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Re: [Poll] Computing favorities

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First post2015-10-11 13:48 +0000
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  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-11 13:48 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-11 14:45 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-11 10:52 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-11 22:18 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-10-11 20:05 -0500
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-10-12 05:26 +0000
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-12 15:59 -0500
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-10-13 01:19 -0300
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-10-13 12:27 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-10-13 13:40 -0300
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-13 12:34 +0000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-13 23:17 -0500
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-14 10:02 -0400
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-13 12:16 -0400
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> - 2015-10-13 17:39 +0100
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-10-13 12:51 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-13 18:23 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-13 14:41 -0400
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-13 17:35 -0500
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-13 22:24 -0400
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-14 05:39 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-16 14:32 -0500
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-10-15 16:25 -0700
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-15 20:07 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> - 2015-10-16 10:46 +0100
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 08:58 -0500
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-16 13:52 -0400
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-12 13:09 +0000
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-12 08:49 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-12 16:41 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-13 12:34 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 10:39 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-13 18:23 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-13 19:03 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-14 14:02 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-13 20:44 +0200
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-10-13 20:24 -0700
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-14 05:39 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-14 14:02 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 12:51 +1100
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-10-12 20:34 +0100
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-10-13 07:02 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> - 2015-10-13 09:01 +0100
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-13 09:43 -0400
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> - 2015-10-13 15:19 +0100
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-13 10:21 -0400
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2015-10-13 13:12 +0000
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-12 15:14 +0000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-13 12:38 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-13 13:17 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-13 12:03 -0400
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-10-13 20:26 -0700
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-14 05:47 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-10-15 16:27 -0700
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-10-16 07:48 +0000
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-16 13:55 -0400
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-16 18:14 +0000
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-16 14:35 -0500
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-10-17 07:02 +0000
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-19 13:09 +0000
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-19 15:14 -0500
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-10-20 07:02 +0000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-16 16:47 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-10-16 14:26 +0100
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) - 2015-10-14 13:00 +0100
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-14 10:00 -0400
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-14 14:02 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-14 14:20 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-15 12:54 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-15 16:44 +0000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-16 13:04 +0000
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-10-16 18:48 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "78lp" <78lp@nospam.com> - 2015-10-17 15:58 +1100
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "78lp" <78lp@nospam.com> - 2015-10-18 17:37 +1100
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-10-18 11:12 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-18 13:24 -0400
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-10-18 19:21 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "78lp" <78lp@nospam.com> - 2015-10-19 15:28 +1100
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 15:30 +1100
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 06:31 +1100
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 09:04 +1100
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 12:54 +1100
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 12:59 +1100
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 10:22 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-12 20:42 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-10-12 21:40 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-12 22:39 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-10-12 18:08 -0500
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-13 12:34 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-13 17:15 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 20:17 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-13 12:12 -0400
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-13 17:22 -0500
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-13 12:34 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-13 20:06 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-10-13 20:38 -0700
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-14 14:02 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2015-10-16 22:33 -0300
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-13 12:34 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 10:38 -0500
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-10-13 20:40 -0700
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-14 14:02 +0000
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-12 13:48 -0400
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-12 16:04 -0500
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-10-13 12:25 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-14 14:02 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-14 15:49 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 11:30 -0500
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-15 12:54 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-16 14:38 -0500
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 08:51 +1100
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-10-14 21:16 -0500
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-13 12:14 -0400
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-10-12 16:19 -0700
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-13 00:17 +0000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-10-13 01:33 -0300
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-12 16:00 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-10-13 07:46 +0100
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-13 11:42 +0000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-13 12:34 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 12:53 +1100
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 20:08 +1100
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2015-10-14 12:17 -0300
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-14 18:21 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-16 14:44 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-16 21:09 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-19 15:19 -0500
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-19 20:45 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-12 15:57 -0500
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 20:16 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-13 12:34 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-13 13:12 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2015-10-13 14:02 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-14 14:02 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-14 16:20 +0200
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-15 12:54 +0000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-15 17:51 +0000
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-16 13:09 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-16 21:33 +0200
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 07:03 +1100
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-15 23:04 +0200
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-16 13:04 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-16 20:24 +0200
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-10-17 11:18 +0000
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-17 19:06 +0200
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-10-17 18:34 +0000
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-17 21:31 +0200
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-17 13:22 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 15:45 +1100
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-17 06:47 -0500
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 05:00 +1100
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-10-24 15:23 -0400
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 08:49 +1100
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-13 20:47 +0200
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-14 14:02 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 08:54 +1100
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-15 12:54 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 06:29 +1100
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-15 14:42 -0500
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 11:21 +1100
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-16 13:04 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 15:32 +1100
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-10-13 10:00 -0400
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-14 14:02 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-14 15:49 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-10-14 13:24 -0400
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-14 17:35 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-14 18:21 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-14 18:48 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-16 14:42 -0500
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-10-14 21:20 -0500
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-15 06:49 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-15 17:51 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-16 14:40 -0500
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-17 13:22 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 12:47 +1100
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-11 15:11 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-11 15:01 -0400
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities pechter@S20.pechter.dyndns.org (William Pechter) - 2015-10-12 19:56 +0000

