Conference hydra::dejavu

    
    Wow!  What phenomena!
    
    :-)
    
    guy

    Would someone be so kind as to explain the basenote
    to me? 
    
    Thanks.
    
    Joel
    

    re: .0
    
    Nostradamus spoke of that years ago. I think it was right before he
    foretold the Red Sox choking in the World Series.
    
    #:-)
    

    
    Aw, we really shouldn't make such fun of the basenote.  It's really
    a very interesting note.  Like the word "descum".  I can already 
    see many uses for this word.   Reminds me of cleaning out the 'fridge.
    
    Of course, "descum bake" is going to be a little harder to find a use
    for......;-)
    
    Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to descum I go......
    
    guy

    DECSCUM ?  I think I worked on that a few years back.  Not very
    popular, though.  I think it was superceded by DECSLIME, or was
    that DECSLIDE ?  This Nostradamus stuff gets weirder every day.  You just 
    never know what'll happen next (well maybe SOME of us do, huh ?)
    
    Joel, would you please clarify the scope and purpose of your 
    inquiry into the meaning of the base note ?
    
    Toddy

    Basenote....DUH???
    
    -Arthur

    The `correct' term for that gooey sludge at the bottom of refrigerators
    is "clib".  It is a Cornish word for gooey sludge found in the bottoms
    of containers retrieved from the sea floor around Cornwall.
    
    						Ann B.

    re: .5
    
    Sure.  I have not a clue in the world as to the meaning of
    the basenote.  Nothing.  No idea.  
    
    Joel
    

    Re above:
    
    From my reading of it, the basenote seems to have been entered into
    this Conference by accident.  As an educated guess, I believe it's got
    something to do with the production procedures for semiconductor
    material; possibly substrate wafer preparation.
    
    However, it has garnered enough replies so that leaving it in might be
    fun.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.

    re: .9
    
    Thanks for the info.  Personally, I prefer vanilla wafers.
    
    ;^)
    
    Joel
    

    re: .7 (Ann)
    
         hmmmm, my kingdom for a "t"...
    
    Frederick
    

    re: .9, fun,
    	I don't understand all that.  What does that have to do with
    paradigms ?  ;-)
    
    	Toddy_who_never_has_any_clue_and_almost_understood_this_one	

    Toddy - 
    
    Your nerd is showing!  ;-)
    
    Me???  I don't care what it means...it's a chance to get silly!
    
    Nanci

Re .0:

Some possible unstandard interpretations for this notation --


    >SA - SHOE ATTACH:       

[This is part of an automotive ceremonial rite, generally connected
[with weddings]

                            >ACC - AC500 CLEAN

[Notation that all the felines in a 500-foot raduis have washed themselves]

    >BC - BAKE CURE:         

[An ancient dry sauna method of fighting colds.]

                            >B - BAKE

[What old Scottish Witches do with fillet of a fenny snake (as in _Macbeth_)]
 
    >RR - RING REMOVAL:      

[A procedure sometimes used in certain ceremonies before the real partying
[begins (shown, for instance, in the movie, _Rosemary's Baby)]
 
                            >RA - RESIST APPLY

[Actions sometimes taken in response to ring removal (RR)]

    >EC - EDGE CLEAN:        

[Easing slowly into ritual bathwater.]

                            >AE - ALIGN AND EXPOSE

[Pretending to sympathize with a group, then selling their story to a
[supermarket tabloid.]

    >RIM - RUN IN MEASUREMENTS

[A new aerobic exercise where dimensions of objects determine how long
[runs in place.]

    >DEV - DEVELOP	    

[Acquire wisdom.]

                            >DI - DEVELOP INSPECT

[Examination of acolytes by gurus.]

    >CD - CD MEASUREMENTS

[Determining the Creative Development quoitent: i.e., how much of one's
[reality is that persons.]

    >PC - PLASMA RESIST CLEAN

[Spiritual entities that are difficult to wash.]

    >RW - REWORKED

[The Egyptial sun god performed as expected.]

                	    >DC - DESCUM

[Performing an exorcism.]

    >DB - DESCUM BAKE

[A picnic held after an excocism.  (Akin to a clam bake after clamming)]

	    >PCB - PLASMA CLEAN BAKE

[A picnic after getting particularly grimy spiritual entities shining clean.]
    

    re: .14
    
    Terrific!
    
    Joel
    

    RE: .14
    
    Well Done!
    
    -Arthur
    

    RE: kallis
    
         I likd the PLASMA RESIST CLEAN....too funny!!  Maybe I'll start a
    basenote created from a WIP REPORT here at GSO (PWB manufacturing) and
    see what you can do with it...it's loaded with potential funnies!! ;-)
          
                                                           Capt. Scott

    I kind of think is was misplaced should of been in another conference.
    Perhaps the writer was reading this conference and lost track of where
    she was. But it sure brought alot of replies....

    re: .0
    
    Thank you for sharing that with us, Henrietta.
    
