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AcidFast
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 Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:11 pm Post subject: 1 |
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...you old bastard....
AF
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Poisonium
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:36 pm Post subject: 2 |
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Happy birthday! Does this mean he goes into triple digits?
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Zag
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:47 pm Post subject: 3 |
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| Happy birthday! The fire marshal has requested that you go ten-for-one on the candles. |
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Chuck
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:13 pm Post subject: 4 |
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19 3 - 17 3 = 1946
If you take a 19×19×19 cubical pile of little cubes and you hollow it out by removing its 17×17×17 interior leaving only the surface, edge, and corner cubes you end up with hollow cube made of 1946 little cubes. So 1946 must be a lucky year, right? |
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Chaz
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:18 pm Post subject: 5 |
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Happy Birthday!
(That's Pablo's age, in factorial, in base 62.)
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Quailman
His Postmajesty
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:20 am Post subject: 6 |
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Isn't it great to still have birthdays?
Have a terrific one! |
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Pablo
Never Draws a Blank
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 2:23 am Post subject: 7 |
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Thanks, all!
May you all be as healthy and happy as I now am when you reach 65. I cranked out 1,000 calories in one hour on the stationary bike today, finished the NY Times xword puzzle, took no medications, and will go back to work tomorrow energized after the holiday and looking forward to another exciting year with the company. Maybe I don't exactly still have ALL my hair, but most of what I have is not gray.....and I DO have all my teeth....except for 3 wisdom teeth.
And here I am celebrating the occasion with my lovely wife at our favorite Thai restaurant. (Yes, she's considerably younger than I)
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Pablo
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 2:29 am Post subject: 8 |
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| Chuck wrote: |
19 3 - 17 3 = 1946
If you take a 19×19×19 cubical pile of little cubes and you hollow it out by removing its 17×17×17 interior leaving only the surface, edge, and corner cubes you end up with hollow cube made of 1946 little cubes. So 1946 must be a lucky year, right? |
I hope you didn't spend too much time on that. 
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Lepton*
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:16 pm Post subject: 9 |
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| Happy birthday, sir. Although I've disagreed with your opinions sometimes, you've inspired me to be a more introspective, more rational, better-informed person. I'll re-pay you in fermented mare-milk the next time you're in town. I hope you like fermented mare-milk. |
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Dragon Phoenix
Judge Doom
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Chaz
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:43 pm Post subject: 11 |
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Pablo
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 7:07 pm Post subject: 12 |
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| Lepton* wrote: |
| Happy birthday, sir. Although I've disagreed with your opinions sometimes, you've inspired me to be a more introspective, more rational, better-informed person. |
Holy crap! I've always thought you were about the most rational and well informed person I "know". I never dreamed I was responsible for it. 
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Pablo
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 7:10 pm Post subject: 13 |
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| Lepton* wrote: |
| Happy birthday, sir. Although I've disagreed with your opinions sometimes, |
and BONUS! That means you've agreed with them MUCH of the time. This is the best birthday EVER!
Meant in a playful vein, not a snide one!
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Lepton*
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:39 am Post subject: 14 |
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By the way, question about piping: Some of my students have figured out a way to use the temperature difference between the ground (-40) and the bottoms of deep lakes (marginally above freezing) to generate energy during the winter-time in the far north. Their system is to use butane (at near air pressure) in a loop of pipes -- the gas would evaporate from the lake bottom, condense at the surface, and drive a sort of steam generator. Would PVC work for this? |
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MatthewV
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:04 pm Post subject: 15 |
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Sounds like a heat pipe.
PVC is compatible with butane. It might be harder to work with though. If you are looking at rigid piping with small diameters, PVC probably isn't the best choice. |
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Pablo
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:09 pm Post subject: 16 |
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| Lepton* wrote: |
By the way, question about piping: Some of my students have figured out a way to use the temperature difference between the ground (-40) and the bottoms of deep lakes (marginally above freezing) to generate energy during the winter-time in the far north. Their system is to use butane (at near air pressure) in a loop of pipes -- the gas would evaporate from the lake bottom, condense at the surface, and drive a sort of steam generator. Would PVC work for this? |
I'm not sure what pressures and temperatures are involved in this, but generally speaking PVC is (cold) water pipe. For most other applications, there are better options. For example, there is a growing geothermal market which uses polyethylene pipe. Here is a link to a company that makes it:
http://www.centennialplastics.com/geothermal-exchange-pipe.html
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Samadhi
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| Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 12:28 pm Post subject: 17 |
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Gratz to a good man. I hope we have 20 or 50 more years of friendship.
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Pablo
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| Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 8:56 pm Post subject: 18 |
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| Samadhi wrote: |
| Gratz to a good man. I hope we have 20 or 50 more years of friendship. |
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