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#152679 — Re: [Poll] Computing favorities

Fromjmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date2015-10-11 13:48 +0000
SubjectRe: [Poll] Computing favorities
Message-ID<PM000521D48A4CF95E@aca416eb.ipt.aol.com>
Peter Flass wrote:
> Bill Evans <wje@acm.org> wrote:
>> Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> wrote:
>>> On 9 Oct 2015 22:51:56 GMT, Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 09 Oct 2015 17:51:17 -0400, Roberto Waltman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Greymaus  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> AFAIremember, forth used RPN
>>>>
>>>> A Forth program runs every time I boot this machine...
>>>
>>> As does my Sun - Open Boot...
>>>
>>> Forth is still around, just got a new ANSI Standard.
>>
>> Another very common RPN language is PostScript.  PostScript
>> code is most often generated by other programs, but it's fun
>> (and, in my case, productive) to construct PostScript
>> programs by hand and send them directly to the printer.
>>
>
> FSVO.  I played around with PostScript just once - I had (have) a calendar
> program that I hacked up.  When IBM stopped distributing its nice calendars
> to customers I modified the program to produce a nearly exact facsimile.
> For several years I printed annual copies for everyone in the IT
> department.
>
Did it include the phases of the moon?  I could not find a 2015 calendar
which had them; I wasn't going to spend $8 on one just to see those
expensive calendars were real calendars.

/BAH

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#152681

FromBob Eager <news0005@eager.cx>
Date2015-10-11 14:45 +0000
Message-ID<d7vavuFhvhhU27@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#152679
On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:48:26 +0000, jmfbahciv wrote:

> Peter Flass wrote:
>> Bill Evans <wje@acm.org> wrote:
>>> Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> wrote:
>>>> On 9 Oct 2015 22:51:56 GMT, Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 09 Oct 2015 17:51:17 -0400, Roberto Waltman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Greymaus  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> AFAIremember, forth used RPN
>>>>>
>>>>> A Forth program runs every time I boot this machine...
>>>>
>>>> As does my Sun - Open Boot...
>>>>
>>>> Forth is still around, just got a new ANSI Standard.
>>>
>>> Another very common RPN language is PostScript.  PostScript code is
>>> most often generated by other programs, but it's fun (and, in my case,
>>> productive) to construct PostScript programs by hand and send them
>>> directly to the printer.
>>>
>>>
>> FSVO.  I played around with PostScript just once - I had (have) a
>> calendar program that I hacked up.  When IBM stopped distributing its
>> nice calendars to customers I modified the program to produce a nearly
>> exact facsimile. For several years I printed annual copies for everyone
>> in the IT department.
>>
> Did it include the phases of the moon?  I could not find a 2015 calendar
> which had them; I wasn't going to spend $8 on one just to see those
> expensive calendars were real calendars.

I buy the basic Arizona Highways calendar every year. I see that has the 
phases of the moon.

(but I use the 'pom' program anyway)

-- 
Using UNIX since v6 (1975)...

