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Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Kimberly Ann — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:20:12 GMT

Check out Clay's brief albiet very interesting backgrounder on the ITRC at:

http://itrc.hp.com/estaff/bin/doc.pl/screen=estaffDocs/?Log=SCR%3DHOME_SCREEN&File=welcome/forums_clay.htm

Clay has been a member of the ITRC forum community since July 1998 and continues to offer his outstanding knowledge to his fellow IT pros. Clay's peers have recognized him over the years for his unselfish and outstanding assistance.

Thanks Clay for being an terrific community member....

Regards,
Dan

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Marco Santerre — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:31:29 GMT

well, let me be the first to extend my congratulations to Clay. I've seen many of his responses and enjoyed each and every one of them.

Congratulations Clay

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

John Poff — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:36:22 GMT

Hi,

I love reading Clay's posts. He is certainly one of the smartest people I've never met before. I keep a local web page on my laptop as the home page for my browser and I keep it updated with all my most popular links. Right next to the HP ITRC forum link I keep a link to my most favorite posting of all time. In this post Clay helped a certain gentleman who was getting some wrong advice from an electrical engineer. It was one of the funniest things I have ever read and I still go to it when I'm having a tough day and I need a good laugh. It is a fine example of the sparks that result from the collision of a person who thinks they are smart [a misguided EE] with a person is truly brilliant [our man Clay].

Clay, thanks for all the great advice and for keeping the rest of us poor souls from straying too far from the path of wisdom. :)

JP

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Norman_21 — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 02:01:42 GMT

All the best Clay. keep going and keep up the funny spirit, it adds some flavors to your answers.

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Michael Tully — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 02:01:55 GMT

Hi,

Congratulations Clay!

There are many many postings that I have bookmarked with your signature. Especially the one's on date manipulation.
I too loved that posting about the engineer and followed it closely. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

I hope that you continue to give your advice and knowledge in the forums for a long time. It is very welcome.

Cheers
Michael

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Jeff Schussele — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 02:11:59 GMT

Hi Danno,

Yep, I noticed that last Fri - loved it.
I especially agree with his comment RE forumers using real names. I believe, as he does, that it's a very good thing & that it is the main reason we don't have flame wars in here.

Keep up the great work Clay.
We do truly value your input.

Cheers,
Jeff

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

S.K. Chan — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 02:33:28 GMT

Hi Dan,
I've read it too last week and it's definately an excellent idea to put it out so that each of us can express our gratitude to Clay. I've always give myself some time to read any responses he has when I saw them. His contributions are just too many and too good to be missed. So to you Clay .. congratulations and thank you for all the knowledge you're sharing and hope you'll keep on contributing.

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

T G Manikandan — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 03:03:26 GMT

Clay!!
Hmmm!
Everything is on the records!
Cannot tell something about that.If I need to describe things then ....

Great work from a terrific person!
One of the people who is guiding the forums to the right place of belief for support

Clay,
Congrats!

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 03:14:48 GMT

Definitely very nicely done and very interesting.

Dan -- Is there an archive somewhere of the past Bio's that have been done on ITRC / ITRC Forums members? It would be interesting to be able to go back and read some of the old ones.

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Kimberly Ann — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 04:36:01 GMT

Hi Patrick,

The articles are not archived, but I know where to get the 'soft' copy. ;) I'll see what I can do about making them available, perhaps even attaching to a thread somewhere. Good idea...

Thanks,
Dan

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Ravi_8 — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 05:22:15 GMT

Great !!!!

20+ years in IT field, I am still a baby.

Good work STEPHEN, your posts are all really
juicy. So keep posting.

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Balaji N — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 06:54:10 GMT

hello clay,
good show and keep up the good worl.

and dan, regarding your suggestion of posting the previous bio's to a thread -> i would suggest having it outside the thread, since there is a chance of this thread getting burried.

cheerio
-balaji

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Vincent Farrugia — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:19:30 GMT

Hello,

The link gives me "Page cannot be displayed"

Vince

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Alexander M. Ermes — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:28:49 GMT

Hi there.
My special congrats to Clay, whose sense for humor and human dignity is absolutely great.
In one of his postings he mentioned to an outside consultant, that he forgot more about Unix than this man would ever learn.
I hope, we all can learn many more things from you and maybe even sometimes our help may ring a bell for you.
Clay, stay on the way you are just walking.
My kind regards to an excellent member of the forums.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Mike Fisher_5 — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:15:33 GMT

Per ardua ad astra

Clay here's a present for you in appreciation of your input..

CONDITIONS
Flat 2-D universe

THE PROBLEM
1] Consider the infinte set of triangles that have all three sides of unit length
[such as the trivial right-angled example 3,4,5]

2] Make an infinite list with 3 columns
Column 1: Side lengths
Column 2: Area
Column 3: Length of boundary
[eg :3,4,5:6:12:]

3] Sort the list by
Column 2 smallest first
within that..
Column 3 smallest first
within that..
Column 1 lowest number first
[eg if 3,12,14 & 3,13,13 had equal aeas, then 3,12,14 is listed before 3,13,13]

4] Delete all members of the list that DON'T have an exact unit area

THE QUESTIONS
What's the first member of the list?
What's the first member with area 2?
With Area 3?
Is it possible to prove that there are an an infinite number of members that have area 1?

MY COMMENTS
I thought it up months ago
I can't find an elegant way to tackle it
I wonder if it's another one of those 4-colour style problems where only a computer can crunch it

Please apply your fine mind to it if you think it's interesting enough !!

Kind regards
Mike

"It's life Jim, but not as we know it"

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Pete Randall — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:49:51 GMT

Thanks for pointing this out Dan. I'd already read it but it's nice to get the word out to others.

I'm proud to say that I had the opportunity to buy Clay an adult beverage of his choice at HP World in LA last year (a martini, I think? - I saved the receipt somewhere - I should have had him sign it so I could frame it and hang it on my wall). Take it from me, his genius and his sense of humor are absolutley genuine. He's the same in real life as he sounds in all his fascinating posts.

Humbled,
Pete

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Tom Jackson — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:18:35 GMT

Hi all:

Congrats, again, Clay!

I'm amazed at the knowledge and ability that Clay, and many others in this forum offer. Computers can be very challenging. The people that I work with think that I???m brilliant, but I feel dwarfed by people like Clay. I???ve been doing IT for 17 years and I???m still learning tons. I peruse the ITRC forums more to learn from the experts like Clay. So please, Clay, keep that knowledge flowing!

Many Thanks,

Tom Jackson

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Michael Steele_2 — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:34:44 GMT

Clay:

I have been familiar with your name for a long time now and noted the "user status" icons in the margins and how yours was always the highest. Seems like ITRC royalty was about it for the longest time. And I distinctly remember your icon as royalty for a long time and remember thinking something like, "...well that should be just about it..., he can't get much more than that...".

Then one day I was flabbergasted when it showed as ITRC Olympian.

Gag...??XX!!. Just how do you get all of those points anyway sir? Hack in or something? :-)

And I also remember the PDP 11 with its 8 bit word size and actually ran into one at a hospital circa 1998. It was still being used with some medical equipment. Unbelievable what some accountants and doctors will hold onto.

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Adam J Markiewicz — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:36:10 GMT

Hay Clay

You keep this forum rollin'. ;)

Adam

P.S.: Has anyone heard of 'caljd.sh' here? ;)

Re: Check out Clay Stephenson's bio!

Rita C Workman — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:51:22 GMT

Nice thread Dan. And so well earned Clay.

Thanks for all your knowledge, that you (and the others) share so graciously ! We mortals truly appreciate it.

Warmest Regards,
Rita