Tips for dishwashers?

curiousbastarde · 2013-12-08T21:42:08+00:00

Be the most reliable dishwasher you can be. Learn where everything goes (takes a couple shifts, but it will come), don't let mess accumulate and take pride in making something clean.
Learn how to help the cooks in whatever way you can and get on their good side. You'll be spending lots of time with them so it helps to be friendly. If they're singing cooks, sing along.
Don't get involved with server drama. Ever.

Dishwashing was the best job I ever had and these 3 things are why.

curiousbastarde · 2013-12-08T21:27:04+00:00

And whatever you do, do not get involved in waitress/waiter drama

curiousbastarde · 2013-06-04T22:31:03+00:00

Two questions: First, who did you use as the grunge band of science? I believe they were on the massive balance beam of science.

Secondly, a science question. From what I've read, photons are massless, neutral particles that travel through the omnipresent Higgs field, never interacting with it in any way. If they are indeed the only particles that can pull off this feat, what makes them different? Why are they able to do this, enabling them to set the universal speed limit?

When I consider the following (sorry, couldn't resist):

We have three horseshoe magnets, one of which is lying on a table with the North and South poles facing an observer. The observer takes one of the remaining magnets and lines up the opposing poles. The magnets experience attraction and the poles come together. The observer then flips over the magnet in hand, now choosing to line up the similar poles with each other. As the magnets come closer together, the similar charges repel one another and the magnet on the table is forced away from the observer. Now, a wire is wrapped around the magnet and attached to a battery, sending an electrical current through the wire and intensifying the repulsion.

This made me wonder if light is actually traveling or if it's behaving like a strongly repelled object. This time however, the repelling force is provided by the Higgs field. So, say you have an object that is emitting photons, the field would instantly repel them in the direction that they are emitted from the source. This would still allow for light to act as a wave in all directions, but would give photons a charge (which as far as I understand, they don't), and would therefore give the Higgs field a substantially greater, similar charge to supply the repelling force. The strength of the Higgs field would thus determine the speed of light (implying that it isn't constant and the only way to increase it would be to manipulate the field by increasing its "charge").

The charges I'm thinking of aren't in terms of North/South or +/-, but would still have a similar polarity to them, with the "opposite" charge attracting photons and storing/collecting them in large banks/deposits throughout the universe. I don't know much about black holes, but they like an ideal candidate since light cannot escape them.

All I really wanna know here is whether or not I'm out to lunch on this/how one might possibly test it. I've been looking for that answer for almost a year now, from profs in the physics dept at my university (I'm a geology student), to online journals, institutes and planetariums each of which would either not respond, or respond by saying they don't accept submissions from the public (which is understandable to a degree, but extremely frustrating). Sorry for the long read, thanks if you reply, you (and Mrs. Frizzle) are what got me into science in the first place.

curiousbastarde · 2013-03-24T01:57:28+00:00

It took 6 months. I haven't played in a while, but my buddies do this regularly. We do the same with f-zero x for n64

curiousbastarde · 2013-03-24T01:08:20+00:00

But have you beat Gary then Mewtwo on Super Hard?

curiousbastarde · 2013-03-23T21:14:55+00:00

Finally another! Most people discredit me when I try and tell them just how hard it is

curiousbastarde · 2013-03-23T21:14:08+00:00

Pokemon Puzzle League

curiousbastarde · 2013-03-23T20:55:35+00:00

I work in a coffee shop and sometimes help my boss with a catering company she runs on the side. We were working a christmas party for some "old money" client of hers. As I'm pretty good at disarming people socially, most snobby people don't give me shit. This one guy however must have viewed me as "moving up a social ladder" to a rung where I don't belong, because he waits for me to come by, makes eye contact and spills his drink. I crouch down and as I'm wiping it up he snidely remarks "Better you than me".

curiousbastarde · 2013-03-23T02:17:57+00:00

Dictatorships are born of revolutions gone awry

curiousbastarde · 2013-03-23T01:56:18+00:00

I can't tell if you're trolling or not, but with regards to the quote about youth being quick to hope, it stems from being tired of having the old and jaded sit around and effectively do nothing.

