I too pushed myself through the Silmarillion when I was in high school. Why do we subject ourselves to this stuff. Tolkien was a brilliant author and his fully conceived world is what makes his stories so compelling, but I think his translation of Beowulf will be a much greater service to both his readers and society that the Silmarillion.
Examination of folklore and legends tells us something about our society and our selves. The use of SF and fantasy to explore our real world and history rather than more fantasy would be great way to improve the nerd image among the general population.
You'll get more chicks talking about Gardner's Grendel than you will bringing up Tolkien.(This is both a joke and an true example.)
Barry Sonnenfeld, Director of MIB, was interviewed on Fresh Air on NPR, not only did Tommy Lee Jones not know he was funny, but he made little "pshow-pshow" noises whenever he fired his gun. Swear to god. Really.
address of the audio file:
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/fa/20020709.fa.01.ra m
The whole compression expansion process (using environmentally unfriendly refrigerants) is what allows the compressor to be remotely mounted. You just have to run a 1/2 inch copper line of refrigerant to the cooler.
This sounds like it would need to be mounted directly to the cooler. (The article states that heat exchangers are placed on the ends of the sound generator.)
I am a blacksmith, I make stuff by heating it red hot and hitting it with a big hammer. My computer's sole work related function is printing official looking invoices.
I bought a palmIII off my programmer neighbor when he upgraded about three months ago. It is my new brain, I think it saved my marriage and my business.
I have carried a big paper organizer for years and I never used it effectively. I use the all of the basic features of my palm daily: appointments and mileage in the calendar, my six different to do list categories, the memo pad is on whenever I check my messages or talk with a client, and of course the phone book.
I could go into lengthy detail about how I use each feature and my plugins, but the essential point is that I now have the information where I need it, when I need it.
I have to go from my home office to my workshop and to jobsites, so it's great to have all my info right at hand.
Half the time when a curious person asks about it I say they don't need it. If your calendar never leaves your desk the PDA has no advantage. Hell, I've been looking for an excuse to upgrade but it seems that 2mb and no grayscale does everything I need.
I am writing this from our six month old P4 with XP.
When our 166 mh pentium died (MB problem) I picked a cheap little pIII box out of a catalog. I thought that an upgrade to windows 98 or 2000 (whatever was lying around my dad's office) and a dsl line would solve all of our computer problems.
My wife had a conniption: we just painted, framed pictures and hung track lights in the office and she was d***ed if I was gonna clutter it up with some mismatched frankenstein beige thing.
It's not all her fault. When we got to the store I upgraded to a flat screen, better sound and more memory. I still have not burned any vinyl to cd, my ostensible excuse for the upgrades.
I have been assuming for the last ten? years (since I read James Gleik's "Chaos") that blood vessels, tree branches, fingerprints, etc. were following fractal patterns.
I am surprised that no one had been looking for these patterns in the Genome Project.
The introduction of this new research project on the internet and already patented is an interesting twist. I thought from the article that he had patented his computer analysis pattern, but there are certainly plenty of very scary biological patents out there.
I can understand the need to look outside of the traditional biological circles for this research, but going straight to the internet instead of the math department is way out of the academic research paradigm.
How do the sperm get sorted by sex and father?
That is some major chemistry to fit in the stomach of a 1 1/2 inch long animal. Generally males get an advantage by getting in first(squirrels) or having the most sperm (chimpanzees.) Neither of these strategies affect sex or suggest sperm manipulation by the female. In utero sex changes occur in some frogs but these are caused by the chemical balance of the uterus and not genetics.
If this really is an inch and a half long genetics lab it would be really cool. (Even better than the human genome project on a Beowulf cluster because it manipulates real dna.)
Sorry had to get it in there.
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I too pushed myself through the Silmarillion when I was in high school. Why do we subject ourselves to this stuff. Tolkien was a brilliant author and his fully conceived world is what makes his stories so compelling, but I think his translation of Beowulf will be a much greater service to both his readers and society that the Silmarillion.
