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  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:

    When I think back on all the stuff I owned at one time I am reminded of the wisdom someone once gave me.  "If you were able to obtain everything you wanted, where would you keep it?"  I started out my career owning a nice three bedroom home with yard to mow, trees to trim, garage full of tools & machines, boxes of holiday decorations, etc.  Since then I've moved several times and always into a smaller place.  I tried at first to not let go of my things but it didn't take long before I realized they weren't important and had to go.  So each time I moved to smaller and smaller places, more and more of my stuff was sacrificed.  I've had simultaneous multiple cars & trucks, multiple motorcycles, bicycle, multiple pianos, organs, guitar, flute, boxes of music, boxes of VHS tapes, multiple video players (VHS & Beta), big HiFi gear, manual typewriter, huge canopied mirrored waterbed, years of collected magazines, SCUBA equipment, collections of cameras, really nice darkroom equipment, way too many sets of useless china & glassware, a nice collection of big bronzes, a collection of large & small oriental rugs, a collection of 19th century artwork, rooms full of beautiful antique furniture, a whole closet full of fashionable clothes, another closet full of leather, weightlifting benches & freeweights, a shops worth of computer parts, boxes and boxes and boxes of who knows what. 

    Now at retirement I rent a small apartment and all I have left is a 15 year old car that I inherted from my step-mother, my collections of rock figurines and a few small bronzes, some of my small oriental rugs, my desktop computer my laptop, and a spare desktop, two chairs (a ragged recliner & a desk chair), a bed, a TV, one leather motorcycle jacket big enough for an elephant (me), two champagne flutes, one set of stoneware dishes for four, stainless flatware, a few nice pots & pans, a few pairs of cheap shirts, sweatpants and jeans, some 20 year old towels, and half as many boxes and boxes of who knows what.  But what I miss the most is that manual typewriter.

    Damn, dude, that was a lot of stuff!  I move so often that I could never handle all that.  Sounds like you've trimmed down dramatically.  Good for you!

    I think manual typewriters qualify as antiques now... :-P

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    One giant chicken thigh marinating in Thai green sauce, second giant chicken thigh marinating in Thai red curry sauce.  Will cook one tomorrow morning and one tomorrow night or the next daay.Will be cooking red tater wedges in hot sauce soon, and making a hearts of palm and olive salad with capers and lime juice.  Tasty!

    Morehot tea, geebus sleepy already.  Ugh.  Tomorrow, take pics of my stuff and flood Craigslist!

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Oh my heavens!  I'm becoming addicted to red potato wedges crisped in a light coating of olive oil, then tossed in hot sauce while still warm!! Crispy outside, soft inside, and a decent kick from the Cholula green hot sauce.  Good sodium and tons of potassium, healthy, plus keeps the sinuses clear... :-O

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    NVIATWAS said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    When I think back on all the stuff I owned at one time I am reminded of the wisdom someone once gave me.  "If you were able to obtain everything you wanted, where would you keep it?"  I started out my career owning a nice three bedroom home with yard to mow, trees to trim, garage full of tools & machines, boxes of holiday decorations, etc.  Since then I've moved several times and always into a smaller place.  I tried at first to not let go of my things but it didn't take long before I realized they weren't important and had to go.  So each time I moved to smaller and smaller places, more and more of my stuff was sacrificed.  I've had simultaneous multiple cars & trucks, multiple motorcycles, bicycle, multiple pianos, organs, guitar, flute, boxes of music, boxes of VHS tapes, multiple video players (VHS & Beta), big HiFi gear, manual typewriter, huge canopied mirrored waterbed, years of collected magazines, SCUBA equipment, collections of cameras, really nice darkroom equipment, way too many sets of useless china & glassware, a nice collection of big bronzes, a collection of large & small oriental rugs, a collection of 19th century artwork, rooms full of beautiful antique furniture, a whole closet full of fashionable clothes, another closet full of leather, weightlifting benches & freeweights, a shops worth of computer parts, boxes and boxes and boxes of who knows what. 

    Now at retirement I rent a small apartment and all I have left is a 15 year old car that I inherted from my step-mother, my collections of rock figurines and a few small bronzes, some of my small oriental rugs, my desktop computer my laptop, and a spare desktop, two chairs (a ragged recliner & a desk chair), a bed, a TV, one leather motorcycle jacket big enough for an elephant (me), two champagne flutes, one set of stoneware dishes for four, stainless flatware, a few nice pots & pans, a few pairs of cheap shirts, sweatpants and jeans, some 20 year old towels, and half as many boxes and boxes of who knows what.  But what I miss the most is that manual typewriter.

