Geezer's Lounge (Rev 1) - Volume 1

[friscomike]

Good morning folks,

Karl, thanks for opening and that fantastic photo.  Good luck at the dentist!

Curt, thanks for the coffee and breakfast. Wishing Kathy good health.  

Rick, thanks for the brunch and the cool photo. Safe travels west.

Philip, good to hear you are well.  If you fall off the ladder, you may not be well, so be extra careful. 

TomACL, wishing you a great day.  How was bowling?

How is the rest of the gang?

It's a hazy morning after rain last night.  Today's high is forecast to be 78°F.  I hear the mowers running, and glad I don't have to ride one of those anymore.

I have a cleaning appointment with a new dentist today.  

I discovered that using my blackening medium on bronze rods in the bridge kit turns them GREEN!  I don't want to paint them because they might not fit in the holes I drilled, but I'll figure something out.  Always a challenge in modeling.

Have fun,
mike

[Jerry]

Morning everyone

Curt thanks for the coffee.
Have fun doing the 1:1 chores.

Nice breakfast Rick.
Great picture.
Can't believe a little snow stopped you!! 

Philip glad your feeling better.

Morning Tom no plans for the day??

Mike hope you figure out a way to blacken them.

Weather in South Jersey P. sunny/70.
We have a 8500 acre forest fire here in South Jersey that is only 10% contained as of 8:00 this morning.
Hopefully they will get it under control many of the roads are closed and people have been told to leave.

We should finish the outside grooming today!!
I hope because I'm getting to old for this kind of lugging.

Everyone have a great day!! 

Jerry

[deemery]

Good afternoon!  I'm back from helping judge student papers at UNH.  There was quite a variety, including one looking at microbes that (very slowly...) eat nanoplastics, a study of fish migration in New Zealand, a study on how to differentiate charcoal from other sources of carbon in sediments, one on the change in wind patterns off the East Coast (winds in the Northeast are getting stronger -and more variable-.  Winds off the Carolinas & Florida are getting calmer), a look at volcanos in central France (most recent eruption there was only 5,000 years ago), etc.  So a lot of variation in topics.  I also went over and looked at the Computer Science papers (since that really is my primary background), they were boring!  

So back to the basement for a bit more work on the warehouse.

dave

[Larry C]

Morning Gents,

The morning beverages are set to go. Breakfast is flapjacks, real Maple Syrup, butter, crispy bacon and/or pan sausages; dig in.

What's going on today?

It's a sunny 49 with a high of 72 in New York. Looks like we may be going from a brief Spring into Summer weather later this week. Busy day yesterday with outside work. Put in a new mailbox post and redid that whole thing. Also uncovered the central air just in case and installed the portable A/C unit in the back bedroom. Did manage to spend a little time at the bench as well. Soon it's off to Wegmans for my Rx and a few other items. Probably more outside work this afternoon; can't pass up the nice weather.

Enjoy your day!!! Be well and stay safe.

[KentuckySouthern]

Sun, temps to go to mid 70s+, the garage sale season is off to a roaring start...

Decent weather is expected for a change for the Maple Syrup Festival this weekend in nearby Vermontville.  Oh my the creatures that will crawl out this weekend.

KS

[Rick]

Good morning everyone.

Salem, OR weather: Sunny, with a high near 76.

Larry, thanks for the coffee and breakfast and you sure did get a lot done yesterday.

Dave, that's an interesting list of topics you got to read.

Jerry, you mulching the whole block?   

Mike, I'm sure you figured something out with those rods.

ACLTom, with bowling done you can get more shed time.

Philip, very glad you're feeling better and hope the roof expedition went safely.

Curt, bummer about the White Pass RR excursion.

Karl, that's an amazing sunset photo.

TomO, clothes shopping done?

Dale, how's the Wyoming weather?

Terry, haven't heard from you in a while.
All well?

Greg, enjoy your day.

Ron, honey do list done?

Nothing exciting yesterday.
Just a gym visit and some driving.
A little more driving today to Beaverton.

A picture from August of '23 at a campsite in Wyoming.



Have a great day everyone.

[PRR Modeler]

Good Morning All,

Thanks for opening and breakfast today.

Kathy says she feels a little better and I had a relapse last night and feel pretty bad today, so only thing planned today are things that have to be done like animal chores.

