On Tuesday 14 November 2017 00:53:56 dave wrote: > I've been told they sell as many game (trail) cams as security devices > as they do to hunters. > The trick in the woods as well as at home is to keep nasty people from > stealing them or vandalizing them. > > Dave
I can be pretty good at making hidey places for such things, and have been tempted to put one out where I can capture what comes thru the gate between the back yard and the front yard, mainly because I have seen some pretty good sized buck tracks in the near bare clay back there. Bigger, deeper tracks than anything I've taken down in WV could make. If he a regular, I might just setup a bit of a dinner invitation. > On 11/13/2017 11:50 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 13 November 2017 13:44:57 andy pugh wrote: > >> On 13 November 2017 at 17:26, Przemek Klosowski > >> > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Who would steal a coffee can with capacitors? > >> > >> Another electronics hobbyist faced with a 150 mile drive to the > >> nearest vendor? > > > > The only other person I can think of ran a radio shack dealer store, > > not very successfully, 30 years ago. But he got into a local well > > service shop, got hisself a certificate to handle highly radioactive > > stuff like the alpha sources they used downhole to survey by > > reflection, what was at or near the bottom of a 3k foot deep hole. > > But he parlayed that into a job at the naval yards in Florida, > > around 25 years ago. Even if back in this neck of the woods, I don't > > think he could find my place, let alone know I had such a stash. I > > tried to teach him some programming of the RCA-1802 since thats > > capable of working as a reflection data particle processor in the > > presence of several seiverts of radiation 4" away. Thats the cpu > > used in much of our spacecraft because the outer space ambient > > radiation can hammer a modern cpu back into the sand it was made of, > > particularly when our star gets pissed and points a solar storm at > > us. We should be thankfull we have a magnetic field that steers all > > that crap into the polar icecaps. His leaving the company he was > > working for locally almost put them out of business because the > > license to have that stuff left with him and they couldn't find a > > replacement. He tried to hire me to come to Fl. and work under him, > > but lost interest very quickly when I named my asking price. Which I > > of course inflated a bit since I'd "found my niche" at the tv > > station and was in no mood to leave for some military pie in the > > sky. I was well paid, and figured that I was where I was going to > > stay till? or was past time to retire, which I finally did coming up > > on my 67th. Then I spent about 10% of my time out putting out > > engineering fires at other properties Russ owned for the next 10 > > years. > > > > But now I'm down to just one customer, the local radio station. I > > have to go put him back on the air when the cash cow chokes, 2, > > maybe 3 times a year. Other than the tv guys, I'm pretty much it > > around this neck of the woods, everyone else has expired of old age > > or cancer and no one wants to do this sort of thing. > > > > Our schools have IMO beat the natural curiosity about such > > scientific/physics related things out of the students who all want > > to be stock brokers driving Lambo's. > > > > We who can actually fix things like a transmitter of any power level > > are a dying breed, and it will be my turn at some point since I'm > > 83, diabetic, arthritic and who knows what else. I've had a hell of > > a ride, but... > > > > Other than losing the first wife of 10 years to a stroke at 34 yo > > back in '68, and one by one the 3 children she gave me, I wouldn't > > change much. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's > most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
