It's Friday!
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dan neely wrote:
google is your friend.
can it convert meters per second to furlongs per fortnight? da...arn![^] :laugh: (it's an old joke. My first job here had a metric requirement, due to international standards, and current requirements -- at the unveiling, the first comment was "I don't understand those units, put them in English units." -- My response was, would you like that in furlongs per fortnight?)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
El Corazon wrote:
(it's an old joke. My first job here had a metric requirement, due to international standards, and current requirements -- at the unveiling, the first comment was "I don't understand those units, put them in English units." -- My response was, would you like that in furlongs per fortnight?)
and at ~60cm/hour it's really not that hard to actually give a rough conversion mentally. Anyone in the us who can't do metric will probably think you memorized the values in that grotesque unit. :laugh: I really need to get the speed of light bumper sticker in those units one of these days.:-D
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Yes, I know. I grew up with men, and he grew up with mostly women. I married the art major of the family. It's a bad sign when you go into the marriage with more power tools than your husband.;P
__________________ Bob is my homeboy.
Have you given him a vacuum cleaner for his birthday yet. :laugh::laugh:
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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His real excuse is because he is a smoker. There is no possible way he can drive, run the clutch and smoke.
__________________ Bob is my homeboy.
never stopped my dad.
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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El Corazon wrote:
(it's an old joke. My first job here had a metric requirement, due to international standards, and current requirements -- at the unveiling, the first comment was "I don't understand those units, put them in English units." -- My response was, would you like that in furlongs per fortnight?)
and at ~60cm/hour it's really not that hard to actually give a rough conversion mentally. Anyone in the us who can't do metric will probably think you memorized the values in that grotesque unit. :laugh: I really need to get the speed of light bumper sticker in those units one of these days.:-D
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
dan neely wrote:
I really need to get the speed of light bumper sticker in those units one of these days.
looooong bumper sticker.... 1.8026175 × 10^12 furlongs per fortnight
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Have you given him a vacuum cleaner for his birthday yet. :laugh::laugh:
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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dan neely wrote:
I really need to get the speed of light bumper sticker in those units one of these days.
looooong bumper sticker.... 1.8026175 × 10^12 furlongs per fortnight
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
El Corazon wrote:
dan neely wrote: I really need to get the speed of light bumper sticker in those units one of these days. looooong bumper sticker.... 1.8026175 × 10^12 furlongs per fortnight
"...tis a good idea, and doth be the law." I've seen it online before.
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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leckey wrote:
I got rid of my pickup because it was clutch and my husband didn't want to learn.
that's an amusing bit of role reversal. I know a few guys who drive sticks primarily to make sure their wife/girlfriend will never drive their vehicle. :rolleyes:
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
dan neely wrote:
I know a few guys who drive sticks primarily to make sure their wife/girlfriend will never drive their vehicle.
In my case, my parents don't drive stick so they never borrowed my truck :-D
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His real excuse is because he is a smoker. There is no possible way he can drive, run the clutch and smoke.
__________________ Bob is my homeboy.
leckey wrote:
There is no possible way he can drive, run the clutch and smoke
Geeze. I drive stick and yak on my cell phone, driving down a curvy mountain road all the time :rolleyes:
Last modified: after originally posted -- ...and that is not using any sissy handfree accessories :-D
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leckey wrote:
because it was clutch and my husband didn't want to learn.
What is there to learn? Clutch is teh shit. ;)
Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
What is there to learn? Clutch is teh sh*t.
Exactly my thoughts. I learned in an empty parking lot and 10 minutes later I was a pro at it... Learned on an old 1963 Karmann Ghia :-D
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
What is there to learn? Clutch is teh sh*t.
Exactly my thoughts. I learned in an empty parking lot and 10 minutes later I was a pro at it... Learned on an old 1963 Karmann Ghia :-D
That is one good looking car! You don't see them too often any more. :sigh:
-- Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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That is one good looking car! You don't see them too often any more. :sigh:
-- Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
You don't see them too often any more.
You sure don't. I remember getting pulled over by the cops all the time just because they wanted to check out the car :laugh: I think my grandfather still has it but he doesn't want to bother restoring it. He says it would cost too much right now. I've tried to tell him it may be worth something in the long run.