My brother has a degree in engineering. Stacks of books and years of study. He tutored his oldest son in calculus and remembers how to use a slide ruler. He's designer and built bridges... even wrote a book on the subject.
One of his college buddies often talked about the story of the constipated mathematician.
They say he worked out with a pencil!
While on the topic of pencils, I found a really interesting video on the making of Faber-Castell pencils. The video claims they produce 2.3 billion pencils a year.
With the exception of fish skin and chicken feet, I eat all the Chinese dishes put in front of me. I do have my limits. I'll tolerate bitter melon if it's cooked with something else. Chinese vegetables are fine, including bok choy and some decedents of spinach and broccoli.
Unless tofu gets diced and cooked with meat, it's on my 'do not eat' list.
I didn't complain (too much) at dinner tonight as tofu was in a sauteed vegetable salad and repeated a line from the movie The Three Faces Of EVE... Mommy, don't make me kiss a dead person!
I see lots of profiles where members give out their first and last names along with contact information like a phone number or email address. To my thinking, it's either a scammer or stupidity. Can people be so naive in this day of scams to divulge so much personal information?
A new profile this week has a woman in my state who says she's a widow with one daughter making over $150,000 a year and will treat her man like a king.
I'm inclined to believe it's a scammer and all (the goodies) mentioned in the profile is the calling card to catch a guy looking for an easy ride. That's the bait!
I could be right.
I could be wrong.
Yeah, I always wanted a pair of Beatle Boots. The closest I came to that fashion was a shoe with stitched on spats. They didn't look anything like Beatle boots at all.
Doing some Beatle research today, the Beatles really weren't the ones to start that fad. It was a long time fashion across Europe and America long before the Beatles became famous.
One site called them a Cuban heeled boot and others call it a Chelsea boot.
From the look of things, they aren't cheap!
I got a call this afternoon informing me there was an attack on a gas pipeline creating a shortage. My response was: "I didn't know we were pumping gasoline through pipelines"
Checking online there is conflicting information but Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergence following a temporary shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline - a major US fuel pipeline operator.
One news story stated it was a cyber attack that forced Colonial to shut down operations.
It also reports this is affecting the Northern part of Florida... 8 hours drive from here.
Gas is available in South Florida but panic buying has already this area and people are hoarding gasoline creating a shortage. Some stations being reported for gouging where average prices were $2.85 now jumping over $4 a gallon.
I'm headed to Miami on appointment Wednesday morning and filled my tank before sundown Tuesday. That should get me nearly 300 miles and get me into the weekend.
Cyber attack? Obviously, Colonial got short-changed on internet security.
It's become the usual phrase "Sorry, that's out of stock and on backorder"
Cabinet hardware, plumbing fixtures, lumber, it really makes little difference as the entire world seems to be on backorder.
One of my friends recently moved to Asheville, North Carolina. He's a retired general contractor building his own house. Literally, everything going into the house is in short supply, out of stock and on backorder. What was expected to be a few months of construction is turning into a year. It's a good thing he and his wife have a motor home parked on his land while construction goes on.
The last two kitchen jobs I signed had discontinued tiles and the clients had to return to re-select.
I waited 3 months for a new model helicopter to become available. I got the email last week it's in stock and ready to place an order today I see it's already sold out with the next shipment due around the end of July.
Checking with a competitors models and 80% of their inventory appear to be on backorder.
It's not hard to predict that rebuilding after COVID will be a long, long time.
On the weekends I usually go into hobby obsession mode doing maintenance and charging batteries for model helicopter flying sessions the next morning. This usually means 3 to 4 hours sleep. I'm usually out the door after 7am and go with no food or drink until I return in the early afternoon... sunburned, starved and dehydrated.
Lunch is a normal meal and I then go into hibernation for 2 hours to make up for the sleep lost the previous night.
My flight gear is low-end 'affordable' to me. Not fancy, stable with few options. The last 2 models I bought had a new control system with more sophistication in the way of offering the pilot features to change the way the model reacts in the amount of agility and reaction speed.
A docile model can now be user adjusted for high performance with control setting changes. The bad part is documentation for this is sketchy. The manufacturer has several YouTube videos in a series for setup. Other pilots have posted videos explaining some of the mystery... however, not enough detail is available to my satisfaction. For example, there are 2 parameters to control drift. One for front/back and one for left/right. The numbers can be in a range of -250 to +250. Great... except no one can tell me if negative numbers pulls it to the left or right. Seriously... 2 calls to tech support for clarification and the technician says he doesn't have time to 'walk me through' a setup and to follow the videos.
Currently, I'm the only one at the field flying that brand/model of control system so there is no local support. There are a few companies who make controllers and the majority of better pilots use one called VBAR. Naturally, it's advised if I want to up my skills, to get with the VBAR crowd as there are a handful of pilots who can offer direct help.
Friday a friend and I went to a hobby shop 40 miles away that specializes in selling the VBAR radio gear used to control model helicopters. Saturday, 2 of the club members did some surgery on one of my machines by removing the existing controller and installing a VBAR. The radio is fully controllable via a touch screen and within a few minutes they were able to download a few apps via Wi-Fi to further enhances it's capabilities.
One of the guys who set up the new system did some initial test flights while asking how I preferred the setup, handing it over a few times for me to try the different settings and telling which direction I liked best.
It was a busy day at the field with some 9 pilots waiting to fly so neither of use did more than a few test flights. On Sunday, I got in a few flights being very cautious as it's characteristics were very different from the previous controllers I had experience with.
I got the phone call lunch was waiting and I packed my things to head home. After eating, I got online to check mail and read some news stories. The one article that caught my attention was about sleep deprivation. We know it's been linked to hypertension, obesity and diabetes. Now it's believed to be connected to dementia.
Not exactly what I wanted to hear as I was fading and needed to power-nap.
Most of my Sunday is gone and I've got to finish some shop drawings for the kitchen I ordered last week. Hopefully, I'll get to bed before 2am as Mondays are always hectic and I need to be alert.
Friday... 6pm and I'm unable to get any YouTube videos to play.
Checking my bandwidth connection and 3 sites confirmed I'm getting downloads greater than 50mbps.
C'mon YouTube, I've got some new helicopter gear and need to see a few setup tutorials.
It's dinner time... people get off the internet!
DON'T DO IT!!
It contains important and specific details about the manufacturers brand, date, batch number, healthcare system. Basically, it's all the information a scammer needs to forge their own identification card using your details.
Pretty clear advice. Don't post photos of your vaccination card on social media.
Not everyone has the same opinion / outlook / personality / desires in not only dating... but everything in life.
I believe I first heard/saw the acronym YMMV in some forum posts. It started from car commercials/advertisements regarding vehicle mileage claims... Claims that users cannot (normally) achieve. Your mileage may vary. Yeah... it will vary as those tests are done under perfect conditions.
Around the city, my car does around 25 miles per gallon. Late at night when driving along a long stretch of State Road 7 (US441) and holding below the speed limit I can get more than 41 miles per gallon. Big difference than 9am when the road is congested.
With regard to dating sites, YMMV. Some people join them and find that selection of country, height, hair color, religion, smoking, personality, education, economic background doesn't really get them what they are looking for!
More than a decade ago people who were frustrated not finding what they were looking for turned to Facebook for the social interaction. Online dating wasn't working for them and they were able to make friendship connection on social media.
Dating sites... YMMV !
I'm really surprised at the high percentage of women who list in their profiles:
Marital Status: Never Married
Has kids: Yes, they live with me
More surprising are the number of women listing:
Marital Status: Never Married
Has kids: Yes, they are far away
Statistically speaking...
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