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bd139 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 22, 2025 5:33 pm

You do indeed. Owned by Raytheon of course. I started at Cossor and left after the Raytheon rebrand which involved introduction of all the Americanisms like Six Sigma and Dilbert Ethics Challenge.

Six Sigma is not an Americanism, it's a Japaneseism....mainly Toyota. I remember IBM trying to adopt that crap and ramming it down our throats. Dilbert Ethics? Absolutely dumb American.

MED6753 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 22, 2025 6:34 pm

bd139 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 22, 2025 5:33 pm

You do indeed. Owned by Raytheon of course. I started at Cossor and left after the Raytheon rebrand which involved introduction of all the Americanisms like Six Sigma and Dilbert Ethics Challenge.

Six Sigma is not an Americanism, it's a Japaneseism....mainly Toyota. I remember IBM trying to adopt that crap and ramming it down our throats. Dilbert Ethics? Absolutely dumb American.

I think the Japanese used it to destroy American competition

Unfortunately Ozzy has given his last "Fuck You". Kudos to Sharon for sticking with him through thick and thin.

MED6753 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 23, 2025 4:58 am Unfortunately Ozzy has given his last "Fuck You". Kudos to Sharon for sticking with him through thick and thin.

Now Hulk Hogan too.

Makes you step back and think because I'm 72 myself.

I don't pray before I go to bed. I thank the Almighty every morning when I wake up.

Just heard that Chuck Mangione has also passed, at the age of 84.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertai ... 358976007/

-Pat

25 CPS wrote: ↑Thu Jul 24, 2025 4:51 pm Now Hulk Hogan too.

Oh no, anyway... RIP Ozzy.

(My dislike for Hulk Hogan spans decades but that's a whole new thread)

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Anyway some good news.


Graduation day today. She got a 1st class BSc Biochem and starts an MRes in Biological and Physical Chemistry at Imperial College in October

She did good. So proud

bd139 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 24, 2025 8:17 pm Graduation day today. She got a 1st class BSc Biochem and starts an MRes in Biological and Physical Chemistry at Imperial College in October

She did good. So proud

She did good, indeed

Never understood pride in daughter's achievements. Pleasure, amazement, quiet satisfaction w.r.t. a job well done, dinner table story - yes.

tggzzz wrote: ↑Thu Jul 24, 2025 11:22 pm

bd139 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 24, 2025 8:17 pm Graduation day today. She got a 1st class BSc Biochem and starts an MRes in Biological and Physical Chemistry at Imperial College in October

She did good. So proud

She did good, indeed

Never understood pride in daughter's achievements. Pleasure, amazement, quiet satisfaction w.r.t. a job well done, dinner table story - yes.

Ditto.

tggzzz wrote: ↑Thu Jul 24, 2025 11:22 pm

bd139 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 24, 2025 8:17 pm Graduation day today. She got a 1st class BSc Biochem and starts an MRes in Biological and Physical Chemistry at Imperial College in October

She did good. So proud

She did good, indeed

Never understood pride in daughter's achievements. Pleasure, amazement, quiet satisfaction w.r.t. a job well done, dinner table story - yes.

It depends on the person using the word I find. Pleasure from a closely related person's achievements is the textbook definition of pride. It's when it crosses into glory and making it about yourself i.e. achievement by proxy, there's a problem. She did the work and got the degree. I am happy for her

bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 7:50 am

tggzzz wrote: ↑Thu Jul 24, 2025 11:22 pm

bd139 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 24, 2025 8:17 pm Graduation day today. She got a 1st class BSc Biochem and starts an MRes in Biological and Physical Chemistry at Imperial College in October

She did good. So proud

She did good, indeed

Never understood pride in daughter's achievements. Pleasure, amazement, quiet satisfaction w.r.t. a job well done, dinner table story - yes.

It depends on the person using the word I find. Pleasure from a closely related person's achievements is the textbook definition of pride. It's when it crosses into glory and making it about yourself i.e. achievement by proxy, there's a problem. She did the work and got the degree. I am happy for her

Yes.

It is the "achievement by proxy" that unsettles me. Absolutely no idea why that is (too?) prominent in my mind.

Boasting about what she has achieved isn't pride

tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 8:27 am

bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 7:50 am

tggzzz wrote: ↑Thu Jul 24, 2025 11:22 pm

She did good, indeed

Never understood pride in daughter's achievements. Pleasure, amazement, quiet satisfaction w.r.t. a job well done, dinner table story - yes.

