Today I Learned

[Lisa!]

Have you seen me post anything today?

So it may be false, that, nimi du nam.

If you meant "I don't know", that's right!

 

[RonL]

If you meant "I don't know", that's right!

I often overlook Om's small print and often when I do read it I wonder what it means :D I have learned to copy, paste, and google, google, google

 

[OmCheeto]

If you meant "I don't know", that's right!

No!
It's supposed to mean; "I know nothing".
I guess it's my fault, as I broke one of my own rules:

1. No googling
2. Must be learned from a speaker of the language.​

This phrase, was relayed via a friend from his father.
The only phrases my friend knew, off the top of his head, were; "Aba ab dawd", and "Sho macha tori".

How do you say; "I am a failure".

 

[OmCheeto]

I often overlook Om's small print and often when I do read it I wonder what it means :D I have learned to copy, paste, and google, google, google

I purposely never post foreign phrases, such that they can be googled.
And always, a bit off, phonetically.
You can catch googling "fakers" much easier that way.

 

[Lisa!]

No!
It's supposed to mean; "I know nothing".
I guess it's my fault, as I broke one of my own rules:

1. No googling
2. Must be learned from a speaker of the language.​

This phrase, was relayed via a friend from his father.
The only phrases my friend knew, off the top of his head, were; "Aba ab dawd", and "Sho macha tori".

How do you say; "I am a failure".

Sometimes it means "I know nothing about that subject", so I guess that was correct!

"I am a failure."= "Man yek bazande am"

 

[Danger]

Lisa!, I just now for the first time saw your avatar with my reading glasses on. Until now, I always thought that it was ET playing a piano.

 

[Lisa!]

Today I leaned that I should quite playing games with PC because I completely lose track of time!

Lisa!, I just now for the first time saw your avatar with my reading glasses on. Until now, I always thought that it was ET playing a piano.

Oh! You don't know me at all.;)

 

[Danger]

Oh! You don't know me at all.

Not for lack of trying...

 

[gmax137]

Today I learned that the Amtrak electric trains run on 25 Hz electricity. Plus a bunch of history on the different line frequencies used now & in the past.

 

[Medicol]

Today I learned that humans in the (electric) train are not getting electrocute.

 

[Drakkith]

I'm a little late, but yesterday I learned why factoring works to help you find the zeroes of an equation.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I learned that my current TA job pays me lower than it does to the same people. Unfair play! I will probably quit after New Year :D

 

[Lisa!]

Today I learned that average hair grows half an inch per month.
So that means if I shave my head, hopefully it will grow back very soon

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Today I learned that average hair grows half an inch per month.
So that means if I shave my head, hopefully it will grow back very soon

Funny - I looked up exactly the same thing yesterday. But if your head has to grow back after shaving it, I don't think you're doing it right.

 

[DrGreg]

Today I learned that if exactly 4 people like a post, the 4th person is displayed as "https://www.physicsforums.com/posts/4949711/likes".

As if "1 other person" took up less space than "Lisa!".

 

[MisterX]

I learned that if I accidentally take some frozen food out before turning the oven on, and the food is not supposed to be defrosted beforehand, it's okay. I don't have to put it away, the food will still be quite frozen by the time the oven heats up.

I also learned if you have a cardboard box you're trying to shut, one of those ones like pie box that the lid folds down and the sides of the top half have to fit in under the sides of the bottom half. Well I was having trouble shutting it and I noticed it was getting stuck on the contents of the box. So I shut the box one side at a time, each time tilting box away from that side so the contents shifted away. So I learned how to close this box. Actually that was yesterday.

 

[edward]

Today I learned that if exactly 4 people like a post, the 4th person is displayed as "https://www.physicsforums.com/posts/4949711/likes".

As if "1 other person" took up less space than "Lisa!".

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Opps I just bumped Lisa into that 1 other person category.

 

[edward]

Today I learned that things don't go well if I try to use the pooper scooper right after it quits raining.

 

[davenn]

I learned that my current TA job

what's a TA job ?

 

[RonL]

Today I learned that things don't go well if I try to use the pooper scooper right after it quits raining.

