Infinite Resistor Problem - Confirmation

[Mycelium]

Actually, everything I posted there was quoted from a book.

At least when I hunt something up, I try to refrain from direct cut and
paste unless appropriate, and then attributed at least by a commentary
reference. I assumed you wrote it. Not a big deal anyway.

The definitions I found also mentioned unknown etymological origin, but
suggested English. The year is what gives it focus. It was used in both
places, which shows that immigration was strong at the time, and proves
it is Brit origin as well since it fell out of use here, after a short
couple decades, yet remained in use over there.

 

[Jon Kirwan]

At least when I hunt something up, I try to refrain from direct cut and
paste unless appropriate, and then attributed at least by a commentary
reference. I assumed you wrote it. Not a big deal anyway.

No problem. I let it fly as it was because of the copyright notice at
the end and wrongly assumed that few would mistake the source. My
mistake. (I certainly could have easily done a little bit more to
have been clearer and it appears I should have, as well.)

The definitions I found also mentioned unknown etymological origin, but
suggested English. The year is what gives it focus. It was used in both
places, which shows that immigration was strong at the time, and proves
it is Brit origin as well since it fell out of use here, after a short
couple decades, yet remained in use over there.

Some of the references I looked at suggested earlier times than an
1837 novel alone suggests, but that appears to be the earliest written
record found so far. I don't know if that novel used a word that was
already

I seem to imagine slightly different connotations for flummox versus
stupify, for example. While I think it "feels right" to say that the
patent situation being described here flummoxes me, it doesn't feel
right to say it stupifies me or that I'm in a stupor about it. I'm
not exactly dizzy, numb or insensible over the issue. But like the
example I quoted,

Peter was flummoxed by the directions given to him by the
gas station attendant, as they called for him to turn the wrong
way onto a one-way street.

.... when considering the issue of patent law itself (similar it seems
to 'conflicting directions'), I do feel a bit like Peter must have.

I felt the word quite apt to the situation and I'm not sure what else
may fit still better. You have any suggestions to consider?

Jon

 

[Jon Kirwan]

I don't know if that novel used a word that was
already

....in use.

Sorry about the loss of a couple of trailing words there.

Jon

 

[Mycelium]

No problem. I let it fly as it was because of the copyright notice at
the end and wrongly assumed that few would mistake the source. My
mistake. (I certainly could have easily done a little bit more to
have been clearer and it appears I should have, as well.)


Some of the references I looked at suggested earlier times than an
1837 novel alone suggests, but that appears to be the earliest written
record found so far. I don't know if that novel used a word that was
already

I seem to imagine slightly different connotations for flummox versus
stupify, for example. While I think it "feels right" to say that the
patent situation being described here flummoxes me, it doesn't feel
right to say it stupifies me or that I'm in a stupor about it. I'm
not exactly dizzy, numb or insensible over the issue. But like the
example I quoted,

Peter was flummoxed by the directions given to him by the
gas station attendant, as they called for him to turn the wrong
way onto a one-way street.

... when considering the issue of patent law itself (similar it seems
to 'conflicting directions'), I do feel a bit like Peter must have.

I felt the word quite apt to the situation and I'm not sure what else
may fit still better. You have any suggestions to consider?

Jon

Well, simple removal of all color usually does it. If the definition
is "confused", then the term "confused" is the most base resolve and
takes nothing away from the reference to your reaction to the situation.

Still... no one anywhere along the way did anything wrong. I just
thought it was an odd word.

 

[Jon Kirwan]

I have heard of a video trailer, but a text trailer??

Yes, you too can view the text trailers for many of my current and
upcoming, highly anticipated posts. Limited seating is available.

Jon

 

[Jon Kirwan]

Well, simple removal of all color usually does it. If the definition
is "confused", then the term "confused" is the most base resolve and
takes nothing away from the reference to your reaction to the situation.

But confused doesn't apply nearly so well. At least, I don't think
so.

Still... no one anywhere along the way did anything wrong. I just
thought it was an odd word.

I know.

Jon

 

[Mycelium]

Yes, you too can view the text trailers for many of my current and
upcoming, highly anticipated posts. Limited seating is available.

Jon

I'll only come if you pay me to be a shill.

 

[Rich Grise]

Don't quit on that one so fast, i learned it right here from other
'mericans in the latter half of the 20th century.

