"Those things blow up in your face!"

[MyMagicMist]

I was absolutely terrified of driving. I didn't get my license until two years ago and I'm 22.something about driving seemed to bring out the worst in me

Well it's not exactly the worst in me. It is just me shutting down. My worst would me walking down the side walk and gut kicking everyone I met, my wife in tow acting as translator. "He says, hello, excuse him." Kind of an anti-social introvert a lot of the time, here. I find myself fitting with my wife and another special person. Beyond that I find a lot of adversity to people in general. I genuinely do make an effort and am getting better at being more social. It simply isn't one of my better skill sets.

Small talk for me consists of asking your opinion on say all eight books of Aristotle's Metaphysics, or your take on the issue of titanium sporks. And I do this weird thing, where I gather up all the dots in the Big Picture and little picture, draw lines and connect them. In short I'm what used to be dubbed eccentric, now deemed generally crazy, mostly harmless.

 

[MyMagicMist]

Accidents do happen, however when you are knowledgeable enough to use a mechanical mod safely, you know what to do in the event of an accident.


Using the gear improperly isn't an accident.
Using the gear carelessly isn't an accident.
It's user error.


You won't ever see an educated experienced vaper on the news.

I agree 125% with you. I am aware enough to know myself, I might want try a mech mod later on. At present, I am still cautiously studying mech mods at a distance. To me many appear to be glorified pipe bombs in all seriousness. I do understand though, wise and cautious use limits accidents, or chances of accidents. Until I feel right enough for myself, I'll use regulated mods, thanks.

 

[Bad Ninja]

I agree 125% with you. I am aware enough to know myself, I might want try a mech mod later on. At present, I am still cautiously studying mech mods at a distance. To me many appear to be glorified pipe bombs in all seriousness. I do understand though, wise and cautious use limits accidents, or chances of accidents. Until I feel right enough for myself, I'll use regulated mods, thanks.

They are flashlights with an atty instead of a bulb.
No need to fear mechs. They don't bite unless you do something really stupid.

 

[MyMagicMist]

They are flashlights with an atty instead of a bulb.
No need to fear mechs. They don't bite unless you do something really stupid.

Well not fear here. And no it isn't. I just want to be sure, ... I won't do something stupid that one time. I see that one time is all it takes. No, not generally a stupid person. Still, do know about ... that one time. *chuckles*

* imagines scene *

"Ooops, did I erm leave my mech mod on my dinner plate now ready to go into the dishwasher?" ... "Boooom!" "Um ... gee, guess so ..."

 

[VHRB2014]

Other things that blow up in your face,

Rosie O,
Ford Pinto`s,
Last years Tesla,
SJW`s (!),
Rabid Atheists (!),
Microwaves used as pet driers (?),
Plastic gas cans used in plastic protector truck beds,
Fast Tech (!?!)

Obviously I`m not going to get through the whole list today.

 

[Bad Ninja]

Well not fear here. And no it isn't. I just want to be sure, ... I won't do something stupid that one time. I see that one time is all it takes. No, not generally a stupid person. Still, do know about ... that one time. *chuckles*

* imagines scene *

"Ooops, did I erm leave my mech mod on my dinner plate now ready to go into the dishwasher?" ... "Boooom!" "Um ... gee, guess so ..."

One time?
Like the "one time" someone uses an atomizer that they know shouldn't be used?
Build beyond the limits of a battery?
Use untested/damaged cells?

That's about the only ways to make them dangerous unless you throw them at someone.

 

[motordude]

I have more fear of my wife blowing up all up in my face than anything else.
We have been married over 30 years now and I can control my actions, hers are another matter.

 

[VHRB2014]

Ah yes, Spouse`s. Go BOOM, LOL.

 

[MyMagicMist]

One time?
Like the "one time" someone uses an atomizer that they know shouldn't be used?
Build beyond the limits of a battery?
Use untested/damaged cells?

That's about the only ways to make them dangerous unless you throw them at someone.

All true, or forgetting it on a dinner plate. Not that i expect I would do such a thing, or any of the things you list, except well maybe throwing it at someone ... if a real need arose. That kind of need though I may be sending dogs loose on someone, or improvising a silent weapon.

 

[Annie56]

Morley, i have a question to ask. You don't have to answer.

Are you a southpaw? You don't need to answer.

I am. Penmanship, mechanical anything, and driving were a learning-curve for me, as everything in society is geared for righties. I drive stick, since my first brand-new Mazda, when I finished college 25 years ago. Lanes used to 'panic' me. I know that i am wired differently. Great with maps, my little attys, and penmanship in Arabic (right-to-left).

Life's 'curve-balls' have frozen my facial expression into shocked-stoicism. My mech-mod didn't do it to my face, lol. That--and the Ukranian genome or watever that made my face resemble a red potato. I agree with all of the vaping masters/mavens--mechs are devices that need to be treated w respect and care. But i do loves me a mech vape.