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#152682

FromMichael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Date2015-10-11 10:52 -0400
Message-ID<alpine.LNX.2.02.1510111052080.14592@darkstar.example.org>
In reply to#152679
On Sun, 11 Oct 2015, jmfbahciv wrote:

> Peter Flass wrote:
>> Bill Evans <wje@acm.org> wrote:
>>> Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> wrote:
>>>> On 9 Oct 2015 22:51:56 GMT, Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 09 Oct 2015 17:51:17 -0400, Roberto Waltman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Greymaus  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> AFAIremember, forth used RPN
>>>>>
>>>>> A Forth program runs every time I boot this machine...
>>>>
>>>> As does my Sun - Open Boot...
>>>>
>>>> Forth is still around, just got a new ANSI Standard.
>>>
>>> Another very common RPN language is PostScript.  PostScript
>>> code is most often generated by other programs, but it's fun
>>> (and, in my case, productive) to construct PostScript
>>> programs by hand and send them directly to the printer.
>>>
>>
>> FSVO.  I played around with PostScript just once - I had (have) a calendar
>> program that I hacked up.  When IBM stopped distributing its nice calendars
>> to customers I modified the program to produce a nearly exact facsimile.
>> For several years I printed annual copies for everyone in the IT
>> department.
>>
> Did it include the phases of the moon?  I could not find a 2015 calendar
> which had them; I wasn't going to spend $8 on one just to see those
> expensive calendars were real calendars.
>
I hadnt' thought about that.  But it wasn't uncommon years back to have 
the phase of the moon on a calendar, but I havent' noticed it in some 
years.

   Michael

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#152706

FromCharlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Date2015-10-11 22:18 +0000
Message-ID<mven85023m7@news7.newsguy.com>
In reply to#152682
On 2015-10-11, Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Oct 2015, jmfbahciv wrote:
>
>> Did it include the phases of the moon?  I could not find a 2015 calendar
>> which had them; I wasn't going to spend $8 on one just to see those
>> expensive calendars were real calendars.
>>
> I hadnt' thought about that.  But it wasn't uncommon years back to have 
> the phase of the moon on a calendar, but I havent' noticed it in some 
> years.

I suspect that most people no longer care about celestial phenomena (aside
from the Kardashians).  They're too busy staring at their smartphones to
look at the sky anyway.

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#152714

FromJimP <solosam90@gmail.com>
Date2015-10-11 20:05 -0500
Message-ID<pn1m1bdp7un9idlppf2aft2e0t3u676btp@4ax.com>
In reply to#152706
On 11 Oct 2015 22:18:45 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
wrote:
>On 2015-10-11, Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 11 Oct 2015, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>
>>> Did it include the phases of the moon?  I could not find a 2015 calendar
>>> which had them; I wasn't going to spend $8 on one just to see those
>>> expensive calendars were real calendars.
>>>
>> I hadnt' thought about that.  But it wasn't uncommon years back to have 
>> the phase of the moon on a calendar, but I havent' noticed it in some 
>> years.
>
>I suspect that most people no longer care about celestial phenomena (aside
>from the Kardashians).  They're too busy staring at their smartphones to
>look at the sky anyway.

Hmm... When I tried to locate an update to a planetarium program I
used under  WinXP, ( Distant Sun) I found there are a number of
Android apps to do that very thing. 
-- 
JimP.

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#152719

FromHuge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
Date2015-10-12 05:26 +0000
Message-ID<d80ujmFmtpsU2@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#152706
On 2015-10-11, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> On 2015-10-11, Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 11 Oct 2015, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>
>>> Did it include the phases of the moon?  I could not find a 2015 calendar
>>> which had them; I wasn't going to spend $8 on one just to see those
>>> expensive calendars were real calendars.
>>>
>> I hadnt' thought about that.  But it wasn't uncommon years back to have 
>> the phase of the moon on a calendar, but I havent' noticed it in some 
>> years.
>
> I suspect that most people no longer care about celestial phenomena (aside
> from the Kardashians).  They're too busy staring at their smartphones to
> look at the sky anyway.

I was at the Grand Canyon yesterday. It was depressing how many people were ignoring the canyon and either peering at their phones or jamming huge numbers of calories into their morbidly obese faces.


