Is 20 pound for the weight like 30 pounds if a guy lifts?

Jul 18 2007 | Vanity

[charming_harmonica]

No gym for home, work out floor with 30, but is it for 20 like 30 lb when you no lift it to be for men, for 30 lbs instead? or half is 10 for 20 pounds?

[rottndog]

Time to close the shop and go home....

[NicknamedBob]

"Not sure whether I’ve tasted “raw” tequila."

I can't be sure, either, but there may be evidence that I've tasted tequila "raw".

The photos are rather blurry.

[NicknamedBob]

"Be sure of the space wherein you stare. I have a bad habit of doing that, mentally completely disconnected from anything in field of vision while I think on other things, and it has in the past caused me grief when folks think I am staring at them."

The Middle Distance

Off in the middle distance,
I often find my gaze,
While those who think I stare at them,
Don’t understand my ways.

I give to them my neutral face,
And draw my mental shades.
My inner image overwrites,
And reality slowly fades.

My view is filled with diagrams,
Of circuits, graphs, and charts.
I don’t intend the rudeness shown,
Such staring thus imparts.

I’m closed off in a world my own,
Your world has lost my focus.
If folks like me disturb your space,
Just reach across and poke us.

NicknamedBob . . . . . . August 29, 2007

[SunkenCiv]

At the beginning of the week I decided to impose a web moratorium on myself, and that worked for about 24 hours.

[NicknamedBob]

Obviously you haven’t been humbled enough yet.

Try posting in only small letters.

[rottndog]

I'm not worthy....I'm not worthy...

[NicknamedBob]

You capitalized I!

Prepare for flogging.

[NicknamedBob]

macy's

I used to look at the side of the Mall, and say to my daughter, "Those are small letters."

She would respond, "No, daddy, those are BIG letters."

HUTZLERS

"Well, what about those over there? Those are big letters."

"No, daddy, those are little letters."

Sheesh. The things they teach kids in school these days.

[rottndog]

can i skip the flogging and go straight to the keel hauling?

[rottndog]

BTW, how do you keel haul in space? The outer hull must be so clean and boring.

[SunkenCiv]

if i had a little humility, i'd be perfect

[NicknamedBob]

Actually, the outer hull picked up quite a bit of rust and staining from our long immersion in ocean water.

I figured, if we ever got desperate for Oxygen, we could send out some hapless keel-scrapers to salvage the rust.

Interested?

[rottndog]

Hey...I like rust....

At least I like red heads...

Sure. Sign me up.

[rottndog]

I actually had the distinct pleasure of spending a week scraping sea life off of my boats screw. We could only use plastic scrapers, as anything harder could damage the screw itself, resulting in a noisier screw.

[NicknamedBob]

"if i had a little humility, i'd be perfect"

You can borrow some of mine. It's hardly been used.

[NicknamedBob]

It’s not so bad.

Instead of spacesuits, we do the work from inside a spider-robot. Their multiple arms/legs make hanging on much safer.

It’s like working under a bridge. The tricky part is the magnetic “vacuum cleaner”. You have to keep it clean.

I haven’t worried about spiffing up the exterior, because in a four-year orbit, a little extra solar absorption saves on the heating bill. Cleaning the hull is a low priority task, but still interesting.

The spider robots are surprisingly spacious inside. Being spherical, everything is pretty much within reach in the cabin portion.

[rottndog]

Does the spider robot come with a CD player?

[NicknamedBob]

"... spending a week scraping sea life off of my boats screw."

You must be really good at holding your breath. A week, huh?

I think I would have been tempted to use plastic-pellet "sand-blasting" on it. You control the force of impact by the air pressure.

It should have been quicker.

[rottndog]

Actually, they had to pull the shaft pier side, and to do that they had to pull the screw off first. They sat it on the pier, and promptly covered it to avoid satellite pictures.

The problem with the screw is that it is an alloy of bronze (can’t say what exactly), and subject to easy marring by any mechanical process. We actually had to go over it inch by inch and document every single scratch of a certain size, as they could result in excessive noise.

Besides, sand blasting would have been more expensive than four squids scrubbing away 12 hours a day.

Ah...the memories....

[NicknamedBob]

"Does the spider robot come with a CD player?"

Even better. It has the feel of some pickup truck campers inside.

Capacious food supplies and bathroom, full entertainment selection, comfortable bunk, and you can even program one of the camera-equipped arms to counter-rotate to keep focusing on Earth if you want to keep an eye on it.

It has about as much room as you can cram into an eight-foot sphere. (Remember that they have to travel through the cylindrical elevator tubes like the spherical elevator cars.)

Sometimes it's easier to spend several shifts out there. You can start and stop at any point and go into a rest cycle. As I said, hull cleaning is a low-priority item.

Did I mention there's also room for more than one person?