Re: Degrees of difficulty in electronic design

From: Active8 (reply2group_at_ndbbm.net)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 09:28:10 -0400

On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 05:41:03 GMT, Rich Grise wrote:

> Active8 wrote:
>> On 5 Aug 2004 13:54:14 -0700, Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
>>> Active8 <reply2group@ndbbm.net> wrote in message
>>>> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:03:20 +1200, terry wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>> Next time I buy a toilet, I am going to
>>>>> demand to try a working model.
>>>> Me too.
>>>>> And if it dont flush right when its
>>>>> installed, out it will come, at the suppliers expense.
>>>> Ditto. My place has one that requires up to 3 flushes. It's supposed
>>>> to be a water saving model, too!
>>>> My Uncle bought one that flushes with authority and doesn't make
>>>> much noise, either.
>>> The best toilet I have ever used was in a youth hostel in Paris, a few
>>> blocks away from the Louvre. I don't know if they had some sort of
>>> active flushing mechanism, but whatever it was, it wasn't gravity.
>>> When you you hit the flush button, it injected water like a Maxim gun
>>> then twirled around like a hurricane with perfect precision, then with
>>> massive suction and a triumphant roar, it swallowed every bit of its
>>> contents into its bowels.
>>> The showers, OTOH, left much to be desired.
>> Worst shower I had was in a *** hole Pakistani hotel in Houston,
>> TX. The damn shower head wa mounted on a straight pipe coming from
>> the wall. It blasted the paint off the opposite wall.
>> And of course they're always so low I have to bend my knees to get
>> under it, being 6'-1/4" tall.
>> Now some tell me it's hard water, but I always thought it was soft
>> water that made me feel like I still had soap on me. I hate that,
>> too.
>
> It's the soft water that leaves the film. With hard water, the
> soap/dirt suspension precipitates right out and rinses like right
> now.

It's a soap/oil suspension.
>
> I'm the same with my hands, but not about the water, but the soap.
> If I can't find any Boraxo, I use cleanser. I _hate_ having my hands
> greasier after I wash them than they were before, which is what that
> lanolin crap does. It's wonderful on long hair, however:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~entheos_engineering/RichPortrait.jpg

Mine kept getting caught in trees and underneath me working on my
van, so it's back to short for now.
>
> The local Motel 6 has showers I don't like. It's one knob, that
> turns. (not one of those fancy, 2-axis things, just a knob like
> one faucet.) It's some kind of three-way valve, which goes like,
> off--full-blast-cold----full-blast-hot
> and you adjust the temp. in between hot and cold somewhere, and
> it comes out at the full 140 PSI service pressure. Ouch!

BTDT. Don't like it either. I can live with the pressure, but it is
a bit much.

In Morganton, NC, though, they put us at the end of the line and hot
water was pretty scarce.
>
> Cheers!
> Rich 

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Best Regards,
Mike