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On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 08:40:53 -0600, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On 06/08/2022 06:50 AM, Don Y wrote:
On 6/7/2022 8:31 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 06/07/2022 12:22 PM, Don Y wrote:
On 6/7/2022 7:56 AM, rbowman wrote:


Sue did it right and made a pilgrimage to NYC to learn how to make a
bagel.

I\'ve always wanted to try baking them. But, you need to want to eat
LOTS
of them to make it worth the effort!

They\'re a lot of work. You proof the dough, shape them, boil them, and
then you get around to baking them.

Yes. I\'m not afraid of the work (my cheesecake is a 5 hour stint at the
stove)
but, rather, consuming enough of them to justify the effort.

I thought about making cheesecake once but got stopped in my tracks when
I got to \'springform pan\'. I haven\'t had really good cheesecake in a
long time. My favorite espresso place had peanut butter cheesecake the
last time I was in. Not bad but not as good as it sounded.


Lots of interesting things go out of print pretty regularly. Two of my
favorites: _Mots d\'Heures: Gousses, Rames_ (you likely didn\'t catch the
joke and, thus, the intent) and _The Yum Yum Book_. Both are delightfully
creative!

I volunteered at the library in NH when they were thinning the herd. One
of the criteria for keeping a book was if it was in \'Books in Print\'. I
thought a better test would be if it was worthwhile and not in print. I
brought home a complete set of John Burrough\'s essays that were in the
discard pile.

Yes, of course... that makes sense -- NOT! It\'s a wonder that ANY student
gets an effective (albeit far from ideal!) education. Thankfully, I had
really good teachers along the way who \"found stuff\" with which to
challenge
me (as the \"standard fare\" was a big yawn)

I was fortunate. We didn\'t have \'junior high\' or \'middle school\' but the
math and science curriculum was spiced up after the nation suffered an
\'oh shit\' moment watching a Soviet beach ball orbiting. The high school
had an EC (enriched curriculum) program that I was in. It was sort of a
homegrown AP. RPI was literally across the street from the high school
so there was talent on tap.


Didn\'t you letter/dimension your drawings? Or, was the font entirely
composed of straight line segments?

http://www.behtek.com/DD/7-Alphabet.pdf

Single-stroke gothic. We may have done inclined in the Engineering
Drawing class but I never used it at work. Most of what I did was ladder
diagram electrical schematics, nothing fancy, and I had a complete set
of templates for limit switches, timers, control relays, and so forth.
Same thing when we got to solid state, templates for the various gates
and components.

I used to like writing with a Rapidograph. But, got tired of keeping them
clean. It did, however, cause me to invest more time in the act of writing
(as it made the results so much \"prettier\")

Never had one. It was all pencil, first with the lead holders and the
whirly-gig sharpeners then with the 0.5 mm type like Pentel that didn\'t
need sharpening.

I still draw schematics and mechanical stuff. I have a nice old wood
drafting table in front of a big window.

I draw mostly freehand on D size grid paper, and then other people
take over and CAD things and make them real. CAD entry slows me down.

The big drawings photograph pretty well, given the right paper and
pencils.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e6jccizmw51ixg2/V377_DAC.JPG?raw=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vv766ygplmbnzhx/P944_Sh2.jpg?raw=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yn9w8mtzidfk3ig/Driver_Sh_1.JPG?raw=1


Simpler stuff I can do on a gridded whiteboard and photograph that.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u8glp2jvq4gkljb/Isrc_cascode_Ib.JPG?raw=1



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Anybody can count to one.

- Robert Widlar