorite thing. I checked out every book in the library on electronics and radio. My 7th-grade science teacher gave me several stacks of old Popular Electronics magazines that his wife must have been begging him to get rid of. She must have because my mom started on me as soon as I brought them home.

I used to dig through the dumpster of the TV repair shop up the street and salvage tossed out TV and radio chassis for parts. I became expert at removing the parts without damaging the leads. I didn't have money to buy the parts so I had to make do.

I built many crystal radios and a couple of single transistor models. I finally found the plans for a single-tube (hehe, yeah TUBE) multi-stage regnerative receiver using a compactron tube. I think it was a triode and a pentode (two tubes in one) in a 12-pin package. Probably the most sophisticated tube design before semiconductors completely took over. But I wired the power switch wrong. I had been working on it for hours and the power switch was the last thing I connected. I was tired and made a mistake and rather than connecting it in series with the hot leg, I connected it across the mains. When I turned on the switch, I blew the fuse and mom decided my radio projects would end. ( I guess I was about 13 or 14) but I knew I wanted to be in electronics. I had the bug, it came naturally, I was good at it.

I finally did manage to get close to the civillian space program when I worked on a contract my company had at Goddard. I was responsible for a VAX 11/780 that took the initial checkout data from shuttle payloads before it was turned over to the "customer". It was in a cool spot, though. I got to walk past the cleanroom where Galileo spacecraft was being checked out. There was also a full scale mock-up of the shuttle cargo bay they used for figuring out stowage on missions. The coolest thing, though, was a three story acoustic chamber designed to simulate launch vibration on payloads. Imagine a room three stories tall with cone speakers 5 feet across up the walls. It was the sub-woofer from hell. They would pump in energy at about 11Hz, if I remember correctly, and crank it up and see what fell off.

Those were fun days. To be young again.

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 3:09 am

cowboyangel wrote:I've been in space and on mountains....so does that mean I qualify as a visitor?

more along the lines of an alien.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 10:31 am

Simply Joel wrote:
cowboyangel wrote:I've been in space and on mountains....so does that mean I qualify as a visitor?
more along the lines of an alien.

this is true, as a proud resident of one of the shining blue states, I do indeed feel like a resident alien nowadays...
gotta listen to Elvis' Blue Christmas ' now (glad it ain't a 'red' Christmas)(..though I do miss the good old commies in the world political scene) ( interesting how the 'red' states have become the new replacement icon for the 'red commies') now)

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:29 pm

What parts

I am doing media for lift-B

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:46 pm

stuart wrote:
What parts
I am doing media for lift-B

can we get that in plain english? Or would that be spilling trade secrets?

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:46 pm

cowboyangel wrote:
Simply Joel wrote:
cowboyangel wrote:I've been in space and on mountains....so does that mean I qualify as a visitor?
more along the lines of an alien.
this is true, as a proud resident of one of the shining blue states, I do indeed feel like a resident alien nowadays...
gotta listen to Elvis' Blue Christmas ' now (glad it ain't a 'red' Christmas)(..though I do miss the good old commies in the world political scene) ( interesting how the 'red' states have become the new replacement icon for the 'red commies') now)

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/ ... 0/map.html

it is interesting how Kerry carried the coastal/urbans counties but did not the inner counties.

hmmmmm, do people in the interior know something the folks on the coast don't?

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:51 pm

do people in the interior know something the folks on the coast don't?

all the data actually points to the opposite being true.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:55 pm

english

a lift on a rollercoaster is the ratchety thingie that takes you up. It goes clack clack clack clack clack

in spc mtn there are 3 lifts. Lift B is the longest taking you up 70 steps.

media:the middle coat of the wall of a blood or lymph vessel consisting chiefly of circular muscle fibers

somehow I don't think that fits. I am doing various visual effects for the lift.

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:57 pm

stuart wrote:
do people in the interior know something the folks on the coast don't?
all the data actually points to the opposite being true.

or the other way around.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:57 pm

Simply Joel wrote: hmmmmm, do people in the interior know something the folks on the coast don't?

Do people on the coasts (east and west, not gulf) know something that people in the interior don't.
Do people who live in places with blizzards know something that people who live in places with typhoons don't?
Do people who live in glass houses know something that people who live in stone houses don't?
Do people who live on the canyon walls know something that people who live on the steppes don't?
Do people who live on live volcanos know something that people on coral reefs don't?
Do people who live on ranches know something that people who live on subsitantance farms don't?
Do people who live on pensions know something that people who live on trust funds don't?
Do people who live on stilts know something that people who live on houseboats don't?
Do people who live on MTV's The Real World know something that people who live on Surreal Life don't?
Do people who live on 3playa know something that people who live on eplaya don't?
Do people who live on a shoestring know something that people who live on bootstraps don't?
Do people who live on houseboats know something that people who live in treehouses don't?
Do people who live on rice and beans know something that people who live on sorgum don't?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:59 pm

stuart wrote:
english
a lift on a rollercoaster is the ratchety thingie that takes you up. It goes clack clack clack clack clack

in spc mtn there are 3 lifts. Lift B is the longest taking you up 70 steps.

media:the middle coat of the wall of a blood or lymph vessel consisting chiefly of circular muscle fibers

somehow I don't think that fits. I am doing various visual effects for the lift.

Steps being the clacks? Thanks for the clarification. It sort of meant what I thought it might but professional argot can be strange.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:24 pm

geekster wrote:
I used to dig through the dumpster of the TV repair shop up the street and salvage tossed out TV and radio chassis for parts. I became expert at removing the parts without damaging the leads. I didn't have money to buy the parts so I had to make do.

Those were fun days. To be young again.

Yeah. The mystery was there then. I remeber big 2 watt resistors and the smell of the dust cooking on the mellting solder. I didn't want to go to school for it, just play with it and see what would happen when I touched the dry cell power to different components.

At 18, I got a job at Hughes Aircraft. I was doing pickup and delivery for the calibration department and so I was everywhere among the satelites and sidewinder missle parts. By that time I was in to playing in new wave bands so I had lost interest and the engineers there seemed so square. I thought they would be like Buckaroo Banzai. Now it is all so romantic to look back on those times, and I have become even more square than the brilliant engineers I could not relate to then.