21 Aug
2006
21 Aug
'06
2:50 p.m.
On Aug 20, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
No, Dr ARD. I was pointing out I had a Ph.D. (in particle physics). In
other words, I should know that having a Ph.D. most certainly does not
mean you know everything (or for that matter anything).
OH oh oh oh. I thought it was "De". Well since YOU'RE the one I
I've been told I made a typo in the original message ('e' and 'r'
being
next to each other on the keyboard...).
Did you notice how I signed my name on that message?
You signed it "De ARD", correct? I assumed it was a ham radio
reference. send electronics questions to when I can't figure
something out, I
think you know that I respect your knowledge. :-)
Well, you shouldn't :-). More precisely, one reason I don't like taking
things to private e-mail is that I know I make mistakes, and by keeping
things public there's more chance that somebody more clueful will spot
said error.
I had no idea you're into particle physics. That is extremely cool.
Well, I'm not really (particle physics is not the sort of thing you can
do in the garage :-)). But experimental particle physicists tend to be
mad hackers (I've heard the subject described as 'playing marbles in the
most expensive way posssible' :-)), so I sort-of fitted in.
More usefully, I got to play with some fun toys like transputer chips,
ECL logic, etc. And to use VAXen (I'll have to say, though, that I still
prefer unix to VMS...)
-tony