That's all I got.

I hope everyone has a good day.

[Philip]

Good morning, Thankful to be in it!

Feeling about half froggy, what ever that may be.

Nothing pressing on the agenda today.

Philip

[elwoodblues]

Good morning Larry, Karl, Rick, Curt, Philip and the rest of the crew that drops in later.

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Larry.  Sounds like you're ready for summer now.

Currently 9C (48F) and sunny.  The honey do list is getting shorter which is a good thing.  Today is going to be yard work, got a ton of leaves to get rid of.

Have a great day everyone.

[friscomike]

Good morning folks,

Larry, thanks for opening, coffee, and breakfast. Hope you enjoy the nice weather.

Karl, so you are selling maple syrup from your garage?  

Rick, safe travels to Beaverton

Curt, sad to hear of your relapse.  Get well soon to Kathy and you.

Philip, hope the frogs go away.

Ron, good luck with the leaves.

Dave, didn't know you were a computer science nerd like me.  I started in 1967 with my studies.  Our son suffers from the same affliction.

Jerry, hope you don't get any smoke from the fires.

How is the rest of the crew?

It's an overcast morning with thunderstorms predicted for this afternoon.  

While assembling the bridge yesterday, I discovered that one end chord was too long, so I need to remeasure and correct the length of all four ends before proceeding (expletive deleted). 

Have fun,
mike

[Jerry]

Morning

Larry thanks for the coffee & breakfast.
Have fun outside enjoying the nice weather.

Morning Karl.

Nice picture Rick.

Curt hope you feel better.

Philip any plans for the day?

Ron glad the list is getting shorter!

Weather in South Jersey sunny/69.  Later on 78.
Well the forest fire is about 50% contained this morning.
It was started my a 19 year old kid burning pallets and walked away before they were out.
So 13,000 acres of the pinelands is now burnt.

Rick it felt like I did the whole block.
15 bags is just to much for me to do anymore.
Because its really 60 bags your lifting. 15 on the cart, then lift those 15 into the car, take those 15 in the wagon at home, then lastly take those 15 dump them where the little lady wants them!!!!

Hopefully I might get some bench time today!

Everyone have a great day!!

Jerry

[GPdemayo]

Nice day down here with a light work load,  can't complain. Y'all have a good one also..... 

[deemery]

Well, my university didn't have CS as an option.  They hired their first CS prof my junior year.  He worked hard to get a CS minor authorized starting the year after I graduated.  That required 5 courses. I had taken the existing 4 courses, the new course was Operating Systems.  The prof handed me 3 books and said "Tell me which one I should use."  Well, reading 3 different books probably taught me more than I would have learned from a course on a single book.  I handed him my recommendation, and he agreed.  Years later, I razzed him "I should get constructive credit for the Operating Systems course, which should make me Norwich's first CS grad."  So on his 40th anniversary as a professor, he called me up and handed me a transcript with "CS Minor" clearly added   A couple times I started a CS Masters, but decided the 'buy your degree' part time programs weren't worth the money, and if I wanted to do it, I needed to go back full-time.  I never got around to that, but based on the MS and PhDs I worked with, I had pretty much equivalent knowledge, but a few holes in that knowledge. 

Once I retired 10 years ago, I pretty much went Cold Turkey from CS.  I dropped my professional society memberships, unsubscribed to periodicals, stopped following most CS topics on the Internet, etc.  There are a few topics, mostly through emails with friends, I still track.  In particular, I still follow the de-evolution of the one international standard that I was a major contributor to in the past.  The new people never bothered to learn how to use the existing standard, so they keep on making it more complex and less general, to align with their narrow (and ill-defined) beliefs of "how things should be."  I'm darned glad I don't have to deal with those people any more!

dave

[KentuckySouthern]

My first computer science class was Fortran at Michigan State using punch cards and such writing little programs "2+2=x" punching a couple dozen cards, trekking halfway across campus to the mainframe, giving them your bundle of cards. 2-3 days later you picked them up and a bundle of green/white paper and see if you guessed right...so tedious.  I did manage to get enough of a grip to pass but I Never stuck with it. My mind locks up like a n old 3 speed Chevy stick shift when engaged in number oriented action

[KentuckySouthern]

Mornin' 

Still stuck in 2nd gear...