RPMiller Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Slap -- the sound of a solid facepalm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I spent too much time this weekend listening to revolting disgusting noises sitting on the pot fighting nasty diarrhea. And I am about to go home and go back to bed to continue said battle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 8, 2012 Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Incidentally, you get some rather bizarre items on the top page when you google for "swallow metabolism", like I did while trying to cobble up a good physics way to estimate the airspeed of an unladen swallow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 8, 2012 Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER With or without coconut? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 8, 2012 Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER always with... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 8, 2012 Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I did it without, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 8, 2012 Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER "Simplify, simplify", or whatever Thoreau said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted June 8, 2012 Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I just signed up for the (closed) Beta of Mechwarrior Online! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 11, 2012 Report Share Posted June 11, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER And I am reading up on diverticulitis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Oh my, that's a fascinating subject! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER it is? edit: or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, there's possibility I've got it. Never heard of it before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Diverticles (or however they're spelled in American) are pretty common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER My grades are FINISHED! Posted! DONE! Faster than I anticipated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER RiffTrax Live: "Manos" The Hands of Fate 08/16/2012 The stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 are coming back to select movie theaters nationwide for only one night to take on one of the worst films of all time: "Manos" The Hands of Fate. Join Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett of RiffTrax.com on Thursday, August 16th for hilarious all-new riffing on a not-so-classic movie! This one night event will be your only chance to see the guys fire their wisecracking commentary at "Manos" The Hands of Fate on the big screen. http://www.fathomevents.com/originals/event/rifftrax_manos.aspx?utm_source=RiffTrax&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=RiffTraxManos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER My grades are FINISHED! Posted! DONE! Faster than I anticipated. So, you had the 'runs' in going though the grading? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER It took less time to assess what people had done than I anticiplated, because most lab groups did their analysis in teams so they did the same things. So in a sense, most of the time I was grading two or three students' work at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I may have to use one of these someday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER For Feet in a Meter I just remember 3.25Ft/ Meter (3ft 3in) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Just use meters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Meh, I'm OK with both. I have no grasp of area units at all, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I look forward to the day that the US finally moves to the metric system. It's sad really because it is taught throughout elementary school, but the commercial US refuses to adopt it as the standard, so it is easily forgotten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I look forward to the day that the US finally moves to the metric system. It's sad really because it is taught throughout elementary school' date=' but the commercial US refuses to adopt it as the standard, so it is easily forgotten.[/quote'] I have a pair of digital wall clocks that includes a thermometer settable to either Fahrenheit or Celsius. In an attempt to migrate myself a little closer to metric I have one thermometer on each scale, though I do keep them in different rooms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Sounds like the Griffins are out in force today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I lived in Europe enough as a kid that for weights, lengths, standard volumes, and temperatures, I'm bilingual in terms of metric and USer units. I have never had a feel for what an acre or a hectare is, so that doesn't matter. And pressure units are so bizarre that for technological things involving pressures I have to convert back and forth no matter what. Of course, you have to take what I say with a grain of salt because (being an astronomer) I'm pretty laid back about accuracy in conversions. As my undergrad mentor said, "We don't care about factors of ten as long as they aren't in the exponent." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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