Re: OT Jeopardy Winner 12/15/2022

[Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>]

On 12/16/2022 4:17 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> On 12/16/2022 3:42 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>> On 12/16/2022 5:13 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>> On 12/16/2022 2:59 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>>> On 12/16/2022 4:44 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>> On 12/16/2022 1:40 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/16/2022 3:25 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>>> On 12/15/2022 6:07 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hey Bob,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Do you know or are you related to a "Ray La Londe"???
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Well either way he is now the Jeopardy Champion as of tonight!!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> He won #32,600.   Maybe more on the way.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just I would share the news!!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Les
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If I wasn't before I am now.  LOL.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nah! I don't actually know all that many La Londes.  Less than a
>>>>>>> hundred probably. We've been in country since the 1680s, but most
>>>>>>> are in the north country with a few in the deep south.  Cajuns
>>>>>>> and Canuks. Mostly Canuks.  Far less of us are Damn Yankees.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't have any immediate relationship I am aware of.  No, I'm
>>>>>>> not directly related to that Canadian boxer either.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now if you asked if I was related to that Bob La Londe who was a
>>>>>>> research mechanic at NASA's Lewis Research Center who retired in
>>>>>>> the early 1980s.  Yes.  That was my Grammpa.  If you asked if I
>>>>>>> was related to the Paul La Londe who held several patents for R&D
>>>>>>> work with Donn Products (USG NOW) including the ceiling tile grid
>>>>>>> latch most of us have cursed at one time or another.   Yes.  He
>>>>>>> was my uncle.  If you asked if I was related to the grocery and
>>>>>>> hardware store owner from Dateland.  (2 miles north of Dateland
>>>>>>> actually.) Yep.  That's my dad.  If you asked if I am related to
>>>>>>> that kid named Rob La Londe who is a licensed pharmacy tech,
>>>>>>> crazy smart gamer (with paid creds as a gamer), and mad higher
>>>>>>> math skills. Yep. That's my son.  If you asked if I am related to
>>>>>>> that hack shade tree button pushing wannabee not a real
>>>>>>> machinist. That's me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sorry.  I do not know who Ray is.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> LOL thanks for the Family Tree!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Depending on how long this "Ray La Londe" can maintain his
>>>>>> championship on Jeopardy it might be a good thought to check the
>>>>>> DNA just to know.;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Last week the Champion walked out with more than $850,000.00
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Les
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It was probably more like $400,000 and many of the prizes wouldn't
>>>>> be claimable if he couldn't independently pay the taxes on them first.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've day dreamed about winning the lottery so I only have to do
>>>>> jobs that really interest me.  I've done the research.  LOL.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jeopardy it is only ca$h.  No prizes!!  And yes, the actual
>>>> take-home
>>>> is always less than what is posted. It is the taxes! That will get you.
>>>>
>>>> But, forgetting the taxes, the WHAT IS LEFT!! Is not to be cried
>>>> about!!
>>>>
>>>> I gave up on the Lottery before the Flood of 1972!!
>>>> They always say "You gotta to play to win"
>>>> What they don't say is, You gotta to play to lose!!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ultimately you play to have fun.  (I don't buy lottery tickets but my
>>> wife does once in a while.)Â  I used to enjoy playing low limit 7 card
>>> stud in Vegas.  Even if I was losing I had fun.  Sometimes I won and
>>> a few times I pulled crazy movie level bluffs and won (and lost).
>>> Then everybody switched to high pressure, high speed aggressive play
>>> Texas Holdem.  It wasn't fun for me.  I could hold my own unless
>>> there were more than two or three good players at the table, but it
>>> was not fun. It was hard work in your face game play.
>>>
>>> I figure one day I'll come home and find my wife gone with a couple
>>> bags missing.  I'll know we finally won the lottery.  I'll call her
