Recent content by AM64

Another pet peeve likely generated by corporate sloth and cost saving - WALL WARTS. Specifically the fact they are unlabeled - not even the brand name associated with what they power. I'm betting I don't have the only wife who never keeps them with the object to be powered. My wife has one of...

It may not be everywhere, but I've always found a tremendous amount of friction between engineers and management. You have a gung ho bunch of clowns pushing do more with less etc and a bunch of guys trying to tell them that the rules of physics have the last say in how it all works. If you...

So much for global warming.

Absolutely. Do you tempt Mother Nature by barging in with a blunt nose or maybe show some compassion and thread the needle with a pointy one? My brother always gets a chuckle out of one incident when he was doing a post maintenance check flight on an F-106 at Tyndall one Saturday morning. He...

There you are with the negative waves again - the Pinto hate. We had a couple, my parents had one, and my sister one. I really liked mine - simple basic car. Didn't need power steering or brakes, and you just turned the crank to open and close the windows. I loved hatchbacks - can't figure...

Read an interesting article a few days ago - think it was about GM transmissions and a kit to remove the thermostat. As I recall the thermostat was designed to keep transmission fluid above 190F (this is memory and suspect), the author said that's too high and leads to fluid damage. Also read...

Few days ago there was an Einstein comment and then one about the speed of sound. My mind was obliviously somewhere else and read Einstein and transferred speed of sound to speed of light. Funny thing is that the speed of sound really is complicated - anything that affects density in the...

We had a dusting of snow yesterday - streets covered but grass still showing through. Got all prepared - charged up the power bank so we could do things like use the microwave and run the fridge on and off as necessary etc. Then in the early evening the heat pump quit - too dark, wet, and cold...

I'm getting the feeling that I'm attracting women for all the wrong reasons. While unloading the grocery cart into the truck a couple days ago, I heard a female voice say "Can I take this cart for you?" I said sure and when I turned around it wasn't a Publix employee. I thanked her and she...

Hope you are all warm and cozy. I made a quick trip to Chattanooga, got back yesterday and unloaded the truck and went to the wife's house to do anything necessary before bad weather. That hasn't amounted to much here - some snow on the road and sidewalk but not enough to cover the grass...

Jeffrey Dahmer would kill for those legs.

Naked i's are haunting you. Taunting works, too.

c and especially c squared is the thing that helps keep engineers somewhat sane at times. There's that other thing about i or j (depending on your pedigree) that stands for the square root of -1. It's a nasty piece of work, and fortunately things like c tend to dwarf the terms with j, so the...

Zactly. All you need to know is c = the speed of light. And c squared when talking conversion of mass to energy is a really big number.

Panera is what you do to make the wife happy; other than that it's hard to understand.