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And in English, it refers to jewels. ;)

Cheers

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Apple sales are already slipping. It's amazing that we keep having crazes and bubbles and almost everyone thinks this one will go on forever. Too many people are afraid to invest and only get their confidence up just around the peak.

Lots of people are tired of Facebook. There are around 700,000 iPad apps. Do we need a million?

Bay bridge? Do that at 2AM. When we go east, we try to hit it early Saturday morning. What we hate is *your* part, around Roseville, and the Clipper Gap Speed Trap.

I think we need three Bay Bridges. Leave the old cantelever structure there and grow tomatoes on it. Add a third, structurally sound causeway, to the north. Leave the hideous thing with the lunatic tower and the broken bolts in the middle, unused, and name it the Two Browns Bridge.

I don't give anything about pecking orders, and I bet neither do they.

Huh? That was quite arrogant. You probably haven't been out there in decades.

Slowman IS arrogant... he thinks he's better than anyone else who posts here.

The reality is that Slowman is a Pecksniffian-level village idiot who needs to wear diapers >:-} ...Jim Thompson

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I think it was where 101 heads into I-80, or shortly after, before the Bay Bridge. It was weird.

Speed traps are an income source out here.

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Or name it the "Big Union Boondoggle".

thought much of.

for Phil's expertise. Nijmegen surprised me once, with a project for detecting tiny levels of ethylene gas over ripening crops by opto-acoustics, so you can't entirely write off agriculture, but it is the way to bet.

Hey, Phil,

Is this gorgeous or what? It looks even better in person.

It's a wonder they ever let him out of that all girl school. My guess is that they were tired of his constant PMS.

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for Phil's expertise. Nijmegen surprised me once, with a project for detecting tiny levels of ethylene gas over ripening crops by opto-acoustics, so you can't entirely write off agriculture, but it is the way to bet.

Nice! Where did you get the blue and the black overlays made?

So next time I visit a fiberoptics client I can say "Oh, but it's not the Hobbs signature line, is it?"

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for Phil's expertise. Nijmegen surprised me once, with a project for detecting tiny levels of ethylene gas over ripening crops by opto-acoustics, so you can't entirely write off agriculture, but it is the way to bet.

Melrose Nameplate, really good guys.

That was the hardest part, negotiating with Phil to clean up his signature to make it sort of legible.

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candidates for Phil's expertise. Nijmegen surprised me once, with a project for detecting tiny levels of ethylene gas over ripening crops by opto-acoustics, so you can't entirely write off agriculture, but it is the way to bet.

The guys west of Tennyson in Hayward?

Well, he is in good company. Even the treasury secretary had to clean up his so it looked palatable on our Dollar bills:

I thought much of.

for Phil's expertise. Nijmegen surprised me once, with a project for detecting tiny levels of ethylene gas over ripening crops by opto-acoustics, so you can't entirely write off agriculture, but it is the way to bet.

Very pretty!

Black because it goes on an optical table, and optical tables are very DKNY except black and silver instead of black and gold.

The indigo is because we all miss Silicon Graphics boxes.

Plus it has nice manly BNC connectors on the back and 1/4-20 and 6-mm mounting holes on the bottom.

(That isn't my signature, but it's closer than the one on the prototype, which was a little on the feminine side. I blame it all on the evil schemes if John's marketing department, cooked up in their secret volcano lair.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

It's always nice to see Jim-out-of-touch-with-reality-Thompson telling us about his idea of "reality". I wonder why he's suddenly conscious of the need for incontinence aids for seniors ...

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Order one! A PO and three credit references will get you started.

I bet the sig on the Eddie Bauer version Jeep isn't really Eddie Bauer's.

Yes, there are some like that. You have met two, and like the arrogant dick that you are, assume they're all like that. The opposite is true, in general.

Ruby became popular precisely because of the abundance of high-value consulting work which was available for it. I know many who do that, and they're mostly damn good at delivering a high-quality product for less than the PHP weenies, and that despite their high hourly rates. The technical community is excellent and has a very strong design, quality and testing aesthetic. Even now the consulting is dying away as Ruby becomes mainstream, there's still no easier market in which to find work.

There is a startup bubble, and a lot of those do choose Ruby, because why not choose such a sweet language if there's nobody to force your hand? The bubble is not driven by any "new" opportunities, rather by the need of thousands of GFC-unemployed software folk to have *something* on their resumes until they either make it big (unlikely), get hired by someone else who has money (most common) or get hired back into their boring prior careers (almost none).

My point is that Ruby may be the choice of many startup wannabes, but it was the consulting that kick-started Ruby outside Japan. I watched that happen, because I was using Ruby long before it happened.

Design any interesting electronics lately?

I'll say much the same. In several (some academic) places i visit regularly and in other respected professional publications U. Twente is highly respected to world class (maybe not in all fields, but certainly in electro technology including computer HW and SW).

Bill, you really need to get out more.

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All the more reason to "rape" them for a full 1.0 percent. They may yet turn out to be a flash in he pan.

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How singularly appropriate, It was "medfly" Brown that made a point of unionizing state employees. And now he is back to claim credit for something he had nothing to do with.

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