Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[zoobyshoe]

I Finally decided to stop complaining about the cold and actually did something about it, buying a scarf and a hat. Now the cold weather seems reasonably-bearable; I only need something else to start complaining about. Ideas?

I'd like to complain about the price of metric screws. At Home Depot one 6x1x10 screw costs .40.

 

[lisab]

I'd like to complain about the price of metric screws. At Home Depot one 6x1x10 screw costs .40.

The price of metric screwdrivers is even worse!

 

[Astronuc]

For aircraft nerds
http://cameras.reviewed.com/news/watch-airbus-risk-15-billion-in-a-wild-airplane-stunt

 

[Borg]

I'd like to complain about the price of metric screws. At Home Depot one 6x1x10 screw costs .40.

I had to replace 6 plastic bumper clips for my wife's car yesterday. The dealer wanted $2.25 each! I refused to spend that much and walked out. This morning, I was on Amazon looking for cheaper alternatives. This is the part that I was looking for:

I eventually saw this in the "Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed" section:
http://www.autobodysupplies.com/2000dnew.jpg

It wasn't until then that I realized that I have a bunch of those in my garage.
Funny how the brain works sometimes.
The bumper is now securely in place and I didn't have to spend $13.50 + tax.

 

[zoki85]

Alternating temperatures below and above 0 °C = Too much ice.

 

[Medicol]

I Finally decided to stop complaining about the cold and actually did something about it, buying a scarf and a hat. Now the cold weather seems reasonably-bearable; I only need something else to start complaining about. Ideas?

Let's talk about something you don't like but you have to run into daily.
I have a bunch of English documents that need to be translated into Japanese.
Some of them got translated and read smoothly but the native don't understand. How awkward!
Many are still remained since a plethora of words are unknown and hard to understand.
The worst thing is the original document seems to have some very important pages missing.

 

[ShayanJ]

I'm wondering what is "undergrad master's" listed in the drop down menu in the educational background part of the personal details. Any ideas?

 

[lisab]

I'm wondering what is "undergrad master's" listed in the drop down menu in the educational background part of the personal details. Any ideas?

I'm not sure, but perhaps it refers to programs that are BS/MS combined programs. They aren't common. Typically they add a year or so to the traditional 4-year bachelor's program.

 

[Medicol]

I'm wondering what is "undergrad master's" listed in the drop down menu in the educational background part of the personal details. Any ideas?

Not all departments will offer that degree. I have seen this in a MEng course, and it takes one only 4 years to get a master, also ie. http://www.shef.ac.uk/aps/prospectiveug/courses/mbiolsci
I don't know if this is really good but subjects with lots of "theories" need one's time to digest its every single ingredients.
I now would want to earn more money to buy a house, the current monthly saving is still small

 

[Astronuc]

Oops . . . Ouch!

An 80-metre wind turbine, valued at over £500,000, collapsed on a mountainside near Fintona in County Tyrone.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-30667411

 

[zoobyshoe]

A couple days ago I found out the glass holding the 'mercury' in my thermometer wasn't locked in place and could easily slide up and down. I have no idea if I ever knew the right temperature. I tossed it and bought two separate, distinct kinds of thermometer to replace it. So far, two days later, they still agree with each other. One of them has a little humidity sensor included. It looks like it operates by a bimetallic spring, but I don't see how metal could react to humidity.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

One of them has a little humidity sensor included. It looks like it operates by a bimetallic spring, but I don't see how metal could react to humidity.

Sounds like a metal-paper coil type hygrometer (link is to Wikipedia).

 

[zoobyshoe]

Sounds like a metal-paper coil type hygrometer (link is to Wikipedia).

Thanks. That must be it. This was certainly an inexpensive device: $3 at Home depot.

 

[Borg]

I bought a couple of frozen chickens a few weeks ago and the first one had 6 hearts! I thawed the second one today and it had 5.
I wonder if I should take a geiger counter with me the next time I buy chickens at the store.

