Random Thoughts 7

[Ivan Seeking]

Why bother, they made their retirement nest-egg.

Sure, but 50 years later they lost my business because of bad physics. I'd bet they are crying in their beer now!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I have access to large ovens used for various processes at a customer site. It is interesting to stand in a room heated to 300 degrees F.

What sends me running for the doors are my ears. My ears burning is what gets my attention first.

 

[pinball1970]

I recently watched an episode of The Bionic Woman, which I haven't watched for decades.

They really should have hired an advisor with an elementary understanding of Newtonian Mechanics.

No! She was beautiful and wore flares. Do you need more than that?

The physics was as precise as the bionic man which as, an esteemed professional, you know is 100% accurate.

I do not think we really need to criticise the details on this site.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

No! She was beautiful and wore flares. Do you need more than that?

I was in love with her, Bo, Olivia, Carly Simon Album covers, Susan Dey, a few others, and before that Marcia Brady but I won't get into that.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Bo Derick ended up marrying John Corbett.

 

[D H]

Well, nuts. Once again did not get my Christmas wish. I occasionally need to use the "find my device" app to determine where I hid my cellphone from myself. I left it at a restaurant once, in my car several times, and even more often, hiding in plain sight. The app works!

All I want for Christmas is for a "find my eyeglasses" app. There is no such a thing. My nearsightedness has improved thanks to advanced age; my optometrist informed me that this is somewhat common. I don't wear my glasses for cooking, cleaning up the house, reading, typing, etc. However, I definitely need them for driving. That's when I run around the house looking for them. I really do need a "find my eyeglasses" app.

 

[BillTre]

Put them on a string around your neck.

 

[WWGD]

" Celebrities grant dying wishes to the terminally ill". Talk about an ambiguous statement. I, for one, never wish celebrities death.

 

[WWGD]

Well, nuts. Once again did not get my Christmas wish. I occasionally need to use the "find my device" app to determine where I hid my cellphone from myself. I left it at a restaurant once, in my car several times, and even more often, hiding in plain sight. The app works!

All I want for Christmas is for a "find my eyeglasses" app. There is no such a thing. My nearsightedness has improved thanks to advanced age; my optometrist informed me that this is somewhat common. I don't wear my glasses for cooking, cleaning up the house, reading, typing, etc. However, I definitely need them for driving. That's when I run around the house looking for them. I really do need a "find my eyeglasses" app.

A former prof who wore glasses would wear them in his forehead, while shouting " Who stole my glasses? Who's the bastard who took my glasses? He was put to pasture shortly after his outbursts.

 

[Tom.G]

However, I definitely need them for driving. That's when I run around the house looking for them. I really do need a "find my eyeglasses" app.

So leave them in the car!

If you need the "security", get another pair to keep in the house.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[WWGD]

So leave them in the car!

If you need the "security", get another pair to keep in the house.

Cheers,
Tom

There are drugstore chains that sell generic glasses for, I believe, less than $10, which you can keep as backups to look for your "main" glasses.

 

[Tom.G]

There are drugstore chains that sell generic glasses for, I believe, less than $10, which you can keep as backups to look for your "main" glasses

Yes But:
Those are Reading Glasses, for the old folks whose eyes can no longer focus close-up for reading. It seems that with age, the lens in the eye stiffens and the muscles can not bend the lens enough for close focusing. That's the opposite of your problem.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[WWGD]

Yes But:
Those are Reading Glasses, for the old folks whose eyes can no longer focus close-up for reading. It seems that with age, the lens in the eye stiffens and the muscles can not bend the lens enough for close focusing. That's the opposite of your problem.

Cheers,
Tom

These are just to be used momentarily until the main ones are found. Then put away in a designated place in case the main pair is lost at some point.

 

[Tom.G]

Since there seems to be some misunderstanding, be sure to "try-before-you-buy".

 

[pinball1970]

A former prof who wore glasses would wear them in his forehead, while shouting " Who stole my glasses? Who's the bastard who took my glasses? He was put to pasture shortly after his outbursts.

I do that without the outbursts. More of an internal, "What the hell? Where are they? Oh, there they are. Idiot."

 

[gmax137]

I do that without the outbursts. More of an internal, "What the hell? Where are they? Oh, there they are. Idiot."

Wait til you get to the "now what was I looking for?" stage...

 

[Rive]

15km at summer means: a walk after lunch.
15km at winter means: double lunch.

 

[WWGD]

My annoying bit has been the " I want coffee -flavored coffee" from Dennis O' Leary. I say it weekly.

 

[gmax137]

My annoying bit has been the " I want coffee -flavored coffee" from Dennis O' Leary. I say it weekly.

I've been saying that (coffee flavored coffee) for decades. Starting back when the "french vanilla" and hazelnut "creamers" came out. Ughh. Give me black coffee no sugar, please! Tho I did go through a Cuban phase when I worked in south Florida (that's espresso supersaturated with sugar, lol).

 

[jack action]

I was in love with her, Bo, Olivia, Carly Simon Album covers, Susan Dey, a few others, and before that Marcia Brady but I won't get into that.

Please, don't leave Farrah off this list!

