A Fresnell lens for heat

Let the Record show that "Karl Townsend" on or about Tue, 15 Dec 2009

07:32:10 -0600 did write/type or cause to appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

I was having troubles with a compiler I had to use for a class project. Hit returned, stood up and said "I'm going for a smoke!", and left. I was out the door, slapping my shirt for my cigarette, when I realized "I quit fifteen years ago..." and it had been fifteenyears! (I only 'smoked' for less than a year in High School. Quit when the price went to two bucks a carton.)

The problem isn't the nicotine, it's the habits of the hand. There have been a lot of times I wanted a smoke and a cup of coffee - and I didn't drink coffee in High School!.

- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

It is indeed that simple, a mere matter of will and discipline. I enjoyed it for many years but I mustn't now because of cardiac issues so I don't and won't. I don't mind if others around me do, doesn't bother me a bit. That said, after I quit in May of '08 my young neighbors on both sides quit a few months later.

As you get older, e.g. after you retire and have time, you might want to walk more than a mile a day. I do three miles every day at a pace the Army calls quicktime as defined in FM 22-5. Mary does her three at a slightly slower pace and not up and down the hills that are on my outdoor routes but she does 'em every day and there's no way she'll let me shirk without a large ration of sting she can deliver so well. No wonder I love her so... and she's such a good shot to boot.

I thought I had very low risk of lung cancer because there is zero history of any cancer in my lineage of many smokers. While not doubting the surgeon general's findings, I still think that. Smoking undeniably increases risk of lung cancer for the population in general but there are other very relevant variables that strongly affect the risk for each individual. Some can get away with it, others can't.

The other variable is congestive heart disease and failure. There are multiple factors to that also, including heredity. My heart rate was considered high when I had my physical at Fort Belvoir at age 21. I sat bareassed on a bench with a tag on my toe while they decided whether or not to accept me. They decided to accept me. Smokes were

19 cents a pack at the PX and commissary in those days, and were included in MRE rations.

Smoking would be unwise and foolish for me now because nicotine would interfere with beta-blocker drugs that have recently become a daily regimen for me.

I can live with that. Getting old is not for sissies.

I certainly am not an antismoker zealot and I disdain P.C. zealots in pursuit of superiority re any subject including but not limited to smoking. As we said when appropriate back in my military days, "smoke 'em if ya gottem."

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:32:10 -0600, the infamous "Karl Townsend" scrawled the following:

Luckily, for most of us, that isn't true. I haven't had a craving for a smoke since the day I decided to quit.

Mom and Dad quit for 12 years and after Dad died, Mom started back up. She had never _truly_ made the decision to quit. And that's exactly what it is, a decision. Until you make it, you'll want to smoke.

I, for one, never want to smell like a dirty ashtray to people ever again, thankyouverymuch. YMOV.

Just as it is for alcoholics, 1 is too much and 20 aren't enough.

-- Every day above ground is a Good Day(tm). -----------

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:34:09 -0600, the infamous Don Foreman scrawled the following:

Nope. It's a simple decision. Will and discipline have no place in it, and if you try that, you'll either live a horrid life of denial or go back to smoking and probably die. Oops! Unfortunately, you didn't want to quit, so making that decision may be harder on you than it was on me. I had already cut down to 1/2 pack (from 2+) when I quit.

I can tell when a smoker is 50' upwind of me, when they're -not- smoking. I'll bet the Viet Cong could do it from 100 yards and had a field day with that.

People you don't want to stand next to in the elevator: Farters, smokers, and people who don't use any deodorant. Think about it. ;)

-- Every day above ground is a Good Day(tm). -----------

I get my fix every time I walk downwind of second son! Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Headers on my car.

Quartz space heater.

50mm F1.8 lens while out at San Onofre.

Soldering iron.

Kitchen range.

Most addictions are enjoyable.

I quit a lot of times. May 6, 1986 7:25 PM seems to have stuck.

You have to build a mind set of total revulsion to the act of smoking to stay on the right track. That is why most reformed smokers are so militant. Unlike other crusades, reformed smokers know they are on the true path.

So you quit and let Obama keep smoking. Things will work out just fine if you get my drift.

Wes

on the right

Dick Gregory had as part of his platform, when running fro President, that he would have his Surgeon General make an announcement that smoking tobacco effected you sexually. Just that "effected you sexually." He figured that what they lost in sales (and taxes) to young men quitting, they'd make up in old guys starting up. "You never know."

- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

Neutrons or Gamma rays?

:-)

Mark Rand(GEC Turbines, as was) RTFM

Jacob's Ladders work well, but you have to keep bending your knees up and down until it's lit.

Neutrons don't work too well, not unless your getting the extra fast ones.

B-)

- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

Actually, I'm not entirely sure how one would focus them!

Mark Rand RTFM

Let the Record show that Mark Rand on or about Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:07:45 +0000 did write/type or cause to appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

"Its a simple procedure, involving lasers" "Cool"

pyotr

- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

I'd like to apply for a research grant to study The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.

I figure I can come up with good answers for only 1.2 million.

:)

Oh! I need a research assistant. Anybody seen Tiger's Little Black Book?