[sdiy] Re: S[DIY} frequency counter

[Jerry Gray-Eskue]

You had Time, Wow, we really could have used that....

... You kids had it so easy.

-----Original Message-----
From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of cheater cheater
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:05 PM
To: Tim Parkhurst
Cc: Dave Manley; Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Re: S[DIY} frequency counter


You kids had water? In my time, all we had was Higgs' bosons! We
didn't have electronics yet, because we didn't even have electrons
yet! And in order to get so much as a GLIMPSE of an electron we had to
break electroweak gauge symmetry with our imaginary arms, but we
couldn't do that, because our space didn't have dimensions yet! And
since there was no 'down', EVERY direction was uphill!!!

Them kids nowadays have it too easy.


D.

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 18:22, Tim Parkhurst <tim.parkhurst at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Magnus Danielson
> <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
>> Harry Bissell wrote:
>>>
>>> Make your own transistors ??? When I was a kid we had to mine copper ore
>>> from the hills with our bare hands, smelt it over a charcoal fire, then
>>> draw the wire out
>>> with our teeth...
>>
>> You had a copper ore?
>>
>> We had to bang rocks against each other and hope some metal of any kind
>> would eventually show itself.
>>
>>> (who remembers that thread ??? :^)
>>
>> (it always re-appear with some infrequent period on technical lists)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Magnus
>
> You had arms to bang rocks together with? In my day, we had to evolve
> arms from our fins, crawl out of the water (uphill both ways), evolve
> lungs and THEN find the rocks to bang together to make the ore to make
> the copper to make the wire.
>
> You kids have it so easy.
>
> Tim (don't even get me started on how tough it was to make our own
> germanium) Servo
> --
> "Sire, the church of God is an anvil that has worn out many hammers."
> - H.L. Hastings
> _______________________________________________
> Synth-diy mailing list
> Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy
>
_______________________________________________
Synth-diy mailing list
Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy