Thank you very much and with respect! 😃7.



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From: Brian Ellis <[log in to unmask]>

Date: 5 July 2018 at 9:20:14 PM SGT

To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>

Subject: [TN] Fwd: [TN] NTC: Closing down!



As promised, a month ago, I'm now leaving TechNet with thanks for many

years of erudition from you experts. In particular, I thank those who

replied to my previous post.



I wish TechNet a long continuation.



Best regards to you all,



Brian





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Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 17:07:27 +0300

From: Brian Ellis <[log in to unmask]>

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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