The Original Old Farts Club

[RosterMan]

honorable mention goes to all these famous oriental people

An Wang​

An Wang (1920-1990), a Chinese-born American computer scientist, is best known for founding Wang Laboratories and holding over thirty-five patents including patent #2,708,722 for a magnetic pulse transfer controlling device which related to computer memory and was crucial to the development of digital information technology. Wang Laboratories was founded in 1951 and by 1989 employed 30,000 people and had $3 billion a year in sales, with such developments as desktop calculators and the first word processors. An Wang was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame in 1988.

Enrique Ostrea​

Doctor Enrique Ostrea received patent #5,015,589 and patent #5,185,267 for methods of testing infants for exposure to drugs or alcohol during pregnancy. Enrique Ostrea was born in the Philippines and immigrated to America in 1968. Ostrea continues to be honored for his contributions to pediatrics and neonatology.

Tuan Vo-Dinh​

Tuan Vo-Dinh, who immigrated to the United States in 1975 from Vietnam, has received twenty-three patents mainly related to optical diagnostic equipment, including his first patents (#4,674,878 and #4,680,165) for badges that can be optically scanned to determine exposure to toxic chemicals. Vo-Dinh utilizes similar technology in patent #5,579,773 which is an optical method of cancer detection.

Flossie Wong-Staal​

Flossie Wong-Staal, a Chinese-American scientist, is a leader in AIDS research. Working with a team that included Dr. Robert C. Gallo, she helped to discover the virus that causes AIDS and a related virus that causes cancer. She also did the first mapping of HIV's genes. Wong-Staal continues to work on a vaccine to prevent AIDS and treatments for those with AIDS. Her patents, which were granted with co-inventors, include patent #6,077,935 for a method of testing for AIDS.

My wife use to work for Wang

 

[user 60570]

Off to the salt mines!

there are a lot of wounded humans out there who are running out of salt to pour into those wounds.

 

[pute]

Back from my daily walk... already hot. I have work to do in the basement. Cool down there.

 

[Hippie420]

A sweltering 72 degrees here with a promise of thunderstorms and possible 'naders.

 

[joeb631a]

I wanna know if a 2 handed grab was preformed would those puppies still remain shaking after release?

 

[Hippie420]

Fixin' to make some beer battered onion rings. Anyone hungry?

 

[WeedHopper]

Just ate.

 

[SubmarineGirl]

Fixin' to make some beer battered onion rings. Anyone hungry?

I’m kinda hungry. I’m working on a chicken pot pie for supper

 

[SubmarineGirl]

Fixin' to make some beer battered onion rings. Anyone hungry?

I’ve never made real onion rings. Only frozen ones out of a bag but I like those too. Beer battered homemade ones sound like the jam tho

 

[Bubba]

Went to the local grow store and they had plenty of LEDs but, when I asked for an HPS bulb, he did not even know what I was talking about.

Mine Carry's Hortiluxe HPS bulbs.

Bubba

 

[Hippie420]

Wish ya'd been here. Half an onion's worth is all the Old Hen and I could eat. Good stuff.

 

[Bubba]

But that feelin lasts as long as that warm feelin you get when you pee in your pants and that only lasts five minutes....

Less in the winter. Berrrrrr!

Bubba

 

[Bubba]

I’m kinda hungry. I’m working on a chicken pot pie for supper

I buy boxes of those from Sam's club, Maria Calendar brand...

Bubba

 

[pute]

I am glad it is cool where Hippie is....it sure isn't cool here. Yard, flowers everything is burning up. Maters love it though....it is their turn. Getting 2 or 3 every day now.

 

[SubmarineGirl]

I buy boxes of those from Sam's club, Maria Calendar brand...

Bubba

We are having the subgirls version Of those

 

[Bubba]

I used to have a weight watchers recipe for them. Just eat several. They were easy. Add chicken and Ingredients, mix. Plop out pie sized blobs, and cover with that frozen poof pastry stuff and bake.

Bubba

 

[user 60570]

Just ate.

you don’t so to,excited

are those burritos giving you gas or something?

maybe you are spoiled on Real Latino food?

 

[SubmarineGirl]

I used to have a weight watchers recipe for them. Just eat several. They were easy. Add chicken and Ingredients, mix. Plop out pie sized blobs, and cover with that frozen poof pastry stuff and bake.

Bubba

That’s what we are having. Not weight watchers tho. I sometimes make my own crust but cheated as Aldi had them on sale for cheaper than I can make them so I bought a box.

 

[chillkoots7]

Beefmaster tomato

 

[kevinn]

Mine Carry's Hortiluxe HPS bulbs.

Bubba

How much are they about ???