tomorrow

Tomorrow is another day. Well that is what I keep telling myself, but the days all blend together. Tomorrow won't be any different: it will be jsut like yesterday. How much does that suck?

Floor_Rug wrote in message ...

Yep its tough to stay interested, but sometimes interesting things do happen For instance.... The other day the handle broke on my toilet cistern...how i laughed :-)

In article , "Paul gate" wrote:

Quick and simple way to make your life interesting: don't do the washing up for a while. Imagine the fun you can have in the morning, when you have to use a tablespoon instead of a teaspoon to make your coffee with, or having to use a fork to spread margarine on your toast (on reflection, I should have used the back of a spoon instead). Oh, the hilarity. Someone had better have done it by the time I get back...

[email] wrote in message ...

I have tried all the things you recomend, and at first it is fascinating I have made coffee with the wrong end of a fork and spread margarine with a floppy disc. But after a while you just lose interest again, and start clearing up cos you`ve got nothing else to do with your life.

Paul gate wrote:

That's nothing. Over the past week here, the fence has blown down (an annual occurance), the microwave has almost literally fallen to pieces,

the glass lightshade in the study fell down and my dad had to jump out of the way to avoid it smashing on his head, and my white goldfish has turned pink. But that's just weird, not interesting. :)

Alli

[email] wrote in message ...

Thats fine Alli, but not all of us can cope with those sort of levels of excitement. I think my toilet breaking was quite exciting enough, for me. I don`t know how i would react to the levels of stimulation incured during a "microwave going funny" scenario ;-) Thankfully my love is drab and tedious, i don`t think i could handle the sort of "fence blowing down every year" life you lead ;-)

Thats the spirit, look for joy in those little things in life :-)

For the fish it is! and disconcerting, i would guess mmm goldfish only have a memory of four seconds, so it would only be surprised momentarily, until it forgot those "old days", six seconds ago :-)

Isnt a white goldfish "wierd" in the first place, aren`t they supposed to be err....gold or something?

Paul gate wrote:

Well, it didn't really go funny, it sort of.....collapsed.....which is rather irritating when you're trying to make your lunch in it..... :)

Hey, I don't give a shit about the fence. I was rather annoyed when these guys came along to put up a new fence at 9am last Wednesday when I was at home ill and trying to sleep. I don't understand how putting up a bloody fence can possibly make so much noise....

It was black when I bought it, then it went white, and then it went pink.....

Alli

"endless, nameless" wrote: <very large snip re:goldfish>

Me? I'd be very happy if my black and white goldfish suddenly went color.

Jon Armstrong The Space Ranger Graveyard shift gives one a unique outlook on life. A dark one.

On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:04:34 -0000, "Paul gate" wrote:

Just imagine how this guy would react if he learned that his home planet was scheduled for demolition to make room for a hyperspace bypass.

Tarvok wrote in message ...

No i`d be fine about that :-)

Hitch hikers is fab, aint it?

Its one of the one the few things, that would be sadly lost if the world were actualy avaporated, along with Daria, of course :-)

Here's some advice I heard once: find another way to feel.

On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:21:04 -0500, Floor_Rug wrote:

Not very much. If tomorrow will be just like yesterday, then you can learn from the mistakes of yesterday, and, by default, tomorrow can be better, or at least easier, than yesterday! <:D

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:29:52 GMT, [email] (Tarvok) wrote:

Your assuming the decisions we make actually effect our lives, rather than constantly being screwed by some faceless "Them".

___ Kyle ICQ #12773280

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On 19 Jan 1999 23:15:16 GMT, [email] (Kyle) wrote:

Somewhere there's a reason why things don't go my way; Somewhere there's a reason that I can not explain. Just like the change of seasons, this may not be my turn, but I know there's a reason, <something> lessons might be learned...

Ladies and gents, we're still alive...

On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:44:23 GMT, [email] (Tarvok) wrote:

erm... ignore that last line. Got my songs mixed up. DOH!

Tarvok wrote:

My days all seem the same and are all equally bad. Maybe I'm not learning from my mistakes, but even if I do there's still not much I can do to improve the situation. :(

Alli

As all should know, tomorrow never comes. All we get is more todays.

-Shez.

Shez wrote:

Today sucked, for the most part. I don't want another today!

Alli

Almost as much as my Economics teacher babbling about "good attitudes" and "the sun will come out tomorrow". I think if he quotes "Annie" again he'll become the new victim of a conspiracy. Maybe Ariah can be my Brutus this time.

Dagny misery chick, cynic, general loony

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Eccles9697 wrote:

You think YOUR economics teacher is bad. Mine spends the whole class talking about basketball (he's the coach of the boys' basketball team) and how his team's doing. We did a whole week on the NBA strike economics, which of course consisted of talking about how much money the players make and not a whole lot else.

--J.

"Jessica L." wrote:

We don't have Economics here. Not even for A levels, I don't think. I guess it's just.....economic stuff, huh? Or at least it should be. Our Physics teacher spent the entire lesson today telling us about the Who and Keith Moon (he's obsessed with the guy, it would appear), which was boring for everyone else because they weren't interested for the most part, and boring for me because I already knew most of it. So that's pretty similar to if he was talking about Physics, then. :)

Alli

I suspect there will be an Economics GCSE or A level, but it's probably not available in all schools. Our school used to do a Commerce one anyway, which is in vaguely the same sort of area. There are several non-core subjects that only get offered if a school has someone with the appropriate expertise. Eg. At our school if you wanted to do a second foreign language you were randomly assigned to do either German or Russian as the school only had one teacher of each of these. If given a choice 99% of people would have chosen German, so they simply didn't give you a choice. Sounds kind of stupid but that's what they did. And people who wanted to do neither of those had to do the Commerce GCSE instead!

