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tod
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You might be a GEEK if..
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Jul 21 21:59 UTC 2003 |
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gelinas
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response 1 of 31:
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Jul 22 02:07 UTC 2003 |
Geeks get married?
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glenda
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response 2 of 31:
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Jul 22 02:31 UTC 2003 |
Why, yes we do.
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slestak
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response 3 of 31:
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Jul 22 04:22 UTC 2003 |
Married,divorced and perhaps remarried.....
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pvn
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response 4 of 31:
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Jul 22 04:24 UTC 2003 |
re#2: Absolutely, we also tend to marry other geeks and,...
we breed.
re#3: Yes, there are those mixed marriages...
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pvn
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response 5 of 31:
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Jul 22 04:45 UTC 2003 |
- not only do you own a backup leatherman tool, but you have the
attachment with the socket and torx wrenches.
- You own more than one GPS receiver.
- You don't really know exactly how many Gigs of storage you have online
at home.
- You backup music CDs.
- You have a USB storage device on your keychain.
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scott
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response 6 of 31:
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Jul 22 15:15 UTC 2003 |
- You're in Colorado, on ski lift with a breathtaking mountain view. "Hmmm...
that's probably an inductive sensor which verifies that the cable is actually
on the pulley, but what's that other one for?"
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keesan
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response 7 of 31:
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Jul 22 17:04 UTC 2003 |
Do you have to have a wife and a car to be a geek?
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rcurl
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response 8 of 31:
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Jul 22 17:33 UTC 2003 |
Re #5: now, why would having more than one GPS receiver mean you are a
geek? The technology improves, after all, and you don't just want to sell
the last one you bought when you upgrade, much less throw it away.
Besides, it is convenient to have a receiver in each of your vehicles and
your jump kit, as, gee-wizz, you never know when you might need to know
where your are or record a location. And besides, the earlier ones didn't
have an interface for a DGPS receiver, so your accuracy was impaired. I
just think it is unfair to characterize someone that just wants to have
good accuracy as a GEEK!
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sj2
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response 9 of 31:
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Jul 22 17:59 UTC 2003 |
Honestly, I would qualify for a lot of things mentioned in #1 but I
still consider myself to be a wannabe-geek.
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mynxcat
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response 10 of 31:
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Jul 22 18:33 UTC 2003 |
Sometimes it's hard to tell is rcurl is joking or being totally serious
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slynne
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response 11 of 31:
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Jul 22 19:43 UTC 2003 |
resp:10 I KNOW!
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tod
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response 12 of 31:
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Jul 22 20:06 UTC 2003 |
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rcurl
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response 13 of 31:
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Jul 22 21:55 UTC 2003 |
terraserver-usa.com does that. It gives you a map with an address location
marked, plus the latitude and longitude.
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tod
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response 14 of 31:
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Jul 22 22:51 UTC 2003 |
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rcurl
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response 15 of 31:
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Jul 23 00:29 UTC 2003 |
You can look up lat and lon in several online map servers. Topozone is
one that also supports other coordinate systems, such as UTM. I think
it can also be done in Terraserver. Maybe not Mapquest....
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jmsaul
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response 16 of 31:
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Jul 23 03:07 UTC 2003 |
Thanks, Rane -- that's great!
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pvn
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response 17 of 31:
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Jul 23 04:35 UTC 2003 |
Geek. I tell yah.
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jmsaul
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response 18 of 31:
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Jul 23 11:13 UTC 2003 |
I've never denied it.
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pvn
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response 19 of 31:
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Jul 23 13:11 UTC 2003 |
I was talking about rcurl.
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sabre
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response 20 of 31:
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Jul 23 15:08 UTC 2003 |
That's right jmsaul...he wasn't talking to you. You don't have the brains to
be a geek. You are however..UGLY enough.
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gull
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response 21 of 31:
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Jul 23 15:23 UTC 2003 |
Finding the burned-out bulb in a string of Christmas lights used to
drive me nuts, until a textbook I had in college explained the
least-effort way to do it using an ohmmeter as an example of the
divide-and-conquer method of troubleshooting.
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tod
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response 22 of 31:
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Jul 23 17:31 UTC 2003 |
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rcurl
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response 23 of 31:
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Jul 23 17:48 UTC 2003 |
It is easy to find the burned out bulb if the bulbs are in parallel.
In any case, everything has a measurable resistance.
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gull
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response 24 of 31:
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Jul 23 19:41 UTC 2003 |
No, I mean an ohmmeter. Here's the procedure:
Unplug the lights. Use alligator clips to bridge the two plug prongs
together and connect to one of the ohmmeter leads. Find the middle of
the string and pull out one bulb. Test each contact in the socket for
continuity with the other ohmmeter lead. The side that has no
continuity is the side the bad bulb is on; put the bulb you took out
back in and then remove the bulb from the middle of that half-string.
Repeat the process until you've narrowed it down to just a few bulbs,
then test individually. (Special case: If you have continuity on both
contacts of the socket, you just pulled out the bad bulb.)
This is pretty quick because each time you test, you cut the number of
possible bad bulbs in half.
If you try this, it's important to know that most 100-bulb strings are
actually two 50-bulb strings in parallel.
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