Bazza Posted September 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2018 Eg: Buckminsterfullerene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2018 Or sodium_ethyl_xanthate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2018 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_with_unusual_names Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 16, 2018 Report Share Posted September 16, 2018 Przybylski's Star = HD 101065 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 "If the Terminator is a killer robot, can it be called death metal?" - not me. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 36 minutes ago, Bazza said: "If the Terminator is a killer robot, can it be called death metal?" - not me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~ Aristotle I take mine to the theatre & play sports with it. We are going joyriding on Saturday and camping on Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 21, 2018 Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 "A drummer's job is to use big sticks and beat on animal skins stretched across round pieces of wood. This takes absolutely no formal musical training to accomplish, of which the drummer has none anyway. To put it frankly, drummers just aren't too long out of the caves. They are primal, and fundamentally flawed in their genetic code." — Billy Queen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 So drummers are keeping the evil spirits away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 21, 2018 Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 My favorite musician joke: Why did the bassist have to break a window in the band's van? He had locked the keys in, and couldn't get the drummer out. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 21, 2018 Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 Q: What do you say to a drummer wearing a suit and tie? A: "The defendant will please rise....." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 Your drummer jokes are just true stories about Keith Moon. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2018 4 hours ago, L. Marcus said: My favorite musician joke: Why did the bassist have to break a window in the band's van? He had locked the keys in, and couldn't get the drummer out. To be fair...Keith drove the limo into the pool and both were underwater... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2018 "In 1466, at the age of 14, Leonardo was apprenticed to the artist Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio, whose bottega (workshop) was "one of the finest in Florence"...and would do so for 7 years...Leonardo would have been exposed to both theoretical training and a vast range of technical skills, including drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modelling." ~ Wikipedia Sounds like the cross between art school & trade school; where trade school includes proto-science & mechanical engineering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 23, 2018 Report Share Posted September 23, 2018 In 1466, the distinctions among those things were rather smaller (where they existed at all) than was true even two hundred years later, let alone now. I don't think any differentiation among kinds of engineering could be made at that time, for instance. I know astrology and astronomy were still the same thing then. Drafting ... technical drawing ... was a hot, changing art, as the development of rigorous ideas about perspective allowed clearer, more uniform graphical representation of physical objects was ongoing then. It was a great time to be a Leonardo. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 Also, Leonardo's teachers didn't have to prepare him for year-end high stakes state-mandated standardized testing to determine whether they had actually taught him anything. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2018 Leo read books to teach himself, and they weren't cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2018 Mason Cox's Unlikely Journey From Oklahoma State Stand-In to Australian Rules Football Star http://amp.si.com/college-basketball/2018/09/27/mason-cox-australian-rules-football-collingwood-oklahoma-state-basketball Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 I wore a purple shirt today in support of my Rockies. A co-worker told me the color looked good on me, and that she wished that her husband would wear something other than black, blue, brown, and green. I resisted the urge to say, "But in purple, I am stunning!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 I have known men who limited the palette of their at-work wardrobe because of color blindness, and some of the sneers they got earlier in life resulting from that. I have known others who ... you knew when their wives were away, because the color choices they made were ... somewhat exotic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 I had an O-chem professor who wore the same thing every day: blue denim shirt, blue or green t-shirt underneath, blue jeans, and white sneakers. Every. Single. Day. The last day of class, fifteen kids showed up dressed like this and sat across the front row of the lecture hall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 Also, my high school physics/chemistry/computer programming teacher (whose wife was also a teacher at the school) sidestepped the issue by wearing Hawaiian shirts and khakis every day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 My wardrobe is pretty monotonous, actually; I have a blue palette and a brown palette. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2018 I just wear clothes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 2, 2018 Report Share Posted October 2, 2018 In a tropical climate? How foolish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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