I recall a slower paced but interesting reaction using a small camphor pelet tied on the back of a balsa wood boat with an elastic band. The reaction powered the boat nicely around a bath of water - sodium and phosphorous were near by, tiny bits of Sodium skidding around on the water surface. Of cousre, in thise days (early 70's) we all peered over the bowls and had goes ourselves, but the pieces were tiny and handled by tweezers!
for the people working at the sharp end of the oil business, this is great news. We routinely lower tools on more or less standard (far from it) cables to "log" the entire hole, and more importantly the oil/gas reservoir section. This ability to send broader band data should be able to free up a lot of costly time when we start running imaging tools that give us a detailed image of the rock formation properties, allowing us to produce more oil & gas from a single well - thus allowing all you ex-colonials to run your overheating processors and your gaz guzzlers (me I have 3 pairs of roller blades - how many wheels ??);-) Current downhole technology (LWD - logging while drilling - allows us to see directional information, formeation resisitivity - a function of porosity and pore fluid properties - ie oil & gas not conductive - brine conductive, we routinely use Gamma ray radioactivity for correlation purposes - stratigraphy, and when the drillers let us we run nuclear tools that read directly formation density and porosity - of course these numbers are messed up by the thing (hydrocarbons) we are looking for - lots of computers required to sort out the nuances. Newer technology is allowing us to see Array sonic (like seismic data), CMR technology - a great way to see fluid properties. With all this band width we would be able to evaluate a hole sooner, better (less drilling fluid invasion into the reservoir), and improve reservoir and field development starting from the exploration wells, something that many companies are trying to do right now, as expenses for drilling in hostile environments can be huge - just go and hire a deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig for a month or two, then add all the other essential services for finding and producing the black stuff. As time goes on, it just gets more expensive and more challenging to find - and also a lot more interesting, thats why I love my job! - well mostly:)
I have to admit that its a lot of fun surfing around anonymously, and keeping all that neat encryption software handy, but if and when the men in the dark suits turn up, I would be the first to furnish them with a full suite of passwords - otherwise - what exactly is it I am hiding??? - assuming I am not a huge corporation with super secrets - and we all know that they use lousy encryption and insecure mail systems, with holes in their data management setups - called mail rooms!
oh yeah, I forgot to menation all the other stuff I use daily without even thinking zinf CDex 2xExplorer - a must have if you ever download anything from Uncle Bill that messes up your windoze Gnucleus Trillian Opera Ad-aware Ruby scripting / object language Scite Gimp Wordweb - connects nicely to keynote and MS Word bfacs - blowifsh/twofish encryption BeOS - or soemthing close coming soon - i have (but seldom use sdaly due to work environment) GoBE Productive - not free, but nice!
I am currently very keen on keynote http://www.lodz.pdi.net/~eristic/free/ind ex.html having previously used similar outliners like treepad and skwyrulpro, I now find that keynote has many great features, plus hard blowfish encryption. Just great for keeping on the fly notes and clippings, and of course those very personal diaries, or training records...
I also keep my VBA sorce code in it too - excel sheets being too big for portability.
Whatever the marketing says, from a scientific point of view, diamonds realy are pretty cool. A well cut diamond coupled with its refractive index (sorry don't have a value there!!) make for great internal reflections (ie sparkle / fire), and its cubic crystalline structure and hardness (useful for writing on glass) give it many edges over all other stones, topped in my mind perhaps by the massively understated appearance of Platinum (makes diamonds look cheap!). My wifes other interest lies oin the many from of Corundum, not quite as hard as diamond, but harder than most othere things on earth. A diamond is as close on this earth to something that truly is forever, and as such, (marketing or not) is a great symbol of love. They are not the be all and end all of true love, but I sure bought one, and when it was lost somehwere in the US, I was not particularly upset - it was a lot of money, but we had a different 'real' engagement ring that has no stones, just some kinetic bits and is very uncomfortable to wear.
So, go ahead enjoy that beatiful pice of carbon, but if you realy want it to look great, check out the cut - Lazare have the perfect cut patented I think - cost (add 10-20% more!!!!)
Oh, and if someone in Seattle has found (lost about 3+ yrs ago) a 1 Ct flawless diamond on a very odd sideways setting with a ring cast with my finger prints, then I would love to have it back, just for the ring - it can only ever be ours, we would certainly be grateful $$$$$.
i was told at school by my physics teacher (Mr Bell) about how time clocks at work places ran, and that over a year, they were guaranteed to be very accurate. They used the UK national grid frequency, which of course is varied a little over time, but for fiscal metering reasons, the variations would even out over a year.
Thinking now, the logic sounds poor for clocks, but I wouldn't be surpirsed if they can tell you how many cycles they sent in a year - but what clock are they using?
Has anyone ever used (or worse still using) modvue keyboards. We used to say that they were made from old tank armour plating as the US army upgraded it's tanks. In reality they were "industrialised" IBM keyboards, with thick aluminium (aluminum for the ex-colonials) bodies/ chasis. these you could run over with a car and they would work I'm sure. They were great for making music with (drumming)!!
At the same time, I alos encountered the sexisest keyboard ever, it came with an industrial IBM PC, and the positive feedback "clicky feel" of the keys was awesome! I bet it wasn't coffee proof though.
These should all be sitting in Saudi somehwere now, assuming the court case about payment was settled.
But I'm not sure that anyone to do with Buffy could create true Dr Who episodes! What we want is lots of gravel pits - are there any left in England? An entire series in the same styela s the movie would go down nicely.
