To honour Jerry - A proposal

Hi all,

I feel Jerry is undoubtly the most popular contributor in this
group. I have never seen any query unnoticed or unattended
since Jerry is there. I think his answers are also pretty 
accurate and helpful for us. Somebody (I think Rick Lyons)
wished his long life.
 All of us we do so- Jerry!

You are contributing to the industry since 1952(If I am not wrong!!)
Still you have full youth and energy and helping us a lot- thanks
Jerry.

The group is not always fun - it gives lot of insights and learning.
Apart from few others Jerry is steering the group. He always brings 
life when it becomes dull and monotonous.

We are all apart miles away and could not meet togather and honour Jerry.

I guess other users if agree with me would come up with some proposal.

Please don't make it a laughing stock - at least for Jerry!!

Regards,
Santosh

I have a little sign up in my office honoring Jerry.  It contains my
favorite quotation from him.

	"Engineering is the art of making what you want from things
	you can get."		-Jerry Avins

David

santosh.nath@ntlworld.com (santosh nath) wrote in 
news:6afd943a.0308111011.6738dbe9@posting.google.com:

> Hi all,
> 
> I feel Jerry is undoubtly the most popular contributor in this
> group. I have never seen any query unnoticed or unattended
> since Jerry is there. I think his answers are also pretty 
> accurate and helpful for us. Somebody (I think Rick Lyons)
> wished his long life.
>  All of us we do so- Jerry!
> 
> You are contributing to the industry since 1952(If I am not wrong!!)
> Still you have full youth and energy and helping us a lot- thanks
> Jerry.
> 
> The group is not always fun - it gives lot of insights and learning.
> Apart from few others Jerry is steering the group. He always brings 
> life when it becomes dull and monotonous.

When I was a young emgineer, people said that if you didn't constantly 
maintain and grow your skills, you would be pumping gas at age 40. I've 
never felt sorry for anyone who ended up in this position since I've 
always believed that this situation is largely self inflicted.

Jerry is a prime example of someone who constantly explores new ideas, 
and has never taken his current skills for granted. His "bag of tricks" 
is incredible. I'm sure Jerry was a star engineer before his retirement 
and would still be a star engineer in just about anyone's organization. 

And I love those stories of left handed wrenches and home-made vacuum 
tubes.

Salut!



-- 
Al Clark
Danville Signal Processing, Inc.
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"David B. Thomas" wrote:
> 
> I have a little sign up in my office honoring Jerry.  It contains my
> favorite quotation from him.
> 
>         "Engineering is the art of making what you want from things
>         you can get."           -Jerry Avins

I use that as one of my ever changing .sigs.

Thanks Jerry.

Erik
-- 
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
  Erik de Castro Lopo  nospam@mega-nerd.com (Yes it's valid)
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
Microsoft is not the answer.
Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

Al Clark <dsp@danvillesignal.com> writes:

> 
> And I love those stories of left handed wrenches and home-made vacuum 
> tubes.
> 

Those stories are one of the many reasons why comp.dsp is my favourite
newsgroup!

The stories, and the DSP. :-)

Ciao,

Peter K.

-- 
Peter J. Kootsookos

"Na, na na na na na na, na na na na"
- 'Hey Jude', Lennon/McCartney

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:48:17 GMT, Erik de Castro Lopo
<nospam@mega-nerd.com> wrote:

>"David B. Thomas" wrote:
>> 
>> I have a little sign up in my office honoring Jerry.  It contains my
>> favorite quotation from him.
>> 
>>         "Engineering is the art of making what you want from things
>>         you can get."           -Jerry Avins
>
>I use that as one of my ever changing .sigs.
>
>Thanks Jerry.
>
>Erik

Hi,
  I use 

         "Engineering is the art of making what 
          you want from things you can get."           
                                       -Jerry Avins

in my DSP class.

It has, for me very a deep, almost profound meaning.
It means you do not give up, just because things aren't going 
your way.  If you have a job to do, you think of some way to 
get the job done.  You don't see some difficulty and then 
complain to your boss that you don't have what you need 
to finish the job.  You think, you struggle, you experiment, 
you get your engineering pals to help you, you try everything 
possible to get the job done.  You call your wife and say,
"Sugar, I'll be home late tonight.  I've just *got* to solve 
this problem.  Call ya' later."  You realize people are 
counting on you, and you bust your buns to solve your 
engineering problem.
   You keep your strong pure heart and when you finally 
succeed, and it's 11:30 PM and no one else is in the 
building, and you're walking down the hall to go home, 
and the only sound is your shoe heels on the floor, 
your fatigue will be one of the sweetest sensations 
you'll ever have.  You'll be able say, to whisper to 
yourself, when no one can hear, "I solved the problem."

And if you're really thoughtful, you could paraphrase 
Mr. Spock, from the "The City On the Edge of Forever", 
and simply say, "I was successful."

