Electricity is simply smoke trapped in a wire. Sure it runs the toaster and stuff but if anything goes wrong you can tell because the smoke escapes.

The stuff on cassette, VHS tapes is magnetically encoded onto the tape.

Double date?

Buy an organic sheep or goat.

CW,

The laser interprets the information by turning it into "1"'s and "0"'s. But what the hell happens then I don't know either. I think we have to go about a dozen messages up the thread to find out.

I didn't know this thread would be so much fun

I guess every thread turns to sex sooner or later. ;)

I shower with no curtain everyday here in the jungle. The whole bathroom is tilled and water goes everywhere. Well actually the water goes everywhere because of the poor quality wormanship in leveling the tub surround but that's a diffrent thread.

For clean freaks. Its also a snip to clean up the centipedes and ants.

I've been avoiding this and the stock market thread for ages. I'm scared I might have to learn something. My brain's just not ready. I'll come back in a couple of weeks after a couple of joints to even out my breathing.

I understand much in the way of mechanical devices. However...

Steering and suspension and alignment are all out of my league. I don't even know how they do it in the shops.

There are considerable gaps in my understanding of how radio works. I have even built an extremely simple crystal radio, and I still don't understand how the little machine can pull the music out of the air and pipe it into my head.

There are a ton of things I don't understand the why of even if I understand the how of. Fancy wrapping paper, headed straight to the trashcan. :scratches head:

The Wankel Rotary Engine? I've owned them, and seen all the cutaway drawings, and I still don't completely follow it. Only three moving parts. Elegant, supremely elegant.

more later...

I'm a fair programmer, I still don't understand:
Continuations
Closures
or why people think Best Practices are a good idea.

Reading Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide will give you a good start on continuations and closures. The Ruby language has both.

Best Practices, at least the way we use them, are just rules of thumb. They are a formalized equivalent of "Hey, you know what works for me?".