11 Jun
2002
11 Jun
'02
3:28 p.m.
Quothe Gene Buckle, from writings of Sat, Jun 08, 2002
at 07:24:38AM -0700:
Heheheh. That's just wrong. :) I don't have much room to talk though.
Me and a friend had the kid we worked with there was a new element called
Confoundium. The odd thing about this element is that instead of decaying
and slowing moving down the atomic scale, it actually accumulated atoms
and moved UP the atomic scale. We had him nearly convinced after about an
hour of working on him. Unfortunately, I started laughing when his eyes
bugged out when Rob starting describing how it "accumulated". The jig
was pretty much up at that point. :)
g.
he went into RS looking for a GaSFET and was
promptly told that he might
have better luck in an auto parts store.
Back when I was in high school, when a 1 farad capacitor would have
been, physically, huge (probably about the size of an RS store, or
something like that), one could telephone a RS store and ask for a 100
farad, 1KV, capacitor and the sales clerk would say "I'll check to see
if we have any."