Banned from campus for life, Uncle Joe would only enter a downward spiral toward the end, much as have several others who refused to heed the obvious lessons.
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Heed the obvious lessons learned by those who've posted before you and avoid run-on sentences, incomplete sentences, grammatically incorrect sentences, and use of the ellipsis except for where it is absolutely necessary.
It is absolutely necessary to know that life is temporary, and without any fun there is no fun, so sometimes you just gotta throw in some ellipses and/or run-ons, just to see the horror on WMC's internet face.
WMC's internet face is out of commission while hit sits on a beach in Florida hoping his dark sun glasses will prevent anyone from noticing him gawking at the young ladies in their beach attire.
Gawking at the young ladies in their beach attire will be fun, until he gets tired and falls prey to an afternoon nap on the blanket there.
On the blanket there on the beach he will soon begin to resemble a lobster if he doesn't remember to reapply the sun screen every few hours.
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Darth_vader
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Every few hours an old, reliable analogue electromechanical telephone exchange somewhere in the world is scrapped, in favour of new and inferior digital telephony equipment.
[size=8pt]To-day is kind of a sad day, and a surprise to us at FooCorp LLC (a division of Bar, Blart and Quux Industries Incorporated). Well, not really a surprise to some of us. Some of us always knew this day would come: the day the Bell System died. It really happened, folks.
Yesterday morning and afternoon the company cut its phone system over to a new "soft-PBX", completely replacing the crossbar system many of us have become familiar with over the years. Now instead of being greeted with a warm, scratchy analogue dialling tone and voice path at my desk I'll now be greeted with a cold, sterile digital dialling tone and voice path. What once required equipment to occupy an entire room now exists in a couple cabinets of computer equipment occupying the corner of that room. This also means that my Grampa's old Western Electric 500 rotary phone I have at my desk will now be, for the most part, useless (it only supports tone dialling, and only via Ethernet through analogue-digital channel units installed in each department. It bears sort of a vague resemblance to a present-day 5ESS system, such as the one I'm on at home/the flat [ORCHWA01DS0]. Yup, one of *those* systems. Ugly as hell and has sound quality to match.)
So, the plan was to pull out the crossbar equipment and haul it all out for scrap. (Art's probably still spinning round in his grave from the idea.) But I tried to I made sure it wasn't a complete loss. I hired my Dad's F350 and brought home a complete originating register frame (one of the three they had; still usable as far as I know), one of the line-link frames and the mid-60s era Audichron STM machine, with the three message drums (couldn't bring myself to see another example of Jane's work go by the wayside!) I may go back for the tone-generator equipment and the trunk unit later to-night, if they haven't thrown them out already.
Unfortunately that's no-where near enough to build a functioning exchange out of, but at least I helped save another bit of the nation's telephone heritage from becoming a casualty of the scrapyard of history. Perhaps one of these days I may try to restore the Audichron machine and bring it back to life...
So that's all she wrote, folks. As far as regular day-to-day usage is concerned, to the best of my knowledge electromechanical switching in the Vancouver/Portland area is now extinct. Unless there's some other old-fashioned office building somewhere in the Metro area with an electromechanical PBX (doubtful), we witnessed the killing-off of the last known living example of a critically-endangered species.
[size=8pt]To-day is kind of a sad day, and a surprise to us at FooCorp LLC (a division of Bar, Blart and Quux Industries Incorporated). Well, not really a surprise to some of us. Some of us always knew this day would come: the day the Bell System died. It really happened, folks.
Yesterday morning and afternoon the company cut its phone system over to a new "soft-PBX", completely replacing the crossbar system many of us have become familiar with over the years. Now instead of being greeted with a warm, scratchy analogue dialling tone and voice path at my desk I'll now be greeted with a cold, sterile digital dialling tone and voice path. What once required equipment to occupy an entire room now exists in a couple cabinets of computer equipment occupying the corner of that room. This also means that my Grampa's old Western Electric 500 rotary phone I have at my desk will now be, for the most part, useless (it only supports tone dialling, and only via Ethernet through analogue-digital channel units installed in each department. It bears sort of a vague resemblance to a present-day 5ESS system, such as the one I'm on at home/the flat [ORCHWA01DS0]. Yup, one of *those* systems. Ugly as hell and has sound quality to match.)
So, the plan was to pull out the crossbar equipment and haul it all out for scrap. (Art's probably still spinning round in his grave from the idea.) But I tried to I made sure it wasn't a complete loss. I hired my Dad's F350 and brought home a complete originating register frame (one of the three they had; still usable as far as I know), one of the line-link frames and the mid-60s era Audichron STM machine, with the three message drums (couldn't bring myself to see another example of Jane's work go by the wayside!) I may go back for the tone-generator equipment and the trunk unit later to-night, if they haven't thrown them out already.
Unfortunately that's no-where near enough to build a functioning exchange out of, but at least I helped save another bit of the nation's telephone heritage from becoming a casualty of the scrapyard of history. Perhaps one of these days I may try to restore the Audichron machine and bring it back to life...
So that's all she wrote, folks. As far as regular day-to-day usage is concerned, to the best of my knowledge electromechanical switching in the Vancouver/Portland area is now extinct. Unless there's some other old-fashioned office building somewhere in the Metro area with an electromechanical PBX (doubtful), we witnessed the killing-off of the last known living example of a critically-endangered species.
New and inferior digital telephony equipment is not available here on the beach or maybe it is but I just don't care because I don't feel like calling anyone while I'm relaxing.
