Geeks at their best.

[Steve]

I'm sat reading /. and I see an article about a website testing various thermal compounds to see if they have as much silver as is claimed "on the tin" so to speak.

My favourite bit about /. is the comments - this set had me LMAO:

Who cares who's selling what? The TRUE geek makes his own from a brick of silver.

In my day we had to make thermal paste by grinding it down with stones.

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Silver bricks? You was lucky! In my day we had mine our own ore and smelt it down. Then our dad would assay it, and if it wasn't 99% pure, all we got for breakfast was CompUSA Silver Thermal Grease!

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You had HEAVY ELEMENTS? In my day, the loose clouds of interstellar gas hadn't coalesced into star systems yet. All we had were hydrogen atoms and maybe a trace of helium around Christmas!

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You had loose clouds of interstellar gas. *LUXURY*

In my day we had nothing but the vacuum and had to wait for a universe to pop into existence before we could even begin to think about the existence of energy and matter.

Kids today ....

[Twigman]

lol great