Random Thought Thread

Mendoman said:
I get the one from Costco and it’s pretty good. The one pictured on the left is also good. You said Amazon so that might not be helpful but that’s what I know about. Also there is a recipe for “the worst chocolate chip cookies” from sugar spun run that calls for 1/4 cup of maple syrup. Those are really good. The one on the right is smoked with pecan wood and sucks. Who wants their maple syrup to taste like smoke? It was a gift and I hate to throw it away because it’s expensive but tastes bad so it just sits in my refrigerator View attachment 2691243
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The Runamok Maple is the only kind we have in the house right now...
 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
stupidest internet password ever is ''smile123''

I'd have gone with ''stonesarepercentagesofpoundshahalollmfaowtfbbq''
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My banking password 15 years ago was the MAC address of my wireless router that died and got thrown away the year before + the MAC address of my personal computer from the same year, and I had this memorized! Those were the good old days when my brain was still able to solve a Rubik's cube behind my back. Now I don't even remember what I had for breakfast yesterday 🤯
 
DocJekl said:
My banking password 15 years ago was the MAC address of my wireless router that died and got thrown away the year before + the MAC address of my personal computer from the same year, and I had this memorized! Those were the good old days when my brain was still able to solve a Rubik's cube behind my back. Now I don't even remember what I had for breakfast yesterday 🤯
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at least you remember that you had breakfast or not
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Converting from pounds to kilograms is easy when you know that one cubic inch of water weighs .0361 lb and one cubic centimeter of water weighs 1 g.

That's how I do it anyway

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And for all the reasons this works for you, we are grateful you use your powers for good and not for evil. Life would not be nearly as good for us if you applied your thinking to something like making or skinny jeans or bicycle reflectors. So, hey, you do you.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Converting from pounds to kilograms is easy when you know that one cubic inch of water weighs .0361 lb and one cubic centimeter of water weighs 1 g.

That's how I do it anyway

😁
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So much easier to convert tons to tonnes ... I admit, the SI should have picked names that sound different. I grew up with a pound being half kg.
 
TRfromMT said:
And for all the reasons this works for you, we are grateful you use your powers for good and not for evil. Life would not be nearly as good for us if you applied your thinking to something like making or skinny jeans or bicycle reflectors. So, hey, you do you.
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I think most people think I'm kidding, but I'm actually being completely serious. I haven't memorized most of the conversions but I do know a couple of the constants so I have used those constants to make the conversions and it's really not difficult if you have a calculator in front of you.

I know the density of common materials. But I went to school in the '90s so it's in pounds per cubic inch. But I happen to know that water is .0361

I don't use centimeters or heptameters, my mind does better with millimeters and meters

So the math is 25.4 * 25.4 * 25.4 gives me 16,387.064 cubic millimeters weighs .0361 lbs.

So, 16,387.064 mm divided by 1,000 (16.387 cm) weighs .0361 lbs. (unnecessary calculation but I always work in mm)

So 16.387 (grams in a cubic inch) is equal to .0361 (pounds in a cubic inch)

Divide both by .0361, you get 453.9 grams is equal to 1 lb.

That's .454 kilograms per pound.

It sounds more complicated than it is and it pretty quick with a calculator. There's always risk of conversion errors but if your significant digits aren't crazy it's okay.
 
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