Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #13494
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: JVernonM@aol.com
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 14:16:58 EDT
Subject: Re: You guys disappoint me
In a message dated 4/16/00 1:49:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
dave@solarbotics.com writes:
> Hmmm. Posted at 10:47am - didn't finish your morning coffee quite yet, eh
Jim?
Well, actually, it was after 11:37 AM here. And I had my 2 cups, thanks.
> Other than what I've mentioned right above, I can't imagine what else you
> could be possibly referring to as the source of your grumpiness! ;>
Well, Dave, I'm not the only one who feels this way. I'm just one of the few
stupid enough to say so. I guess I'm still a little sore over the water eater
name that simply struck me as stonewalling. I feel that I have made some of
the only progress in that area, with some fairly functional designs to come,
I mistakenly assumed that gave me some say in the matter. I was wrong. I
can't call them by an inaccurate name, and that's part of what I was saying.
The inaccuracy stands as normalcy, and that's just the way it is. The
mistakes go on from there. The two motor design is a Chiu design, not a
Tilden design. The popper block is a Chiu design, not a Beckingham design.
You invented the popper, not Tilden. I'm not saying that you say these
things. I'm saying that they have become common knowledge. And no one is
correcting them. But, does correction really matter when Mr. T. can say that
BEAM bots will be paving roads on the moon in 3 years and no one even blinks.
Perhaps you are right Dave. Maybe I am just a grumpy old curmudgeon that has
no real contribution to make outside of unimportant rants about accuracy and
accountability. But, I don't think so. It does make it easier to discredit
what I say though, doesn't it? And no brownie points for that.
See ya,
Jim
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/8281/beamart.html
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13495 Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:27:25 PDT RE: fuse clips beam@sgiblab.sgi.com "leif_ 74" I already have small fuse clips, but I mean_HOUSE_fuse clips, like the ones
that are 1" in diameter. Thanks anyway, though.
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