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Geeks get married?
Why, yes we do.
Married,divorced and perhaps remarried.....
re#2: Absolutely, we also tend to marry other geeks and,... we breed. re#3: Yes, there are those mixed marriages...
- 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.
- 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?"
Do you have to have a wife and a car to be a geek?
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!
Honestly, I would qualify for a lot of things mentioned in #1 but I still consider myself to be a wannabe-geek.
Sometimes it's hard to tell is rcurl is joking or being totally serious
resp:10 I KNOW!
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terraserver-usa.com does that. It gives you a map with an address location marked, plus the latitude and longitude.
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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....
Thanks, Rane -- that's great!
Geek. I tell yah.
I've never denied it.
I was talking about rcurl.
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.
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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It is easy to find the burned out bulb if the bulbs are in parallel. In any case, everything has a measurable resistance.
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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You're a geek if your pinky is longer than your pecker.
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RE#26 I guess that makes you a geek Fairy er...I mean Larry
Re #25: It doesn't, but most strings don't have bulbs in parallel, they have them in series. If you're troubleshooting a string that has two series strings wired in parallel, like most 100-bulb strings, you'll need to open the string you're not troubleshooting by removing a bulb so it doesn't affect your results.
Why? The parallel set won't change the effect of a burned out bulb in the set you are testing with the ohm-meter: a burned out bulb there will still cause one side to be "open".
Yeah, you're right, And in fact I've done it that way. I got my head twisted around it wrong yesterday when I was trying to think about it.
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