1) RPN calculators (I miss them so) 2) scientific instruments (GC, GC/MS, etc) 3) HP/UX
They don't make the calculators anymore and spun the scientific gear off into Agilent before the dot com bust. HP/UX is still kicking but getting less relevant every year.
I'd rather hand deliver my packets writtin in pencil on bricks than live somewhere dependant on Qwest again. Those people could'nt keep my phone line running during the two years I lived in New Mexico.
Six times in two years they turned me off for non-payment *after* clearing a check every single month.
4 times in two years they said my lines needed to be replaced. Once they said this one week after they had replaced them.
All this for phone service only. I had LOS-Wireless (IR I think) to my access provider (gotta love academia).
All of these stunts are grown from supressed creativity stewing in a high concentration of intelligence. Add equal parts boredom, youthful vigor, and raw dorkiness. Shake violently.
As an retired member of GSF, I am glad to see our lighthearted pranks and schemes get some of the credit they deserve.
I'll never forget sitting around around the Student Union Building with calculators and reference books trying to figure out expansion rates of various epoxies, volume of a giant statue-sized penis, and who had enough time between classes to carve a mold!
All this was done in the name of be-dildoing a main campus art piece just in time for parents to arrive for homecoming/49'ers!
I'll never forget the look on the sculpture instructor's face when we intruded upon her class to ask "70cm-ish long... 12 to 14cm-ish diameter... sort of round at one end... has to be flexible. Should we injection-mold, cast, or carve?" She put her head in her hands and sat down. The class looked at us like we just stepped out of a space ship, shouted hello in 407 languages, and pissed on their shoes. She said something like is this going where I think its going, told us how to make a proper cast/mold and then told not to damage the patina on the statue.
The best part was a student government official retrieving his "missing toy" from campus police the morning after the celebration! (I still am stunned the gave it to him "no questions asked!")
Ben, Danny, Becky, Andy, Eric, and all the others... (you know who you are) it was a blast.
This sounds familiar. I thought the Marines were supposed to destroy the world?!
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"Posers, idiots, and other creatures are thrown to the side, because difficult as though it may be to grasp, this culture is a meritocracy. You get what you work for... This concept is completely foriegn to most people, especially those that have been coddled through life."
Wow, ye olde "people are poor and uneducated because there lazy and stupid" response.
This is exactly the thinking that Katz is talking about. Me against the world, I am well off because I deserve it, etc.. Doesn't that sound a bit trite, because you only get one saving throw vs. stupid.
Rugged Individualism left pop philosophy when Teddy Roosevelt died.
BTW, this guy sounds just like my grandfather. He was a farmer not a technocrat. #/grin
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The first things that come to my mind are:
1) RPN calculators (I miss them so)
2) scientific instruments (GC, GC/MS, etc)
3) HP/UX
They don't make the calculators anymore and spun the scientific gear off into Agilent before the dot com bust. HP/UX is still kicking but getting less relevant every year.
... radiation really did make them an enemy of civilization after all.
Yes they did. I worked there when it happened. Most of the employees in the Web Hosting department were extremely unhappy about that.
so we should control it.
If you other countries would just have better politicians...
It's nice to know that at least *someone* didn't forget Poland.
liberating.
Hmm it appears that they are behind Syria and Iran.
I'd rather hand deliver my packets writtin in pencil on bricks than live somewhere dependant on Qwest again. Those people could'nt keep my phone line running during the two years I lived in New Mexico.
Six times in two years they turned me off for non-payment *after* clearing a check every single month.
4 times in two years they said my lines needed to be replaced. Once they said this one week after they had replaced them.
All this for phone service only. I had LOS-Wireless (IR I think) to my access provider (gotta love academia).
about wraps things up for SCO. We won't miss them one bit will we ;)
"Say goodnight, Gracie. Goodnight SCO."
"Feend a jub"
Will there be goatse? No one wants an internet where goatse is not a verb.
Congrats guys. SFB has come into its own.
All of these stunts are grown from supressed creativity stewing in a high concentration of intelligence. Add equal parts boredom, youthful vigor, and raw dorkiness. Shake violently.
As an retired member of GSF, I am glad to see our lighthearted pranks and schemes get some of the credit they deserve.
I'll never forget sitting around around the Student Union Building with calculators and reference books trying to figure out expansion rates of various epoxies, volume of a giant statue-sized penis, and who had enough time between classes to carve a mold!
All this was done in the name of be-dildoing a main campus art piece just in time for parents to arrive for homecoming/49'ers!
I'll never forget the look on the sculpture instructor's face when we intruded upon her class to ask "70cm-ish long... 12 to 14cm-ish diameter... sort of round at one end... has to be flexible. Should we injection-mold, cast, or carve?" She put her head in her hands and sat down. The class looked at us like we just stepped out of a space ship, shouted hello in 407 languages, and pissed on their shoes.
She said something like is this going where I think its going, told us how to make a proper cast/mold and then told not to damage the patina on the statue.
The best part was a student government official retrieving his "missing toy" from campus police the morning after the celebration! (I still am stunned the gave it to him "no questions asked!")
Ben, Danny, Becky, Andy, Eric, and all the others... (you know who you are) it was a blast.
*sigh* I miss it sadly enough
bouncer
I think you mean shakedown.
This sounds familiar. I thought the Marines were supposed to destroy the world?!
"Posers, idiots, and other creatures are thrown to the side, because difficult as though it may be to grasp, this culture is a meritocracy. You get what you work for... This concept is completely foriegn to most people, especially those that have been coddled through life."
Wow, ye olde "people are poor and uneducated because there lazy and stupid" response.
This is exactly the thinking that Katz is talking about. Me against the world, I am well off because I deserve it, etc.. Doesn't that sound a bit trite, because you only get one saving throw vs. stupid.
Rugged Individualism left pop philosophy when Teddy Roosevelt died.
BTW, this guy sounds just like my grandfather. He was a farmer not a technocrat. #/grin