USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 26 November 2003

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix

[Radix]

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday, November 26, 2003

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Here is an amalgamation of trivial facts and seemingly useless data.

Do not forget to hit the hyperlinks.

We have links, lots of them.

TAUTOCHRONE

A curve on which an object falling under gravity will reach the bottom in the same amount of time, no matter from where it starts.

This may seem like the most abstruse of mathematical ideas, but it makes accurate pendulum clocks possible. It goes back to the seventeenth century Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, who knew that the pendulum is not quite the perfect keeper of time that one would like. It works well enough if its movements are kept small, but as the size of the pendulum’s swing varies, so does the time it takes—only slightly, but it’s a serious problem if you’re trying to make your clock precise.

Huygens discovered that there is one curved shape, and only one, which is perfect in this respect: the cycloid, the curve traced out when a point on the edge of a wheel rolls along a road. If you position a cycloidal curve like an inverted arch, and release a marble from any point on it, it will always take exactly the same time to reach the bottom, no matter where on the curve you start from. So the cycloid is said to be a tautochrone. Huygens used this discovery to construct curved jaws from the point of support of the pendulum; these forced its string to follow the right curve no matter how large or small the swing.

The word comes from the Greek tauto, “the same” (which we have inherited in words like tautology) and chronos, “time” (as in chronometer); so the word means a curve of equal time.

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Happy Birthday

1731 - English poet William Cowper

Cowper's name will always be associated with that of John Newton, his friend and pastor. Together they wrote many hymns familiar to us today.

His poetry was quite influential. Many people who scorned evangelicals as "Methodists" would read Cowper's poems. He addressed many social issues, such as African slavery, as well as spreading the Gospel.

Peace After a Storm

1 When darkness long has veil'd my mind,
And smiling day once more appears;
Then, my Redeemer, then I find
The folly of my doubts and fears.

2 Straight I upbraid my wand'ring heart,
And blush that I should ever be
Thus prone to act so base a part,
Or harbour one hard thought of thee!

3 Oh ! let me then at length be taught
What I am still so slow to learn;
That God is love, and changes not,
Nor knows the shadow of a turn.

4 Sweet truth, and easy to repeat!
But when my faith is sharply try'd,
I find myself a learner yet,
Unskilful, weak, and apt to slide.

5 But, O my Lord, one look from thee
Subdues the disobedient will;
Drives doubt and discontent away,
And thy rebellious worm is still.

6 Thou art as ready to forgive,
As I am ready to repine;
Thou, therefore, all the praise receive;
Be shame and self-abhorrence mine.

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What is your vector Victor?

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Happy Birthday

eugene ionesco 1912

"It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind."

Eugene Ionesco and the Theatre of the Absurd

The Theatre of the Absurd surfaced in the 1950s with a group of playwrights who included Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter. Their avant garde plays expressed the belief in a godless universe where human existence has no meaning or purpose so therefore all communication breaks down. Logical construction and argument gives way to both irrational and illogical speech. The Theatre of the Absurd reached it's ultimate conclusion in Beckett's play 'Breathe' in 1970 - this play consisted of noise rather than dialogue.

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  Turkey pancakes

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Happy Birthday

Charles M. Schulz 1922

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Happy Birthday

Rich Little 1938

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I am an excellent prestidigitator.

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Happy Birthday

Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock) 1938

A CHANGE IS GONNA COME

I was born by the river in a little tent
Oh, and like that river I've been running ever since
It's been a long, long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come
Oh yes it is

It's been too hard living and I'm affraid to die
I don't know what's up there beyond the sky
It's been a long, long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come
Oh yes it is

I go to the movies and I go around in town
Everybody there keeps telling me "don't hang around"
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come
Oh yes it is

Then I go to my brother
And I say "Brother, please"
But he just winds up, knocking me
Back down on my knees

Sometimes I thought I wouldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come
Oh yes it is

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Isometrical.

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Would you like some Triangulation with your pancakes?

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We are counting cards!

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On this day:

1789 - U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.

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1832 - Public streetcar service began in New York City.

The first railroad system in New York, owned by the New York and Harlem Railroad company, begins operating approximately nine blocks between Union Square and 23rd Street.

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1861 - West Virginia was created (out of Virginia) over a dispute of slavery. West Virginia was against slavery.

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Happy Thanksgiving

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1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto

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1942 - The motion picture "Casablanca" had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.

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1983 - A Brinks Mat Ltd. vault at London's Heathrow Airport was robbed by gunmen. The men made off with 6,800 gold bars worth nearly $40 million. Only a fraction of the gold has ever been recovered and only two men have been convicted in the heist.  

