Tech Humour: Useless Inventions

Add a hydrogen to make that H3N, rewrite it as NH3, and it's available off grocery store shelves. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

I use household ammonia in a spry bottle. I lean it up against the wall and spray a fine mist and let it soften the crud a couple times, then use another spray bottle of tap water to rinse it all off. Then I let them air dry for a few days. Costs only a few cents each, and I do six to ten at a time.

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He could have meant hydrazine - N2H4 - which boils at 114C (if it doesn't explode first).

Not exactly oxygen-free though. Grocery stores sell a solution of amonia in water.

You can buy the pure stuff, but it's boiling point is -33.3C.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

the_question

What does that have to do with apostrophes?

Huh...maybe someday I'll find a mouse washed up on the beach.

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com BC, Canada

Is that the way to deck Naughty-Mouse?

Or on deck on a boat.

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From the same Wikipedia article:

'Arguments over such usage are an example of debate over linguistic prescription and description. As John McIntyre, Baltimore Sun assistant managing editor, puts it ("If beggars could question", Baltimore Sun, March 5, 2007): "Writers who were not taught logic in school =97 evidently a great many =97 will think that 'to beg a question' means 'to give rise to a question.' In that they are like the multitude of writers who have appropriated technical but dimly understood language. A parameter, for example, is 'a constant, with variable values, used as a referent for determining other variables.' If you are a mathematician, that definition from Webster's New World College Dictionary probably means something to you. If you are not a mathematician, you are probably using parameter to mean a boundary or limit or guideline, or perhaps nothing in particular. People do write this way. Some even talk this way. Eventually, loose applications of technical terms to different contexts find their way into the dictionary, some embedding themselves in the language. That is fine. But in the interval, anyone who wishes to write precisely will be cautious.'

-- Joe

It might react with itself to create n2h4. Not a household chemical.

Aye, and very nearly one yerself.

I have adequate results with cloth faced variations. But i mostly use trackballs.

I knew i could not be the only one who found that happy technique.

If you get to it timely the soda or most any other beverage rinses right off. Just have to let it set a bit to get dry enough, or use a hair dryer.

Not without a fight. I try to stay up to date on stuff, hang around with young folks, try/learn new stuff, take risks, ski out of control, drive hard, and stay goofy. And design wild stuff. There's plenty of time to get old later in life.

John

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OK, I'm the self-appointed grammar police too, then. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

A few years ago, I saw a dead 'possum on the "beach". ;-)

Cheers! Rich

I've done it to two keyboards. Both came out fine and still work. I didn't disassemble them at all. I put them face-down in the top rack of the dishwasher and used a no-heat-dry cycle. I used a shopvac to blow them dry and then let them stand for a week before use. I'm typing on one of them right now!

How do you manage to "drive hard" in those old git vehicles you buy ?:-)

...Jim Thompson

assuming that's real wood, (or real wood veneer) i've seen that too, optical mice don't like the depth of the surface, they seem fine on printed paper veneer sirfaces.

just have a floating mouse and use magnetic flow meters to sense motion