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Specmaster:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 07, 2018, 08:35:38 am ---Specmaster: HP3478A is all yours - feel free to place a bid  :-DD

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Nah, got my eye on an extra digit now, voltnuttery is getting me  :-DD



--- Quote from: bd139 on June 07, 2018, 08:35:38 am ---Cats: horrid diseased animals that make your kit furry and spitty. Ick.

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Cats are no worse then dogs, apart from they can and do sit on the bench and gear, but they do make good lab assistants as they are good listeners so act as sounding boards and in the case of my cats, talk back to you as well so I'm afraid NO you cant stuff them in room 101 :-DD



--- Quote from: bd139 on June 07, 2018, 08:35:38 am ---Trucks: saw a suitable vehicle for TEA aquisitions. Man 6 ton army doodah:
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Not a bad truck but it has too many flaws to take on a run for tea acquisitions, especially to edgardigital, 1/Loading height is way to high, 2/not big enough, means making multiple trips, 3/ Not waterproof / watertight meaning thats bound to rain on the trip and precious cargo will be water damaged and lastly, 4/Tonnage is not high enough either with too few axles to help spread the weight.  |O



--- Quote from: bd139 on June 07, 2018, 08:35:38 am ---What is happening is that I sold something which doesn't exist yet to someone on the basis that I deliver it on a risky as fuck deadline. Ergo 18 hours a day programming and consumption of red bull. Got a break today while I wait for a couple of servers to arrive so dropping a quick post in here. Getting a bit old this now though - life is usually slow and methodical now but this is going back to circa 2000 startup mode :scared: ... result is likely to mean I can devote many more hours to TEA so this has a positive trade off  :-+

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That does sound very risky, get it wrong and then the speculations that were flying around could in part become a reality, instead of SWMBO doing you in, it would be the customer  :scared:

On the plus side however, we could be having a silent key sale in that event  :-/O

bd139:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 07, 2018, 10:15:06 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 07, 2018, 08:35:38 am ---Specmaster: HP3478A is all yours - feel free to place a bid  :-DD

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Nah, got my eye on an extra digit now, voltnuttery is getting me  :-DD

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It has begun.


--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 07, 2018, 10:15:06 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 07, 2018, 08:35:38 am ---Cats: horrid diseased animals that make your kit furry and spitty. Ick.

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Cats are no worse then dogs, apart from they can and do sit on the bench and gear, but they do make good lab assistants as they are good listeners so act as sounding boards and in the case of my cats, talk back to you as well so I'm afraid NO you cant stuff them in room 101 :-DD

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Actually they are worse. Toxoplasma gondii. No thanks. Don't like dogs either. Guinea pigs get a  :-+ though.


--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 07, 2018, 10:15:06 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 07, 2018, 08:35:38 am ---Trucks: saw a suitable vehicle for TEA aquisitions. Man 6 ton army doodah:
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Not a bad truck but it has too many flaws to take on a run for tea acquisitions, especially to edgardigital, 1/Loading height is way to high, 2/not big enough, means making multiple trips, 3/ Not waterproof / watertight meaning thats bound to rain on the trip and precious cargo will be water damaged and lastly, 4/Tonnage is not high enough either with too few axles to help spread the weight.  |O

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True. However it'll be fine for raiding companies of their test gear when zombie apocalypse comes.


--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 07, 2018, 10:15:06 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 07, 2018, 08:35:38 am ---What is happening is that I sold something which doesn't exist yet to someone on the basis that I deliver it on a risky as fuck deadline. Ergo 18 hours a day programming and consumption of red bull. Got a break today while I wait for a couple of servers to arrive so dropping a quick post in here. Getting a bit old this now though - life is usually slow and methodical now but this is going back to circa 2000 startup mode :scared: ... result is likely to mean I can devote many more hours to TEA so this has a positive trade off  :-+

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That does sound very risky, get it wrong and then the speculations that were flying around could in part become a reality, instead of SWMBO doing you in, it would be the customer  :scared:

On the plus side however, we could be having a silent key sale in that event  :-/O

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If I don't deliver I don't get paid but still have a product to sell so can't lose. Just will take longer. Also I suspect that the risk of this getting into someone else's hands is going to allow some leeway. I don't work well unless I'm under pressure so...  >:D

Anyway off again for a few days :)

Specmaster:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 07, 2018, 11:01:05 am ---Cats: horrid diseased animals that make your kit furry and spitty. Ick.

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Cats are no worse then dogs, apart from they can and do sit on the bench and gear, but they do make good lab assistants as they are good listeners so act as sounding boards and in the case of my cats, talk back to you as well so I'm afraid NO you cant stuff them in room 101 :-DD
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--- Quote from: bd139 on June 07, 2018, 11:01:05 am ---Actually they are worse. Toxoplasma gondii. No thanks. Don't like dogs either. Guinea pigs get a  :-+ though.

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Your far more likely to get Toxoplasma gondii through eating undercooked meat then from a cat, and a cat that is basically an indoor cat and fed only cooked meat is highly unlikely to be carrying Toxoplasma gondii either. A cat has to be eating raw uncooked meat to get it so your at greater risk with wild or stray cats as they will have no option but to hunt their prey in order to survive. My cats while not being strict indoor ones which i think is cruel, are allowed to go out if they wish but when they do, they stay within our garden. They don't need to catch anything to eat as they are well fed anyway and birds and squirrels are quite happy to share the garden with them as they have come to understand that they pose no threat to them.

So with that that I suggest that you're possibly at great risk when you eat food that others have prepared so be wary of going to a restaurant, or having a Kebab etc  :-DD 

Good luck with your software development and 18 hours of pressure a day, had enough of that when I automated a crematorium many years ago, got a buzz from it though when it was debugged and working which was a lengthy process with thousands of lines of code to sift through. All of which I have since forgotten though.  ::)

BillB:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 06, 2018, 10:29:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: BillB on June 06, 2018, 07:18:43 pm ---This is a good coupon.  They always appear right after I buy something on ebay.  I bought something this morning, then a little while later this coupon appears.  So, to everyone who takes advantage of this, you're welcome.  :)

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This happens because you actually live in the solipsistic BillB-Murphy universe and the rest of us are figments of your imagination, except for Murphy of course.

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Well, I am surely doing something wrong then.  All of you figments of my imagination seemed to have been prepared for this coupon's arrival and have purchased everything out from under me.  All the stuff I was watching disappeared and I didn't use the coupon! |O

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 07, 2018, 11:21:08 am ---Your far more likely to get Toxoplasma gondii through eating undercooked meat then from a cat,

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Reference, please.


--- Quote ---and a cat that is basically an indoor cat and fed only cooked meat is highly unlikely to be carrying Toxoplasma gondii either. A cat has to be eating raw uncooked meat to get it so your at greater risk with wild or stray cats as they will have no option but to hunt their prey in order to survive. My cats while not being strict indoor ones which i think is cruel, are allowed to go out if they wish but when they do, they stay within our garden. They don't need to catch anything to eat as they are well fed anyway and birds and squirrels are quite happy to share the garden with them as they have come to understand that they pose no threat to them.

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Maybe if you live in a tower block and/or have an obese cat. All the cats I've seen and played with are owned, wander, and take great pleasure in catching Things That Move. And, if you are unlucky, vomiting up the remains on the sofa.

There is too much concern about T. plasmosis (playing fields and playgrounds excepted), and too little concern about T. Gondii. Perhaps that's because it is easy to catch and fine dog owners, but not cat owners.

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