21 Oct
2003
21 Oct
'03
6:23 p.m.
Perhaps competition of pushing the iron racks up steep inclines.....
Lombard street should work well as test area. pretty scary incline...
also one that was always my favorite was the hp 2100 restuffing
contest.... we used to do this at Computer Exchange Inc.. when we had too
much time on our hands.... you take all the cards out, place them in a
wicker basket mix them up and when you hear start... you begin
reassembly... if you want to liven it up you have 4 people play and all
the cards go into one batch.... really messy with 4 people trying to elbow
in to snatch cards.... and yes... the processor has to run when you are
done! no broken parts allowed!
Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne M. Smith" <wmsmith(a)earthlink.net>
To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"
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Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 10:48 PM
Subject: RE: How do _you_ move equipment? What "tools" do you use?
On Tue, 21 Oct
2003, Ian Primus wrote:
Sellam, this sounds like something you might want to consider for the
next VCF. Sure, the retrocode challenge is interesting, but a
"stop-the-runaway-rack-of-heavy-iron" competition would bring down the
house.
Well, I wasn't _intending_ to do that... I
had two friends
helping me,
and we were slowly working it down, when one
person tripped and the
other one couldn't hold on, I just happened to pretty close to in
front of it at the time, and ended up directly in front of
it, pushing
against it to slow it down. Everything worked out
fine, but
next time
I try to move something like that, I am going to
talk more friends
into helping me. Maybe if I bribe them with pizza...
Yeah, get some friends with more athletic skills as well ;)