On Sat, June 2, 2007 1:32 am, Ralph Shumaker wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: > >>On Fri, June 1, 2007 3:16 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >> >> >>>Lan Barnes wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Has anyone noticed that precious few people on this thread have come >>>>close >>>>to answering the original question, which was "please recommend >>>>electronics components stores in San Diego"? Of course, implicit in >>>> that >>>>was that the stores not have closed in the last decade, etc etc etc >>>> .... >>>> >>>>And FWIW, the question is still open. >>>> >>>><mutter> google and yp.yahoo.com were a bust, too ... maybe the _paper_ >>>>yellow pages ... >>>> >>>> >>>Um, take a look at your original question before getting annoyed. >>> >>>Your original question *did* get answered. >>> >>>The fact that wasn't the question you *wanted* answered is not our >>>fault. (Although, it's still not clear what you actually wanted >>>answered ...) >>> >>>Someone did mention Fry's. San Marcos store is better than the San >>>Diego store for discretes. Unless you get a *really* good store >>>locally, Fry's is going to be hard to beat for retail selection. Price, >>>on the other hand, ... :( >>> >>>We also pointed out that an LED is not going to work because you don't >>>have enough voltage for the bandgap. >>> >>>Since Fry's actually has a couple rows of discretes, it is more likely >>>that you will find a low-voltage lamp that might actually work. >>> >>>Quite frankly, you got a couple *good* answers. That's better than >>>average for a mailing list thread. ;) It's one of the reasons for >>>being on KPLUG. >>> >>>You might want to be a little slower on the trigger to complain about >>>free help that's actually accurate *and* related to the original >>>question. This feels like the third or fourth time you've complained >>>about the responses in a thread you initiated. On some of the higher >>>traffic lists I monitor, people get put in the "ungrateful PITA" >>>killfile for that. >>> >>>-a >>> >>> >> >>See reply to Todd. Or go back to discussing the physics of shotsky >>bridges. La Quey -- spiny misanthropic La Quey -- gave me an answer in >> two >>sentences. >> >>It's like I always tell my kids: "What would you rather do, be right, or >>be happy?" >> >> >> > Sometimes the former, sometimes the latter. > Sometimes both, sometimes neither. > Depending on my mood, or what I want my mood to be. :-) >
[What failing in my personality has condemned to enjoy the rantings of of this menagerie of intellectual misfits?] -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
