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[jpd]

Amazing what a urinal picture can do to a thread about childhood memories

 

[CELLFISH]

CONEY ISLAND ? BATH HOUSES...

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[CELLFISH]

Amazing what a urinal picture can do to a thread about childhood memories

we lucky some porno spam didn’t slide in here wit those post... cellfish... ???

 

[MOJOE]

mojoe says hey guys get back on track,,, you piss heads ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ><))):>
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[CELLFISH]

mojoe says hey guys get back on track,,, you piss heads ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ><))):>
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[MOJOE]

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[WhatKnot]

Back on track, I don’t believe the dial did a damn thing.

 

[CELLFISH]

 

[WhatKnot]

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Never liked them.

 

[WhatKnot]

 

[Roccus7]

Learned how to use a slide rule in HS Physics Jr year and it got me through 3 1/2 years of college. Between that and the math tables in the CRC manual I was proficient and well-armed until I hit Physical Chemistry second semester senior year and had to scrape up $300 to buy the new Texas Instrument, high tech calculators.

Will never forget my Jr year in college when the Prof, who I swear was a cyborg, got a hold of the first HP calculator and "quizzed" it: "Let me see, what's the natural log of 256? Hey, look at that, 5.54517744448, that's correct!!" To this day I cannot master the Reverse Polish Notation algorithms of the HPs and am challenged to do simple math on the machines with this programmed in.

Reverse Polish Notation, IMO there is no better name for something I still find so inherently illogical, although the "New Math" my granddaughters are learning comes close, "What do you mean that they don't memorize the multiplication tables anymore?"

 

[Jaws1948]

Wow. Did that bring back bad memories when you said Physical Chemistry. I sat through the first lecture and didn't see one chemical symbol. It was nothing but calculus which I didn't understand until now, 50 years later. P.Chem. That was the day I changed my major to Biology. BTW, I wish I could find my slide rule. It would be an antique by now.

 

[Roccus7]

Wow. Did that bring back bad memories when you said Physical Chemistry. I sat through the first lecture and didn't see one chemical symbol. It was nothing but calculus which I didn't understand until now, 50 years later. P.Chem. That was the day I changed my major to Biology. BTW, I wish I could find my slide rule. It would be an antique by now.

I was a Biol Major, but since I intended to go onto to Graduate School, my trusted Biology Profs strongly recommended I take Physical Chemistry. It was that or Differential Equations, and I chose wisely.

My P. Chem Prof was a real D-bag. The final was at night and it was a major bi-atch. After we finished and tests collected he blurts out, "Hope none of you said #4 was a Pseudo First Order Reaction." Everyone just gasped! My heart friggin stopped and then this prick goes, "Oh, just kidding, it is a Pseudo First Order Reaction." Everyone in the room wanted to dive and strangle the bastard!!

Although it pains me to say it, P. Chem truly reigns high in the order of critical scientific courses. One of my favorite mantras is, "Life is a battle royal with The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics", something I wouldn't have had a clue about had I not taken P. Chem.

Ah Thermo, now there's the biggest P. Chem struggle. Best story is one a prof once told me. He recounted an interview with a distinguished chemist, might have been a Nobel Laureate, who had written Chemistry texts on virtually every topic but Physical Chemistry. When he was asked about that he uttered these Immortal Words, IMO: "The first time I learned Thermodynamics I realized I was clueless. The second time I slogged through it I felt I knew it all, BUT the third time I tried I was sure I was clueless and I NEVER would know what it all meant."

 

[CELLFISH]

Gee, some thought grandpa’s pinups history was excessive, ?... cellie...

 

[Roccus7]

Gee, some thought grandpa’s pinups history was excessive, ?... cellie...

Whatsamatta Cellie, DiffyQ bring back ugly memories??

 

[CELLFISH]

no bait rig... cellfish...

 

[jpd]

Back on track, I don’t believe the dial did a damn thing.
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Dial won't work unless you put crumpled up aluminum balls on the antenna tips.

 

[Aquarius]

Learned how to use a slide rule in HS Physics Jr year and it got me through 3 1/2 years of college. Between that and the math tables in the CRC manual I was proficient and well-armed until I hit Physical Chemistry second semester senior year and had to scrape up $300 to buy the new Texas Instrument, high tech calculators.

Will never forget my Jr year in college when the Prof, who I swear was a cyborg, got a hold of the first HP calculator and "quizzed" it: "Let me see, what's the natural log of 256? Hey, look at that, 5.54517744448, that's correct!!" To this day I cannot master the Reverse Polish Notation algorithms of the HPs and am challenged to do simple math on the machines with this programmed in.

Reverse Polish Notation, IMO there is no better name for something I still find so inherently illogical, although the "New Math" my granddaughters are learning comes close, "What do you mean that they don't memorize the multiplication tables anymore?"

I have been using HP since college and can't use a regular calculator unless I work really slow. I still have my slide rule but I really can't remember how to use it past simple multiplication and division.

 

[jpd]

 

[WhatKnot]