Re: [neonixie-l] Some neonixie-l changes...

[Nicholas Stock]

Movember is a good cause, I've done a few of those campaigns myself and
grown a pretty outrageous handlebar much to the horror of all those around
me... :) Only I have the photoLOL. But for a couple of CD47's, I'd post
it here ha ha!!

Cheers,

(Pharma) Nick

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:16 PM Nick  wrote:

> Argh! That dodgy, 70s porn star moustache !!
>
> I need to explain. Really, I do...
>
> It started during a "Movember" men's health fundraising effort - for those
> that don't know, Movember is where (mostly) guys try to grow an outrageous
> moustache during the month of November - the wilder and more unlikely the
> better - mine ended up like Zapata's. All for charity...
>
> I was working for a financial services company in London and they agreed
> to double the money if you got your photo on an official document...
> driving licence and passport in my case... It was worth a lot of money for
> charity - many 1000s of GBP...
>
> Thankfully, sanity was restored and it's long gone now - even it's absence
> caused problems. Passports last 10 years here and the last few years I've
> been based in the Gulf (UAE) and doing a lot of travelling. Every border I
> crossed they had problems with the passport photo vs. reality. It was a
> silly idea.
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Re: [neonixie-l] Some neonixie-l changes...

[Nick]

Argh! That dodgy, 70s porn star moustache !!

I need to explain. Really, I do...

It started during a "Movember" men's health fundraising effort - for those that 
don't know, Movember is where (mostly) guys try to grow an outrageous moustache 
during the month of November - the wilder and more unlikely the better - mine 
ended up like Zapata's. All for charity...

I was working for a financial services company in London and they agreed to 
double the money if you got your photo on an official document... driving 
licence and passport in my case... It was worth a lot of money for charity - 
many 1000s of GBP...

Thankfully, sanity was restored and it's long gone now - even it's absence 
caused problems. Passports last 10 years here and the last few years I've been 
based in the Gulf (UAE) and doing a lot of travelling. Every border I crossed 
they had problems with the passport photo vs. reality. It was a silly idea.

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Re: [neonixie-l] Some neonixie-l changes...

[Nicholas Stock]

Hello everyone, I can't let Grahame have all the fun...

Many folks on the list have chatted/conversed/traded etc with me at some
point in time and I'm more than happy to help the other British Nick run
things as smoothly as possible! I feel lucky in that I've made quite a few
firm friends around the world through this hobby/obsession and hope to
continue making more.

As some of you are aware, I'm a medicinal chemist by training, but my dad
was an EE (now retired), so I grew up around 'cool stuff'...well, *I*
thought it was cool, my wife just rolls her eyes... :)

Once I got a real job ($$), I found Mike Harrison's website (
http://www.electricstuff.co.uk), quickly followed by Jeff Thomas' (RIP)
website and the rest is very much downhill (and increasingly expensive...).

I have a website in the works (*still*...) where I hope to collate a lot of
things nixie/neon/vfd/numitron/crt/you name it, with the occasional thing
for sale too...I'm not talented enough to design things from scratch, but
I'm not bad at case design/general fabrication and now know my way around a
circuit or two :)

