Re: OT Jeopardy Winner 12/15/2022

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

On 12/16/2022 4:34 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> On 12/16/2022 4:27 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>> On 12/16/2022 6:17 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.
>>>
>>
>> Gee Whiz Bob, just think if you could go back and do it all over AGAIN!!
>> With what you know NOW you could have made enough coin to take your wife
>> on the around the world trip and beyond.......................
>>
>
> It could have gone either way really.  At one point I was delivering
> pizzas at night, doing shipping and receiving at a tool store during the
> day, and working on computers when I could.  If an old Alarm Data
> customer hadn't asked a buddy of mine to get me in touch with him to
> work on his home computer I'd probably be a pizza store manager, and the
> owner probably wouldn't have gone to jail for arson.
>
>


Some La Londes have just allowed it to be shortened because large number
of bureaucrats are to stupid to know how to manage a two word last name.


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