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I hope Darwin was wrong !

whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
edited 2014-09-01 16:06 in General Discussion
Dear PJ, Im burnt out. I quit. I have a lot of things i want you to have. But ill be staying at Belmont for a few months. I have no mobile but you can still contact. If you feel like it your free to call, go in monday morning.

Whiteoxe, kue, rigidigital and plenty more.

Mike.
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  • PJAllenPJAllen Banned Posts: 5,065
    edited 2014-08-29 20:42
    What's all this then?
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2014-08-29 21:51
    Methinks PJ= Mike's fellow Aussie Peter Jakacki: http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/156694-can-the-prop-control-this-4ch-5volt-relay-using-its-3.3-volt-i-o-pins?p=1282295&viewfull=1#post1282295
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2014-08-29 22:32
    erco wrote:
    Methinks PJ= Mike's fellow Aussie Peter Jakacki
    'Interesting and provocative theory, erco! But no. However, they could yet be connected like entangled photons: one in Oz; the other, half a world away in [redacted to preserve privacy] (a.k.a. Outer Darkness).

    -Phil
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2014-08-29 23:34
    Isn't PJ Allen aka Aunty Krissy? Or was that a passing fancy?
  • whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
    edited 2014-08-30 00:01
    the tip is heaters remark about dawinism :) to which i replied"and you thought my posts had to be read three times. only the fitest survive. there is a riddle but probly heater is the only one that can figure out the hurt. but i took it on the chin and has nothing to do with anythin. Geez, you guys may not be that clever.
  • whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
    edited 2014-08-30 00:11
    sorry, remark on the spur of the moment with no thought attached. Heater is one heelava supportive man. end of transmission for quite awhile. See you all later.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-08-30 00:22
    whiteoxe,
    ...you guys may not be that clever...
    I'm certainly not smart enough to have the faintest idea what you are talking about here.

    Any chance of a link to follow so that I can remind myself of whatever it was I said about Darwin?
  • whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
    edited 2014-08-30 00:56
    hEATER, ITS REALLY NOTHING, I SHOULD NOT HAVE POSTEDTHAT, YOUR RIGHT MY POSTS SOMTIMESNEED TO BE READ A LOT MORE THAN THREE TIMES. iN THE END i'LL POST THE ANSWERS TO THE RIDDLE HOWEVER IM OFF FOR A FEW MONTHS PERHAPS SO PLEASE WAIT THAT LONG AND ILL POST THE EXPLANATION. MIKE.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2014-08-30 01:55
    Heater. wrote: »
    whiteoxe,

    I'm certainly not smart enough to have the faintest idea what you are talking about hear.

    Any chance of a link to follow so that I can remind myself of whatever it was I said about Darwin?

    Hear? here? Try geography, as in Darwin, Australia. It's the place where the big salty ocean going crocks eat humans like potato chips.

    Then again, it might just be a reference to The Darwin Awards... http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/152581-Darwin-Awards
  • PJAllenPJAllen Banned Posts: 5,065
    edited 2014-08-30 05:37
    Loopy Byteloose wrote: »
    Isn't PJ Allen aka Aunty Krissy?

    No, douche - that's your Dad!
  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2014-08-30 06:44
    @whiteoxe - Will miss you Mike! Hope your time away is fruitful.

    @ P.J. - the robotic contingent here wants you back. I enjoyed your peanut butter jar lid bot so much and the great flurry of posts when you were developing it. Next bot please...

    General Comment from the forum priest (who by the way thinks Darwin was most likely right... Not that only the fit survive, but that everything grows and changes) We all are a combination of hope and despair and none of us ever know everything that is going on with the person right next to us - treat others as you would like to be treated.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2014-08-30 07:06
    Amen, Br'er Whit!
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-08-30 08:22
    Loopy,

    Well spotted. Eye maid a spelling Miss Take.

    Anyway, now I can't work out if Belmont is a:

    a) Health Spar.
    b) Prison.
    c) Mental institution.
    d) Crocodile farm.
    e) Religious cult hide out.

    It does not seem to have internet connectivity so I'm guessing that it's not d)
  • whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
    edited 2014-08-30 12:03
    > It's just another day is thought I make where ever it is that I awake
    > Though I know too well its not a thing to advantage take.
    >
    > I wonder if it's still me that does arise when the sun comes up with no surprise.
    >
    > I’ve changed so much as the decades rolled by ,so i have to wonder if its still really I ; who sees the morning in the sky.
    >
    > It may be me for I have all the memories that I see., of the past that once was me.
    >
    > But now my ideas the way i think flow in ways Id nevered guessed.
    >
    > Im not the same but my life at moments does feel blessed.
    >
    > So while I am still here to see the sun I could let go of bitterness.

