How's this for *strange*???
About 8 years ago, the wife and I bought a dual-recliner sofa at an auction
for $75. It served it's purpose well, through 3 kids and a fat husband.
;-) However, it was time to go. Between taxes and selling my JCB backhoe,
we figured we could afford a new couch, so off we went to the furniture
store (2 hours away, one way).[1]
$30 delivery for the new couch - considering the hassle of hitching a
trailer, burning a good $25 in gas *anyway* I figured this was a good deal.
*Another* $30 to pick up the old one, and I said "Noper -- I have a
sawz-all and a fireplace. We'll take care of it."[2]
Whilst disassembling the old couch to become firefood, under the fabric in
the bottom of the couch, I found an APL "quick reference" card! It's the
size of a playing card, and made of the same material of some really high
end card decks made 25-30 years ago[3]. It's called an "APL Vadis Enum" or
something -- it's Latin, of which I don't speak, and the card's at home,
/me's at work right now. If anyone's interested, I can post an update when
I get another look at the card, and prolly post pictures as well.
It lists most monadic and dyadic functions, some quad functions, etc...
Kinda neat, especially since I learned APL back in college.
Anyway, that's the strangest place I ever found anything classiccmp
related; especially considering the fact that it's been under my... uhhh...
nose all along. ;^>
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
[1] I shop locally when possible, but none of the local stores had anything
close to what we were looking for.
[2] The salesman was pretty decent overall, but after I told him I had a
sawz-all, he said "Do you know that recliner sofas have metal in them?" My
reply: "Uhhh... yea. That's why God invented carbide sawblades." Sheesh.
[3] My parents had a set of these -- their "good set" of cards. They said
for 2 decks of cards, they cost nearly $10USD 30 years ago...
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch at
30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????