[-Rick-]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 00:36:30 GMT, ricklyon@REMOVE.onemain.com (Rick
Lyons) wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:48:17 GMT, Erik de Castro Lopo
><nospam@mega-nerd.com> wrote:
>
>>"David B. Thomas" wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have a little sign up in my office honoring Jerry.  It contains my
>>> favorite quotation from him.
>>> 
>>>         "Engineering is the art of making what you want from things
>>>         you can get."           -Jerry Avins
>>
>>I use that as one of my ever changing .sigs.
>>
>>Thanks Jerry.
>>
>>Erik
>
>Hi,
>  I use 
>
>         "Engineering is the art of making what 
>          you want from things you can get."           
>                                       -Jerry Avins
>
>in my DSP class.
>
>It has, for me very a deep, almost profound meaning.
>It means you do not give up, just because things aren't going 
>your way.  If you have a job to do, you think of some way to 
>get the job done.  You don't see some difficulty and then 
>complain to your boss that you don't have what you need 
>to finish the job.  You think, you struggle, you experiment, 
>you get your engineering pals to help you, you try everything 
>possible to get the job done.  You call your wife and say,
>"Sugar, I'll be home late tonight.  I've just *got* to solve 
>this problem.  Call ya' later."  You realize people are 
>counting on you, and you bust your buns to solve your 
>engineering problem.
>   You keep your strong pure heart and when you finally 
>succeed, and it's 11:30 PM and no one else is in the 
>building, and you're walking down the hall to go home, 
>and the only sound is your shoe heels on the floor, 
>your fatigue will be one of the sweetest sensations 
>you'll ever have.  You'll be able say, to whisper to 
>yourself, when no one can hear, "I solved the problem."
>
>And if you're really thoughtful, you could paraphrase 
>Mr. Spock, from the "The City On the Edge of Forever", 
>and simply say, "I was successful."
>
>[-Rick-]

For some reason the scene I think of is from Howard the Duck.  The
evil monster needs energy so he angrily makes his way to the nuclear
plant trashing everything along the way, trashes the plant gates,
trashes the buildings, trashes the entrance to the reactor and climbs
in for a while.    A bit later he strolls out and climbs back in the
truck with the driver and calmly says, "I feel much better now." 

Not at all the same sentiment that Rick was capturing, but one more
often appropriate for my moods sometimes.  ;)


Eric Jacobsen
Minister of Algorithms, Intel Corp.
My opinions may not be Intel's opinions.
http://www.ericjacobsen.org

On 12 Aug 2003 09:11:49 +1000, p.kootsookos@remove.ieee.org (Peter J.
Kootsookos) wrote:

>Al Clark <dsp@danvillesignal.com> writes:
>
>> 
>> And I love those stories of left handed wrenches and home-made vacuum 
>> tubes.
>> 
>
>Those stories are one of the many reasons why comp.dsp is my favourite
>newsgroup!

Absolutely.

>The stories, and the DSP. :-)

Oh, yeah, we do that here sometimes, too.  ;)

>Ciao,
>
>Peter K.
>
>-- 
>Peter J. Kootsookos
>
>"Na, na na na na na na, na na na na"
>- 'Hey Jude', Lennon/McCartney

^^^^^ Yet another famously clever sig.



Eric Jacobsen
Minister of Algorithms, Intel Corp.
My opinions may not be Intel's opinions.
http://www.ericjacobsen.org

p.kootsookos@remove.ieee.org (Peter J. Kootsookos) wrote in message news:<s68adaf23ii.fsf@mango.itee.uq.edu.au>...
> Al Clark <dsp@danvillesignal.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > And I love those stories of left handed wrenches and home-made vacuum 
> > tubes.
> > 
> 
> Those stories are one of the many reasons why comp.dsp is my favourite
> newsgroup!
> 
> The stories, and the DSP. :-)
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> Peter K.

Dear all
	I am very new to this group. This group is very helpful to
understanding ideas in very different directions.  From my short term
experience with this group, Jerry is very helpful. Some times he
explains things in very gently and sometimes points out the home work
questions, and ask to try oneself.  I am thankful to him, because of
his helping mentality. Not only Jerry, lots others also in the group
to help others by their knowledge. I can points out many of them like
Clay, rbj, Eric, Rune, Bhasker, Rick, Clark, Ciao .......the names are
continuing. Once again thanks to Jerry and thanks to everyone. I
personally think nothing needed to appreciate these people. They are
honoured by themself by their "Selfless Karma(work)".
regards
ajith

santosh nath wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I feel Jerry is undoubtly the most popular contributor in this
> group. I have never seen any query unnoticed or unattended
> since Jerry is there. I think his answers are also pretty 
> accurate and helpful for us. Somebody (I think Rick Lyons)
> wished his long life.
>  All of us we do so- Jerry!

In the movie "A beautiful Mind" (about the mathematician Nash) there
is a scene where a retiring professor is honoured in the professor's
lounge by all his collegues presenting him their ink pens.

Jerry has helped me out personally on a project, and I think I'm not
the only one who profited from him (for free!) in this ng.

So while we are at it in our engineer's lounge I'd like to present my
own virtual ink pen - which hopefully doesn't mean your retirement
from here, Jerry!

As we say in Switzerland: I draw my hat.

Regards,
Andor