On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
  Well frankly, if I had any idea that you'd go
Old Man McClusky on me while
 waving your cane in my face and raving about these damn kids, I just may
 have.  Unfortunately I constantly forget that you like to party like it's
 1979. 
 HELL, YES!!     You damn kids today have no clue how to party. 
If a 'party' is what I think it is, I'' jsut stick to fixing my classic
computers ;-)
  Herpes was the worst incurable STD in those days.
Oh no... back then 'STD' meant 'Subscriber Trunk Dialing' and nothing
mroe :-)
  Who is Old Man McClusky?  Maybe he'd like to come
along. 
You know you've been hardware-hackign too long when all you can think of is
the Quine McClusky minimalisation method...
  > it should be added that I'm not terribly
understanding of peoples'
 > self-configured difficulty.  You could easily build a machine that does 
Actually,, could I _easily_ build such a macnine? Given that I don't have
one, or anything like it, I can't use CPLDs or FGPAs (the logic compilers
require such a machine to run on, and the chips are not fully docuemtned
so toy can't write your own for whatever machine you happen to have).
Building a machine that runs a graphical browser using only stock chips
doesnt sound totally tivial/.
   all these
new-fangled and modern webby things and yet you grump at ME
 because you have no way to copy & paste a url into any kind of browser. 
 That is s'posedly comparably easy to reading "it's a documentary about
 Adventure"? 
 
Even thoguh I am pretty fast with a soldering iron,  Isuspect I could
read that centence rather quicker htan I could solder in a 40 pin DIL chip...
-tony