Solipsism Gradient

Posted by Rafael Fischmann:
Transmit!

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Amiable nonsense

“It’s Sunday, you sod!” my flatmate grey wolf protested.

Posted by Rafael Fischmann:

Rainer Brockerhoff wrote:

We’re back, extremely tired but otherwise OK. 1784 e-mails are downloading while I type this. More soon…

Welcome!

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Ahhh! SPAM!

Deleted… let’s see if they give up or if I have to implement pre-approval of posts, or something

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Ahhh! SPAM!

Boing Boing recalled something I had completely forgotten about; a satire of mid-20th century industry speak. Here’s one version from the 1940’s:

The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in direct line with the pentametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbline was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-0-delta type placed in panendermic semiboiloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible tremie pipe to the differential gridlespring on the “up” end of the grammeters.

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The operating point is maintained as near as possible to the h.f. rem peak by constantly fromaging the bitumogenous spandrels. This is a distinct advance on the standard nivel-sheave in that no dramcock oil is required after the phase detractors have been remissed…

I suppose that’s how everyday computerspeak sounds to non-techies…

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Why I’m never here

Rainer put it nicely: ‘Hiatus confirmatus’ (Solipsism Gradient).

Just a quick post assuring you, gentle reader, that I’m still here, that I’m very busy, and that posting will resume in the near – albeit unspecified – future.