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Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:50:23 -0400, Neil wrote: On 9/18/2014 1:52 PM, CRNG wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:42:31 -0500, "R. C. White" wrote in After junior college, I was at OU only 2 years, 1954-56 (in the middle of the 47-game winning streak!), getting my BBA in Accounting. The main things I remember about the engineers was that they painted everything green - including their creatively-styled beards - on St. Patrick's Day. ;) I've never been closer to NYC than Chattanooga - once. Well, I haven't thought of the special affinity that the OU Engineers had for Green and St. Patrick for many, many years. I never did understand why the Engineering students/school adopted St. Pat as their patron. St. Pat wasn't an engineer to my knowledge. They didn't have engineers in those days. Hmmm. Since "Patrick" was a "Saint", it's likely that status was obtained AD. I doubt that the pyramids were built by folks who were just guessing about how to do such things. ;-) They obviously had help from visiting alien astronauts. People back in those primitive days obviously couldn't have built the pyramids without alien help... A couple of thoughts: 1. The smart engineers of the 21st century are still trying to figure out how the pyramids and Stonehenge were built. Some ideas have emerged, but we ain't there yet. Alien visitors are not part of the guesses, however :-) 2. Heck, after all, they *were* humans back in those days... I prefer to believe that it was a 'Wierd Science' type of support with Kelly LeBrock showing up and providing all the incentive the human workers needed. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nce_(1985).jpg -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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"Neil" wrote in message
... On 9/18/2014 1:52 PM, CRNG wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:42:31 -0500, "R. C. White" wrote in After junior college, I was at OU only 2 years, 1954-56 (in the middle of the 47-game winning streak!), getting my BBA in Accounting. The main things I remember about the engineers was that they painted everything green - including their creatively-styled beards - on St. Patrick's Day. ;) I've never been closer to NYC than Chattanooga - once. Well, I haven't thought of the special affinity that the OU Engineers had for Green and St. Patrick for many, many years. I never did understand why the Engineering students/school adopted St. Pat as their patron. St. Pat wasn't an engineer to my knowledge. They didn't have engineers in those days. Hmmm. Since "Patrick" was a "Saint", it's likely that status was obtained AD. I doubt that the pyramids were built by folks who were just guessing about how to do such things. ;-) Those pyramids were built wrong, they were supposed to be block-shaped http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7q1o/geico-ancient-pyramids |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 01:55:54 -0400, . . .winston wrote:
Gene E. Bloch wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:50:23 -0400, Neil wrote: On 9/18/2014 1:52 PM, CRNG wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:42:31 -0500, "R. C. White" wrote in After junior college, I was at OU only 2 years, 1954-56 (in the middle of the 47-game winning streak!), getting my BBA in Accounting. The main things I remember about the engineers was that they painted everything green - including their creatively-styled beards - on St. Patrick's Day. ;) I've never been closer to NYC than Chattanooga - once. Well, I haven't thought of the special affinity that the OU Engineers had for Green and St. Patrick for many, many years. I never did understand why the Engineering students/school adopted St. Pat as their patron. St. Pat wasn't an engineer to my knowledge. They didn't have engineers in those days. Hmmm. Since "Patrick" was a "Saint", it's likely that status was obtained AD. I doubt that the pyramids were built by folks who were just guessing about how to do such things. ;-) They obviously had help from visiting alien astronauts. People back in those primitive days obviously couldn't have built the pyramids without alien help... A couple of thoughts: 1. The smart engineers of the 21st century are still trying to figure out how the pyramids and Stonehenge were built. Some ideas have emerged, but we ain't there yet. Alien visitors are not part of the guesses, however :-) 2. Heck, after all, they *were* humans back in those days... I prefer to believe that it was a 'Wierd Science' type of support with Kelly LeBrock showing up and providing all the incentive the human workers needed. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nce_(1985).jpg :-) But how do you keep the workers and engineers[1] on track with a distraction like her around? [1] I truly think they qualified for that title even without slide rules and pocket protectors. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:06:56 -0400, PAS wrote:
