XPost: sci.physics, sci.astro   
      
   In article <3ff41fb2$0$4741$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>, jmfbahciv@aol.com writes:   
   >In article ,   
   >   mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu wrote:   
   >>In article <3ff18394$0$4751$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>, jmfbahciv@aol.com   
   >writes:   
   >>>In article <8LoHb.23$Y4.19683@news.uchicago.edu>,   
   >>>   mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>Why?  It was funny.   
   >>>   
   >>>It was meant to be funny.  The incidence of humor   
   >>>impairment appears to be rising   
   >>   
   >>Yes, I've been observing this too.   
   >>   
   >>> and I've been worried that it was me who had acquired it.  A number of   
   >>> my lines have fallen flat lately.   
   >>>   
   >>Well, when dealing with the humor impaired, any line will fall flat.   
   >   
   >I had to consider myself first.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >>>I have been reading physics newsgroups for a long time.  The   
   >>>next morning, I decided that, if the fucking boards could   
   >>>grow longer overnight, perhaps they can grow shorter overnight.   
   >>   
   >>Hey, worth a try.   
   >>>   
   >>>Sure enough, they had.  The second board was exactly the correct   
   >>>length and it fit in tight.  So I screwed it in before it changed   
   >>>its mind about which length it wanted to be.   
   >>>   
   >>Yes, you have to nake the best of the periods when they're in a   
   >>cooperative mood.   
   >   
   >I guess the art of carpentry is to know when the pesky material   
   >is cooperative.   
      
   And to what extent it is willing to be cooperative.  Yes.   
      
   >  I have 10 more years of practice before I learn.   
      
   That's about as much as the average apprentice used to spend (while   
   dealing with this stuff all the time, not part time).  The belief that   
   "since this is not traditional university material, it must be simple"   
   is totally off.   
      
   >>>   
   >>>Now, all I have to do is figure out how I caused it, figure   
   >>>out how to can it, then all I have to do is sell it to certain   
   >>>accelerator sites.   
   >>   
   >>Sure, go for it.  You probably got some combination of thermal   
   >>expansion and swelling due to changing humidity.  Mostly the second, I   
   >>would guess.   
   >   
   >I thought of that but 1/2" or so?   
      
   Yes, that's a lot.   
      
   > That would make a big mess   
   >if it did that for all blue board.  I've been having strange   
   >measuring problems which is why I've been resorting to physical   
   >fit rather than transformations.  I'd really, really like to   
   >figure out what I'm doing that causes these errors.   
   >   
   Can't tell you without seeing how you're measuring.   
      
   >When I first started closing critter doorways, I was using the   
   >official carpenter's tape measure.  I always fucked it up.  Since   
   >I failed trying to figure how I messed up, I started using my   
   >dressmaker's tape measure.  That seemed to help but I have no   
   >idea why it helped.   
   >   
   >What was really screwy is that it took the posting of my story   
   >24 hours to propogate.  Time dilations?   
      
   Perhaps:-)   
      
   Mati Meron                      | "When you argue with a fool,   
   meron@cars.uchicago.edu         |  chances are he is doing just the same"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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