Happy Birthday Aleatorylamp!
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hubbabubba
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Let me join in the "procrastinators chorus" and wish you a Happy Birth Day,
, Alleatorylamp.
I don't know you as well as Ivan but, as soon as I'm back on the saddle with a proper "old but decent" PC, you may see me more than you want over here!
One day I would like to hear the story behind your pseudo. I already know what an aleatory lamp is from my own private venture into electronics as a hobby.
May the passing of time be good on your body and gentle on your soul.
, Alleatorylamp.I don't know you as well as Ivan but, as soon as I'm back on the saddle with a proper "old but decent" PC, you may see me more than you want over here!
One day I would like to hear the story behind your pseudo. I already know what an aleatory lamp is from my own private venture into electronics as a hobby.
May the passing of time be good on your body and gentle on your soul.
aleatorylamp
Charter Member
Dreadfully sorry for the delay...
Hello, hubbabubba!
Thank you very much for your good wishes... at 64 years of age now, now I don´t know what happened. It must be not only the memory that fails, but also some degree of attention, or noticing...
I just saw the thread 5 minutes ago, and today is boxing day! That´s more than a month since my birthday! I´m so sorry and profusely apologize.
I promise hit myself enough until I feel even worse.
The passing of time is moderatly gentle on my body and soul... this delay is a symptom, I suppose.
My brain is living up to my psuedo...
Hubbabubba: Electronics is great! - I dabbled with it a little, but only did very basic stuff. The best I ever did was light some little lights and 4 luminous digits delivering four "8´s", all run by a PIC I programmed in PIC-Basic.
The pseudo "Aleatorylamp" (In full it´s Hal Aleatory Lamp), came from a programming exercise proposed in a magazine, that I did with a Spectrum+ that I had donkey´s years ago, to do with a conversation Programme called "Eliza".
That was also the time of the "assassin" computer "Hal" in Space-Odyssey 2001, and I called my version of the programme "Hal". Then I thought, not knowing that "Hal" was an anagramme on "IBM" (neither did Arthur C. Clake, by the way), "what could Hal stand for?" and my thought sequence was as follows:
- "H": Ok, H for Hal... (for want of anything else...) - not very bright, but still...
- "A": Hmmmm... "A" for "Aleatory!"
- and "L"? Well, how about "Lamp"? ...like Pixar´s little flexo lamp.
So it summarizes my opinion on computers, which I still believe are by no means an exact science - in fact they are quite aleatory... though everyone thinks they are precise...
Now they call it "heuristic", but a "Heuristic Lamp" is not really very descriptive... and it would also imply some sort of logical summarizing capacity which I think is to much to credit computers for, and is also not exactly one of my strong points. Possibly some abstract intuition would be better in my case, but definitely not for computers, so, a computer is an Aleatory Lamp.
All this to critizice computers, when they are really quite a hobby of mine! How unfair, ...and very illogical, but then that´s how life is anyway.
I was debating on using another one I like: "Desert Frog", inspired by the Film Convoy, where Chris Christopherson was "Rubber Duck" on the truckies´ CB radio. "Here´s Rubber Duck talking to the desert...", he´d say. At that time I had a little green car with a roof rack for camping stuff and I called it "Desert Frog". I also tend to call the hard disks on computers and the computers´user names with those names. It gets worse though: Then there´s "Jungle Bat", "Dune Rager", "Swamp Gnat" or "Candle Blaze"...
Good heavens! I´ve just looked down the list of posts in the editing mode.... and I just discovered that there are other posts that don´t show up in the main post page.
Or maybe it´s my aleatory brain, and I (or it?) didn´t scroll down far enough...
- Thank you Smilo,
- Thank you Ivan for starting this thread,
- Thank you, Papingo!
- Thank you No Dice!
I wonder how much else is missing... (from the posts or from the brain, you might ask...)
This just goes to show that I´m right about computers - and my brain. It´s actually quite surreal!
They ARE aleatory lamps. They only light up whatever happens to be wherever they happen to be pointing their light to!
Thanks everyone again!
Incidentally, I was also trying to put together another golden oldie from 1917 for Christmas, but there have been too many chores and arguments in the kitchen for the aleatory lamp in the brain to be of much use for aircraft production.
With any luck however, I hope to get a quite outlandish one ready for CFS1 for New Year now:
A Hansa Brandenburg G1, with twin engines on outriggers !!! Propellers and engines similar to the big, slow Austro-Gotha G.4 Hieronymus engines but smaller, the Austro Daimler 160 Hp, which I also have all the .air file parameter for, so I only have to get rid of the hollowed-out parts and put in the crew and their machineguns.
Cheers,
Aleatorylamp
Hello, hubbabubba!
Thank you very much for your good wishes... at 64 years of age now, now I don´t know what happened. It must be not only the memory that fails, but also some degree of attention, or noticing...
I just saw the thread 5 minutes ago, and today is boxing day! That´s more than a month since my birthday! I´m so sorry and profusely apologize.
