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[WWGD]

Finally got some benefit from my strength training (leg lifts, pushups, etc.) when I slipped and fell a few floors and did not get hurt.

 

[Bystander]

fell a few floors and did not get hurt.

How many is/are "a few?"

 

[OCR]

How many is/are "a few?"

A few cannot be one, but it can be as low as two... . + =

 

[WWGD]

How many is/are "a few?"

Sorry, unintended exaggeration: a few steps down; I tripped and fell 5-6 stair steps down.

 

[Asymptotic]

Sorry, unintended exaggeration: a few steps down; I tripped and fell 5-6 stair steps down.

Face forward or sliding down on your back?

 

[WWGD]

Face forward or sliding down on your back?

On my back.

 

[fresh_42]

Simply because I've read this one today and it fits into context ... somehow ...

Face forward or sliding down on your back?

Why do scuba divers fall backwards into the water?

Spoiler

If they fell forward, they were still in the boat.

 

[Asymptotic]

On my back.

That's the only way to go!

Did it once myself coming home from school one cold, snowy day. Slipped on a patch of ice at the very top of a nine concrete stairway between our yard and the road ... my armload of books went flying as I slid down backwards head first, hollering "f&%k" for every time my head hit stair finally coming to a stop on the other side of the macadam. :)

 

[WWGD]

That's the only way to go!

Did it once myself coming home from school one cold, snowy day. Slipped on a patch of ice at the very top of a nine concrete stairway between our yard and the road ... my armload of books went flying as I slid down backwards head first, hollering "f&%k" for every time my head hit stair finally coming to a stop on the other side of the macadam. :)

Good deal; in my case it was just good-old rain in a smooth surface near the stairs.

 

[WWGD]

Finally got some benefit from my strength training (leg lifts, pushups, etc.) when I slipped and fell a few floors and did not get hurt.

I forgot, I guess, all the bottles I have opened for older people too: "You look pretty strong, can you help me with this...". Time well spent with those pushups, leglifts, etc.

 

[WWGD]

I still get mixed up apps as in applications with apps as in appetizers...

 

[WWGD]

I bought a pair of shoes that are around one size too big. I need to find someone who has shoe size larger than mine who bought shoes one -or-more sizes too small. Seems like a nice new feature for PF..."Wake up, you need to make money!"

 

[fresh_42]

"Wake up, you need to make money!"

Wake up, winter's ahead! You will need space for a second and third pair of socks!

 

[WWGD]

Wake up, winter's ahead! You will need space for a second and third pair of socks!

And, hopefully new shoes from the new PF shoe exchange...

 

[jim hardy]

I've long thought a PF swap meet would be fun. Trade those' projects we never got around to finishing' .

What size are your shoes ? What style?

 

[WWGD]

I've long thought a PF swap meet would be fun. Trade those' projects we never got around to finishing' .

What size are your shoes ? What style?

Around 13-13.5 ; any shoes I can wear to an office job. Things are a bit formal in here in terms of dressing for work.

 

[Posy McPostface]

Not to shill; but, just got a home assistant or, for me and what I hope to be, a life organizer. Think it's worth the $49.

 

[jim hardy]

Around 13-13.5

Wow I'm 8.5 - 9.

 

[fresh_42]

Around 13-13.5

Wow I'm 8.5 - 9.

And now the physics lesson for our students here:

Mine is 45-46.
Find the error!

 

[WWGD]

Not to shill; but, just got a home assistant or, for me and what I hope to be, a life organizer. Think it's worth the $49.

They used to be called

And now the physics lesson for our students here:

Mine is 45-46.
Find the error!

Easy: you're 29'' tall!

 

[Borg]

I can't access Google today and I'm being forced to use Bing.

 

[fresh_42]

I can't access Google today and I'm being forced to use Bing.

https://duckduckgo.com/

 

[Borg]

https://duckduckgo.com/

I forgot about that one. Fortunately, Google is back.

 

[WWGD]

https://duckduckgo.com/

I think a combo of both is best: use Google when you want to find something within what you expect, within the familiar, since Google tracks your search history and if you want a blank search, use DuckDuckgo, which does not track your history. In a sense, Google narrows your world and gives you predictable results.

 

[fresh_42]

I think a combo of both is best: use Google when you want to find something within what you expect, within the familiar, since Google tracks your search history and if you want a blank search, use DuckDuckgo, which does not track your history. In a sense, Google narrows your world and gives you predictable results.

Yeah, but Google's servers have a completely strange impression of my behavior. I look up places on maps, sometimes news and translations, but mostly if I look for pages to quote here. Which by the way is hard enough for certain terms. But it usually directs me to Wikipedia, so I go there in the first place. It's also the better place to translate scientific vocabulary. However, I prefer Google if I want to do a fast connection check in which case I use search items which will guarantee me many findings. You could guess, these aren't the scientific terms ...

 

[WWGD]

Yeah, but Google's servers have a completely strange impression of my behavior. I look up places on maps, sometimes news and translations, but mostly if I look for pages to quote here. Which by the way is hard enough for certain terms. But it usually directs me to Wikipedia, so I go there in the first place. It's also the better place to translate scientific vocabulary. However, I prefer Google if I want to do a fast connection check in which case I use search items which will guarantee me many findings. You could guess, these aren't the scientific terms ...

An understatement, Freshmeister. I used to do online Sudokus. Once around 19 boxes were left empty, I considered the puzzle done and would start a new one. Google interpreted this as my being senile and started recommended treatments for Alzheimer, Parkinson. Google is not too good with outliers.

 

[Borg]

Power outage - 5 seconds.
Time to restart all of my work computers - 20 minutes.
Third time this week.

 

[jim hardy]

Wow if that's ongoing you need one of those little UPS units with built in battery .
Walk the last couple miles of power company feeder to your house - any tree limbs brushing the lines? They'd like to know.

 

[Borg]

It's the office building that I work in. Everything's underground. Usually it's very stable but every once in a while we'll get a streak of short cutoffs.

 

[jim hardy]

For our simulator we put in a motor-generator set with flywheel sized to ride through a one second interruption with100 KW load. Our flywheel was about a meter diameter by 4 inches thick. Induction motor, flywheel , synchronous generator all mounted on one skid about the size of a big chest freezer.
Perhaps your department would consider something along that idea but sized for your loads.
Worked very well . Since the computer supplier had overestimated his consumption we could ride through power glitches lasting several seconds and the computers didn't notice.

old jim

 

[OCR]

Wow if that's ongoing you need one of those little UPS units with built in battery .

Yeah, they work... at least for our stuff.

 

[Tom.G]

Just a Heads Up for reported run time.
My UPS (by APC) does self tests when it feels like it. If it tests when the computer system is off it reports 56 Minutes of run time. If it tests with the computer system running the report says 16 Minutes.
Caveat emptor!

 

[OCR]

If it tests with the computer system running the report says 16 Minutes.

One desktop with two monitors running, one laptop running, one modem/router running, one Roku running...

I'm not sure, but I think I can only do a manual test.

 

[fresh_42]

Due to hijack avoidance:

Tachyon, my (Grey)Wayward son...

And for all who missed a previous quote: Here's my favorite story about the tachyon universe:
http://english.lem.pl/works/novels/the-star-diaries/154-the-seventh-voyage

 

[WWGD]

I don't know why, but for a long time now, I have been hoping to go to a fancy place, order a glass of wine, then put some Splenda and ice on it and drink it with a straw. All with a straight face. Maybe a leftover of high school days, when I relished being shocking. And then asking them to microwave it for me and have them give me a cup so I can take the leftover wine home.