You know...

That page was just plain impossible to get through. The reasons are far to complicated and drawn out to get into here, so I'll just say.....phooey on you! :yawn:

;)

Good post, Tai.

--nathan
 
Several excellent and oft quoted hypotheisi but your conclusions lack any reproducible data to sustantiate them! Back to the lab with you!!!
 
Male scientists reach their peak of sexual attractiveness later than most
"normal" men, becoming irresistable erotic dynamos in their mid-thirties to
late forties. Just look at these examples of sexually irresistable men in
technical professions:

* Bill Gates
* MacGyver

Female scientists become irresistable at the age of consent and remain that
way until about thirty minutes after their clinical death. Longer if it's a
warm day.
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My favorite part.
(It is too long to go through, I just read the first post)
 
Having known (and dated) several female scientists, I can tell you that it is hard to tell when clinical death occurs. Yes, I suspected they were dead, but they were so cute....and they didn't say no.....

Anyway, I have seen the reverse problem of male scientists (not saying who) being a desirable male as the perfect gene donor for some woman to have the ultimate child by. This gives a new definition to the term "F*****g his brains out".

(I'll quit there and put the Laphroaig away)
Stacy

This should probably be moved to around the grinder.
 
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Clearly only the scientists are reading it all, and then sending a copy to their friends for a peer review. I am useing the term friend lightly.
I use to work at the government doing trace metal analysis. Now engineeres is a whole diferent can of worms.
Cheers Ron.
 
So wheres the "You might be a voodoo, shamanistic, new age blade smith if..." post.

Just giving you a hard time Tai, love your work and the fun you interject into the discussion here.
 
bladsmth said:
Having known (and dated) several female scientists, I can tell you that it is hard to tell when clinical death occurs. Yes, I suspected they were dead, but they were so cute....and they didn't say no.....
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"If there is one trait that best defines a scientist, it is the ability to
concentrate on one subject to the complete exclusion of everything else in
the environment.

This sometimes causes scientists to be pronounced dead prematurely. Some
funeral homes in high tech areas have started checking resumes before
processing the bodies. Anybody with a B.Sc. or experience in computer
programming is propped up in a lounge for a few days just to see if he or
she snaps out of it."
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I don't think this thread should be moved Stacy. It really fits a good number of the folks around here... which is really the funny part of it! The quote above reminds me of heat treating discussions. LOL :D
 
Dustin Golat said:
So wheres the "You might be a voodoo, shamanistic, new age blade smith if..." post.

Just giving you a hard time Tai, love your work and the fun you interject into the discussion here.
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The whole scientist/nerd as bladesmith, or bladesmith as scientist/nerd, is a fairly recent cultural phenomenon. It’s very trendy these days. Everyone seems to want to get in on the act! Personally however, I think bladesmithing was a lot more fun and we were all better off before the metallurgists dog piled on it!… “ like a starved chihuahua on a pork chop”! :D
 
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I think you're full of it, Tai. I'm getting tired of your mean-spirited remarks. You say "Hee hee... it's all in good fun [insert smiley face to make it seem like I'm not a jerk" but you don't fool me. You make some of the most beautiful, most perfectly designed knives I've seen in a lifetime of looking but I can't figure out how you do it since you seem to spend most of your time on this forum trying to prove how your hippie bullshit is better than facts. I tried to give your point of view some credence but your complete lack of respect for anyone else's world view has turned me right off. I sure wish there was a "mute button" for this forum so I could just see your incomparable work without being subjected to your incomparable crap too.
 
jackrabbitslim said:
I think you're full of it, Tai. I'm getting tired of your mean-spirited remarks. You say "Hee hee... it's all in good fun [insert smiley face to make it seem like I'm not a jerk" but you don't fool me. You make some of the most beautiful, most perfectly designed knives I've seen in a lifetime of looking but I can't figure out how you do it since you seem to spend most of your time on this forum trying to prove how your hippie bullshit is better than facts. I tried to give your point of view some credence but your complete lack of respect for anyone else's world view has turned me right off. I sure wish there was a "mute button" for this forum so I could just see your incomparable work without being subjected to your incomparable crap too.
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I guess I should just take the compliment on this one...

... You're right though,... It wouldn't be the first time my "incomparable" sense of humor got me in trouble. :D
 
And now you have the unmitigated gall to be gracious about it? Now I'm REALLY mad! :D

The internet doesn't allow for tone of voice or other non-verbal communication so I'll just say, Tai, you really are something else [exasperated but admiring].
 
And you wondered why i suggested it be moved to "Around the Grinder".:eek:

Tai says ,"NO"....could it be that there will be a bigger audience here?;)

Stacy:cool:

Just yankin' your chain Tai.:D
 
Tai Goo said:
The whole scientist/nerd as bladesmith, or bladesmith as scientist/nerd, is a fairly recent cultural phenomenon. It’s very trendy these days. Everyone seems to want to get in on the act!
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I only wish this were true but unfortunately the attraction to take peoples money with bogus claims and snake oil medicine side shows is far too great for the good old voodoo to die. I would give you this though, at least the guys who claim their blades have some intangible magic are giving us a clear choice between reason and mysticism. The one who misuse and twist their limited understanding of metallurgy just to make the sale do not extend the same courtesy.

Tai Goo said:
Personally however, I think bladesmithing was a lot more fun and we were all better off before the metallurgists dog piled on it!… “ like a starved chihuahua on a pork chop”! :D
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I understand entirely, ignorance is bliss. To be honest, I wished I could go back to the time when Santa and the Easter Bunny really did come to my house at night to bring me goodies, life was a whole lot easier then! There will always be two sides to this issue, those who face reality and deal with it and those who prefer to make up thier own more comfortable version. I personally know people who prefer to live a warm fuzzy world of THC numbed senses, while others that I know thrive on overcomming the challenges cold hard reality throws at them.

Ahww heck, truth be told I was doing just fine ingoring this thread, but my new traveling sleep schedule has me getting out of bed at 3:00 A.M. and leaving me hungry for mental stimulation in the dead quite predawn hours, so I took the bait. My power of reason over base urges isn't all that good after all;) To be honest right now sitting around a fire with Tai and talking about the good old days sounds a lot better than facing the new day.
 
"Science is Truth,... don't be fooled by facts." :D

You enter the laboratory and see an experiment.
How will you know which class is it?
If it's green and wiggles, it's biology.
If it stinks, it's chemistry.
If it doesn't work, it's physics.

"Your theory is crazy...but it's not crazy enough to be true."
– Bohr
 
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Ah for the days before science started claiming things. Like when the world was flat, the earth was the center of the solar system. In the days before germs and antibiotics.
The joke is every one that experiments and observes is a scientist. Sometimes the observations are wrong. Science has been wrong many times in the past and will be again in the future. Same goes for folk wisdom and some of the things my grandfather told me were fact. You should not always accept the conventional science or wisdom. You should check things for yourself. People going outside the box have made some great discoveries and creations. We don't truly understand everything we know.
But some things are pretty evident to the thinking mind. . Like if you don't get 1095 past the nose you won't get maximum martensite. The creative mind and the scientific mind can coexist and even be the same mind. Some people just love to debate things. It brings theories and points of view to light.

I will never forget when I was in my 20s and talking to an guy in his 90s. I was asking about the changes in the world. He told me his father said "Talk over wires! Ridiculous, it can not be done." Now we talk and view both and don't even bother with the wire. Was his father a stupid man? No, maybe a little with out vision. Science has taken us a long way down a path. Is it the right path? I don't really know. I do know that the amount of solid knowledge has greatly increased from the days of the dark ages.
 
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