    The infamous List-Of-Things-To-Do-Today dream
    often surfaces at this time of year in one form
    or another.  No problem there.
    
    But your particular dream has been infiltrated
    by EKAB MUCSED!  She/he is a discarnate entity
    channeled by someone in the Cupertino, CA area.
    Our studies show that EKAB MUCSED is highly al-
    lergic to certain fumes emanating from San Fran-
    cisco Bay.  Upon exposure she/he becomes com-
    pletely disoriented and, in order to affirm iden-
    tity, seeks out the first available loope.
    
    Not to worry!  Interpretation is still possible.
    Feel free to contact me off-line for further in-
    formation.
    
    Virginia

    re: .19,
    	Is 'Sdrawkcab' the most ominous deity you could invoke ?
    From Uvajed inhabitants I expected something more along the lines of
    mathemetical transliterations based on numerical values of the letters,
    such as was obviously (?) the intent of the base note in transposing
    MACBETH into BAKE.  BAKE is for BACON, the suspected true author of
    Macbeth.   There is more to this phenomenon than meets the eye !
    The meaning of the note string is its neurosemantic response on
    a globally networked level.  N'est Pas ?   Sorry to be so vulgar,
    but I forgot the rules for a moment.  :-)
    
    	Toddy

    re: .20
    
    Todd - 
    
    or even a p*e*rsimmon!
    
    Nanci

    Thanks so much Steve! :-) :-)
    
    I'm still left wondering what "Masking Passdown" is...
    
    Anyone got any clues on that?
    
    Kb

    ...the bequeathing of one's old halloween costumes?
    
    :-)

    I think the author of the base note is going to PASS DOWN
    or something when they see what he/she 'seeded' here.  :-)

    
    
    MASKING PASSDOWN - What the NE Patriots do so well... (faking a pass to
    get the first down...boo-ha-hah).
    
    Roslyn
    (a frustrated NE football fan)

    FYI - I asked, offline, the basenote author to help out here.
    No response yet, but it's only been a couple of hours.
    
    Joel
    

    re: .23 (Karendipity)
    
         That's simple...a masking passdown is two different things:
    in old Minoan folk-lore it is what happens when the masked midnight
    revelers have a little too much to imbibe and fall down and stay 
    passed-out with their masks still on.  This time-honored and 
    revered custom later gave way to a group of Yale students, who
    in their own respectful rememberances used a variation of the theme
    while pledging.  Seems that they, too, use masks...for placing on
    the heads of those that are pledging AND, in a spirit of love and 
    generosity, allow others the opportunity to haze in a hierarchy of
    custom and ritual.
    
    :-)
    Frederick
    
    
    Frederick
    

    Someone in Cupertino had too much cough medicine for lunch and
    did forget which Notesfile he/she was in.  As Steve Kallis (Jr.) (.9;
    whotta guy!) said, it's a Photo Masking passdown from their
    semiconductor operation.  (We in Hudson, Ma. are *the* semiconductor
    operation of DEC--and if this doesn't get a rise out of Mr./Ms.
    Luna nothing will--and we have similar terms for our Photo operation.)
    Check out the latest copy of the Notesfile list and you'll probably
    see titles for semiconductor operations.   But don't bother to access
    them, 'cause it'll be like reading a foreign language of which you
    know 10% of the nouns.
    
    Briefly, you apply photoresist (light-sensitive, like the coating
    on Kodak (TM) film) to whatever (in our case it is a 125mm dia.
    oxidized (SiO2) silicon wafer destined to be many integreted circuits 
    to be stuffed inside Digital equipment (catchy phrase), expose it to 
    a high-intensity light through a photomask (clear plate with a device 
    layer pattern on it--aligned to the prev. pattern, if any), develop it 
    (remember Kodak?), inspect it under a 'scope to ensure proper
    alignment, bake it (in a Bake Oven, where else?), remove the unwanted 
    resist, etch off the exposed oxide (acid or plasma etch, or both),
    dope the exposed silicon (artificially "contaminate" it with a
    specified dopant to a specific amount & depth to change the electrical
    characteristics), strip the resist (typically there's a Descum Process
    because there's usually some residue--called "scum", a good word
    for it--the std. removal process leaves behind, add another layer
    of film and repeat the whole process.  Keep doing this until you
    have a wafer full of working devices (well, almost full) that, when
    diced (each little device is called a "die") and put into those
    funny little plastic or ceramic things (with all those little legs
    that you see when you peek inside a DEC system) make symbols appear
    on your monitor (CRT) when you push those little buttons on your
    keyboard.   (Pant-pant-pant; a long sentence.)
    
    On the other hand, .14's explanation sounds more plausible...
    
    						Don