Post by thread:[PIC] Protecting PIC A/D inputs. SI standards

'[PIC] Protecting PIC A/D inputs. SI standards'

Russell McMahon wrote:

> So, while millisecond is permissible I suspect we should have milliFarad or

> milli-Farad (or even milli Farad).

  THE SEX LIFE OF THE ELECTRON

by D.C. Current

One night when his charge was pretty high, Micro-Farad decided to seek a 

cute little coil to let him discharge.

He picked up Millie-Amp and took her for a ride on his Megacycle. They 

rode across the Wheatstone Bridge, around the sine waves and stopped in 

the magnetic field by a flowing current.

Micro-Farad, attracted by Millie-Amps characteristic curves, soon had 

her fully charged and excited her resistance to a minimum. He laid her 

on the ground potential, raised her frequency and lowered her reluctance.

He pulled out his high voltage probe and inserted it in her socket 

connecting them in parallel, and began short circuiting her resistance 

shunt. Fully excited, Millie-Amp mumbled, "OHM - OHM - OHM - OHM".

With his tube operating at a maximum and her field vibrating with his 

current flow, caused her shunt to overheat and Micro-Farad was rapidly 

discharged and drained of every electron.

They fluxed all night, trying various connections and sockets, until his 

magnet had a soft core and lost all of it's field strength.

Afterwards, Millie-Amp tried self induction and damaged her selenoids. 

With his battery fully discharged, Micro-Farad was unable to excite his 

field, so they spent the rest of the night reversing polarity and 

blowing each other's fuses.

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that's a classic i haven't heard for a long time!  thanks, it's wonderful.

Robert Rolf wrote:

> 

> Russell McMahon wrote:

> 

> > So, while millisecond is permissible I suspect we should have milliFarad or

> > milli-Farad (or even milli Farad).

> 

>   THE SEX LIFE OF THE ELECTRON

> 

> by D.C. Current

> 

> One night when his charge was pretty high, Micro-Farad decided to seek a

> cute little coil to let him discharge.

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-- Philip Stortz--"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I

didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a

Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I

wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a

Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."

-- Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984 (German Lutheran Pastor), on the Nazi

Holocaust, Congressional Record 14th October 1968 p31636.

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Philip Stortz wrote:

> that's a classic i haven't heard for a long time!  thanks, it's wonderful.

I was a classmate of the guy who claims to have

written it back in 1976 at NAIT technical college.

I probably have one of the original LA30 copies printed out way back 

then, before internet and e-mail were common.

When I saw 'milli Farad', I was reminded of it, and was amazed that

google turned it up these decades later.

It's been refined a bit from his initial version.

Now if only I could find the old CP/M file (pgmmr.txt) that has the line:

" If a programmer is indispensable, get rid of him as quickly as possible."

Lots of references to Weinberg's book, but no link to the

whole collection of quotes.

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> Robert Rolf wrote:

> 

>>Russell McMahon wrote:

>>

>>

>>>So, while millisecond is permissible I suspect we should have milliFarad or

>>>milli-Farad (or even milli Farad).

>>

>>  THE SEX LIFE OF THE ELECTRON

>>

>>by D.C. Current

>>

>>One night when his charge was pretty high, Micro-Farad decided to seek a

>>cute little coil to let him discharge.

> 

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