Re: Electronics - how to ruin a good hobby. A story with no morals...

I read in sci.electronics.design that Roger Lascelles <despam_rklasl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote (in <1125064444.2932fd09a9d0dd696d98b19d73fae7a7@teranews>) about 'Electronics - how to ruin a good hobby. A story with no morals...', on Fri, 26 Aug 2005:

My hope is to get more cunning - because the IQ goes down, not up, so I can't use that raw mental grunt I had in my twenties !

Don't you believe it! IQ isn't a single number, not even a vector and probably not even a quaternion. As you get older, the additional dimensions open up.
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Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
If everything has been designed, a god designed evolution by natural selection.
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