It depends on the person using the word I find. Pleasure from a closely related person's achievements is the textbook definition of pride. It's when it crosses into glory and making it about yourself i.e. achievement by proxy, there's a problem. She did the work and got the degree. I am happy for her

Yes.

It is the "achievement by proxy" that unsettles me. Absolutely no idea why that is (too?) prominent in my mind.

Boasting about what she has achieved isn't pride

I suspect you've worked for a company who took all credit for your work too

bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 7:50 am It depends on the person using the word I find. Pleasure from a closely related person's achievements is the textbook definition of pride. It's when it crosses into glory and making it about yourself i.e. achievement by proxy, there's a problem. She did the work and got the degree. I am happy for her

"The teacher's true pride lies in his pupil."

I think, this is somewhere from Karate Kid.

Hard to beat sitting behind your pilot daughter on A320 flight deck watching her takeoff and landing in another city.
Properly proud dad.....

tautech wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:28 am Hard to beat sitting behind your pilot daughter on A320 flight deck watching her takeoff and landing in another city.
Properly proud dad.....

Could have done it in an ASK13, but both of us would have hated it... "Watch your speed, you're too slow. Where is the string, Etc"

After her first solo[1] an instructor said I must be proud of her. I was nonplussed, and can't remember what I mumbled.

[1] saw her take off and, since the plane's initial climb was faster than expected. I thought "Oh, she's still pole bending". Then I saw her instructor, who said she must have stolen the plane.

The end of the flight was this cherished picture, with someone commenting "with that landing, she would be OK in any decent field"...

bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:13 am

tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 8:27 am

bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 7:50 am

It depends on the person using the word I find. Pleasure from a closely related person's achievements is the textbook definition of pride. It's when it crosses into glory and making it about yourself i.e. achievement by proxy, there's a problem. She did the work and got the degree. I am happy for her

Yes.

It is the "achievement by proxy" that unsettles me. Absolutely no idea why that is (too?) prominent in my mind.

Boasting about what she has achieved isn't pride

I suspect you've worked for a company who took all credit for your work too

Surprisingly, pleasingly, I managed to avoid that. It has never been an issue in my personal or professional life.

Was that pure luck, or did I make my luck? Un-decidable.

Nearest was working for one fintech company, where the acceptable/required standard of coding was ... worrying to the point of being unpleasant.

tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 11:09 am

bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:13 am

tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 8:27 am

Yes.

It is the "achievement by proxy" that unsettles me. Absolutely no idea why that is (too?) prominent in my mind.

Boasting about what she has achieved isn't pride

I suspect you've worked for a company who took all credit for your work too

Surprisingly, pleasingly, I managed to avoid that. It has never been an issue in my personal or professional life.

Was that pure luck, or did I make my luck? Un-decidable.

Nearest was working for one fintech company, where the acceptable/required standard of coding was ... worrying to the point of being unpleasant.

Smells familiar

So after about 7 hours driving this is in the boot: It's a late one, badged Agilent and made in 2001. Even more surprisingly it was last calibrated in June 2023 by Keysight.
So I took the Lightwave interface off while it was still in the boot so I could lift it without doing myself an injury. Thing has no handles
And it works:
Thats a S11 return loss of a 27cm long open circuit cable.
I must say it is very nice unit. Removing the lightwave unit allows direct access to the RF source and samplers so you can use external couplers etc.

Robert.

cowabunga!

tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 11:05 am "pole bending"

What a great, descriptive phrase!

AVGresponding wrote: ↑Sat Jul 26, 2025 12:12 pm

tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 11:05 am "pole bending"

What a great, descriptive phrase!

It is nice, isn't it Most occupations seem to have such slang in-jokes that aren't used in other circumstances.

Given the minuscule amount of force necessary to move the stick, the concept of bending it is unthinkable.

tggzzz wrote: ↑Sat Jul 26, 2025 12:39 pm

AVGresponding wrote: ↑Sat Jul 26, 2025 12:12 pm

tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 11:05 am "pole bending"

What a great, descriptive phrase!

It is nice, isn't it Most occupations seem to have such slang in-jokes that aren't used in other circumstances.

Given the minuscule amount of force necessary to move the stick, the concept of bending it is unthinkable.

Reminds me of fintech's "factorial leverage" meaning "blackmail".