Cancer Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well' date=' then it's about time. You never know how it's changed.[/quote'] Actually, I usually have a pretty good idea. I know enough about optics and how things should work to be able to work that out myself. It isn't that hard to do, if you've had even an introduction to optics. Now, getting the quantitative assessment I can't do, because I don't have the equipment, but qualitatively I have it pretty much spot on. I startled the first optometrist I visited by telling what was wrong before we started, and his response was "We'll see about that." At the end he admitted I had been correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Physicist to the bone. ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER True geekdom is inherent and cannot be feigned, like any true super-power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I only dabble occasionally. ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Pshaw. You are unnecessarily modest. Embrace your geekdom and revel openly in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I'm-a dancin' with myse-elf Whoah-oh-oh-oh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Actually, the bookstore piped-in music was playing "She Blinded Me With Science" when I was in there getting stuff an hour ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER A coincidence? In my Universe?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I only dabble occasionally. ^^ Well, I hope you clean up afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yeesh. I picked up my old copy of Bracewell's "The Fourier Transform and Its Applications", 2nd edition hardbound, which I bought in 1983 or so for $48 ... the price is inside the cover. Used, the 3rd edition now is $144. Lord, I hate the textbook industry with burning passion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, put that flame to good use and burn someone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER A total ecilpse of your heart? ... Somewhere lower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Last night at work, I noticed a black mark on the wall next to the whiteboard,and pointed it out to my coworker. The black mark appeared to be (imo) accidental, from a dry-erase marker, and was about 8 inches long. My coworker, who is British, said "Maybe someone was trying to be a Michelangelo, and make another one of those... Sixteen Chapels." 0.o I had a good laugh and told him I was going to get a Twitter account just so I could tweet that comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yeesh. I picked up my old copy of Bracewell's "The Fourier Transform and Its Applications", 2nd edition hardbound, which I bought in 1983 or so for $48 ... the price is inside the cover. Used, the 3rd edition now is $144. Lord, I hate the textbook industry with burning passion. me too, it is supposedly low print runs. Well I'm guessing that there isn't that reason if they went digital. And I'll have to check out that book later. Holograms are FTs I'm memory serves me correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... Somewhere lower. So it is a total eclipse of the fart, then. Got it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Actually, I usually have a pretty good idea. I know enough about optics and how things should work to be able to work that out myself. It isn't that hard to do, if you've had even an introduction to optics. Now, getting the quantitative assessment I can't do, because I don't have the equipment, but qualitatively I have it pretty much spot on. I startled the first optometrist I visited by telling what was wrong before we started, and his response was "We'll see about that." At the end he admitted I had been correct. Physicist to the bone. ^^ However the optometrist has the edge in biology! Come to think of it, optometry is bio-optics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Actually' date=' the bookstore piped-in music was playing "She Blinded Me With Science" when I was in there getting stuff an hour ago.[/quote'] A coincidence? In my Universe?! Well in MY universe there is cause and effect, and I do not believe in coincidence (much), or accidental synchronicity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER "Sensitive dependence upon initial conditions." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER White noise, and so forth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That great oxymoron, "deterministic chaos". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER "Emergent behavior." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Self-organizing systems, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER And now, it's time to see if the campus coffee counter is open yet. Classes start Wednesday, but we can hope.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Go with the Force, friend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Grr. No, it's not. Well, it was off to Dr. Evil's franchise instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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