WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to JAMES BRADLEY, "Tap tap tap..."

 WC> Wish I'd paid attention to the psycho that swung a bat at me
 WC> from behind last year.
 WC> Split the back of my head open drenching me in blood.
 WC> No reason.

What the HECK is going on down there? I've a cousin there that married a
detective. Maybe I should buy him some spare bullets? I'm on the "Live and let
live" side, but sometimes you wonder if a smack on their head would knock any
sense in, or loosen another screw.
 WC> I was walking my Pit Bull but refrained from using his attack
 WC> command. I survived the bat attack and didn't want to risk
 WC> losing the dog had I given him the command.

And then you'd have been charged with a deadly weapon. Mind you, he made the
first move. JIMINY! I complain about the proliferation of nuts up here, but at
least if someone gets stabbed, we still hear about it in the news. There's been
a real increase of incidences here, I suspect because of all the young
wana-bes. Everyone's a 'tough guy'.

How they sleep at night, is beyond me.
 ->  WC> I got totally trashed by a guy named Eric ( near killed me)
 ->  WC> when defending a woman he attacked.
 ->  WC> This was well removed from the bar in geography and time so
 ->  WC> word didn't get around.

 -> First name basis with a woman beater, Wayne? 

 WC> I'd known him before.

Figured so much.
 -> Shoot... What you gonna do? He was being physical with
 -> her, and you tried to
 -> out-machismo him: He saw that as the threat, and took
 -> out the aggression on you
 -> instead of her? Man... that's a tough situation! I trust reasoning with him
 -> wasn't working?

 WC> Not a chance.
 WC> Well the girl WAS spared.
 WC> I spent the next 16 hours throwing up from the concussion every
 WC> 20 minutes, you could set your watch to it.

Cripes... Most of my damage was self induced meetings with pavement, but we are
too familiar with the consequences. What is going to teach compassion to these
numskulls? I read on another echo that trust was assumed when they were growing
up. Today we have to distrust. Wouldn't it be nice if... This tag "Do unto
others before they undo you." perturbs me, but eyes on the back of our heads
seems to be the new survival strategy.
 ->  WC> Hall Effect: the effect of a current in a wire to be affected
 ->  WC> by a perpendecular magnetic field.
 ->  WC> The effect is small so the sensors have very high gain
 ->  WC> amplifiers built right into them.

 -> Ah... So no switch, just a small coil, and op amp?

 WC> No coil but yes an op-amp.

 ->  WC> Radio Shack had their "P-Box" series of kits, one a 2
 ->  WC> transistor regenerative multiband radio performed rather
 ->  WC> spectacularly.

 -> Regenerative?

 WC> You got it, first FET infinate impedence detector, second FET
 WC> RF and audio amp.
 WC> regeneration controlled by a potentiometer.

See, with terms like Horizontal Output Transistors, (I learnt it as "High
Output".) and switching transformers, (I think I've heard linear... Am I
confused?) I never know if I'm gaining or losing ground. I'm definitely looking
in the library: Local, or public.

 ->  WC> I sued plastic insulators as suggested in the kit, wasn't long
 ->  WC> before moving on to Heath Kits.

 -> I never tried to "sue" a plastic insulator,

 WC> What can I say, dyslexic here, I see what's in my mind what I
 WC> intended to write not neccessarily WHAT I write.

I knew what you meant once I got into the sentence. I've somewhat a dichotomy
of keyboards I plug into this machine. This one - an MS 'Natural' - I almost
have to *slam* on for it to register, and the wireless - I have to breath on...
I get missing letters, or spurious ones all the time. Not to mention this
cocked off "home" position. Some of the spelling can be, um...
Interesting. <-;
 WC> I trashed all my prized experiment tools, instruments and parts
 WC> when last I moved five years ago as I can no longer sit at a
 WC> table or bench to mess with the stuff.

Table or bench??? That's FUNNY. You should see all the solder holes in the bed
sheets! When I was using a water-bed, I made a point of keeping a tray under my
work, mind you, there wasn't a whole lot of experimenting/parts to keep track
of.

 -> I'll sock away more knowledge on this stuff, I'm sure.
 -> Like always, I wish I
 -> had more. When Radio Shack started catering more to the consumer than the
 -> hobbyist, I sure picked up some deals on reference
 -> material and components.

 WC> Yeah, picked up a bunch of reference books for .50 cents to a
 WC> dollar myself about then

{-;
 -> Sweep/Marker I mentioned to Roy J. It's no wonder the tech at the hospital
 -> built one from kit, compared to purchasing one off the
 -> shelf. Today, with all
 -> the VLSI, it puts the *hobby* in a precarious position.

 WC> MY VTVM was a Knight kit and still worked.

Vert. Trace/Marker?

 -> [Without checking notes] Shared Secure Login?

 WC> I'm using it but don'tknow what ssl stands for except one s is
 WC> for secure.

Guess you don't *need* to know as long as it works. 
 -> what Heath used to produce. Usually it's just a flashing LED thingy.

 WC> Yeah, just junk, JameCo sells this sort of stuff.
 WC> www.amazing1.com has some interesting and dangerous stuff
 WC> Some of it works and some is BS, I built several of their items
 WC> from book schematics that worked.
 WC> ..

That one rings a bell.
 ->  WC> Had Linux -Win 98 dual boot on this box but my flaky hard
 ->  WC> Quantum 6.4 Gig croaked.

I read about that. Is it for sure bitched? I went through the same argument
here - I think. I had to delete the FAT partitioning a couple of times with
Linux's fdisk. But you aren't able to see it at all, right? You saw Pascal
mention the kernel buggery?

 WC> I need a standard ATX box and PS... some day maybe.

My last three cases are convertible ATX/AT. I'd still need a PS though, if
I picked up an ATX only MB.
 -> Truth is, it's more like, "You want it WHEN?" 

 WC> Yeah, know that feeling on fixed income.
 WC> The Pit Bull costs me 70 bucks a month amortizing food, medical
 WC> care, Frontline flea killer and Heart Guard.

They can be spectacular dogs! 
 WC> Guy has NEVER screwed up worse than getting into the kitchen
 WC> trash about 7 times over 13 years.

My last mutt was about the same. If I worked a 13 hour shift, I expected him to
let loose on the carpet, but he kept his messes to one location in the
basement. After one of those 13 hour shifts, I did come home to find him
comfortably nested in a feather down quilt, with a good portion of the feathers
on the outside of the quilt. My fault for not 'kennelling' him though. He
always had the run of the house.
 WC> Not at all like the horror stories you hear about the breed.

One acquaintance had the son of a pit champ. First meeting I was a little
tenuous about, but we made such fast friends, that his owner got jealous.
Proved to me, that it's not the bread, it's the owner. O-8


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