I have an indoor potty to eliminate that worry :D

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Today I learned that average hair grows half an inch per month.
So that means if I shave my head, hopefully it will grow back very soon

Shaved heads look clean.
I learned that we shouldn't shave our pubic hair because our skin around our genitals may lose its membrane which is good for warts or bacterial infections. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22362688

 

[Silicon Waffle]

what's a TA job ?

technical assistant. :)

 

[davenn]

ahhh thankyou ... OK so that begs the Q ... what sort of technical ?

 

[Silicon Waffle]

ahhh thankyou ... OK so that begs the Q ... what sort of technical ?

IT technical, I am working on a project that utilizes CAD tools to help end users interact with construction sites'technical detailed designs via web interface.

 

[davenn]

today I learned that the boss wasn't going to let me have Monday and Tuesday off next week
when pretty much everyone else in the company is

He seems to be under the misguided impression that I can get lots of work done without technical and logistics( stock to repair things) backup :(

 

[Silicon Waffle]

today I learned that the boss wasn't going to let me have Monday and Tuesday off next week
when pretty much everyone else in the company is

He seems to be under the misguided impression that I can get lots of work done without technical and logistics( stock to repair things) backup :(

That is unfair! :(

 

[edward]

Today I learned that a single really old foil wrapped condom will jam a paper shredder big time.

 

[RonL]

Today I learned that a single really old foil wrapped condom will jam a paper shredder big time.

Sure hope you informed your spouse about when and how you disposed of the condom

 

[edward]

Sure hope you informed your spouse about when and how you disposed of the condom

I should post the answer to that in the First World Problems thread.

 

[OmCheeto]

Today, I learned that Opossums have 13 mammary glands.
I learned this, because I saw a video, of what I initially thought was some Sarah Mclaughlinesque mangy mutt rescue video. But it turned out,



that it was just a very healthy looking Opossum, with, IMHO, way too many babies.

Not having been aware of odd numbers of mammary glands, I was unable to picture where the 13th should be. I of course, googled that.

12 are in a circle, and the 13th, is in the middle.

 

[edward]

Today, I learned that Opossums have 13 mammary glands.
I learned this, because I saw a video, of what I initially thought was some Sarah Mclaughlinesque mangy mutt rescue video. But it turned out,



that it was just a very healthy looking Opossum, with, IMHO, way too many babies.

Not having been aware of odd numbers of mammary glands, I was unable to picture where the 13th should be. I of course, googled that.

12 are in a circle, and the 13th, is in the middle.

That is interesting and just think, the babies can find all 13 without any instructions. :D

 

[RonL]

Today, I learned that Opossums have 13 mammary glands.
I learned this, because I saw a video, of what I initially thought was some Sarah Mclaughlinesque mangy mutt rescue video. But it turned out,



that it was just a very healthy looking Opossum, with, IMHO, way too many babies.

Not having been aware of odd numbers of mammary glands, I was unable to picture where the 13th should be. I of course, googled that.

12 are in a circle, and the 13th, is in the middle.

Without goggling I have no idea what all that meant so now I have some study ahead and I'm not sure why I would want to know, other than Om said it, What's wrong with my life at this stage ??:D

 

[edward]

Today I learned that when my computer screen all of a sudden looks like I have been bumped off line, all I have to do is put the cursor on the internet explorer logo and click. All of a sudden it is all back and I haven't even lost what I was typing. OK so what are the keys I am inadvertently dragging my numb fingers over. I learned today that the space bar is one of them.

Is it the punishment that I deserve for using internet explorer?

 

[Danger]

The appearance of Bandersnatch here prompted me to finally look up the term. I have never read any Lewis Carroll stuff. So today I learned that, all linguistic cues to the contrary, a "bandersnatch" is not in fact a chastity belt. I now take my leave.

 

[DrGreg]

Today I learned that when my computer screen all of a sudden looks like I have been bumped off line, all I have to do is put the cursor on the internet explorer logo and click. All of a sudden it is all back and I haven't even lost what I was typing. OK so what are the keys I am inadvertently dragging my numb fingers over. I learned today that the space bar is one of them.

