Banana plugs and jacks

John Larkin <jjla...@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 18:34:58 -0500, Tim Wescott
seemywebsite@myfooter.really> wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 08:40:47 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:12:42 -0500, Tim Wescott
seemywebsite@myfooter.really> wrote:

On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:17:16 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 06:51:06 -0700 (PDT), George Herold
ghe...@teachspin.com> wrote:

OK this is a silly question.
You've got banana plugs and jacks... which is the female and which
male.

(I can find it both ways online.)

George H.

A plug is almost always male. SMB connectors are perverted. Or
transgendered. Or something.

I don't think that people from San Francisco

Actually, I'm *from* New Orleans, which has traditionally been a pretty
gay place too. Everybody has a "batchelor" uncle or school teacher or
two.


can say "perverted" and
"transgendered" in the same sentence without a "definitely not" in
between.

But I just did. Maybe I should have used "transconductance" when
referring to a reverse-sex connector.

I used "queer" before it was popular.

Isn't there some sort of cultural police down there that'll have your
balls -- uh, I mean, that'll inflict some politically correct form of
censure upon you?

There are some crazies that get press, but most people that I know,
straight and gay, have a sense of humor about themselves.

My nextdoor neighbor is gay. He lets me use his chain saw. A piece of
fence was rotten so we replaced it with a gate, so we can combine our
back yards and let the dogs run around. Lots are so small here (most are
24' wide) that people sometimes combine and share back yards.

To pull two not-at-random quotes about your respective cities:

Back before the crash of 08, when the Embedded Systems Conference would
give you an honorarium for speaking that was enough to cover travel costs
if you were frugal, I suggested that someone come to my talk "No", came
the answer "my employer doesn't pay for business trips to San Francisco
because they figure that it's all gay bars and strip joints".

There are lots of gay bars (and our preference, Irish dive bars) but
fewer and fewer strip clubs. The strip clubs are all turning into
restaurants.

Around the same time I was friends with a co-worker, a mechanical
engineer who originally hailed from Northern Louisiana. I mentioned at
one point about trips to New Orleans, and he said "I didn't get down
there that much -- folks in Northern Louisiana kinda view that part of
the world as a cesspit of depravity".

I worked for a company in New Orleans that really entertained
prospective
customers. The important visitors knew that they would be
taken
out for a drink, and would accidentally meet a beautiful young
lady,
and would get very friendly. Every time.

So, you moved from the Cesspit of Depravity on the Gulf to the Cesspit of
Depravity on the Pacific.

There's depravity everywhere. New Orleans has a latin approach
to living, admittedly not Bible Belt, but it's not especially depraved,
nothing like New York or LA. But the weather is better here. The
people are smarter, too.

Its tough to say if you can compare the smarts of Silicon Valley and NYC. People interested in only electronics like Silicon Valley, but people concerned only with 'the bottom line' no matter what the industry is might drift to New York.
I don't see how you could compare who's the worst cesspool. I remember hearing that the more religious states out west statistically spend the most time on adult websites
(if that's any indication).

 

[rickman]

Ian Field wrote on 6/17/2016 4:19 PM:

"George Herold" <gherold@teachspin.com> wrote in message
news:c67c3a18-dc6d-409c-b288-18bbd149a32a@googlegroups.com...
On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 9:58:59 AM UTC-4, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article <fcc1ad4e-c315-473a-a981-e691674a282a@googlegroups.com>,
gherold@teachspin.com says...

OK this is a silly question.
You've got banana plugs and jacks... which is the female and which > male.

(I can find it both ways online.)

George H.


They are the same with most any other plug and jack. The hole is the
female and the part that is inserted into the hole is the male.

I understand male and female :^)
I guess I've always called these backwards though...
I've been calling the male part the jack...
Oh well.

Its kindov obvious unless you've never had sex.........................

This *is* an electronics group... I'm just sayin'...

--

Rick C

Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms,
on the centerline of totality since 1998

 

[Jasen Betts]

On 2016-06-16, George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> wrote:

On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 9:58:59 AM UTC-4, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article <fcc1ad4e-c315-473a-a981-e691674a282a@googlegroups.com>,
gherold@teachspin.com says...

OK this is a silly question.
You've got banana plugs and jacks... which is the female and which male.

(I can find it both ways online.)

George H.


They are the same with most any other plug and jack. The hole is the
female and the part that is inserted into the hole is the male.

I understand male and female :^)
I guess I've always called these backwards though...
I've been calling the male part the jack...

"Jack" is a male name but "jack" is a female connector it's just one of
those arbirary things about language.

--
This email has not been checked by half-arsed antivirus software

 

[M Philbrook]

In article <ovq7af$uks$2@gonzo.alcatraz>, jasen@xnet.co.nz says...

On 2016-06-16, George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> wrote:
On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 9:58:59 AM UTC-4, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article <fcc1ad4e-c315-473a-a981-e691674a282a@googlegroups.com>,
gherold@teachspin.com says...