    PS. I am more than touched at all these reponses, i dont feel so bad . thx all. definate END OF TRANSMISSION, maybe only a few months.I'll be back :) But then boy if i am, ill have some explaining to do. Over and out. Mike.
  • TtailspinTtailspin Posts: 1,326
    edited 2014-08-30 14:30
    A Candle lit at both ends... :smile:
    See you in a couple of months, i hope.. I mean if all you have to do is sit and watch TV, and not get in a fight, We should see you even sooner. Right?..:smile:



    -Tommy
  • macrobeakmacrobeak Posts: 354
    edited 2014-08-30 17:53
    All very obtuse and mysterious. There are several Belmont suburbs/towns in Australia, some of them are coastal resorts. There is also a large Belmont Psychiatric Hospital in Queensland. Whiteoxe, it is difficult to decipher your message but good luck and take care, whatever it means.
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2014-08-30 17:59
    In the US Bellview is an asylum and Belmont is a race track.

    So .... go crazy and run like a horse LOL.
  • PJAllenPJAllen Banned Posts: 5,065
    edited 2014-08-30 18:09
    It's Bellevue.

    When do I get my stuff?
  • whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
    edited 2014-08-31 10:15
    I can't sleep, got a few hours till im out of communication. I really thought it was best to let this thread die, but now I am not sure. So as I dont feel too bad i'll tell you whats up! IF you can tell me why I probably used whiteoxe as my username :)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-08-31 10:34
    The thread should not die.
    We are all going to want to to know that you get on OK.
    All the best.

    Hmmm...no idea about the "whiteoxe" thing.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2014-08-31 10:55
    Whit wrote: »
    General Comment from the forum priest (who by the way thinks Darwin was most likely right... Not that only the fit survive, but that everything grows and changes) We all are a combination of hope and despair and none of us ever know everything that is going on with the person right next to us - treat others as you would like to be treated.

    Well said.... even harder to know on the internet.
  • whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
    edited 2014-08-31 11:30
    Have you read 'papillion' ? If not, and you like reading true stories, biographys ....that should be on every mans shelf ! Its how I have lived for the last 10 years with the exception that he was in jail and I was not ! I hope im the only one that has lived like this but i suspect there are many in the world doing just that !!! I feel like i am treading a fine just now. Im not attention seeking nor any derivative of that condition. Some may be embarrassed for me as I continue but there is no need.... OK, At different stages I over different years I engage in flurries of posts on Parallax, Picaxe, Arduino, under several different user name. I love reading all posts and authouring my own posts. I am always buying elrectronoics (i have a lot, you name it i probly have it. ) but i dont really ever do anything other than the most basic experiments. I needed people in my life, thats when id begin reading the forums and posting. I'd buy all the electronics to feel closer to everyone., and everytime i did get something in the mail i'd think this time i will really do something. For example, as though its not clear enough, the scribbler robot I got...as soon as I had it running around I packed it back up and his it in a cupboard. There is a lot more to the story but I cant keep typing all night(its 4:19am) Something has changed. I no longer feel anything is broken. I am just going away to a private facility to gather my thoughts. Maybe a couple of months ,maybe justy a few weeks, its my decision. Then I am going to go and get a university degree. Maybe electrical engineering or physist...I have a short list of degrees Im willing to study.
    I wanted PJ to have all my electronics, he talked me out of it saying maybe I'll still want them at sometime in the future. I just wanted to leave the life ive been living behind and so i thought I should get rid of all these chips, controllers, robots and wires and tools. Ive really enjoyed our posts Heater and those of many others. I hope this post is not an anti climax. Funny thing, I didnt see Jesus or any vision something unexplainable happened. Mike Lynch 25 March. Favourite smoke Whiteoxe.
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2014-08-31 11:39
    @whiteoxe,

    Take the time to take good care of yourself, whatever that takes. We'll be here for you when you are ready again. I'm with PJ, keep those things which will be ready for you when you are.

    All the best to you!

    Jeff
  • whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
    edited 2014-08-31 11:52
    Thanks Jeff (and same to you all) Im already enrolled in some silly chemistry degree i start next year. But I have to jump through some hoops to get into the degree I want.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-08-31 11:57
    whiteoxe,

    It's possible we both suffer form a similar affliction.

