Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[lisab]

It feels like rain is imminent, but I checked the Doppler - there's nothing out there.

 

[zoobyshoe]

The reason I mentioned it was because it occurred to me a native French speaker might involuntarily interpret the upper right PF menu as:

MY PF INBOX ALERTS FORUMS CAT INSIGHTS INFO SEARCH

On my computer "chat" is now gone! Where is the PF cat??

 

[WWGD]

On my computer "chat" is now gone! Where is the PF cat??

I saw one running quickly across the screen right after the sign disappeared.

 

[OCR]

I saw one running quickly across the screen right after the sign disappeared.

I don't think he liked, "right after the sign disappeared" ... Lol

 

[zoobyshoe]

There is some high mischief going on at PF.

 

[OmCheeto]

It feels like rain is imminent, but I checked the Doppler - there's nothing out there.

Check your rain barrels. Mine were all empty yesterday, and full this morning.

 

[Ibix]

Check your rain barrels. Mine were all empty yesterday, and full this morning.

You know how to tell if there's an elephant under your bed, right? It's when you wake up with your nose touching the ceiling...

 

[OmCheeto]

You know how to tell if there's an elephant under your bed, right? It's when you wake up with your nose touching the ceiling...

roof area: 900 ft^2
barrel capacity: 45 gallons (Ok... I have two rubbermaid garbage cans. Not quite "barrels"... And one has a slice halfway up from where I was testing my outboard motor one day, and, oops.)
7.48 gallons/ft^3
45 gal / 7.48 gal/ft^3 = 6 ft^3
6 ft^3 / 900 ft^2 = 0.0067 ft * 12 in/ft = 0.08 inches

It doesn't take much rain, to generate 45 gallons, from a roof.

ps. They both overflowed, and they only collect half of the rain from my roof, at most, so I'm guessing we had about 1/4 inch of rain last night. My neighbor had a minor pond in his front yard. He had a major pond in his front yard, when last, we had an inch of rain, during the day.

 

[Ibix]

roof area: 900 ft^2
barrel capacity: 45 gallons (Ok... I have two rubbermaid garbage cans. Not quite "barrels"... And one has a slice halfway up from where I was testing my outboard motor one day, and, oops.)
7.48 gallons/ft^3
45 gal / 7.48 gal/ft^3 = 6 ft^3
6 ft^3 / 900 ft^2 = 0.0067 ft * 12 in/ft = 0.08 inches

It doesn't take much rain, to generate 45 gallons, from a roof.

There's...not a lot I can say to that.

You scientists and your maths, going around making reasonable points...

 

[OmCheeto]

There's...not a lot I can say to that.

You scientists and your maths, going around making reasonable points...

Being a PPIRATTSAP, there is little I don't know about my house.

Rainwater can be collected and used, via gravity feed, to flush the toilets in the house.

I did the calculations on that one day... . My roof catches exactly the amount of water I use in a year. But I would require 76 blue barrels to be completely independent of the water system. It's those darn dry summer months. I suppose during the rainy seasons you could get by with a couple of barrels and cut your water bill to zero.

One idea that is not a good idea... is to generate electricity from the water collected from your roof. I determined that I could cook 3 packets of top ramen per year by doing this.

ref: circa Jan, 2008, Physics Forums

Good grief! That's 60 gallons a day.
I think that must be the tomato plants' fault.
Last year was the first year I experimented with potting them, and a mature plant can consume between 2 and 5 gallons per day.
Мали свиње! ----------------------------
PPIRATTSAP: Perpetually poor independent researcher always trying to save a penny.

 

[zoobyshoe]

It is currently -56 F at the South Pole.

 

[Enigman]

Help science, play a game - http://fold.it/portal/info/about#whygame
Does this count as cluster computing?

 

[WWGD]

It is currently -56 F at the South Pole.

But it is a dry cold.