OK this is a silly question.
You've got banana plugs and jacks... which is the female and which male.

(I can find it both ways online.)

George H.


They are the same with most any other plug and jack. The hole is the
female and the part that is inserted into the hole is the male.

I understand male and female :^)
I guess I've always called these backwards though...
I've been calling the male part the jack...

"Jack" is a male name but "jack" is a female connector it's just one of
those arbirary things about language.

Hey, that's correct.

It's called a Jack because its a hole for Jack to jack off, as you now
understand it.

Don't ever believe anyone if they tell you I don't know Jack Shit!,
because they maybe correct!

I just hope your real name isn't Jack, because I don't know Jack Squot,
ether!

Jamie

 

[Phil Hobbs]

On 11/30/2017 07:21 PM, Jasen Betts wrote:

On 2016-06-16, George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> wrote:
On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 9:58:59 AM UTC-4, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article <fcc1ad4e-c315-473a-a981-e691674a282a@googlegroups.com>,
gherold@teachspin.com says...

OK this is a silly question.
You've got banana plugs and jacks... which is the female and which male.

(I can find it both ways online.)

George H.


They are the same with most any other plug and jack. The hole is the
female and the part that is inserted into the hole is the male.

I understand male and female :^)
I guess I've always called these backwards though...
I've been calling the male part the jack...

"Jack" is a male name but "jack" is a female connector it's just one of
those arbirary things about language.

The jack is the less-mobile half--a male panel-mount BNC (as used in
Pomona boxes, for instance) is a jack too.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

http://electrooptical.net
https://hobbs-eo.com

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 11:59:16 -0500, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

On 11/30/2017 07:21 PM, Jasen Betts wrote:
On 2016-06-16, George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> wrote:
On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 9:58:59 AM UTC-4, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article <fcc1ad4e-c315-473a-a981-e691674a282a@googlegroups.com>,
gherold@teachspin.com says...

OK this is a silly question.
You've got banana plugs and jacks... which is the female and which male.

(I can find it both ways online.)

George H.


They are the same with most any other plug and jack. The hole is the
female and the part that is inserted into the hole is the male.

I understand male and female :^)
I guess I've always called these backwards though...
I've been calling the male part the jack...

"Jack" is a male name but "jack" is a female connector it's just one of
those arbirary things about language.


The jack is the less-mobile half--a male panel-mount BNC (as used in
Pomona boxes, for instance) is a jack too.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

So these

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fxeb8vh04nosf3k/IMG_1235.JPG?dl=0

are male jacks?

(Or were before they were broken.)





--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics

 

[Phil Hobbs]

On 12/02/2017 01:53 PM, John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 11:59:16 -0500, Phil Hobbs
pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

On 11/30/2017 07:21 PM, Jasen Betts wrote:
On 2016-06-16, George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> wrote:
On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 9:58:59 AM UTC-4, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article <fcc1ad4e-c315-473a-a981-e691674a282a@googlegroups.com>,
gherold@teachspin.com says...

OK this is a silly question.
You've got banana plugs and jacks... which is the female and which male.

(I can find it both ways online.)

George H.


They are the same with most any other plug and jack. The hole is the
female and the part that is inserted into the hole is the male.

I understand male and female :^)
I guess I've always called these backwards though...
I've been calling the male part the jack...

"Jack" is a male name but "jack" is a female connector it's just one of
those arbirary things about language.


The jack is the less-mobile half--a male panel-mount BNC (as used in
Pomona boxes, for instance) is a jack too.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs


So these

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fxeb8vh04nosf3k/IMG_1235.JPG?dl=0

are male jacks?

(Or were before they were broken.)

Well, those ones are more mobile than the instrument they connect to,
especially now.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs


--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

http://electrooptical.net
https://hobbs-eo.com

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 08:52:39 -0500, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

On 12/02/2017 01:53 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 11:59:16 -0500, Phil Hobbs
pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

On 11/30/2017 07:21 PM, Jasen Betts wrote:
On 2016-06-16, George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> wrote:
On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 9:58:59 AM UTC-4, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article <fcc1ad4e-c315-473a-a981-e691674a282a@googlegroups.com>,
gherold@teachspin.com says...

OK this is a silly question.
You've got banana plugs and jacks... which is the female and which male.

(I can find it both ways online.)

George H.


They are the same with most any other plug and jack. The hole is the
female and the part that is inserted into the hole is the male.

I understand male and female :^)
I guess I've always called these backwards though...
I've been calling the male part the jack...

"Jack" is a male name but "jack" is a female connector it's just one of
those arbirary things about language.


The jack is the less-mobile half--a male panel-mount BNC (as used in
Pomona boxes, for instance) is a jack too.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs


So these

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fxeb8vh04nosf3k/IMG_1235.JPG?dl=0

are male jacks?

(Or were before they were broken.)

Well, those ones are more mobile than the instrument they connect to,
especially now.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I actually (after five years) redesigned the box to stop the
connectors breaking. We shipped the first articles about 6 months ago.


--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics