cat barf on the rug

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 13:20:36 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 11:43:18 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

[snip]

Today, I'm supposed to be cleaning up my office. I spent the last 2
weeks installing a new Dell PC (XP sucks!), two days of that fighting
an intermittent floppy drive; I'd tell Dell what they did wrong if it
wasn't such a hassle to contact them. Things are a huge mess. Snarl.

John


I just buy from the local PC Club... ~$700 for a good P4 box with 1G
RAM and a big HD. I always buy without OS, then install Win2K Pro.

...Jim Thompson

I always buy Dells, two identical machines at a time, with dual hd's
and OS+Office+Acrobat installed. I install all my apps and stuff on
one at-work C drive, then mirror it to D, and also to C+D on my home
machine. I do daily backups from C to D on each machine, plus backups
to servers, plus burn DVDs. Maybe I'll play with partitions this
time... I'll never fill a fraction of a 74G drive.

I hate typing anything twice.

Oh, did I mention that XP sucks? The old c-drive.lnk bug is still not
fixed, after 8 years! More bugs than a compost pit.

John

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 12:47:21 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

[snip]

I always buy Dells, two identical machines at a time, with dual hd's
and OS+Office+Acrobat installed. I install all my apps and stuff on
one at-work C drive, then mirror it to D, and also to C+D on my home
machine. I do daily backups from C to D on each machine, plus backups
to servers, plus burn DVDs. Maybe I'll play with partitions this
time... I'll never fill a fraction of a 74G drive.

I hate typing anything twice.

Oh, did I mention that XP sucks? The old c-drive.lnk bug is still not
fixed, after 8 years! More bugs than a compost pit.

John

That's why I stopped at Win2K.

I backup critical files to other machines on the network, plus
periodically write CD's... I haven't decided if DVD's have reached
"standardization" yet ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[RST Engineering (jw)]

I don't know what the hell difference it makes to you, but don't you
remember the sixth grade science teacher rubbing the glass rod with a cat
skin fur to make the little pith balls dance around?

Jim


"Harold Ryan" <hryan@chartermi.net> wrote in message
news:lZl3e.1724$OK6.356@fe03.lga...

> What does any of this nonsense have to do with electronics?

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 15:36:44 -0800, "RST Engineering \(jw\)"
<jim@rstengineering.com> wrote:

I don't know what the hell difference it makes to you, but don't you
remember the sixth grade science teacher rubbing the glass rod with a cat
skin fur to make the little pith balls dance around?

Jim


"Harold Ryan" <hryan@chartermi.net> wrote in message
news:lZl3e.1724$OK6.356@fe03.lga...

What does any of this nonsense have to do with electronics?

Yeth. May the cat pith on Harold Ryan's balls ;-)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 16:54:27 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 15:36:44 -0800, "RST Engineering \(jw\)"
jim@rstengineering.com> wrote:

I don't know what the hell difference it makes to you, but don't you
remember the sixth grade science teacher rubbing the glass rod with a cat
skin fur to make the little pith balls dance around?

Jim


"Harold Ryan" <hryan@chartermi.net> wrote in message
news:lZl3e.1724$OK6.356@fe03.lga...

What does any of this nonsense have to do with electronics?


Yeth. May the cat pith on Harold Ryan's balls ;-)

...Jim Thompson

May you be healed of your devils:

http://www.godchannel.com/ahriman.html

Love,
Rich

for further information, please visit http://www.godchannel.com

 

[Active8]

On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:34:06 GMT, Genome wrote:

"John Larkin" <jjSNIPlarkin@highTHISlandPLEASEtechnology.XXX> wrote in
message news:n6rq41htee971lgrgbt4gmqvpkj6l6o73d@4ax.com...

We've decided that the best thing to do for cat barf on the rug is
to
let it dry for a couple of days, then lift it up with a spatula.

John


Silly.

If you keep an eye on your cat then you will see the barf warning
signs.

Lies down straight. opens jaws, like a yawn..... toungue comes out.
Sides of stomach start to go wobble wobble wobble. Retches a bit then
SPUKE.

There is enough time to grab a newspaper and stick it in the kill
zone.

Mind you..... I'll just mention that cats spuke a lot because of hair
balls. If you got yourself a pet comb and gave the cat a daily groom
then it probably wouldn't spuke so much.

They also like it.

LOL! You're excellent. There's one other solution, which you

saliently imply. Not having a cat.
--
Best Regards,
Mike

 

[John Larkin]

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 01:55:35 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
<rtp@example.net> wrote:

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 16:54:27 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 15:36:44 -0800, "RST Engineering \(jw\)"
jim@rstengineering.com> wrote:

I don't know what the hell difference it makes to you, but don't you
remember the sixth grade science teacher rubbing the glass rod with a cat
skin fur to make the little pith balls dance around?

Jim


"Harold Ryan" <hryan@chartermi.net> wrote in message
news:lZl3e.1724$OK6.356@fe03.lga...

What does any of this nonsense have to do with electronics?


Yeth. May the cat pith on Harold Ryan's balls ;-)

...Jim Thompson

May you be healed of your devils:

http://www.godchannel.com/ahriman.html

Love,
Rich

for further information, please visit http://www.godchannel.com

Hey Rich,

There's a pic for you in a.b.s.e.

John

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 14:42:35 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 01:55:35 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
rtp@example.net> wrote:

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 16:54:27 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 15:36:44 -0800, "RST Engineering \(jw\)"
jim@rstengineering.com> wrote:

I don't know what the hell difference it makes to you, but don't you
remember the sixth grade science teacher rubbing the glass rod with a cat
skin fur to make the little pith balls dance around?

Jim


"Harold Ryan" <hryan@chartermi.net> wrote in message
news:lZl3e.1724$OK6.356@fe03.lga...

What does any of this nonsense have to do with electronics?


Yeth. May the cat pith on Harold Ryan's balls ;-)

...Jim Thompson

May you be healed of your devils:

http://www.godchannel.com/ahriman.html

Love,
Rich

for further information, please visit http://www.godchannel.com


Hey Rich,

There's a pic for you in a.b.s.e.

Yeah, got it. I like it!

Cheers!
Rich

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:45:00 GMT, Active8 <reply2group@ndbbm.net>
wrote:

On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 19:48:44 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:30:01 GMT, Active8 <reply2group@ndbbm.net
wrote:

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 13:12:40 -0500, Active8 wrote:
LOL! You're excellent. There's one other solution, which you
saliently imply. Not having a cat.

Sorry. When I first came across that word was in the coontext of the
Salient Wolf - a tavern in a Conan book. I looked it up and it said
- Poised. Ready to strick. Perhaps a better word in this case is
subtle.

There's the "salient pole" generator, too.

Hmmm. I found a ppt presentation on rotating machines that mentions
it, but couldn't figure out what is "salient" about the poles
[ethnic jokes?... go for it]. Any thoughts?

One meaning of "salient" is "Projecting or jutting beyond a line or
surface; protruding." A salient-pole generator has mushroom-shaped
pole pieces with the coils wound on the skinny parts.

BTW, I lied - poor memory. I found my first book on electronics in
6th grade. It taught electron flow from neg to pos. At 6, I was
hooking up dry cells - somehow figured out that I could connect a
old phone handset carbon mic element to a speaker from one of my
disassemblies and a drycell. Didn't have a clue about current at
that time. The dry cells died and I went on with normal kid stuff
until that book addicted me. That was back when Poly Paks was
around. Popular Electronics, Radio Electronics.

It was later that I saw the pos to neg convention. Not in HS
classes. Maybe the Army. It's definitely taught in EE classes.

What was your experience with all that? Hobby, military, EE?

My uncle Sheldon was a womanizing rascal who was never seen without a
long-neck Dixie beer in his hand; he had cases of them delivered by
truck, like regular people used to get milk. He was a TV repairman who
liked to babysit me for some odd reason, and taught me how to solder,
sitting in his lap, when I was about 3. He learned electronics in the
army (radio operator/tech in WWII) and had good intuition, and taught
me tube electronics when I was a kid. I had an unlimited supply of
dead TV chassis to strip and build things from, plus when I was a kid
all sorts of military surplus was dirt cheap, and Heathkits of course
(but Eico had the best VTVM kit.)

I picked up transistor stuff from PopTronics and all the great old RCA
and GE and Sylvania and Raytheon books. I was always building bizarre
and dangerous things. Went to Tulane on scholarship and got a BSEE.
Been working since, and have my own company now. I'm fortunate that
I've never worked for a company that had decent marketing, so I've
been able to do all sorts of divergent stuff.

Electronics is fun. Charge flows from positive to negative; always
has, always will.

Today, I'm supposed to be cleaning up my office. I spent the last 2
weeks installing a new Dell PC (XP sucks!), two days of that fighting
an intermittent floppy drive; I'd tell Dell what they did wrong if it
wasn't such a hassle to contact them. Things are a huge mess. Snarl.

John

 

[Brian]

WHy lift it? I find after a month of walking on it, you can barely recognize
it as cat puke anymore. In fact, there may not really be any carpeting in my
livingroom, I vaguely remember a hardwood floor....