I just saw a teenage girl - I'd have guessed around 13-15, except she drove up in a car, so we can assume 16 or older - that I've never seen before walk up to my neighbors yard carrying a slide rule. Yeah, a slide rule, like what fossils used instead of a calculator. She went over to a corner in the yard, and did... something - nothing nefarious in this post, get y'alls minds out of the gutter. She came back carrying a rock and a stick, picked up in the yard, with the slide rule in her back pocket. Then she drove away.
I'm so confused right now.
Probably some sort of treasure hunt / geocaching kind of challenge / game.
The slide rule is interesting though. It would be pretty hard to find one these days, but it would present an interesting challenge for a game like that.
I know there have been people painting rocks with nice messages on them and leaving them in peoples yards.
NOHOME
MegaDork
6/11/20 12:38 p.m.
As my physics professor taught me way back, there are a few things you can do with a slide rule that you can not do with a calculator.
Like stir paint.
She probably used the slide rule to pry the object out of the ground.
Good chance this was a game of some sort. And perhaps it was not an actual slide rule bur rather a code calculator
... like stir paint. i LOL'd
"This one time, at math camp...."
Mndsm
MegaDork
6/11/20 2:52 p.m.
At least she wasn't you know, being promiscuous and taking marijuanas like these kids like to do.
In reply to Mndsm :
I was about to ask mtn who his dealer is, because that's some seriously good E36 M3.
I still have a slide rule. It was my gradnfather's -- a lifetime engineer. I have no idea how to use it.
I used my slide rule to figure out the size of my Dream motor !
Pi x Radius squared x stroke x 4 , 4 being number of cylinders.....
Ok......I think thats correct....its been decades......
ZOO (Forum Supporter) said:
I still have a slide rule. It was my gradnfather's -- a lifetime engineer. I have no idea how to use it.
I learned how to use a slide ruler in high school. Of course I've forgotten how. My father had a circular slide rule from his college days. I cannot figure that one out.
Geocaching is not about taking stuff, unless you leave stuff.
In reply to californiamilleghia :
Don't need a slide rule for that.
simple formula.
mtn (Forum Supporter) said:
I just saw a teenage girl - I'd have guessed around 13-15, except she drove up in a car, so we can assume 16 or older - that I've never seen before walk up to my neighbors yard carrying a slide rule. Yeah, a slide rule, like what fossils used instead of a calculator. She went over to a corner in the yard, and did... something - nothing nefarious in this post, get y'alls minds out of the gutter. She came back carrying a rock and a stick, picked up in the yard, with the slide rule in her back pocket. Then she drove away.
I'm so confused right now.
High school science class project. Either that, or let her do her own thang if she ain't hurting anyone.
NOHOME said:
As my physics professor taught me way back, there are a few things you can do with a slide rule that you can not do with a calculator.
Like stir paint.
Who says you cannot stir paint with a calculator?
