Mundane facts about your day...

[John Marwood]

Ouija boards - a toy invention along the lines of play doh and tonka toys and owned by Hasbro


If you want really scary look to the House of Commons


Day or night

 

[littleme]

Officially off till end of the week. Have flu and feel like death regurgitated. I sound like Joe Pasquale on helium. And not a single day of annual leave in sight.

But keep away from me!

 

[Gadget]

2nd hospital appointment and Spawn 2 has a reprieve of at least 8 weeks till the meds they are going to give her for her acne have worked. When she does go in they have revised it again to about 3-4 days in HDU then a further 7 days. Thankfully they have a washing machine so I don't have to pack for that long lol

 

[age'd parent]

The dogs growling at me, for shutting the curtains over the bench
where she looks out of the computer room window, I may not be
back on the forum.

Oh it's ok, she is now whining and giving me pitiful looks.

 

[BobClay]

When I was a kid we used to camp on the Rec (nearly 300 yards from our house ... Bear Grylls ... eat yer heart out.) My Dad told me the Rec was haunted by ... wait for it ... THE BLUE PIG !! (roll of drums and sinister cello music.)

I lay there (just below the old sand pit) hearing phantom distant snorting sounds from Mordor the whole night (well ... not Mordor ... the allotments on the Hospital Bank .. but come on ... that's close enough.)

Of course, there was no BLUE PIG, it never appeared, it didn't exist.

But when I was older, and staggering back home from the Prince of Wales pub, you just can't believe the number of BLUE PIGS I saw !!!

 

[Trumpet]

What a smashing morning, lovely drive in to Stafford today, early morning mist, sunshine and the autumn colours starting to show.
Decent day at work planned and got both Gurly and Boy coming home this afternoon for a long week-end.
All's well in Trumpet world.

 

[staffordjas]

Found my old slide-rule whilst clearing out my parents house, along with the one in my dads desk that he still used until his death. He trusted that more than a calculator! Being a maths teacher, he made nothing easy

Just got to try to remember how to use it now , to show son how we coped before the days of calculators and computers when he comes home for mums funeral. Will probably dig out a few log books as well when I get further into the mountains of stuff to clear out.

Also found my old school reports....no wonder I was always getting belted when that time of the school year arrived. Grades for 'effort' were far worse than the ones for 'achievement', along with similar notes on each one 'She could do better if she actually tried' .
I HATED every day at school , and the grades for RE , music and art , which I particularly loathed and was useless at , gave me a good laugh!!!

 

[staffordjas]

Decided son won't be finding out how a slide-rule works after all ...... and proved that I was right all those those years ago ,when being made to learn how to use a log book to work out sines and cosines etc etc , in my argument with my maths teacher dad that I would never ever need to know and use that crap during my lifetime !

Well done to the person who invented calculators

 

[BobClay]

I still have my slide rule

When I went to sea in the sixties I eventually got to Japan and on a visit there later in the early 70's I went up the road and bought a 2 decimal place calculator (the bees knees at that time.) It ate batteries (LED digits) but made doing the ship's radio accounts so much easier.

The irony was I bought it in a an electronics shop in Yokohama, and the girl behind the counter worked out my change using an abacus

I few years later I bought an abacus in China (still not sure why) and I still haven't worked out how to use it.

 

[Gramaisc]

I still have my slide rule

When I went to sea in the sixties I eventually got to Japan and on a visit there later in the early 70's I went up the road and bought a 2 decimal place calculator (the bees knees at that time.) It ate batteries (LED digits) but made doing the ship's radio accounts so much easier.

The irony was I bought it in a an electronics shop in Yokohama, and the girl behind the counter worked out my change using an abacus

I few years later I bought an abacus in China (still not sure why) and I still haven't worked out how to use it.

I rescued one of these from the skip - a tremendous machine, when you work out how to use it.

 

[Glam]

I rescued one of these from the skip - a tremendous machine, when you work out how to use it.

worrisit?

 

[Noah]

worrisit?

A calculator

 

[Gramaisc]

worrisit?

 

[John Marwood]

What
Is
A
Celebrity
?

 

[tek-monkey]

What
Is
A
Celebrity
?

Going by the last episode of celebrity ballroom dancing on ice in the jungle that I watched it's someone you vaguely recognise but can't quite place?

 

[staffordjas]

Not sure why hubby told me , as we were eating our tea last night, not to bother cooking any tea tonight ..

He either doesn't like my cooking , or planning a suprise meal out. Hoping it's the latter , so washing my hair and getting dolled up just in case

 

[Mikinton]

I rescued one of these from the skip - a tremendous machine, when you work out how to use it.

Showing my age, but I used to use one of these at Uni. Multiplication was easy but I've no idea how you did long division (maybe by doing long division backwards IYSWIM).

 

[Gramaisc]

Showing my age, but I used to use one of these at Uni. Multiplication was easy but I've no idea how you did long division (maybe by doing long division backwards IYSWIM).

Division is essentially subtraction of units, tens, hundreds, etc, until one before a negative number is reached, the bell gives that away. It also has the advantage (sometimes) that it gives you the remainder, rather than a decimal part. It's like multiplication in reverse.

 

[Mikinton]

Division is essentially subtraction of units, tens, hundreds, etc, until one before a negative number is reached, the bell gives that away. It also has the advantage (sometimes) that it gives you the remainder, rather than a decimal part. It's like multiplication in reverse.

Yes, of course .... thanks.

The decimal part would still present a problem, though you could get around it by moving the decimal point around, I guess.

 

[Gramaisc]

Yes, of course .... thanks.

The decimal part would still present a problem, though you could get around it by moving the decimal point around, I guess.

Having a remainder is often more useful. If you needed to know the remainder as a decimal part, then that is just another operation, the reverse of finding the remainder when a modern calculator has given you a decimal part.