 

[nuuskur]

Pshh, I've been to a "cold sauna" at -140 'C - not sure what they are called in English, anyway it's unbelievably cold, but it's dry. It was about -30 'C outside that day and it felt really really warm after spending about 15 minutes in -140.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Turned on the weather man just after the news
I needed sweet rain to wash away my blues
He looked at the chart but he look in vain:
Heavy cloud but,
no rain.

 

[OmCheeto]

Turned on the weather man just after the news
I needed sweet rain to wash away my blues
He looked at the chart but he look in vain:
Heavy cloud but,
no rain.

Gordy!

I always liked his music.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I always liked his music.

I like a lot of his songs that other people don't seem to like. My sense is, a large percentage of people who liked the Police don't like Sting the individual songwriter. Sting, the individual songwriter, is perceived as too emo relative to The Police. However, I don't believe any such group as "The Police" ever existed. What we call "The Police" was actually just younger, edgier Sting utilizing the same support musicians from album to album. As he got older his taste went in a different direction, and he started to select support musicians on a case by case basis.

 

[WWGD]

I like a lot of his songs that other people don't seem to like. My sense is, a large percentage of people who liked the Police don't like Sting the individual songwriter. Sting, the individual songwriter, is perceived as too emo relative to The Police. However, I don't believe any such group as "The Police" ever existed. What we call "The Police" was actually just younger, edgier Sting utilizing the same support musicians from album to album. As he got older his taste went in a different direction, and he started to select support musicians on a case by case basis.

Maybe he should go back to his original, less edgy name : Gordon Sumner; quite a jump from a relatively- mainstream name to "Sting". Of course this is not fully serious, since the brand name is way too easily recognizable to start using the name "Gordon Sumner".

 

[zoobyshoe]

Maybe he should go back to his original, less edgy name : Gordon Sumner; quite a jump from a relatively- mainstream name to "Sting".

Sting claims he was never called "Gordon."

Sting performed jazz in the evening, weekends and during breaks from college and teaching. He played with the Phoenix Jazzmen, Newcastle Big Band, and Last Exit. He gained his nickname after his habit of wearing a black and yellow sweater with hooped stripes with the Phoenix Jazzmen.[14] Bandleader Gordon Solomon thought he looked like a bee, which prompted the name "Sting".[14] In the 1985 documentary Bring on the Night a journalist called him Gordon, to which he replied, "My children call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting, who is this Gordon character?"[15] In Time in 2011 he said: "I was never called Gordon. You could shout 'Gordon' in the street and I would just move out of your way."[16]

-wiki

 

[WannabeNewton]

So BB King passed away...

 

[WWGD]

Sting claims he was never called "Gordon."-wiki

Maybe if he really loves the name Sting so much, he should set it free, free-free, set it free.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Maybe if he really loves the name Sting so much, he should set it free, free-free, set it free.

Is there some incident in your past with bees or wasps we should know about?

 

[WWGD]

Is there some incident in your past with bees or wasps we should know about?

We'll have two wait a couple of weeks to know better, my therapist is out of town till July. Until then, there will be a fortress around my heart.

 

[zoobyshoe]

We'll have two wait a couple of weeks to know better, my therapist is out of town till July.

Sorry. If I'd known I would never have mentioned Sting.

Lets change the subject to poetry. How about onomatopoeia? Here's a famous example:

the buzzing of innumerable bees

 

[WWGD]

Sorry. If I'd known I would never have mentioned Sting.

Lets change the subject to poetry. How about onomatopoeia? Here's a famous example:

the buzzing of innumerable bees

I assume you may have liked the movie "Swarm", or, as Sean Connery calls it, S- warm.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I assume you may have liked the movie "Swarm", or, as Sean Connery calls it, S- warm.

So now you want Sean Connery to change his name to Gordon?

 

[WWGD]

So now you want Sean Connery to change his name to Gordon?

Yes, but I would also accept Sean Gordon. I am writing to him about it as I post this.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Felt like we just had a little earthquake.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Yes, but I would also accept Sean Gordon. I am writing to him about it as I post this.

Best of luck with that.

 

[WWGD]

Felt like we just had a little earthquake.

Common, it wasn't that bad of a joke!