If you're using Windows 8 it can happen if you move your cursor to the bottom right corner of the screen.

 

[Borek]

Today I learned that

\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

doesn't work in Polish. Despite already having

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{polski}
\usepackage[polish]{babel}

chapter title links don't support all Polish national characters, only some of them. To get them displayed correctly you need

\usepackage[hidelinks,unicode=true]{hyperref}

Awkward if you ask me.

 

[Medicol]

I learned that people whose last names end with either xxx-vych or xxx-vich are from Ukraine.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Today I learned that the Cleartune app on my Samsung Galaxy SIII mini phone is accurate enough (over most of the range, anyway) for me to tune the three piano strings for the same note separately so that they don't have an audible beat when played together. I'm surprised it's able to give results that accurate.

Tuning my piano is not easy even for the experts. I'm on my third piano tuner, as the others found it too frustrating. It's a Young Chang G-157; sounds good but somehow eats its way through the steel strings in the second-from-highest octave; they get a notch where they run under a bar, which gets caught during tuning, causing it to tend to lock into a specific pitch even if it isn't quite right, then eventually breaks there.

 

[dlgoff]

Today I learned that the Cleartune app on my Samsung Galaxy SIII mini phone is accurate enough (over most of the range, anyway) for me to tune the three piano strings for the same note separately so that they don't have an audible beat when played together.

That's amazing. But knowing you, your ear is better.

 

[DivergentSpectrum]

i looked up what the ok sign means on my avatar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-ok
apparently, in the buddhist context it is the transmission of buddhist teaching,
while in the christian context it is seen as 666, the number of the beast.
arabs consider it a threatening "youll see"
and in spanish countries, it means anus or homosexual
learn something new every day lol
personally i tried finding a lotus position first, but couldn't find a good one.

 

[OmCheeto]

Today I learned, that math still works.
My newly found cousin seems to believe that on January 5th, a planetary alignment might make her kind of weightless. She's not really sure.
It kind of reminded me of the "The Earth floats in space because it's filled with helium" theory.
Anyways, I did some recreational mathematics to see what kind of alignments would result in weightlessness, and the consequences.

Scenario 1: Another Earth perched on her head.
Acceleration of the two Earths towards each other: 2.45 m/s²
Result: flat cousin in less than 2 seconds

Scenario 2: Earth moved closer to sun.
Distance from surface of sun: 3,000,000 km (as a comparison, Mercury is 70,000,000 km from the sun)
Solar insolation at that distance: 2,300,000 watts/m² (we receive about 1000 watts/m² here on Earth)
Result: severely sunburned cousin (This is just a guess, based on the fact that Mercury has a maximum surface temperature of 800°F, and lead melts at 620°F)

I also offered a "definition" inspired option:
Scenario 3: Jump! (Which is actually what the article said she had to do on that day, so I mentioned that it was half right.)
Result: momentary weightlessness, without all the nastiness. :)

Moore told scientists that they could experience the phenomenon by jumping in the air at the precise moment the alignment occurred. If they do so, he promised, they would experience a strange floating sensation.

:D

 

[HomogenousCow]

Today I learned not to practice my tennis swing indoors.

 

[Medicol]

Today I learned not to practice my tennis swing indoors.

Did you break anything ?

 

[nitsuj]

Jeepers Creepers - written for a movie in 1938, performed by Louis Armstrong who in the movie was a horse trainer and sang the song to a horse...named jeepers creepers. Also in the movie...Ronald Regan.

"The phrase "jeepers creepers", a slang expression and minced oath euphemism for Jesus Christ, predates both the song and film." Wiki

 

[Fefe Santa]

I learned today that Dell also produce software for sales not only computers and their parts
http://software.dell.com/

 

[edward]

Today I learned that wrinkled clothes are a first world problem. (see first world problems thread)

 

[HomogenousCow]

Today I learned that you can't just flush any liquid down the drain.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Today I learned there exist cars that use 'positive' as the ground.

 

[DarthMatter]

Today I learned that some people make up unprovable equations to troll. Mathetrollicans so to say.

 

[Lisa!]

Today I learned about the life of Will Durant!