On Wednesday 13 December 2006 23:18, Mike McCarty wrote: >Hadders wrote: >> Is that the sound of a dinosaur I hear roaring in the distance ;-) >> *just kidding, couldn't resist* > >I'm surprised Gene Heskitt hasn't chimed in yet... > Well, as dinosaur's go, I guess I sorta qualify. But now if I could just get folks to spell my name right... I've certainly done the dinosaur roar a time or two in my time, occasionally even getting someones attention whom I might not otherwise have. Funny part is, the last time I did that, to the outgoing Chief at a tv station I'd been sent to babysit while the new owners were getting all their ducks in a row, must have taken me 10 minutes to run down. When I was done, he said no one had ever explained it that way before, and then asked me if he could ask why the hell wasn't I teaching someplace? You see, here it seems I'm the eternal newbie. There I was in my element and could back it up with references if need be. The subject in that instance was the proper termination of a cable. Any cable would have sufficed, but in this case it was a video cable he had double terminated after I'd removed it on a previous visit. Because the cable lengths were accidentally correct, the tee off the middle of it was essentially black and white as the color subcarrier stuff was nicely nulled out by the miss-term generated echo. >"Ones? You had Ones? We just had Zeroes in my day!" Nuh uh, all we had was naughts back then, and sometimes it took quite a few of them to enumerate something. Kernels of corn in a wagonload comes to mind. Doug, rest his soul, had yet to give us the answer of 42 by at least 4 decades. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
