On Tuesday 03 November 2020 00:19:06 Mike Bird via tde-users wrote: > On Mon November 2 2020 20:25:30 Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote: > > I do odd things just > > to see if it can be done, like running a 1500 lb, 80 yo Sheldon > > lathe with an rpi4. Probably more accurately than by hand, and 5 to > > 10x faster than hands turning cranks could run it in 1955. Keeps me > > out of the bars dontcha know. At 86 yo, I'd best stay away from > > those. > > Hi Gene, > > I missed engineering in high school as they were building a new > building for it when I was that age. I love programming but if > you ever feel like posting a few pics of your setup I'd love to > see 'em. My Mum's Dad was first a master baker and then later > a foreman and fitter. > > --Mike And I only got half a year as freshman, aka 9th grade, I quit because of a health problem the principle and I disagreed over, that turned out to be a food allergy when a smart intern figured it out 5 years later, and went to work at a hardware store, fixing these new fangled things called tv's. At 14 years old in '48. I wasn't being taught the algebra I was taking as the teacher was far more interested in telling the girls in class off-color jokes than he was in teaching algebra. I didn't spare the principle my opinion of that, but it went in one ear and out the other. I understand that later, that teacher was invited to leave town in the night a few months later by the father of one of the prettier girls in that class. Been quite a list of BTDT's in my path thru life, culminating in 18 years as the CE at WDTV-5 the CBS affiliate in Bridgeport WV, and the only tech for about half of that time. A head hunter sent me here, and 15 years later his son called me to see if I was interested in takeing that chair at KTLA for about double the salary. But KTLA is in LA, so I said no. No amount of money would take me back to So. Calipornia. Wife #1 gave me 3, she had a stroke and died at 34, the two girls have passed from cancer, the boy from a jug of scotch mixed with a Kia. Wife #2 who had 3 of her own, gave me 3 more boys , left in '85, so I made it legal with #3, an old maid music teacher a month short of 31 years ago, and she is now under hospice care at a Good Sam's rest home, so I'm soon to be alone again. As for pix, there are some on my web page in the sig, but I need to do a serious cleanup in the garage before I take any more evidence pix. Both me and #3 are packrats and it shows. Thanks Mike. Take care and stay well now. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
