Hypatia's Protege
- Joined Mar 1, 2015
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I think not -- however I see a good deal of crow coming my wayDid you swallow a dictionary?
I think not -- however I see a good deal of crow coming my wayDid you swallow a dictionary?
Guess it's a holdover from protracted navigation of The Halls of Ivy...Seriously, I tend to absorb my environment. Three months with an artist friend and I could draw acceptable human characters. Six months before or after and I couldn't draw an acceptable circle.
Where do you spend time to absorb this kind of vocabulary?
Indeed! The social environment is most inviting! -- Were it merely Q&A it would get boring real fast...Another point: The Internet is a good place to find the lowest common denominator. A science site like this will have a generally more educated population.
That eliminates any chance that I will ever sound like you.Guess it's a holdover from protracted navigation of The Halls of Ivy...
Call me obtuse but I still don't understand how 10 paralleled 10 ohm resistors = .3 ohms (actually 0 ohms considering the offset of your meter)? Re: The labeling, I agree! In avoidance of just such confusion a zero exponent is not generally used...Ok, I tested each OK at 10.3 ohm, then tested groups of 3 in parallel at 3.8~ ohm then tested those in parallel at ~1.3 ohm which adds up given the lead resistance factor. Must have had one of my outsourced laborers twisting the cables and shorted one.
So in this case the 100 is 10*1o^0 ohms to make 10 ohms? Let's blame the '80s for that, that doesn't sound like standard terminology.
That's probably a good thing for your sake!That eliminates any chance that I will ever sound like you.
Yes, my real life happens among average people. If I sound too pompous, there will be a smack-down. At one point, a fellow asked me outside because I don't drink alcohol! He thought I was ridiculing him with my behavior.That's probably a good thing for your sake!
Nice chatting with you Jeff!Cool, my own non-50's-radio-show ivy wandering was way too short. Now I just try to stick to single syllable words and pictures. Worked pretty good there too. Thanks again for the help, the alarm clock cometh in <5h.
Aye and that's the rub! -- it seems common perception regards obfuscation and pomposity as inversely proportional, necessarily differential qualities (i.e. all that is not "ignorant" is pompous and vice-versa)Yes, my real life happens among average people. If I sound too pompous, there will be a smack-down!
Indeed! it would seem the only 'transgression' worse than independent thinking is adroit communication (attempted or realized)...For most average people, "obfuscate" means the opposite of the way you used it.
Being literate IS obfuscation in their eyes. (or is that ears?)
Well hey! Nice chatting with you!!! --- Glad YOU can sleep! I know I'll be counting 'negative resistors' in my dreamsI feel a need to get to bed before the sun rises.
Good night.
Yep, they're mica's all right. Got gillions of them hereI think mica capacitors. Remember, these are 40 to 50 years old. Only a couple of decades after paper caps were used (in radios) instead of poly-film.
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