Al,
i even eat tea.
Say gov, your avatar eyes look kinda beady !
Funny thing.
At the time when it was all highly illegal and exciting i had no problemos with stuffing funny stuff up my nose, swallowing Smarties color schemes, and smoking lawnmower piles.
And cheapy too by having a sister who shacked with Don Smack, of course that took half of her life expectancy away.
Now that it's become so "common" and legit here there's no temptation whatsoever, suppose i'm either a terrible scrooge or turned into an utter bore.
I've vaporised so much brain tissue that sensibility can't be it, i can't even recall for the life of me why i've walked the vegetarian walk for years.
Half a pint of first flush leaves are more appealing nowadays than my usual 30 pints of ale on a weekend night. I'm even getting professional yoga instructions by my sisterinlaw to cut down on chemical headache reliefs.
Cal, stop moaning and grab an axe !
i even eat tea.
Say gov, your avatar eyes look kinda beady !
Funny thing.
At the time when it was all highly illegal and exciting i had no problemos with stuffing funny stuff up my nose, swallowing Smarties color schemes, and smoking lawnmower piles.
And cheapy too by having a sister who shacked with Don Smack, of course that took half of her life expectancy away.
Now that it's become so "common" and legit here there's no temptation whatsoever, suppose i'm either a terrible scrooge or turned into an utter bore.
I've vaporised so much brain tissue that sensibility can't be it, i can't even recall for the life of me why i've walked the vegetarian walk for years.
Half a pint of first flush leaves are more appealing nowadays than my usual 30 pints of ale on a weekend night. I'm even getting professional yoga instructions by my sisterinlaw to cut down on chemical headache reliefs.
Cal, stop moaning and grab an axe !
Foot no longer itchy.
Matter of fact, I don't feel anything at all except insecure. Went out to the garden, got some Salvia, St Johns wort, Digitalis, Brugmansia as and a touch of Echinacea. Didn't taste very good but the effect is euphoric.
I think I'll go build something.
Matter of fact, I don't feel anything at all except insecure. Went out to the garden, got some Salvia, St Johns wort, Digitalis, Brugmansia as and a touch of Echinacea. Didn't taste very good but the effect is euphoric.
I think I'll go build something.
jacco vermeulen said:
That's the way life IS here, we even have branches here where employees stuff funny stuff up their nose. In the "fishing" communities this turned into a scandal a few years ago...But it is still going on..
On the other hand most people get tired of it in time or discover that you can get in higher states of mind by less unhealthy ways....
Oooh, such pleasant strings in this music 😱 😱 😱 😎
Lots of people talk about that "least significant bit" frequently over in the digital forums, what I want to know is why the "most significant bit" never gets a mention. Poor thing, it must be feeling really left out.
Of course, you need one wire for the ones, and another for the zeros, otherwise they all get mixed up!
Considering what they cost, I'll have to hold off on the second set for bi-wiring. Mind you, I do like the bi-wiring idea so I'm wondering if I might have any trouble if I combine the digital and regular analogue cables together? Are the digital ones more apt to deliver the signal a little sooner or does the digital encoding actually take longer? Which cable should I make longer in order to compensate?
It's all so confusing.
It's all so confusing.
pinkmouse said:
I don't know where you got that info, but you'd better forget it right now. The zeros are nothing, 'they' do not exist, therefore no wire necessary. All they require is 'bi-nary-wiring', either they are plugged in or they are not.
Cal Weldon said:
Do you know the scene in the first Austin Powers movie where Austin tries playing a Burt Bacharach CD on his portable turtable? That's what happens when you mix digital and analogue.
maxro said:
Ah. Both wave AND particle. Sometimes screechy cats come out of them.....sometimes not.
Too much smoke in that there... er, observation. Dropping of stuff, etc.
pinkmouse said:
There's no chance of drug abuse with this stuff! I doubt anyone will care to repeat the experience. Everyone who has taken enough of the mint to reach that effect I speak of, says the exactly same thing. This will never resultin casual abuse. About as likely as signing up to a lifetime subscription of being run over by a car every week. There is no joy here. Lovers of pain would also seek elsewhere. This is education, not euphoric abuse.
It's like when the Voodoo guy says to Keanu Reeves in the Film Constantine, when Reeves is sitting in the Electric Chair, getting ready to be shocked, because he is looking for the psychic experience it is about to bring him. The Voodoo guy asks him, are you sure about this? Reeves replies, "No". And then the Voodoo guy electrocutes him.
Thre's no hiding with this stuff. Quite the opposite. Remember, (I'm not preaching, just covering the point) you are a product of your own perceptions and limitations.
