coolest book ever

Trust me. You want one. In fact, you might want more than one. This teensy little book has enough information in it to cover everything from all major conversions to military ranks and insignia to how water is discharged out of different kinds of pipes to the conveyor slope maximums for different kinds of mined materials to different types of nails to human body composition to ASCII codes to radioactive halflives and everything inbetween.
Random? Oh yes. But oh so useful.

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Linoge | 14Mar09 1707 | toys/gizmos/gadgets | buy my book

6 comments to coolest book ever

• Standard Mischief

  March 14th, 2009 at 18:51

  What version are they up to now?
  I even have their quick ref book for DOS. Don’t use it much anymore.
  I always wanted a version I could keep on my Palm.

• Kurt P

  March 15th, 2009 at 12:07

  After seeing their random sample on the composition of air…they need to update it to match the CO2 levels which is (are?) now causing the earth to burn it’s self up.

• Linoge

  March 15th, 2009 at 12:46

  I have the third version, copyrighted through 2008, Standard Mischief. Not really sure what they are up to in total, though. Now, a Palm/Windows Mobile/whatever else version would be absolutely perfect… I wonder if there is a *.pdf of it floating around somewhere…
  I really, really hope you are joking, Kurt… Text is such a horrible medium for sarcasm and all that.

• mostlygenius

  March 16th, 2009 at 18:13

  I have been carrying one of these in my backpack for a couple of years – they come in really handy (if you can remember you have it with you.)

• Duane

  March 17th, 2009 at 02:59

  I’m on my third copy. I remember back in around ‘97 I was working a deployment contract rolling out around 600 new Compaq desktops and upgrading from Win 3.1 to Win95. I was using the handbook for motherboard beep codes and basic drive info. Heard one of the engineers asking if anyone knew PCL 5 because he needed to write a driver, loaned him the handbook and most of what he needed was right there. Never did get that copy back.

• Linoge

  March 17th, 2009 at 06:38

  Yeah, that is my biggest problem at the moment, mostlygenius – remembering to use it for something, and then remembering where I used the darned thing last. I guess if I were more organized…
  Good grief… I remember way back when (at least for me) and computer beep codes and how positively annoying they were sometimes, Duane! Unfortunately, it would seem as though that portion of the book has been edited out to save space, especially since few new computers do that any more. At least the guy permanently borrowing your old copy provided you an excuse to procure a new edition…

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