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Re: Things I think about
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Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:18:27 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Iain Hendry writes:
> So Saturday night at midnight I'm siting in an injection moulding plant in
> Elberton, the Granite Capital of the World. Watching moulding machines make
> 8 parts every 10 seconds or so, tweaking our robots that yank them out. And
> I look at the whole system. And what do I think?
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> "Wow, if we had done this rtlToronto style, I think Jeff Elliot would have
> been the mould supplier because he does intricate things, Bruce or Dave
> would have done the moulding machine (although Dave can't pick one solid
> colour :-P) because it's this big giant thing that runs smoothly and is
> overbuilt, Derek would have done our robotics, just cauze all his stuff is
> acrobatic and stuff, I dunno... and I think without a doubt Rob would have
> done all the assembly automation."
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> So I'm just like siting there thinking this. Then I remembered how at a
> washroom in a harvey's downtown across from Maple Leaf Gardens has "CLAP 4
> BACON" scribed on the dryer, and I screamed.
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> Iain
Things that went thru my mind on Saturday night around midnight were:
How funny Robert DdNero really is (he was the host of SNL)
Trying to decide what to watch--SNL or Silver Streak--SS being one of the
best train chase movies ever (if there is a 'train chase' genre)
What ever happened to Gene Wilder? Blazing Sadles and Silver Streak were
both on Saturday night--back to back--there's good viewing pleasure for ya!
I can still sit thru an ep. of Night Rider and not hate it as much as
viewing 5 minutes of hte A-Team
Staying up until 3 a.m. working on a 'bot and watching television is not as
good as staying up until 3 a.m. working on a 'bot and listening to
Beethoven.com. Seems that watching television = 'brain drain' whereas
listening to classical music is somehow ambivalent to slightly positive on
the thinking scale. Let's jsut say that LOR was much better off when I was
listening to classical music than when I was watching television.
But now Saturday is past, and I have a week to get a moderately functioning
'bot, well, moderately functioning.
Oh, LOR won't fit into a shoebox so I can't bring it to dinner,
"because rules is rules..."
Dave K.
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| (...) I can't see how you can like Night Rider over the A-Team. Liking the A-Team is like baseline requirement for being into Lego and rtlToronto! Every episode is like an rtlToronto event: the build a machine (machine gun armed forklift) to win a (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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