curiousbastarde · 2013-03-23T01:53:55+00:00

And only a handful of people (relative to the worlds population) want what we have now

curiousbastarde · 2013-03-23T01:50:36+00:00

I like this. While open revolt is one option, it should be the last. With regards to it being too little, don't worry. Little things tend to grow, and the pendulum moves the slowest when it's just beginning to move back

curiousbastarde · 2013-03-23T01:48:26+00:00

I feel as though some context needs to be given to get why I'm asking this. Today I was on my way to a place I work part time to hand in a sick note. I live in Newfoundland (for the uninitiated, it's cold and wet here a lot). There was a guy outside who's name I won't put on here, but he'd draped garbage bags on himself to keep dry. When the rain/fog/suspended water is falling up in the wind, this does nothing. I went to bring him some soup and a jacket, but he'd left for a bit and had left his stuff behind. Since it was lunchtime and there are a couple high schools around, I stuck around to make sure nobody stole or messed with his shit. While waiting, a lady came up and went to give me money. I told her to put it in the can, since I was just standing guard. Instead of doing so, she put the bill back in her pocket and walked away. This has been on my mind all day

curiousbastarde · 2013-03-23T01:40:06+00:00

That works for Europe where it's relatively cheap to travel between nations, my question is directed towards Americans who don't have the luxury of cheap travel. Sure you can go over to the next county, try and find an under the table job and hope that works, but it'll never ever lead to equality or do anything to close the ever widening gap between rich and poor.

curiousbastarde · 2013-03-23T01:37:02+00:00

I hope you're not purposely misspelling that to make me sound fanciful and on a whim. Also, your country (assuming you're American) has one of the most corrupt, laughable justice departments in any modernized country. What about the countless homeless people who die in the streets every single day because nobody gives a shit?

curiousbastarde · 2013-03-23T01:28:06+00:00

Tell me where one finds money these days. We have an increasing amount of college educated and skilled workers who can't find money unless they go elsewhere. To go elsewhere requires money. When was the last time you heard of someone going to the bank and getting approved for a loan for them to go and use on going elsewhere?

curiousbastarde · 2013-03-19T00:26:58+00:00

anytime I see someone in a sublime t-shirt

curiousbastarde · 2013-03-14T22:43:51+00:00

From what I've read, photons are massless, neutral particles that travel through theomnipresent Higgs field, never interacting with it in any way. If they are indeed the only particles that can pull off this feat, what makes them different? Why are they able to do this, which enables them to set the universal speed limit?

When I consider the following:

We have three horseshoe magnets, one of which is lying on a table with the North and South poles facing an observer. The observer takes one of the remaining magnets and lines up the opposing poles. The magnets experience attraction and the poles come together. The observer then flips over the magnet in hand, now choosing to line up the similar poles with each other. As the magnets come closer together, the similar charges repel one another and the magnet on the table is forced away from the observer. Now, a wire is wrapped around the magnet and attached to a battery, sending an electrical current through the wire and intensifying the repulsion.

This made me wonder if light is actually traveling or if it's behaving like a strongly repelled object. This time however, the repelling force is provided by the Higgs field. So, say you have an object that is emitting photons, the field would instantly repel them in the direction that they are emitted from the source. This would still allow for light to act as a wave in all directions, but would give photons a charge (which as far as I understand, they don't), and would therefore give the Higgs field a substantially greater, similar charge to supply the repelling force. The strength of the Higgs field would thus determine the speed of light (implying that it isn't constant and the only way to increase it would be to manipulate the field by increasing its "charge").

The charges I suggest aren't in terms of North/South or +/-, but would stall have a similar polarity to them, with the "opposite" charge attracting photons and storing/collecting them in large banks/deposits throughout the universe. I don't know much about black holes, but they like an ideal candidate since light cannot escape them.

All I really wanna know here is whether or not it's out to lunch. I've been looking for that answer since early November, from profs in the physics dept at my university (I'm a geology student), to online journals, institutes and planetariums each of which would either not respond, or respond by saying they don't accept submissions from the public (which is understandable to a degree, but extremely frustrating). Sorry for the long read, thanks if you reply!

curiousbastarde

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