Recent content by gmax137

The question now (nearly 3 months later) is, has @DaveE painted his bathroom yet?

I watched a couple of YouTubes on p-adics, blew my mind.

@renobueno4153 I really hope you think about this until you understand it -- it holds the key idea in much of what follows in classical mechanics.

When I was working in electric power plants the companies took these issues very seriously. Entry into tanks, pits, etc was governed by "confined space entry" procedures. Anyone doing this had to be trained and qualified. The air gets tested before anyone goes in. The main thing I remember...

And history from Sherman & Mr Peabody... the original (?) Wayback machine

These things are not monolithic, at least in the US. Here, school systems are local, run by the county/town/city. Back in the 1990s I was working in Florida. One co-worker was a local woman, brought up in the Palm Beach County schools where she had a four-semester year round schedule - I...

I'm not sure if this one has been posted before. It makes me laugh every time I see "Roundy - Roundy"

I was also thinking about breaking it up into more sentences. My personal belief is that either parentheticals or em-dashes capture a more stream-of-thought style, where the author (speaker) is writing (speaking) off-the-cuff. Making it up as he goes along rather than keeping silent until it...

OP's "About" says Indonesia.

I heard this story on the radio years ago, under the "best practical jokes" heading Two friends (let's say Alice and Bob) bought 20 lottery tickets every week. Twenty individual quick-picks. One week it was Alice's turn to do the buying. That night she checked the tickets after the drawing...

Furry Worry were a moose Furry Worry had no hair to loose Furry Worry weren't furry, were he?

I had forgotten this thread. As a boy, every time I said "I forget," my father said, "I have forgotten" in a stern voice.

I was in a meeting once, and one guy said, "this is really a no-brainer." My co-worker Gerry said "that's why we're putting you on it."

Actually we can't say anything about how warp drive works. Maybe letting up on the throttle really does slow you down.

Don't miss an opportunity to see Tedeschi-Trucks. They're amazing live.