BS: The Mother of all BS threads

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jul 12 - 08:55 PM

Again I am faced with a ethical dilemma. I do not know what Manny Kant would say say. I mean, this is definitely a Tugendlehre problem.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jul 12 - 08:56 PM

Screw Manny...I've got DIBS!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jul 12 - 08:57 PM

45454!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 22 Jul 12 - 11:26 PM

You are a scurrilous dog and a mangy pike-snitch, a dungbeetle and a querulous jackdaw of a human being, Rapparree. I WANTED that spnner. Pfui!! :D

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jul 12 - 11:31 PM

I, good sir, had dibs!!

I did have a terrible wrasslin' match with my conscience but fortunately my conscience is a weak, puny li'l ole thing an' I whumped it right quick.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jul 12 - 11:37 PM

Amos, I did not realize how deeply you cared for it, how much it meant to the fulfillment of your life to have it. Therefore, by the authority and power invested in me as Mom's Favorite, I herewith declare and proclaim that Amos has dibs on 4545454 when it comes around. He may also have 66166, 66066 (both of them very nice spinners indeed, and 99199 and 99099 as well. 88188 and 88088 are already staked by Eiseley.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 22 Jul 12 - 11:59 PM

Oh, that's alright, man. I'm over it, ya know? You keep it.



A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jul 12 - 09:40 AM

No, no. I insist that you have those other numbers. You can have 314159265 as well.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 23 Jul 12 - 10:17 AM

Someone needs to, like, get a life, eh? That is what I am thinkin'. Anyways, I got dibs on the ONE number that really flippin' matters here. That's right, eh? And you know what it is? You don't, do youse? Maybe I won't even tell you. I will just swoop down and flippin' take it when the time comes and youse flipheads will have nothin' to do after that but take yer flippin' marbles and go home cryin', eh?

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 23 Jul 12 - 10:40 AM

Shane:

Why are you so angry all the time?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jul 12 - 04:09 PM

I was wondering the same thing, Amos. He's probably frustrated and his frustration fuels his anger. Perhaps with good counseling and a good course in Anger Management he could be happy.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 23 Jul 12 - 05:13 PM

I wonder--as an imaginary entity, would he have to go into imaginary past lives to contact the imaginary incidents which crushed his imaginary spirit so long ago, leaving him a karmic cauldron of bitter but imaginary hatred and frustration? Were his imaginary goals and purposes crushed by imaginary villains using overwhelming but imaginary force, suffocating his imaginary hopes?

   It is just too much to bear!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 23 Jul 12 - 07:11 PM

You flippers gotta be abowt the weerdest people I ever hearn of. Who says I am angry? Who? If I was angry I would be swearin' a lot more, eh? It would be FLIP YOU! and FLIP THIS! and FLIP THAT! and WHYNCHA FLIP RIGHT OFF, EH? YA FLIPPIN' BOLTHOLE!!!

See the differents? When I talk like that to the cops, they yewshally end up arrestin' me and chargin' me with a lotta stuff that ain't fair at all. Cops are waaaay oversensitive. I think people like that should not get a job like that becoz they are too oversensitive and they won't handle it right when they are, like, under pressure, eh? I would not have been arrested near as many times if it were not for these waaay oversensitive cops we got arownd here.

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jul 12 - 07:14 PM

Well, he is Canadian. That all by itself causes Canuck Syndrome, recognized by psychological associations and practioners around the world as a psychosociopathic abnormalization of the mind caused by snow, cold, and living in close-to-intimate contact with beavers and hockey.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jul 12 - 08:25 PM

In Shame's case, I think the "intimate" part applies to his relationship with beavers. I understand that he once suffered a bad case of venereal termites because of that, but the Canadian health people fixed him up with a wooden peg...soft wood.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 23 Jul 12 - 11:49 PM

Yeah, right...you go ahead and have yer stoopid fantasees, man. The real truth is that I rule and you are like last weeks' stale pizza crust that fell behind the cowch. NO one is gonna try a taste of that, eh? But me...I am a hole different story. I am the MAN arownd this town, eh? I am a legend! My name is knowed as far away as...well, places like Wawa and Elliot Lake, that's how far. (I got arrested drunk and disordairly in Wawa once, and fer borrowin' a pickup truck (just for 5 minutes!) in Elliot Lake.) I did not know that the bolthole with the pickup truck would turn out to be such a total dipwad! He called the cops on me. Unbe-flippin'-leevable! He shoulda spoke to me first and it alls woulda been okay, eh? In my own town people understand that I am the kinda guy who borrows a lotta stuff...but only when he really needs it...and only for as long as, like, totally nesissary too. So they mostly do not call the cops on me. They yewshally just call Don instead, and that is a hassle coz he thinks becoz he is the older flippin' brother that he has some kinda higher spot on the flippin' totum pole, know what I mean? That of coarse is total flippin' bullroar coz I got majer advantages in the looks department. I am not goin' BALD like Don is. I know it drives him crazy that I have all my hair and he is losin' most of his, but there is nothin' he can do abowt it. Ha! Ha! I find it hard to figger why all them girls hang arownd Don, but it is probally becoz by bein' arownd him they can be closer to ME. Yeah, that's gotta be it.