I wish the nuns had been Arabic....

 

[Bad Ninja]

Small talk for me consists of asking your opinion on say all eight books of Aristotle's Metaphysics, or your take on the issue of titanium sporks. And I do this weird thing, where I gather up all the dots in the Big Picture and little picture, draw lines and connect them. In short I'm what used to be dubbed eccentric, now deemed generally crazy, mostly harmless.

I just caught the Aristotle's Metaphysics reference.
Little light reading?
Are you a Philosophy professor?
Lol
I recognize the reference, but to I'd need to be paid a salary to know the material well enough to form an opinion worthy of discussion.

That makes "Elegant Universe" look like a Harry potter book.

 

[MyMagicMist]

I just caught the Aristotle's Metaphysics reference.
Little light reading?
Are you a Philosophy professor?
Lol
I recognize the reference, but to I'd need to be paid a salary to know the material well enough to form an opinion worthy of discussion.

That makes "Elegant Universe" look like a Harry potter book.

No, no philosophy prof. I just read all eight books he wrote as one book, simply because it was there, like Muḥammad climbing the mountain ... because it was there. And yes, each of the eight books are vastly differing. He pronounces a grave dislike of Socrates, which is no great surprise.

All in all, I appreciated The Book of Five Rings better despite not fully training according to it, with two long swords, one for each hand. The philosophy from Five Rings in many ways aligns with Confucius ( Western for kung (king) fu (sage or great teacher) ). Sometimes there are some who go through gate-less gates, walking straight lines yet seeming to diverge in all directions. At one time I attempted it, did manage for a bit. Then, some Buddha came along and knocked me off the ox.

S'all good though. I now live a lot less stressed and more at peace. Me and wife are also heading toward more peace. Seems we both need to divorce our respective families a bit for it. We'll get there. Presently though, for me it seems a sluggish process and infers some frustration.

Been escaping a little now and then into Discworld. Terry Pratchett is a wonderful and superbly wise grandfatherly story teller. He has taught me a great deal beyond what some the ancient minds grasped to teach, to learn. His teaching resonates from deeper within a reader, he draws out those lessons a reader needs weather or not the reader realizes it. Ah, and the reading is light.

 

[MyMagicMist]

Morley, i have a question to ask. You don't have to answer.

Are you a southpaw? You don't need to answer.

I am. Penmanship, mechanical anything, and driving were a learning-curve for me, as everything in society is geared for righties. I drive stick, since my first brand-new Mazda, when I finished college 25 years ago. Lanes used to 'panic' me. I know that i am wired differently. Great with maps, my little attys, and penmanship in Arabic (right-to-left).

Life's 'curve-balls' have frozen my facial expression into shocked-stoicism. My mech-mod didn't do it to my face, lol. That--and the Ukranian genome or watever that made my face resemble a red potato. I agree with all of the vaping masters/mavens--mechs are devices that need to be treated w respect and care. But i do loves me a mech vape.

I wish the nuns had been Arabic....

I am naturally right handed, though I had a naturally ambidextrous uncle, who kind of taught me a bit of ambidexterity. Not quite as good juggling two hands as I used to be, and even then would not claim being so good. I could manage but it did tax a bit. And I don't think this had much issue for learning to drive. Had a grandfather teaching me on a 1930's model Ford stick pick-up. He tried, rest him, but I kept freezing. Could handle his Ferguson tractor alright though. * shrugs * I'm just wonky with regular cars/trucks.

Not sure I'd fit stoic, cynic maybe with some gallows humor. Understand life and curve balls. Over the last few years, our family sent three of our best on their way. For two of those the kind after words mentioned me as a survivor. Still rather humbled by that and a bit lost at times without our best here to offer guiding. Before these best went onward, I had been led to understand there was a role of patriarchy to fill and I had been passed the baton for it. I was to head three households, well four inclusive of my own. To me that was a very grave honor and a great responsibility of humility. I chose emulating the wild stag. They stay just out of sight as the doe graze with the fawn.

Big curve ball, these best left and apparently other members of families had other ideas, did not quite get the memo that I'm Big Papa. Ergo me and wife now realize being taken for a ride as it were. Well, that'll stop as we will leave and let them sink or swim for themselves. Sometimes the better part of maturity lies in knowing which battles to fight, which to walk away from. Sometimes that also brings one back to see that the after words, survivor, reveals ... well, it is as it is.

I'll get to mech mods, I'm sure. It'll just take me a bit to warm more to them. Been considering them good bit as well as the squonkers. Thinking I'd like a regulated squonk to start, then maybe a mech. Have seen a couple here and there with affordable prices. This round of budgeting though requires juice restocking. Might stretch for a $20-$30 regulated squonker if able. May ask the Boss Lady to unfurl her purse strings to supplement my usual stipend. We got a little Taxmas windfall to ahem dispose wantonly.

