a merry xmass to the group, poor lost lad! ray's bank is in Pasadena,he took a lot of money from a lot of people with a wink and a smile ,he never said he need help(just cash please) ,he just fleaced any one who was dumb enough to send money and not once did i think that trade in another country would cost me ,with no recourse, i have had some trade problems in the soviet realm,but no one but ray has ever walked away,from the table with out giving me the time of day! can't i find a place in my heart to forgive him?....NO! even when you look at both sides of the coin?...NO! and because ray lives in java i will wish him a KRAKATOA christmas(don't get any on ya)
-----Original Message----- From: neonixie-l <[email protected]> To: Digest Recipients <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Dec 24, 2011 11:53 pm Subject: [neonixie-l] Digest for [email protected] - 13 Messages in 2 Topics Today's Topic Summary Group: http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l/topics Merry Christmas [8 Updates] Ray W. [5 Updates] Merry Christmas fixitsan <[email protected]> Dec 24 05:01AM -0800 I would just like to wish all group members a Happy Christmas It is 10 years ago that I began my first experiments with nixie tubes, when I decided that I wanted to make a nixie clock for my father's 60th birthday present. So, beginning in November I ordered tubes, some PICs, downloaded Microchip's MPLAB for the first time and taught myself assembly language for PICs. It was a steep learning curve considering the 10 week deadline, but I couldn't afford a higher level language so battled on. Then my interest continued with an invite from Ray Weisling to join the first nixie group, NEONIXIE-L on Yahoo, when he saw me selling clock number 2 on eBay, which I made in order to pay for both clocks. It is nice to see so many of those members are also here, and with you there is also a huge number of new people with an interest in nixies. It is nice to know that so many people share an interest with yourself ! Although I built the first clock alone, it is true to say that I would not have improved my skills or opened my mind to some very interesting ideas had it not been for my membership of that group, and the support, the nagging, challenges and humour shared among all members there, and now here. I seem to have taken those ideas sideways into developing the Smartsocket concept, originally for neon based tubes and now for the IV-17 vfd tubes which I first began experimenting with in 2007. (it has been a slow project !) Merry Christmas and the best of the season to you all and your families Chris Joe Croft <[email protected]> Dec 24 07:52AM -0600 > Merry Christmas Chris and everyone else on the list as well :) -joe Shane Ellis <[email protected]> Dec 24 08:14AM -0600 Marry Christmas to all!!! Sent from my iPhone Nicholas Stock <[email protected]> Dec 24 07:18AM -0800 Merry Xmas to all too...especially all those members whose creations I have discovered over the last few years and brought me some much joy (and the wife, so much bemusement....;-) To 2012! Cheers, Nick Sent from my iPhone Dylan Distasio <[email protected]> Dec 24 01:10PM -0500 Merry Christmas to all on the list also! I am happy to have found it as a newcomer this year, and really appreciate everyone taking time to answer basic questions. I decided at the last minute to build a very modest single tube numitron IV-9 clock for my brother-in-law for Christmas from scratch. It was the first major (for me anyways) electronics project that I breadboarded myself with an arduino and then transferred the design over to perfboard and wrote the arduino code myself (with help from other web sources of course), and then burned my own ATMega328p chip. I used a DS1307 chip for the RTC with a battery backup I desoldered off an old motherboard. The tube displays blinks a 4 digit time and has the option to display the date, and set both from the board. I spent a lot of time struggling with the code and adding new features, and had to stop myself from adding a piezo speaker in the fear of running out of time. It's not the prettiest thing to look at, but it works! I know he will appreciate the effort as he loves gifts people have taken the time to make. Anyways, this marks my exciting entry into the world of tubes (not counting some an earlier nixie clock kit that I fell in love with). I'm sure I'll be harassing the list with many questions in the new year, so prepare yourselves! Best, Dylan fixitsan <[email protected]> Dec 24 10:18AM -0800 On Dec 24, 6:10 pm, Dylan Distasio <[email protected]> wrote: .... had to stop myself from adding a piezo speaker in the > fear of running out of time I'm not sure if you're joking or just showing off. Resisting 'feature creep' is an unusual and enviable talent in itself. (Steve Jobs once said that problems in designing Apple products often involved knowing what to leave out, and not what to actually include) Nice to meet you Chris Aleksander Zawada onet <[email protected]> Dec 25 02:05AM +0100 > Merry Christmas to all! :) http://obrazki.elektroda.pl/8682015000_1324773434.jpg http://obrazki.elektroda.pl/8321478800_1324773435.jpg