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Bicoastal
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AldoLeopold
(617 posts)I think he means monetarily successful. And yah, typically if you're that, you buy more stuff, and that spells trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with pool or something like that.
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a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)AldoLeopold
(617 posts)Trouble, oh we got trouble,
Right here in River City!
With a capital "T"
That rhymes with "P"
And that stands for Pool,
That stands for pool.
We've surely got trouble!
Right here in River City,
Right here!
Gotta figger out a way
To keep the young ones moral after school!
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble...
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)I have to see that movie again.
When the paperwork clears in re my thesis, I intend to have a week-long movie marathon, stopping only for bathroom breaks, food, and the obligatory 5 hours of sleep.
AldoLeopold
(617 posts)Though not after a thesis (doctoral?), but after my last final - Physics. Not my best subject.
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)When this degree is done with... I'm getting a triple threat degree in engineering (my hobby).
My wife says having the actual ME/EE/CE degrees will make the local police a little less nervous.
The main problem for my marathon is picking out which Dr. Who seasons to add.
AldoLeopold
(617 posts)I enjoy the integration of disciplines into Physics, but my instructor, while clearly learned and able, is having his hand forced by the department head with teaching utilizing a new method of in-class assignments with minimal lecture time. I'm a bit old school and need lectures to get me through - but in truth I'm definitely more of a life sciencer (which I know physics is the basis of )
My friends, family all say "you're so smart to be tackling all these difficult subjects," and I say "you clearly haven't met any engineers or physicists - they make me look like a blundering novice."
Which galls me to say, as my job post-graduation will be to clean up the numerous messes caused by engineers/physicists.
I'm going to indulge myself in some BBC Sherlock as well as the old BBC Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series. I can't get into the new Dr. Who, but the old series blow me away.
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)We need more new blood at all levels...
My goals are to build semi-Von-Neumann machines that "eat" pollutants. (That, and I want to make my city sustainable.)
The Sherlock series sounds good. What's the run time?
AldoLeopold
(617 posts)I believe - 2 series, 3 episodes each series at 1hr 30min each episode. A modern retelling but Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Watson are brilliant.
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)and they definitely rebuilt THE WOMAN into a modern version.
hmmm... maybe a two week marathon...
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)to get his physics degree.
What I like best about him (and I, as mom, think he's totally wonderful all around) is that every time I talk with him I learn something new. We have conversations about math, or astronomy, or other geeky topics and I just love it.
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)A local university has a nano-fab lab...
(VBEG)
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)Southern CT State U has the nano-fab lab.
AldoLeopold
(617 posts)We have a new nanotech building on campus - the next stage of human pollution. Sorry - I'm an Environmental Health Science major and I feel sometimes like a member of the Night's Watch sitting on the wall and all the while being mocked as guarding against grumpkins and snarks. LOL!
I do have high hopes that it can be used though for clean-up and remediation.
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)As Bucky Fuller put it: "Pollution is a wasted resource..."
AldoLeopold
(617 posts)As I recently learned for my HAZWOPER 40 hr cert CFR 40 classifies hazardous waste as that waste which cannot be reused or sold.
The trick, I find, is designating which waste is hazardous or not, and to what degree and agreeing as to the definition of hazardous.
Carbon nanotubes - utilized soon to lyse cancer cells, are discharged in urine after use and may prove a danger to the larvae of certain insects - namely some species of mosquito. They plug up the hole in some of these eggs and prevent the larvae from emerging through specific mechanisms or preventing the larvae even knowing (as it were) what the temperature is or when it is time to emerge. I wouldn't have known about it, but my program head is doing some research on it in conjunction with the Nanotech program.
Good for pest control, bad for the ecosystem. I've spoken informally with some of the researchers over there, though, and EPA and FDA are giving them what for trying to get these technology approved. I hope they do approve it, and find some way to extract the tubes in a responsible manner.
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)My wife says I tend to look at all problems as problem-solution past-times.
I really need to find a TV to get engrossed in...
AldoLeopold
(617 posts)"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
Speaking of which, this physics review isn't going to review itself. Time to determine the number of 1000 MW nuclear power plants it would take to equal the power of the sun assuming the sun has a radius of 7*10^8 m and a temperature of 5800K and an e of 1.
Answer? 3.947 * 10^17
Now, if we could just build a spherical solar plant around the sun...although I'm sure the republicans would block it because it would cut into their West Virginia votes.
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)I've the attitude, the pipe, love of tea, and utter hatred of boredom and stupidity.
Go and study. We can talk later... comparing notes on the perfect marathon.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)One of them led to the discovery of nitrocellulose. This, in turn, led to the fields of high-explosives and plastics, without which modern civilization and modern warfare would be unthinkable.