Bah, late here/early morn. Darn military, at times wish I'd never served. My internal clock ... if I sleep 2-4hrs a days I think I'm all good to go. Wife catches napping while I'm on my feet, working at whatever is at hand. Can be fun at times. *chuckles* Well, better go have one of those melatonins, crash.

 

[Annie56]

I am going to stock up on some nic base. Am looking at parallel mech boxes, as they will have more battery life. Myself, i only build the lowest 0.6 or 0.5. Never lower, usually vape ~1.0Ω. If the regs put the kibosh on hardware, i'll be set for awhile.
Have never squonked, but i always thought it was a cool and innovative means of juice delivery.
I never sleep well. I live next door to the firehouse
Prior Navy.

 

[Bad Ninja]

No, no philosophy prof. I just read all eight books he wrote as one book, simply because it was there, like Muḥammad climbing the mountain ... because it was there. And yes, each of the eight books are vastly differing. He pronounces a grave dislike of Socrates, which is no great surprise.

All in all, I appreciated The Book of Five Rings better despite not fully training according to it, with two long swords, one for each hand. The philosophy from Five Rings in many ways aligns with Confucius ( Western for kung (king) fu (sage or great teacher) ). Sometimes there are some who go through gate-less gates, walking straight lines yet seeming to diverge in all directions. At one time I attempted it, did manage for a bit. Then, some Buddha came along and knocked me off the ox.

S'all good though. I now live a lot less stressed and more at peace. Me and wife are also heading toward more peace. Seems we both need to divorce our respective families a bit for it. We'll get there. Presently though, for me it seems a sluggish process and infers some frustration.

Been escaping a little now and then into Discworld. Terry Pratchett is a wonderful and superbly wise grandfatherly story teller. He has taught me a great deal beyond what some the ancient minds grasped to teach, to learn. His teaching resonates from deeper within a reader, he draws out those lessons a reader needs weather or not the reader realizes it. Ah, and the reading is light.

Nice!
I'm a simple Ninja but I've read a book or two as well.

Musashi advocated two long swords because he was a very tall man and could wield them quite easily.
His size gave him an advantage, as the average Japanese man was smaller than him.
He advocated training with two katanas, to prepare oneself for the different aspects of battle which he addresses in the books.
He was a legendary Samurai, and beat a man in a dual with a wooded oar whittled into a sword, while hungover.
He was also a drunk.

Kung fu ( Chinese) is a mistranslation of Gong fu, which means an area of study.
The west associated it with a martial art in.
Confucius was actually named Gong qui.
The connection between Confucius and Kung fu is sketchy, and though possible, I never bought into, tho herbalists similar to the western ear.
They are from two very different political and philosophical schools.

 

[Toronnah]

Nice!
I'm a simple Ninja but I've read a book or two as well.

Musashi advocated two long swords because he was a very tall man and could wield them quite easily.
His size gave him an advantage, as the average Japanese man was smaller than him.
He advocated training with two katanas, to prepare oneself for the different aspects of battle which he addresses in the books.
He was a legendary Samurai, and beat a man in a dual with a wooded oar whittled into a sword, while hungover.
He was also a drunk.

Kung fu ( Chinese) is a mistranslation of Gong fu, which means an area of study.
The west associated it with a martial art in.
Confucius was actually named Gong qui.
The connection between Confucius and Kung fu is sketchy, and though possible, I never bought into, tho herbalists similar to the western ear.
They are from two very different political and philosophical schools.

Confucius was linked to I Ching.

 

[Bad Ninja]

Confucius was linked to I Ching.

The term "Kung Fu" wasn't a mistranslation of Confucius.

 

[Toronnah]

The term "Kung Fu" wasn't a mistranslation of Confucius.

Got that. Aside from the anglicized naming of Kung Fu, Confucius etc, we need to separate the individual (confucius) from the ideology? ( kung fu) from the belief system? (I Ching), before we decide how they are inter-related.

Note the question marks above as I am not a morning person and those words were the best descriptors I could think of in my foggy state.

 

[Bad Ninja]

Got that. Aside from the anglicized naming of Kung Fu, Confucius etc, we need to separate the individual (confucius) from the ideology? ( kung fu) from the belief system? (I Ching), before we decide how they are inter-related.

Note the question marks above as I am not a morning person and those words were the best descriptors I could think of in my foggy state.

They are separated by geography, culture, philosophy and politics.
Vastly different.
The theory of mistranslation of confusion and gong fu, or that one came from other hasn't been definitively established, and isn't really accepted by mainstream scholars, however it's a recognized point of debate.
We really don't know for sure.


Man, it's way early to go this far back.
Its been a few decades since the last time I thought about this stuff.

 

[Toronnah]

Man, it's way early to go this far back.
Its been a few decades since the last time I thought about this stuff.

Definitely too early, but still an enjoyable and educating conversation. Thank you.

I don't know much of Kung fu. I've only studied I Ching so I can only comment so far.