Fudgy McFarlen

You can not put a bobcat in a toolbox

One of the funniest crook stories I ever heard was the story of how a ranger had been called out to capture and transfer a bobcat to a more appropriate location.  The only thing the ranger had to put the bobcat in was a toolbox.  He did so after capturing it and left it in his truck.  While he was away from his truck a couple of car thieves made off with truck and contents.  They found the truck skidded off of the road with the interior bloodied up.  Seems the greedy crooks had opened the toolbox while driving. The bobcat was of course highly annoyed at having been in the box and proceeded to go medieval on them.  Note this story was told to me in 1990 before the internet so it must be true.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Heuristic method of understanding the shapes of hydrogen atom electron orbitals

Occurred to me while riding a bike

 

Have you ever wondered why the dumbell shape of the N=2 quantum state of the hydrogen atom.  I have! The Schrodinger wave equation gives you the results. But WHAT are you looking at? I have finally solved the problem of understanding the shape of the solutions.  I did it while riding a bicycle in front of the electric driveway door waiting for it to open. It opens like a standard garage door on a house. I hate to just sit their with my leg on the ground so I started by riding the bicycle in a circle as the door rises.  When the door is fully open I ride in and park.   You can see my orbit in the picture below:

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One day the owner of the complex of houses was parked right in front of the door with the car extending into the street where I normally ride in a circle.  I was thus constrained as show in the following diagram.  The figure 8 felt most efficient given the contraint of not being able to go in a circle and wanting to loiter on spot until the path was clear.   Maximum entropy principle wants to make my path as gentle as possible given the constaint of the circle not being allow.  bicycle-orbit-2.jpg    

Riding my bicycle in a figure 8 pattern Thus it is with the N=2 orbital.  The N=2 orbital in an unexcited atom is only filled when there is an electron already filling the circular N=1 orbit.  This filled orbit is the constraint of the car in the bicycle example. Its taken a long time to know the WHY of this.  I solved the schrodinger for the hydrogen atom a long time ago.  But I did not understand the why. Now I am sure that this same method applies the the higher N  Numbers.  The N number is the number of wave lengths in a full orbital path.  Since the dumbell shape requires 2 wavelengths minimum. I feel better now! The Schrodinger wave equation yields minimum time / maximum entropy solutions.   From this I deduce that an electron when in a state in an atom it is in Free-fall.  Free fall is the condition of minimum time.  However in free-fall there is no force on the particle. Also noting that accelerated charges radiate leads me to the conclusion that indeed the electron is spread out into the entire space of the orbital and not just a billiard ball whipping around in an orbit.  This is very much a standing still wave. Why doesn't the electron just fall down onto the proton of the hydrogen atom?  I think that might be due to the electron not liking to be stuffed into too small of a box.   The electron most likely can sit on the proton with some probability but since it would undergo massive "compression" to do so it has an extremely high probability of leaking out of this state and into the N=1 state to get jiggy with it.    

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Popeye the Sayler Man

The origin of Saler man is when I was talking to a Brazilian friend whose English is very good if you consider he has never been to an English speaking country.  He tried to say a person was a salesman.  "He is a Saylor-Man" was how it came out.  Ever since then I call salesmen sailor men. On a side note we were driving down a highway in Brazil and we drove past an attractive young lady selling her body to people by the side of the highway.  He saw here and said "she's a road horse"…which was pretty funny considering we'd just driving past some horses tied up in such a fashion as to clip the grass while eating it.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Adult Koolaid made of Jasmine Tea Sunny Delight and Cranberry Juice

