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  Re: Purimish fun
 
(...) Not only that, but your remedial math students are a lot less likely to try to borrow your calculator when they forget to bring theirs to class! : ) Maggie C. (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Purimish fun
 
Bram Lambrecht wrote in message <20000326.125628.509...no.com>... (...) So true, though these days I mostly use a non-RPN calculator. I keep watching for a modestly priced RPN calculator, but it just doesn't seem like it will ever happen (HP's (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Purimish fun
 
(...) I use one of those (48G). Once you've used Reverse Polish Notation, you can't ever go back... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Interview with Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen
 
(...) Ambiguity is half the fun in playing the complete-the-sentence game (especially on CEO quotage-fodder :-). ...We forsee for this year 2000 to become history with strong results. ...To forsee continued fun, for this year, 2000, which we (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: New train
 
(...) Larry's bag is more of the "wind" variety. ;) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) ! 
 
  Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun
 
Maggie Cambron wrote in message (...) recall (...) You can also do multiplication and division (and addition and subtraction I think - don't remember what all scales are on the rule). Also roots and powers (in fact most calculators perform roots (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)  
 
  Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun
 
(...) That's what we used them for-- mainly logarithms as I recall (and I don't recall much!). Maggie (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun
 
(...) Wow, interesting site! As it turns out my calculator wasn't one of the earliest after all but a second generation (now I don't feel so old!). But what really surprises me is that the one I use now (HP 15C) has been discontinued for over ten (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)  
 
  Re: Making Lego airborne
 
(...) ...and engines and directional control surfaces. That's a dirigible; see below. :) Otherwise it's a barrage balloon of the variety used near the front in WWI--no power, but a gondola for observers and a machine gun or two. If you've played (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun
 
(...) Never steal second base without a good pair of shin protectors. --Todd (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)  
 
  Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun
 
Gee - in the last year or so I threw out my HP 9830A because something fell on the keyboard and broke a few key caps off beyond repair... brought tears to my eyes to find it broken from an avalance in storage... I had the plotter and the wide (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Just 2 cents about nothing...
 
(...) Ja Mein freund, Ich verstehe ein bischen deutsch. Meine Vader und Mutter heise Fritz und Helga Wolf. WIR SIND DEUTSCHE LEUTE! Aber das "Italienisch?" kann mich nicht verstehen. Ich habe Kartoffel Salat zschwischen meinen oren. My apologies to (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Purimish fun
 
(...) i do use the web Shiri but i tend 2 read by NG In Batches Of 20 ib reversese Chronological order Ravi (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Making Lego airborne
 
(...) Wow, dang! Thanks for the correction! So, what then was the airship in the 3rd IJ movie? I don't have it on viddy and unfortunately it hasn't been burned into my brain yet like the 1st IJ movie. --Todd (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: General Silliness(was Re: 1950's LEGO)
 
(...) (Insert random crude Olestra joke here.) 'nuff said. LFB (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)  
 
  Re: Just 2 cents about nothing...
 
(...) Wir sind auch froh, daß Sie hier sind. ;) Lindsay (wer nur ein bißchen Deutsch sprechen kann) (Sorry, had to, despite how awful my College German Lite is. FUT-> .o-t.fun) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: summaries on main page
 
I thought that was enabled only with ANSI ;) John Matthews Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:FrxIqx.9y5@lugnet.com... (...) you're (...) tell (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  General Silliness(was Re: 1950's LEGO)
 
Ah, I see you've determined my military name: General Silliness. That contrasts nicely with my Duwamish name: "Running Behind". -Cheese (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: (Movie) Mission to Mars
 
(...) pumping a dry well, but: the original 'Millenium' was a time-travel movie with cyborgs everywhere in the future, does that count? (this movie was Chris Carter's debut, based on a John Varley short story, and elements of it surfaced in X-Files (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Purimish fun
 
Wow. This is a holiday I've never heard of. I read a lot, but I have never come across this. Thank you all for teaching me something today. (I'm serious.) I'm Lutheran and from Texas, and as much as I read, I've never heard of this. I hope you all (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)


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