-- 
I don't have an attitude problem.  If you have a problem with my
              attitude, that's your problem.

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#152751

From"Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com>
Date2015-10-12 15:59 -0500
Message-ID<mvh6r3$r9v$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#152719
"Huge" <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote in message 
news:d80ujmFmtpsU2@mid.individual.net...
> On 2015-10-11, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2015-10-11, Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 11 Oct 2015, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did it include the phases of the moon?  I could not find a 2015 
>>>> calendar
>>>> which had them; I wasn't going to spend $8 on one just to see those
>>>> expensive calendars were real calendars.
>>>>
>>> I hadnt' thought about that.  But it wasn't uncommon years back to have
>>> the phase of the moon on a calendar, but I havent' noticed it in some
>>> years.
>>
>> I suspect that most people no longer care about celestial phenomena 
>> (aside
>> from the Kardashians).  They're too busy staring at their smartphones to
>> look at the sky anyway.
>
> I was at the Grand Canyon yesterday. It was depressing how many people 
> were ignoring the canyon and either peering at their phones or jamming 
> huge numbers of calories into their morbidly obese faces.
>

Everyday life is turning into a Ray Bradbury sci-fi story!!!

-- 

numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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#152768

FromMike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
Date2015-10-13 01:19 -0300
Message-ID<87eggzxuvp.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
In reply to#152719
On 2015-10-11, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>
> I suspect that most people no longer care about celestial phenomena
> (aside from the Kardashians).  They're too busy staring at their
> smartphones to look at the sky anyway.

In late 1999, I was asking people:

    1.  How many days to Y2K?

    2.  What's the present phase of the moon?

The responses were amusing.  No one who understood what 1. meant
could answer 2.  Almost no one could answer 2. and this is a rural
community. 

SWMBO is convinced that making sauerkraut only works under a waxing
moon.  I've seen her go through all the right moves and have it not
work as expected under a waning moon.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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#152781

FromGreymaus <mausg@mail.com>
Date2015-10-13 12:27 +0000
Message-ID<slrnn1q1cu.321.mausg@dmaus.org>
In reply to#152768
On 2015-10-13, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>
> On 2015-10-11, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> I suspect that most people no longer care about celestial phenomena
>> (aside from the Kardashians).  They're too busy staring at their
>> smartphones to look at the sky anyway.
>
> In late 1999, I was asking people:
>
>     1.  How many days to Y2K?
>
>     2.  What's the present phase of the moon?
>
> The responses were amusing.  No one who understood what 1. meant
> could answer 2.  Almost no one could answer 2. and this is a rural
> community. 
>
> SWMBO is convinced that making sauerkraut only works under a waxing
> moon.  I've seen her go through all the right moves and have it not
> work as expected under a waning moon.
>

How would you know when  sauerkraut goes wrong?. :))))


-- 
greymaus
 .
  .
...

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#152815

FromMike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
Date2015-10-13 13:40 -0300
Message-ID<87y4f690yi.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
In reply to#152781
Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> writes:

> How would you know when  sauerkraut goes wrong?. :))))

You make sauerkraut by putting a layer of shredded cabbage into a jar,
tub, crock, sturdy container, sprinkling with salt and tamping/ramming
a whole lot with a wooden tamper.  Repeat with with more cabbage and
salt.  By the time the container is half full, water drawn out of the
cabbage nearly covers it.  By the time the container is full, the
tamped cabbage is completely under juice/water.  Then you weight the
cabbage down with a waterproof weight (glass, igneous rock) to keep it
under its juice and put it away to ferment. You *never* *add* water.

When it's "not working", the juice fails to rise. When the container
is full of cabbage, the juice only come up 1/3 or 1/2 the way.  That's
how you know it's gone wrong.  If you put it away like that, it
doesn't ferment, goes all mouldy and become compost/hog slops.

Waxing moon draws up water?  Rays?  Gravity?  Levity?  Whatever.  I
know, I know.  I have a degree in biochemistry so yeah, I know.  It's
still POM-dependent.


