On this date in 1953...

None of the above. It may have been caused by Jim Thompson having one too many early Saturday morning Bloody Marys before sitting down at the keyboard.

Jim

-- "Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching." --Satchel Paige

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Nope. Sunday brunch is the designated day for Bloody Marys ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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I prefer "Work like no one is watching, dance like it hurts, and love like you need the money." ;-)

Robert

-- "If God had intended for us to see the sunrise He would have scheduled it later in the day." (perform an exorcism for e-mail reply)

Caused by the sun. It's an unstable nuclear reaction. It should be replaced by a regulated light and heat source. :P D from BC

I'm pretty sure it was George W.'s fault.

-Chuck

I think it was a really clever prank by MIT students, in one of the few times that MIT people took notice of WPI. Or it was WPI students going after MIT, but they missed.

You found us out ;-)

Actually I've always thought highly of WPI... one of those nice little schools teaching strong fundamentals of engineering.

Likewise Harvey Mudd (The Claremont Colleges), Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Indiana) and Rochester Institute of Technology.

Then there's Tufts... my wife worked at EG&G and Honeywell while I attended MIT. She considered Tufts graduates to be the dumbest engineers on the face of the earth ;-)

...Jim Thompson

The Korean war started in 1953, I am sure some greedy Republican was looking for oil.

Jim Thompson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

You mean to say you wrote that absolutely stupid question while sober?

What? Bio-diesel from rotten cabbage ?:-)

Eisenhower was President...

And you are clueless.

...Jim Thompson

Tim Wescott wrote: [from sig] Posting from Google? See

Tim, Google's error has been fixed (as noted on the linked page). I also notice that the sig in *all* your posts don't include this line.

I never see that word without remembering the story of the fellow that had been raised on the east coast and loved nothing more for dinner than scrod. It was his favorite and he had it a couple of times a week.

His company transferred him to the Left Coast and we just don't call it that out here, nor do we have anything that is identical.

He gets called back for a conference to the head office after a year without his favorite dish, and all he can think about is a scrod dinner. He gets to JFK, hops in a taxi and asks the cabbie if he knows where he can get scrod.

The cabbie looks back and says, "Buddy, I've hoid t'at question ten t'ousand times, but that's the foist time I've ever hoid it in the plupoifect subjunctive."

Jim

Do you know a stable one?

Even if it was, the earths temperature would not be well regulated. You need a feedback system.

Sno-o-o-o-ort! Almost lost my dinner over that ;-)

And _I_ have had Scrod for dinner.

...Jim Thompson

If some California politicians have it their way it may soon be replaced with CFL bulbs.

If we all pool our knowledge and wisdom we could devise a proper PID regulator.

I suppose that they are going to do it at night, when its cooler? ;-)

I suggest that particular attention be paid to eliminating or minimizing overshoot on startup.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Ha. Good. I've taken the link out.

I have three different machines that I post from, depending on where I happen to be (two are Linux machines, and there's this one). So I have three slightly different sig lines.

They are probably having it done so their own fingers don't get burned.