And so rewarding! We can listen to music every day, rain or shine, for hours on end, but the amount of actual time doing the sport on a boat or downhill skiing is very small and is often eclipsed by weather, cranky passengers/cranky captain, lengthy driving/equipment preparation. Stereo: turn on. Select source. Play music. Dabbling with hi-fi innards is optional, and you may confine yourself to polishing the face plate or go full nuts and attempt a custom tube amplifier build.I agree with @birchoak, it is a cheap hobby compared to others.
Very hard to be in the proper shape to downhill ski for longer than the lifts are open each day if you don't go only on the weekends. You just get worn out and now that I'm a couple years older, that might be a bit sooner, not taking the last ride up the hill to ski down in the fading light.And so rewarding! We can listen to music every day, rain or shine, for hours on end, but the amount of actual time doing the sport on a boat or downhill skiing is very small and is often eclipsed by weather, cranky passengers/cranky captain, lengthy driving/equipment preparation. Stereo: turn on. Select source. Play music. Dabbling with hi-fi innards is optional, and you may confine yourself to polishing the face plate or go full nuts and attempt a custom tube amplifier build.
Try getting anything done with the Roman numeral system.Haven't posted anything here in a while, but learned something new yesterday. Forgive me if I'm the last one to find out about this. I mostly use the SI (Système International) system, modern version of the metric system, or what I like to call the "everything makes logical sense" system. Also known as the mks (meter kilogram second) system. In that system the unit of capacitance is the Farad.
Back in olden times people also used the cgs (centimeter gram second) system. You'd think everything would be similar, but it turns out the unit of capacitance in the cgs system is the centimeter. 1 centimeter of capacitance is equal to about 1.113 picofarads. Apparently there were even physical capacitors marked in centimeters, probably prior to the '50s. Never seen one, never knew they existed, but there you go, trivia of the day.
Apparently the distance refers to the radius of a sphere with a charge on it.
BTW, our Imperial and U.S. Customary Units systems fall in the "Alice in Wonderland" category, where it's a miracle that any science was ever accomplished at all.
BTW, our Imperial and U.S. Customary Units systems fall in the "Alice in Wonderland" category, where it's a miracle that any science was ever accomplished at all.
Actually that word should be 'Radius' - but otherwise correct.Diameter of the earth is 6,356.8 km,
Try getting anything done with the Roman numeral system.
Actually that word should be 'Radius' - but otherwise correct.
Other than that, the aquaducts, paved roads, and arches were cool.Yeah, that. Always cited as why the Romans never discovered number theory.
Well, that plus the fact that they were all infected with brain worms, flukes, protozoa, and a variety of microbes from wiping their bums with infected sponges and stepping in baths loaded with parasites. Oh, the joy that was Roman sanitation. Plus the lead problem...
I learn something new here every day.
Yeah, that. Always cited as why the Romans never discovered number theory.
Well, that plus the fact that they were all infected with brain worms, flukes, protozoa, and a variety of microbes from wiping their bums with infected sponges and stepping in baths loaded with parasites. Oh, the joy that was Roman sanitation. Plus the lead problem...
BTW, our Imperial and U.S. Customary Units systems fall in the "Alice in Wonderland" category, where it's a miracle that any science was ever accomplished at all.
Other than that, the aquaducts, paved roads, and arches were cool.
Missed the lead comment 'til I started to add. I should've known better it wouldn't be missed
The entire planet is only 680 uf? Surely not!
Maybe if we recap the planet the whole world will sound betterThe entire planet is only 680 uf? Surely not!