New toy

On a sunny day (Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:42:54 -0500) it happened Phil Hobbs wrote in :

Agreed, I have a < 70 K free piston stirling cooler in the UPS mail from ebay for about the same amount, as part of a superconducting filter unit. But I am waiting for the customs.... Hopefully before the end of 2011?

Think of the Q of superconducting filter :-)

I've always listened in amazement to all this whirring and clattering that goes on in optical lab gear. Our stuff only has relays clicking once in a while.

Nice!

Then one day when you and I are in an old folks' home your grandkids are wondering what to do with all this stuff gramps piled up in the basement :-)

Yesterday I visited someone in an Alzheimer's care home. Very nice place. On each door there were photos and brief life histories of the people living there. Many high-class professionals, and now some didn't even know their own names. That was a bit depressing.

If my lab stuff is the worst they have to deal with, they're getting off lightly. Of course I'm 51 this year, which means I'm officially one card short of a full deck already. ;)

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.

Good to remember when we start thinking that this world is what matters most. I'm looking forward to that, actually.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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Too many people find they were going to dump the lot without even asking

At least qualified engineers have below average incidence

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A huge AMEN to that!

Wilby

Better sell test equipment before its completely worthless. It devaluates faster than a car! I recently bought a Tektronix TLA700 series logic analyser module for $50 from Ebay (with DOA waranty!). It was sold by Tektronix for about $25,000,- in 2002.

Nowadays when I congratulate people with their birthday I say "Happy birthday. May you die in good health".

It's only worthless if you don't know how to use it. I'm very happy with my pile of boat anchors--I can do lots of useful things with them. There are a couple of newer features I'd like to have, e.g. a FFT spectrum analyzer that goes up to 30 MHz or so rather than 102.4 kHz.

But by all means keep talking like that, so I can keep getting good stuff for nearly free. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

That's bad!

Jamie

The guy who dies with the most toys wins.

Cheers! Rich

The guy who dies with the most toys, leaves the biggest mess for his heirs to clean up.

... or has a rather rude comeuppance after death but then it's too late.

AAAAAAMEN!

Can you tell that I met Baptists on Dec-25? :-)

Did you wear protection? ;-)