"Neil" wrote in message ... On 9/18/2014 1:52 PM, CRNG wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:42:31 -0500, "R. C. White" wrote in After junior college, I was at OU only 2 years, 1954-56 (in the middle of the 47-game winning streak!), getting my BBA in Accounting. The main things I remember about the engineers was that they painted everything green - including their creatively-styled beards - on St. Patrick's Day. ;) I've never been closer to NYC than Chattanooga - once. Well, I haven't thought of the special affinity that the OU Engineers had for Green and St. Patrick for many, many years. I never did understand why the Engineering students/school adopted St. Pat as their patron. St. Pat wasn't an engineer to my knowledge. They didn't have engineers in those days. Hmmm. Since "Patrick" was a "Saint", it's likely that status was obtained AD. I doubt that the pyramids were built by folks who were just guessing about how to do such things. ;-) Those pyramids were built wrong, they were supposed to be block-shaped http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7q1o/geico-ancient-pyramids LOL! I usually skip commercials, but I often retrace my steps for Geico. But I missed that one, so thanks. It didn't necessarily have to be funny[1], but they did it with a very deft touch... [1] e.g., if I had been the one to design and film the commercial. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
... On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:06:56 -0400, PAS wrote: "Neil" wrote in message ... On 9/18/2014 1:52 PM, CRNG wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:42:31 -0500, "R. C. White" wrote in After junior college, I was at OU only 2 years, 1954-56 (in the middle of the 47-game winning streak!), getting my BBA in Accounting. The main things I remember about the engineers was that they painted everything green - including their creatively-styled beards - on St. Patrick's Day. ;) I've never been closer to NYC than Chattanooga - once. Well, I haven't thought of the special affinity that the OU Engineers had for Green and St. Patrick for many, many years. I never did understand why the Engineering students/school adopted St. Pat as their patron. St. Pat wasn't an engineer to my knowledge. They didn't have engineers in those days. Hmmm. Since "Patrick" was a "Saint", it's likely that status was obtained AD. I doubt that the pyramids were built by folks who were just guessing about how to do such things. ;-) Those pyramids were built wrong, they were supposed to be block-shaped http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7q1o/geico-ancient-pyramids LOL! I usually skip commercials, but I often retrace my steps for Geico. But I missed that one, so thanks. It didn't necessarily have to be funny[1], but they did it with a very deft touch... [1] e.g., if I had been the one to design and film the commercial. I've got a dry sense of humor. When the guy mutters "Uh-oh" at the end, it makes me laugh every time I see it. Check out this compilation of commercials for the "Trunk Monkey" (in case you haven't seen them), hysterical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8oPVVGYQ40 |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:17:48 -0400, PAS wrote:
http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7q1o/geico-ancient-pyramids LOL! I usually skip commercials, but I often retrace my steps for Geico. But I missed that one, so thanks. It didn't necessarily have to be funny[1], but they did it with a very deft touch... [1] e.g., if I had been the one to design and film the commercial. I've got a dry sense of humor. When the guy mutters "Uh-oh" at the end, it makes me laugh every time I see it. It was so nicely understated all the way through... Check out this compilation of commercials for the "Trunk Monkey" (in case you haven't seen them), hysterical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8oPVVGYQ40 New to me. I watched a couple, but it's lunch time, and I'm getting too weak to go on. I'll watch the whole set later. They're well done so far. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:13:36 -0500, Neil Gould wrote:
PAS wrote: "Neil" wrote in message ... On 9/18/2014 1:52 PM, CRNG wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:42:31 -0500, "R. C. White" wrote in After junior college, I was at OU only 2 years, 1954-56 (in the middle of the 47-game winning streak!), getting my BBA in Accounting. The main things I remember about the engineers was that they painted everything green - including their creatively-styled beards - on St. Patrick's Day. ;) I've never been closer to NYC than Chattanooga - once. Well, I haven't thought of the special affinity that the OU Engineers had for Green and St. Patrick for many, many years. I never did understand why the Engineering students/school adopted St. Pat as their patron. St. Pat wasn't an engineer to my knowledge. They didn't have engineers in those days. Hmmm. Since "Patrick" was a "Saint", it's likely that status was obtained AD. I doubt that the pyramids were built by folks who were just guessing about how to do such things. ;-) Those pyramids were built wrong, they were supposed to be block-shaped http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7q1o/geico-ancient-pyramids I thought that was one of their better commercials. Especially when considering the 3D transformation that would lead one to rotate a block in such a way that it would become a pyramid. OK, I'm confused. The top vertex of those pyramids have four surfaces meeting. The vertices of cubes have three surfaces meeting. There's got to be more to this than rotation... I've already made one major mistake today on Usenet, so I'm ready to be wrong again... -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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PAS wrote:
"Neil" wrote in message ... On 9/18/2014 1:52 PM, CRNG wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:42:31 -0500, "R. C. White" wrote in After junior college, I was at OU only 2 years, 1954-56 (in the middle of the 47-game winning streak!), getting my BBA in Accounting. The main things I remember about the engineers was that they painted everything green - including their creatively-styled beards - on St. Patrick's Day. ;) I've never been closer to NYC than Chattanooga - once. Well, I haven't thought of the special affinity that the OU Engineers had for Green and St. Patrick for many, many years. I never did understand why the Engineering students/school adopted St. Pat as their patron. St. Pat wasn't an engineer to my knowledge. They didn't have engineers in those days. Hmmm. Since "Patrick" was a "Saint", it's likely that status was obtained AD. I doubt that the pyramids were built by folks who were just guessing about how to do such things. ;-) Those pyramids were built wrong, they were supposed to be block-shaped http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7q1o/geico-ancient-pyramids I thought that was one of their better commercials. Especially when considering the 3D transformation that would lead one to rotate a block in such a way that it would become a pyramid. -- best regards, Neil |
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On 9/19/2014 4:19 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:13:36 -0500, Neil Gould wrote: PAS wrote: "Neil" wrote in message ... On 9/18/2014 1:52 PM, CRNG wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:42:31 -0500, "R. C. White" wrote in After junior college, I was at OU only 2 years, 1954-56 (in the middle of the 47-game winning streak!), getting my BBA in Accounting. The main things I remember about the engineers was that they painted everything green - including their creatively-styled beards - on St. Patrick's Day. ;) I've never been closer to NYC than Chattanooga - once. Well, I haven't thought of the special affinity that the OU Engineers had for Green and St. Patrick for many, many years. I never did understand why the Engineering students/school adopted St. Pat as their patron. St. Pat wasn't an engineer to my knowledge. They didn't have engineers in those days. Hmmm. Since "Patrick" was a "Saint", it's likely that status was obtained AD. I doubt that the pyramids were built by folks who were just guessing about how to do such things. ;-) Those pyramids were built wrong, they were supposed to be block-shaped http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7q1o/geico-ancient-pyramids I thought that was one of their better commercials. Especially when considering the 3D transformation that would lead one to rotate a block in such a way that it would become a pyramid. OK, I'm confused. The top vertex of those pyramids have four surfaces meeting. The vertices of cubes have three surfaces meeting. There's got to be more to this than rotation... I've already made one major mistake today on Usenet, so I'm ready to be wrong again... You're not wrong... I was creating an 8-sided object out of the 6-sided cube. Fuzzy thinking can do wonders! ;-D -- best regards, Neil |
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Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:13:36 -0500, Neil Gould wrote: PAS wrote: "Neil" wrote in message ... On 9/18/2014 1:52 PM, CRNG wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:42:31 -0500, "R. C. White" wrote in After junior college, I was at OU only 2 years, 1954-56 (in the middle of the 47-game winning streak!), getting my BBA in Accounting. The main things I remember about the engineers was that they painted everything green - including their creatively-styled beards - on St. Patrick's Day. ;) I've never been closer to NYC than Chattanooga - once. Well, I haven't thought of the special affinity that the OU Engineers had for Green and St. Patrick for many, many years. I never did understand why the Engineering students/school adopted St. Pat as their patron. St. Pat wasn't an engineer to my knowledge. They didn't have engineers in those days. Hmmm. Since "Patrick" was a "Saint", it's likely that status was obtained AD. I doubt that the pyramids were built by folks who were just guessing about how to do such things. ;-) Those pyramids were built wrong, they were supposed to be block-shaped http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7q1o/geico-ancient-pyramids I thought that was one of their better commercials. Especially when considering the 3D transformation that would lead one to rotate a block in such a way that it would become a pyramid. OK, I'm confused. The top vertex of those pyramids have four surfaces meeting. The vertices of cubes have three surfaces meeting. There's got to be more to this than rotation... I've already made one major mistake today on Usenet, so I'm ready to be wrong again... Turn the cube on its edge and bury half of it, then cut/chisel off two sides leaving 4 sides meeting at a common point should make something close to the pyramid. I was going to try it but I didn't feel like cutting up my Rubik. If you do try it make sure your pyramid aligns within three-sixtieths of a degree of true north-south otherwise Kelly LeBrock may never show up. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:19:26 -0400, Neil wrote:
On 9/19/2014 4:19 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:13:36 -0500, Neil Gould wrote: PAS wrote: "Neil" wrote in message ... On 9/18/2014 1:52 PM, CRNG wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:42:31 -0500, "R. C. White" wrote in After junior college, I was at OU only 2 years, 1954-56 (in the middle of the 47-game winning streak!), getting my BBA in Accounting. The main things I remember about the engineers was that they painted everything green - including their creatively-styled beards - on St. Patrick's Day. ;) I've never been closer to NYC than Chattanooga - once. Well, I haven't thought of the special affinity that the OU Engineers had for Green and St. Patrick for many, many years. I never did understand why the Engineering students/school adopted St. Pat as their patron. St. Pat wasn't an engineer to my knowledge. They didn't have engineers in those days. Hmmm. Since "Patrick" was a "Saint", it's likely that status was obtained AD. I doubt that the pyramids were built by folks who were just guessing about how to do such things. ;-) Those pyramids were built wrong, they were supposed to be block-shaped http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7q1o/geico-ancient-pyramids I thought that was one of their better commercials. Especially when considering the 3D transformation that would lead one to rotate a block in such a way that it would become a pyramid. OK, I'm confused. The top vertex of those pyramids have four surfaces meeting. The vertices of cubes have three surfaces meeting. There's got to be more to this than rotation... I've already made one major mistake today on Usenet, so I'm ready to be wrong again... You're not wrong... I was creating an 8-sided object out of the 6-sided cube. Fuzzy thinking can do wonders! ;-D Well, if you're in the market, I'd be glad to sell you an octahedron :-) -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 02:52:43 -0400, . . .winston wrote:
Gene E. Bloch wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:13:36 -0500, Neil Gould wrote: PAS wrote: "Neil" wrote in message ... On 9/18/2014 1:52 PM, CRNG wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:42:31 -0500, "R. C. White" wrote in After junior college, I was at OU only 2 years, 1954-56 (in the middle of the 47-game winning streak!), getting my BBA in Accounting. The main things I remember about the engineers was that they painted everything green - including their creatively-styled beards - on St. Patrick's Day. ;) I've never been closer to NYC than Chattanooga - once. Well, I haven't thought of the special affinity that the OU Engineers had for Green and St. Patrick for many, many years. I never did understand why the Engineering students/school adopted St. Pat as their patron. St. Pat wasn't an engineer to my knowledge. They didn't have engineers in those days. Hmmm. Since "Patrick" was a "Saint", it's likely that status was obtained AD. I doubt that the pyramids were built by folks who were just guessing about how to do such things. ;-) Those pyramids were built wrong, they were supposed to be block-shaped http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7q1o/geico-ancient-pyramids I thought that was one of their better commercials. Especially when considering the 3D transformation that would lead one to rotate a block in such a way that it would become a pyramid. OK, I'm confused. The top vertex of those pyramids have four surfaces meeting. The vertices of cubes have three surfaces meeting. There's got to be more to this than rotation... I've already made one major mistake today on Usenet, so I'm ready to be wrong again... Turn the cube on its edge and bury half of it, then cut/chisel off two sides leaving 4 sides meeting at a common point should make something close to the pyramid. Don't believe what people have been telling you about me. I am *not* a chiseler. I was going to try it but I didn't feel like cutting up my Rubik. Given my level of skill there, I would be willing :-) If you do try it make sure your pyramid aligns within three-sixtieths of a degree of true north-south otherwise Kelly LeBrock may never show up. Thanks to GPS, it should work OK. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On 9/20/2014 2:32 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:19:26 -0400, Neil wrote: On 9/19/2014 4:19 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:13:36 -0500, Neil Gould wrote: PAS wrote: "Neil" wrote in message ... On 9/18/2014 1:52 PM, CRNG wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:42:31 -0500, "R. C. White" wrote in After junior college, I was at OU only 2 years, 1954-56 (in the middle of the 47-game winning streak!), getting my BBA in Accounting. The main things I remember about the engineers was that they painted everything green - including their creatively-styled beards - on St. Patrick's Day. ;) I've never been closer to NYC than Chattanooga - once. Well, I haven't thought of the special affinity that the OU Engineers had for Green and St. Patrick for many, many years. I never did understand why the Engineering students/school adopted St. Pat as their patron. St. Pat wasn't an engineer to my knowledge. They didn't have engineers in those days. Hmmm. Since "Patrick" was a "Saint", it's likely that status was obtained AD. I doubt that the pyramids were built by folks who were just guessing about how to do such things. ;-) Those pyramids were built wrong, they were supposed to be block-shaped http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7q1o/geico-ancient-pyramids I thought that was one of their better commercials. Especially when considering the 3D transformation that would lead one to rotate a block in such a way that it would become a pyramid. OK, I'm confused. The top vertex of those pyramids have four surfaces meeting. The vertices of cubes have three surfaces meeting. There's got to be more to this than rotation... I've already made one major mistake today on Usenet, so I'm ready to be wrong again... You're not wrong... I was creating an 8-sided object out of the 6-sided cube. Fuzzy thinking can do wonders! ;-D Well, if you're in the market, I'd be glad to sell you an octahedron :-) I'm overstocked, presently. ;-) -- best regards, Neil |
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