The other week during my class, I finally made the connection between how an action potential in a given part of the heart correlates to the EKG reading, and how you get such different traces from various heart problems and different leads.
OK, I meant to add (why do the preview and submit buttons look so alike?):
Before I was always confused about why the AP, that starts all negative, goes positive, then back negative, just shows up as (usually) a small positive wave on the EKG. But this prof was better than the other couple I’ve had that talked about EKGs and I finally understood using Einthoven’s triangle and all that jazz.
Here’s my logo story:
Over the last year or so, I’ve spent many hours working on a computer next to a server with the Sun Microsystems logo prominently displayed. I would often find myself starting absent-mindedly at the abstract and hypnotic logo, particularly while waiting for the clunky computer that I was using to do something.
Then a couple of weeks ago, it finally clicked: it’s the word “Sun” written in four directions, with each pair of curves serving as the “S” in one direction and the “un” in another. Pretty clever logo, actually.
For me it was the C in the Chik-fil-a logo - it’s a chicken!
I think that a lot of people here in my home state of New South Wales think that the British named it after Wales, and it was “new” and “south”. I forgot how old I was when I learned it was the new “South Wales”, but it was older than I should have been. D’oh.
Always thought it was an abstract logo. Then someone told me to look at the logo upside down. BAM! It was like my brain just got whacked by a clue-by-four.
Sarahfeena, I agree. Many people on the SaturnFans Boards didn’t know that the logo actually stood for something.
re: Saturn with the rings, the Honda “H”, etc —
I had a mid-1960s Pontiac, a model at the high-end luxury lineup of the brand. The little red light on the dashboard that would come on to tell you that you had your high beams on? Not a dot or a rectangle or a “HI BEAMS” spelled out in letters, but an odd raggedy-edged thing, like someone had just torn an irregular strip out of the dash. Almost comet-shaped in a way, except the head of the comet wasn’t symmetrical, had a peculiar protrusion on the bottom edge.
One day a ridiculous number of years worth of seeing the thing, I finally saw it as this (the part outlined in black, a bit more coarsely done).
The Saturn logo also looks like a cursive S.
I had one of those moments last night when I was watching “Mythbusters.” They showed a clip of some Civil War film when the narrator was talking about a myth, and I turned to my girlfriend and said “even though they made it look grainy, you can tell that footage isn’t authentic. It’s too sharp looking. I bet it was a re-enactment they filmed.”
She did a slow head turn and stared at me open-mouthed for a few seconds when I realized what I’d just said: “Oh…OH. Yeah, it’s not real. And I’m an idiot.”
You can be excused for this…the antismoking trend has lead to them being called “chenille stems”. No, I’m not shitting you.
They are called both. The larger, fluffier and multi-colored ones are sold in craft and dollar stores as “chenille stems”. But there is no shortage of shorter, more utilitarian Pipe cleaners still out there.
Jim
I recently had a Moment on this very Board.
For years, ever since I joined, I’d been vaguely puzzled about how when the number of replies is an even multiple of 50, the last post starts a new page.
Finally it hit me . . . the OP itself is a post, so the first page includes 49 replies, but every other page includes 50. Wow . . . it only took me 4 years to noodle that out!
I didn’t even notice that the cutoff was 50 (regardless of how long the individual posts were) until a few months ago. :o
As a matter of fact, I had an AHA moment just the other day. I was sitting in a diner when an animated hand reached up through my menu, grabbed my hand and pulled me into his animated dimension. Some bad guys chased us around there, then we went back through a mirror into the “real” dimension.
At least that was my take on it.
I appreciate the help but this was in 1985 and the they were packaged in a yellow envelope with PIPE CLEANERS printed on it in red letters.
When I started playing sax (for marching band) we didn’t get lyres for the first few days. I remember wondering what that little square hole near the top of the instrument was, and then also wondering where we would attach the lyre to the instrument. I’m very glad I managed to find the answer to both questions before I had to ask anyone.
D’OH!!!
I only stare at it most of the day every day - thanks for pointing this out. Gawd I’m a dope!! :smack:
I went on a trip to the world’s largest hand-dug well (shut up, I live in Kansas. It was the most exciting thing within 200 miles). It was housed in a little building and I asked my friend if they still used it. He said that it was still in use, and I asked him how water got in the well if it was inside a building.
Ohhhhhh. Yes. The water comes from UNDERGROUND. That’s why it’s A HOLE IN THE GROUND. I always had this vision of rainwater falling into a well and then it just collected down there.
I’m retarted.
As I was flying into Cairo at night, I thought, “I wonder what that big river in the middle of the city is?” I was just glad I figured it out before asking my husband!
THe other day while showering, I was thinking about something (I forget what) during the course of which I was trying to figure out what 26 times 26 is, as I had only memorized the squares up to 25 squared. Well, I thought, if this were a real square, you would have to add 25, to add an extra unit “edge” to the square, then add 26 to the top of it, and that would be a 26 by 26 square. Oh, that’s interesting, to get a square number, you can take one square lower, then add that amount, then add the higher number. So it’s like (x+1)^2 = x^2 + x + (x+1)… or…
x^2 + 2x + 1. Congratulations, Matt, you have just rederived binomial equations from scratch! Bringing you up to grade, what was it, nine? Whee!