http://obrazki.elektroda.pl/7756402800_1324773435.jpg http://obrazki.elektroda.pl/3746685400_1324773434.jpg http://filmy.elektroda.net/85_1324772989.flv http://filmy.elektroda.net/73_1324772773.flv daddyvan2005 <[email protected]> Dec 24 05:50PM -0800 Ah, very nice! Thanks for sharing that. Merry Christmas to everybody! Keep the glow going. Dennis ________________________________ From: Aleksander Zawada onet <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2011 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Merry Christmas > Merry Christmas to all! :) http://obrazki.elektroda.pl/8682015000_1324773434.jpg http://obrazki.elektroda.pl/8321478800_1324773435.jpg http://obrazki.elektroda.pl/7756402800_1324773435.jpg http://obrazki.elektroda.pl/3746685400_1324773434.jpg http://filmy.elektroda.net/85_1324772989.flv http://filmy.elektroda.net/73_1324772773.flv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB. Ray W. "nystrom sture" <[email protected]> Dec 24 12:51PM +0100 Has anyone heard what Ray does these days? He fooled many of us on the money but he was from the beginning a kind and good person. Anyway, Merry Christmas to all Nixie people. Sture ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zane Faught" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 6:43 AM Subject: [neonixie-l] Ray W. fixitsan <[email protected]> Dec 24 05:07AM -0800 I agree, he was and likely still is a kind person. I'm not going to speculate, but it is a shame, because he was very individual, creative, and he would sometimes spend hours formulating replies to some of my most naive questions. He was exacting and worked to very high standards. I doubt those aspects of his personality are any different these days. Chris "Tidak Ada" <[email protected]> Dec 24 02:55PM +0100 The source could easyly be found under Indonesian public officers. Corruption is more rule as exception under minor officials , because their pay is to low to maintain their family and they get the false model from their high ranking collegues. So you can imagine they make trouble with export permissions or even seize the goods. An other possibility is he does not receive his components for the same reason. All because he resists (or is not able) to pay the public officer in question. Indonesia is not a westen country, one looks at a different way to this matters. Understand this explanation is highly speculative in concern of Ray See it as an explanation of things that can happen there. However, that he does not react on questions from memebers, nor apologizes himself is a shame, but also undestandable, since Ray lives so long in the country that he is fully adapted to the local customs. He may feel he lost his face. Consider in South-East Asia, loss of face is in the local culture the worst you can overcome and it is something you keep hidden if possible. Making somebody loosing his face is one of the worsest rudenesses you can do to somebody !! eric -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of fixitsan Sent: zaterdag 24 december 2011 14:08 To: neonixie-l Subject: [neonixie-l] Re: Ray W. I agree, he was and likely still is a kind person. I'm not going to speculate, but it is a shame, because he was very individual, creative, and he would sometimes spend hours formulating replies to some of my most naive questions. He was exacting and worked to very high standards. I doubt those aspects of his personality are any different these days. Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB. David Forbes <[email protected]> Dec 24 12:37PM -0700 On 12/24/11 6:55 AM, Tidak Ada wrote: > Making somebody loosing his face is one of the worsest rudenesses you can do > to somebody !! > eric Thank you for this explanation. It is easy to forget that there are large cultural differences between one's own country and those on the other side of the world. I too had the sense that Ray was a good man who ran into hard luck and didn't have the financial cushion in place to deal with the problem. I consider myself lucky that I've only ever had a few weeks of moderate poverty in my long life. I also have taken Ray's missteps to heart - I make sure that I have all the parts on hand before accepting people's money for a product. -- David Forbes, Tucson AZ Jon Dugan <[email protected]> Dec 24 04:32PM -0600 > On 12/24/11 6:55 AM, Tidak Ada wrote: > I too had the sense that Ray was a good man who ran into hard luck and didn't have the financial cushion in place to deal with the problem. I had this sense as well. I think he had good intentions but was unable to follow through for some reason. perhaps it was as above and perhaps it was something else. I don't know. I ordered a FLW kit as well as a a cyclochron from him. I did eventually receive my cyclochron but am still waiting for the FLW kit. on a happier note: this list has been one of my favorite corners of the internet for a long time now! thank you to all of the information and interesting links. happy holidays everyone! jon You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group neonixie-l. 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