Guerrilla Poetry

Lawn prep MOW
Chains in case of... SNOW
I wasn't speeding officer SHOW
Loss of coolant for beer WOE
10 minute "stretch" at gas station HO
Test the ocean temp TOE
Outcome of drinking all day BLOW
via leaning out the WIN... DOW
Overwrought rantings SO
Staying home & winning the Superbowl pool CROW
Nevertheless wishing I could GO



arne saknussem wrote:


Overpacking: GO
Oil level: GO
Cooler stocking: GO
Hats: GO
Coffee subsystem: JOE
Gracknoids: GO
Kim chi: WHOA!
Rbeans/rice: GO
Saalman: NO
Big Sur: SLOW
SLO: GO
Shite Forgotten: DOH!
Coon Fear: GO
Pilot: SCHMO

The program review has been rejiggered, I'm second after the BAU pitch so I won't escape work until 1.

Prey for me.

MdO ETA: 1630



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----- Original Message ----
From: Doug Pennington
To: arne saknussem
Cc: todd.saalman@saalman.com; Curtis Brown
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 7:40:47 PM
Subject: Coons

Pity about Curtis, I’d chuck in a five bucks to the school. Is that enough?

We still on for Gold Mountain ? I am strongly considering taking Freitag auf.

From: arne saknussem [mailto:johnsonbrockway@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:09 PM
To: Curtis Brown
Cc: todd.saalman@saalman.com; dkpennington@verizon.net
Subject: Rats!


The virtue of Montana de Oro is its proximity; its liability - it's an organized campground with a vicious set of raccoons.

I'd rather break all y'all in on somewhere primitive, like my garage, or Death Valley...we know this wadi up off the valley floor in the Panamints with old mining equipment strewn about and what's even more better: running water! It'll be a Spring, early summer date - April might be good, we can catch the wildflowers. Plan for a four day weekend...

I will throw old jokes at Skifflington.


----- Original Message ----
From: Curtis Brown
To: arne saknussem
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 5:05:04 PM
Subject: Alas

Count me out of the weekend beach frolics. Kat and I have an obligation for a fundraiser for the boy's school Friday nicht.

Kathleen says she'll let me go next time. Yowsa!

Throw sand at Pennington for me if he shows.

arne saknussem wrote:

The number really doesn't mean anything.

An accurate comparison would have to take into account the fluid drag on Titanic, changing buoyancy effects to determine the actual energy cost per momentum unit (which would not be a constant) which could then be equated to the specific impulse of the shuttle solid rocket boosters and the main engines provided we factor in the drag/lift coefficient of the Shuttle and the changing apparent weight to zero g.

That being not said, at least the leviathan had more room, even in Steerage.

But the 1 in 50 failure rate of the Shuttle is somewhat better than the rate for Titanic.

I can remember reading Lord's A Night To Remember when I was 7 - I felt sorry for the coaler whose bowl of soup was dislodged from one of the steam pipes on which he was warming it at the impact. I also felt sorry for all the upstanding gentlemen who went down with the ship. Not. I would have bitten my way onto a lifeboat.


----- Original Message ----
From: Curtis Brown
To: arne saknussem
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 7:51:24 PM
Subject: Re: Why we don't fly on lignite

Excellent Exceling.

Frightening really.

I'm glad the Shuttle is 2100% more efficient than the Titanic in lbs/ft. But the Titanic did it with 8 coal shovelers. The Shuttle has 8,000 shite shovelers.

So...

Titanic wins on that scale!

arne saknussem wrote:

Thanks for cheering me up this morning.

I've looked into the comparison: Titanic versus Space Shuttle - energy density use per translational unit.

The attached is the result.

Not included:
Comparison of fluid-aerodynamic drag to equate mass/impulse quanta
Lateral bouyant translational unit versus three-dimensional delta g translation

Maybe tomorrow...



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