OK, to jump on the wagon I've got to add one of my favorite pieces of
Fisher prose...
[edited for brevity]
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Subject: How I Spent My Summer Vacation
From: sfisher@wsl.dec.com
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
(And my stock options and half my retirement fund,
and most of the food, clothing, and entertainment budget)
[...]
"I doubt you got it over 3000 RPM," Andy said. "You owe it to yourself
to wind it all the way out once." I grinned and set out once more.
This time it was different. From idle to 4000-4500 or so it had much
better throttle response than my street car. From there on up it was
like getting rear-ended by a JATO-assisted Impala. A cold, funny
feeling came into the pit of my stomach, like the feeling you get
when you realize the woman you've been longing to kiss for months
has just pressed her lips to yours and opened them gently, yet also
like the feeling you get when you realize that the rumble you hear
is not a truck and the walls and windows start shaking. I hit the
brakes hard -- remember, the Ferodo DS-11 pads had been bedded in well
back in December -- and realized that my bleeding and adjustment from
the previous week had given me the best brakes I'd ever felt, sure and
firm and linear.
Dammit, I'd built myself a *RACE CAR*. With a lot of help from my
friends.
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Now, if one of you ambitious types would just go through the archives and
compile *all* of this stuff...
Lee M. Daniels - Laboratory for Molecular Structure and Bonding - Texas A&M
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"Naughty, you can reform, but stupid is forever" -Andy Capp
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