Oh, how materialistic I am. This need to possess something I will never ever have, probably won’t even see, much less hold.
Ow. And no I wasn’t talking about Charlize Theron or Kate Beckinsale or anything like that. I may be immature, arrogant, and disrespectful of authority but I’m not an animal, for Pete’s sake. Think of me more like a big dog that talks.
It is a watch that is a thing of beauty. IWC Portuguese Tourbillon Mystère Squelette
I beseeched Cruel Wife in tones of most urgent need. “I would like you to say yes, without even thinking about it. Say yes, that I may have one of these for my very own.”
She replied without even thinking about it.
“No.”
Nothing quite like a swift emotional/spiritual kick to the nuts. She has earned her stage name honestly.
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I can’t help but say it again.
Obama is a complete and total flake. He’s dishonest, he’s scheming, he’s not qualified for the job he is in, and he never should have gotten there because he isn’t there legally. But that’s all sewage-infested water under the bridge.
What we should focus on is that somehow out of 350 MILLION people, we could not come up with five opponents that look like they have the ability to knock him out of office. This is so amazingly bad it is as if you took a spoiled piece of meat and made a confit with rancid grease and stuffed it in pasta made from ground-up FAIL. It is so mind-numbingly piss-poor of a showing that I clench up all over in disappointment. There really is not a word that encapsulates what I want to say. Nothing comes close in order-of-magnitude.
We could have picked names randomly from the pool of individuals that met the age and naturalized American requirements (ahem) and done as good of a job.
We really stand a better than even chance of winding up with this turkey for four more years. I would have calculated the odds of being struck by lightning at the exact moment that both you and the rabid bull that was goring you were struck by a meteor as being better than Obama showing up on the first day of a second term.
And what happened? We walked away with a lineup of assclowns that I wouldn’t trust in a valet service to park my rusted out jeep.
Yes I’m disgusted. More with each passing day.
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In case you were wondering, deformable mirrors aren’t just for electrons any more.
You were wondering. Admit it.
Lemur King's Folly 
Yes, I am cruel. I looked it up later. $95,000 in 2009, and no longer available. Wonder how much it will have inflated now that all 150 are sold?
Fifty. They made fifty.
And what price can you put on my happiness, really?
“The watch lover has a choice between platinum, rose gold and white gold. Only 50 examples will be produced in each material…” (emphasis added).
Nobody told Lemur King that there would be math on this blog.
I do enough math the rest of the time.
Besides, I didn’t have my calculator.
I used to be able to do all kinds of math in my head, then I started taking engineering classes where I needed a calculator and now I pull out my HP 48G (TI people are not bright enough to do reverse polish*) to figure out 50% of 36.
*Somehow I figure you’re a TI type.
As for the current crop of GOP tools, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you don’t get the funny without the endy
Since the endy is proportional to the funny and it’s been so darn hilarious (Joe Freaking Biden is VP!?!?!?!?!!?) you have to accept that the endy is so…uhhh… endy.
You missed the mark by a mile. I have been an HP guy since about the mid 80’s. For engineering it makes far more sense to me and I cannot even use a “standard” calculator anymore.
Nice jab there, though. I am triple boycotting you for that.
Double-secret probation may be more appropriate.
Oh, we passed by d-s probation in the night some time back. Naturally we couldn’t tell you.
Triple boycotting is just a red herring. As is this.
I went to those engineering courses, too, and by the end of my second year I realized I was forgetting how to do basic math. (Lets see, do I line of the numbers on the left or right when I multiply 2 or more digit numbers, do I add starting from the left column or right, etc.) It scared me so much that I stopped using my calculator (yes, my beloved RPN HP 28S that I still have, though I need new batteries) for anything except the complex calculations that I could program into it. Otherwise I did my math by hand. I even went so far as to balance my checkbook all by hand. (Okay, okay. I did that once or twice. Then it became too tedious and I did pull out my calculator again.)
