From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 8/02/2026 3:37 am, Liz Tuddenham wrote:   
   > Bill Sloman  wrote:   
   >   
   > [...]   
   >> I'm not arguing with him - just jeering at his attempts to look clever.   
   >> I'm not bored stiff, but I don't have anything like enough to - I do   
   >> apply for jobs from time to time,and have got the occasional interview,   
   >> but 83-year-olds aren't attractive recruits.   
   >   
   > Especially 83-year-olds who jeer at other people.   
      
   If you look at the comments I've published in Review of Scientific   
   Instruments since 1972, you will find that I've been jeering for quite a   
   while.   
      
   It's called informed criticism in that sort of context, and can be quite   
   useful. Phil Hobbs found a reference to my first ever published comment   
   (in 1972) in volume 6 of the Series "Experimental Physics", which amazed me.   
      
   It probably doesn't have anything to do with my lack of success in   
   job-hunting.   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)