So anyway I.....uh....Flip!

...what was it were we talkin' abowt here?

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jul 12 - 01:00 AM

Venereal termites - dangerous to wood, correct? Then Shane should have nothing to worry about. Pickled wood will kill termites.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jul 12 - 09:25 AM

Pickled wood is kind of an oxymoron, no?

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jul 12 - 10:07 AM

So is Shame, no? Especially the "moron" part.

Q: Did you hear what happened to the Little Oxymoron did at Tim Hortons?
A: They kicked him out -- he was sober, clean, and had honest money!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jul 12 - 02:42 PM

The waves of change are coming. I am heading for Durham at the end of Spetember. I just had an interesting talk with a friend from my childhood I haven't spoken to in thirty years, who runs MIT's office in DC, interfacing with DARPA and such like things. Amazing, the things people get upo to behind your back when you're not looking.

It seems we sang the moon up in Tivili Gardens, Copenhagen with my sister one summer evening back in 1972, an event I forgot entirely.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jul 12 - 03:06 PM

Does Spetember come just before Otcober? Isn't Getaway at the end of Spetember? Don't you think you should invite him to Getaway? We need more DARPA bums there.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jul 12 - 10:52 PM

I b'leeve he is escorting his daughter to her year abroad studies in Europe at the time. But I love the concept of the DARPA Bums, and think he should write a book by that name, and will tell him so. Consider the idea thoroughly stolen!

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jul 12 - 09:46 AM

I am at work, in an office on the second floor, contemplating a complex circuit diagram for a two-channel amplifier which cleverly mixes frequencies. I could tellyou more but I would have to kill you. So of course, I will not.

Six weeks! And then the day of passage arrives. No wakeup call or half-sleeping commute, no login to the day's efforts. No more IP, no more IT, no more SOP, no more HR, no more R&D, no more P&L. All this, swept into the hen house of history.

What lies ahead?

For starters, plowing through twenty years of backlogged writing.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jul 12 - 09:53 AM

So basically your working on the same sort of thing Hedy Lamarr created around 1943, huh? And on only two frequencies? Geez, you're behind the times. No wonder they are forcing you to retire!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jul 12 - 01:57 PM

Sorry, misread your post. I'm glad that your frequency-skipping device will use more than two frequencies. And it was June 10, 1941 when frequency-switching patent was issued.

"In the United States Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil, shunned by the Navy, no longer pursued their invention. But in 1957, the concept was taken up by engineers at the Sylvania Electronic Systems Division, in Buffalo, New York. Their arrangement, using, of course, electronics rather than piano rolls, ultimately became a basic tool for secure military communications. It was installed on ships sent to blockade Cuba in 1962, about three years after the Lamarr-Antheil patent had expired. Subsequent patents in frequency changing, which are generally unrelated to torpedo control, have referred to the Lamarr-Antheil patent as the basis of the field, and the concept lies behind the principal anti-jamming device used today, for example, in the U.S. government's Milstar defense communication satellite system."

But I'm glad you're keeping busy.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jul 12 - 02:14 PM

There is a world of difference between frequency-skipping (used in radio links, for example, as a security measure inter alia) and mixing frequencies using local oscillators, which allows you to process the signals at a lower sample rate, and do other advantageous things with them. There is also a world of difference between two channels and two frequencies. We handle scores of frequencies ranging from 8 Hz to 500 kHz, for example, with the same instrument, many of them simultaneously such as when seeking passively for signals of opportunity within a wide band of possible frequencies.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jul 12 - 05:05 PM

Ah-HA!! I see!!! You're planning to tap GSM cellular phones!!!!! (The "for example" gave you away.)

