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Builduing is the Admiralty in St. Petersburg.

You might like it: http://www.nevsky-prospekt.com/admiralty.html

Re: St. Petersburg -- At the times I visited there (late 1980s/early 1990s) most area English speakers called it 'Leningrad' -- Thus it seems Leningrad got the 'Constantinople treatment'?

Very best regards
HP

 

Content unrelated to thread was moved to its own thread under Off Topic.

I don't what that's all about? -- Howbeit was the removed content of a political nature you have my undying gratitude!

Best regards
HP

 

I've been using the wrong customers.
Window units are nasty, fiddly things to work on, but the manufacturers of central air conditioners are so dedicated to high tech that they have replaced a $100 motor with a $600 motor which contains a 3 phase variable speed drive. Then they charge $1200 for replacing it. One wiring connector, 2 screws, 3 more screws and swap the squirrel cage to the new motor. Put it back together. Driving time, paperwork, and labor amounts to about 2 hours...$300/hour...and you know that isn't, "workman's wages". I can still do most fan motors for $200 and less than half of that is for the motor.

Well... I don't begrudge the maintenance organizations their profits... -- Should the service fees prove burdensome to some clients it may behoove them to investigate the 'merits' of DIY

Very best regards
HP

 

Now we're replying across different threads??
Max.

 

THIS thread is related to why you chose your username.

As the OP of this thread I do not object to the OT content (so long as it remains cival and non-political)

Respectfully
HP

 

THIS thread is related to why you chose your username. Other stuff is (mostly) here:
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/musings-from-the-username-thread.135853/

And I assert that my reply to @justtrying 's post was dead on topic! -- I likewise notice that said response was not moved to the 'new' thread...

 

Forty years ago, I was a 21 year old United States Marine corporal, trained to repair the RADAR and missile fire control set in the McDonnell-Douglas F-4J Phantom II, and assigned to the Warlords squadron at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina.

On May 18th, 1977, our base theater had an advance screening of Star Wars: A New Hope, with a personal introduction by George Lucas, who at the time I was unfamiliar with.

Everyone in our squadron attended, and then day shift returned to the squadron hangar, where hoots and hollers weree heard everywhere as the pilots and RIOs (Radar Intercept Officers) donned their flight gear for a sortie of yankin' and bankin' in our Phantoms.

Our Commanding Officer, LtCol. R. N. Patrick, intercepted me at about the center of our hanger, pointed at my face and yelled, "YOU'RE WOOKIE!" At the time, I was tall, thin, and my hair and moustache were at the bleeding edge of regulation, and the nickname is actually similar to my real name. So I grinned, saluted the C.O., and answered back "Aye aye, Sir!"

So It's 40 years later, and I'm still Wookie ;-)

 

As the OP of this thread I do not object to the OT content (so long as it remains cival and non-political) -- That the OP has 'sway' as regards the direction of his/her thread (especially in OT) has been the policy here -- Has that changed???

Respectfully
HP

I believe I suggested the political stuff be moved to its own thread.

 

Forty years ago, I was a 21 year old United States Marine corporal, trained to repair the RADAR and missile fire control set in the McDonnell-Douglas F-4J Phantom II, and assigned to the Warlords squadron at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina.

On May 18th, 1977, our base theater had an advance screening of Star Wars: A New Hope, with a personal introduction by George Lucas, who at the time I was unfamiliar with.

Everyone in our squadron attended, and then day shift returned to the squadron hangar, where hoots and hollers weree heard everywhere as the pilots and RIOs (Radar Intercept Officers) donned their flight gear for a sortie of yankin' and bankin' in our Phantoms.

Our Commanding Officer, LtCol. R. N. Patrick, intercepted me at about the center of our hanger, pointed at my face and yelled, "YOU'RE WOOKIE!" At the time, I was tall, thin, and my hair and moustache were at the bleeding edge of regulation, and the nickname is actually similar to my real name. So I grinned, saluted the C.O., and answered back "Aye aye, Sir!"

So It's 40 years later, and I'm still Wookie ;-)

On this Memorial Day weekend, I offer thanks for your service. It is through your courage (and especially the courage of those who sacrificed their lives) that the rest of us get sit around and bitch about insignificant things all day.

Thank you.

 

+1. Likewise to all our members who have served or have family in the ranks.
Thanks @joeyd999 for the perspective.