You should ask him about a famous bongo player called Richard Feynman, who was also a Nobel Prize winning physicist in his spare time.

-Shez.

Shez wrote:

I just checked, you can do Economics A level at the college in town, but not here.

We got to choose which language we did out of German or Spanish in year 8, along with French which was compulsory. Then we were allowed to drop one of those in year 10. Russian sounds like a bit of a strange language to do, but I guess there must be some teachers of Russian in this country.

He did say something about a bongo-playing Nobel Prize-winning physicist, but I can't remember if it was *that* bongo-playing Nobel Prize-winning physicist.....

Alli

Probably just one, and his name is Mr Pierson. (Ironically he was something of a fascist.)

I expect there are several to choose from. Feynman is famous for dabbling in all sorts of things, like solving the mystery of the space shuttle disaster, and noticing (very publicly to a Brazilian audience, at the risk of causing a diplomatic incident) that although Brazilian universities were seemingly teaching Physics, none of their students had acquired even the most basic understanding of the subject. (What he failed to realise was that this was also true, albeit to a lesser extent, of science teaching the world over.)

-Shez.

Shez wrote:

Some other guy was mentioned, possibly the bongo-playing Nobel Prize winner, who solved all these equations by cancelling out all the infinities, and got given a Nobel Prize for it. I suspect that this may have been a slight exaggeration, however, but maybe someone did something similar.

Alli

I just had a look through Feynman's autobiography (which is a really interesting and funny book by the way, called "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman") but he's pretty vague about what he won the Nobel Prize for. He's never had much time for prizes and important people and suchlike. The only thing I could find through the entry in the index for "Nobel Prize" was that someone was throwing plates into the air in a cafeteria and he got intrigued about the rate at which the flying plates wobbled and how it seemed to differ from the rate at which they were spinning. After working out why this was by solving the equations of motion involved he got to thinking about the wobble in electron orbits and this led on to other things which got him the Nobel Prize.

-Shez.

Yes, yes, the infinities-canceling bongo-playing Nobel-winning physicist is one Richard P. Feynman. There were actually three physicists (Schwinger and Tomonaga were the others) who solved the infinities-removal problem independently and roughly simultaneously. However, the other two used long, difficult algebraic methods while Feynman re-conceptualized the problem with little drawings of squiggly lines which are today referred to as "Feynman Diagrams." Since no physical explanation is complete without little squiggles, Feynman's method is dominant today, although many mathematicians and physicists consider "renormalisation" (infinities-removal) akin to cheating from a logical standpoint.

B.B.

There has GOT to be a way for me to get into that class! ___ Kyle ICQ #12773280

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Sure, but it would prob'ly require you to move several hundred (or thousand, depending on your location) miles. And are you up for going to a catholic all male (some classes are co-ed with my girl's school next door) school filled with rednecks and jocks? Think carefully on your choice! ;-)

--J.

Kyle wrote:

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:43:59 +0000, "Jessica L." wrote:

I'm not particularly enamored with Paris, illinois. I'm not catholic, but I'm Christian, so it's close enough. All male? No biggie. My school might as well be, as much attention from the opposite sex that I get.

Sign me up!

___ Kyle ICQ #12773280

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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 20:14:29 +0000, "endless, nameless" wrote:

Ever seen "Groundhog Day"? The dude (Bill Murray) was trapped in the same day, going through it over and over and over again. He learned how to do countless things, knew everything there was to know about the town he was in, but didn't get free until he cleaned up his act (the dude was a typical Bill Murray character before spending an eternity in that day) and did the one thing he really wanted to do, but that was too insane for him to really choose until he completely ran out of other things to do.

Yeesh! Where's all this damned perkiness coming from?! I do strange things on Usenet.

Floor_Rug asks:

Well, as someone who lives 12 hours into the future, I can tell you that tomorrow will suck down to about 5x10 e-5 torr, if the gauge I'm using is still calibrated.

Jon Armstrong The Space Ranger Graveyard shift gives one a unique outlook on life. A dark one.

[email] wrote in message ...

what's a "torr"?

Paul gate wrote:

"Millimeters of Mercury", I believe; a measure of pressure, and what barometers are read in. (Hello? Grammar police? I know I made a mistake there.)

MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

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Progbear wrote in message ...

Ohh i see, the distance mercury gets pushed up

Ok reinterpreting

"Tommorow will suck down so much, that mercury will only go up 0.00005 millimetres"...Fucking hell thats not very far!

5 ten thousands of a millimeter! I doubt i would notice that if i had a busy day :-)

"Paul gate" wrote:

It's know as breathing vacuum. Why the 'nauts wear helmets and other stuff.

Jon Armstrong The Space Ranger Graveyard shift gives one a unique outlook on life. A dark one.

[email] wrote in message ...

Thats a pretty extreme weather condition :-) we don`t get weather like that in Britain, which is a pitty :-)

Lit Geek to the rescue! According to the OED... "torr -- Physics. From the name Torricelli. Also Torr.A unit of pressure used chiefly in measuring partial vacuums. 133.32 Newtons/square metre. ... one torr is equal to one millimetre of mercury. 760 torr= 1 atmosphere." First published appearance in 1948.

rich.

[email] (Progbear) wrote:

Quinn: I can't be a brain! My friends will hate me!

"Paul gate" asks: <day sucking vacuum stuff snipped>

What the bullfighter said just before he was blindsided.

A measure of vacuum we use when we test the stuff we build in space simulation. It's relation to millimeters of merc I have long since forgotten.

Jon Armstrong The Space Ranger Graveyard shift gives one a unique outlook on life. A dark one.

On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:38:20 GMT, [email] wrote:

CLOL (Continuously LOL)!