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Community => Watto's Junk Yard => Topic started by: Scott on April 21, 2004, 10:01 AM
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I'm a car idiot. I can put gas in and check the oil, fill the washer fluid and check the air in the tires. That's about it. I know how an engine works in theory but couldn't for the life of me tell you what the parts are...where the transmission is located etc. I wish I did know more about cars...at least so I could change my own oil :-[
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I'm right up there with you.
I'd like to know more about different art techniques. Also old printing and stuff like that - that technology has made extinct.
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I guess this is more fantasy than reality (since it'll never happen), but I wish I knew more about how women think. Sometimes, I have absolutely no clue as to what my wife is thinking or why she did certain things or is strangely happy/sad/angry/whatever about the smallest things. Sure might make life a bit easier to at least have a hint.
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I guess this is more fantasy than reality
There's no guessing to it. :-*
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Women was the all too obvious answer to this one I guess, one of life's great mysteries...what Gregg looked like, the true identity of "Lady" Jaye and who built the monuments on Easter Island
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the true identity of "Lady" Jaye
Since I may be the one who started the whole "Lady" Jaye craze, I will admit that I now believe that Lady Jaye is too intellectually-challenged to pull off the whole "guy posting as girl" thing. . .
And from the image I've gotten in my head of her, I most definitely wouldn't ever want to meet her in person to find out for sure. . .
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Home remodeling, my wife has been ragging on me to fix up our garage and remodel a bedroom. I have no idea how to do any of that stuff. Like woodwork, sheetrock, electricity, scares me
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Well, it's not something I really don't know how to do, but rather don't have the talent to do it. I wish I had some artistic abilities so I could customize some of my figure's. I know the proper ways to do it, but I lack the necessary skills.
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I wish I knew more about: how to get my own business started on the amount of money I have. I guess, I will have to wait a bit longer on the project.
My second thing would be cars. I know the basics, that's it.
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Adobe After Effects - but I'm working on it...
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Home Repair. My Dad knows everything about fixing anything and I wish that that gene had been passed down to me.
Recently, I had a leak in my house, and had to call roto rooter. They came and chopped a hole in a wall we just painted only to find that the pipe wasn't a problem.
My Dad comes over to visit and figures out it's the tile, and does so in the span of about 20 minutes. Then he tells me we can fix what I thought was going to be a four or five thousand dollar problem for less than 100 bucks including the tile.
He also seems to know how to fix everything else that I don't. It's cool, but quite annoying that something seemingly so simple is so hard for me to figure out.
Luckily....I have the one skill I can always help him with: Computers.
:)
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I wish i had better computer knowledge. I am going to classes for work on programs and such but I want to learn the good stuff and how to put my own together.
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Dinosaurs.
Kevin
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My husband always tells me I know everything so I have no response :-*.
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Math...
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Tack me onto "Math".
Other languages would be nice also... I can sometimes follow things by their root sounds in pronounciation, but I can't speak any language except English.
Math sucks for me though... Complex math like Algebra on up anyway. I've had so many accounting courses in my life that while it's pretty advanced Math in its OWN way, I can do it, but anything like Calculus, or Trig, or Algebra even... I suck.
Working on cars, I actually know some about, but I can safely say Scott that even with what I know how to do I STILL can't do a lot with a car.
I can change my oil, and you could too if someone showed you how real quick (it's easy), but things like dropping a tranny I couldn't do without breaking things for certain.
I can weld though, which is a plus with a project I have right now because it needs a buttload of it! :)
I wish I had the expert modeling skills of the guys that worked on the original Star Wars flicks though. There's a skill I'd love... I think I'm decent, but experts in the business just blow your mind when you see their stuff in person... Everything from museums to movies. That stuff can amaze you.
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Math is cool, I've had way too much of it (Calc I - IV, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations) It is truly amazing to me the elegance of the physical world sometimes. Simple things like the revolution of the Earth around the Sun can be described and predicted with simple formulas...
I use a lot of math in my job...rates of change are all Differential Equations...how much time does it take a chemical reaction to occur, how fast are the chemicals being reacted and how much heat do you need to add...all over the correct periods of time. The trick is that the quantities are changing...as reactions occur the chemicals change from one form to another meaning you have less and less of one thing and more and more of another. This means the physical properties of the batch change too...Again though simple equations can simulate really complex ideas.
Painting/customizing is a good one. One I've tried and enjoyed with some limited success, but I look at some of the paint jobs I've done and they are a tad sloppy. It was sort of a mix of me being a novice and rushing. I wish I had the time to get into that again because it is relaxing and a rewarding part of the hobby IMO
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Math is cool, I've had way too much of it (Calc I - IV, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations) It is truly amazing to me the elegance of the physical world sometimes. Simple things like the revolution of the Earth around the Sun can be described and predicted with simple formulas...
I use a lot of math in my job...rates of change are all Differential Equations...how much time does it take a chemical reaction to occur, how fast are the chemicals being reacted and how much heat do you need to add...all over the correct periods of time. The trick is that the quantities are changing...as reactions occur the chemicals change from one form to another meaning you have less and less of one thing and more and more of another. This means the physical properties of the batch change too...Again though simple equations can simulate really complex ideas.
Painting/customizing is a good one. One I've tried and enjoyed with some limited success, but I look at some of the paint jobs I've done and they are a tad sloppy. It was sort of a mix of me being a novice and rushing. I wish I had the time to get into that again because it is relaxing and a rewarding part of the hobby IMO
Oh shut up! >:(
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Oh shut up! >:(
Ditto. Complex math blows. I can see that the Earth orbits the sun. Seems to do so quite regularly and with no problems. I'm cool with that. No need to explain it to me in any more detail than that...
Home Repair. My Dad knows everything about fixing anything and I wish that that gene had been passed down to me.
Ditto.
Other languages would be nice also...
Working on cars...
I can change my oil... but things like dropping a tranny I couldn't do without breaking things for certain.
Ditto.
Painting/customizing is a good one. One I've tried and enjoyed with some limited success, but I look at some of the paint jobs I've done and they are a tad sloppy. It was sort of a mix of me being a novice and rushing. I wish I had the time to get into that again because it is relaxing and a rewarding part of the hobby IMO
Ditto.
...and my one addition will be the damned Microsoft Access program. I'm fine with all the basics, but we get ass deep into this stuff at my job, to the point where I'm completely lost and floundering, and wanting very badly to break down and cry like a little girl.
$h!t. Did I really just say that? :-X
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I wish I knew how to code HTML.
And I also wish I was better at math and science.