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Slides Rule.... The good old slip stick
San Francisco Weekly ^
| July 2, 2003
| SILKE TUDOR
Posted on 07/12/2003 9:49:48 PM PDT by quietolong
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To: BradyLS
It certainly wasn't dictionaries.
To: quietolong
You had to keep track of your numbers. And if you came out with an answer that seemed In part because you had to place the decimal point.
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posted on
07/14/2003 6:20:32 PM PDT
by
js1138
To: quietolong
If you actually want to get one (or more), try
Slide Rule Universe.Disclaimer: No endorsement intended or implied. But their website has pretty pictures.
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posted on
07/14/2003 6:22:19 PM PDT
by
pttttt
To: wideminded
Digital is to analog as a chain is to a string.
Music, melody, is not composed of bits and pieces.
To: quietolong
Carbon dust in a cup; had to agitate it between states.
To: Myrddin
UCSD in the 1974 to 1876 time frame. It's a bitch paying back those student loans, isn't it?
To: SpaceBar
Incumbent; repetitive.
To: RadioAstronomer
LOL, don't feel sorry for me. I'm over it! Fact is, he was a pretty good teacher and he did teach physics with lots of fun, hands-on stuff like make-your-own-camera. I can't complain!
To: ovrtaxt
In France, they make crepes.
To: Lazamataz
It's the lack of English in the education language; multimodal, hypertextual, etc.
To: RadioAstronomer
I'll bet the shirt is long gone, though.
To: wideminded
Why does your post give me a mental picture of Hugh Hefner with a Shakespearean beard and a Pee-Wee Herman smile?
To: jennyp
25 years from now somebody will be bitching about having thrown away at least 100 AOL CD's; Hell, everybody will be.
To: jennyp
Typical gum-chewing teeny-bopper.
To: jennyp
I think it also described how the eyes vibrate back & forth about 10 times a second, So that is how Barney Google got the Googly, Googly eyes.
To: PatrickHenry
"This is a strange place." I wouldn't want to be in any other place. Great bunch of intelligent people here.
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posted on
07/14/2003 7:10:05 PM PDT
by
Capt_Hank
(btu's...kcal's...to kJ's, but my activation energy is high.)
To: Old Professer
It was part of the joke.
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posted on
07/14/2003 7:32:48 PM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
To: Old Professer
I can't get over the image of a hippy couple wearing suspenders sitting down to dinner with a number of freeloading coyotes and a family of rehabilitated owls -- all I see are feathers, legs and snapping galluses.Why does your post give me a mental picture of Hugh Hefner with a Shakespearean beard and a Pee-Wee Herman smile?
Memantine
To: Old Professer
Geez. The joy of a typo. I finished all my work at UCSD between Jan 1974 and June 1976. At $212 per quarter plus books, it was a damn good deal. I took 18 to 22 units every quarter except during the summer. I was only able to slide in 10 units O-chem and two psychology classes during the summer of 1975. Summer of 1974 was only good for 6 units of physics. No student loans necessary at those prices either. It was "pay as you go". My two oldest sons are in college now. "Pay as you go" sucks up about $2500 per semester for each one. That's just fees and books.
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posted on
07/14/2003 8:25:09 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: quietolong
I won't dismiss your comments but I will say that the calculator made my day!
The problem is not with the tool but with the teaching.
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posted on
07/14/2003 8:28:31 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
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