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Andrew: My humble apologies.
I can offer no mitigating factors, except for the two academic friends who were both roundly criticized in the last few days, one has to listen but can do nothing, so you received some of the fallout. Unjustly, but you are a good stick and a real brick of a friend.
Fabaceae family is the nice crowd I stayed with in the summer for the holidays in Italy, as for Americans, they as well do not understand Lingua Franca (Australiano). The Fabaceae family soon learned that calling some one an old bean in Australia is a term of endearment, although one told me his father was not a baker, when I asked what his old man did for a crust. It is easier not to explain.
Whenever I see rate someone posts, I think of my old professor Neville Betts, who taught me statics and mechanics of materials at the same time. He was brilliant and a bit mathematical so I loved him and 100 people in the class hated him, today he would be castigated in his reviews. Civil and structural engineers are not big on mathematics. Anyone who rates people on a Likert Scale is not a nice person.
This morning I explained to someone, somewhere in the world, that their 1948 bridge was designed by a team that knew their math, as good as this lot and Neville, but as they had done it by hand they made two small design mistakes, if you want to bridge to last 200 years, for their 50 yr design life it is fine, that problem I found with 3 months work on FEM. I had to tell them it was fixable but tough.
I also stumbled onto this picture this morning from the programming guy with the XYZ address who is very funny, sometimes.
We all live in the arena and pray to the gods, personally I prefer Thor, because it is past midweek, to reach the holy water.
The only mistake is the 3 liters, if you use Webster's abomination then center becomes centeral.
PS You are all not wimps, so you would leave in the link and blow everything up with the 240 Volts.
My Dearest Al:
I laughed at your comment this morning, thank you. It made me think of young children playing marbles in a dusty school yard, so I sought a picture of same and found
Which was annotated on the WWW as young boys playing marbles, which immediately made me again think of you and smile.
I am sure you can spot the humour in the annotation. The tag with the file is correct, but the WWW page is not.
After all this is just a big game of grownup marbles.
I have asked the pleasant ladies from Intel on this site if they wish me to avoid stories and the two returns I have had so no.
But there is one important question, why is a dusty playground better than tar field? Excellent question to model in Fortran.
You realize that our banter will end with the death of one of us, sorry for the survivor.
Warm regards from a former Father XMAS.
Back to the Fortran.
John