I dove into the depths of packet switching and frequency switching once when I was trying to connect bookmobiles to the servers at the main library.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jul 12 - 09:38 PM

SCIATICCA!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jul 12 - 09:39 PM

8Hz. That's ELF range. You're spying on our submarines!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 12:53 AM

Yeah, but those ELFs are also used in energizing buried cables so their paths can be traced. The LFs make for longer-run transmissions before the energy dissipates and less bleed through onto adjacent conductors.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 09:11 AM

Sure, sure. I think your not only listening in on our nuclear submarines' communication but your low frequency stuff has inflamed gnu's sciatic nerve and is causing him the unendurable pain he is enduring.

You should, at the very least, apologize for causing him unendurable pain.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 09:23 AM

Rapp,

I suspect the sciatica inflammation was caused by Gnu suppressing his considerable rage at Chongo. Our instruments detect signals, they don't emanate. Well, the transmitters do, but they are usually direct-connected, and given the power cubed law the emanations wouldn't even reach gnu from here.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 11:39 AM

ANyway, I was listening in on some communications between nucelar submarines the other day and one of them remarked, "Oh, that Rapparree guy? THinks he's so high and mighty? Yeah, just 'cause he operates above sea level, he believes he has a dry wit...whaddya gonna do, ya know whaddImean?". The other submarine just nodded. I think it was on patrol or sompn.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 03:04 PM

Yeah, they talk about me all the time. And as for not causing gnu pain, don't forget that a receiver is just a transmitter in reverse. You plugged it in backwards and the seismic theta waves (to which he is very sensitive) are causing him to endure unendurable pain. I'd sketch the schematics for you but even MOAB has imposed limitations.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: gnu
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 03:06 PM

"suppressing his considerable rage at Chongo"

Ya know sompn I dunno?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 06:11 PM

Oh, heck. I'll just explain the schematic.

See, you got your power input. Power goes a through a line and into a squiggle thingie and out the other side, where there's a dark triangle with a heavy bar across the pointy end. Then there's a C-shape with a bar and a thing like the front of end of a music staff only there's no end of the measure and only four lines and they point down. Then there's some more of those triangle-bar thingies and some more squiggles. At one point the line goes down and there's a down-pointing triangle made of up some lines that get smaller and smaller. Anyway, there are some places where the lines make an upside-down U over other lines. And a line going up that has another triangle on it, flat side up with a line through the middle from left to right (or up and down, depending on how you're looking). In a couple of places the lines have a dot with a diagonal line coming up, a little gap, and the line continues on the other side.

That's pretty much it.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 06:32 PM

Silly mans! That's a digital switching transformer!!

Chongo working his voodoo on Gnu

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 08:49 PM

See? What did I tell you?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 09:26 AM

Mom! Get back up there and stop associating with those men and washing machines!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 01:37 PM

The night was dank, the weather, fell
And spirits wandewred in the dell
And scared the small birds from their trees
Where moonlight stopped their harmonies.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 01:49 PM

The trees was standin' stark and bare
Like a drunken man in his underwear
While up above the moon did leer
Upon the heather dark and dreer.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 02:08 PM

And in that curtain of moonlight
Up to the old inn door
Raparree came riding, riding,
And his butt was very sore.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 03:29 PM

The Inn was known as the Old Dun Cow
It was a place of ill repute
Where lawless men would congregate
To count their stolen loot

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 03:37 PM

Plunging into dishes and kitchen clutter in preparations for the weekend of canning jelly. And I made a bowl of yoghurt. I came up for air to skim the Chongo antics but I did see another reference to Amos' retirement. Amos, you'd better not be one of those folks who turns up his toes six months after he retires!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 05:22 PM

He won't do that. He can't count that high even with one hand.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 09:22 PM

No worries. I yam lining up enough projects to keep me dancing into my late eighties. :D

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 02:05 AM

But Stilly, I DO believe you and Rapp and several others of y'all should get to the Getaway this Fall.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 09:44 AM

Will you promise not to play the accordionpipes again? OR the bagordion?

I'll tell Eiseley...I'm going to the farmers' market and she pushes addictive substances there. "Here's some for free, kid...hehehe."

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 07:11 PM

It is I, the wanderig hero come
Far from the trumps, far from the drum,
Come from the Mexican valley far
Where the streets are stone, and the roads are tar.
Come to the home of the Mother high
To claim the hero's rightful pie
The 500th post of this K I claim
In sainted Isabella's name
And let no man demand I yield
Or meet me on the hero's field.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 07:24 PM

I wouldn't THINK of demanding that we meet on the heroes' field. You know how picky those doorkeepers are and I wouldn't want you embarrassed by exclusion.