-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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#152782

Fromjmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date2015-10-13 12:34 +0000
Message-ID<PM000521FBA5E3C278@aca20236.ipt.aol.com>
In reply to#152768
Mike Spencer wrote:
>
> On 2015-10-11, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> I suspect that most people no longer care about celestial phenomena
>> (aside from the Kardashians).  They're too busy staring at their
>> smartphones to look at the sky anyway.
>
> In late 1999, I was asking people:
>
>     1.  How many days to Y2K?
>
>     2.  What's the present phase of the moon?
>
> The responses were amusing.  No one who understood what 1. meant
> could answer 2.  Almost no one could answer 2. and this is a rural
> community.
>
> SWMBO is convinced that making sauerkraut only works under a waxing
> moon.  I've seen her go through all the right moves and have it not
> work as expected under a waning moon.
>
How odd.  I wonder why.

/BAH

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#152867

From"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net>
Date2015-10-13 23:17 -0500
Message-ID<d863b7F26fjU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#152768
"Mike Spencer" wrote:

> SWMBO is convinced that making sauerkraut only works under a waxing
> moon.  I've seen her go through all the right moves and have it not
> work as expected under a waning moon.

I was a patient in a hospital several years ago and one night the woman in 
the next room started making very strange and fairly loud noises.   I asked 
the nurse what was going on and she said, "Oh, it's the full moon."

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#152886

FromMichael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Date2015-10-14 10:02 -0400
Message-ID<alpine.LNX.2.02.1510141002100.4442@darkstar.example.org>
In reply to#152867
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Osmium wrote:

> "Mike Spencer" wrote:
>
>> SWMBO is convinced that making sauerkraut only works under a waxing
>> moon.  I've seen her go through all the right moves and have it not
>> work as expected under a waning moon.
>
> I was a patient in a hospital several years ago and one night the woman in 
> the next room started making very strange and fairly loud noises.   I asked 
> the nurse what was going on and she said, "Oh, it's the full moon." 
>
So a store that supplies hospitals will carry calendars that show the 
phase of the moon, because the staff wants to know when the patients are 
at their wackiest?

   Michael

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#152810

FromMichael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Date2015-10-13 12:16 -0400
Message-ID<alpine.LNX.2.02.1510131215550.2103@darkstar.example.org>
In reply to#152719
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Huge wrote:

> On 2015-10-11, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2015-10-11, Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 11 Oct 2015, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did it include the phases of the moon?  I could not find a 2015 calendar
>>>> which had them; I wasn't going to spend $8 on one just to see those
>>>> expensive calendars were real calendars.
>>>>
>>> I hadnt' thought about that.  But it wasn't uncommon years back to have
>>> the phase of the moon on a calendar, but I havent' noticed it in some
>>> years.
>>
>> I suspect that most people no longer care about celestial phenomena (aside
>> from the Kardashians).  They're too busy staring at their smartphones to
>> look at the sky anyway.
>
> I was at the Grand Canyon yesterday. It was depressing how many people were ignoring the canyon and either peering at their phones or jamming huge numbers of calories into their morbidly obese faces.
>
I saw the Grand Canyon when I was three or four.  I don't remember much 
about it, I do remember garbage cans that were painted like they had 
mouths to eat the garbage.

   Michael

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#152814

FromDavid Hume <David.Hume@example.com>
Date2015-10-13 17:39 +0100
Message-ID<84zizm3eq3.fsf@example.com>
In reply to#152810
Why are there seven days in a week? Because of the phases of the moon
isn't it? After some googling I find contrary answers (and some
non-answers, like the week days are named after 7 planetry bodies, but
why 7?)

One page I found says that the 7 day week is pagen.

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#152818

FromDave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com>
Date2015-10-13 12:51 -0500
Message-ID<mvjg8d$bmv$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#152814
On 10/13/2015 11:39 AM, David Hume wrote:
> Why are there seven days in a week? Because of the phases of the moon
> isn't it? 

Goes back to the Babylonians. A quarter (lunar) month. Though they
fudged and inserted an extra day periodically to keep it in sync.

After some googling I find contrary answers (and some
> non-answers, like the week days are named after 7 planetry bodies, but
> why 7?)

The English (Tues.-Sat.) days seem to be named for Norse gods, except
for the last being named for a Roman god. The other 2 days got "Sun"
and "Mo[o]n".