    Damn, dude, that was a lot of stuff!  I move so often that I could never handle all that.  Sounds like you've trimmed down dramatically.  Good for you!

    I think manual typewriters qualify as antiques now... :-P

    Not quite.  Vintage maybe  Antique has to be over 100, so only the oldest of manual typewriters,   Vintage is quite flexible it seems.  I have always thought of true vintage as being 50+ years old.   Some people want to call anything that is 20+ years old vintage.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Chohole said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    When I think back on all the stuff I owned at one time I am reminded of the wisdom someone once gave me.  "If you were able to obtain everything you wanted, where would you keep it?"  I started out my career owning a nice three bedroom home with yard to mow, trees to trim, garage full of tools & machines, boxes of holiday decorations, etc.  Since then I've moved several times and always into a smaller place.  I tried at first to not let go of my things but it didn't take long before I realized they weren't important and had to go.  So each time I moved to smaller and smaller places, more and more of my stuff was sacrificed.  I've had simultaneous multiple cars & trucks, multiple motorcycles, bicycle, multiple pianos, organs, guitar, flute, boxes of music, boxes of VHS tapes, multiple video players (VHS & Beta), big HiFi gear, manual typewriter, huge canopied mirrored waterbed, years of collected magazines, SCUBA equipment, collections of cameras, really nice darkroom equipment, way too many sets of useless china & glassware, a nice collection of big bronzes, a collection of large & small oriental rugs, a collection of 19th century artwork, rooms full of beautiful antique furniture, a whole closet full of fashionable clothes, another closet full of leather, weightlifting benches & freeweights, a shops worth of computer parts, boxes and boxes and boxes of who knows what. 

    Now at retirement I rent a small apartment and all I have left is a 15 year old car that I inherted from my step-mother, my collections of rock figurines and a few small bronzes, some of my small oriental rugs, my desktop computer my laptop, and a spare desktop, two chairs (a ragged recliner & a desk chair), a bed, a TV, one leather motorcycle jacket big enough for an elephant (me), two champagne flutes, one set of stoneware dishes for four, stainless flatware, a few nice pots & pans, a few pairs of cheap shirts, sweatpants and jeans, some 20 year old towels, and half as many boxes and boxes of who knows what.  But what I miss the most is that manual typewriter.

    Damn, dude, that was a lot of stuff!  I move so often that I could never handle all that.  Sounds like you've trimmed down dramatically.  Good for you!

    I think manual typewriters qualify as antiques now... :-P

    Not quite.  Vintage maybe  Antique has to be over 100, so only the oldest of manual typewriters,   Vintage is quite flexible it seems.  I have always thought of true vintage as being 50+ years old.   Some people want to call anything that is 20+ years old vintage.

    You mean manual typewriters aren't over 100 years old?!?!?!?!?!? ;-P

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    edited January 2018

    The typewriter that I learned to type on was one my mother had. It was from the 1920s so now it would almost be antique.  But I asked about it the other day and no one in the family has seen it for years.  It's probably now in some landfill or anchoring some boat somewhere. sad

    When I was in 9th grade my mother bought me a "How to Type" book, moved the typewritter into my bedroom and told me in no uncertain terms that I was going to learn to type.  "Aw, mom!  Typing's for girls".  To which she replied "You're going to learn to type, you'll thank me someday."  I remember the pain of repetative exercises, and trying to remember where the letters were but slowly it started to gel.   I did eventually learn, and when I graduated from High School in 1966 my parents bought me a nice Smith-Corona 12" manual portable typewriter for college.  It even had two keys with replaceable typeheads and keycaps for which you could substitute a selection of 8 or 16 other characters for mathematics or foreign languages.  I had the math set. I used that typewriter to make some money by typing for other students in college. yes

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited January 2018

    My Dad wrote his first book on an old sit up and beg typewriter in 1955,  and used part of the money he made to buy himself what was laughingly called a "portable" remington typewiter, also manual before he wrote his 2nd book.   I learned to type on that remington and it was still going strong when we lost my Dad in 1984.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/REMINGTON-QUIET-RITER-MIRACLE-TAB-PORTABLE-TYPEWRITER-IN-CASE-GREEN-KEYS-/332231470852

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  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,243

