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Jerry Avins
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Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:11 pm    Post subject: Only a little off topic. Reply with quote
For many, doing DSP is at best difficult and at worst impossible without
beer. An article in today's New York Times has interesting details about
beer's history and manufacture, with emphasis on geology. See
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/science/14beer.html?oref=login You may
need to register to read it on line, but that's free and without hassle.

Jerry
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axlq
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Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:11 pm    Post subject: Re: Only a little off topic. Reply with quote
In article <328lulF3jqjuaU1@individual.net>,
Stephan M. Bernsee <spam@dspdimension.com> wrote:
Quote:
On 2004-12-14 17:11:48 +0100, Jerry Avins <jya@ieee.org> said:
For many, doing DSP is at best difficult and at worst impossible without
beer. An article in today's New York Times has interesting details about
beer's history and manufacture, with emphasis on geology. See
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/science/14beer.html?oref=login You may
need to register to read it on line, but that's free and without hassle.

Ha! I'd rather use the time to go and have a beer... in Germany you get
the good stuff :-)

That's for sure. I remember visiting Erkrath (in the area where
the Neanderthal Man was first discovered), where my mother grew
up. In that town, if you visit someone's house, and make a passing
complaint about any small ailment at all -- strained wrist,
sore throat, sniffles, headache, whatever -- they'll pull out a
half-liter bottle of what they call their 'medicinal' beer. Doesn't
matter what's wrong with you, they insist it'll help. It's a local
beer that comes in big bottles, and it's really verrry good.

-A
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Stephan M. Bernsee
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Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:24 pm    Post subject: Re: Only a little off topic. Reply with quote
On 2004-12-14 17:11:48 +0100, Jerry Avins <jya@ieee.org> said:

Quote:
For many, doing DSP is at best difficult and at worst impossible without
beer. An article in today's New York Times has interesting details about
beer's history and manufacture, with emphasis on geology. See
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/science/14beer.html?oref=login You may
need to register to read it on line, but that's free and without hassle.

Jerry

Ha! I'd rather use the time to go and have a beer... in Germany you get
the good stuff :-)

Thanks anyway, Jerry...
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Stephan M. Bernsee
http://www.dspdimension.com
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Al Clark
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Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Only a little off topic. Reply with quote
Stephan M. Bernsee <spam@dspdimension.com> wrote in news:328lulF3jqjuaU1
@individual.net:

Quote:
On 2004-12-14 17:11:48 +0100, Jerry Avins <jya@ieee.org> said:

For many, doing DSP is at best difficult and at worst impossible without
beer. An article in today's New York Times has interesting details about
beer's history and manufacture, with emphasis on geology. See
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/science/14beer.html?oref=login You may
need to register to read it on line, but that's free and without hassle.

Jerry

Ha! I'd rather use the time to go and have a beer... in Germany you get
the good stuff :-)

Thanks anyway, Jerry...

Maybe the first thing I learn to say in German was:

Zwei Pils bitte
(two beers please)

I probably don't know more than two hundred words in German, but this
phrase works for me.




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Al Clark
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Symon
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Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 12:09 am    Post subject: Re: Only a little off topic. Reply with quote
Always the first words I learn in any language! Best advice I had was to
only learn numbers up to four. Anything more is too big a round!
Cheers, Syms.
"Al Clark" <dsp@danvillesignal.com> wrote in message
news:Xns95BF786CE9A45aclarkdanvillesignal@66.133.130.30...
Quote:

Maybe the first thing I learn to say in German was:

Zwei Pils bitte
(two beers please)

I probably don't know more than two hundred words in German, but this
phrase works for me.
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Peter K.
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Only a little off topic. Reply with quote
] Always the first words I learn in any language! Best
] advice I had was to only learn numbers up to four.
] Anything more is too big a round!

A friend of mine used to make "You have beautiful eyes." the first
thing he'd learn in a new language.

:-)

Ciao,

Peter K.
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Al Clark
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:17 am    Post subject: Re: Only a little off topic. Reply with quote
"Peter K." <p.kootsookos@iolfree.ie> wrote in news:1103385047.058818.46490
@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:

Quote:
] Always the first words I learn in any language! Best
] advice I had was to only learn numbers up to four.
] Anything more is too big a round!

A friend of mine used to make "You have beautiful eyes." the first
thing he'd learn in a new language.

:-)

Ciao,

Peter K.



Many years ago, I traveled quite a bit. Inevitably, I would get this
question:

How did you like _____________?

My stock answer was: The girls were pretty.

Nobody ever really disagreed with me.

Now when my wife asks me this question, I usually come up with a different
answer.


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Al Clark
Danville Signal Processing, Inc.
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Purveyors of Fine DSP Hardware and other Cool Stuff
Available at http://www.danvillesignal.com
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robert bristow-johnson
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:58 am    Post subject: Re: Only a little off topic. Reply with quote
in article Xns95C4A55B7B17aclarkdanvillesignal@66.133.130.30, Al Clark at
dsp@danvillesignal.com wrote on 12/19/2004 17:17:

Quote:
Many years ago, I traveled quite a bit. Inevitably, I would get this
question:

How did you like _____________?

My stock answer was: The girls were pretty.

Nobody ever really disagreed with me.

Now when my wife asks me this question, I usually come up with a different
answer.

yeah, Lori knows why they call 'em "booth babes". sometimes there is the
less nuanced term "b**th b**bs".

i always said that the skirts at AES were shorter than those at an IEEE
event but not so much as a NAMM convention (of which i've been to only one
and it was maybe 2 decades ago at McCormick Place in the Windbag City).

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r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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