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Something to do if your day gets dull......

Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. I went to the store the other day. I was only in there for about 5 minutes. When I came out there was a town cop writing out a parking ticket.

I went up to him and said, "Come on, buddy, how about giving a senior a break?" He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. I called him a Nazi.

He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires.

So I called him a piece of horse manure. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket.

This went on for about 20 minutes.. the more I abused him, the more tickets he wrote. I didn't give a darn. My car was parked around the corner.

I try to have a little fun each day now that I'm retired. It's important at my age.

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Cheers!
Rich
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Rich Grise
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Hmmm, that sounds familiar :-)

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Rheilly Phoull

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Nice one! I was back home (in Australia) last week and hadn't been there 12 hours when some low-life tried to use a jemmy-bar to open the driver's door of the latest-model Ford. I don't know what they expected to do once inside, as there was nothing visible (or even tucked away) and the anti-theft stuff in those cars would defeat any lame-brain. Anyway, the car firm replaced it the next day and even gave me the day's rental free, but in return I had to fill out the forms. Most questions were tailored to multi-car accidents, which I was ignoring, but when I got to the question asking "Who do you think was to blame and why" I wrote "Attempted theft of vehicle - probably due to upbringing". Well, it made me feel better!

Cheers.

Ken

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Ken Taylor

Indeed. Never ever understood why ppl felt the need to 'key' the paint on nice new cars for example.e

Poor upbringing ? Very likely actually. There's a new 'reality TV' programme on UK tv called 'useless parents' or something similar. There's another one called 'foul mouthed kids' too ! Speaks volumes !

Graham

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Pooh Bear

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It's a pack behaviour: The scum sees something nice and they just have to defile it in some way to make the rest of society match their level.

Like when your wife's favourite cat pees on your slippers right in front of you, the little bag-o-evil-wrapped-in-fur knows full well that wife will keep you from taking it on a long drive ... like the scum always knows "their rights".

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Frithiof Andreas Jensen

No, that's simple envy. You're thinking of Radical Liberals (AKA Socialists).

No, that's because you've pissed off the cat and it's getting even.

The human scum should either be "re-educated", say via public caning so as to impress them with the fact that "rights" and "responsibilities" go together, or preferably, have it pointed out to them that if they quit whining and actually got jobs, they could have nice cars and other stuff too.

And try being nicer to cats; Death likes cats, and you don't want the Grim Reaper unhappy when He comes for you.

Mark L. Fergerson

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Mark Fergerson

OK. You hiring?

Thanks, Rich

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Rich Grise

Nope, one-man operation. Not hard to set up.

As I told (IIRC) Clarence, "be your own damn guru".

Mark L. Fergersom

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Mark Fergerson

Heh. As a matter of fact, I've "be[en] [my] own damn guru" for some time, but the job of guru seems to pay even less well than Consultant. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

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Rich Grise
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Mark Fergerson

I've done some more looking at this, and seriously, modifying the PIC program and modifying your segment driver matrix is about the only practical way I can think of to do this, short of the 60-bit shift register. The problem is that the seconds digits are multiplexed in with all of the other digits.

You could use a couple of latches to capture the individual segments, and then run them into a 14 x 60 diode matrix - actually, you don't need all 14 inputs - of the 7-segment patterns, there's some redundancy that can be treated as "don't care" - and kinda build a ROM out of diodes, and run your 60 dots from it.

Like I said, if it were me, I'd find a way to hack the PIC program.

Take a look at that roulette wheel link that someone else posted - it couldnt hurt!

Good Luck! Rich

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Spehro Pefhany

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