From: Kiev.Lo@p0.f49.n134.z1.fidonet.org (Kiev Lo)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.senior
Subject: Tennis, Mountains and Cold Fusion
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 22:44:41 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:134/49.0 - The Student Exchang, Calgary Alta

 -=> Quoting Jason Wong to Kiev Lo <=-

JW> I just went to meet the new class today. There are 10 people in this
JW> year's class; 5 women and 5 men. I think they just wanted to balance
JW> the class out because last year, there were 9 men and 1 woman! The

So 5 women and 5 men, huh?
Emm... okay, okay. I'm trying to get my mind out of the gutter... ouch!
it hurts! <HeHeHe>

BTW, the way you worded that sentence was weird - "5 women and 5 men".
Doesn't everybody rather write "5 men and 5 women"?  Don't get me wrong,
I'm not trying to be sexist or anything - I'm just TOO curious

JW> to take and  I already have taken one of them; good, less work for me!
JW> The good thing is that we don't have to take more than 2 courses at a

What are the courses you have to take?  Are they mainly Phys or Bio?

JW> accelerators and Colbalt machines. I've seen them before because I

What are Colbalt machines?  Do they have anything to do with the
spectrometers they use to separate Carbon.  Please don't laugh at me if
I said something stupid.

JW> uniforms. They're pretty strict about that. Women must wear regulation
JW> Nurses' uniform with white panty-hose and white shoes that must be kept
JW> clean. Men must wear simple shirt and a tie with dress slacks and black
JW> shoes. What a difference from what I've been use to; jeans and
JW> sweatshirt in the winter, and shorts and t-shirt in the summer!

Nice outfit! Do they restrict you to wear only long sleeves too?
A tie?  Don't they get into the way sometimes.  I imagine they'll allow tie
clips, right?

JW> Interesting. I think that's a waste of energy! Why fight the temp.?
JW> You're  gonna lose! Bikinis?! I'm sure they didn't stay on too long
JW> after a wipe- out!! Interesting!

Interesting!  I didn't think about that.  I suppose that should be more
careful.
 
JW> WOW! 15-20 Mins! Let see....the longest run in this city would be
JW> about.. ..30sec to 1 min. Yep....that's right. There are longer runs

30sec to 1min.  It's like skiing in Canada Olympic Park.  I actually timed
myself once and it took me only about 27 seconds from the top of the hill
down to the base.  It's so short that you get sick of it after a while.
And during most of the time it's so icey that's almost nonsuitable for
skiing (because it's within the city - about 7 minutes drive to from my
house).  But you get to see a totally different scenario in the mountains
because the temperature is generally cooler (colder?).

JW> You have got to get out and play!! It's a great game to play. I find
JW> that most of the challenge is in the mind. If you just go and hit the
JW> ball (given that you have some technique),and don't think about how
JW> to hit it, you tend to do better. Just like the NIKE saying " Just
JW> Do It ". Actually, my piano gave me a book to read to help me with my
JW> playing. It's called the "Inner Game of Tennis". Yep, I use it more
JW> for tennis than piano!

I hope you meant you paino teacher... <grin>
 
JW> Come on! You should know. He's an American from California. I think
JW> he's  ranked in the top 20. I think. He won the French open in '89.
JW> Keep track of him. He's a pretty nice gut too. And a great player!

Really?  I don't watch TSN all the time.  Maybe I should read my newspaper
more often.  I've almost abundoned my reading practice ever since my social
course was over.  I'll check him out.
 
JW> Yeah, I find it difficult to hit backhand shots in squash and
JW> badminton.  I think I need to practise those more. My other favourite
JW> sport is badminton (yes...I was born with a racquet in my hand! :] ). I
JW> use to  play in a high school team. Do you play in a high school team?

No I meant after playing squash for so many years.  It's hard for me to play
backhands in badminton cuz in squash you use your waist a lot but it's
quite different in badminton.  That's why most of the people will laugh at
me when I play badminton - they say I'm over-exaggerating every move.

JW> I think fusion would be better. Less radioactive waste. I don't recall
JW> reading specifically about the ITER fusion tamer, however, I know
JW> they're close to the point of "break even". That is, they can almost
JW> harvest  enough energy from a controlled fusion reaction to "break
JW> even" with the amount of energy put into starting the fusion process.

Fusion is of course way better than fission.  The problem is to get
those darn deuterium nucleus close enough to fuse.  They've tried using
quantum tunneling, muons catalyst and a whole bunch of other methods
to archieve this (in cold fusion).  But the chances are very rare.

JW> Recently, a couple of Chemists claimed to have produced "Cold Fusion".
JW> Have you heard about that?
 
Actually, that was in 1989.  The two chemist from University of Utah
announced they've archieved fusion reaction in room temperature.  This
incidence was later found out to be a hoax.

If those English guys successfully harness fusion power inside the tokamak,
it'll certainly be a big advancement in human history.

JW> Were you trying to do this ""? I'm using a ASCII text editor to type
JW> this message. I'll offline right now and I'm using the "BlueWave
JW> Offline Reader" . It allows me to use the text editor that came with
JW> DOS 5. The Offline reader is quite useful 'cause it saves on-line time.
JW> And I can also take my time reading and typing.

I use Bluewave too.  But some how I couldn't get it to work with LHA mail
packets.  That's why I had to type that particular message online.
 
JW> What's a SCADA  engineer? I think you answered that question; "set up
JW> computerized remote control equipments".

That's right, you got it.
 
JW> I've applied 3 times to various medical programs in Ontario. I
JW> received  an interview with McMaster however, I was turned down. I

It's pretty bad ever since the fed. gov't decided to cut off 20% of the
university seats for medical students nationally.  I was shock when I read
that on newspaper.  Couple of my friends were really turned down by that.
 
JW> Not really, it was my dad that suggested the program to me back in
JW> Dec. '91  and then I thought I'd give it a try because it sounded
JW> interesting. We didn't know that he had cancer. I think it's kind of
JW> ironic. As if it was all planned. I mean it seemed like my career was
JW> confirmed just in time before he was taken away.

<Sob..Sob...>
 
JW> Oh boy! Born in '74. I feel so old! BlueWave...Re: above.

<Hehe>

JW> What version of BW are you using? I'm using 2.10.

Same here.  There's no problem now since I switched from LHA to ZIP.

I really gotta go since it 12:40 already and I have a test tommorrow...
TTYL

... Sorry, the Dog ate my Blue Wave packet.

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