It's just a spring-clean for the mayqueen.
Spring has hit in the big DE. Not all days are sunny as in AZ, but at
least I can relish in the fact that the trees won't turn brown in the
next two weeks.
Really though, the sun has been shining nearly each day, and hence
providing good weather for walking, barbequing, or whatever else it is
that people do in the daytime. (I'm a night person myself... which is
somewhat ironic due to the fact that I don't particularly enjoy the
nightlife, but whatever.)
I really don't have much to say today, but felt like writing nonetheless,
so I suppose I'll share in a story with everyone. Yesterday, John was
being, well, John, and trying to push me around a little, knowing
full-well that he's far too small to engauge in such endeavors. Seeing as
how all of our floors here on the second floor are done with fairly cheap
linoleum, John really can't get much traction, especially in shower
slippers. There came a time when he was really trying, and I finally
pushed back, and he just slid, holding form, across the room. This lead
to a great revelation in the minds of two engineers. "A man is only as
strong as his mu."
Since I know not all of my readers are inclined to the study of
mechanical physics, let me take a moment to explain this realization.
See, when studying friction, a person learns that there are two types:
static and kinetic. Static friction is the friction given by an object at
rest, while kinetic friction is the resistance given by an object once
it's already in motion. (e.g. The initial resistance to starting movement
of, say, a chest at rest on a floor vs. the resistance to motion of that
same chest once it's already moving.) There are two frictional values for
every type of surface, one for each of the types of friction. In order to
cause an object to move, or to keep it moving, the force applied to that
object must always be greater than each of these values. The values are
called the coefficients of friction, (one for static, one for kinetic),
and are represented by the greek letter mu.
So, looking at the statement, "A man is only as strong as his mu" one more
time, I think it's pretty obvious how a person could find that
entertaining provided he has at least a little background in
Newtonian physics. At this point, if you're still reading, I imagine
you're probably saying, "Lame Dave, just lame." The thing is, we'll see
if you're still saying that the next time I watch you slide through an
intersection in flagstaff while sitting on my lawnchair, drinking a warm
"Andy's Mint." (Creme de Menthe and Hot chocolate) Heck, I might even
hold up signs that say such things as "Your mu was: [insert number here]".
We could even have judges giving scores based on grace of slide, number of
collisions with inanimate objects, and possibly the time required for
recovery. That'd be a fun party for any Saturday after football season,
no doubt, no doubt.
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