I’ve loaded the Pete 03 Barley with “Devil’s Holiday” and my little “Lovelin” with some “Exotic Orange” preparing for “Tank Night” after dinner this evening.
Tonight some White Knight in my Castello KKK, then onto some G&H Balkan in my Peterson 309 spigot shown on the pipe rest. That’s Johnny Walker Black in the glass.
Dug out a new circle line around 3 trees, put in edging around the 9 new boxwoods I just planted. Taking a short break with some Frankenblend in a repaired and restemmed Emerald MM. Then I start mulching...🙁
Smoking some C&D’s Low Country “Guendalose” in the “first smoke” of a refurb I did years ago. I wasn’t sure if I would like the pipe. It’s the perfect size for me, and I love the shape, but that stem? The stem kinda grew on me over the years and I have decided to keep it. The stem is more “tangerine/darker” than it looks in the picture. It is a Mountbatten Admiral 213 Lovat. I have read that these pipes were produced by Charatan’s Make as a “third” line, it does have four largish fills that would attest to it’s “third” line status…or lack of status thereof. It’s starting off as a good smoker is all I know.
got back home yesterday from Cleveland visiting family for Easter/spring break. Ugh, it's good to be back in the south. Mixed up a nice frankenblend and cracked a cool one to relax from a long trip.
Taking a break from grading exams. Smoking a bowl of CRF (without that perique crap) in a Sav Canadian. By the way, does anyone know what -2(Q-6) equals? Some of my students obviously don't.
@vtgrad2003 I hated algebra almost worse than I hated geometry. It's all advanced forms of math to me.
I was thinking girth not length, by the way. I seem to remember a similar equation about determining the circumference of a circle when you had the beginning and end data points. I could be wrong. I barely made it out of Algebra I and Geometry in high school and really didn't begin to understand the value of them until I worked on diesel engines my first two years in the Coast Guard and then when I started learning about photography.
Seeing how algebra and geometry were put to practical use in the working world made it easier to understand.
@vtgrad2003 Ok, apparently I need to go back to skool😉. I use to like math….well everything except geometry and calculus. I had to google that equation….love the google.
@PappyJoe I think your referring to which expresses the relationship between a radius / diameter and the circumference of a circle.
I hated algebra as well, math teachers I had could never explain the why, and because of the way my mind is wired ( i need to understand the process) I could never grasp how to understand the language / manipulations.
I was literally beaten by my father who was an engineer and mathematician because I didn't get it.
To your point, it wasn't until I was in my mid to late twenties that my job changed and I was working with engineers on machine designs that necessitated my teaching myself.
Fortunately one of the guys I worked with suggested that I learn to create proofs for the basic expressions, it was painful but it finally gelled and became easy.
When I think back on all the pain and suffering I experienced as a teenager due to my inability to understand much beyond arithmetic it still ticks me off because so little has changed with regard to how it's taught.
I got to watch all over again when my daughter was in college and had to learn about high energy physics for her degree; she had to work so hard, but eventually she got through it
At the undergraduate level, i.e., what I'm teaching my students now in Quantitative Analysis, it's algebra and light calculus. Here's a video I made for the students (one of about 65 tutorial videos for this course) to give you an idea--just realize that this video is used at the end of the semester as we are now, so there's an entire semester's worth of teaching before this.
At the graduate level, like I experienced getting my PhD, it's a lot more like what you experienced. The first 1 1/2 years was nothing but high powered mathematics with very little application. Our typical midterm exam was 9 hours (started at 9 am and finished around 6 pm), usually consisted of one question, and it wasn't unusual to have 30+ pages of calculations for that question, so, I certainly sympathize.
As a side note, we used to have guest researchers in every other Friday to present their research to the department--a few of these were Nobel Prize winners and a couple of Fed Reserve Chairmen to boot. Every time I would sit in the back row of a presentation room that normally held about 40 people, so it wasn't a large event and everyone who attended did so because they were genuinely interested in the topic(s). Every week, a couple of seats from me was a man that would sit in on these lectures. One day I asked him who he was, he responded 'I'm a theoretical physicist in the physics department'. So, I asked the obvious...what are you doing coming to lectures on economics? He responded that our mathematics was so sophisticated that he got a ton of ideas from us. He said that physics is more or less a controlled mathematical environment in the sense that inertia, gravity, theories of relativity, etc., were all fixed functions and all known, but economists model human behavior, so our math had to be dynamic and flexible enough to allow for changing environments, attitudes, and preferences. I thought that was a very interesting response.
@RockyMountainBriar Sorry for the late reply. To answer your question, that particular MM Emerald had a crack forming at the base of the bowl. MM replaced the pipe, but not the stem. So I turned the original stem ( too tight for the new pipe ), and placed it on the new pipe MM sent me. Then I repaired the crack in the old Emerald pipe, and restemmed it with another acrylic stem... I'm sure that's all perfectly clear...🤪
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Nice pipes, Brother.
Taking a short break with some Frankenblend in a repaired and restemmed Emerald MM.
Then I start mulching...🙁
Did your Emerald MM have a little accident, or are you just changing it up with a new stem?
Asking questions about math may get you shunned in this group.
I would guess that's a circular argument though.
I hated algebra almost worse than I hated geometry. It's all advanced forms of math to me.
I was thinking girth not length, by the way. I seem to remember a similar equation about determining the circumference of a circle when you had the beginning and end data points. I could be wrong. I barely made it out of Algebra I and Geometry in high school and really didn't begin to understand the value of them until I worked on diesel engines my first two years in the Coast Guard and then when I started learning about photography.
Seeing how algebra and geometry were put to practical use in the working world made it easier to understand.
Ok, apparently I need to go back to skool😉. I use to like math….well everything except geometry and calculus. I had to google that equation….love the google.
It has been decades since I have studied math. Is the answer Q=-6?
Sorry for the late reply. To answer your question, that particular MM Emerald had a crack forming at the base of the bowl. MM replaced the pipe, but not the stem. So I turned the original stem ( too tight for the new pipe ), and placed it on the new pipe MM sent me. Then I repaired the crack in the old Emerald pipe, and restemmed it with another acrylic stem...
I'm sure that's all perfectly clear...🤪