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From: Joerg on 19 Feb 2010 17:38 Joel Koltner wrote: > "Vladimir Vassilevsky" <nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message > news:x_GdnbNeQpvYmuLWnZ2dnUVZ_v6dnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >> So-called "double soup": dissolve two packs of dry noodle soup in the >> amount of water intended for one pack (that's why it was called >> "double"), add some potatoes and whatever else you may have, then boil >> it until it will be a uniform kasha. > > Wow; that is meager. I'm glad you made it with your health intact! How > long ago was that? > >> Did you make tea with a pair of razor blades? > > No, I surely didn't. Please elaborate on how it's done? > > When I lived in the dorms at university's (1990-1994), you were required > to buy a meal plan from the university's cafeterias -- they had various > plans available, from "borderline-anorexic jockey" to "linebacker." > These days many schools have switched some or all of their own > cafeterias over to the nationwide fast food franchises -- Subwauy, Pizza > Hut, etc. Kinda sad; to some degree it reflects the fact that tuition > and books are so incredibly expensive these days in the first place, > food is now comparatively quite cheap. (I also suspect that there's no > remaining major college today that doesn't have a Starbucks within ready > walking distance of campus. :-) ) > But they can't make you live and eat on campus, can they? I rarely frequented the cantinas of our university. They were cheap but not much cheaper than cooking your own meals and the food there was not exactly gourmet quality. IMHO it is an important aspect of off-campus living that one gets exposed to a larger spread of people and not just academic types. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: Joel Koltner on 19 Feb 2010 17:55 "Joerg" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:7u8i6pFpqfU2(a)mid.individual.net... > But they can't make you live and eat on campus, can they? Nope -- you always had the option to rent an apartment or room in a house... albeit generally (for the sake of obtaining an affordable rent) with roommates and their associated challenges. Between the late '90s and early '00s the dorms became quite popular in that they wired them all up for Ethernet whereas, living on your own, DSL/cable modems/etc. weren't yet generally available! > I rarely frequented the cantinas of our university. They were cheap but not > much cheaper than cooking your own meals and the food there was not exactly > gourmet quality. The University of Wisconsin had a couple of "nice" cafeterias that were open just a few hours around breakfast, lunch, and dinner (one was named after an African-American chef who'd worked there for something like 40 years, and while he was pretty old by the time I was in school, still made an occasional "guest" appearance to cook up some of his old favorites)... and then a large handful of cafeterias that had greatly extended hours (there were even a couple that were open something like 6AM-11PM) but lower quality food (and there were certain staples that were available every day of the year). > IMHO it is an important aspect of off-campus living that one gets exposed to > a larger spread of people and not just academic types. Ha, yeah, that's certainly a good point! ---Joel
From: Joerg on 19 Feb 2010 18:07 Joel Koltner wrote: > "Joerg" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message > news:7u8i6pFpqfU2(a)mid.individual.net... >> But they can't make you live and eat on campus, can they? > > Nope -- you always had the option to rent an apartment or room in a > house... albeit generally (for the sake of obtaining an affordable rent) > with roommates and their associated challenges. > Same in my case. I shared a two-room apartment with a ME student and we are still good friends. > Between the late '90s and early '00s the dorms became quite popular in > that they wired them all up for Ethernet whereas, living on your own, > DSL/cable modems/etc. weren't yet generally available! > Yabbut: I had a 16ft yagi antenna for 2m and numerous wire antennas for shortwave. 100 watts out of a Heathkit HW100. Since I was on the highest peak there is in the Netherlands I could enjoy 2m chats way out to North Sea vessels using 3W SSB. That is next to impossible in a dorm :-) >> I rarely frequented the cantinas of our university. They were cheap >> but not much cheaper than cooking your own meals and the food there >> was not exactly gourmet quality. > > The University of Wisconsin had a couple of "nice" cafeterias that were > open just a few hours around breakfast, lunch, and dinner (one was named > after an African-American chef who'd worked there for something like 40 > years, and while he was pretty old by the time I was in school, still > made an occasional "guest" appearance to cook up some of his old > favorites)... and then a large handful of cafeterias that had greatly > extended hours (there were even a couple that were open something like > 6AM-11PM) but lower quality food (and there were certain staples that > were available every day of the year). > >> IMHO it is an important aspect of off-campus living that one gets >> exposed to a larger spread of people and not just academic types. > > Ha, yeah, that's certainly a good point! > And the pubs, the pubs! -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: Vladimir Vassilevsky on 19 Feb 2010 18:42 Joel Koltner wrote: > "Vladimir Vassilevsky" <nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message > >> Did you make tea with a pair of razor blades? > > No, I surely didn't. Please elaborate on how it's done? http://chemistry-chemists.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=78 Things like that used to be commonplace. Don't know how well it would work at 120V. At 220V, water immediately starts boiling between the blades, so the bubbles of vapor naturally limit the current. Vladimir Vassilevsky DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant http://www.abvolt.com
From: Vladimir Vassilevsky on 19 Feb 2010 18:42
Joel Koltner wrote: > "Vladimir Vassilevsky" <nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message > >> Did you make tea with a pair of razor blades? > > No, I surely didn't. Please elaborate on how it's done? http://chemistry-chemists.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=78 Things like that used to be commonplace. Don't know how well it would work at 120V. At 220V, water immediately starts boiling between the blades, so the bubbles of vapor naturally limit the current. Vladimir Vassilevsky DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant http://www.abvolt.com |