Oooh, I can't wait to see!

By the way, in case you were wondering, Butterfingers and Pad Thai noodles are not a good combination.

I have two new things, and a new Ca Salifert kit. One of the new things is already in, and the other is still dripping.






I'm guessing it didn't go down well and now isn't sitting well?

Oh, and look at that.... this thread has over 500 replies!

Well, the new coral is an acan! It's not an A. Lord., but it's still an acan.



Then, there's the new fish!



Here fishy fishy....

Very cool on both purchases! Congrats to you, sir.

As for my so-called dinner, the going down part was fine, it's the internal roller coaster happening now that has me saying uh-oh.

Thanks! They were nice picks up in terms of price too.... $9 on the chromis and $15 on the acans!



Oh boy..... I know all about internal roller coasters...

Haha.... I'm watching House right now, and on a related note, the following dialog just occurred:

(asking why House is actually being nice)

Wilson: Maybe he had a great cup of coffee, or a tremendous bowel movement.

Ewwwwwwwwwww.

I love House.

It's a fantastic show!

One of my friends is in med school, and she has called me the Dr. House of the law.

ps: my son is now explaining to me how/why time doesn't exist.

Yup, time is relative. It's also a constant. The trouble is the warping of space-time.

In addition to law and reefing, I enjoy the study of astrophysics and quantum mechanics.

OMG! you sound like my son. Does this mean he's going to grow up to be a lawyer?

Well, that depends. Does he argue with you a lot? Does he win?

Actually, he's very intrigued by law.

No, we don't argue a lot. But we sure do laugh a lot. He's funny, and clever...and quite possibly the only 11yo around who knows what a tribble is.

Well, there's certainly a good chance!


Haha.... tribbles....

Hey MJ your talking my stuff now. Can we PLEASE toss in the hard sciences into the mix? Huh,, Huh,... Can we,...Can we PLEASE.....??? I mean do you wana start with the tree falling in an unmanned forest, the butterflys wings flapping,... or ants marching in step....

Or


Is time really relative,.. Or is it that only the space around objects suspended in time can be altered. Kinda like asking are we in a vacume or pressurized system.

GOT AN ANSWER YET CADET?


BOTH. But whats first?

It's bedtime, yanno.

That chromis looks kinda outta it...or is it just me...

Ok, let's take them in turn.

The answer to the trees question is yes. If sound is defined as an oscillating wave transmitted through a medium, then yes, there is a sound. Even if sound is defined as the above and an added requirement that the oscillating wave is within the range that can be heard, the fact that an observer is not present does not mean that the sound could not be heard. I love it when legalism meets science.

The butterfly wings question... well, I think that it's sheer coincidence, unless you are referring to something other than what I'm thinking.

Ants marching in step is simply a learned behavior, must like a soldier marching in step.

Time: Time is a constant, but it is related to a unit of space. Therefore, they are one and the same. So, when you warp space by the presence of a heavy mass, time continues to follow along the same lines of space that it had, but now it takes longer to get from point A to point B along a single plane.

Let's see if I can work up an example. There is a distance of 5 units_d between point A and point B with no large mass placed in between. Time progresses at a rate of 1 unit_t per unit distance. Now, insert a large mass between points A and B. Because of the warping of space, the distance between A and B is still 5 units, but to an observe above the plane, it appears that A to B is only 2 units_d (assuming the mass is large enough to warp 3 units). However, an object traveling from A to B will still travel the 5 units_dand do so in a total time of 5 units_t. Time will pass normally for the traveler, but to the outside observer, only 2 units_t will have gone by.

This phenomena has been observed in sensitive satellites in earth orbit.

Oh how I enjoy the sciences!



As you wish! I think that's enough hard thinking for one day anyways.

It's now Sammy time!

Ha ha. We go from Mac.. To the hard stuff.

Tree= Your are correct.

Butterfly. Coinquidink. Literaly yep, but the hard core science gurus say no. The flappin of the wings could cause an amplitude change in the universe to trigger any of the occuring natural disasters.

I see you have not heard of the ants. Just like soldiers marching across a brige in unison will cause the bridges joints to fail. So if an army of ants all marching in step could this do just as a inocent butterfly or cough. Could the natural progression of mass under their feet getting minature stomps on it..Just could that amp up enought to move the tectonic plates?

Dude I so had to give a presentation at Purdue about the very same script you played out. Only that was infront of a group of 500 Edward Deming advocates. Talk about a little bit of stress.

In other news, I had a Cranberry Lambic tonight. I'm not a fan of cranberry, and I'm not a fan of this beer. It really has a strong cranberry taste too it.

Maybe you'll have a different review of this beer, NRF.

Hey mail me one and I'll review it 4ya.

I think that it would be even worse after USPS shipping. It would be shaken, not stirred!

just posted teh update.

I think he's just scurrred. He was hiding in various places since he's been here. He had several friends in his old tank, so I think he's thinking "I've been abducted!!!!!!!!!!!!!"



Ah, ok, I see what you mean with the ants. Nicola Tesla had a similar theory, with his earthquake machine. I think it's possible, but the Mythbusters disagree.

How did you end up giving that presentation at Purdue? Oh, and great minds, as they say.

Good point. man. Plus it would be hot. Blah hot beer.

and im assuming they think massice Alienz did it too?

And I responded. What an update!!



Exactly. And hot Cranberry Lambic is double blah.



I'm sure they do! I'm sure they are glad that there is no probing as a follow up.

