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squeak-
Plumber?
Darchei Noam-
I think you may be worse off than before.
When I landed an interview with a company one of the interviewers brought a copy of every version of my resume that I ever submitted. (I made updates as I furthered my education and received professional certifications.)
squeak-
I like that idea, can I design a nice mosaic pattern with the tiles? Or do you have something better in mind?
d a-
The only Home Depot I ever went to that has employees like you describe is the one on Hamilton Ave. in Brooklyn and I try to avoid it no matter what.
In New York I go to the one on 23rd St. or to the one in Jersey City (right out of the Holland Tunnel).
I’ve also visited Home Depots in Monsey, Lakewood, Philadelphia, Baltimore and near Far Rockaway (off the Belt, on the way to Far Rockaway), and I was always treated professionally.
Squeak-
I didn’t stick around to give a report, I had to daven.
Assuming that what you think happened is what actually happened- does that belong in a Kiddush Hashem thread?
Thanks Squeak,
I think I’m going to have to print this up.
(Too much to remember.)
I saw two boys at Maariv last night, they walked in with their father and they looked exactly alike.
They told me that even though they share the same parents and date of birth they are not twins.
How is that possible?
(I’m supposed to give them the answer tonight, please help.)
Can I take a shot at this?
They are in alphabetical order.
Eight
Five
Four
One
Nine
Seven
Six
Ten
Three
Two
Zero
Sometimes it’s just better to leave the end of the story to your imagination.
Not a joke- it really happened.
I was walking to shul with some of my brothers one Shabbos when a car came driving a little too fast, ran a red and slammed into another car. A lot of Frum people ran over to make sure everyone was OK.
The car that was hit was driven by a middle aged man with his wife. He had some Anti-Semitic stuff to say and told us to get away.
The car that ran the red was driven by a young, quick talking guy. He said he felt alright but asked if we could wait there with him until help arrived. The whole time he was thanking us for our time and letting us know how much he appreciated us setting aside our differences of religious beliefs and political opinions…
Finally the cops came and asked him what happened.
“I was driving along, maybe I was going a little faster than I normally would since the streets were empty, but then that guy ran a red and I hit him. Look- I have 15 witnesses who saw what happened…”
I normally stay away from threads like this so that I don’t offend anyone. If anyone does take offence please forgive me retroactively.
A teacher of mine in high school once told us that everyone in the world is discriminated against one way or another. The example he gave regarding himself was that he wasn’t allowed to be a fighter pilot in the U.S.A.F. because he was over 6’6″ and couldn’t fit into the cockpit!
Growing up my parents always taught us to have the utmost respect for Baalei Teshuva. In my fathers words- “They are on a level that we can’t even come close to”. My kids got to see this first hand over this past three day Yom Tov when my parents saved the best food and nicest China and cutlery for the seuda where we had guests who were Baalei Teshuva.
When my brothers and I were dating my parents politely told shadchanim that they would only consider girls whose ancestors have always been frum- the reason being that a kohain can not marry a challal and if he does his children can not do the avodah and are not considered kohanim.
Take a simple case where a non-frum couple got divorced and she got remarried to a kohain. Their children are challalim and can not marry kohanim. (And this is in the case where we’re assuming that the divorce was done properly- think about what the parameters change to if it wasn’t done properly!)
Although this may be very rare, I do know of one family where this happened and their children are not kohanim.
There are many silly things out there but I agree with my parents for taking this seriously.
We gave different legal names to two of our children who have Hebrew names that contain a “Ches”, but they never go by that name except when they’re at the doctor. Of course that will change once they get older and need to fill out legal documents.
Here’s a story that I found amusing-
Shortly after my son turned three we went for a walk and the wind blew his yarmulka off without him realizing it. I called his name to get his attention and then a voice from behind me said, “Hey Chaim, your yarmulka fell off”.
I turned around to see that it was an African American who said it. He had a smirk on his face so I asked him how he was able to pronounce it.
“During the week I’m the bus driver in a Hasidic school. The kids always ask me to stop by their Shteeble on Shabbos for some cholent and a L’Chaim.”
Mosh3-
Here’s one for you-
Let’s say you have a table with equal distant parallel lines running the length of the table.
You randomly drop a pencil onto the table.
What are the chances of the pencil hitting a line?