I promise hit myself enough until I feel even worse.
The passing of time is moderatly gentle on my body and soul... this delay is a symptom, I suppose.
My brain is living up to my psuedo...
Hubbabubba: Electronics is great! - I dabbled with it a little, but only did very basic stuff. The best I ever did was light some little lights and 4 luminous digits delivering four "8´s", all run by a PIC I programmed in PIC-Basic.
The pseudo "Aleatorylamp" (In full it´s Hal Aleatory Lamp), came from a programming exercise proposed in a magazine, that I did with a Spectrum+ that I had donkey´s years ago, to do with a conversation Programme called "Eliza".
That was also the time of the "assassin" computer "Hal" in Space-Odyssey 2001, and I called my version of the programme "Hal". Then I thought, not knowing that "Hal" was an anagramme on "IBM" (neither did Arthur C. Clake, by the way), "what could Hal stand for?" and my thought sequence was as follows:
- "H": Ok, H for Hal... (for want of anything else...) - not very bright, but still...
- "A": Hmmmm... "A" for "Aleatory!"
- and "L"? Well, how about "Lamp"? ...like Pixar´s little flexo lamp.
So it summarizes my opinion on computers, which I still believe are by no means an exact science - in fact they are quite aleatory... though everyone thinks they are precise...
Now they call it "heuristic", but a "Heuristic Lamp" is not really very descriptive... and it would also imply some sort of logical summarizing capacity which I think is to much to credit computers for, and is also not exactly one of my strong points. Possibly some abstract intuition would be better in my case, but definitely not for computers, so, a computer is an Aleatory Lamp.
All this to critizice computers, when they are really quite a hobby of mine! How unfair, ...and very illogical, but then that´s how life is anyway.
I was debating on using another one I like: "Desert Frog", inspired by the Film Convoy, where Chris Christopherson was "Rubber Duck" on the truckies´ CB radio. "Here´s Rubber Duck talking to the desert...", he´d say. At that time I had a little green car with a roof rack for camping stuff and I called it "Desert Frog". I also tend to call the hard disks on computers and the computers´user names with those names. It gets worse though: Then there´s "Jungle Bat", "Dune Rager", "Swamp Gnat" or "Candle Blaze"...
Good heavens! I´ve just looked down the list of posts in the editing mode.... and I just discovered that there are other posts that don´t show up in the main post page.
Or maybe it´s my aleatory brain, and I (or it?) didn´t scroll down far enough...
- Thank you Smilo,
- Thank you Ivan for starting this thread,
- Thank you, Papingo!
- Thank you No Dice!
I wonder how much else is missing... (from the posts or from the brain, you might ask...)
This just goes to show that I´m right about computers - and my brain. It´s actually quite surreal!
They ARE aleatory lamps. They only light up whatever happens to be wherever they happen to be pointing their light to!
Thanks everyone again!
Incidentally, I was also trying to put together another golden oldie from 1917 for Christmas, but there have been too many chores and arguments in the kitchen for the aleatory lamp in the brain to be of much use for aircraft production.
With any luck however, I hope to get a quite outlandish one ready for CFS1 for New Year now:
A Hansa Brandenburg G1, with twin engines on outriggers !!! Propellers and engines similar to the big, slow Austro-Gotha G.4 Hieronymus engines but smaller, the Austro Daimler 160 Hp, which I also have all the .air file parameter for, so I only have to get rid of the hollowed-out parts and put in the crew and their machineguns.
Cheers,
Aleatorylamp
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aleatorylamp
Charter Member
Hansa Brandenburg G1
Hello again everyone of the sub-sub basement! (I love the expression... one of Ivan´s pearls, I gather)
Here´s a picture of the outlandish one I was mentioning, as yet without pilots or guns. Let´s see if I can get it done this week!
Maybe this way you´ll all forgive me for the tremendous, unpardonable, inexplicable and long delay since your birthday greetings to my person...
P.S. The Birthday went well, thanks! ...and I got a good present - the Protoss extension of StarCraft II - the only game apart from Transport Tycoon that I actually play, although I´m very bad at Starcraft - even the first game from 1998. It´s the only other things computers are good for apart from CFS1 or FS98... ha ha! - They are also good for making teaching material, all must be said.
Cheers,
Aleatory Lamp
Hello again everyone of the sub-sub basement! (I love the expression... one of Ivan´s pearls, I gather)
Here´s a picture of the outlandish one I was mentioning, as yet without pilots or guns. Let´s see if I can get it done this week!
Maybe this way you´ll all forgive me for the tremendous, unpardonable, inexplicable and long delay since your birthday greetings to my person...
P.S. The Birthday went well, thanks! ...and I got a good present - the Protoss extension of StarCraft II - the only game apart from Transport Tycoon that I actually play, although I´m very bad at Starcraft - even the first game from 1998. It´s the only other things computers are good for apart from CFS1 or FS98... ha ha! - They are also good for making teaching material, all must be said.
Cheers,
Aleatory Lamp
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