About a hundred Dollars

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1998 - Hulk Hogan announced that he was retiring from pro wrestling and would run for president in 2000.

We are counting votes.

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  Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to an animation show

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

 

[radu]

One of radu's cat when he heard about Tomkow's plan!

They just don't know what to think about such behavior! LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hi CPT kj!! Hi Star!! Thank you for serving this great nation of ours.
Prayers for your success and safety, kj.
And extra prayers as you travel.

[Soaring Feather]

Tomkow

[Kathy in Alaska]

No dressing for me, I'm watching my weight: In honor of Thanksgiving, Sea World San Diego's Manatee Rescue serves up green leaf lettuce, romaine, cabbage and spinach.

[Kathy in Alaska]

NEW YORK, New York, Nov. 25--Petty Officer Joshua Fritzinger, 22, of Dobson, N.C. , conducts a Homeland Security patrol in the New York Harbor as the British Airways Concorde makes its way to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum November 25, 2003. USCG photo by PA2 Mike Hvozda

[Old Sarge]

BoyHowdy, did I just get some good news!!!

Just got email confirmation of my Disney World reservation - and my requests came through! We changed the hotel we were planning on staying at, and saved FOUR HUNDRED BIG ONES!

I am blown away by this: I'll be doing a Disney run, with a family, and a rental car, for eight days, DURING XMAS, for under a thousand!!!

ZIP-A-DEE-DOO-DAH!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea visits Hawaii

HONOLULU – Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea is en route to Antarctica for Operation Deep Freeze 2004 and will be stopping at Honolulu Harbor for a five-day port call starting Tuesday.

Honolulu is the first port of call for the ship’s 150-person crew since beginning a five-month deployment to Antarctica from its homeport of Seattle and will moor at Pier 9 Tuesday at 10:00 a.m.

The operation will be a joint effort from the Polar Sea and its sister ship the Polar Star, which left for Antarctica earlier in November.

The Polar Sea and the Polar Star will contribute to the U.S. Antarctic program that is led by the National Science Foundation. The icebreakers will create a channel, for re-supplying the principal U.S. science station at McMurdo Sound, through 10 to 30 miles of “fast” ice – sea ice still attached to the shore. Escorted by the icebreakers, a tanker and cargo ship will offload provisions and equipment so that bases at McMurdo Sound and the South Pole can stay operational year round.

Early Saturday morning, Nov. 22, the 399-foot ship arrived on scene 1000 miles north of Oahu to assist search and rescue efforts for two people who went missing from the sailing vessel Azure. The Coast Guard suspended its search at 4:37 p.m. that afternoon and the Polar Sea continued its voyage to Honolulu.

For Petty Officer 1st Class Keoni K. Galletes, a native of Kahuku, Hawaii, the stop in Honolulu will be a chance to celebrate Thanksgiving at home.

For information contact Petty Officer Jennifer Johnson at 808-541-2121.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Soaring Feather]

ZIP-A-DEE-DOO-DAH!

[Kathy in Alaska]

USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11)

Deep Freeze '04

Home

17-NOV-03 We departed Seattle to start our Deep Freeze 2004 operation. It was a sad day for all of us. Many of our family and friends were on the pier to say goodbye and to wish us well on our journey. For some of us it is our first time going down South. For others we have done it before and know what it takes to get the mission accomplished. We have some scheduled port calls along the way. They are as follows: Adelaide, Antarctica, Honolulu, Sydney, and Townsville.

20-NOV-2003 As we were doing our day to day jobs our Captain came over the PA system and announced to us that we were changing our course. He proceeded to tell us that there was a sail boat in danger and in need of assistance. Later on in the day we found out that there was no more sail boat. Just two people in a life raft clinging on. We are now en route to the scene.

21-NOV-2003 We received this article from the Honolulu Star Bulletin:

Friday, Nov. 21

Honolulu Star Bulletin

U.S. Coast Guard officials expected to rescue two people in a life raft this morning after receiving an emergency signal from their vessel yesterday.The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea was en route last night to the location where two people from the sailing vessel Azure were last spotted, about 950 miles north-northwest of Oahu.The couple left Kauai's Nawiliwili Harbor on Nov. 6 and were heading to Long Beach, Calif.Coast Guard personnel in a C-130 confirmed yesterday that the two people in the raft were alive.

The rest of the story

[radu]

An MH-53 Sea Dragon pilot assigned to the Blackhawks of Helicopter Mine-Countermeasures Squadron Fifteen .....

Seeing pics of our troops at "work" gives me tinglings up and down my spine....the good kind. I'm so proud of the men and women who volunteer to serve our country!
Though this one makes me a little dizzy to think about.....you know my "love" of heights and flying. LOL!!