On Feb 16, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Dan Stobbs wrote: > LOVED "....duct tape AND a hose clamp" Bruce!! >
8-) > Kris - fascinating take on how you interpreted the terms and their > origins......this is the Joycean slipperiness of language in action....and a > generation of younglings will make similar associations I guess.......in > Great Britain we associate 'Jerry' with WW2 but in the future Americans may > well associate the name with Jerry Springer ......and American serviceman > over here in the war had to adjust to the fact that over here a fanny was not > what it was in American slang........(and of course we have Heath-Robinson > and Emmett to your Rube Goldberg! It's the knotted string...and candles and > kettles to produce steam.....) The opening sequence of the new US series 'Elementary' features just such a mechanism. We seem to be an a new golden age of Sherlockian interpretations. > .......a bus used to be an omnibus, but this was shortened to 'bus, and then > just bus. In France a railway is un chemin de fer - a road or way of iron - > but has almost certainly become le train or le railway...French posters may > enlighten me on this > Given France's franco-centric language laws, I'll wager that it's officially 'Chemin de fer' and everyone calls it 'le train'. > The ADC monitor I'm using has no back leg.....it came free with my > Cube......a prime candidate for some jerry rigging then! > And this G4 came with a higgle: to open the side door you had to put the > right sized rods down two very nicely drilled holes to release the catch. It > currently has two semi-permanently inserted drill bits with corks on top for > safety and aesthetic<!> reasons, along with a loop of string that loops > around the handle and holds it closed - I guess that's a jerry rig - Sounds like a well-done jerry-rig, at that. > can I swap a door of an earlier G4 onto a Mirror Door or do I have to just > swap the catches, which I presume is a motherboard off job. I'm reasonably certain that all the doors are pretty much alike; it's been a while since I worked on one, but iirc the doors varied mainly in the finish and coloring of the plastics. You could probably remove the interior latching mechanism from one and attach it to your MDD. Also I don't think you would even need to remove the motherboard; although that's not a difficult job at all. You could achieve a certain bodger-ish level of whimsy by adding a B&W G3 door...kind of like an old beater car with one wildly different colored door.:-) My old, sadly deceased, G4 is currently doing duty in the living room holding up the cable receiver so that it responds to the remotes IR beams; I've been tempted to repurpose it for some function. I saw a link a while back (and sadly cannot find it right now) where one had been repurposed into a nice little mini-bar :-) -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
