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On 3/17/14, 9:08 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:37:42 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 3/17/14, 7:57 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:23:38 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

So, which of the righties here will solve Riemann? It assuredly won't be
me. I don't have the math chops for that.

It just sounds like one more thing you don't know how to do.

Indeed, Greggster, I said I didn't have the math chops to solve Riemann,
but I am interested in the great puzzle, and occasionally look around
the 'net to see what's happening in a solution. On the other hand,
you don't have the math chops to solve it, either.

Funny how that works, eh?

But there seems to be 100 other things I can do, that baffle you.
The only people I have ever met with a similar lack of any mechanical
skills at all was a few doctors, mostly specialists.
They did have valuable skills though. You seem to lack any beyond
writing ad copy.

I'm not aware of anything you have said you can do that "baffles" me.

Your last example of home handyman tasks, checking or changing the
impeller on an outboard, was a skill I picked up at my dad's dealership
when I was maybe 10 years old.

If I need to check the weather, I can look out in the yard or check the
readouts on my little weather gauge, or I can click on the weather app
on my iphone.

I can play the 4357 "tunes" on my server anywhere in the house or yard
or, in fact, anywhere I can get 'net access.

If I need to replace my gas water heater, I know exactly which plumber
to call. Nothing baffling there.

I will admit your love affair with an obsolete Windows OS baffles me,
but not enough to raise my curiosity to the point where I will try to
install it on anything.

I don't really write much "ad copy" anymore, but I did recently research
and write a proposal that got an NGO in Kenya a substantial grant for a
village to village program to help fight HIV/AIDs and also promote the
use of condoms. Oh, and for no compensation, I researched and wrote the
documentation that helped a religiously affiliated residential school
for autistic kids get on the approved funding list of an out of state
county in order to help a friend with an autistic kid.

I'm sure you have some handyman skills I don't have and even don't care
to have. When my car needs service, I take it to the shop. No
"bafflement" there, eh?