Interesting Facts About Yourself

[S2000magician]

@Ghibli

@brain\_wash\_your\_face

@S2000magician

I was a warhead designer for 10 years.

Does it bother you that you potentially built a lot of things that resulted in people’s deaths? I’ve often wondered this. I know a guy, brilliant dude, who worked for SAIC doing stuff with lasers. He talks about it as if he’s doing god’s work, and I often wonder how he feels about some of the things he’s created. Did you work for Raytheon?

Or just maybe, the things he designed could ultimately have saved lives…

I’m sure that, in many cases, they did just that.

[brain_wash_your_face]

@S2000magician

@brain\_wash\_your\_face

@S2000magician

I was a warhead designer for 10 years.

Does it bother you that you potentially built a lot of things that resulted in people’s deaths? I’ve often wondered this. I know a guy, brilliant dude, who worked for SAIC doing stuff with lasers. He talks about it as if he’s doing god’s work, and I often wonder how he feels about some of the things he’s created. Did you work for Raytheon?

I didn’t work for Raytheon, but the company for which I worked was founded by two ex-SAIC employees.

The warheads I designed were anti-armor munitions: tanks, attack helicopters, that sort of thing. The only people who would be killed by them would be those who intended harm to our soldiers or to civilians. It bothers me that they’d be in a position to have to have weapons like those I designed used against them, but it doesn’t bother me that, given those circumstances, they were injured or killed my weapons of my design.

Makes sense. I bet we know some of the same people.

[CFABLACKBELT]

Can eat deathly spicy food.

Stole Michael Jordon and Derek Jeter’s alcohol at a club.

Can do backflips on a snowboard.

Almost ran a 5min mile (5:10).

Broken my arms 4 times… 3 times were me trying to very unsuccessfully show off.

Taught myself Calculus.

I have an irrational hatred of umbrellas.

[former_trader]

@igor555

WTF is BGAC???

Your question was answered in the 1st thread you asked that question.

[S2000magician]

@CFABLACKBELT

Taught myself Calculus.

Same here.

One day I was helping my dad flush the radiator in the car. When we refilled it using a large funnel, he remarked about how the level in the funnel drops slowly near the top, but much faster near the bottom. Made sense to me: the top’s a lot bigger around than the bottom. He said that if I knew calculus I could figure out how fast it was falling at any point. So that evening I got his calculus book off the bookshelf and read it. I was 14 or 15 at the time. Passed the first year of calculus in university by exam; they wouldn’t let you take more than two classes in a sequence by exam, so I had to sit through the second year.

[igor555]

@former_trader

@igor555

WTF is BGAC???

Your question was answered in the 1st thread you asked that question.

lol i cant find it whats the name of the thread

[former_trader]

http://www.analystforum.com/forums/water-cooler/91331858?page=3

[jonalyn16]

I think it was being strong in spite of encounter bankruptcy or konkurssi and other kind of problem financially .

[bchad]

@S2000magician

@CFABLACKBELT

Taught myself Calculus.

Same here.

One day I was helping my dad flush the radiator in the car. When we refilled it using a large funnel, he remarked about how the level in the funnel drops slowly near the top, but much faster near the bottom. Made sense to me: the top’s a lot bigger around than the bottom. He said that if I knew calculus I could figure out how fast it was falling at any point. So that evening I got his calculus book off the bookshelf and read it. I was 14 or 15 at the time. Passed the first year of calculus in university by exam; they wouldn’t let you take more than two classes in a sequence by exam, so I had to sit through the second year.

The funnel problem is extra tricky since the flow rate is a function of the pressure at the spout which is a function of the height of the liquid, yet the change in height over time is a function of the change in volume which is a function of the flow rate. It’s actually a differential equation, and a fun problem to solve as long as you get to ignore viscosity.

[Sweep_the_Leg]

@bchad

as you get to ignore viscosity.

Then your engine will lock up. Never ignore viscosity.

[ohai]

High viscocity is in fact a sign of a healthy male.

[S2000magician]

@bchad

@S2000magician

@CFABLACKBELT

Taught myself Calculus.

Same here.

One day I was helping my dad flush the radiator in the car. When we refilled it using a large funnel, he remarked about how the level in the funnel drops slowly near the top, but much faster near the bottom. Made sense to me: the top’s a lot bigger around than the bottom. He said that if I knew calculus I could figure out how fast it was falling at any point. So that evening I got his calculus book off the bookshelf and read it. I was 14 or 15 at the time. Passed the first year of calculus in university by exam; they wouldn’t let you take more than two classes in a sequence by exam, so I had to sit through the second year.

The funnel problem is extra tricky since the flow rate is a function of the pressure at the spout which is a function of the height of the liquid, yet the change in height over time is a function of the change in volume which is a function of the flow rate. It’s actually a differential equation, and a fun problem to solve as long as you get to ignore viscosity.

Since teaching myself calculus I’ve taught university mathematics for 20 years, including a course in linear algebra and differential equations. You’re correct: solving DEs is fun.

(I need to study PDEs one of these days, just 'cause.)

[S2000magician]

I’ve represented the United States in an equestrian world championship.

[Ghibli]

Sometimes I feel like a pornstar. Most of the time I do not.

[AfricaFarmer]

I have looked like a 30 year old man since the age of 16. I used my older sisters expired passport as ID to get into clubs and buy alcohol.

When I was younger I was nearly caught tugging away to the sound of my hot milf neighbour getting nailed with her bedroom window open.

[Ghibli]

@AfricaFarmer

I have looked like a 30 year old man since the age of 16. I used my older sisters expired passport as ID to get into clubs and buy alcohol.

When I was younger I was nearly caught tugging away to the sound of my hot milf neighbour getting nailed with her bedroom window open.

So your sister looks like a man or do you look like a woman? Or are you a woman? What are you tugging on??? Oops…

[AfricaFarmer]

@Ghibli

So your sister looks like a man or do you look like a woman? Or are you a woman? What are you tugging on??? Oops…

It was an old photo with her hair tied back tightly and no makeup on, she probably would have been around 13-15 when the picture was taken and wasn’t very “girly” back then. The passport had FEMALE written on it yet no one ever called me out. Maybe the bouncers thought I was a butch transexual and didn’t want to cause a scene.

[tjcfa]

A buddy and I spoked 5 blunts in a row one last year.

[Sweep_the_Leg]

@tjcfa

A buddy and I spoked 5 blunts in a row one last year.

Based on your spelling I assume you’re still high.

[comp_sci_kid]

Nothing interesting about me.

Played a lot of computer games, that is pretty much it.

I am probably the most boring person in this thread