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From: Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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Subject: Re: 2024 engineers's holiday gift guide
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 07:23:55 GMT
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On a sunny day (Tue, 05 Nov 2024 05:53:30 -0800) it happened john larkin
<JL@gct.com> wrote in <pj8kij90tt0289tm58ifh5djo8uhbksds4@4ax.com>:

>On Tue, 05 Nov 2024 06:18:30 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>On a sunny day (Mon, 04 Nov 2024 08:26:35 -0800) it happened john larkin
>><JL@gct.com> wrote in <4oshijp908fco7b96q3tpe6tgsds4gvo23@4ax.com>:
>>
>>>On Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:53:28 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>2024 Engineer's Holiday Gift Guide:
>>>> https://www.electronicdesign.com/resources/products-and-solutions/article/55238690/2024-engineers-holiday-gift-guide
>>>> for the young and old 
>>>
>>>An Amazon subscription for really good dark chocolate.
>>>
>>>A premium Dremel kit.
>>>
>>>This halloween, the family down on Sussex Street had 175 pumpkins out.
>>>Some were real, some plastic foam. They carve a bunch of real ones
>>>every year, and if they are really popular they get a foam plastic
>>>pumpkin and carve that the same, so they can keep it for future years.
>>>
>>>https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ybvag1tipbns3farz13zj/h?rlkey=itrnz8fvpcnfpgnzso7bk4txz&dl=0
>>>
>>>They carve with a Dremel. This year, 75 of the 175 were real fresh
>>>pumpkins.
>>>
>>>We were walking down Swiss Street and Mo said "I want a beer" so I
>>>popped into some stranger's garage and asked him if he had any beer.
>>>He gave me a Modelo, which Mo likes. He saved my marriage. We made
>>>some friends, which can be interesting in a super-tekkie neignborhood.
>>>
>>
>>Nice pictures!
>
>If America has a state religion, it's Halloween.

We have nothing like that here...
We have 'Sinterklaas' in a month or s:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas
shops are already full of chcolate letters