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Post #14,682
by imric
10/22/01 8:34:33 PM
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New Ya ever shake hands with a farmer?
Count the missing fingers...

And farmers can be just as smart as anyone - in fact, most of the farmers I know are part-plumber, part-electrician, part-carpenter, part-heavy-equipment-operator, part-vet, part-mason, and part-mechanic... Nothing can wait, on a farm, and farmers are kind of, well, desensitized to pain first, then what might cause pain, by extension.

I loved living on the farm.

I don't ever want to be a farmer.
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Post #14,686
by Ashton
10/22/01 9:05:57 PM
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New My uncles ran a machine shop.
I recall driving into 'the city' with my aunt, gramma - about age 7? on occasion of one uncle separating from a finger. (This was from, maybe a 'ranch' but not really a farm; animals though, and real live food.)

I asked him the usual 7-year old question: did you cry? Can see him now, doin a good Jimmy Durante performance of

Cry !! why they could hear me into the next county !!
Loved It, and him. While still not used to having to count to 9 (no re-attaches in the dark ages) .. he was willing to get a giggle out of a kid. Class.

Dunno what it's like trying to farm now, compete with Ag-Biz and MBAs, just to live [but can guess] - but my experience of this 'ranch' was.. what could only be an oasis vs any Corp imaginary job. The chores were in fullest sense - educational and healthy.. but a lot more, esp. for a kid. Anyone who imagines farmers as dumb - is stupid, and an ass besides. They know more useful shit (*about* shit too!) than a bevy of PhDs.
Cheers,

Ashton
at least, back in their territory - with a neighbor doing 'original stuff' ~~ organic farming; developing educational methods to spread it around, while doing it. Great soil here. Just picked my own figs and some of his (last) tomatoes that taste like tomatoes.
     220 vs 110 - (bluke) - (32) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:18:10 AM EDT
         220 is considered "safer" - (jb4) - (24) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:24:32 AM EDT
             Re: 220 is considered "safer" - (a6l6e6x) - (23) - Oct. 22, 2001, 01:43:02 PM EDT
                 Hrm??? - (jb4) - (8) - Oct. 22, 2001, 02:13:17 PM EDT
                     He's right on safety. - (Andrew Grygus) - (7) - Oct. 22, 2001, 02:33:35 PM EDT
                         Then too: you actually *have* 220V coming in.. - (Ashton) - Oct. 22, 2001, 02:55:37 PM EDT
                         Isn't that exactly Edison's old anti-Tesla PR you're burpin? -NT - (CRConrad) - (5) - Oct. 22, 2001, 07:16:43 PM EDT
                             Yabut.. that's a can o'worms anyway. - (Ashton) - Oct. 22, 2001, 07:44:09 PM EDT
                             The very one - but Tesla pulled the wool . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - Oct. 22, 2001, 09:54:42 PM EDT
                                 Yeah, wasn't that *sneaky*? - out M$'d M$.. -NT - (Ashton) - Oct. 23, 2001, 03:20:37 AM EDT
                                 But the POINT is, DC would have fried 'em just as well! -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - Oct. 23, 2001, 06:29:14 AM EDT
                                     "Fry" is the operative word here. - (Andrew Grygus) - Oct. 23, 2001, 11:24:21 AM EDT
                 It's the waveform. - (imric) - (13) - Oct. 22, 2001, 05:49:41 PM EDT
                     Umm sorry. No. - (Ashton) - (12) - Oct. 22, 2001, 06:09:16 PM EDT
                         Ah, yes. - (imric) - (11) - Oct. 22, 2001, 07:06:41 PM EDT
                             Ah well.. now yer gettin fancy - (Ashton) - (10) - Oct. 22, 2001, 07:29:15 PM EDT
                                 *grin* You'd think! - (imric) - (6) - Oct. 22, 2001, 07:58:09 PM EDT
                                     Migawd.. it's in your genes! - (Ashton) - (2) - Oct. 22, 2001, 08:16:29 PM EDT
                                         Ya ever shake hands with a farmer? - (imric) - (1) - Oct. 22, 2001, 08:34:33 PM EDT
                                             My uncles ran a machine shop. - (Ashton) - Oct. 22, 2001, 09:05:57 PM EDT
                                     Expensive mistake - (broomberg) - (2) - Oct. 22, 2001, 09:26:26 PM EDT
                                         Well.. one possibility - (Ashton) - Oct. 23, 2001, 03:43:25 AM EDT
                                         220 UPS outputs - (Ric Locke) - Oct. 23, 2001, 11:47:50 PM EDT
                                 3-phase voltages. - (static) - (2) - Oct. 22, 2001, 09:58:21 PM EDT
                                     Huh? We just went TO 240, from 220! (BTW, hi--volt was 380v) -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - Oct. 23, 2001, 06:27:35 AM EDT
                                         Just went *to* 240V...? - (static) - Oct. 23, 2001, 07:06:58 AM EDT
         Remains of Edison's anti-AC, pro-DC propaganda? Just a guess -NT - (CRConrad) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:25:35 AM EDT
         Early adopters. - (addison) - (5) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:34:49 AM EDT
             Like Cell Phones - (SpiceWare) - (4) - Oct. 22, 2001, 11:16:18 AM EDT
                 As I understand it, that's more due to market fragmentation: - (CRConrad) - Oct. 22, 2001, 11:27:51 AM EDT
                 CRC has that about right. - (static) - (2) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:02:44 PM EDT
                     Not quite right -- GSM enforced by EU, CDMA is more advanced - (tonytib) - (1) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:52:47 PM EDT
                         CDMA in .au, too - (Meerkat) - Oct. 23, 2001, 01:56:31 AM EDT

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