Tankz

LULZ

I so agree with you on the tesla gig. I dont think that they allowed the test to run for the correct lenght of time at the correct frequency.

First off I was NOT a willing worker to do that presentation. I wanted to wear a diaper. My professor was/is one of the leading presenters that deals with Demingisims if thats a word. Any way we were tested over four years. Unknowned to us it was kinda a sick test that he was doing. Whoever grasped the whole concept the best got/had to present it that way. What they were looking for was a new perspective of it. The group felt that they were getting a bit stagnant and wanted a fresh view from a younger mind. Needless to say it did open up new venues in the willing worker/flow chartable work placement world. So much so that Toyota in Georgetown KY actually has adopted about 70% of the ideas and implimented them in the facility. Kinda a neat thing to have under your belt.

No probz! Oh, and I thought that my tank didn't have enough hiding places. I know that chalk bass and blennies need them, and I thought they might compete. However, I have no idea where the chromis has gotten off to. He's not hardwood-floor-surfing, so he's in there somewhere. I now realize that my tank is FULL of hiding places!



That's generally the trouble with mythbusters. They tend to half-ass some of the experiments, or cut them off before they are done properly.

Wait, how did Toyota get involved with the relativeness of time?

Toyota hypothesized that if willing workers were forced to work under/around huge looming equipment that it could just maybe affect the space "work areas" in more than just the physical aspect, but on the higher level of spacial interuptions. This triggered ALOT of different test. So much so that it was found that if they elevated the work surface 6" at that plant and changed the lights to daylight spectrum the workers productivity went up by some 3-5%. Small but will add up. I was really cool being able to be in the middle of all the consulting that went on. I got to be in the room when they were video conferencing to Japan dealing with the changes and theories.

Now that's some cool stuff. I suppose the astrophysics/relativity by analogy stuff really works!

Hm.... all of the possible applications this could have!

Yup! Hey throw this stuff out in the middle of a theft case and blow the jury away. I bet 99% of em would be like

Nano-Reef opening up new minds every day.

Can you feel me taping on my keys to type this message

True story, on both counts!



So THAT'S what that was......

LOL. The judge would call you up to the bench and tell you to use 50 cent words.

Yep that was me.

RUN I JUST TOOTED!!!

LOL your tank has a myriad of hiding places! whered you get that you didnt have enough


LULZ

You'd be surprised. If you can make the jury understand it, usually the judge will at least pretend to.



Nah, we'll all be fine. Everyone knows that farts move at the speed of sound, which is just barely twice the speed of government. We've all got plenty of time to prepare.





I guess that I just thought that they were too small for a fish to try to get into. Guess I was wrong!

Then again, this chromis is just a little guy! I may have to do some research, but I'll stick with him being a guy. I'm going to try to think up a name for him soon.

On that note, I think I'm going to hit the sack. I've got an early AM meeting with a federal judge tomorrow.

2 Much fun man. Its a shame this isnt all a bunch of BS.

F-that. You'd be hard pressed to get a vast maj. of the jury to fully understand the H-sciences.

My mistake on the fart thing. Go outside, I'm gonna put the batteries in my flashlight backwards. I gonna suck the light off the moon. Its all going down at 11:08 pm

Name him Sammie, For obvious reasons.

Between that and the LHC firing up today, the world might come to an end!





Done. Everyone, say hi to Sammie!

WOO HOO! I named yer fish !!!

Dude we have so gotta go to bed. Or were gonna get dangerous.

Oh my goodness, did I start all this?! Interesting discussion, and I'm fascinated as to how Toyota was able to use this to increase productivity, Cow Kid. Methinks I have some googling to do.

And I wanna try the cranberry beer.

Have fun AP. This all took place in the time that Toyota began to revamp all the productions in G-town. I am not sure how much if any media time it got. I never looked into it at the time due to being in the middle of it I didnt have the need to search hard. As fast as that co changes process and flows I am sure all of this is so antiquated it sad. Still though its all rather interesting to the crazies like myself. This all went really deep into their productivity, I do know that they went to using cordless drill/drivers b/c the employees didnt wanna feel teathered to the system via air or electric lines. This is still used today. GE actually did the first light change experiment back in the late 60's I believe. That is prob where I would start looking. The Japanese Co.s are rather hush hush with cool info like this. They dont like to share it. I cannot imagine why?

Good job!

I absolutely agree. As for me, I think it's almost a Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde type situation.



It's a very odd beer. It's got cranberry, wheat, and maple flavors to it. I wasn't a fan, but if you like cranberries, it might be right up your alley!



Yeah, I remember reading about that in undergrad. Something to the effect of one group of employees in a dankly-lit work environment and another group of employees in a well-lit environment.

Anyone thinking that these employees are like rats in a cage?

Just thought I'd come in to say...


POST 3,000!!!

CONGRATZ TYLER MONKEYBOY!

told ya you would beat me.

It helps that Fridays are my early days.


So wait.... are you home sick again today? Or are you just playing hookey?

im in photo class for another 15 minutes them im outtie.
havent you noticed that when im at school i only post in the morning then usually get back to it really late at night?

anyways yeah...hopefully i wont get sick at school again

I'm usually online at about the same pattern, so I guess I don't notice you're off because I'm off too!

LOL yeah.

Outtie for the next 6 hrs. see you all at 3pm PS
stupid school

you should care if the judges like you -- if the judge likes you, they are more likely to sympathize with your arguments, or pay attention, even if they might not understand them.

congrats on your win!