    I too start drowning under the weight of started and abandoned projects, of piles of unread books, of things that get hoarded because "they will be make a good [ whatever ] at some point in the future", of broken promises and generally stuff that does not get done.

    It seems to come from an enthusiasm to do whatever it is but a totally unrealistic estimate of the amount or time, effort and even money it might take to pull off.

    This all started as a teenager. At age 17 or so I just had to throw or give away everything. So much so that I had nothing left in my bedroom but a bed, a lamp and a single bookshelf with about five books on it. I simply good not stand all that stuff hanging around waiting for me to do something with it. It's like pushing a big reset button. Cleaning the slate. Starting over.

    It's still a challenge, but in later life I tried to wise up. If an idea for something to do came to mind I would try not to just jump in, buy the parts and start. Rather I'd start asking myself "OK, wise guy, when exactly are you going to do this?", "How long do you think it will take?", "Are your really willing to go all the way with this?". It really focuses the mind.

    Dale Carnegie had a system for this. Everyday he would write down a list of what he needed or wanted to do that day. He would the list in some priority order and start working on the them from the top. At the end of the day the list was thrown away. A new list being created the next day. Of course items would get added and items would get forgotten even if they were not done. No matter, if they are important they will come back again!

    I never got that organized, except at work. Strangely to day, old unfinished stuff does not bother me so much.

    The internet makes all this much worse. There is so much going on out there. So many interesting people writing about all the interesting things they get up to. Ideas flying in from all directions. You want to be part of that, to do it all, it's impossible.

    I don't know. You just got be on a soul dump here:)

    All the best.
  • whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
    edited 2014-08-31 12:30
    mike.jpg
    Thanks for sharing that with me Heater, though i have been a pretty severe case, not to say you weren't either. Id get groceries dropped off so i didnt have to face the world :) The TV and internet have been my only companions. When PJ came around I was smashed on valium because i couldnt handle him finding out where and in what condidtion i lived in, because it was a ,million miles away from my former life, Radiologists, Dux of law school, computer scientist, wealth (all this is my father and brothers not me :) I left school at 16 when I started to come undone. I just need to learn how to get along socially and I know I can. In a previous life i was usually the funniest bugger in the room. The school was Downlands College where i went through too much at the hands of the other boarders , it was suppossed to be one of the best schools in the state, or the very best. Things didnt turn out, I dropped out of life. Im sure its going to be a lot of hard work. But after what i have endured, I AM UP FOR it
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  • GenetixGenetix Posts: 1,754
    edited 2014-08-31 14:14
    Heater, unless you are an extreme hoarder whose house is full of all kinds of useless stuff then I wouldn't stress over your behavior. I remember a purchasing manager telling me that engineers never throw something away. Even the US military has a "boneyard" for keeping discontinued equipment working.

    Whiteoxe, you need to do what you need to do but don't toss anything just yet. Parallax has made the BASIC Stamp for 20 years and will continue making it for at least another 20 years. Parallax has also said they will continue making Propellers for at least another 20 years so don't worry about your Parallax stuff being useless. By the way, I just received Harprit's Propeller Assembly book yesterday so I suggest either getting one or asking him to reserve one for you. Who knows if when you come back the Propeller 2 may be out. I wondered why after you said PJ was coming over that you stopped posting.
  • whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
    edited 2014-08-31 14:19
    Hi Genetix. bty, i sent you a cryptic or sad pm did i not ? I was still smashed on valium when i pm'd you :)

    If i hadnt already decided to throw in the towel I was going to ask you, "why would anyone want to program in Assembly ? Really, why dont you just go back to machine language you dinosaur :)
  • PJAllenPJAllen Banned Posts: 5,065
    edited 2014-08-31 14:47
    It was Jakacki all along? And I get slimed by old Tosser Gag-a-maggot in the process?
    Oh, very nice.
    Bloody hell, guy.

    Mike-oxe, as I see it, you need to make peace with yourself, give "Mike" a break, and start each morning by declaring "just for today I will be happy" - or you'll end up catatonic, crapping yourself in a taiwanese pigeon coop.
  • GenetixGenetix Posts: 1,754
    edited 2014-08-31 15:37
    Whiteoxe, I know medication can really mess with your head so ask your doctor for something else with fewer side effects. I've read in several books that you don't need Assembly because compilers are more efficient but a friend of mine told me that is total BS. He says he can always write code that is 25-50% smaller than what a compiler spits outs. In his industry the profit margins are small so he needs to use the cheapest chip possible. Besides I want to do more than Pong on a Propeller.
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