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I recall a slower paced but interesting reaction using a small camphor pelet tied on the back of a balsa wood boat with an elastic band. The reaction powered the boat nicely around a bath of water - sodium and phosphorous were near by, tiny bits of Sodium skidding around on the water surface. Of cousre, in thise days (early 70's) we all peered over the bowls and had goes ourselves, but the pieces were tiny and handled by tweezers!
for the people working at the sharp end of the oil business, this is great news. We routinely lower tools on more or less standard (far from it) cables to "log" the entire hole, and more importantly the oil/gas reservoir section. This ability to send broader band data should be able to free up a lot of costly time when we start running imaging tools that give us a detailed image of the rock formation properties, allowing us to produce more oil & gas from a single well - thus allowing all you ex-colonials to run your overheating processors and your gaz guzzlers (me I have 3 pairs of roller blades - how many wheels ??) ;-) :)
Current downhole technology (LWD - logging while drilling - allows us to see directional information, formeation resisitivity - a function of porosity and pore fluid properties - ie oil & gas not conductive - brine conductive, we routinely use Gamma ray radioactivity for correlation purposes - stratigraphy, and when the drillers let us we run nuclear tools that read directly formation density and porosity - of course these numbers are messed up by the thing (hydrocarbons) we are looking for - lots of computers required to sort out the nuances. Newer technology is allowing us to see Array sonic (like seismic data), CMR technology - a great way to see fluid properties. With all this band width we would be able to evaluate a hole sooner, better (less drilling fluid invasion into the reservoir), and improve reservoir and field development starting from the exploration wells, something that many companies are trying to do right now, as expenses for drilling in hostile environments can be huge - just go and hire a deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig for a month or two, then add all the other essential services for finding and producing the black stuff. As time goes on, it just gets more expensive and more challenging to find - and also a lot more interesting, thats why I love my job! - well mostly
I have to admit that its a lot of fun surfing around anonymously, and keeping all that neat encryption software handy, but if and when the men in the dark suits turn up, I would be the first to furnish them with a full suite of passwords - otherwise - what exactly is it I am hiding???
- assuming I am not a huge corporation with super secrets - and we all know that they use lousy encryption and insecure mail systems, with holes in their data management setups - called mail rooms!
oh yeah, I forgot to menation all the other stuff I use daily without even thinkingy scripting / object language
zinf
CDex
2xExplorer - a must have if you ever download anything from Uncle Bill that messes up your windoze
Gnucleus
Trillian
Opera
Ad-aware
Rub
Scite
Gimp
Wordweb - connects nicely to keynote and MS Word
bfacs - blowifsh/twofish encryption
BeOS - or soemthing close coming soon - i have (but seldom use sdaly due to work environment) GoBE Productive - not free, but nice!
I am currently very keen on keynoted ex.html
http://www.lodz.pdi.net/~eristic/free/in
having previously used similar outliners like treepad and skwyrulpro, I now find that keynote has many great features, plus hard blowfish encryption. Just great for keeping on the fly notes and clippings, and of course those very personal diaries, or training records...
I also keep my VBA sorce code in it too - excel sheets being too big for portability.
Whatever the marketing says, from a scientific point of view, diamonds realy are pretty cool. A well cut diamond coupled with its refractive index (sorry don't have a value there!!) make for great internal reflections (ie sparkle / fire), and its cubic crystalline structure and hardness (useful for writing on glass) give it many edges over all other stones, topped in my mind perhaps by the massively understated appearance of Platinum (makes diamonds look cheap!). My wifes other interest lies oin the many from of Corundum, not quite as hard as diamond, but harder than most othere things on earth.
A diamond is as close on this earth to something that truly is forever, and as such, (marketing or not) is a great symbol of love. They are not the be all and end all of true love, but I sure bought one, and when it was lost somehwere in the US, I was not particularly upset - it was a lot of money, but we had a different 'real' engagement ring that has no stones, just some kinetic bits and is very uncomfortable to wear.
So, go ahead enjoy that beatiful pice of carbon, but if you realy want it to look great, check out the cut - Lazare have the perfect cut patented I think - cost (add 10-20% more!!!!)
Oh, and if someone in Seattle has found (lost about 3+ yrs ago) a 1 Ct flawless diamond on a very odd sideways setting with a ring cast with my finger prints, then I would love to have it back, just for the ring - it can only ever be ours, we would certainly be grateful $$$$$.
i was told at school by my physics teacher (Mr Bell) about how time clocks at work places ran, and that over a year, they were guaranteed to be very accurate. They used the UK national grid frequency, which of course is varied a little over time, but for fiscal metering reasons, the variations would even out over a year.
Thinking now, the logic sounds poor for clocks, but I wouldn't be surpirsed if they can tell you how many cycles they sent in a year - but what clock are they using?
Has anyone ever used (or worse still using) modvue keyboards. We used to say that they were made from old tank armour plating as the US army upgraded it's tanks. In reality they were "industrialised" IBM keyboards, with thick aluminium (aluminum for the ex-colonials) bodies/ chasis. these you could run over with a car and they would work I'm sure. They were great for making music with (drumming)!!
At the same time, I alos encountered the sexisest keyboard ever, it came with an industrial IBM PC, and the positive feedback "clicky feel" of the keys was awesome! I bet it wasn't coffee proof though.
These should all be sitting in Saudi somehwere now, assuming the court case about payment was settled.
But I'm not sure that anyone to do with Buffy could create true Dr Who episodes! What we want is lots of gravel pits - are there any left in England?
An entire series in the same styela s the movie would go down nicely.
Check out Ruby, I'm no exert but I'm sure that it fills all your needs,