 

[WWGD]

I've been saying that (coffee flavored coffee) for decades. Starting back when the "french vanilla" and hazelnut "creamers" came out. Ughh. Give me black coffee no sugar, please! Tho I did go through a Cuban phase when I worked in south Florida (that's espresso supersaturated with sugar, lol).

Sugar with a drop of coffee. Wasn't it called " Cortadito" or something like that?

 

[WWGD]

Please, don't leave Farrah off this list!

Or the Yankee Rose.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Please, don't leave Farrah off this list!

Christy, Brooke...

I spent many evenings with all of them.

 

[pinball1970]

Please, don't leave Farrah off this list!

Not a singer though?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Not a singer though?

Just the women we loved from the 70s and 80s.

 

[pinball1970]

Just the women we loved from the 70s and 80s.

You're a Yank so won't get this but we had Susan Penhaligon.
She was in edgy stuff in the 1970s but looking back she had such a beautiful face.
First crush Olga Corbet, she was 15 and I was 6. It never would have worked. I would have have struggled with Russian and her heavy training and tournament schedule.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

You're a Yank so won't get this but we had Susan Penhaligon.

Funny, I just watched The Land That Time Forgot yesterday. It happened to come on after something else I was watching.

 

[pinball1970]

Funny, I just watched The Land That Time Forgot yesterday. It happened to come on after something else I was watching.

That's great. It was "bouquet of barbed wire" I first saw her.

 

[WWGD]

Can't sign that petition. Don't know enough Chemistry ( understatement) to determine if Hemp plastic is better than current plastic.

 

[jack action]

Not a singer though?

May I remind you that we are on a science forum, and all of this started with science stuff, e.g., the bionic woman, AND that Farrah was actually married to the six million dollar man?

You cannot get more sciency than this.

 

[fresh_42]

Happy $\mathbf{444_5}$ th anniversary, Quantum Theory!

 

[Mayhem]

Happy $\mathbf{444_5}$ th anniversary, Quantum Theory!

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People say mathematics is the language of physics, but I truly think it is German.

 

[fresh_42]

People say mathematics is the language of physics, but I truly think it is German.

That depends on the time you're looking into. It has been Latin, French, German, and now it is English. See my signature!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

People say mathematics is the language of physics, but I truly think it is German.

A majority of Americans think it's all Greek.

 

[fresh_42]

A majority of Americans think it's all Greek.

We say "That sounds Spanish to me" over here or "I only understand (railway) station". Don't ask me why.

 

[WWGD]

Ive heard Greeks tell me they say " It's Chinese to me".

 

[WWGD]

Haha, weird Yt video on animals being shown their reflection.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Haha, weird Yt video on animals being shown their reflection.

I posted that in the You Tube thread here.

I liked the elephant looking in its mouth to see what it looks like.

 

[WWGD]

I posted that in the You Tube thread here.

I liked the elephant looking in its mouth to see what it looks like.

I wonder what they'd think of recordings of their voice/sounds.

 

[fresh_42]

I wonder what they'd think of recordings of their voice/sounds.

I wonder whether dry-nosed primates would recognize recordings of their own voices at all. Ok, penguins will, but do we?

 

[BillTre]

I wonder what they'd think of recordings of their voice/sounds.

My daughter does field studies on owls in forests in Oregon.
They go out at evening and play their calls to draw in owls and count/observe them.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I wonder what they'd think of recordings of their voice/sounds.

I saw that someone did an experiment where they played the calls of a deceased elephant. Its former herd immediately came running and were so upset that the experiment was never repeated.

 

[WWGD]

Wise saying: ":After all has been said and done, usually more was said than done".

 

[Mayhem]

Wise saying: ":After all has been said and done, usually more was said than done".

This is going in the conclusion of my thesis.

 

[WWGD]

This is going in the conclusion of my thesis.

So you will say roughly as much as you've done. Good job.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Perhaps the coolest place I have ever been
https://www.gornergrat.ch/en/

So we got to the top of the mountain, deep in the Alps of Switzerland, where there was a very simple cafe for snacks and drinks. There was a waitress who came to take our order. She clearly spoke English very well so we asked where she was from. She had recently married a Swiss man and moved to Switzerland. Before that she lived a few miles from us.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Note that is a gear-driven train. The rack is between the rails.

 

[BillTre]

I was in a blizzard in Indiana once.
The moisture in exhaled air from on my bread and mustache.
I bet that was cooler.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I was in a blizzard in Indiana once.
The moisture in exhaled air from on my bread and mustache.
I bet that was cooler.

I think the coldest place I've been was somewhere in the rolling hills of Iowa. I don't remember how cold it got but I think the windchill was -50F or something insane like that. And the wind blew through those hills with a vengeance.

But I've never been more miserable than my three weeks spent in the frozen hell known as Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, Alaska. I was there for three weeks in late December and early January. We had 100 mph ice storms and had no heat in the factory; because it was still being built. I lost an inch off my waist every week. It was the worst work experience I've had in 30 years of doing this.

At least I was working on the side of the island with a runway. On the other side you had to land on the beach,

I was also held hostage at gunpoint for 24 hours in Peru, so that was a fun trip too.

 

[BillTre]

Thought I might trigger an interesting response from you. Thanks. Quite enjoyable.

I hope you got double secret overtime on the Alaska job.