[geeks] Win2K and DST

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:35:02 -0500 (CDT)
Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:

> >From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
> >Date: 2007/03/12 Mon PM 03:40:48 CDT
> >To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> >Subject: Re: [geeks] Win2K and DST
> 
> >On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:53:49 -0500 (CDT)
> >Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >> >It would make a loud click every second, a clunk every ten, The 12 hour
> >> >change was really impressive, the second, minute, hour and ten hour
> >> >switches would reset at the same time.
> >> 
> >> I would NEVER have admited to that, the geek points you lose by pitching
> >> not only Nixie Tubes, but telco-like stepper motors is honestly
> >> incalculable... ;^)
> >
> >Why would you lose geek points for playing with some of the very first
> >computer hacker equipment?  Ever hear of the TMRC?
> 
> He had it and gave it away - he sacrificed all the points he gained by
> having that toy when he gave it up, if you want to keep the geek points,
> you have to keep the toys ;^)

Ah, I had a different defintion of "pitching" in mind when I read that.

In other words: promoting or advertising something, as in "sales pitch".



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