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Slide Rules

Topic 15 · 53 responses · archived october 2000

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~wolf Mon, Feb 15, 1999 (21:17) seed

for ray, since he hasn't done this already.

~wolf Mon, Feb 15, 1999 (21:18) #1

so, dear ratthing, when're you gonna show us a pic (for those of us sliderule challenged)?

~ratthing Tue, Feb 16, 1999 (18:50) #2

oh! i'll find one for you!

~KitchenManager Tue, Feb 16, 1999 (21:50) #3

go, ray, go! slide, ray, slide!

~ratthing Wed, Feb 17, 1999 (22:31) #4

this page is totally awesome... http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/sruniverse.html

~KitchenManager Thu, Feb 18, 1999 (18:14) #5

like, totally, fer shur?

~ratthing Thu, Feb 18, 1999 (21:20) #6

dude...

~wolf Thu, Feb 18, 1999 (21:42) #7

ok, now i know what they look like, but what are they for? kinda reminds me of the "sliderule" i use to get the right distance for sewing hemlines.

~KitchenManager Thu, Feb 18, 1999 (21:47) #8

they are primitive calculators, Wolfie...

~wolf Thu, Feb 18, 1999 (21:49) #9

primitive? damn, they look pretty complicated to me. like an abacus or something? or for stuff like concrete? (my neighbor gave me one made of plastic, kinda neat)

~KitchenManager Thu, Feb 18, 1999 (21:52) #10

I'll let Ray take over from here...

~wolf Thu, Feb 18, 1999 (21:53) #11

uh, t'anks!

~ratthing Fri, Feb 19, 1999 (18:43) #12

primitive, indeed! they are ultracool and ultracomplex!! sliderules were used in pre-calculator days to multiply, divide, calculate squares and cubes, square roots and cube roots, logrithms, and a variety of other trig functions. the basic concept behind the slide rule was that of ratios and proportions. you slid the parts of the sliderule to a certain position, then read your answer off. the advantage of a calculator over a slide rule is of course speed and accuracy. however, slide rules don't need batteries and can last for many, many years. also, learning things like powers and logrithms on a slide rule makes it easier to understand them than just typing numbers into a calculator!

~wolf Fri, Feb 19, 1999 (18:57) #13

wow, thanks.....

~KitchenManager Fri, Feb 19, 1999 (23:32) #14

(I knew I'd get you going, Ray...)

~ratthing Sat, Feb 20, 1999 (09:52) #15

you evil, evil man!

~KitchenManager Sat, Feb 20, 1999 (11:21) #16

be that as it may... I can be effective! (and probably affective, as well...)

~ratthing Sat, Feb 20, 1999 (20:44) #17

convective? ,

~KitchenManager Sun, Feb 21, 1999 (00:00) #18

hmmm...

~aschuth Wed, Mar 3, 1999 (03:36) #19

Hey, but there's other ways to do the math thang, too. Somewhere around my place, stuffed in some moving boxes I got a book that does all that for you! Right, it says something like "Don't calc it - Look it up!" on the cover. Lotsa numbers in there, too...

~aschuth Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (13:23) #20

Hmh, Ray's doing the ring-thing and gets himself married? Might explain why it's so quiet around this place here... Will he have to store his slide-rule collection in the garage? Or will she be thrilled and have them displayed on the living room wall? Will she embark with Ray on a crazed, all-out world-spanning slide-rule hunt without remorse or mercy?

~KitchenManager Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (13:29) #21

YES!!! YES!!! YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!

~aschuth Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (13:31) #22

So, what will happen? I take Gate B...

~KitchenManager Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (13:34) #23

I'm usually preferential to the back door...

~stacey Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (13:46) #24

wow. thanks for the visual WER...

~KitchenManager Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (14:14) #25

I knew you'd approve and, you're welcome. Anything else I can do for you?

~aschuth Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (14:17) #26

Oooh, Wer, does that mean you also collect these things, what's this topic called, these sli...

~KitchenManager Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (14:19) #27

no, but my father has a cool one...

~aschuth Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (14:30) #28

Boy, where are you from! The Ozarks or what! I didn't know that it was that deeply, uh, rooted...

~stacey Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (14:52) #29

WER is from Ireland... trapped helplessly in an Italian kitchen... he played bagpipes in high school and went to college on a scholarship based on his blowing talents... I knew him during those college years... what a dramatic transformation...

~KitchenManager Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (18:57) #30

oops...forgot about all that...

~stacey Fri, Apr 9, 1999 (13:06) #31

well pull out your yearbook WERsie! (that was my college nickname for heim)

~KitchenManager Fri, Apr 9, 1999 (23:43) #32

yessum, tongue-twister (that was my nickname for her...)

~aschuth Sat, Apr 10, 1999 (13:18) #33

So, why didn't this work out, one might wonder?

~KitchenManager Sat, Apr 10, 1999 (13:45) #34

but it did, Alexander, it did

~stacey Sat, Apr 10, 1999 (23:25) #35

*grin*

~KitchenManager Sun, Apr 11, 1999 (00:45) #36

oh, the memories! (past, present, and future...)

~aschuth Mon, Apr 12, 1999 (12:12) #37

So, you've been together in college or what? And what about this Brandon guy? Does he do Sushi, and she got fed up with pasta?

~stacey Mon, Apr 12, 1999 (19:05) #38

he likes sushi... he likes pasta too!

~KitchenManager Mon, Apr 12, 1999 (23:29) #39

as does Stacey...

~aschuth Tue, Apr 13, 1999 (11:10) #40

And! And! What's that with you guys? Were you once affiliated, so to speak, or is that none of my biz? What happened at college? (But then, hadn't I once found in the innards of this place the very first posts you'd exchanged? Didn't look like you guys knew each other then...)

~stacey Tue, Apr 13, 1999 (12:21) #41

*grin*

~aschuth Tue, Apr 13, 1999 (12:44) #42

*wider grin*

~stacey Tue, Apr 13, 1999 (14:53) #43

*cheshire cat grin*

~KitchenManager Tue, Apr 13, 1999 (19:49) #44

you are correct on all counts, Alexander... we are affiliated (so to speak)... of course it is your business since a lot of it is posted around here... Stacey graduated, I flunked out... (we knew each other, we just hadn't met yet...)

~KitchenManager Tue, Apr 13, 1999 (19:51) #45

So *ahem* anyone seen a good slide rule, lately? Or used one?

~stacey Tue, Apr 13, 1999 (22:19) #46

what is the rule about sliding anyway???

~aschuth Wed, Apr 14, 1999 (14:40) #47

I thought of all people here, you two guys knew!

~KitchenManager Wed, Apr 14, 1999 (23:26) #48

sometimes, it is safer to pretend otherwise...

~aschuth Thu, Apr 15, 1999 (12:06) #49

Oh. Excuse me. Wait, I'll rephrase that: "I'd never thought of all people here, you two guys wouldn't know!" Yep. Wer you're right - this looks much better!

~stacey Thu, Apr 15, 1999 (12:09) #50

sometimes WER just acts coy...

~KitchenManager Thu, Apr 15, 1999 (13:10) #51

and sometimes I just don't know how to act...

~aschuth Thu, Apr 15, 1999 (13:35) #52

...but I always compensate by blindly typing ahea�kbgbm ab�kkhnb�lmadfhbno�ikkm qjed#pjgsnby�pkm., aerhbpouj4n-ydnfb anyway. Yes, I understand perfectly.

~cfadm Mon, Jan 31, 2005 (02:58) #53

Alexander, William and Stacey. Where art thou?

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