I knew, I KNEW, I should have kept my mouth shut. One of the unfortunate side effects of Hillman Syndrome.... Dave and I agree we need to sit down over a few beers and work on an outline, but with the work loads that Dave and I have right now, its gonna be years in the making, as Phil indicates. Perhaps we have a Chapter entitled "Yer Not Gonna Believe This" and have war stories from all of you. Doug Pauls From: Phil Bavaro <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Date: 04/23/2013 10:18 AM Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Question Sent by: TechNet <[log in to unmask]> Doug and Dave, I can tell you from personal experience, you need to start now if you really want to write a book....the longer you wait, the older the stories get, and the less you remember them.....and we really want all of your stories. It is not so much about when you finish but more like when you start. My book has always been intended to include all my wild experiences that I would have told my grandchildren, had I ever been fortunate enough to have any. You guys know wayyyy too much and that means Dean will have a lot of material to edit. Of course, I would want a copy as well. -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stadem, Richard D. Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 7:59 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Question Both of you need to send me a rough draft. Nobody can edit better than I can. -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Pauls Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 7:51 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Question Well, actually, writing a book is on Hillman's and my "bucket list". Playing with a working title of "It Hurts When I Do This - Don't Do This". Perhaps the half fractionals could be an Appendix. Doug Pauls From: "Goodyear, Patrick" <[log in to unmask]> To: "'TechNet E-Mail Forum'" <[log in to unmask]>, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Date: 04/22/2013 06:47 PM Subject: RE: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Question Doug, I really think you SHOULD write a book, it could be very entertaining, have Steve do the cartoons. pat -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Pauls Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 8:06 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Question The answer to this morning's quiz is Anubium (Ab), another of the half fractional elements. Anubium is often found near deposits of Egyptium, covered earlier. Those familiar with Egyptian mythology know that Anubis was the god of embalming and the dead and was often characterized as a man with the head of a black jackel. The earliest hieroglyphics in Egypt showed Anubis with the head of a white jackel. It is believed that when Anubis and Osiris were children, Osirus was playing with flint and steel and set Anubis' head on fire, hence the blackened appearance. Anubis thereafter had a fear of sparks, developed a new element to alloy into copper (making bronze), which would not create sparks, ushering in the Bronze Age. Anubium was first isolated by the brilliant Egyptian chemist, Omar Gottalottasand, Egypt State University - Aswan, in 1841. It was found that in the tomb of Pharoah Sekhemib-PerenmaŽat, there were signs of small explosions in the crypt, usually in areas near Anubium-alloyed metals. He found that Anubium, usually found as Anubium tetrasulfate (Ab2S4) in mineral form, served as an amazing catalyst to turn vapors from bodily composition into hydrogen, resulting in the explosions in the crypt, which also had traces of Boomium nearby (bad combination). Not a great deal was published about Anubium as Dr. Gottalottasand came to a tragic end. He got into some bad falafel and the resulting methane interacted with a sample of pure Anubium. The resulting fireball is still considered one of the largest man made explosions prior to the advent of nuclear weapons. I am amazed none of the rest of you know about these "special" elements. I should write a book. There ya go Larry. Doug Pauls From: "David D. Hillman" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Date: 04/19/2013 07:44 AM Subject: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Question Sent by: TechNet <[log in to unmask]> Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question: The Question: This element was known to the Egyptians in its mineral form. Alloying 2% of this element with another element produces an alloy that when used in hammering/striking applications will not cause sparks - an especially good characteristic in an explosive gas environment. A compound of this element has been used to produce hydrogen for fuel cells. What is the element is being described? The winner of the weekly element quiz will get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following: Past Quiz winners/tasks: Week 1 Dick Krug, Spartan Complex Systems Week 2 Laura Turbini, IRC Week 3 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited Week 3 Pat Goodyear, PGE Week 4 Joe Russeau, Precision Analysts Laboratory Week 5 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security Week 6 Steve Gregory Week 7 Phil Kinner, PVA - assisted with booth duty at a French tradeshow and then helped get an Easter egg hunt ready for 20 kids Week 8 Brian Ellis - the guys arrived this morning, thanks. This is the end of the most prolific part of the growing season and weeds abound. The John Deere's will be very useful to help eliminate them. Kloumpios has said he will prepare a traditional Cypriot ttavas (lamb pieces with veggies with cumin and wild herbs, slow oven-cooked in a special unglazed clay pot - Google it) for the 1 April Cyprus National Day. Week 9 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited - My Welsh colleague Jeff, whose desk is next to mine, was on holiday this last week so Clumpy and Kloumpios parked themselves in his seat and spent the week spouting jibes and insults, particularly about English Rugby - it was just like Jeff was still there! I think you could put that down as "providing workplace entertainment and uplifting moral". Week 10 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. - assisted with a 5S effort - They're scrubbing, replacing old floor tape, and helping to get things in pristine shape. Week 11 ???? - assisted with ???? Everyone have a safe week! Dave Hillman Rockwell Collins ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. 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