>>> of course.  I hope I catch her before she gets to far out to sea on
>>> her round the world cruise, so she can tell me where my half is stashed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Back in the 80's when I got my first computer "Timex Sinclair".  I got
>> it on a 30 Day Trail basis for $99.99 and $39.99 for a extra 16K memory
>> card.  It connected to my TV and the keyboard was about 4"x7" pressure
>> sensitive keys.
>> After I taught myself to write a Basic Language program to generate a
>> random 3 digit number I ended up calling my Dad and told him what I got.
>> He really never understood that "computer thing" but I said that I could
>> generate a 3 digit number for him to play on the Lottery this week.
>> He always played the Lottery!!  He said "Ok?"
>>
>> So I loaded the program and pressed Enter.
>> The number that came up was 2 7 2
>> I said to my Dad "The computer says 2 7 2 so play that number this week!
>> He said "Well Ok  ?"
>> Soooooo Friday night I am watching the News and at the end at 6:59pm
>> they do that Lottery Drawing thing.
>>
>> The first number was a     2
>> The Second number was a    7
>> The third number was a     2
>>
>> I called my Dad and said "DAD!! DAD!! You Won!!!!
>> There was dead silence............................
>> I said Dad did you see the number came up you WON!!!
>> He said, I forgot to buy a ticket.................
>>
>> He kicked himself for years after that.  And it never happened again!!
>>
>> Totally TRUE STORY!!!
>>
>> Oh, I ended up taking the Timex Sinclair back and got a refund.  Then
>> went out and bought an ATARI 400Â  :-)
>>
>> Hope you enjoyed the History Story!!!
>>
>> Les
>
>
> Well if you just want to talk about antiques I learned to write BASIC on
> a Commodore Pet 2001 with a push button tape drive.  That would have
> been around 1977.  I wrote a numbers instead of colors version of Master
> Mind on the Heathkit H89A and I was in the process of writing a black
> jack program when APS dropped a wire across another wire feeding a
> massive over voltage into every household in the area.  I knew there was
> a problem when the surge suppressor exploded and flames shot up the wall.
>
> The H89A with its Z80 could have eaten a half dozen Timex Sinclairs
> before breakfast.
>
> I got to play with some Apple II+ computers in school in 81/82, but it
> wasn't until 83 when I discovered the wide open world of the PC/XT.
>
> In the mid 90s a buddy of mine was setting up networks in local high
> schools.  At one point he had a bunch of the old PC cases with the holes
> for the two big connectors in the back.  He was whining because he
> couldn't put AT boards in them.  I said, "I have a Sawzall and a bunch
> of hole saws."Â  We were installing computers with sushi cases before
> anybody knew what a sushi case was.
>
> Sushi cases were the nickname we gave the cheap Chinese stamped cases
> that were not deburred.  The joke was you would get chopped up like
> sushi building computers with them.  Used to buy a lot of that stuff
> from Yokohama Telecom.  Back then the Computer Shopper was still a great
> resource for computer businesses and serious hacks.  I used to call
> Yokohama Telecom about once a week and ask what the specials were. Often
> as the new tech was coming out they would be selling the last gen at
> dumpster fire pricing.  I made a little bit of coin on the bulletin
> boards upgrading PCs (XT and AT) for the social computing crowd.
>
>
> A couple years earlier my buddy with the PC cases at one point was just
> dumping XT hardware from his computer business.  I offered him a dollar
> a board for everything he was going to throw in the trash.  I made a
> pretty good coin upgrading XTs for people.  For 20 dollars I'd drop an
> RLL controller in a PC and give somebody 50% more drive space.  For $30
> I'd set them up with an MFM-A controller and almost double their drive
> space.  All the folks who couldn't afford a real computer store.  I'd
> give them a small bump instead of forcing them to buy current generation
> right now like the computer stores.  The PC I used for surfing the
> bulletin boards back then was an XT with a 5 meg  Seagate (not gig meg)
> hard drive and an RLL controller giving me a whopping 7.5 meg.  I also
> had a 286 with a bit more specs, but that was my play computer.  LOL.  I
> probably still threw away 75% of those boards, but I made money first.
>
> That was also when I started writing the story, "Hackers & Phreakers &
> Things That Go Bump In the Night," on the never ending story board on
> Timelords BBS.  Things have changed so much since then I don't know if
> its even still relevant.


The first modem I used for programming Napco panels was the original
modem for Dragons Lair BBS that another buddy of mine ran.



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