Extra Credit- If the length of the pencil is shorter than the distance between two consecutive lines- what famous constant will you estimate?
(No asking Squeak or I can only try.)
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I’m at work and I don’t know off hand what kind of shaver I have but my brother bought it for me and sent it to the Star-K to have it checked. One of the Rabbonim who works there checks them for free. According to this Rov (who works under Rabbi Heineman), even within the same model some shavers are kosher and some are not, it all depends on the blades that are put in at the factory.
As a piece of advice- the way lift and cut works is that there are two parts to each blade- one to lift the hair and one to cut it. If one attempts to remove part of the blade without a special tool the blade may get bent and won’t turn properly. Of the previous shaver which wasn’t kosher I had a jeweler cut off the extra pieces.
I can only try
There were some 1964 Peace Dollars minted for circulation in 1965 although they were never actually released for circulation.
WellInformedYid-
I don’t deduct it from maaser.
Whatever the standard of living is for the owner- the fact is that he never asks anyone to pay their bill, and some people never do.
Was it Ben Franklin on the Franflin Half Dollar?
Feif Un-
We have the same issue by us.
I haven’t investigated what goes on but if I had to guess I would think that the prices are double so that those who pay also pay for those that purchase on credit but never pay.
My wife and I both feel that it is a perfect way to give tzedakka in the neighborhood to friends and family with out us knowing who it goes to and without them knowing who it’s coming from.
blinky-
No, sorry, I was talking to Squeak.
We seem to be having a disconnect somewhere and I was hoping to get it resolved before I leave for the day.
Nice to meet you again.
(Have you heard from Sholom recently?)
Did that answer your question?
The value of e can be derived in a number of ways.
By definition, substituting a large number for x into (1 + 1/x)^x will give you an approximation.
Using a Taylor Series will give you =>
e = 1/0! + 1/1! + 1/2! + 1/3! ….
Obviously the more terms in the infinite series you use, the better the approximation.
(x! = x * (x – 1) * (x – 2) … * 3 * 2 * 1)
Squeak-
I’d love to answer your question but I honestly don’t understand it.
Can you try explaining it in different words?
squeak-
Take compound interest for example:
Compounded once per year => (1 + 1/1)^1
Compounded twice per year => (1 + 1/2)^2
Compounded three times per year => (1 + 1/3)^3
Compounded four times per year => (1 + 1/4)^4
Compounded twelve per year => (1 + 1/12)^12
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Compounded continuously => (1 + 1/x)^x as x goes to infinity.
By the way, we already discussed this way back in the olden days when ICOT asked me to teach him Cramer’s Rule.
I don’t mind going there but I was trying to keep this thread on a high school level.
If y = a^x then y’ = a^x * ln(a).
Being that ln(x) and e^x are inverse functions of each other, ln(e) = 1.
Therefore, the slope a x = 0 is e^0 * ln(e) = 1 * 1 = 1.
Is this what you’re asking?
Which question?
blinky-
If this makes a difference- the father told me the story himslef, his son was not there.
Moderator-80-
I knew we could agree on something. 🙂
e is the limit of (1 + 1/x)^x as x goes towards infinity.
Either you can use arbitrarily high numbers (the larger the number the better the approximation) or you can use a Taylor Series.
(Because the derivative of e^x is e^x, the Taylor Series is quite simple-
e = 1/0! + 1/1! + 1/2! + 1/3! + ….)
Feif Un-
Reminds me of a story back in the days when I was a teacher.
One of my students misbehaved in the dormitory and the dorm counselor called his father down for a meeting. The father thought the dorm counselor was overstepping his authority but complied anyway.
“Can you tell your son that he has to respect me because I have a beard?” the dorm counselor asked the father.
“No”, answered the father, “I only teach my kids to respect people for what they have due to their accomplishments, not for things they have because they were too lazy to do anything about it”.
By the way- did we come across each other on another (non-Jewish) website a couple of years back? I went by the screen name “Algorithm Al” (it’s since been retired, I haven’t been there in ages). I remember that there was this guy named “Sholom” claiming to be a Palestinian loving Jew and either you or someone with your writing personality always used some great lines at him.
SJSinNYC-
Thanks for pointing that out. When we were younger we were allowed to call our parents friends by their first name if we put a Mr. or Ms. in front of it.
SJSinNYC-
Sorry, but I respectfully disagree with you on this. I don’t think that my neighbors kids should be calling me or my wife by our first names.
