@glasspusher @edwilk @Biff52
Yikes!
It's raining here too, no Cats and Dogs though.
good solid late season rain here. 23 mm and still coming down!
@glasspusher @edwilk @Biff52
Recharge those reservoirs!
looks like we ended up with 28 mm
@glasspusher @Biff52 @TidalFlats @edwilk
I thought you said F was for Faraday. I don't know WHAT to believe anymore!
@AlterNewt @Biff52 @TidalFlats @edwilk
also that rain brings us to 700 mm for the year, which is pretty good around here
edit: for the "rain season" which starts July 1 here
@AlterNewt @Biff52 @TidalFlats @edwilk
man I could never grow a 'stache like that
@AlterNewt @glasspusher @Biff52 @edwilk
I still think that the, er, *Cosmopolitan* Intellectualist vibe was deliberate.
@AlterNewt @glasspusher @Biff52 @TidalFlats @edwilk Bring back centigrade! And cycles per second!
@glasspusher @AlterNewt @Biff52 @TidalFlats @edwilk Cycles/second. Audio nerd stuff. Not sure why old Heinrich got the honor.
@12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @TidalFlats @edwilk
I would do rad/s in grad school (and sometimes now)
@TidalFlats @12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
I remember seeing the Potrzebie in MAD, didn't know its pedigree. Outstanding.
Donald Knuth even gets involved!
@TidalFlats @12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
“It also sees use as a metasyntactic variable by hackers"
goodbye foo, bar, baz… hello pot, rze, bie!
@glasspusher @12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
I feel that "Potrzebie" is the System of Weights and Measures we need in these dark times.
@TidalFlats @12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
now more than ever
@glasspusher @12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
We could be seeing near Earth asteroids masses measured in multiples of Blintz, if only we were brave enough.
@TidalFlats @glasspusher @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk It's the only system used in 43-Man Squamish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Koch#43-Man_Squamish
@12thRITS @glasspusher @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
"Although writer Koch intended the game to be completely unplayable, some colleges attempted to form teams and play the game."
This is the can-do spirit that makes America great.
@TidalFlats @glasspusher @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk My high-school class ('66) did a version on the Oakbrook (IL) polo field.
https://www.oakbrookpoloclub.com
@12thRITS @glasspusher @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
Outstanding. Was anyone suspended for Sportsmanlike Conduct?
@TidalFlats @glasspusher @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk So long ago. Makes me wonder about my life's journey from the polo fields of Oakbrook to a (mercifully brief) career as a tire buster at the downtown May D&F tire center in Denver.
@12thRITS @glasspusher @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
I've seen a lot of road, been and done many things:some great, some fun, some weird and frankly stupid. Never had fun mounting tires, even with those machines.
@TidalFlats @12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
we should start a thread of "worst shit job(s) we had”
@AlterNewt @glasspusher @TidalFlats @Biff52 @edwilk In Phoenix. In july.
@AlterNewt @12thRITS @TidalFlats @Biff52 @edwilk
These were not the letters I hoped to be true
@AlterNewt @glasspusher @TidalFlats @Biff52 @edwilk Nah, Roll-roofing in Denver--as a DIY thing is my worst top-of-building experience.
@glasspusher @TidalFlats @12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk Do it. How many different kinds of shit have you moved with a shovel … 😂
@glasspusher @12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
Cumberland county, N.J. August. Walking transects through the Greenhead-filled salt marsh, locating potholes full of mosquito larvae, ripping open little pre- measured glassene packs of (extremely fine, extremely potent, extremely purple) Giemsa histio stain powder and dosing them for a mark and recapture study.
@glasspusher @12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
Will, my partner in this misadventure, helpfully reminded me to not pick my nose. We were about halfway through and I looked up. " Face it, Will. You're Purple."
We were purple for weeks.
@TidalFlats @12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
Outstanding. Methyl violet?
@glasspusher @TidalFlats @12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
Janitor at aerospace electronics plant with [many] toilets featuring 30 stalls.
However, as an SEIU member I was paid more than the [disorganized-going-it-solo] people assembling the flight data recorders etc. Proper compensation for a literal shit job. :-)
@Doug_Bostrom @TidalFlats @12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
One summer was a janitor intern at the pharmaceutical company my dad worked at. One week cleaning the dregs of the cellar of an old pilot plant was about the worst assignment that summer
@glasspusher @Doug_Bostrom @12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
You know, that's how The Toxic Avenger got started.
@TidalFlats @Doug_Bostrom @12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
Yeah bonus I get an origin story
@Doug_Bostrom @glasspusher @TidalFlats @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk Just goes to show you that getting paid is not the main reason to work.
If you're rich.
Although I've noticed the Riches of my acquaintance are fussier than anybody about getting their money's worth
@glasspusher @TidalFlats @12thRITS @AlterNewt @Biff52 @edwilk
It's a toss-up between encyclopedia sales phone bank and perfume factory line worker. None of the nasty DIY jobs qualify, because I was my own boss.
@Biff52 @TidalFlats @edwilk
I use C (communist) for temperature, not F (freedom)