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To: Ilaine who wrote (33420)	4/19/2008 11:49:31 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217749

Last week I stop my car and introduced my self to two ladies. Mostly because I discovered the daughter lives same block here. It is a small community. The daughter -a mulata- dances nicely and I knew one day I would bump into her. I introduced myself and she said: "You Brazilian, right?" Yes. and her mother (an African-American) started talking with me in very good Portuguese. She said she lived in Brasilia and her husband worked to Embrapa (our agricultural R&D company). Since they were going to Marina Hotel for swimming, I offer to take them there. They refused, I insisted they hopped in. As I talked with them (boy I talk!) they were looking worried. To get to Marina Hotel, (with the main street blocked by construction) it is a zig zag among narrow streets. But I know women. If they are talking in the car they get lost. The laides were afraid I would get lost. One thing women like is to leave for men to do what for them require effort to do and we men can do effortlessly. Therefore women always like men with a mentality: see a problem, look at it, find ways to solve. Women love us!

To: Ilaine who wrote (33420)	4/19/2008 12:08:25 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217749

Cotonou, Benin. Elmat's roof Google earth coordinates: 6 21 33n, 2 23 40E

To: Ilaine who wrote (33420)	4/19/2008 5:01:52 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217749

I wonder how many engineering university graduates are in prisons around the world: <Engineers are good guys, very practical and dependable and rational. > My guess is 0%. Okay, that's a little dishonestly misleading for the innumerate and I should go to three significant figures and write 0.04%. Which is just a guess. Another interesting thing about engineers is that they win 0% of New Zealand's Good Bloke and Good Sheila awards by Governments such as "Order of Merit". For years I have gone right through the lists looking for engineers and one year there was one [which quite shocked me to see even one]. There have been a couple of scientists, but they are grossly under represented. dpmc.govt.nz Politicians and their acolytes are especially noble creatures who award themselves awards by the hundred. Hmmm,,. looks as though I should fine tune my theory on engineers and exclude foreigners: usatoday.com I should note I mean university graduate engineers. The word engineer is used for all sorts of purposes, such as a maintenance guy who puts oil in machinery in a factory. Google doesn't make it easy to find statistics of engineers in prison. African Americans in prison is an easier search. 1 million in prison: socialistaction.org Hmmm, I suppose we should only count melanin-deficient native engineers in prison but I guess the ratio for melanin-rich graduate engineers in prison is also very low. The ability to understand third order partial differential equations and Fourier transforms and the background to succeed in getting through the education system no doubt far outweighs the cultural impact of friends from the crime scene. Engineers, to succeed, have to do things to match reality. Politicians, lawyers and others see reality as perception and power to be melded to suit their own wishes. Politicians and lawyers will pass laws that say water shall flow uphill. Actually, to my dismay, water can flow uphill. I did some DIY plumbing once, involving a header tank, hot water cylinder, an overflow pipe and a ceiling. I know the physics but in clambering around in the plumbing I got too clever and decided to leave the overflow inside the roof, draining into the header tank. My carelessness resulted in water flowing uphill, from the header tank, into the hot water cylinder, up the overflow pipe to up above the header tank. Hot water is less dense than cold so a column of cold water in a half of a U shaped pipe will support a higher level of hot water in the other half. So the water level in the two parts of the U will be different. Rather obviously, but that's life in DIY when not paying attention. When I woke hearing rain, it seemed nice [rain is nice when sunggly in a house at night]. But wait, the rain was IN THE HOUSE. I realized quickly that it was probably related to my plumbing of that day. The hall outside our bedroom door was raining though the ceiling. I forget the exact configuration of the piping, but the simple-minded basis "water finds its own level" blunder was the problem. Silly me. If not sticking to rote rules on how to do things, such as putting the overflow pipe through the roof, one had better make sure the physics of the plan are right. I thought I had got enough height for the overflow pipe above the header tank, but admit that I hadn't actually calculated the differential expansion. Mqurice PS: Why would somebody eat something different from previously? Okay, if out somewhere, one graciously accepts what's offered. As failed DIY plumbers know, it's best to stick with the tried and true.

To: Ilaine who wrote (33420)	4/19/2008 6:16:57 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217749

<<content eating the same thing day after day>> ... i know what you are talking about. as far as i am concerned, and i am mostly an engineer, at least by training, in each city i visit, there is one of each restaurant and that is all i need (in priority of preference - japanese, italian, shanghainese, coffee shop, full stop), and in each, only a few choices of main course. my wife hates me whenever i say, 'let dine out'. my office feared me for a whole year back whenever, when i ate japanese roast chicken lunch box for a whole year, day after awful day, and one day i found the choice disgusting. i have only eaten beef tartar once - delicious. it was during a party, and afterwards the host allowed me to take the bucket home; i did, and finished the bucket, and never touched the stuff again. my english jewish chinese bro ate 70 eggs at one juncture age 16 or so when left by dad for a few days in a siberian shack or some such place, and he never ate eggs since. hey, i just figured out how we can overcome the food inflation problem ;0) for breaky, hot oat meal does me, good enough for every day, with honey and milk, although i go in spurts for eggs and bacon, especially during trips. yes, tough to meet a bad guy engineer. interesting observation. i am tyrying to think why that is. perhaps because what we know is 'solid' as in 'real', and as far as we are concerned, whatever the gizmo or schema, it either works as designed to the best of our ability or isn't worth anything. as to <<vacuum cleaner>>, i recommend those that uses water as the filter. expensive as several life times worth of vacuum clearners. we got one last year after an in-home demo, and the lady used regular vacuum cleaner on the rugs, curtains, and bedding - placed pillows in sealed clear plastic bags and stuck in the vacuum hose) - my observation at the time was, 'holy #$!@#$@!#$@1' we got the machine when the coconut decided that soda crackers are good snacks the machine (it is not exactly compact) is unreal, and when left on in a certain configuration and the water is infused with pine or any of many flower scent, it literally filters, cleans, and smells up the air. the sales lady threw in two cooking lessons for our nanny as part of the deal. we gave a machine as present to in-laws, as they have a cocker spaniel/golden retriever gobi, and the vacuum works well on the dog, wet or dry :0)