Ever notice you want your cup of coffee everyday? Think its because you like the taste? Think again. I was on a habit of 1 strong cup of coffee everyday for quite some time.  At some point I started drinking alot of green tea. At some later point I realized that that I had forgotten to have a cup of coffee for everyday in the last 6 weeks.  Your body has subliminal habits ingrained more deeply than you possibly know. Thus if you want to stop your coffee habit first substitute a tea based caffeine habit.  The best recipe for flavor is the following: 1- fill a glass up with cold Jasmine tea that has been made to suit your tastes. 2- add a dollup of Sunny Delight ( probably the only legitimate use of Sunny Dee there is! Who would drink this stuff straight?? ) 3- add a dollup of cranberry juice. You'll be surprised at the sublime aeromatic nature of the flavor. You may drink it to excess and get a little agitated.  However in the process you can easily substitute this tea completely for the coffee you have been drinking.  If you want to completely kick your caffeine habit you can then start drinking less tea. Since tea has a calmative in addition to the caffeine it appears to me to be much easier to quite than the rough edged cousin coffee.  

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Brazilian Rubbing Alcohol is Ethanol and smells like caramel

You can buy ethanol alcohol very cheaply in Brazil.  It is very cheap.  It is very concentrated and people use it to start their barbeque grills.   I like it because when you rub it on your skin it smells faintly of caramel.  Also the part that absorbs into your body is the type of alcohol your body tolerates well.   Its hard to describe the smell but like other liquors you can't completely remove the essence of the source material that was fermented to make it.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Carrie and the Retarded Rapist

I had a female roomate once. Carrie was an extremely fun and interesting person.  She told the story once of an attempted rape. She was working at a summer camp and was riding her bike to town. The camp was in rural Illinois. She was riding along and man grabbed her handle bars and pulled her into a corn field.  The guy was obviously not quite right.  He told her to take her clothes off.  She said "I am not going to fight you and I'm not going to tell anyone about this"   Well as it turns out the guy could not get an erection.  He needed the increased blood pressure do to the rush of a struggling woman to get hard.  He finally gave up.  She promptly went to the police and he was arrested.  Retardo Maltaban had done some sort of similar assault before were he had raped someone and had finally been released only to do it again.  If more women kept cool heads in tough situations the world would do better.  And the retard?   Rape used to be a capital crime.  These people should not reproduce. 

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Alibaba Transaction Review: Taisuo CH902 Temperature Controller

I contacted Susan Taisuo via Alibaba.  They refuse to send free samples. Here are the good points and bad points of ordering

1- Language barrier is there but seemed to mostly get past that

2- They only accept SWIFT wire transfers in payment – that means there is 35 US dollar charge on top of any order to pay for the transfer.  This is a real problem.  Technical things rarely go exactly right and with the language barrier its a real problem.  They suggest Western Union but that's almost as expensive. Also Western Union is not popular in the US.  Almost everyone has PayPal in the USA.  Suggested solution to this is GET A PAYPAL ACCOUNT! 

3- Two temperature controller parts did arrive quickly.

4- I ordered a temperature controller to control a refractory oven.  They made a mistake in what they told me and placed my most important out,  the SSR ( solid state relay ) driver in OUTPUT #2 location. Unfortunately this results in the output be suitable sign for controlling a refrigeration unit.  When the PROCESS VALUE > SET VALUE the output is turned on.

When I contacted them with the problem they wanted me to pay shipping to get another set of samples with correct output sign.  Of course what I would be paying = SHIPPING + WIRE TRANSFER fee.  A bit annoying and does not indicate well for doing business with them. 

I decided to do surgery on my and swap the output circuitry in the one they sent me.  Annoying but I am leaving the country soon for a while and do not want to take it along unless I need to.  Here are the results.

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……more

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Corralejo Tequila Blanco 100% Agave – Most amazing

If you want a good tequila good for thinning your blood this is the stuff.  Small doses before workouts really help because your heart can pump more blood volume when your blood is thinner.  Also its rumored that drunks have great vascular systems because they solvate the fat in their systems!  I use it before running, weight lifting and climbing Squaw Peak.

Alot better taste than Jose Cuervo! In a very tall bottle.

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By Fudgy McFarlen, ago