COLD DARK ROOM
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Bambam1989
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Anne McCaffrey wrote the "dragonriders" series right? Those were pretty good.
CarolM
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So Wizard for hire is the first one right?
Bambam1989
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Always good... And dark muahahaha
DE42
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Its a continuing series so I'd start with the first one. "Storm front"
DE42
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That is a combo book that put together the first few. I believe.
CarolM
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A crime writer. I prefer watching crime series to reading them. Not sure why I can handle watching them but not reading it. Maybe for me when I read I get more involved.
Bambam1989
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Another great author is James Rollins!
CarolM
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Yes she did. Her books were the books that actually got me to start reading books.
CarolM
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Lol
CarolM
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Hmmm his Titles look interesting.
Well, if you found that interesting, here's something that will blow your mind: Copper cable. It takes one pair of wires for each land line phone in your house. So in the olden days when there weren't many phones, 25 pair cable was common. That means there were 25 pairs of copper wire inside each plastic covered cable. The voice went from your phone on one wire to the Central Office, where it was then directed to who ever you were calling. Now-a-days, because cables were getting so big and heavy (Upwards of 2000 pairs in each cable) they've gone to fibre optics and cell towers. But back to the copper wires in the cables. Each pair of wires is identified. So, for example, the first cable placed out of the central office would have been named cable 1, or rather 01, then the wires in that cable were numbered from 1 to however big the cable is. So we could look at a record and see that the first cable was 01,1-25. Then each pair of wires was assigned, and we could look at the record and see that 01, 10 is assigned to Joe Blow at such and such address. It's quite the book keeping night mare, but computer make it much easier. I retired right when fibre optics was coming into being, so I never learned about that. . . cell phones either.
Man, I haven't thought about that stuff in such a long time. Here's a picture of the real olden days before cable, when wires were put up individually:
And then wires were taken down and cables put up:
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Ya gotta wonder how this happened:
WOW! Pretty gosh darn detailed just for phones!!!! Yeah, I bet computers made it a LOT easier!!!!
HOLY COW!!!! How is that hanging car even POSSIBLE??!?!?
Me, too!!!!!
Bambam1989
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His Sigma Force series is very good. And there are quite a few of them.
DE42
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He watched Fast and Furious too many times.WOW! Pretty gosh darn detailed just for phones!!!! Yeah, I bet computers made it a LOT easier!!!!
CarolM
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I am never going to have enough time. If I have disappeared from the forum for a while, you all know why.
CarolM
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Ok it is 2am here and way way past my bedtime. Thank goodness tomorrow is Sunday.
OH, MY GOSH!!!!!
LOVE those lights!!!! SO beautiful!!!!!!
To use a south Louisiana expression, "Yeah, you RIGHT!"
You and me both!!!!!!