    Every so often I try to describe too many things happening at once (like everybody trying to get through the door at the same time) "like a bunch of typewriter keys all jamming in there at once".  Then I realize probably nobody has a clue what I'm talking about anymore.  :-)  It's been a while since I had to separate multiple jammed typewriter keys.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:

    The typewriter that I learned to type on was one my mother had. It was from the 1920s so now it would almost be antique.  But I asked about it the other day and no one in the family has seen it for years.  It's probably now in some landfill or anchoring some boat somewhere. sad

    When I was in 9th grade my mother bought me a "How to Type" book, moved the typewritter into my bedroom and told me in no uncertain terms that I was going to learn to type.  "Aw, mom!  Typing's for girls".  To which she replied "You're going to learn to type, you'll thank me someday."  I remember the pain of repetative exercises, and trying to remember where the letters were but slowly it started to gel.   I did eventually learn, and when I graduated from High School in 1966 my parents bought me a nice Smith-Corona 12" manual portable typewriter for college.  It even had two keys with replaceable typeheads and keycaps for which you could substitute a selection of 8 or 16 other characters for mathematics or foreign languages.  I had the math set. I used that typewriter to make some money by typing for other students in college. yes

    Very cool! I learned to type on a KSR-33 teletype, then a teletype with a paper tape punch, then an HP terminal with mini-casettes, then a DECStation word processor and finally VT-100s.  Never touched a manual typewriter!  Only word processores, micoprocessor  boxes (VIC-20, C-64, Atari 130xe) before moving to my first IBM PC.  I did play with a Selectric once, yecch!  I'm just not a typist...

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Chohole said:

    My Dad wrote his first book on an old sit up and beg typewriter in 1955,  and used part of the money he made to buy himself what was laughingly called a "portable" remington typewiter, also manual before he wrote his 2nd book.   I learned to type on that remington and it was still going strong when we lost my Dad in 1984.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/REMINGTON-QUIET-RITER-MIRACLE-TAB-PORTABLE-TYPEWRITER-IN-CASE-GREEN-KEYS-/332231470852

    You could beat someone to a pulp with that and still finish a term paper!!!!! :-O

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    sriesch said:

    Every so often I try to describe too many things happening at once (like everybody trying to get through the door at the same time) "like a bunch of typewriter keys all jamming in there at once".  Then I realize probably nobody has a clue what I'm talking about anymore.  :-)  It's been a while since I had to separate multiple jammed typewriter keys.

    How time have changed.  Now it's all about not spilling food on the keyboard and not getting sssticcckkkkyy keyys!

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    edited January 2018

    Ooh, ooh, DEC VT-100 displays.  Cool device, they had a font set of characters that could be used to generate horizontal and vertical lines & corners, so you could draw connecting lines and boxes around text.  Back in the very early '80s I used one to design a graphic user interface for a satellite communication system for ARAMCO.  The operator selected satellite channels and equipment choices and the display showed a schematic of how the active signals were routed through the various pieces of equipment.  It was so cool to watch this simple B&W character text line based display terminal show graphic schematics.  I was working with the the original VT-100's and noticed for years afterwards that many terminals from other manufacturers that came later always included a VT-100 emulation choice in their programming behavior. That's one of the advantages of being first in the field, you get to define the rules. devil  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100

    I was particularly impressed with the VT-100's line drawing ability because I had come from 5 years at the Kennedy Space Center where I had been using true graphic displays ($$$$$).  When confronted with this project for ARAMCO I balked at first at the idea of doing any sort of graphics on a textline based display ($$$) but it actually worked out quite nicely and I always wanted to try it on another project but one never came up.

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  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Ooh, ooh, DEC VT-100 displays.  Cool device, they had a font set of characters that could be used to generate horizontal and vertical lines & corners, so you could draw connecting lines and boxes around text.  Back in the very early '80s I used one to design a graphic user interface for a satellite communication system for ARAMCO.  The operator selected satellite channels and equipment choices and the display showed a schematic of how the active signals were routed through the various pieces of equipment.  It was so cool to watch this simple B&W character text line based display terminal show graphic schematics.  I was working with the the original VT-100's and noticed for years afterwards that many terminals from other manufacturers that came later always included a VT-100 emulation choice in their programming behavior. That's one of the advantages of being first in the field, you get to define the rules. devil  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100

    I was particularly impressed with the VT-100's line drawing ability because I had come from 5 years at the Kennedy Space Center where I had been using true graphic displays ($$$$$).  When confronted with this project for ARAMCO I balked at first at the idea of doing any sort of graphics on a textline based display ($$$) but it actually worked out quite nicely and I always wanted to try it on another project but one never came up.

