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12string

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  1. The process was the same, but backwards. Originally, the prints were blue background, white lines. Pretty old and rare. Someone quickly figured out how to reverse that and make the paper white and lines blue,
  2. Blue PRINTS or Blue LINES? yeah, one of dad's pet peeves. Once I got out of high school, it was mostly mylar. Be REAL careful erasing with an electric eraser! Anyone use Crolux to reuse existing drawings for new designs?
  3. 12string

    Drafting

    There's another way? I currently work 3 mice (yes, they're blind) and a keyboard. But, learning a new PCB program, I keep mixing up the left hand commands with other programs' commands
  4. 12string

    Drafting

    It's still drafting. Just using a mouse instead of a pencil. I believe the last time I used my pencils and triangles was 1985. Tsquares, straighedgs (with the red strings), machines. Moved to Applicon then. I've done that, AutoDesk, ProE, Solidworks, Mentor, Altium... It's in my genes. My grandfather was a surveyor. My father was an architect, though truly an artist. His drawings are beautiful. My kitchen island is the old flat file my grandfather started with, repurposed (I may have told this story before) The drawers were full of 3 generations of drawings. I took two - dad's drawings of the house he and my mom built during their courtship - framed them and hung them on the wall by the island. There's a few old drafting tools spread around for display.
  5. Ironically, that's about when the trouble started. Antitrust laws have been greatly weakened and ignored since about the 80's. The public is paying for it. A LOT. anti "Trust". As in, the public trust. Massive corporations with little competitve pressure violate the public trust by eliminating options that otherwise would keep pricing down. This is why watching TV now costs $120/month - with commercials. I find it interesting, though, that Apple is being targeted. The iPhone market share is 661%. I suppose the thinking is that's One company, Whereas Android's 33.9% is an operating system sold by many phone manufacturers. But if you don't want to pay $55,764 for an iphone, buy a Motorola, and learn Droid.
  6. I remembered where I put my keys this morning. That was cool.
  7. yup, a little correction after yesterday's big hit. Fully expected. I was actually hoping one stock would correct further so I can buy on the dip again.
  8. yeah, but often that's true. Except when it isn't.
  9. ? How does one do that to a bull? Ants, sure, we used to do that all the time, but doing that to a bull seems like a great way to break an elbow in half.
  10. When the sun is halfway between the edges of the earth, but underneath. Actual hours depend on how slow the government is making the sun move today. Geez, this is like 2nd grade stuff. Oddly, this statement is often use when someone is in the depths of their despair, to make them think it's almost over, it will get better soon. What it really means is it's going to take as long to get out of this as it took to get in it, sucks to be you.
  11. Tonight, dinner & Samantha Fish concert w/ wife tomorrow, get some more seeds started, set up the bottom watering on the gravitropating ones. Fix an amp, maybe restring a guitar. Then dinner for Mom's 93 b'day, off to the theater. Sunday, 2 Masses for Palm Sunday (giveaway day, packed house). Go pick up and plant some fruit trees. I'll find other work to do.
  12. "It's always darkest before the dawn" What else ya got? (and no looking it up on google to kill the conversation allowed)
  13. I did not read the post, but I am 100% certain that this thread would NOT be better with pictures
  14. I'm gonna guess breaking pasta wasn't the only thing you learned you did wrong then........
  15. The stock market is not just what companies are worth at any moment. It's also about what they will be worth, and that's generally a short term metric. something changes in the economy, expectations are that the company will have some cash problems, Shareholders decide to take their profits and wait it out, it's a seller's market, prices go down. Enough of those, the market starts to drop, emotion kicks in, people sell, lather, rinse repeat. Institutional investors don't create or control this. They simply buy and sell on actual data. not emotions. So they buy all this cheap stock. When it goes back up - as it always does - they take their profits. See above. The game isn't rigged. The problem is, some people treat it like a game. Professionals don't, so they win. Same with shorting. shorting has zero effect on share prices (unless you get emotional). It's simply being smart enough to see headwinds coming, and investing on the determination that a price is going to go down.
  16. People like to call the stock market gambling. That analogy only works if the dealer lets you see all the cards in his hand, and most of the cards in the deck. But if you don't do the proper research, yeah, it's like blackjack, but blindfolded and listening top the guy next to you get excited about his cards
  17. I've crushed it recently. Put $10K into a stock in October, ,let it run, put in a stop loss that hit. Once it bottomed, I did it again. When that stop loss hit, I had $21K, put it in a REIT. Not only is that up over $1K in a week, they just announced a quarterly dividend that will net me $1250. In total my portfolio is up since October, by about my annual salary.
  18. Depends, ar you going for Serial Killer, or garden variety thug?
  19. I'm still being upbrought. My parents were a large influence. But my wife has been in charge a whole lot longer than they were, I do think she's influenced me more. At least the good parts.
  20. Please, keep it to yourself if this also means you will have supermodels as copilots. I'm right on the verge of hating you and your "retirement" already.
  21. Why do you need to join the Sons of the Republic of Texas to be simple? I thought you were already an Aggie?
  22. Pretty much just herbs. That would be awesome, just pick fresh herbs for cooking! You can add some LED strips for additional artificial sunlight if needed
  23. Should have been the replacement for the GEO Tracker, but I guess they figured the reputation was too far gone.
  24. meh. She's talented. But weird. That SNL appearance where she played nude was an indication.
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