Hi Gerry! Congrats on a win! Clumpy & Kloumpios are fictitious characters
created by the Quiz participants (there is a very long and hilarious story
on this, Doug can fill in some info if he checks in as he has most of their
"history") who come to your facility to "help" you with what ever task you
deem necessary. We have had the privilege of meeting our fellow TechNetians
by what type of stuff they have the boys accomplish. Sometimes we learn of
new or odd problems the winners are solving and sometimes we learn about
their town/culture/hobbies/places of interest. Always a neat thing to read.
Let me know where the boys are going and what they are going to do for you!

Dave

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Gerry Gagnon <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Thanks, I hope.
> I've been watching this Friday event for years with interest.
>
> This is the first time I have responded.
> As I told Richard, I don't even know the rules.
>
> Now I have a question for you, gulp, here goes: who is Clumpy & Kloumpios?
>
> Gerry
>
> > On May 12, 2017, at 11:11 AM, David Hillman <david.hillman@
> ROCKWELLCOLLINS.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Here is the Element Quiz Question:
> >
> > The Question:
> > This element is the only metal that reacts with nitrogen at room
> > temperature. This element has many commercial uses: as a flux for
> welding,
> > an additive in greases,its in several pharmaceuticals and used in the
> > production of vitamin A. Seawater contains a significant concentration of
> > this element. What element is being described?
> >
> > The Answer:
> > The element is Lithium (Li). Lithium derives is name from the Greek word
> > "lithos" which means "stone". Lithium "floats" on water as it reacts with
> > water liberating explosive hydrogen. A  major use of lithium is lithium
> > stearate for lubricating greases and lithium fluoride can be used as
> rocket
> > fuel. It is estimated that seawater contains approximately 230 billion
> tons
> > of lithium. Lithium chloride is used as an antidepressant.
> >
> >
> > The winner of the quiz  is Gerry Gagnon, FLIR Commercial Systems and will
> > get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. Gerry was the
> first
> > person to response with the correct element with lots of folks very close
> > right after him!
> >
> > So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:
> >
> > Past Quiz winners/tasks:
> > Week 1 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
> > Week 1 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
> > Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> > Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd.
> > Week 3 John Burke
> > Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
> > Week 5 No Winner - no correct responses!
> > Week 6 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> > Week 7 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
> > Week 7 Ian Fox, Rolls Royce
> > Week 8 Leland Woodall
> > Week 8 David Bealer, SMT
> > Week 9 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> > Week 10 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> > Week 11 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> > Week 11 Scott Decker, UTAS
> > Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> > Week 13 No Quiz,
> > Week 14 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> > Week 15 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> > Week 16 John Maxwell
> > Week 17 Leland Woodall
> > Week 18 Leland Woodall
> > Week 19 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> > Week 20 Robert Kondner
> >
> > Week 21 Tom Brendlinger, ClearMotion Inc.
> > - Up here at ClearMotion, I've got a board to design... but our recruiter
> > wants us looking through resumes instead. I think the boys can do that
> for
> > a while, and when they're done with that, they can start cutting out
> molds
> > for my upcoming cedar strip canoe.
> >
> > Week 22 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LCC
> > - After feeding them all weekend, I put the boys to work soldering the
> > battery leads (Pb-Free, of course) onto ShortSniffer boards.  They were
> so
> > efficient with those little fingers twisting the wire ends, they got the
> > next 6-months production done in 4.5 hours!  I gave our minimum wage
> > technician a pink slip, telling her to re-apply in September.
> >
> > They had big smiles on their faces as I put them on a plane to Disney
> > World, giving them each 3 all-day passes (after warning them to stay away
> > from Snow White).  They should be well rested for the next Element Quiz
> > winner.
> >
> > Week 23 Juliano Ribeiro, DATACOM
> > - assisted with ????
> >
> > Week 24 Gerry Gagnon, FLIR Commercial Systems
> > - assisted with ????
> >
> >
> > I hope everyone has a awesome week!
> >
> > Dave Hillman
> > Rockwell Collins
> > [log in to unmask]
>