    I never did anything super-exciting with the graphics but draw forms.. I was doing business programming in DIBOL. of all things, doing insane crap like sorting an asociations membership list aplhabeticall when it was stattered across about 2 dozen 8-1/2 inch floppies!  We ended up making multiple passes and it took 14 hours of steady floppy-swapping to get it done.  Ah, my beloved PDP-8, where art thou now? :-(

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333

    I used ASCII escape sequences to make shadowed title windows and menus in my COBOL homework projects, and my 3rd semester COBOL final exam.  It was neat.  I couldn't get it to run on my study version of the compiler, buy my professor could run it at the college.  He said there was nothing wrong with it, it's just that the student compiler couldn't work with such a complex program.  I aced it.  I also hoped that I'd never have to work at a job in COBOL.  laugh 

    Dana

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    NVIATWAS said:
    DanaTA said:
    atticanne said:
    Tjohn said:

     

    Well, that's the closest thing to a blank expression I've seen rendered in text!  laugh 

    Dana

    That was a computer glitch brought on by an escaping dog and a circling helicopter.

    And no, I'm not kidding.

    Thanks, for helping me out.  Besides the dog, gunshots, & choppers, I was trapped in DAZ and couldn't figutre out how to cancel my non-existent message.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    DanaTA said:

    I used ASCII escape sequences to make shadowed title windows and menus in my COBOL homework projects, and my 3rd semester COBOL final exam.  It was neat.  I couldn't get it to run on my study version of the compiler, buy my professor could run it at the college.  He said there was nothing wrong with it, it's just that the student compiler couldn't work with such a complex program.  I aced it.  I also hoped that I'd never have to work at a job in COBOL.  laugh 

    Dana

    I did one COBOL project for a bank when I worked at Computer Sciences Corporation.  It was over 30 years ago.  I still get stupid headhunters askinf if I'm available to maintain old COBOL code.  I (usually rudely) inform them that if they had actually read my resume' they'd see my COBOL was decades stale, the implied they were illerate and to take remedial reading.  Never heard from them again.

    COBOL, shudder barf.  Not the worst language I've coded in, that would be APL - I was helping this PhD in theoretical math work on signal processing software.  Never again, I mean, you needed a special keyboard!  APL is also write-only, attempting to figure out what you'd done even 2 weeks afterwards was mission impossible.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    atticanne said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    DanaTA said:
    atticanne said:
    Tjohn said:

     

    Well, that's the closest thing to a blank expression I've seen rendered in text!  laugh 

    Dana

    That was a computer glitch brought on by an escaping dog and a circling helicopter.

    And no, I'm not kidding.

    Thanks, for helping me out.  Besides the dog, gunshots, & choppers, I was trapped in DAZ and couldn't figutre out how to cancel my non-existent message.

    'Trapped In DAZ' sounds like a survival horror movie! :-O

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    OMG OMG OMG

    I just discovered that Hulu has a huge pile of Godzilla movies!!! Currently watching 'Godzilla: Final Wars', about as hokey as any 'dude in a suit' Toho Godzilla film could be.  But the visual effects are nice even if the acting is.. well.. over the top bad.  But I don't watch it for the acting, I watch it to see a dude in a rubber monster suit smash the crap out of entire cities!  Good, wholesome fun!

    Sure wish I had a six pack - will buy beer when I sell gear. :-)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    NVIATWAS said:

    OMG OMG OMG

    I just discovered that Hulu has a huge pile of Godzilla movies!!! Currently watching 'Godzilla: Final Wars', about as hokey as any 'dude in a suit' Toho Godzilla film could be.  But the visual effects are nice even if the acting is.. well.. over the top bad.  But I don't watch it for the acting, I watch it to see a dude in a rubber monster suit smash the crap out of entire cities!  Good, wholesome fun!

    Sure wish I had a six pack - will buy beer when I sell gear. :-)

    Godzilla rules hey :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Gentle rain falling a while before sunset and the temp has dropped 30 degrees. Came across a few road closures today where the tarmac had melted, it was a little on the warm side last week I guess :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    NVIATWAS said:
    sriesch said:

    Every so often I try to describe too many things happening at once (like everybody trying to get through the door at the same time) "like a bunch of typewriter keys all jamming in there at once".  Then I realize probably nobody has a clue what I'm talking about anymore.  :-)  It's been a while since I had to separate multiple jammed typewriter keys.