> 
> One page I found says that the 7 day week is pagen.

I prefer the term "original".

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#152820

FromCharlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Date2015-10-13 18:23 +0000
Message-ID<mvji7e011o4@news3.newsguy.com>
In reply to#152810
On 2015-10-13, Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:

> I saw the Grand Canyon when I was three or four.  I don't remember much 
> about it, I do remember garbage cans that were painted like they had 
> mouths to eat the garbage.

Here in B.C. we had "Garbage Gobblers" that looked similar.

Another thing I remember from long road trips as a child was that
occasionally you'd pass through an area where the trees had been
wiped out by a fire, and beside the road would be a large gibbet
with an oversized cigarette hanging from it.  A sign read: "The
person who dropped it should be here too."

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#152825

FromMichael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Date2015-10-13 14:41 -0400
Message-ID<alpine.LNX.2.02.1510131437130.3013@darkstar.example.org>
In reply to#152820
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2015-10-13, Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
>
>> I saw the Grand Canyon when I was three or four.  I don't remember much
>> about it, I do remember garbage cans that were painted like they had
>> mouths to eat the garbage.
>
> Here in B.C. we had "Garbage Gobblers" that looked similar.
>
And the things I remember were specifically called "garbage gobblers".

One thing I wonder about is how good my memory is.  I don't have many 
memories from before that, so some of them may be garbled.  Perhaps I'm
mixing up the location of those Garbage Gobblers, or maybe my father 
called them that when they weren't specified as such.  I couldn't read, so 
I'd have to rely on the accuracy of what I was told.

We were in Oregon later that trip, and in Winnipeg for one of the few 
times I met his parents, so we probably were in BC, though I have no 
memory of it.  So I may have shifted where I saw those garbage gobblers.

> Another thing I remember from long road trips as a child was that
> occasionally you'd pass through an area where the trees had been
> wiped out by a fire, and beside the road would be a large gibbet
> with an oversized cigarette hanging from it.  A sign read: "The
> person who dropped it should be here too."
>
I remember Smokey the Bear being pointed out by my father, but that too
may be a garbling. I thought he said it at the San Diego zoo, but Smokey
would have been at the Washington DC zoo at the time.  On the other hand,
we did get to Washington DC for some conference around that time too.

   Michael

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#152846

From"Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com>
Date2015-10-13 17:35 -0500
Message-ID<mvk0s5$p1e$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#152825
"Michael Black" <et472@ncf.ca> wrote in message 
news:alpine.LNX.2.02.1510131437130.3013@darkstar.example.org...
>
>        [snip...]                       [snip...] 
> [snip...]
>
> I remember Smokey the Bear being pointed out by my father, but that too
> may be a garbling. I thought he said it at the San Diego zoo, but Smokey
> would have been at the Washington DC zoo at the time.  On the other hand,
> we did get to Washington DC for some conference around that time too.
>

The name is really "Smokey Bear" and *not* "Smokey the Bear":

http://www.fireground360.com/radio-chatter/smokey-bear-vs-smokey-the-bear


-- 

numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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#152858

FromMichael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Date2015-10-13 22:24 -0400
Message-ID<alpine.LNX.2.02.1510132223210.3595@darkstar.example.org>
In reply to#152846
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Charles Richmond wrote:

> "Michael Black" <et472@ncf.ca> wrote in message 
> news:alpine.LNX.2.02.1510131437130.3013@darkstar.example.org...
>>
>>        [snip...]                       [snip...] [snip...]
>> 
>> I remember Smokey the Bear being pointed out by my father, but that too
>> may be a garbling. I thought he said it at the San Diego zoo, but Smokey
>> would have been at the Washington DC zoo at the time.  On the other hand,
>> we did get to Washington DC for some conference around that time too.
>> 
>
> The name is really "Smokey Bear" and *not* "Smokey the Bear":
>
> http://www.fireground360.com/radio-chatter/smokey-bear-vs-smokey-the-bear
>
But according to that, he was "Smokey the Bear" in the period I'm talking 
about.  I even had that Golden Book, about his origins.

   Michael

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