Re: Eaton Corp. to buy Cooper Industries

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxx>]

"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Saturday, May 26, 2012 8:53:20 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> On May 26, 12:00 pm, mleuck <m.le...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Friday, May 25, 2012 9:34:14 PM UTC-5, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> > > "mleuck" <m.le...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > >news:2dd3a9cb-6cdd-4636-8bf1-c6a0077a08a9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > > > On Thursday, May 24, 2012 8:51:11 PM UTC-5, Jim wrote:
>> > > >> On Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:26:38 PM UTC-4, mleuck wrote:
>> > > >> > On Monday, May 21, 2012 5:25:11 PM UTC-5, NickMark wrote:
>> > > >> > >http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/blog/energy/2012/05/eaton-to-ac...
>> >
>> > > >> > > This could bring a new player into the field
>> >
>> > > >> > I will never understand why a company like Cooper that produces
>> > > >> > product
>> > > >> > is worth 12 billion but Facebook is worth 100?
>> >
>> > > >> > Jeez now I'm starting to sound like Jim
>> >
>> > > >> You just may be becoming a little bit smarter .... that's all.
>> >
>> > > >> But don't get all excited now. I'm sure it's just a case of
>> > > >> Flowers for
>> > > >> Algernon.
>> >
>> > > > You might have that backwards
>> >
>> > > You are getting flowers and Algernon is getting smarter?
>> >
>> > Funny part is most people reading this thread aren't old enough to have
>> > any idea what all of us are talking about.- Hide quoted text -
>> >
>> > - Show quoted text -
>>
>> I'm a Sci Fi fan... well I use to be.  I spend more time fishing or
>> tinkering in my machine shop and reading machining books these days.
>
> I stopped reading Sci Fi when the stories started to include castles,
> dragons and swords intermixed with spaceships and rayguns.

Yeah, its hard to take Ann McCaffrey seriously as Sci Fi.  She doesn't spell
it out until you are a dozen books in.  By then you are sucked into her
Dragon Riders world anyway.  I like some Fantasy, but I don't really like my
Fantasy and Sci Fi mixed together.  The Practice Affect was probably one of
the best pieces of original magical fantasy I have read.

ON THE FLIP SIDE... how do you explain Phase & Proton?


> I read lots and lots of Asimov, The Foundation and Robot series. Lot's of
> Heinlein, Methuselah's Children and following Lazarus Long in subsequent
> novels. Stranger in a strange land and Bradbury, A sound of Thunder,
> Fahrenhiet 451, I sing the body electric.

Read all of those except I Sing the Body Electric.

> I liked the Dune series too.

Never cared for it myself.  I waded through the original book twice before I
really got it.  Way too much verbose face flapping / keyboard smacking.

> And I liked most of Arthur Clarks work,except towards the end of his
> career. One of the most memorable was ( for me, anyway ),one by Clark. Not
> a profound or popular novel but just memorable because I never suspected
> what the ending was until I read it. Childhoods End.

I read a fair amount of Clark, but "Rendezvous with Rhama" was a waste of
paper.  I was a huge Saberhagen Fan, and I read a lot of Niven.  Even
Niven/Purnelle had some redeeming qualities.  I think I read every single
thing Asimov published in book form.  I thought he pussed out in the end
though... "We'll pick this way.  Not because it's the best, but because we
can change our mind."  It wasn't the logical conclusion.  I read the 2
classics by Bradbury, but I found them to be awkward reading.  Not sure I
remember "I Sing the Body Electric."  I'm going to go look that one up.  I
did read a lot of Philip K Dick.  He was a little twisted, but very
creative.  In retrospect its obvious he was a drug addict.  I think I read
all the publish books by Heinlein, but I might have missed one.

I did read the ORIGINAL, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

> But now .... like you ... I read technical manuals and spec sheets and
> research equipment for audio video installtions.

Yeah, just when exactly did the latest MSC Industrial flier become more
interesting than the latest issue of Playboy?  LOL.

> I still try to watch out for a good Sci Fi movie when I see an
> advertisement. Some of them are pretty good. I'm usually more impressed by
> the special effects nowdays, than the story line. Most memorable of the
> oldies is Forbidden planet and This planet earth.

I have to say they did a decent job with the latest Star Trek movie.  Yeah,
they pulled a "Who Shot J.R.?" and destroyed Gene Rodenberry's happy little
universe, but now the way is open for a whole new era of creativity.

I have to say if you are into super heroes Stan Lee and company have been
doing a really great job of making modern day setting movies out of the
classic Marvel comics.  It was pretty hard to beat Iron Man.  Thor and the
Avengers have a bit to much mythology for my taste, but they are staying
true to the original story lines.

A buddy and I are leaving the women at home to go see MIB3 at the theater
later this evening.  A long time ago we discovered, "Never take a girl to a
movie YOU want to see."  Its crap as Sci Fi goes... well rehashed themes
from 1950s and 1960s anyway, but Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are great
actors.