 

@SgtWookie Nice to see you back.
Did @SgtWookie say the same thing before when asked about his username

 

On this Memorial Day weekend, I offer thanks for your service. It is through your courage (and especially the courage of those who sacrificed their lives)
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It is also very sad because of the Human evolutionary inherited trait that it has to happen at all.
The 2oth century in particular where weapons have developed that evaporate entire cities (Nagasaki and Hiroshima) .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll
http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/history/violence-and-war/5956.aspx
Max.

 

It is also very sad because of the Human evolutionary inherited trait that it has to happen at all.
The 2oth century in particular where weapons have developed that evaporate entire cities (Nagasaki and Hiroshima) .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll
http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/history/violence-and-war/5956.aspx
Max.

I'll make a deal with you: I won't verbally beat the crap out of you for suggesting that hundreds of thousands of additional Allied soldiers should have died in WW2, and you just give thanks for those that did in that -- and other -- wars.

 

Going off topic again.....!

 

Going off topic again.....!

Agreed. But a modicum of respect would be tremendously appreciated.

 

I was not endeavoring to slur the armed forces, I also served in H.M. Armed forces, All I meant to do is bring attention to the sad fact that it has to happen at all!!.
Max.

 

Agreed. But a modicum of respect would be tremendously appreciated.

modicum ???
I have to google again.

 

I never had that problem here. I am never grounded when I work.

I like to think I am well grounded person.
In spite of my user name!
Max.

 

modicum ???
I have to google again.

The least you could have done is provide a link, now I have to google.

kv

mod·i·cum
ˈmädəkəm/
noun

1. a small quantity of a particular thing, especially something considered desirable or valuable.
   "his statement had more than a modicum of truth"
   synonyms: small amount, particle, speck, fragment, scrap, crumb, grain, morsel, shred, dash, drop, pinch, soupçon, jot, iota, whit, atom, smattering, scintilla, hint, suggestion, tinge; More
   

 

Re: St. Petersburg -- At the times I visited there (late 1980s/early 1990s) most area English speakers called it 'Leningrad' -- Thus it seems Leningrad got the 'Constantinople treatment'?

Very best regards
HP

Indeed.

It went like this:

St. Petersburg - Petrograd - Leningrad - St. Petersburg.

I was born in Leningrad. It is now St. Petersburg. It will however forever remain City Hero Leningrad as it is Leningrad and its citizens that lived through the seige of WWII. Not everything can/should be erased from history...

The little boat "korablik" that is pictured today is a replica and the original is in a museum.

p.s. if anyone is to blame for Russia's strength today it should be the Netherlands as that is how we got our first navy

 

I've told this story before; I thought in the other thread, but I don't see it there so I'll tell it again...

I served as a Fire Control Technician on a submarine in the US Navy. The boat had an FPO AE mailing address. We were allowed to have letters sent to that address but were encouraged to keep it to a minimum. I only ever gave that address to my parents and used it for my cell phone bill. I have no idea how it happened, but somehow my name and address fell into the hands of snail mail spammers, and I started getting letters from all over the place. Credit card offers, car dealerships, timeshares, "You've been selected, " etc. The letters never came from the same place twice so I was unable to call anywhere and make them stop.

The people sending the letters never once spelled my name correctly. My last name is Staton. I got letters addressed to all manner of variations:
Mr. Station
Mr. Stanton
Mr. Stator
etc.
The yeoman on the ship would walk throughout the boat every morning at quarters (morning meeting, in every division) in port handing out the mail. He would walk into the galley and shout the names of any cooks who had mail. He would go to the engine room and shout the names of any nukes that had mail. And he would come into the control room (right next door to the captain's stateroom) and shout the names of anyone in there (me included) who had mail. There was a running joke what my name would be on any given day, and people called me by the name on my latest letter.

One morning the yeoman comes in and shouts at the top of his lungs "STRANTOOOORRR" in the voice of Trogdor the burninator (a popular web meme at the time). The captain stepped out and gave a scolding glare to the yeoman who promptly handed over my letter and scurried away. The letter was addressed to STRANTOR. No first name, no "Mr.", just STRANTOR. that one stuck like glue. I was known as STRANTOR for the rest of my years on the boat.

Edit:
Trogdor the burninator reference (exactly how the yeoman yelled my name)