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Land shark:

If your body was on my car I would certainly work on it for you :)

I'm going to visit Townsville dressed as a shark - maybe I can get lucky too.

When it is hot and humid, the dust and debris can absorb enough humidity to become conductive: Here's a failed power module - basic vacuuming returned it to operation. (The fan is actually OUT-flow and not an inlet): The inside of a computer that was used in an auto-body shop. The first is the before, the second is the after cleaning: Tip of the day: If your computer starts to make a noise especially when powering up, that is the bearings in a cooling fan starting to fail or that it is plugged up with gunk. When it stops making the noise, that normally means that the fan has stopped and it is just a matter of time before your system fries.

Thanks everyone! I'd like to respond to the "What makes you smile" thread here: It is coming to CERB and knowing that I am surrounded by people who care and that I care for.

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I think I can fix anything and put together Ikea furniture without the instructions. Reality, well that's another matter :)

1000 posts in two months - that's remarkable!

I forgot to include the picture of the Heath Kit heart: And here's the older version:

Thank you everyone - I'm really touched! Is there a special jacket, clubroom, etc. that I can partake in like the Saturday night live five-times club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyfK2BQfd-M

Isle of Skye, Scotland:

Cats Secret Meeting:

I wonder how many cars are returned with the buzzer clipped out.

Congratulations on your milestone Frank, I'm looking forward to the next 1,000!

I didn't know that there were hockey games in the winter Olympics.

Easy come, easy go: If you win the lottery, keep flying economy!

What's the strangest outfit/costume you've been asked to wear? What's the weirdest role-play you've been asked to do?

Not all Olympic figure skaters are gay, some of them like boobies too:

Definition of ambitious:

Big discovery: Tiny electron's mass more precisely measured By Tia Ghose Published February 20, 2014 LiveScience Scientists have made the most precise measurement yet of the electron's atomic mass. "It is a major technical improvement," said Edmund Myers, a physicist at Florida State University, who wrote an accompanying News & Views article Wednesday in the journal Nature, where the new measurement is detailed. "They have improved the precision by a factor of 13." The new value is just the tiniest bit smaller than the previous best value, though not by a significant amount. The new measurement could one day be used in experiments to test the Standard Model, the reigning physics theory that describes the tiny particles that make up the universe. But before the new value can be used to test the basic physics theory, other fundamental constants need to be measured at higher precision, Myers said. Electron mass The electron's mass is one of a few key parameters that govern the structure and properties of atoms, yet because the electron is so tiny, precisely measuring its atomic mass has been difficult. The most precise measurement so far was one adopted by the Committee on Data for Science and Technology, in 2006. To improve on this value, Sven Sturm, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Germany, and his colleagues bound an electron to a bare carbon nucleus, which has a mass that's already known. The result was a charged carbon nucleus or ion. Next, they pinned the bound electron into place using electric and magnetic fields. The team developed a technique to measure the ion when it was almost at rest, which limits uncertainty in the system, Sturm said in an email. Electrons' intrinsic angular momentum, or spin, act like tiny bar magnets, which, when exposed to a magnetic field, rotate around the field's axis. By combining information on the carbon nucleus with the frequency at which the electron's spin rotates in the presence of a magnetic field, the team deduced the electron's mass more precisely than ever before, Sturm said in an email. Testing the Standard Model The exquisitely precise measurement could pave the way for future tests of the Standard Model, which has extraordinary predictive ability but can't explain many phenomenon, such as the existence of gravity, the prevalence of dark matter and energy and the amount of antimatter in the universe. One theory is that Standard Model is a good approximation when there are low electric fields, but not in the presence of extreme electric fields. In that instance, one way to test the Standard Model would be using a highly charged ion and the strongest available electric fields to potentially reveal unknown physics, Sturm said. The atomic mass of an electron, however, is just one parameter that is needed to calculate another value, known as the fine structure constant, Myers said. That, in turn, could allow physicists to get more precise measurements of the electron's magnetic moment. Only then will scientists truly be able to test the Standard Model, he said. But the researchers say they are already at work crafting new experiments. "We are currently setting up a next-generation experiment for tests of the Standard Model in heavy, highly-charged ions, which will be extremely sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model," Sturm said. "The electron mass will be a key input parameter for these experiments."

Ladies, what jobs/careers that guys have do you find turn-ons and turn-offs? I'm thinking "chicken sexer" is probably a turn off :)