As for LK, he is definitely an HP person. However, don’t ask him to do too much math with concrete numbers. He’s not a Ti guy, he’s a “can’t do it unless it involves letters instead of numbers” guy. He can do Fourier Transforms with the drop of a hat and all sorts of complex math equations. Just don’t ask him to multiply 3 x 50. I’m sure he could do it if he had to. He’d just substitute x and y, solve the algebra, and then plug the numbers back in!
;)-
You’re right. When it comes to using actual numbers, I suck.
So instead of actual numbers you use imaginary numbers?
I was going to say that I do by definition but that’s not quite right.
Light is more easily described in Euler notation so e^iφ = cosφ + i*sinφ is used very often – fourier optics, holography, general wave equations, and if you believe in electrons you might go there with it, too.
This ought to interest you… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_formula
Without Euler, life would be a lot more tedious. Euler, Fourier, and Feynman… Einstein and Tesla get a lot of attention, but these other guys (along with Maxwell) get a lot of my respect.
Me, I just like variables more than numbers. Numbers are messy. Numbers are like organic chemistry in a wet lab whereas variables are inorganic chemistry on a blackboard.
Mm. A bit large for me. Pass.
Holy cow…. isn’t Timex™ good enough anymore??
Timex has me very angry, they don’t sell wind-up watches anymore, I’ve owned probably 10 wind-up Timexes in my life, mostly before I was 18.
I don’t like battery watches and I’m ambivalent on self-winding.
I just want my wind-up watch again and I can’t find any decent ones that are less than many hundreds of dollars. I got a “replica Vietnam type GI” watch from Amazon. It loses about a minute a day. I have my stepfather’s pocket watch, but it looks expensive and I’m tough on my possessions so I don’t want to break it.
veeshir being very angry:
Not even close.
I have a transverse crest on my helmet.
Geez.
Veeshir, are you mistaking a transverse crest for a comb-over?
My new mantra is “Less things, higher quality”. Perhaps I have taken that a bit far.
Before some sharp eye notes that the blotter paper art really flies in the face of that mantra I can say that it really isn’t an exception. I want to surround myself with only things that either HAVE a higher quality and greater value (and fewer of them) or things that I perceive as having a greater value.
I have loved Alice in Wonderland since I was a very small boy. I learned to read with a pretty high proficiency at a very young age and I remember looking through that book and daydreaming about the pictures (there weren’t enough and they were so cool).
So, my stooped political question. If the conservative and libertarian citizens are clamboring for a real leader, how did we wind up with this bunch of goofballs? There’s enough people of the necessary caliber and have enough money to start a campaign. So why haven’t have any stood up, or why haven’t they survived the start of the primaries?
Is there another group that is throwing the primary process in their desired direction? Or is my tin foil hat leaking again?
Arrrrrrrg!
Personally, I am not fond of basing the entire process of making it to the convention on debates. I would rather elect a guy based on his brains, not his ability to say clever things on a stage.
The huge enormous lion’s-share of the time in office the president is not debating. He’s out making stupid remarks, yes, but there’s a lot of stuff behind the scenes that’s more important.
As soon as one person rises to the top the others gang up on him. Taking out a king with a crapload of pawns is not going to get you the best candidate. For all his quirks I think I’d rather have Perry when comparing him to Newt and Mittens.
Your foil hat might simply be chafing. Have you tried multiple-pleated designs?
Yeah, used to be the debates weren’t a huge thing, and not done in the primaries, only the general elections between the final candidates.
Isn’t the reason we have the current president because of the fact that he can give a good speech, especially when he has a TelePrompTer? Not that he has a lot of brains… None that have been noted of late.
Way cool watch.
Yeah. I also have a thing for pocketwatches so I’ll keep my eyes out there, too. I break every watch I own within days so it’s probably for the best.
I love pocket watches, but since I’m clumsy and walk into stuff a lot, I’d break it quickly so I don’t carry the gold one my stepfather gave me.