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| Chuck Riggs... |
 Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:26 am |
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On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:06:25 +1300, "PaulJK"
<paul.kriha at (no spam) paradise.net.nz> wrote:
[quote:9956b6606e]Chuck Riggs wrote:
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:22:42 -0700, Evan Kirshenbaum
kirshenbaum at (no spam) hpl.hp.com> wrote:
Chuck Riggs <chriggs at (no spam) eircom.net> writes:
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...I've often seen him
riled. Am I wrong, Evan?
It happens, but I like to think that I *tend* to be even-tempered.
You tend to be fair, I would say. I hope that is also true of me, at
least most of the time.
I'll cop to "sarcastic", though.
Fair enough and I can be the same, but will sarcasm enhance our
chances of getting to allegorical heaven?
Oh, yeah, sure it will. 
[/quote:9956b6606e]
Glory, hallelujah.
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Regards,
Chuck Riggs,
who speaks AmE, lives near Dublin, Ireland,usually spells in BrE
and hasn't corrected his email address yet |
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| Peter T. Daniels... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:19 am |
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On Oct 15, 2:26 pm, Adam Funk <a24... at (no spam) ducksburg.com> wrote:
[quote:2dacb1eab7]On 2009-10-09, Joe Fineman wrote:
"Peter T. Daniels" <gramma... at (no spam) verizon.net> writes:
Or, as Chomsky put it half a century ago, "Flying planes can be
dangerous."
W. H. Auden was delighted to discover that an article in _Scientific
American_ titled "Cleaning Shrimp" was not about how to clean shrimp,
but about shrimp that clean fish by eating parasites off them.
You do NOT want to get _Scientific American_ mixed up with _The Joy of
Cooking_. Keep them on separate shelves, just to be safe.
[/quote:2dacb1eab7]
Cleaning shrimp was the first or second challenge on this season's
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| Nicko... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:16 pm |
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On Oct 15, 4:31 pm, "Otto Bahn" <e... at (no spam) eio.com> wrote:
[quote:154caff52f]"Peter T. Daniels" <gramma... at (no spam) verizon.net> wrote
Or, as Chomsky put it half a century ago, "Flying planes can be
dangerous."
W. H. Auden was delighted to discover that an article in _Scientific
American_ titled "Cleaning Shrimp" was not about how to clean shrimp,
but about shrimp that clean fish by eating parasites off them.
You do NOT want to get _Scientific American_ mixed up with _The Joy of
Cooking_. Keep them on separate shelves, just to be safe.
Cleaning shrimp was the first or second challenge on this season's
Hell's Kitchen.
How much do cleaning shrimp cost? My kitchen is a mess.
--oTTo--
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Photographers sometimes use a thing called a "slave" which sets off a
remote flash wirelessly when it detects the light from another
"master" flash. Some of them are about the size of a matchbook and
fit on the hot shoe mount of a portable flash unit, so you can control
any number of flashes from a flash on your camera. I found them
useful when photographing concerts, except sometimes cigarette
lighters will set them off.
Anyway, many years ago I needed to replace one of mine slave units, so
I walked into a camera store and told the dude in lighting, "I'm
looking for one of those little slaves that you use..."
"Aren't we all?!" he grinned.
We laffed!
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| Adam Funk... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:26 pm |
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On 2009-10-09, Joe Fineman wrote:
[quote:9b7116878c]"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim at (no spam) verizon.net> writes:
Or, as Chomsky put it half a century ago, "Flying planes can be
dangerous."
W. H. Auden was delighted to discover that an article in _Scientific
American_ titled "Cleaning Shrimp" was not about how to clean shrimp,
but about shrimp that clean fish by eating parasites off them.
[/quote:9b7116878c]
You do NOT want to get _Scientific American_ mixed up with _The Joy of
Cooking_. Keep them on separate shelves, just to be safe.
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Civilization is a race between catastrophe and education.
[H G Wells] |
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| Otto Bahn... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:31 pm |
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"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim at (no spam) verizon.net> wrote
[quote:72671c9b0d]Or, as Chomsky put it half a century ago, "Flying planes can be
dangerous."
W. H. Auden was delighted to discover that an article in _Scientific
American_ titled "Cleaning Shrimp" was not about how to clean shrimp,
but about shrimp that clean fish by eating parasites off them.
You do NOT want to get _Scientific American_ mixed up with _The Joy of
Cooking_. Keep them on separate shelves, just to be safe.
[/quote:72671c9b0d]
<Cleaning shrimp was the first or second challenge on this season's
<Hell's Kitchen.
How much do cleaning shrimp cost? My kitchen is a mess.
--oTTo-- |
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| Bryce Utting... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:52 pm |
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Adam Funk <a24061 at (no spam) ducksburg.com> wrote:
[quote:24f1df0421]W. H. Auden was delighted to discover that an article in _Scientific
American_ titled "Cleaning Shrimp" was not about how to clean shrimp,
but about shrimp that clean fish by eating parasites off them.
