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Misanthrope's Corner.(Brief Article)(Column)
Dear Gentle Readers:
Welcome to the last issue of the year, when I get to write my favorite kind of column: a chatty letter, instead of a logically (more or less) argued, structured (sort of) disquisition on what are grandly known as the Issues of Our Times.
As usual, the first order of business is choosing a suitable quotation for 2001. I came up with several dyspeptic enough to suit my tastes, including one by my soulmate, Schopenhauer, but this time I decided that the clear winner is something that was not said, but would have been if my mother were still with us and could register her opinion on whether we should stop the bombing during Ramadan. I can hear her now. . . .
"That's the best time to get 'em-when they've got their faces in the rug and their asses in the air."
I have big news. Remember my Passive Suicide Cookbook? Well, forget it. Around this time last year, I got such an awful pain in my right knee that I had to use a cane. While I was hobbling around, I also found out that my blood pressure was 154/94, so I went on a diet and have so far lost 60 pounds. My blood pressure is now 123/75 and the knee is back to normal. I heard that every excess pound of body weight puts five pounds of pressure on the knees, so no wonder I was practically crippled.
I didn't go on any particular diet, and, needless to say, I didn't join any of those clubs or support groups. I just did commonsense things, plus mild exercises at first, and later, long walks. I even dieted on Christmas last year and Thanksgiving this year-freelance writing is the best training in self-discipline there is, and I have a Southern advantage when it comes to Thanksgiving. When I was little, my grandmother's aunt was still living at 94, and had vivid memories of what she called "the Woah." She considered Thanksgiving a Yankee holiday and made a point of observing it with soft-boiled eggs and bouillon, so I had the same.
I may feel better physically but my mental outlook is the same as ever, so let's get to my list of what irritated me the most during the past year. Since I'm already on the subject of food, I'll start with noisy TV cooks.
- Tiny timepiece: atomic clock could fit almost anywhere.(This Week)
- Magazine article from: Science News Weiss, P. September 4, 2004 700+ words
...have shrunk the high-tech heart of an atomic clock to the size of a rice grain. This dramatic...component for use in a chip-scale atomic clock," comments Christopher R. Ekstrom...for quartz timekeepers. For instance atomic clock-based GPS receivers would be less...
- Navigation nugget: new chip-scale atomic clock plus GPS receiver transforms...
- Magazine article from: CHIPS Rollo, Randy April 1, 2007 700+ words
...Diego is incorporating a chip-scale atomic clock (CSAC) into a new GPS receiver design...Laboratory received the first chip-scale atomic clock from the National Institute for Standards...and networks. The first chip-scale atomic clock evaluated was developed by NIST through...
- Atomic clock synchronization.(Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center...
- Magazine article from: GPS World August 1, 2006 700+ words
...Diego is incorporating a chip-scale atomic clock into a new GPS receiver design, the...IMU), synchronized by an onboard atomic clock, to create a positioning, navigation...GPS environments. The chip-scale atomic clock is being developed by Defense Advanced...
- WESTINGHOUSE READIES SMALL, AFFORDABLE ATOMIC CLOCK
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 30, 1995 700+ words
...horizon, thanks to a new type of cesium atomic clock being developed at the Westinghouse...accuracy timekeeping. "Our ultraminiature atomic clock provides an unprecedented combination...enhanced if each receiver also had an atomic clock instead of a crystal oscillator. Such...
- Atomic clock
- Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science January 1, 2008 700+ words
Atomic clock Atomic clocks do not resemble ordinary...developed the world ’ s first atomic clock in 1949 using the ammonia-molecule...atoms, the cesium atoms used in an atomic clock are quantized; that is, they can absorb...
- Symmetricom Wins $3.4 Million in Funding for Chip Scale Atomic Clock.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 23, 2005 700+ words
...Funding to Develop Ultra-Miniature Atomic Clock. SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 23 /PRNewswire...Projects Agency (DARPA) Chip Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC) program. The CSAC development...size and power consumption of existing atomic clock technologies exceeds that of quartz...
- Like the Atomic Clock, the Ozone Shield is Broken.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 1, 2006 700+ words
...the United Nations announced on July 31st that the atomic clock has begun to tick for Iran, he may not have known that the atomic clock is broken. In an unreported accident, the atomic clock, which sets the time and frequency for the United...
- Atomic Clock Set for a Twitch in Time
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Guy Gugliotta December 26, 1995 700+ words
...shutdown, runs the National Institute's atomic clock at Boulder, Colo. Atomic clocks...pendulum, Sullivan said. Hence the atomic clock, the first of which was built by the...24 satellites, each of which has an atomic clock, and get an instant fix by using a...
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