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Why do you want one? Are they tasty?

Mikey wrote:

Sionnach Glic wrote:I've just discovered that Aleksandr Orlov, from the Compare the Meerkat ads, has an autobiography out.

You're going to have to translate for me. You have advertisements for some product designed to help people differentiate between different meerkats?

Is that a service, like "Confuse-a-cat?"

Compare the Meerkat. It's a series of ads that ran in the UK and Ireland to promote Compare the Market.

Ah. I rather liked the idea of Ireland's own small African mammal identification service.

Mikey wrote:Why do you want one? Are they tasty?

NO! Not tasty, CUTE! It had cute little donkey face and cute little donkey ears and stripity legs!

Well, I met my first moon landing denier today.

How'd it go?

He's a contractor working for me for the next month so I couldn't really point out what an idiot he is.

Tyyr wrote:He's a contractor working for me for the next month so I couldn't really point out what an idiot he is.

Not for another month at least anyway.

His main problem is he didn't think that in the 60's they had the technology to perform orbital mechanics calculations. It was all I could do to not point out that you can do orbital mechanics calculations on a scratch pad with no more schooling than high school algebra. The equations are simple, it just requires some computing horsepower to do the numbers and while the ones they had in the 60's were primitive they were more than up to the task.

...okay, that one came through the computer to hurt my head. His disbelief in the moon landing is based on the math requirements?

Yup, never mind that people proved the existence of planets based off orbital mechanics math that had to be done by hand.

I guess Kepler and Brahe were a bit beyond this guy... I do hope you don't have him working on anything complicated.

Tyyr wrote:Yup, never mind that people proved the existence of planets based off orbital mechanics math that had to be done by hand.

I knew about this for a long time, but it never cease to amaze me the level of ingenuity our predecessors came up with for things we think should be out of their hand.

Ug....this is the first time I've been able to get out of bed today. Feels like I've got ground up glass between my vertebrae where they gave me the injections.

Slipped disc is it Mark? You have my every sympathy...