Re: Computer programmers' habits in electronics


Rich Grise, but drunk wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:39:20 -0800, Tim Wescott wrote:
> > Ignoramus32515 wrote:
> >> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:28:17 -0800, Tim Wescott <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>Ignoramus32515 wrote:
> >>>>On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:31:08 GMT, Rich Grise, but drunk <yahright@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [will work for drugs, alcohol, and ***...]

Well, this PROVES you're not gay, despite your fondness for musicals...

<snip>

> I once came up with a three-line Eratosthenes sieve on the back of an
> envelope at a bus stop. I didn't memorize it, but it's almost trivial -

Three-line sieve of Eratosthenes? Do post do post!

It wouldn't happen to be...

int main(void){
DoSieve(); return 0;
}

, now, would it?


> HEY!! I just had a profound revelation! This is where the power of
> drawing a picture lies! Dood, it's so simple! I feel like this guy:
>
> ------------<begin excerpt from /usr/games/fortunes/fortunes2>-----------
> Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes of Harvard Medical School inhaled ether
> at a time when it was popularly supposed to produce such mystical or
> "mind-expanding" experiences, much as LSD is supposed to produce such
> experiences today. Here is his account of what happened:
> "I once inhaled a pretty full dose of ether, with the
> determination to put on record, at the earliest moment of regaining
> consciousness, the thought I should find uppermost in my mind. The mighty
> music of the triumphal march into nothingness reverberated through my
> brain, and filled me with a sense of infinite possibilities, which made me
> an archangel for a moment. The veil of eternity was lifted. The one great
> truth which underlies all human experience and is the key to all the
> mysteries that philosophy has sought in vain to solve, flashed upon me in
> a sudden revelation. Henceforth all was clear: a few words had lifted my
> intelligence to the level of the knowledge of the cherubim. As my natural
> condition returned, I remembered my resolution; and, staggering to my
> desk, I wrote, in ill-shaped, straggling characters, the all-embracing
> truth still glimmering in my consciousness. The words were these (children
> may smile; the wise will ponder): `A strong smell of turpentine prevails
> throughout.'"
> -- The Consumers Union Report: Licit & Illicit Drugs
> ------------<end excerpt from /usr/games/fortunes/fortunes2>-----------
>
> CHeers!
> Rich


Hey, try Ketamine! Let us know if there's life (bacterial or other
animal) around any of the nearer stars (within 100 light-years)... that
is, if you make it back alive, that is...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine

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