Is this still about 'flummox[ed]'?

Heck, it's been a natural part of my vocabulary all of my life, AFAICR.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Mycelium]

Don't quit on that one so fast, i learned it right here from other
'mericans in the latter half of the 20th century.

I have another idea. Instead of a quad pad array, place them in an
"Indian tee-pee" <sp> configuration. You stand them up, and solder a big
blob node on the end of all four. Make a jig so they are all exactly the
same.

What you get is more real estate, so a bigger array fits into the same
areal space. It also has the benefit of making those nodes a compact,
singular alloy, with low intermetallics issues, and the devices are
closer together,(the corners would touch) so it would be closer to the
ideal. It also allows easier probing on the blob. You could make two
"sheets" of interconnected tee-pees and then flip one completed "sheet"
over to make another set of connections from sheet to sheet.

Darn, if I had my old CadKey loaded, I could draw it up real quick. I
already have macro drawings of an SMD resistor and mlcc SMD cap.

I have cap arrays potted in polyurethane and multiplier banks, etc.
One is worth like $2k, and that was ten years ago. It would be $5K now.

I made it puke one day (CadKey) by trying to array the bottom layer of
9.5 ton stones that make up the Cheops Pyramid. I wonder if my current
machines could manage such a huge array. The part that makes it hard is
the 5 mil space between stones that span several feet on each side. The
package doesn't like having to manage two sets of scale precision
together, OR it simply gobbled up all the memory it had and simply
expired. Still, I have yet to sit down and get that drawing project
started again on a modern package. Not an outline, like most today, but
a full, all stones included rendering. Then, a duplicate rendering that
includes the missing facade stones and capstone.

 

[Mycelium]

Don't quit on that one so fast, i learned it right here from other
'mericans in the latter half of the 20th century.

Is this still about 'flummox[ed]'?

Heck, it's been a natural part of my vocabulary all of my life, AFAICR.

Cheers!
Rich

Maybe it lingered along the Eastern Seaboard. I do not remember it in
Ohio.

 

[Jon Kirwan]

15:13 -0700, Mycelium
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by the end of the 19th century the word had
become quite common in both British and American English.

But only remained in British usage in the 20th century.

Hehe. Okay, so I picked it up from some British friends.

Don't quit on that one so fast, i learned it right here from other
'mericans in the latter half of the 20th century.

Is this still about 'flummox[ed]'?

Heck, it's been a natural part of my vocabulary all of my life, AFAICR.

Cheers!
Rich

Maybe it lingered along the Eastern Seaboard. I do not remember it in
Ohio.

Well, I guess that cinches it, then. If it hasn't been heard about in
Ohio, then it simply must not be.

In my case, I'm pretty sure I first saw it on a mixed group of British
and American posts, more than a decade ago. I can't be sure who was
writing, so it might have come from an American. At the time, no one
seemed flummoxed by its use, including the Americans that frequented
the site. (It was more American than British, post-wise.)

Jon

 

[Mycelium]

24:36 GMT, Jon Kirwan
05:46 GMT, Jon Kirwan <[email protected]>
wrote:
<snipped content>
by the end of the 19th century the word had
become quite common in both British and American English.

But only remained in British usage in the 20th century.

Hehe. Okay, so I picked it up from some British friends.

Don't quit on that one so fast, i learned it right here from other
'mericans in the latter half of the 20th century.

Is this still about 'flummox[ed]'?

Heck, it's been a natural part of my vocabulary all of my life, AFAICR.

Cheers!
Rich

Maybe it lingered along the Eastern Seaboard. I do not remember it in
Ohio.

Well, I guess that cinches it, then. If it hasn't been heard about in
Ohio, then it simply must not be.

As "settled in" as "US Eglish" gets is an Ohio town with no accent.

In my case, I'm pretty sure I first saw it on a mixed group of British
and American posts, more than a decade ago. I can't be sure who was
writing, so it might have come from an American. At the time, no one
seemed flummoxed by its use, including the Americans that frequented
the site. (It was more American than British, post-wise.)

I can't say that I had a fully rich, OR a richly fool exposure to the
world's vocabulary then as well...

I'm sure a lot slipped right by.

(we'll get jabs on that one.)< and that one