Warren Oates hath wroth:
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Jeff Liebermann wrote:
Well, the WWVB transmitters are in Colorado. I'm in California. The
signals did not arrive via bus, truck, airplane, train, or carrier
pigeon. Lacking any other obvious transportation methods, I suspect
they arrived by electromagnetic propagation.
Someone should put together a digest of some of your more pithy sayings.
It's been done. One of my surviving former friends assembled such a
collection under the title of "Quotations of Chairman Jeff". It was
presented to me in manuscript form at a ceremonial roast (long story,
don't ask).
I assembled some of my early computah support horror stories and tech
poetry at:
http://www.LearnByDestroying.com/nooze/support.txt
http://www.LearnByDestroying.com/poetry/poetry.htm
I've stopped collecting such stories and writing poetry for fear that
I might stop, think, wake up, and immediately abandon the business for
something more sane.
I'm still chuckling over the one about "time is nature's way of making
sure things don't all happen at once" (that's from memory, I'm way too
lazy to actually look it up).
It's not original. "Time is natures way of keeping everything from
happening at once." I stole that from an engineer friend that worked
on Cesium clocks for HP. It was hanging on the wall in his cubicle.
Someone had scribbled under it "Take your time, but leave mine alone".
I believe the original quote was from Woody Allen, but there may have
been earlier versions.
This swarm thing, is this connected to some modern (or maybe not)
theories about "nothing is really analogue, everything is digital in its
own way"?
Digital is nothing more than an analog device with too much gain and
hysteresis, where the output is stuck at either high or low. Dig deep
enough into any digital contrivance, and you'll find analog devices
operating in this way. The real world is analog. (Just ask any
analog engineer).
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