BokStein

Daydream Believer - The Monkees

Dancing in the Moonlight - Toploader

Morning awl. In my early years of employment, I was involved with a facility to test (to destruction) various items of military hardware. We had a couple of specialist rigs for shock testing. With the light weight rig, we used to have to break the equipment (4 accelerometer channels) down and send it to our calibration lab on an annual basis. When we built the heavy weight rig, it had 8 accelerometer channels. Having served a part of my apprenticeship in the calibration lab, I sought their advice as to using an intermediate method of calibrating the two rigs' instrumentation as a whole, put a simple set of equipment (sine wave generator and a bank of capacitors) together and wrote a procedure whereby said set of equipment was calibrated before being used to calibrate each channel of each rig and then being recalibrated afterwards. The only thing we couldn't do either before or after this procedure was put in place was to calibrate the accelerometers which had to be sent to a specialist facility. IMHO (and here be dragons) football - an activity performed by some 22 overpaid actors chasing an inflated pig's bladder around an area of grass! If only cricket was hyped up to a similar level; I could watch that for hours (and hours and hours... ) and, in my role as team scorer, did so on many occasions! To the latter paragraph, I would whole-heartedly agree; it is a pity that one can only rate the whole post with, for example, a Like rather than individual parts of a post. This paragraph, on its own, would have received a 'friendly / supportive"! In a previous life, I was working on a project for which we had to write the requirements and design specifications for its various aspects. These were then submitted to a team colleague for review. In general, the technical content was accurate; the specs often just needed to be translated into English! One of my then colleagues was my victim for Secret Santa; given that he was of the generation of 'hashtag', 'well, like, we done, like', you get my drift, my present was a concise Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus. I believe it to be still in mint, unused condition!

Good Evening One and All and congratulations to all the happy recipients of recently announced results (commiserations with the unhappy ones!) May I generalise for a moment, please? Regardless of the test, its results are only truly valid at the time of testing and usually recorded in the form of a certificate. For example, you could be stopped by those in blue for a failed bulb whilst driving your car from its MoT Test for which you hold a Pass Certificate. I hold that, irrespective of whether we are talking GCSEs, A Levels, Degrees (all levels), PAT Certification of equipment, MoTs, Instrument Calibration (Sorry, The Q) and there are many other examples, the results on which the certificate is written are only valid at the time of test. People and equipment vary from day-to-day in their performance and can often be influenced by external circumstances (aka Ambient Conditions!) My point? Certification is not the be-all-and-end-all panacea that it's all too often perceived to be; it is merely an indication of recorded performance. In the higher education realms, to be a tad more specific, there is no better way of judging someone's overall ability, enthusiasm and suitability for further courses than a 1-2-1 interview. Conducted well, it can break down barriers, such as those enforced by the whole 'exam' situation and can give rise to some very unexpected results! Much as it irks me, as a Mechanical Engineer, I wonder how some guy by the name of Isambard Kingdom Brunel would have fared in a current exam on Stress Analysis? (Rhetorical!) I sat GCE O Level maths a year early so as I could sit the 'Additional Maths' O level in 1976; the syllabus included Pure Maths, Applied Maths and Statistics. Unfortunately, the teacher was well versed in Pure Maths and Statistics; I could never get to grip with Statistics, so I failed the exam! Move forward a year into the Lower Sixth, I am on Pure Maths, Applied Maths and Physics, so I ask for a resit that year. Guess what - Grade A! Pure Maths, essentially, was Differential Calculus and I subsequently went on to achieve Grade B A levels in both Pure and Applied Math. During my working career, I have seen the use for Laplace Transforms and FFTs, both heavily based on Calculus. For a while, I worked for a transmission designer and manufacturer; Differential Calculus was my tool of trade! (I spent 3 days looking into the equations on which our cam designs were based and, from the basic premiss that d2y/dx2=(omega)A with designated boundaries, derived a whole new set of equations that, when fed the existing common parameters, gave the expected, published results, and then took them at least two stages further allowing me to develop a design tool which could produce more adaptable motions than with the older tools, adding tools for motion blending, for example. My summary of life: Don't be a d3y/dx3 and F=d/dt(mv) is probably the closest I will ever get to Rocket Science!

Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo

At least Salvo understands the English etiquette and good manners!

Go to the Gaugemaster website and check the specification of their 0 Scale starter sets; IIRC, they include a Combi! https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/magento/scales/o-scale/gaugemaster-gm7000102.html for example.

OK, Now hows about a piccy of the infamous wolf pack?

Re. plumbing engineers, I note BarryO's use of "" marks! Simple; he doesn't! Like most bottled products, the container is warmed prior to the application of the lid. As the contents cool, it forms a tighter seal between jar and lid.

The foundation of my last layout (in T Gauge!)

However: https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/magento/news/article/view/id/218/?fbclid=IwAR3rzL57WjLGuu4iw9frO0KG2DBce5bUE5THZUcIjog1JGK-i72KxTZMY6o

I note that the "Thanks NHS" campaign has hi-jacked the well established LGBT Rainbow livery!

Thanks for the info, but it seems you're uncertain about some aspects as well!

Going all Pythonesque, "Sorry, old chap, don't understand your banter!" (6)6773 GB[RF?]NB? [heroe?]CE?M[osside?]GB? 296C00CU07 6 * CARLISLEY N? [...] my guesses

Just back from a foray into Chichester; biggest hold up (approx 3/4 mile) on the way in was the roundabout on the A27 where the road to The Witterings turns off. I would refer to lemmings, but, apparently, they have been inaccurately represented by some Mickey Mouse organisation! Came back through the city with no hold-ups; even the station's level crossing was open to cars! Given the mix of roads used in the 35 mile round trip, my car had a good opportunity to 'stretch her legs' although, I admit, my driving technique was a little short of 'fuel efficient'! Recently, she has only been given the throttle when passing cyclists as quickly and as safely as possible.

Wherever I lay my Hat - Paul Young

Anyone know where 66773 is currently on the circuit?

With Hiatus Hernia and a sealed duodenal perforation, NSAIDs are out for me by ingestion, you may see my concerns about off-the-shelf potions like Voltarol for relief from my rheumatoid arthritis and other muscular ailments!

Good evening! I too have that fear. A couple of years back, whilst resident in the local hospital, my consultant specificaly, explicitly and forcibly forbade me the ingestion of ibuprofen given my main gastric issues. Does that mean that I can still use Voltarol topically without the problems fighting ibuprofen vs omeprazole?

Having been Instructed to avoid Ibuprofen at all costs, where does Voltarol fit in the overall equation?

Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty

Dude (Looks Like A Lady) - Aerosmith

The further recommendation is to run them in as loco 3 before you do ANYTHING to change things! Impatience often leads to disaster!

Sir, may I respect to quote the ancient adage that a bad workman blames his tools?