Re: [LAU] Close, but no cigar

I think it was Groucho Marx that said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar".

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 7:24 PM, John Murphy <rosegardener@email-addr-hidden>
wrote:

> On 1 Apr 2017 00:09:17 +0100 Will Godfrey <willgodfrey@email-addr-hidden>
> wrote:
>
> > There has been much argument as to whether a graphical interface is best
> with
> > independent windows, or with a single window (with or without tabs).
> Here in
> > the Yoshimi workshop, the only type of arguments we like are the startup
> CLI
> > ones! Therefore we've been working on a quite novel idea.
> >
> > This came about when one of our team (who still uses a CRT monitor)
> found that
> > a cheap ionizer dramatically reduced the static discharges he kept
> getting. He
> > quickly realised that ionization could be used to control both static
> > attraction and repulsion. Thinking there must be an enhanced IT
> equivalent he
> > hacked up some software ionization code. [...]
>
> You're having us on aren't you Will? Surely everyone knows IoTs don't
> actually
> trap ions (the idea lol). The guns were aimed away from the phosphor and
> the
> magnets pulled the electrons toward user, if you were lucky. Easy ten bob
> job
> if you were. Focus magnets otoh... Thanks for the memories :)
>
> --
> John. (Goes back to coding my Pointer Oriented Operating System.)
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