ok, had a so so day.
Finally my shipment of rare metals arrived.
60 grams of metal for around 3 effing grand. FFS.
Sold 2 of my motorbikes, now I only have the Milwaukee granny bobber left (the one that does not require me to lift my leg when getting onto it ...
Had a discussion with my boss why I needed a delegate. Fuck vacation, they call me even when I am in the middle of the pacific ...
I need to get a different phone number ...
Hf? Re? Np?
A couple of small disks of 241Am and Be. She already had the 3kg 239Pu and a small phial of 3H. Apparently got a rodent problem, big rodents...
For those of us who haven't played with a chemistry set since we were 10 years old care to translate?
I also hated chemistry in HS.
Not chemistry, physics. A DIY
"physics package".
I never cease to be surprised at the number of electronics folks who seem to have an "other science" hole in their internal knowledge bases. At university all the types studying science or engineering seemed equally knowledgable and at least interested in the other science subjects (beyond their specialities) that they would have studied at secondary school. In my final residence at university we had a computer scientist, a chemist, a metallurgist, a biochemist, one oddball studying English and me. We could sit and have a conversation at supper on, say the metallurgist's final year project (stress corrosion cracking), and everybody apart from Kevin (English major) could join in and ask intelligent questions, even offer tentative solutions of the "why don't you..." variety. Even Kevin had obviously paid attention in science classes at school because he could still get the gist, if not the details.
My general assumption has always been that "sciencey types" are at least reasonably well informed on most basic science subjects, but that assumption fails more often than it succeeds when I'm dealing with "electronics types". I find that very odd.