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My knowledge is whole.
All gaps in my knowledge have been filled.
I am in possession of all life's necessary information.
The specific gravity of culm is 0.75.
Steel wire with a diameter of 92mm has a safe working load of 930kN
To temper steel to be suitable for twist drill, heat it until it turns a pale straw-yellow.
An American fluid ounce holds 8 drams, but a British fluid ounce only holds 7.6861 drams
In other words, this morning's post brought my copy of the 2010 edition of Glover's Pocket Reference.
Actually, I don't know everything. I know it floats in water, but I don't know what "culm" actually is...
Discussions
9 years ago
Hmmm, does it include what I have in these?
The ENTIRE metric conversion table,
A pretty complete set of measurement conversions
and the Pocket PCRef :-)
And for those that haven't done so, Culm Measures are a geological formation of the Carboniferous period that occur in south-west England, principally in Devon and Cornwall. They are so called because of the occasional presence of a soft, sooty coal, which is known in Devon as culm.
Dewey, Henry (1948) British Regional Geology: South-west England, 2nd ed. London: H.M.S.O.; p. 29
Reply 9 years ago
. In addition to Pocket Ref and Pocket PCRef, I consider Ugly's to be a must-have.
Reply 9 years ago
I got an ugly's guide and the Make edition of glovers pocket ref at Maker Faire, both are full of knowledge.
Reply 9 years ago
Hey thanks for that....it does look good.
Reply 9 years ago
What about Machinery's Handbook? Before you know the pronunciation, it has the most wonderfully appropriate title for an engineering reference :-)
Reply 9 years ago
Good one, I was going to mention it myself. I got my copy from a guy at work who was selling an older copy. I think I've got the 26th edition or something.
Reply 9 years ago
Ouch, at $68.57 I might have to hold off on that one for a bit. :-)
9 years ago
Kiteman.... where do babys come from?
Reply 9 years ago
Most people should know that but it is the care and feeding of such that most people lack.
Reply 9 years ago
There's a Maker's Handbook now. Sort of.
Reply 9 years ago
Good, you weren't referring to these.
Reply 9 years ago
No, that would qualify as a Maker maker's guide.
Reply 9 years ago
From the U.K. I would think you Limeys would have known that without my help :-)
Reply 9 years ago
I have honestly NEVER heard of them! lol
Reply 9 years ago
Nor I...
Reply 9 years ago
then maybe your knowledge base isn't as whole as you thought
Reply 9 years ago
Maybe there's a British edition?
Reply 9 years ago
To the internet!
Reply 9 years ago
lol "It's on the internet, it must be true!"
9 years ago
Ah followed a little mythbusters advice ey Kiteman? :D
Reply 9 years ago
Conker-X insists I carry it in my shirt pocket, in case I get stabbed.
Reply 9 years ago
It might even be more likely to stop a bullet than a Bible...
Reply 9 years ago
When the Ref got stabbed on Mythbusters, it was because they didn't want to stab an actual bible as the myth required.
Reply 9 years ago
I am not sure I understand why they'd have troubles with that?
Reply 9 years ago
Not the Mythbusters, but probably either the network's lawyers or the advertiser's lawyers. After all, the show's gotta play in Kansas, right?
Reply 9 years ago
Ah of course *sigh* superstition over a book.
Reply 9 years ago
Zackly.
You should have seen the fuss over here when a US preacher tried to visit - he had, in the past, threatened to burn copies of the Koran.
Reply 9 years ago
http://cominganarchy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/burn-quran.jpg
just to bring a bit of levity. if i don't, i'll just rail against that moronic @#$@#@ that you're talking about for quite some time (you know, he's still doing even more crazy stuff as we speak? i won't link it because then i'll have to go punch something)
Reply 9 years ago
is that version 9.10.10 or is that the date LOL
Reply 9 years ago
think it's the date...that was the date that everyone was supposed to burn the Koran (Qur'an, whatever)...and he did burn it.....to disk
Reply 9 years ago
everyone has their quirks, and then you come across the occasional person that has more then their share.... :-)
Reply 9 years ago
:-D
Reply 9 years ago
I haven't anything against a book, of course, but for someone to hold the paper it is made up of in reverence....something is terribly wrong. there.
Reply 9 years ago
Not just wrong, one might even say idolatrous :-)
Reply 9 years ago
The book can be replaced, one hasn't defamed what it says by putting a hole in the book or burning it (I once burned a paraphrased version that was so far out in left field it was on right field :-)
Reply 9 years ago
Opps, didn't see this before I posted above. I know my ASV is very compact, tiny writing, but over an inch thick of severely compact paper.
Reply 9 years ago
Hey I have an ASV bible that fits in my breast pocket. They've been shown to stop certain normally used bullets (from a .22 to a .45 caliber).
9 years ago
Can you beat people to death with it, or just things like spiders?
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Reply 9 years ago
It depends on how cooperative they are.
Spiders, definitely, also mice.
Rats, probably. Cats... I don't think so.
People? Maybe a black eye.
Reply 9 years ago
Thank you, I'm thinking of developing a scale of "hitting power"...
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9 years ago
My knowledge is a hole - into which random facts fall, to be combined and re-combined so as to never re-emerge in their native forms (if at all...)
Reply 9 years ago
I'm so like you with this, no knowledge ever goes to waste.
Reply 9 years ago
Aahh, if only that were true...
9 years ago
Pah, who needs books. Don't you carry this information in your memory ? A crack in the legend I fear....
Reply 9 years ago
Even Edison confessed once that he didn't carry "all that he knew" inside his head, but always had someone or some reference he could find the answer to a question to, in 5 minutes.
9 years ago
I was isued one of these at a job I had six years ago. I still carry it in my messenger bag. It has proven invaluable many times.
Reply 9 years ago
I have the PCRef, but am still waiting on a decently priced Pocket Ref to come along :-)
9 years ago
From the New Oxford American Dictionary:
culm: the hollow stem of a grass or cereal plant, esp. that bearing the flower.
Reply 9 years ago
That is one definition, but wouldn't that one be subject to differences in specific gravity?
Reply 9 years ago
That's what I thought…