Random Picture Thread

[GrogNerd]

Corn?

When did I have corn?

 

[pvpeacock]

Great movie. Bobby Carradine (right side of the photo aka "Lewis") was my junior camp counselor at Catalina Island Camp when I was 9!

 

[balrog]

Sad.

True, but sad.

 

[balrog]

 

[balrog]

Ah, the memories. I actually think we learned to use slide rules in 10th grade chemistry. Maybe.

 

[GrogNerd]

I'm of the first handheld calculator generation. We never learned slide rules.

Early 70s Me: why do I need to do this arithmetic by hand? I can just use a calculator.

Teacher: well, you won't always have a calculator to use.

Today me:

 

[balrog]

Yeah, but back then:

 

[doug293cz]

Ah, the memories. I actually think we learned to use slide rules in 10th grade chemistry. Maybe.

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Those scales look linear. Someone who doesn't really know anything about slide rules designed a T-shirt.

Brew on

 

[balrog]

Those scales look linear. Someone who doesn't really know anything about slide rules designed a T-shirt.

Brew on

Well, nuts. It was a good idea, slide rules, adding logarithms equaling multiplication, but another fine idea dumbed down for the t shirt mega industrial complex. I was gonna pic my grandfather's but I fear <choke> that the second of the two "once in a lifetime" basement floods finally took it. There is nothing like the horror of realizing you can no longer find that "thing" you held onto for so long. <sigh>
It looked like this

 

[day_trippr]

I came across the slide rule my dad used at Columbia in the early '40s, and that I used at the University of Denver in the early '70s....and that my oldest son took to school for "show and tell" in the 80s to show how old his dad was

The beams and slider are in good condition, but oxidation has ravaged the plastic parts of the cursor to where it's literally crumbling. It's accompanied by a circular slide rule that my dad's engineering company would hand out at customer meetings...

Cheers!

 

[passedpawn]

 

[passedpawn]

I took that pic btw

 

[day_trippr]

Eh, it's just an ankle biter...

 

[GrogNerd]

flash forward 25 years & I owe my degree to my trusty TI-92

wouldn't have passed any of my calculus courses without it

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

I can now add Tile Fitter to my resume...

 

[day_trippr]

Speaking of old tech...

https://www.hackster.io/news/roy-lo...-single-board-computer-range-152bbe2d4111.amp

 

[balrog]

"and ya try to tell the kids about it these days and they don't believe ya"

 

[passedpawn]

Eh, it's just an ankle biter...

I play this course a LOT. There are a lot of small gators. That one is larger than normal for the course.

 

[day_trippr]

Ok, calf biter then

 

[doug293cz]

I play this course a LOT. There are a lot of small gators. That one is larger than normal for the course.

You passed or missed the opportunity for a great pun.

Brew on

 

[balrog]

 

[balrog]

 

[bruce_the_loon]

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Reminds me of an episode of Futurama.

 

[Skeeter686]

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How big is the desk supposed to be?

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[Sailingeric]

The wife, myself and a friend are doing dry January, except he and I are going to hit the local-ish casino on Wednesday since we both happen to have the day off and we do plan on having 1 beer, after 5 or 6 practice beers

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[balrog]

This.

(Or if I’ve added the bittering hops)

 

[day_trippr]

Winter Is Here

 

[balrog]