    How time have changed.  Now it's all about not spilling food on the keyboard and not getting sssticcckkkkyy keyys!

    Good riddance to carbon copies :)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    NVIATWAS said:

    Oh my heavens!  I'm becoming addicted to red potato wedges crisped in a light coating of olive oil, then tossed in hot sauce while still warm!! Crispy outside, soft inside, and a decent kick from the Cholula green hot sauce.  Good sodium and tons of potassium, healthy, plus keeps the sinuses clear... :-O

    ..not a bad addiction.  I make mine with tarragon, garlic, and black pepper roasted with Olive Oil and butter.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    edited January 2018
    Chohole said:

    My Dad wrote his first book on an old sit up and beg typewriter in 1955,  and used part of the money he made to buy himself what was laughingly called a "portable" remington typewiter, also manual before he wrote his 2nd book.   I learned to type on that remington and it was still going strong when we lost my Dad in 1984.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/REMINGTON-QUIET-RITER-MIRACLE-TAB-PORTABLE-TYPEWRITER-IN-CASE-GREEN-KEYS-/332231470852

    ...I have a protable Underwood like this:

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    What are cryptominers?

    ...people who think they can strike it rich mining cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Eutherium.  They have been buying up GPU cards to use in their rigs which has driven prices to obscene levels.  For example I''ve seen GTX 1070s going for as much as 1,400$.  The normal MSRP for a GTX 1070 is 379$. (399$ for the Founders edition).

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    ps1borg said:

    Gentle rain falling a while before sunset and the temp has dropped 30 degrees. Came across a few road closures today where the tarmac had melted, it was a little on the warm side last week I guess :)

    Rain good.  Melted roadway bad. :-|

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:

    Oh my heavens!  I'm becoming addicted to red potato wedges crisped in a light coating of olive oil, then tossed in hot sauce while still warm!! Crispy outside, soft inside, and a decent kick from the Cholula green hot sauce.  Good sodium and tons of potassium, healthy, plus keeps the sinuses clear... :-O

    ..not a bad addiction.  I make mine with tarragon, garlic, and black pepper roasted with Olive Oil and butter.

    That sounds pretty darn tasty!  I might try cooking taters in Thai green curry next.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:
    Chohole said:

    My Dad wrote his first book on an old sit up and beg typewriter in 1955,  and used part of the money he made to buy himself what was laughingly called a "portable" remington typewiter, also manual before he wrote his 2nd book.   I learned to type on that remington and it was still going strong when we lost my Dad in 1984.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/REMINGTON-QUIET-RITER-MIRACLE-TAB-PORTABLE-TYPEWRITER-IN-CASE-GREEN-KEYS-/332231470852

    ...I have a protable Underwood like this:

    That's portable?!?!?!?!? Lard ham merci! :-O

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    What are cryptominers?

    ...people who think they can strike it rich mining cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Eutherium.  They have been buying up GPU cards to use in their rigs which has driven prices to obscene levels.  For example I''ve seen GTX 1070s going for as much as 1,400$.  The normal MSRP for a GTX 1070 is 379$. (399$ for the Founders edition).

    Holy Carp! I knew it was getting bad, but not THAT bad.  I've seen 'mining machines' with superfast multiple CPUs for stupid high prices, as well.

    Just read about a huge cryptocurrency heist on CNN, some $530 MILLION.  Holy riches Batman!! :-O

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    I shouldn't have had a nap this afternoon.  I slept for about 2 hours then BOOM, wide awake.  Well, it lets me refine my grocery list!  Getting chili dog makings for the Super Bowl, one final splurge before full austerity mode cuts in.

    Going to sell my 3TB USB3 Passport drive for $30 or three sixes of decent beer.  I wonder which I'll get?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:
    Chohole said:

    My Dad wrote his first book on an old sit up and beg typewriter in 1955,  and used part of the money he made to buy himself what was laughingly called a "portable" remington typewiter, also manual before he wrote his 2nd book.   I learned to type on that remington and it was still going strong when we lost my Dad in 1984.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/REMINGTON-QUIET-RITER-MIRACLE-TAB-PORTABLE-TYPEWRITER-IN-CASE-GREEN-KEYS-/332231470852

    ...I have a protable Underwood like this:

     

    are those old timey mainframes?

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