If their parents don’t care then there’s nothing we can do but we instruct our children to call their friends parents either Dr., Mr., Mrs., Rabbi _______ or so and so’s Daddy or Mommy.
Even if they tell our kids that they don’t care about their own respect we ask that they honor our decision.
WellInformedYid-
In my opinion, the world is too large and complex for the simple minds and short attention spans that people have these days.
In the business world, at least in the company that I work for, there is lots of respect from every employee to every other employee. The reason, quite simply, is that we all know that we’re here, every single one of us, to make money for the company. The more money we make the bigger our paychecks and bonuses are. Politics, disrespect, racism, discrimination, loshon hora… that all takes away from productivity and hurts the bottom line. Respecting others and helping other reach their goal ultimately helps everyone else in the long run.
Outside the business world- we don’t necessarily see how helping another person or respecting their beliefs will help us in any way.
squeak-
I’m not quite sure I understand your question.
Do you want to know how e was estimated as 2.71828182845904523536 or how it fits into my sons middle name (together with pi)?
The reason why e is important is because the derivative of e^x is e^x for all x, not just where x = 0. (This property is used in building the main cables of suspension bridges.)
HashemLovesMe-
As I posted in another thread- my brother and sister-in-law are able to make ends meet without support from either set of parents or the government.
My sister-in-law got a mail order diploma and my brother learns full time. I don’t know specifics about their finances but I do know that he goes to a morning kollel and night kollel and takes bechinos on the material that he learns to earn some extra money. My wife suspects that he also tutors during his free time.
They live on what I consider to be the bare minimum.
(They also pay full tuition albeit it is cheaper in Lakewood than Brooklyn.)
If a couple wants to be moser nefesh for learning and they are serious about it, it can be done without external support. But it does mean giving up on allot of gashmius.
Take the log (stam log is base 10) of (2^43,112,608)*((2^43,112,609)-1)
Log((2^43,112,608)*((2^43,112,609)-1)) =
Log(2^43,112,608) + Log((2^43,112,609)-1) =
Log(2^43,112,608) + Log(2^43,112,609)=
(For simplicity sake you can remove the -1 since it’s not going to make a difference anyway)
43,112,608 * Log (2) + 43,112,609 * Log (2) =
25,956,376.7
Round up to the nearest integer 25,956,377.
Health-
First of all- Mazel Tov to this person on the birth of her baby.
Second of all- Giving birth is a traumatic experience on the body, finding out that one can bear no more children can be devastating. She may have had dreams of having a much larger family and it’s all gone.
I’m not justifying her behavior, I’m just asking you to excuse her.
This just happened a few days ago, please give her some time to cool off and get her thoughts together.
Feel free to use any method you want.
Let me know if you give up.
Ben Torah-
There’s a drawbridge from Queens, a tram from Manhattan and the F train stops there.
From around 1910 until the mid 50s there were elevators in the legs of the Queensboro (59th St.) Bridge to take passengers and cars from the bridge to the island.
When the drawbridge was opened the elevator service was discontinued.
Moderator-80-
How do you know that your answer isn’t the correct one?
Let’s wait to see what Blinky says is the correct answer.
SJSinNYC-
I think little sms007 is less that 2 months.
th?
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
Generally speaking I had better luck on dates where we walked around than on dates where we sat across from each other.
You’re spending a couple of hours talking to someone you barely know; if you are walking the scenery is changing which will give you more topics for conversation and “quiet moments” won’t be as awkward. On the other hand, if you are sitting across from each other you have to come up with topics and “quiet moments” can be really awkward.
I thought so but I didn’t want to take any chances.
Moderator-80-
Yes, high school math, the function needed for the calculation is high school math (you just need to know how to apply it).
From a secular point of view I think we are lacking leaders that we can look up to.
I remember the days of President Reagan and President George H.W. Bush, even if people didn’t agree with their decisions, they still respected them as leaders of this country.
Unfortunately nowadays it is hard to find a leader with a clean history (especially with the invention of the Internet).
I heard a speaker say that the worst thing President Clinton did in the whole incident, wasn’t the incident itself, or swearing falsely under oath- it was staying in power. A politician can get a second chance in life- but not a second chance in their position. By him staying in power, the country lost all respect for that position.
The country hasn’t recovered from that yet!