Wayne's post reminds me of a story from my past. Early in my broadcasting career, I wanted to rid our station of the little jaggies that plauged the edges of Chroma Keys, the process that is used to put the weather man in front of the map using a blue or green screen as the background that "disapears" in the process. The jaggies were prevalent in the "good old analog days" of TV and looked just awful to my young, inexperienced eyes.
As I searched for an answer over countless weeks, the wise old station senior engineer watched with amusement at my experiments in futility with lighting, colored gels on the backlight, camera enhancer adjustments, background paint color tweaks and production switcher keyer tweaks but offered no clue to my inquisitiveness, just smiles and head nods. Finally, I summoned the courage to personally approach him and ask if knew the reason why this was the way it was. He nodded yes; his charge for the answer was lunch at the local eatery down the street, a local bar-b-cue place which, had a name, but everyone at our station called it "The Pig Bar" due to the sign hanging on a pole above the door... A red outline of a pig with the word "BAR" in white block letters within. After downing several pulled pork sandwiches, some Halupki and an Iron City Beer, the wise old engineer grinned and said "I admire your perseverance, kid, but everybody knows that that condition is caused by the algebraic sum of the diverging vector". >From that moment on, anything that mere mortals like me could not understand was always refered to as being caused by the algebraic sum of the diverging vector. -lu-w4lt- K3 # 3192 > Interesting discussion. Gives me an idea. > > We'll soon be announcing a very cool new test instrument (it's the same size as our T1 antenna tuner but not related to it in any way). We'll give one of these to whoever can suggest, by next Thursday, the most plausible alternative to 11-dimensional supersymmetry as the working basis for a unified field theory. You may assume a negative cosmological constant and cannot impose R-parity. If the Higgs boson is discovered before the new product announcement, we'll throw in a spare 9-V battery. > > 73.14159..., > > Wayne > N6KR > ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