 

[ShayanJ]

I bought a couple of frozen chickens a few weeks ago and the first one had 6 hearts! I thawed the second one today and it had 5.

oo)oo)oo)
Are you serious?

 

[Borg]

oo)oo)oo)
Are you serious?

I'm assuming that someone on the production line tossed a bunch inside one bird but you never know.

 

[WannabeNewton]

I can't decide between buying a new peacoat or a new deck since my old skateboard has gotten worn out. This is tearing me apart internally. I may have to seek counseling.

 

[ShayanJ]

I'm assuming that someone on the production line tossed a bunch inside one bird but you never know.

Oh...I thought they were just frozen chickens, not production-lined frozen chickens!:D

 

[Borg]

Oh...I thought they were just frozen chickens, not production-lined frozen chickens!:D

That's the way that most are processed in the U.S. They clean out the insides and put the neck, heart, gizzard, and liver inside. I've gotten an extra organ before but never anywhere close to that many. Getting two in a row like that makes me wonder if they came from Chernobyl.

 

[lisab]

I bought a couple of frozen chickens a few weeks ago and the first one had 6 hearts! I thawed the second one today and it had 5.
I wonder if I should take a geiger counter with me the next time I buy chickens at the store.

That's happened to me before.

And once I bought a mega-pack of chicken wings for a big party, and they were all packed neatly together. It occurred to me they were all right-wings. I served them to my hippy friends anyway .

 

[Borg]

That's happened to me before.

And once I bought a mega-pack of chicken wings for a big party, and they were all packed neatly together. It occurred to me they were all right-wings. I served them to my hippy friends anyway .

I must be getting slow. That went over my head at first.

 

[RonL]

I must be getting slow. That went over my head at first.

Maybe you've been spending too much time in Bandersnatch's crackpot thread :D

 

[Borg]

Maybe you've been spending too much time in Bandersnatch's crackpot thread :D

There would be others much worse off than me if that was the case.

 

[DiracPool]

Ya know, I was randomly thinking about special relativity and what all these space-time diagrams, invariant intervals, and proper time things meant, and then it hit me...It really is true, wherever you go, there you are!

 

[Borg]

:w

http://41.media.tumblr.com/2b81a409167af49ef3b5ce3cd01981f5/tumblr_nhoaedRZLZ1qewacoo1_500.jpg

 

[Medicol]

Easily broken Petey is in the car. Please handle carefully!

 

[BobG]

"Gadzooks", quoth I, "but here's a saucy bawd!"

A quote from my favorite book, the turbulent, turgid, tempestuous I, Libertine.

How great was it? It made the New York Times bestseller list in the 50's in spite of the fact that it didn't exist!

 

[Silicon Waffle]

It's not strange at all. My buddy's ID card's 3 last digits are 314 too. But he was never the PIE.
BTW, I am reading the latest and very good C++ book of Mr.Meyers. :D

 

[WWGD]

Kind of strange that a single shot of espresso at around 6 p.m kept me up until around 3 a.m ; according to:
http://www.cspinet.org/new/cafchart.htm

A single shot has 75 mg. of caffeine (half the 150 mg. of the doppio in the list) and in another site I read that
the half-life was around 5 hrs. (I would assume less than that if one exercised , which would raise one's metabolism)
so that by 11 a.m there would be around 37.5 mg. and around 15 by 2 a.m. ( I guess the decay is exponential ). Seems
like 15 mg. would not be enough to keep one awake.

I just checked another source and it seems the relationship is $h_n =h_{n-1}(0.87)$ , where $h_n$ is the amount of caffeine at n hours, for $n \geq 1$ , i.e 87% of the amount is left after one hour . So by 1 a.m , I would have around 25mg.

Sorry for the pre-calc-like problem .

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

I can't decide between buying a new peacoat or a new deck since my old skateboard has gotten worn out. This is tearing me apart internally. I may have to seek counseling.

I know which one you chose. Were you contemplating a woman's deck as well? ;)