In message <op.sum00tk3mg0lsf@tu-x2pj5qeyp2u4>
"Stefan Trethan" <
stefan_trethan@...> wrote:
> When do you think will we have a setting in our browsers/mail software
> "Favorite Deity:" and it really automatically replaces %DEITY with it?
>
> That really had me laughing..
Actually, I started using it after I accidentally started a flamewar by
saying "But thank God <x>." Someone said something along the lines of "That's
blasphemous", followed by someone else arguing that it wasn't, followed by
various other things along the lines of "But what about the [other religion]
folks?" and such... ISTR it degenerated to such a degree that I got warned by
the list admin not to do it again, reference to religion was added to the "Do
Not Do This!" part of the list charter, and %DEITY came in to use on that
particular list...
Personally, I think some of my taglines are funnier, but no-one ever looks at
them. Stuff like:
Engineers do it in Volts
Oscillators don't, amplifiers do
Hackers do it with bugs
I'll take your 20kV and raise you 200kV. Go on, step off that plate. I dare you.
"High voltage? Yeah right. I can hold this wire with my fing.. YEAAGH!" ∗thud∗
I was going to procrastinate, but I put it off until later.
.. and stuff like that. I'll probably upload my tagline file to my website at
some point. Problem is, I just keep adding to it :)
> As for the dremel, you seem to have had luck. Sideloads should be ok, i
> think those are constructed with the bearings wide apart front/back of
> motor.
Well, as long as it'll take a reasonable beating. I just don't want to end up
throwing it out of alignment and making it as bad as my old drill. Ideally
I'd like to keep the runout as close to zero as possible (i.e. "no worse than
it is now").
Next job: Work out how the heck to get those Harwin pins into a PCB. Methinks
it's time to modify an automatic centre punch.
Later.
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