Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 08, 2010

Eddie is either in denial or clinically insane.

The Laws of Physics or Murphy?

Cap’n Eddie needs to face up to his need for a new shipfitter!

I can’t change the laws of physics. I’ve got to have 30 minutes.

My doctor wants me to cut back on fat, but I think obesity is over weighted.

Joe, who is feeding you these lines?

denial, ot course is the longest river in the world…..

In engineering, a ‘failure’ is a chance to learn how to make the next one stronger. Large organizations (including Federal ones) doing bleeding-edge engineering are gunshy about that opportunity.

If a satellite from Johns-Hopkins falls down, the headlines still read “Huge NASA Failure”. Go figure.

My guess us that Mike needs to cover a few car payments.

In IT, a “failure” is writing an application that meets the customer’s needs, but contains enough shortcomings to produce more billable hours.

Surely in the USA you could lobby your congressman to have the laws of physics changed or repealed as part of the move to smaller government.

Palin would want to try if she thought it would help her cause!

Cap’n Eddie needs to do what all red-blooded Americans would do in his situation: sue Mike! Sue him for emotional trauma, loss of income, pain and suffering, etc.

Mike will not change unless Cap’t Eddie quits being his ‘enabler’ - this constitutes 100% of my DMR of PC Speak.

A boat is an example of negative entropy. All but a few boats mass more than their equivalent in water, therefore they will sink unless their structural integrity is maintained. Entropy degrades structural integrity thus increasing the probability of sinking. Cap’t Eddie is fortunate it happened in harbor.

I’m Back!

Eddie can call it the call it “the —– ing laws of physics, mostly”, I’ll call it “punishment from God for telling so many lies about his adventures”

And the laws of economics, no doubt.

I love extenuating circumstances.

Extenuating circumstances. “It’s Bush’s fault.”

Thirdguy I writ ‘em meself. There wil be one moa tomorroe.

Keep em commin!!

@Joe If you must.

(I like ‘em.)

Actually, if the boat were fixed, then Eddie would have to get in it and go out and work. This way, he gets to sit at the bar and chat and drink. Sounds good to me. He pays to play.

Sound familiar?

@olmail

“by George she’s got it!”

You’ve done it again Wiley. The “punsters” are loose in the land of GoComics!

Radfish, you are so right!

Legislating Pi to be exactly 3 is based on an obscure passage in the Bible describing a well cover. The Hebrews apparently didn’t know that you need to give only one measurement to define a circle: the diameter OR the circumference. They gave both and when you do the division it comes out to be 3.

Anyway, it is possible that the Hebrews could have been right. If the well cover were bowed out into the 3rd dimension (convex or concave) then the diameter would be extended. Give it enough curvature, and the ratio of the extended daimeter to the cirvumference could equal 3.

But when your theology includes a flat earth, it’s difficult to think in non-Euclidian terms.

Given that the universe is expanding was there a time when pi was lower than it is now? If you made a series of concentric circles that are singificantly large when compared to the universe will they have different values of pi?

So far, as three dimensional creatures, we’ve only managed to measure the “flat” version of pi.

Cap’t Eddie has a perfectly sound reason for hiring Mike again and again - he knows just what he’ll get from him.

It takes away the uncertainty and worry he’d have if he hired somebody new.

pouncingtiger said, about 12 repairs ago

Eddie is either in denial or clinically insane.

Since the problem is the @!!#$ laws of physics, a quote from Einstein is germane here: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

odelia,

He’s not in Bah Hahbah…..he’s at a cawfee shop on the peeah.

(Grog Genius_badge said, about 13 hours ago

I can’t change the laws of physics. I’ve got to have 30 minutes.)

But, but, Mr. Scott, you can do anything. Just divide your estimate by 4.

@ PhantomPlumber: As anti-Science as a lot of the current crop of incoming congresscritters seem to be, it wouldn’t surprise me AT ALL if someone tried.

ses1066: I’m reminded of those lines from the movie “Titanic” (the good parts, not the parts with Leonardo): the ship’s just hit the iceberg and is sitting stopped in the water. The captain, the ship’s designer and the owner of the White Star Line are on the bridge, looking at the plans. The owner, of course, is anxious to get underway. The designer looks at the plans, hears the list of breached watertight compartments and says, “from this point on, no matter what we do, Titanic will founder.” The owner looks at him and says, “But this ship cannot sink!” The designer looks back and says, “She’s made of iron, sir. She can sink, and she will. It’s a mathematical certainty.” One of the best lines ever uttered on-screen by an engineer…

I wonder if there’s any hull left under all those patches.

A’yuh. Laws of physics will bite your backside.

I just had to do this

Meanwhile the cat seems to be violating the laws of physics by switching from shoulder to shoulder, depending on which one is closer to the viewer. This is cartoon physics.

Where’s your cat, right now Unless it’s asleep, probably not where it was when I asked. If you really want to see a cat defy physics, deal with a deaf one.

If you really want to see a cat defy physics, stomp on the ground next to it when it’s sleeping. Some cats can fly.