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Let the FUN begin

Started by BallAquatics, November 25, 2015, 05:36:51 PM

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BallAquatics

November 25, 2015, 05:36:51 PM
The Thanksgiving Holiday, one of my biggest IT projects every year.  Just started a massive database purge and re-build that takes almost the entire 4 day weekend to complete.

Dennis

PaulineMi

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November 25, 2015, 06:22:06 PM
Well you can be thankful when the job is successfully completed.   |^|
When you find people who not only tolerate your quirks but celebrate them with glad cries of "Me too!" be sure to cherish them. Because those weirdos are your tribe.  (Sweatpants & Coffee)

Your moron cup is full. Empty it.  (Author unknown)

Mugwump

#2
November 25, 2015, 06:23:30 PM
Quote from: PaulineMi on November 25, 2015, 06:22:06 PM
Well you can be thankful when the job is successfully completed.   |^|

+1.... |^|

think of the bright side....all the tunes that you can listen to.... 8)
Jon

?Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ?Wow! What a Ride!? ~ Hunter S. Thompson

wsantia1

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November 25, 2015, 06:24:59 PM
Quote from: Mugwump on November 25, 2015, 06:23:30 PM
Quote from: PaulineMi on November 25, 2015, 06:22:06 PM
Well you can be thankful when the job is successfully completed.   |^|

+1.... |^|

think of the bright side....all the tunes that you can listen to.... 8)

+1
Willie

Too Many Fish. Not Enough Tanks.

BallAquatics

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November 25, 2015, 06:51:52 PM
Quote from: PaulineMi on November 25, 2015, 06:22:06 PM
Well you can be thankful when the job is successfully completed.   |^|

That's very true.  It can be a bit stressful.....

Quote from: Mugwump on November 25, 2015, 06:23:30 PM
think of the bright side....all the tunes that you can listen to.... 8)

Good point Jon.  I think I'm going to take a break from the Who cassettes and listen to some Stones vinyl. 

Dennis

BallAquatics

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November 26, 2015, 07:23:20 AM
Didn't spin up the first album last night.  This week marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of papers laying out Albert Einstein?s theory of relativity and PBS had hours of programming on Nova.....  great stuff.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/how-einsteins-theory-of-relativity-changed-the-world/

http://video.pbs.org/video/2035153862/

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365615918/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/einstein-big-idea.html

Dennis

BillT

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November 26, 2015, 01:02:06 PM
Fun.
I missed that.

When I was a kid (born in '53) my Mom told me there were only a handful of people who understood relativity. I think that was an idea probably left over from the 1930's.
I'm rather visual in my understanding of the world and took it as a kind of challenge. I remember watching a kid's show on it where they were re-enacting some of Einstein's thought experiments, like being on a train going near the speed of light. I definitely had a not bad understanding of it by the time I was taking HS physics and calculus.

Relativity is not intrinsically difficult. The ideas are somewhat obscure but with the right concepts, it can be quite understandable. There are probably comic books that do a decent job of it now.
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