You do NOT want to get _Scientific American_ mixed up with _The Joy of
Cooking_. Keep them on separate shelves, just to be safe.
[/quote:24f1df0421]
ditto Scientific American and The Joy of Sex, but in that case it's
'cos Randall from xkcd would get upset about being copied.
butting
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http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~butting
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| Otto Bahn... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:45 am |
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Slaves work because 1) Light is so fast, and 2) the originating flash
is not instanteous in duration. Bugs Bunny notwithstanding.
In other news, I got a brand new pair of skates.
--oTTo-- |
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| R H Draney... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:16 pm |
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Otto Bahn filted:
[quote:f80647ed96]
Slaves work because 1) Light is so fast, and 2) the originating flash
is not instanteous in duration. Bugs Bunny notwithstanding.
In other news, I got a brand new pair of skates.
[/quote:f80647ed96]
Do you keep them next to your combine harvester?...r
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A pessimist sees the glass as half empty.
An optometrist asks whether you see the glass
more full like this?...or like this? |
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| Mark Edwards... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:34 pm |
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Otto Bahn filted:
[quote:d951395f76]In other news, I got a brand new pair of skates.
[/quote:d951395f76]
No cluons were harmed when R H Draney wrote:
[quote:d951395f76]Do you keep them next to your combine harvester?
[/quote:d951395f76]
You should, so you can stay ahead of the harvester when it goes rogue.
Mark Edwards
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Proof of Sanity Forged Upon Request |
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| Nicko... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:53 pm |
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On Oct 16, 8:45 am, "Otto Bahn" <e... at (no spam) eio.com> wrote:
[quote:454b30431e]Slaves work because 1) Light is so fast, and 2) the originating flash
is not instanteous in duration. Bugs Bunny notwithstanding.
[/quote:454b30431e]
Please for to explaining "instantaneous duration".
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| Adam Funk... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:53 pm |
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On 2009-10-16, Mark Edwards wrote:
[quote:6939b1752d]
Otto Bahn filted:
In other news, I got a brand new pair of skates.
No cluons were harmed when R H Draney wrote:
Do you keep them next to your combine harvester?
You should, so you can stay ahead of the harvester when it goes rogue.
[/quote:6939b1752d]
Don't drink scrumpy & drive.
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times," replied Dramoren. "Librarians are the last line of defence
against chaos." (McMullen 2001) |
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| Chuck Riggs... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:41 am |
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:53:30 -0700 (PDT), Nicko
<nervous.nick at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
[quote:98d8bfa750]On Oct 16, 8:45 am, "Otto Bahn" <e... at (no spam) eio.com> wrote:
Slaves work because 1) Light is so fast, and 2) the originating flash
is not instanteous in duration. Bugs Bunny notwithstanding.
Please for to explaining "instantaneous duration".
[/quote:98d8bfa750]
For information on the application and mathematics of Dirac Delta
functions, which is what you are alluding to, see:
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~rickert/Classes/ma222/Wint0102/dirac.pdf
[alt.religion.kibology, which sounds dodgy to me, deleted]
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Regards,
Chuck Riggs,
who speaks AmE, lives near Dublin, Ireland,usually spells in BrE
and hasn't corrected his email address yet |
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| Peter Moylan... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:45 pm |
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Chuck Riggs wrote:
[quote:ebb13c4c53]On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:53:30 -0700 (PDT), Nicko
nervous.nick at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
On Oct 16, 8:45 am, "Otto Bahn" <e... at (no spam) eio.com> wrote:
Slaves work because 1) Light is so fast, and 2) the originating flash
is not instanteous in duration. Bugs Bunny notwithstanding.
Please for to explaining "instantaneous duration".
For information on the application and mathematics of Dirac Delta
functions, which is what you are alluding to, see:
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~rickert/Classes/ma222/Wint0102/dirac.pdf
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Not a bad article, but the Wikipedia article on the subject is more
professionally done.
<ducks>
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Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org
For an e-mail address, see my web page. |
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| Otto Bahn... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:41 am |
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"Nicko" <nervous.nick at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote
[quote]Slaves work because 1) Light is so fast, and 2) the originating flash
is not instanteous in duration. Bugs Bunny notwithstanding.
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<Please for to explaining "instantaneous duration".
The universe works because it doesn't really exist except as
an abstract concept. In this case it is because the original
flash lasts long enough to still be shining after the slaves
are activated.
Bugs Bunny, however, flouts the laws of physics. That's what
the man said! You heard what he said!
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| Adam Funk... |
| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:30 pm |
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Bryce Utting wrote:
[quote]You do NOT want to get _Scientific American_ mixed up with _The Joy of
Cooking_. Keep them on separate shelves, just to be safe.
ditto Scientific American and The Joy of Sex, but in that case it's
'cos Randall from xkcd would get upset about being copied.
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....with a few excerpts of _The Art of Computer Programming_ thrown in
(probably from Volume 3).
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Oh, I do most of my quality thinking on the old sandbox. [Bucky Katt] |
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