jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 29, 2020 7:22:56 GMT -5
jamesp They are all just labels that no one, especially the "experts," do not understand. I think there is something seriously wrong with someone who starts off with nothing and ends up as a billionaire. The world sees him as a success. If you get along without hurting others in whatever happens to be your milieu, that is a success to me. This activity pacified the Asperger's issues when I was 12 to 14 years old. Dad and I used go slot car racing. This track in Helsinki, it was also popular in Atlanta. Lots of tricks in building fast cars. Technical stuff. Like striping windings off the motor armatures to increase motor rpm to 100,000+and reducing life span of motor. The re-wound armatures had to be epoxied to prevent the copper windings from slinging off the armature due to centrifugal force at high rpm. This was an early generation car. Handmade, heavy, weight well distributed and low for tracks with lots of turns. Soft sponge tires were coated with stick resins for traction. This is a later generation light weight car with a slanted engine design to move motor weight over rear tires for increased traction. I was always the only kid racer. I came up with a simple flat plate fiberglass chassis with axle supports and slant motor mounts epoxied together using 1/32" scrap printed circuit card material. It was lightest car on the track. I kicked all their old butts on the straighter tracks till they modified to lighter cars. 105,000 rpm drag racing motor. Not for continuos use due to short armature windings generating heat.
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Post by knave on Jan 29, 2020 7:51:15 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Jan 29, 2020 8:06:54 GMT -5
I am simple Evan. A nurd to nth. But the type that loves doing stuff like shooting a ping pong ball thru a piece of plywood. Anything that takes physics to extremes. Should have taken a video of the 10 foot long potato canon. You'da been impressed.
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Post by 1dave on Jan 29, 2020 8:20:49 GMT -5
I have always been different from most kids but have never been categorized. Mom was a reader and passed it on. I read every book in our grade school library before moving on. I don't consider myself "smart," because I know I have done many stupid things, but I am curious and tenacious. Those qualities have drawn me to all your posts jamesp . I am as "happy as a grig" alone, but when I learned chess around age 9 I learned to tolerate other people. Algebra, trig, spherical geometry were all fun for me, but geology intervened before I got more than skin deep into calculus. I was working through college as an electrician (applied for and got a Master Electrician license the second year. Why not?) Juggling architecture, geology, engineering, when I ended up on a coal fired powerhouse surrounded by various categories of engineers. I was taking home 4 times what they were! That was the end of traditional schooling. The nature of the universe, religion, archaeology, If it caught my attention, I'm like a dog with a bone. Problems with my children led me into trying to understand the human mind, and that is why this thread exists.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 29, 2020 10:21:22 GMT -5
I love you 1dave. In the next life I am grabbing you up for a Dad ! Likewise, you are always delving into the mysteries of the universe. Your posts reach out and grab me too. We sound like carbon copies. Our mothers probably loved us because we were quiet and self contented. The 'whys' and 'hows' of the earth always fascinated me too. Math was my gig too. Terrible at other subjects other than sciences. I feel for you having to work with engineers lol. Another psychological discussion in itself.
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Post by 1dave on Jan 29, 2020 10:37:16 GMT -5
I love you 1dave . In the next life I am grabbing you up for a Dad ! We would be outrageous!
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Post by jamesp on Jan 29, 2020 12:41:32 GMT -5
Consider genetics of future generations....
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 29, 2020 12:57:06 GMT -5
jamesp and 1dave , that exchange almost gave me a tear. Y'all are awesome.
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Post by knave on Jan 29, 2020 13:44:30 GMT -5
I feel for you having to work with engineers lol. Another psychological discussion in itself.
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 29, 2020 13:53:04 GMT -5
I feel for you having to work with engineers lol. Another psychological discussion in itself.
My BIL and SonIL are engineers. BIL is a nuclear engineer, what ever they are called. He works at a nuclear accelerator here in VA. My SIL is a mechanical engineer. He is a exec at a major corporate HVC engineering company. I love both of them to death, but, yes, they have engineer personalities, which I love. Both of them know full well the jokes abt engineers and they agree. They are hands on guys. (Well, my BIL doesn't actually handle any nuclear material, but he does design tests for the accelerator. )
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Post by jamesp on Jan 29, 2020 13:58:54 GMT -5
jamesp and 1dave , that exchange almost gave me a tear. Y'all are awesome. Between the two of us we have probably Guiness'ed the record amount of electronic pages on RTH Tela. We are actually high level spies sending classified information to the Pentagon and Parthenon coded within the electronic RTH pages. All hidden and coded from the forum administrators.
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 29, 2020 14:02:08 GMT -5
jamesp and 1dave , that exchange almost gave me a tear. Y'all are awesome. Between the two of us we have probably Guiness'ed the record amount of electronic pages on RTH Tela. We are actually high level spies sending classified information to the Pentagon and Parthenon coded within the electronic RTH pages. All hidden and coded from the forum administrators.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 29, 2020 14:03:55 GMT -5
I see knave has a love for engineers. Lots of engineer jokes over the years Evan. We consider them entirely endearing. It proves how irresistible we are. Vexing and hypnotizing beautiful woman where ever we go. Forcing them to yawn repeatedly.(What does that mean ?)
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Post by jamesp on Jan 29, 2020 14:05:00 GMT -5
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Post by knave on Jan 29, 2020 14:06:30 GMT -5
It’s your brain giving a silent scream for more air.
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Post by knave on Jan 29, 2020 14:07:38 GMT -5
This one kinda mean.
How can you tell if someone is an engineer?
A: You don’t, they will tell you. Hehe
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Post by 1dave on Jan 29, 2020 17:04:59 GMT -5
jamesp and 1dave , that exchange almost gave me a tear. Y'all are awesome. Between the two of us we have probably Guiness'ed the record amount of electronic pages on RTH Tela. We are actually high level spies sending classified information to the Pentagon and Parthenon coded within the electronic RTH pages. All hidden and coded from the forum administrators. WHY did you have to let that slip out? Hopefully no one will notice - or believe it.
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Post by MsAli on Feb 11, 2020 9:53:26 GMT -5
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Post by Pat on Feb 11, 2020 11:03:23 GMT -5
I see knave has a love for engineers. Lots of engineer jokes over the years Evan. We consider them entirely endearing. It proves how irresistible we are. Vexing and hypnotizing beautiful woman where ever we go. Forcing them to yawn repeatedly.(What does that mean ?) jamesp you are endearing. Both husband and son are electrical engineers. I’m lucky.
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Post by knave on Feb 11, 2020 11:11:43 GMT -5
Pat Thanks for the kind words about uncle...
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