Examination of folklore and legends tells us something about our society and our selves. The use of SF and fantasy to explore our real world and history rather than more fantasy would be great way to improve the nerd image among the general population.
You'll get more chicks talking about Gardner's Grendel than you will bringing up Tolkien.(This is both a joke and an true example.)
Maybe this says more about your buddy with the camera than anyone else.
totally off topic.
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Barry Sonnenfeld, Director of MIB, was interviewed on Fresh Air on NPR, not only did Tommy Lee Jones not know he was funny, but he made little "pshow-pshow" noises whenever he fired his gun. Swear to god. Really.
address of the audio file:
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/fa/20020709.fa.01.r
The whole compression expansion process (using environmentally unfriendly refrigerants) is what allows the compressor to be remotely mounted. You just have to run a 1/2 inch copper line of refrigerant to the cooler.
This sounds like it would need to be mounted directly to the cooler. (The article states that heat exchangers are placed on the ends of the sound generator.)
Space hunter -- the forbidden zone IT SUCKED.
However I just looked it up on yahoo and it got 4 out of 5 stars. Tells you something about sample bias.
I am a blacksmith, I make stuff by heating it red hot and hitting it with a big hammer. My computer's sole work related function is printing official looking invoices.
I bought a palmIII off my programmer neighbor when he upgraded about three months ago. It is my new brain, I think it saved my marriage and my business.
I have carried a big paper organizer for years and I never used it effectively. I use the all of the basic features of my palm daily: appointments and mileage in the calendar, my six different to do list categories, the memo pad is on whenever I check my messages or talk with a client, and of course the phone book.
I could go into lengthy detail about how I use each feature and my plugins, but the essential point is that I now have the information where I need it, when I need it.
I have to go from my home office to my workshop and to jobsites, so it's great to have all my info right at hand.
Half the time when a curious person asks about it I say they don't need it. If your calendar never leaves your desk the PDA has no advantage. Hell, I've been looking for an excuse to upgrade but it seems that 2mb and no grayscale does everything I need.
I suspected it might have -- seems obvious enough. Next time I'll change the question to "Has it been done before?" instead of "Why hasn't it..?
I are a blacksmith by day, so I rarely keep up with the literature.
I am writing this from our six month old P4 with XP.
When our 166 mh pentium died (MB problem) I picked a cheap little pIII box out of a catalog. I thought that an upgrade to windows 98 or 2000 (whatever was lying around my dad's office) and a dsl line would solve all of our computer problems.
My wife had a conniption: we just painted, framed pictures and hung track lights in the office and she was d***ed if I was gonna clutter it up with some mismatched frankenstein beige thing.
It's not all her fault. When we got to the store I upgraded to a flat screen, better sound and more memory. I still have not burned any vinyl to cd, my ostensible excuse for the upgrades.
I have been assuming for the last ten? years (since I read James Gleik's "Chaos") that blood vessels, tree branches, fingerprints, etc. were following fractal patterns. I am surprised that no one had been looking for these patterns in the Genome Project. The introduction of this new research project on the internet and already patented is an interesting twist. I thought from the article that he had patented his computer analysis pattern, but there are certainly plenty of very scary biological patents out there. I can understand the need to look outside of the traditional biological circles for this research, but going straight to the internet instead of the math department is way out of the academic research paradigm.
How do the sperm get sorted by sex and father? That is some major chemistry to fit in the stomach of a 1 1/2 inch long animal. Generally males get an advantage by getting in first(squirrels) or having the most sperm (chimpanzees.) Neither of these strategies affect sex or suggest sperm manipulation by the female. In utero sex changes occur in some frogs but these are caused by the chemical balance of the uterus and not genetics. If this really is an inch and a half long genetics lab it would be really cool. (Even better than the human genome project on a Beowulf cluster because it manipulates real dna.) Sorry had to get it in there.
9:15 the site is up again. Needs a better logo.
At 9:07 EST they claim to be victims of /. effect. I hope it's just the server.
Pikachu!! That's what I've been looking for!!