My *weirdest* find *ever*!!!

[Roger Merchberger]

How's this for *strange*???

About 8 years ago, the wife and I bought a dual-recliner sofa at an auction 
for $75. It served it's purpose well, through 3 kids and a fat husband. 
;-)  However, it was time to go. Between taxes and selling my JCB backhoe, 
we figured we could afford a new couch, so off we went to the furniture 
store (2 hours away, one way).[1]

$30 delivery for the new couch - considering the hassle of hitching a 
trailer, burning a good $25 in gas *anyway* I figured this was a good deal. 
*Another* $30 to pick up the old one, and I said "Noper -- I have a 
sawz-all and a fireplace. We'll take care of it."[2]

Whilst disassembling the old couch to become firefood, under the fabric in 
the bottom of the couch, I found an APL "quick reference" card! It's the 
size of a playing card, and made of the same material of some really high 
end card decks made 25-30 years ago[3]. It's called an "APL Vadis Enum" or 
something -- it's Latin, of which I don't speak, and the card's at home, 
/me's at work right now. If anyone's interested, I can post an update when 
I get another look at the card, and prolly post pictures as well.

It lists most monadic and dyadic functions, some quad functions, etc... 
Kinda neat, especially since I learned APL back in college.

Anyway, that's the strangest place I ever found anything classiccmp 
related; especially considering the fact that it's been under my... uhhh... 
nose all along. ;^>

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

[1] I shop locally when possible, but none of the local stores had anything 
close to what we were looking for.

[2] The salesman was pretty decent overall, but after I told him I had a 
sawz-all, he said "Do you know that recliner sofas have metal in them?" My 
reply: "Uhhh... yea. That's why God invented carbide sawblades." Sheesh.

[3] My parents had a set of these -- their "good set" of cards. They said 
for 2 decks of cards, they cost nearly $10USD 30 years ago...

--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch at 30below.com

What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????