Cheers,

(Pharma) Nick

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:25 PM 'Grahame' via neonixie-l <
neonixie-l@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> Just to introduce myself as some of you may not know me.  I lurk a lot and
> I'm not a prolific poster to the group. But I read everything that is
> posted avidly.
>
> My background is that I'm a chemical engineer and worked for a chemical
> company in the UK, USA and Canada for about 20 years, then I moved into
> (criminal) law enforcement in the UK. I'm now retired so have lots of time
> spare, at least in theory. Nick is generous in saying "a deep understanding
> of the technologies" as my knowledge is all self-taught - both electronics
> design and writing software.
>
> We live near Drumnadrochit on the north bank of Loch Ness in the Scottish
> Highlands. At the moment we are half way through renovating and extending a
> stone cottage. The work has been interrupted by a number of things, the
> last, and most serious, as been the virus when Scottish domestic building
> went into lockdown. So at the moment my workshop is all boxed up and in
> storage. Hopefully we'll be in the new house by Christmas!
>
> My web site is http://www.sgitheach.org.uk/ , my radio amateur call sign
> is GM4EKI (everything is boxed and in storage) and you can find me on
> Instagram as grahame_marsh. All good fun.
>
> I'm looking forward to helping Nick deS and the other moderators when I
> have learned my duties!
>
> cheers Grahame
> On 14/07/2020 14:52, neonixie-l wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> Just a heads-up on a few changes...
>
> I've not done much with the group for 10 years, and it's time for a small
> refresh...
>
> Please welcome Grahame Marsh and Nick Stock as moderators, joining John
> Smout & myself. Both are well known to the group and have a deep
> understanding of the technologies involved...
>
> ...apart from that, Nick has a great first name and happens to share my
> birthday !
>
> Grahame and I have have been swapping emails for many many years and he
> and Nick have worked (and are working) on some great projects. Yes, I know
> we're all British (though Nick S. lives in the USA, Grahame in Scotland and
> I've lived in the Middle East for the last few years - at least John S.
> lives in London!)
>
> The library re-organisation will restart (my fault for just getting
> distracted) and we're open to ideas from all and sundry about what we could
> do to improve the group...
>
> All the best
>
> Nick de Smith
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Re: [neonixie-l] Some neonixie-l changes...

['Grahame' via neonixie-l]

Hi All

Just to introduce myself as some of you may not know me.  I lurk a lot 
and I'm not a prolific poster to the group. But I read everything that 
is posted avidly.


My background is that I'm a chemical engineer and worked for a chemical 
company in the UK, USA and Canada for about 20 years, then I moved into 
(criminal) law enforcement in the UK. I'm now retired so have lots of 
time spare, at least in theory. Nick is generous in saying "a deep 
understanding of the technologies" as my knowledge is all self-taught - 
both electronics design and writing software.


We live near Drumnadrochit on the north bank of Loch Ness in the 
Scottish Highlands. At the moment we are half way through renovating and 
extending a stone cottage. The work has been interrupted by a number of 
things, the last, and most serious, as been the virus when Scottish 
domestic building went into lockdown. So at the moment my workshop is 
all boxed up and in storage. Hopefully we'll be in the new house by 
Christmas!


My web site is http://www.sgitheach.org.uk/ , my radio amateur call sign 
is GM4EKI (everything is boxed and in storage) and you can find me on 
Instagram as grahame_marsh. All good fun.


I'm looking forward to helping Nick deS and the other moderators when I 
have learned my duties!


cheers Grahame

On 14/07/2020 14:52, neonixie-l wrote:

Greetings!

Just a heads-up on a few changes...

I've not done much with the group for 10 years, and it's time for a 
small refresh...


Please welcome Grahame Marsh and Nick Stock as moderators, joining 
John Smout & myself. Both are well known to the group and have a deep 
understanding of the technologies involved...


...apart from that, Nick has a great first name and happens to share 
my birthday !


Grahame and I have have been swapping emails for many many years and 
he and Nick have worked (and are working) on some great projects. Yes, 
I know we're all British (though Nick S. lives in the USA, Grahame in 
Scotland and I've lived in the Middle East for the last few years - at 
least John S. lives in London!)


The library re-organisation will restart (my fault for just getting 
distracted) and we're open to ideas from all and sundry about what we 
could do to improve the group...


All the best

Nick de Smith
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[neonixie-l] Some neonixie-l changes...

[neonixie-l]

Greetings!

Just a heads-up on a few changes...

I've not done much with the group for 10 years, and it's time for a small 
refresh...

Please welcome Grahame Marsh and Nick Stock as moderators, joining John 
Smout & myself. Both are well known to the group and have a deep 
understanding of the technologies involved...

...apart from that, Nick has a great first name and happens to share my 
birthday !

Grahame and I have have been swapping emails for many many years and he and 
Nick have worked (and are working) on some great projects. Yes, I know 
we're all British (though Nick S. lives in the USA, Grahame in Scotland and 
I've lived in the Middle East for the last few years - at least John S. 
lives in London!)

The library re-organisation will restart (my fault for just getting 
distracted) and we're open to ideas from all and sundry about what we could 
do to improve the group...

All the best

Nick de Smith

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