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From: Bill Sloman on 16 Apr 2010 11:43 On Apr 16, 5:07 pm, John Fields <jfie...(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:30:56 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman > > > > <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > >On Apr 16, 2:14 am, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terr...(a)earthlink.net> > >wrote: > >> "k...(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote: > > >> > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:42:38 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" > >> > <mike.terr...(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > > >> > >John Fields wrote: > > >> > >> Ask anyone here and I'm sure they'll agree that you're a mean old man > >> > >> with a 200 pond chip on his shoulder. > > >> > > 200 pond? Is he in 'The Land O'lakes'? ;-) > > >> > No, I the Land O'Lakes is in him. > > >> If we're lucky, Nijmegen will become a modern day Pompeii. > > >Pity about that. Iceland - in the middle of the Atlantic - has > >volcanoes. > > >The Netherlands - well inside the European continental plate - > >doesn't. > > >The idiot from Florida nees to learn some geophysics. > > --- > The slow man from Nijmegen needs to learn to read between the lines. > > Terrell wasn't talking about volcanoes as much as he was about your > demise being our good fortune. Perhaps, but he was postulating a rather improbable event - a couple of orders of magnitude more improbable than the original Pompeii, which is still talked about, more than 2000 years later. He'd need a monumental amount of "luck", which is to say it was pig-ignorant wish- fulfillment. You seem to be dim enough to have missed the point, as usual. -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
From: Bill Sloman on 16 Apr 2010 11:47 On Apr 16, 5:35 pm, John Fields <jfie...(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:05:27 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman > > <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > >On Apr 15, 4:32 pm, John Fields <jfie...(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:09:24 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman > > >> <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > >> >The problem with your argument lies in your implicit claim to be able > >> >to recognise humour when you see it. > > >> --- > >> If that's what you're basing your argument on, then you don't have an > >> argument since I have a keen eye for humor. > >> --- > > >If this were true you would have long since died laughing at yourself. > > --- > While I occasionally laugh at myself when I'm my own foil, certainly you > must mean: "If that were true"... since: "If this were true" refers to > the truth of the statement in the sentence in which it appears. > > Moreover, the fact that I'm still here testifies to the falseness of the > statement and to your lack of understanding of the finer points of the > English language. > --- Actually, it testifies that you don't have any kind of "keen eye for humour", but merely an impressive - if unrealistic - capacity for self- satisfaction. And a comical enthusiasm for grammatical pendantry. It is a pity you can't actually construct a balanced sentence, > ><snipped the rest of the self-serving delusions> -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
From: Bill Sloman on 16 Apr 2010 11:52 On Apr 15, 5:32 pm, John Larkin <jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:09:24 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman > > <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > >On Apr 15, 4:40 am, John Fields <jfie...(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:22:56 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman > > >> <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > >> >On Apr 14, 3:06 pm, John Fields <jfie...(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: > >> >> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:33:37 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman > > >> >> <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > >> >> >On Apr 14, 12:24 am, John Fields <jfie...(a)austininstruments.com> > >> >> >wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:00:49 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman > >> >> >> <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: <snip> > Gosh, you raise tedium almost into a new art form. Gotta admire skill > like that. High praise from a true master of the art, who rarely deviates from telling us how implausibly brilliant Highland Electronics is (or Highland electronics are). -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
From: Joel Koltner on 16 Apr 2010 11:58 Say Bill, "Bill Sloman" <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote in message news:51ffeeff-9365-47dc-b8a5-38d006781bed(a)j17g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... > I've been trying to get another job for the past six years. Didn't you move to the Netherlands based on your wife getting a good job there? Perhaps after six years she might like to take a break and you two could move to somewhere you think you could get a job -- assuming you'd really like to have one? (I mean, if your wife has sufficient income and doesn't mind your being largely retired, it would seem you're already pretty well set...) If John Larkin doesn't know what you look like, perhaps you could apply to Highland Technology under a different name. :-) ---Joel
From: ehsjr on 16 Apr 2010 12:00
Bill Sloman wrote: <snip> > - but it isn't going to make a blind bit of difference to my > environment, where the nearest I've got to a job in recent years was > when Philips Medical Systems was contemplating developing a phased > array of ultrasound transducers for cooking tumours in situ - an old > idea that is still waiting on a method for measuring the temperature > rise inside the tumour being cooked. There you go! Maybe you could work on solving that problem on your own. Ok, it's not a paid job as such, but the payment and employment will come if you're successful. And, maybe there's a possibility that someone would hire you to work on that problem. Just hopeful speculation on my part ... but who knows? Ed > > I asked about temperature monitoring during the interview, and didn't > get an answer ... > > -- > Bill Sloman, Nijmegen |