Sad to say I seem to be the youngest person in the building and haven't seen too much of the lovely young bikini chicks roaming around. Gonna head further down the beach tomorrow, weather permitting, to see what I can see. Dmargalotti, please make sure you put everything back where you got it by the time I get back to the office Monday morning. Thanks. ;D
Sad to say I seem to be the youngest person in the building and haven't seen too much of the lovely young bikini chicks roaming around. Gonna head further down the beach tomorrow, weather permitting, to see what I can see. Dmargalotti, please make sure you put everything back where you got it by the time I get back to the office Monday morning. Thanks. ;D
While I am relaxing with my after dinner coffee I have read some most ridiculous articles about how to get rid of the munchkins with busy work crafts during Thanksgiving dinner, how to make sliced jelly cranberry sauce (as opposed to real cranberries - honest) look decorative, how to appease the in-laws with your decorating by cutting out little heart and football shapes to assign seating by using brown paper bags.
Are these people for real, or what? I guess you slice the cranberry sauce in accordance with the line imprints from the can? Red paper napkins for that autumn effect - and I might add, wrinkly looking and placed in the middle of the plate! Plastic fruit as a decorative centerpiece? WTF???? You put out magic markers and scissors for the children's table, so that they can decorate their placemats instead of putting plates on them? Huh??? No fireplaces burning, no hors d'œuvre, no aperitif or digestif, candles that remain unlit (and not even tapers at that); just that cheezy, cheap garbage (not referring to monetary cheapness). I can't even begin to wrap my head around that! To think that we stacked firewood and made sure the napkins, tablecloth and placemats are neatly pressed, assured that we had good music and, of course, a clean television screen for the football games. We continue to make our preparations for a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner...munchkins welcome, even if it is at the kiddie picnic table they specified for themeslves so that they could be all grown up at the far end of the great room.
Are these people for real, or what? I guess you slice the cranberry sauce in accordance with the line imprints from the can? Red paper napkins for that autumn effect - and I might add, wrinkly looking and placed in the middle of the plate! Plastic fruit as a decorative centerpiece? WTF???? You put out magic markers and scissors for the children's table, so that they can decorate their placemats instead of putting plates on them? Huh??? No fireplaces burning, no hors d'œuvre, no aperitif or digestif, candles that remain unlit (and not even tapers at that); just that cheezy, cheap garbage (not referring to monetary cheapness). I can't even begin to wrap my head around that! To think that we stacked firewood and made sure the napkins, tablecloth and placemats are neatly pressed, assured that we had good music and, of course, a clean television screen for the football games. We continue to make our preparations for a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner...munchkins welcome, even if it is at the kiddie picnic table they specified for themeslves so that they could be all grown up at the far end of the great room.
By using brown paper bags, one can do many things from breading chicken up to fry, to using it as a garbage bag, to using it to take your bottle home from the liquor store, to just simply packing your lunch, but I must admit that my favorite thing is to lay down for my two year old paint pictures on.
Taking their diapers off and throwing them in the backyard is what many of the Occupy people seem to be doing, but the main trouble is that they're not really diapers, and it's someone else's backyard.
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Darth_vader
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Someone else's backyard has cable TV lines running through it, but not my Mum's.
[size=8pt]Just the power and telef0ne lines. The TV line enters the house via the front yard.
Most of the tone plant (at least, the stuff in the tone plant I wanted, anyways) was already accounted for. I did get hold of the other part of the Audichron, the "message annunciator" (the thing that says, "*doo doo dooot* The number you have reached, one-two-three, four-five-six-seven has been..."; http://www.railroad-signaling.com/telephones/15.jpg [a machine like the second panel with the loop of movie film on it in this photograph]), a model KS-15804, 20 Hz 90 VAC ringing-voltage generator (like the big cyllindrical thing in the centre of this photograph, http://www.railroad-signaling.com/telephones/23.jpg ) and the trunk circuit interface the Audichrons connected into (and that another exchange in an adjacent company building was connected into ours through decades ago.)
So, now I have all this old telephone switching equipment. Time to figure out how to put it to use.
Edit add: Oh yeah, and I snagged a couple 6' tall equipment racks. I'll probably put shelves in them and use them as book-cases.
[size=8pt]Just the power and telef0ne lines. The TV line enters the house via the front yard.
Most of the tone plant (at least, the stuff in the tone plant I wanted, anyways) was already accounted for. I did get hold of the other part of the Audichron, the "message annunciator" (the thing that says, "*doo doo dooot* The number you have reached, one-two-three, four-five-six-seven has been..."; http://www.railroad-signaling.com/telephones/15.jpg [a machine like the second panel with the loop of movie film on it in this photograph]), a model KS-15804, 20 Hz 90 VAC ringing-voltage generator (like the big cyllindrical thing in the centre of this photograph, http://www.railroad-signaling.com/telephones/23.jpg ) and the trunk circuit interface the Audichrons connected into (and that another exchange in an adjacent company building was connected into ours through decades ago.)
So, now I have all this old telephone switching equipment. Time to figure out how to put it to use.
Edit add: Oh yeah, and I snagged a couple 6' tall equipment racks. I'll probably put shelves in them and use them as book-cases.
The Illusions Theater saw it's biggest ever single night box office take when it showed "Urban Cowboy" with John Travolta.
In 1981 Megan McCormick was just 8 years old but even back then, her family and friends knew she was destined for greatness.
The right button to push to answer and explain their illicit conduct is best pushed by a high priced defense attorney who knows how to play the system because if you think you can represent yourself, you don't stand a chance unless of course you spent most of your free time in life watching reruns of Perry Mason.