Bazza Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well Texas is like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... A lot of Texans would stumble over the phrase "factor of ten". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER The area measurements are simple enough -- an are is an area of 100 square meters (say, ten by ten meters), wile a hectare is one hundred ares, or one hundredth of a square kilometer (or, say, 100 by 100 meters). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... A lot of Texans would stumble over the phrase "factor of ten". *chuckle* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... A lot of Texans would stumble over the phrase "factor of ten". But not all. I am a Texan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER This is... Spinal... Tap? http://io9.com/5918672/brain-implants-powered-by-spinal-fluid-another-huge-step-towards-our-cyborg-future Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER But not all. I am a Texan. the prosecution rests, your honour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER http://io9.com/5918672/brain-implants-powered-by-spinal-fluid-another-huge-step-towards-our-cyborg-future *sigh* when will humanity learn to be human? @stevezilla didn't quote you because comment above not aimed at you and I haven't seen Spinal Tap to make a comment on your comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER *sigh* when will humanity learn to be human? @stevezilla didn't quote you because comment above not aimed at you and I haven't seen Spinal Tap to make a comment on your comment. The article proposes implants that can be powered by spinal fluid. To get a fluid, you have to "tap" the source -- and in this case, that is the spine... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER the prosecution rests' date=' [/quote'] ... under my foot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER But not all. I am a Texan. Eeeeexcellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER *chuckle* Not to worry, Cancer I am keeping your secret. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, I haven't been there in 13 years or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So, doesnt matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Quite probably. Not any more. Oh, the usual pack of lies that passes for a body of legend, but no, doesn't matter much any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 26, 2012 Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Time for this thread's weekly kick in the crotch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 26, 2012 Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Have fun? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted June 26, 2012 Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Time for this thread's weekly kick in the crotch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted June 26, 2012 Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So to contribute to the kick, I can now read and write hiragana. And a huge thanks to La Rose for given me tons of help in my learning process. I'm almost finished with the first unit of Pimsleur's Japanese courses. After that there are two more, but I'm going to switch to RosettaStone, and do the first unit so amp up my vocabulary and focus more on the writing aspects. If I stay on track, I'll be finished with all the commercial language learning programs by the end of this year. And the plan is to make it to Japan for a real vacation either next year or the year after. And of course start speaking to my Japanese coworkers using only Japanese. I figure after couple more years of doing that, I should be pretty fluent. Then I can start learning another language. My company is very multi-ethnic and we have Spanish, Filipino, and Russian speakers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 26, 2012 Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Rosetta Stone to learn Japanese... What the... ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted June 26, 2012 Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well yeah. Didn't you know that the ancient Japanese were in charge of the pyramid construction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER well they least it of the Egyptians and Sumerians, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... Leased? Learned? Aledged? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER There's been a young woman, physics major, of Japanese descent, last academic year, who besides grinding through the upper-division physics classes has been taking Japanese as well. I have to admonish her frequently that she really needs to go home and sleep sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well I know I'm not a woman, or of Japenese extraction, or learning Japanese but maybe the learning physics part could be me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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