It is relatively difficult (or, impossible-for some) to see beyond that set of polarized blinders. For some, this presents a new viewpoint. As stated, it is not a habit forming enterprise. The effect was so intense the one time I tried it, every time I thought of it for the next week, I could smell it, and taste it through my entire body. Every time that time of day came again, I could feel it again. For a week.
Very freaky stuff. Wether it is healthy for the body, or hard on internal chemistry, is debatable. With over 2000 members of the mint family, this is merely one of them. We consume such mint(s) to a fairly high degree throughout our lives, so it is difficult to say that this particular variety is dangerous. It's effect can certianly be called....'different', though.
Curiosity is a sign of intelligence.
Speaking of that, I spoke directly with a guy who worked here in the factory, he was here for a year. He was at Laurentian University, in Sudbury, when Persinger was doing his initial work. He had some time (under) with ..."The God Helmet'. Now THAT..I want to try. And then maybe mess with my own version. I think I can (might, yah never know- I have my ideas!) take it beyond what Persinger was/is doing. The trick in science, if stalled, is sometimes to look with different eyes. To skew yourself, for new attack on stereoscopic vision.
He said it was very freaky to be in the classroom with Persinger, and have a few 6.5 foot tall NSA, CIA, Mosaad, etc guys in black suits, in the back of the classroom, in the seats..listening just as intently as the students, if not more so.
pi squared, etc.
So... just what does "i" mean in Hilbert space? After all, since one cannot actually compute (-1) ^1/2, what does this have to do with anything? Not to be a polarizing (sic) influence or anything, but isn't life complex enough without such constructs as Hermitian operators, del, etc.? Whatever happened to Occams razor?
While we're on the subject, I had a college instructor in surface chemistry come up with dimensions for the final physical answer, after a 40 minute in class derivation, of "moles ^2/3 joules". When asked as to the physical significance of such an answer, he replied "I admit, the comprehension of this answer is somewhat arcane... but it makes the science work" Ha! For sure...
Reminds me of the whole cable argument
So... just what does "i" mean in Hilbert space? After all, since one cannot actually compute (-1) ^1/2, what does this have to do with anything? Not to be a polarizing (sic) influence or anything, but isn't life complex enough without such constructs as Hermitian operators, del, etc.? Whatever happened to Occams razor?
While we're on the subject, I had a college instructor in surface chemistry come up with dimensions for the final physical answer, after a 40 minute in class derivation, of "moles ^2/3 joules". When asked as to the physical significance of such an answer, he replied "I admit, the comprehension of this answer is somewhat arcane... but it makes the science work" Ha! For sure...
Reminds me of the whole cable argument
Sure you can. Imaginary numbers are just as real as real numbers. My question is why engineers refuse to follow the conventions of every other technical occupation and insist on using j, which as any physicist knows means "current."
SY said:
I figured you'd grab that one, Sy...😀
Yes, one can use "i" for many mathematical and physical concepts, and perform calculations and such... but you cannot reduce it to a numeric value other than "the sqaure root of -1", which seems to baffle many to no end. Whereas, with pi, eg, you can at least write "3.14159........" and get some sort of handle on it from a numeric perspective.
As for "J" and "i" with simular (sic) usage... who knows... engineers are notoriously obfuscatory (especially when writing manuals)
John L.
i is a numeric value. If you want a definition other than sqr(-1), try the Euler definition.
How do you define "three"? Or "-1"?
Why is there air?
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
How do you define "three"? Or "-1"?
Why is there air?
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
The meaning of life (& erfC)
Yup... you understand that, I understand that... it's "just another number"
just like erf(C) is used to determine the doping profile in integrated circuits, transistors, etc..... among other things
However, it's a tough sell to many early college engineering calculus students whose instructors are more interested in "publish or perish" than teaching concepts.
...at least until they take an advanced lab, have to do such calculations, analyze the results, and then see the application to real world problems...
(what waxs the topic of this thread?)
l8tr 😀
John L.
Yup... you understand that, I understand that... it's "just another number"
just like erf(C) is used to determine the doping profile in integrated circuits, transistors, etc..... among other things
However, it's a tough sell to many early college engineering calculus students whose instructors are more interested in "publish or perish" than teaching concepts.
...at least until they take an advanced lab, have to do such calculations, analyze the results, and then see the application to real world problems...
(what waxs the topic of this thread?)
l8tr 😀
John L.
That's how I ended up teaching calculus- the profs were too busy, so it got handed off to students to do. And since I was a physics student who needed money...
Although it was 30 years ago, I'll bet some of my former students are still traumatized.
Although it was 30 years ago, I'll bet some of my former students are still traumatized.