Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: 27 Dec 2024 18:59:34 GMT Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <8a58cd46-6477-7b17-06a0-692f3ea842fe@example.net> <072d1a3f-8bf5-035f-b7c0-e6adc84a8673@example.net> <10366897-b37e-5fee-3895-1524008f8b3b@example.net> <5a6721c2-8c23-8f0b-b6c2-57397f3de686@example.net> <3629a72c-f8f3-087d-733a-a8a258e825e3@example.net> <76d7f03a-5b81-bf80-2a59-cc4ecccc7286@example.net> <4b7d119b-b02b-32c7-6601-16f805e202dd@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net YJlq72TyQTs9vCZ+xwjrLAHw39CaktBARIjDitfO+G3hlitcvz Cancel-Lock: sha1:vBDtamnwciC138xqLFp9QIHp23U= sha256:frEivl6RTm8qVSw7GdKAmi0ORrT22/gOPlrByLVPBYo= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63154 On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:17:54 +0100, D wrote: > May all the power boats be damned! I especially like the ones who see > that I'm sitting in a tiny fishing boat, and then they speed by at extra > high speed to see if they can sink my boat with the waves. My father and I were fishing in a rented rowboat when a speedboat nearly swamped us. My father stood up and yelled 'Cocksucker!'. I didn't know he knew words like that :) Boat rentals were common on the area lakes. They were homemade wooden productions with flat bottoms, square ends, and a bait well under the seats. They weren't beautiful but they were stable. When we got the aluminum V-hull it was a lot less stable. In the '50s the designs were adapted to use plywood instead of planks. After storing the boats over the winter in the spring they discovered porcupines love the resin used to bond the layers. I have a special fondness for porcupines. While I was on a multiday hike a porcupine ate the front brake lines and heater hose on my pickup. It was raining when I got back to the trailhead so I threw my gear in and took off. I quickly discovered a pickup without front brakes isn't the best thing to use to come off a mountain. I could splice the heater hose and refill the radiator from a creek but the brakes had to wait until I was back to civilization.