Member postings for Daniel

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 23/05/2020 16:04:34:

Something has been nagging me about Bob Stevenson’s choice of expression

... It seemed familiar, but not

Then, I suddenly realised that sneering detractors must be the anti-matter equivalent of strange attractors

**LINK**

https://www.stsci.edu/~lbradley/seminar/attractors.html

Thus ... their evil can be balanced, if we witter on harmlessly in the usual chaotic way

MichaelG.

Posted by Howard Lewis on 23/05/2020 16:04:08:

.....

With the tendency for tailgating, I like the "If you can read this you are too close" stickers. The trouble is that usually the text is so small as to encourage getting dangerously close to read it!

Now that is probably another red herring running!

Howard

Posted by Andrew Johnston on 21/05/2020 07:59:04:

It would appear that the same can be said of some of those who are, presumably, not engineers.

Andrew

Posted by Hopper on 21/05/2020 04:51:11:

Unfortunately that's how reading works. The reader brings a whole different set of assumptions to the text from the writer. There really is no set face value. Two people read War and Peace, one will say its about war. The other about peace. And a third will say its about love. And all of them probably at variance with what the author intended. Language is a highly imperfect means of conveying information, let alone complex ideas.

Oh spit! Is my arts degree showing again?

Very well put Hopper.

Text, purely on it's own, is extremely vulnerable to mis-interpretation.

Add to that already delicate situation the occasional oddball whose

only desire is to be offended, or upset, the result should be hardly

surprising. I'm sure we all know some people, in the physical world,

where we feel we are perpetually walking on eggshells.

In fact, there was one such example yesterday evening, on this very

forum.

I, too, am an occasional customer of ARC. And a happy one, at that.

I have noticed, in life, that the very best sales people aren't really

sales people at all. They tend to be people who are genuinely

passionate about what they represent. They share that passion, and

any actual sales seem almost to be a bonus, rather than the original

objective.

Sort of the reverse of "anyone expressing the desire to become a

politician, should be automatically barred from being one".

My own opinion, is that, while Ketan's presence on this forum may

have a direct relationship with his company, he is obviously

passionate about tools (as am I), and quite probably what can be

achieved with them.

The resulting high profile and regard that he enjoys on this forum has

been won through genuine, honest effort and, in my humble opinion,

entirely merited.

I'm also quite confident that my post will have upset someone, somewhere.

But, in view of the many thousands that visit this forum, one or two are not

going to interrupt my sleep pattern.

ATB,

Daniel

Posted by Sam Stones on 18/05/2020 23:20:49:

By the way, with this one (below) ...

You'll see it when you believe it. It's a brain teaser.

Regards,

Sam

Heating element ?

My brain is being horribly teased ...

Mind you, that doesn't take much.

Are you going to tell us, Sam ?

ATB,

Daniel

Posted by Bandersnatch on 19/05/2020 01:32:12:

The lighting is very bright - even harsh - in Florida so I can see where you might think it was flash.