Well, I would have said "Frank Zappa on Acid",
but then I change the font to "Courier"
and the image appeared.
nice!
(how'd you do that? is it a program?)
Jack
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Steve Gregory <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Kinda' staying with your theme Jack, guess who this is?
>
>
>
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> /////////////^^ ^(R%CQt7K@SKSO@@@@@R@@@@@R#@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@RC/^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^
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> ////^^/////^//^/BBSQKQ7S@BRGKQ#BKSsOR@@@@B@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@O(//^^^^^^ ^^^^
> ///^^/////^^/^ KBB@@RReQRRs(~((((7%%6GS#@@@R@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@G///^^^^ ^^^
> //^/^^^////^^^(B@RBQ@B#6C( ^/~~(%%sQ#RB@R@@@@@@@@@@@6^/^^^ ^^^^
> /^/^^^^^///^^ %B@@BRSt ^///((t%G6e#@@@@@@@@@@R^^^^^^^^^^
> ^^^//^^/////^^6R@@@Q~ ^^^//~(((tOKB@@@@BBB@@G^^^^^^^^^^
> ^/^/^////////^tRRRR/ ^////~~~(s#R@@@@@B@@BGQ/^^^ ^^^ ^
> ^/^////////////s#R^ ^ ^^////~~~tOQRR@@@@@B@@@K/^^^^^^^^ ^
> ^^/////////////^/ ^/^///~(((t%S#BB@R@@B@@@%^^ ^^^ ^^^^
> ///////////////// ^^//~(((((tO#KR@B@BBB@@7^^^^^^^ ^^
> ////////////////~ ^//////~~(((((%QRRRB@BRR@@(^/^^^ ^ ^^
> ////////////////~~ ^/t7OsGKQG6sC%%%ttt(((C##R@BRB@Q%(t(/^^^^ ^^
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> //~~~////////////// //(~~//^^ ^///(((t7t7%%7tCG7((t7^^^^^ ^^^
> //~//////////////// /~~(((~/^^/^///~(((tt%7%777%737t7(//^^^^ ^^
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> /////////////////~////~/^/GSCRR#B@@R##SOst(ttt%%77%7%7%%%%/^^^^ ^^^^^
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jack Olson
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 10:02 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [TN] The History of Electricity
>
> Do you start feeling lonely when your mailbox drops below 200 per week?
> I will fill it with this, hope it helps....
>
> -=-=-=-
>
> T H E H I S T O R Y O F E L E C T R I C I T Y
>
> Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity?
> And where does it go after it leaves the toaster?
>
> Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical
> lesson:
> On a cool, dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand
> into a
> friends mouth and touch one of his dental fillings. Did you notice how your
> friend twitched violently and cried out in pain? This teaches us that
> electricity
> can be a very powerful force, but we must never use it to hurt others
> unless
>
> we need to learn an important electrical lesson.
>
> It also teaches us how an electrical circuit works. When you scuffed your
> feet,
> you picked up batches of "electrons," which are very small objects that
> carpet
> manufacturers weave into carpet so that they will attract dirt. The
> electrons
> travel through your bloodstream and collect in your finger, where they form
> a
> spark that leaps to your friends filling, then travel down to his feet and
> back
> into the carpet, thus completing the circuit.
>
> AMAZING ELECTRONIC FACT: If you scuffed your feet long enough without
> touching anything, you would build up so many electrons that your finger
> would
> explode!
> But this is nothing to worry about... unless you have carpeting.
>
> Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios,
> mixers,
>
> etc. for granted. Hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these
> things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in.
> Then
> along came the first Electrical Pioneer, Benjamin Franklin, who flew a kite
> in a
> lightning storm and received a serious electrical shock. This proved that
> lightning was powered by the same force as carpets, but it also damaged
> Franklin's brain so severely that he started speaking only in
> incomprehensible
> maxims, such as, "A penny saved is a penny earned." Eventually he had to
> be
>
> given a job running the post office.
>
> After Franklin came a herd of Electrical Pioneers whose names have become
> part of our electrical terminology: Myron Volt, Mary Louise Amp, James
> Watt,
> Bob Transformer, etc. These pioneers conducted many important electrical
> experiments - - Among them, Galvani discovered (this is the truth) that
> when
>
> he attached two different kinds of metal to the leg of a frog, an
> electrical
>
> current developed and the frog's leg kicked, even though it was no longer
> attached to the frog, which was dead anyway. Galvani's discovery led to
> enormous advances in the field of amphibian medicine. Today, skilled
> veterinary
> surgeons can take a frog that has been seriously injured or killed, implant
> pieces of metal in its muscles, and watch it hop back into the pond just
> like a
> normal frog, except for the fact that it sinks like a stone.
>
> But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was
> a
>
> brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and
> lived in
> New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877 was the phonograph,
> which
>
> could soon be found in thousand of American homes, where it basically sat
> until
> 1923, when the record was invented. But Edison's greatest achievement came
> in 1879 when he invented the electric company.
> Edison's design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical
> circuit:
> the
> electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then
> immediately gets the electricity back through another wire, then (this is
> the
> brilliant part) sends it right back to the customer again.
>
> This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of
> electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught, since very few
> customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact, the
> last
> year any new electricity was generated was 1937; the electric companies
> have
>
> been merely re-selling it ever since, which is why they have so much time
> to
>
> apply for rate increases.
>
> Today, thanks to men like Edison and Franklin, and frogs like Galvani's, we
> receive almost unlimited benefits from electricity. For example, in the
> past
>
> decade scientists have developed the laser, an electronic appliance so
> powerful
> that it can vaporize a bulldozer 2000 yards away, yet so precise that
> doctors
> can use it to perform delicate operations to the human eyeball, provided
> they
> remember to change the power setting from "Vaporize Bulldozer" to
> "Delicate."
>
> -=-=-=-
>
> surfin' the learnin' curve,
> Jack
>
>
> .
>
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 19:17:02 +0100, Inge <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi, someone there? Only two mails in one week. Is there a technical
> >problem?
> >/Inge
>
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