Brian,
It is with selfish sadness that I bid you a fond farewell from the forum.
You have been a part of the IPC Technet for as long as I can remember, and
I know you have forgotten more than I'll ever know about this industry. I
do have one memento that has been a part of my personal library for at
least the last 25-years, it's been with me since before I moved to Tulsa,
so it's been with me from one side of the United States to the other, and
still in it's paper sleeve even!
http://stevezeva.homestead.com/Brians_Book.jpg
It will stay with me as my go-to reference book for cleaning for many years
to come.
Now, you take that lovely lady you have with you and enjoy your "real"
retirement!
http://stevezeva.homestead.com/Brian_Ellis_and_wife.jpg
Steve
On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 8:07 AM, Brian Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Over the many years, I've made many friends (and probably foes!) in the
> IPC, some by personal contact, some on this forum. I'm now 86 and,
> honestly, am past it; enormous strides have been made in our technology
> since I 'retired' 21 years ago, plus my brain is retiring faster than I
> would like. I've therefore decided to close this account with the IPC at
> the end of the month but not without a big thank you for many years of
> information and enjoyment, hoping I haven't been totally useless, either!
>
> As a final tribute to the efforts of Doug and David, I'm announcing the
> discovery of a new half-element, brianium. On the periodic table it is
> half-way between barium and hafnium and its main characteristic is that its
> electrons orbit at half the usual speed relative to the temperature. It can
> be found native only on the surface of an outcrop of pillow lava around the
> sleepy village of Mosfiloti, Cyprus (incidentally where the cousins Clumpy
> and Kloumpios first met). This village is named after the mosfilo, the
> berry of a white hawthorn, which makes a very sticky jam and legend has it
> that the slow orbit rate of brianium may be due to the viscosity of the
> jam. It is also possible that Kloumpios' embonpoint is due to an
> over-consumption of mosfilo jam when he was a kid. The slow electron orbit
> of the element results in the density of the element being twice as great
> as may be expected, explaining why some of the inhabitants of the village
> are also dense.
>
> Farewell,
>
> Brian
>
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Steve Gregory
Kimco Design and Manufacturing
Process Engineer
(208) 322-0500 Ext. -3133
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