2 Sep
2006
2 Sep
'06
7:27 a.m.
Julian Wolfe wrote:
What pisses me off is when stuff like 120v mains
hotdog cookers get
mentioned in one topic and it turns into its own. Everyone on this list
should know better than to turn that into a thread.
Well hold on, I *like* the discussions about 120v mains hotdog cookers
and things like that. There are people on this list who are twice my
age and more who have seen and done many very cool things. Personally I
find the discussion of 120v mains hotdog cookers far more interesting
and entertaining than yet another endless thread about sticky belts in
HP tapes. Let's be honest, most of us wouldn't be that interested in
big old computers if we weren't also interested in Geissler tubes, old
radios, delicate little mechanisms and stuff that goes bang or zap.
It's what the hacker nature is about. I agree that it is offtopic, but
there is so little of it compared to the on-topic posts - just the odd
flurry now and again. The context that it brings to other discussions
is worth a lot, I feel.
Gordon.