NLG Phone Number Puzzle

[StatFreak]

some more pictures..

[stayouttadabunker]

That is pretty Stat, with piano hinges too

[StatFreak]

That is pretty Stat, with piano hinges too

When we sat down to design it and realized how large it would need to be to fit my collection, we looked at several design options. Building the doors to hold inventory effectively doubled the capacity, but the fastening device had to be able to hold all of that weight suspended at 90 degrees. Piano hinges were the only choice, and since the materials were costing me a fortune anyway, I figured why not do everything up in brass? Finding the knobs on the outside proved difficult and were a last minute purchase. I had searched the internet for a couple of months (while he was building the cabinet) for something suitable, but was surprised how few choices there were when I limited myself to polished brass -- our theme -- and to handles that would befit a piece of furniture this size.

It's actually two identical pieces that stack. He built them so that they could both sit on the floor and still look like finished pieces in case that turned out to be a better way to place them down the road in a future home. That's why the top, middle, and bottom frames all look the same.

I met him through work years ago -- he's a web designer.   For a while there, he had so many orders for projects that he had hopes of going into business full-time. But life seldom works out the way we want it to.

[stayouttadabunker]

When I was about 17, I made a huge case for all my cassette tapes....though made of cheap pine, it served its purpose..
while riding around town, the girls would be in the back seat checking them out exclaiming excitedly "Play this one!"...I felt like some kind of driving DJ in a volkswagen bus....needless to say, I was at a lotta local parties back then

[tjkeller]

Some very creative work there on the S+ Cabinets SOB!   

Also, one heck of a custom media center Stat!    


Thanks to both of you for sharing!   

[uniman]

Okay, it's Friday, and as promised, here are the solutions to the puzzles.

Great puzzles Stat!
Wish I would have had more time to decipher them. Been very busy lately!!! Did recognize the IBM set characters (DOS)
But the 15 emoticons representing 10 numbers had me baffled. 
It looked like 8-bit binary, but why 15 of them? If I had just multiplied 8 x 15 / 10, I would have gotten 12 and been on my way. 
Very clever code! 

[uniman]

Nice work on the cabinets, SB. 
If you ever get to Laughlin, go to The Riverside Casino and checkout the custom wood S+'s they have for sale in their antique slot store. They are antique looking, standup style.

[stayouttadabunker]

I will go there and check them out! Thanks Uni 
and thank you TJ , for the nice compliment...I just shot off an email to Jay.
I told him that I was interested in obtaining some S2000 parts to put into a cherry wood cabinet I'm thinking of building.

There are too many guys to thank for helping me get all the various S+ parts to put into these wooden cabinets.
Even though I have already, I must thank them all again for their help!

In between , I found some time to get online and try to figure Stat's amazing puzzles...
I must thank him very much for his help...even though I don't fully understand it just yet!!!!
I really thought I figured out his "Difficult" puzzle...boy was I way off ....lol

(Don't worry Stat, I figure it all out soon enuff!)

[Op-Bell]

Great puzzles, great woodwork! Not everyone can do everything - fortunately! If Stat could make cabinets like that as well as do the math, he'd be omnipotent. We'd have to sacrifice virgins to get him to notice our posts.

I have a cartoon somewhere on the relative importance of skills - aha, here it is.

[brichter]

Great puzzles, great woodwork! Not everyone can do everything - fortunately! If Stat could make cabinets like that as well as do the math, he'd be omnipotent. We'd have to sacrifice virgins to get him to notice our posts.

I have a cartoon somewhere on the relative importance of skills - aha, here it is.

My life in a nutshell...

[StatFreak]

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I have a cartoon somewhere on the relative importance of skills - aha, here it is.

My life in a nutshell...

Great cartoon!

I have to agree there. Most laymen hear "computer [insert your occupation here]"  and immediately expect that a, you know everything there is to know about IBM PC clone style computers and Microsoft Windows, and that b, you will fix theirs for nothing.

Doctors also have to deal with issue B quite often (expectation of free services). So do musicians, btw. Issue A stems from the fact that non-technical people don't understand that the computer field is almost as vast as all other occupations combined. Someone at a party mentions that they were the chief architect on the design team of the original Intel Pentium IV processor and invariably someone else will respond, "Oh, you're in computers? So is my son! He's does data entry for Walmart. You should talk with him."

[tjkeller]

I have a cartoon somewhere on the relative importance of skills - aha, here it is.

Now if THAT isn't truth, I don't know what is!   
I am just a layman but know my way around a pc primarily because I have experienced so many issues.
Now that I "know" how to fix issues, I get phone calls from all over to help resolve pc issues. Heck even
just Wednesday I got a ph call from someone that I told to call Tech Support. They did then turned around
and called me right back. Funny thing is I basically did the same thing Tech Support did.  Apparently they just
like how I handle it better. While I'm happy to help, I am no tech and nowhere near a professional. Doesn't stop it though!