On Saturday, March 24, 2012 04:41:17 AM Erik Christiansen did opine: > > That is the 18,000 lb elephant no one wants to talk about here folks. > > You have a way with words, Gene.
Thanks for the flowers. :) > I enjoy pointing at the big smash up > ahead, but it's hair-raising to meet more eloquent evidence coming the > other way. The doubling of wheat prices, a couple of years back, due to > fires in Russia, together with China and Qatar buying up slabs of > Australian farmland now, with the declared intent of feeding their own > populations, all seems to point to us approaching the edge, and nations > recognising the threat. Maybe I should fix the chicken coop out on the > farm, and cultivate the little garden paddock, as in the old days. Yes, and IF I had any sense, the storage buildings covering much of my back yard would go, in favor of being tilled for a garden. Unforch, its mostly yellow clay, overhung and shaded by maple trees on neighboring properties, and the one nominally 20 ft sq sunny patch I did plow up for a couple years didn't yield enough to buy the tillers gas, let alone buy the $800 tiller. I have since tilled in several hundred lbs of limestone, gypsum, kitchen scraps & all the ashes from my trash disposal, mostly brush cut from forsythia or the pin oak in the front yard etc, but it still isn't growing anything but scraggly weeds, termites & one rose bush that was started from a cutting from a 125 year old bush that was Dee's great aunts, 3 miles away across town. That rose bush seems to be the only thing suitable for that soil as I trim it back about 15 feet a year. But I suspect I'll either fall over from side effects of my sugar, or starve with the unprepared masses when the crunch comes. [...] > > Languages have personalities that keep them separated, > > usually for a reason. ;-) > > You've hit that nail fair and square, Gene. It's pretty much what I was > flippantly asking. > > > OTOH Erik, I can just as easily be ignored. ;-) > > Not a chance. If I stray too far with any of this, I'm hoping for just > the kind of rational appraisal you've been giving it thus far. Rational? This coming from someone who has spent much of the last 30 years telling folks it can't be done when they want the impossible? The trouble with that is, is that they know when I get determined, if it can be done, it will be done. Because the sales oriented types that run the broadcast industry do not understand the technology that pays them, they observe me doing something they don't grok at all, so the next thing I know, they are telling others that I can walk on water! We both know that isn't true, in fact I sink like a rock. Rational? The military didn't think so when I had them move my draft number up during Korea so I'd only have to do 2 years instead of 4 to get that out of the way. I carried that little tan draft card that said I was 4F for the next 40 years. According to them I wasn't mentally stable enough. They wanted cannon fodder, and I guess somebody who made a 98 on the AFQT, when the next best score was 36 in the 138 boys that sat that test the same day I did must have spooked them. That was alright with me though, because I could get on with life without being called up and losing 2 years or worse. Rational isn't something I have been accused of being very many times. So it generates a VBG when its applied to me. ;-) As one wag on another mailing list observed a week or so back, he thought "it was ok to think outside the box since you'll have a long time to think inside the box." From "The sayings of Grandpa Jim". He claims excessive use of his stuff can cause alzheimers. ;) > In a later post, it did sink in that a gcode subroutine has its own > scope, so similarity to a 'C' block with the same properties yields a > gain in "feel", I sense. 'Scope' as I have found recently, isn't always global even if intended. I had to re-write some gcode step & repeat loops into much longer stuff not too long ago because a globally defined #<_named> var intended to pass a value back to the main program, simply disappeared at the endwhile. I much prefer to write 50 line programs that might take 36 hours to run on my little toy mill. Its been called excessively recursive recursion in some quarters. ;-) > Erik Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
