Where is Nick Pine?

supernin...@hotmail.com

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Mar 3, 2010, 10:32:51 PM3/3/10

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I noticed that on Nick's website which contains a selective list of
all his usenet postings, that his last entry was over a year ago. It
looks like he has not been posting on this group either.

Where is Nick?

Josepi

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Mar 4, 2010, 7:05:53 PM3/4/10

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He ran out of Basic line numbers.

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Bob F

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Mar 5, 2010, 12:10:42 PM3/5/10

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Josepi wrote:
> He ran out of Basic line numbers.
>

Now I remember who he is.

Josepi

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Mar 5, 2010, 12:37:53 PM3/5/10

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Some of us can only post 32767 times

"Bob F" <bobn...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Now I remember who he is.

Josepi wrote:
He ran out of Basic line numbers.

> <supernin...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

daestrom

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Mar 6, 2010, 9:03:09 AM3/6/10

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As do I. We sometimes disagreed, but he was never vulgar or any sort of
troll. Some of his ideas were pretty novel and had merit.

I hope he's alright and just too busy with his projects.

daestrom
P.S. Yes, BASIC is/was his favorite way to program :-)

Morris Dovey

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Mar 6, 2010, 10:33:02 AM3/6/10

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On 3/6/2010 8:03 AM, daestrom wrote:

> Bob F wrote:
>> Josepi wrote:
>>> He ran out of Basic line numbers.
>>
>> Now I remember who he is.
>>
>
> As do I. We sometimes disagreed, but he was never vulgar or any sort of
> troll. Some of his ideas were pretty novel and had merit.
>
> I hope he's alright and just too busy with his projects.
>

> P.S. Yes, BASIC is/was his favorite way to program :-)

It's /still/ one of the very _best_ tools for writing spaghetti code. :-D

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/

Josepi

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Mar 6, 2010, 3:29:05 PM3/6/10

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Definitely! (code usage) but you can't explain everything via some scrambled
code lines.

He was definitely a thinker and had some good stuff.

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Ahem A Rivet's Shot

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Mar 7, 2010, 4:00:44 AM3/7/10

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On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:33:02 -0600
Morris Dovey <mrd...@iedu.com> wrote:

> On 3/6/2010 8:03 AM, daestrom wrote:

> > P.S. Yes, BASIC is/was his favorite way to program :-)
>
> It's /still/ one of the very _best_ tools for writing spaghetti code. :-D

Only because you can't get an Intercal compiler easily.

I also miss Nick's posts and hope he is doing well.

I recently came across an idea that reminded me of him. A very
cheap way of making a water heater. Take a roll of black water pipe and a
lot of used two litre drink bottles - cut the bottoms off all the bottles
and push them over the pipe and into each other. Cheap and cheerful but
fairly effective.

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C:>WIN | A better way to focus the sun
The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see
You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/

Robert Scott

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Mar 9, 2010, 9:57:19 AM3/9/10

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Nick is alive and well on

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SolarHeat/

along with many others who used to be here on usenet. I check both forums, but
there is a lot more activity over there on Yahoo.

Bob Scott
Ypsilanti, Michigan