Already Given Away to good home. White 3" mini - mini
Sep 24, 2007 at 4:20 AM Post #33 of 56
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Originally Posted by FeedMeTrance /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Gimme an albino mini-mini!

you know you're a head-fier when the first thing you notice about someone is their earphones.....









..... and you can name the make and model!


...and what amps they should pair those with...
 
Sep 24, 2007 at 6:33 AM Post #34 of 56
Gimme an albino mini-mini!

So, my friend sped past an intersection and got caught by a camera. A couple days later, he found a letter enclosed with a picture of his license plate and a fine for $545. Being the smartass he is, he snapped a photo of $545 in cash and sent it back. A couple days pass and he receives another letter. Enclosed is a sole picture of a pair of handcuffs. Needless to say, he paid the $545.

=D
 
Sep 24, 2007 at 12:22 PM Post #35 of 56
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Originally Posted by uraflit /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Gimme an albino mini-mini!

So, my friend sped past an intersection and got caught by a camera. A couple days later, he found a letter enclosed with a picture of his license plate and a fine for $545. Being the smartass he is, he snapped a photo of $545 in cash and sent it back. A couple days pass and he receives another letter. Enclosed is a sole picture of a pair of handcuffs. Needless to say, he paid the $545.

=D


HAHAHAHA
That's the best thing I have ever heard. Bravo.
 
Sep 26, 2007 at 5:29 PM Post #36 of 56
Gimme an albino mini-mini!

Sorry for the length, but I hope you find it amusing and interesting (and new).

Is There a Santa Claus: An Engineer’s Perspective

There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world.
However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total (or 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each.
Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels East to West (which seems logical).
This works out to 967.7 visits per second.
This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get onto the next house.
Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purpose of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa’s sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second – 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles an hour.
The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element.
Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself.
On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the flying reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can’t be done with eight or even nine of them – Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth II (the ship, not the monarch). 600,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance – this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporised within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip.

Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in 0.001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g’s. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously thin) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.
Therefore, if Santa did exist, he’s dead now.

Merry Christmas.


PS: I also saw this photo online and thought it fitted the description of "albino mini-mini" rather well:
060901-monkeys-photo_big.jpg

Article located here.
 
Sep 26, 2007 at 6:13 PM Post #37 of 56
Quote:

Originally Posted by shadesbass /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Gimme an albino mini-mini!

Sorry for the length, but I hope you find it amusing and interesting (and new).

Is There a Santa Claus: An Engineer’s Perspective

There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world.
However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total (or 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each.
Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels East to West (which seems logical).
This works out to 967.7 visits per second.
This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get onto the next house.
Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purpose of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa’s sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second – 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles an hour.
The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element.
Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself.
On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the flying reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can’t be done with eight or even nine of them – Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth II (the ship, not the monarch). 600,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance – this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporised within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip.

Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in 0.001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g’s. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously thin) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.
Therefore, if Santa did exist, he’s dead now.

Merry Christmas.


PS: I also saw this photo online and thought it fitted the description of "albino mini-mini" rather well:
060901-monkeys-photo_big.jpg

Article located here.


woh!! - they are itsy...spider monkeys?
 
Sep 26, 2007 at 6:46 PM Post #40 of 56
According to Wikipedia, they grow to be around 14-16 cm long (excluding the 15-20 cm tail), so even a full sized one is pretty small. There's a huge (3072x2048 pixels) photo of one on Wikipedia, which looks about life-sized on my monitor.

Sorry for going off topic...
 
Sep 26, 2007 at 6:49 PM Post #41 of 56
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Originally Posted by shadesbass /img/forum/go_quote.gif
According to Wikipedia, they grow to be around 14-16 cm long (excluding the 15-20 cm tail), so even a full sized one is pretty small. There's a huge (3072x2048 pixels) photo of one on Wikipedia, which looks about life-sized on my monitor.

Sorry for going off topic...


The one on wikipedia is ugly!

check out this cutie!

http://www.focus.it/_allegati/110801.JPG
 
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