He also invented the fuel cell and discovered ozone.
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)As long as I maintain safety protocols (no plastique in the house, etc...)
The hard part is one of the people on our block (WAY up the hill) feels that my experimenting "sets the wrong tone for the community." My neighbors, on the other hand, say I sound like Macgyver with a hipper sound track.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)
whopis01
(3,523 posts)AldoLeopold
(617 posts)
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)
Magoo48
(4,720 posts)
treestar
(82,383 posts)simply taking more and more out of the planet.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Seek the middle path.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)
BainsBane
(53,072 posts)And does not necessarily depend on wealth or consumption of resources. The chief problem is that our society exalts wealth as the key sign of success.
gtar100
(4,192 posts)Excessive wealth is a big failure both personally and collectively. All systems thrive when there is continual circulation of resources. Accumulation of wealth in the hands of only small groups of people is a blockage of the resources our economy requires if it's going to be able to meet the needs of everyone. Those who might otherwise thrive as healers, peacemakers, storytellers and lovers typically end up focusing their lives on basic survival when the riches of life are held back by greedy and reckless people. And our lives are that much more poor for it.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Thanks for that input. I agree.
XtopherXtopher
(70 posts)
pbrower2a
(132 posts)Anyone who 'needs' material excess as ratification of his value as a person is a failure. Even in business the ones who do real good are more focused on creating capital which allows others good incomes than on indulging upon its fruit.
We are going to have to do a better job of conserving natural resources just to avoid mass poverty.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)I think there is STS and STO in most of what people spend their lives on. A combination of both is necessary at times, but the latter is considered to be a higher goal.
adieu
(1,009 posts)redefine "success" away from the number of digits on one's bank balances and towards the number of friends created or friendships sustained.
AldoLeopold
(617 posts)Meh, no tanks der sir.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Facebook wasn't mentioned. It seems that Facebook is your definition of friends. Maybe you need to find the correct definition of friends, then you can make your comment based on reality not a business model... which is part of the point.
...unless of course your being sarcastic.
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)Who defines the term?
Being sarcastic. I am not on Facebook - yuck. I think many people use it as a substitution. I just don't think, though, that the number of friends that you have measures your success on a planet of 7.2 billion people - it just measures your charisma score (18).
Perhaps I don't understand your definition of friends, though. Under the definition I understand, the local corrupt politician or snobby head cheerleader would be successful (nothing against cheerleaders). Those people typically have a large number of close friends and are not just "popular" as it were.
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)Successful - achieving the goals you've got for yourself
friends - those you cheerfully communicate with. Can be used to indicate a pen pal, or all the way up to "Okay Larry, you get the pool cues, and I'll get a bottle. Al is getting the car, to get us OUT of here."
I stopped being interested in cheerleaders, when I found out the cheer captain was into group scenes and bondage.
AldoLeopold
(617 posts)a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)had "her consciousness expanded" and had something like 5 kids.
I think I'll stick to being a geek.
handmade34
(22,758 posts)I read this at my husband's funeral... he had been a very wealthy man (and lost the money) before I met and married him... but he died a successful man.
SUCCESS (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To laugh often and much
to win the respect of intelligent people
and affection of children; to earn the
appreciation of honest critics and
endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty, to find the best
in others; to leave the world a bit
better, whether by a healthy child
a garden patch or redeemed
social condition; to know even
one life has breathed easier because
you have lived. This is to have
succeeded.
parisordi
(4 posts)great man he is
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)
progressoid
(49,999 posts)
liberal N proud
(60,346 posts)Flabbergasted
(7,826 posts)Bicoastal
(12,645 posts)Color me shocked. 
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)The bastion of intellectual and academic rigor...
I'm feeling an attack of the vapors!
Orrex
(63,225 posts)Just saying.
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)I hope like hell the peacemakers are successful in their efforts.
That healers have more success than ever.
That everyone succeeds in finding love and better share that with the world. That love be expressed in the way they treat animals, each other, children, the elderly, the sick, the poor, their families, and that they be good steward of our world in their time.
I hope artists are successful in sharing their visions, inspiring, and touching hearts and minds.
I hope and pray for an outpouring of such real and lasting success on all humankind.
Success is not a number with a bunch of zeros behind it, a bunch of houses the size of a village, and how many "small people" you are exploiting.
HCE SuiGeneris
(14,994 posts)Although, as pointed out in the first response, we can be multiple examples of all of the aforementioned.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Without those marks, I just don't agree that success is money or that peacemakers, healers, storytellers are not successful.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)