Samuel

I can find a hundred sites on *how* to arc weld, but none on how strong a properly-executed arc weld is.

Any info on strength, weight rating, pressure rating, etc. would be helpful.

(Optional: Specific Example)

If I'm using a small, 100 Amp, 110VAC arc welder with 3/32" or 1/16" all-purpose (E6013) rods.

If I'm welding a small (1" square) steel bar to a 1/4" thick steel plate.

If the plate is held rigid, how much weight could the bar support at 6" from the weld point?

Any hints on how to calculate this would be helpful.

I'd like to get used to scotch.

What's the Jim Beam of scotch?

Maker's Mark and Wild Turkey are better tasting but more expensive. Old Granddad, Old Crow, Evan Williams, Ancient Age, and Imperial are worse tasting (in that order) but cheaper.

What's a good mid-shelf scotch for getting used to the flavor?

This comes from a famous quote, I assume. Does anyone know which one?

I've recently started weightlifting, and I keep reading about how important rest times and rest days are. Why is it, then, that soldiers (particularly infantry soldiers or during basic training) exercise a good portion of every day and yet they put on great amounts of muscle? Is there some special way they avoid overtraining?

If I said, "The purpose of this company is to make a great car, garnering a higher profit is orthogonal to its aims," would most people understand what I meant?

("Orthogonal", if you don't know, means perpendicular in a more general sense, as in completely independent.)

What's the proper adjective to go with "affinity"?

Anyone read the book? I saw the movie, and I was just curious if they were quite different.

I have a continuous internal monologue, that is to say I talk to myself in my head. I assume everyone else does this as well, particularly since no one seemed surprised by the show "Scrubs". Then John Ritter, on the show, said he figured the main character would, "grow out of it," so it makes me wonder if it's not universal.

Continuous inner monologue, universal or just common? (or not common?)

This is from Strunk and White, Chapter 2, section 5 (cf. http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html#5 )

They're synonymous adverbs, yes, but is there any difference at all? Is one more appropriate for formal writing?

The astronaut twin is on Jupiter and the Earthbound twin is on Earth. Their ages are currently synchronized (because he got to Jupiter really slowly). The astronaut twin then leaves Jupiter at incredible speed towards Earth and performs a fly-by, still at incredible speed.

If the Earthbound twin then leaves Earth on a second spaceship and meets the astronaut twin (thus joining his reference frame, instead of vice-versa), would the astronaut twin now be the older one?

What I'm really asking is:

Is the astronaut typically the younger one because he joins the Earthbound reference frame, or because he was the one who did the travelling?

I have a variable "unsigned long IPAddress;" that must be changed by the user.

This variable is never changed by the program.

Can I assume it doesn't need mult-threaded protection, because it couldn't possibly change within 100 milliseconds--because the user has to enter numbers each time, and people can't type that fast?

Sometimes I use the abbreviation "cf." which is from the Latin "conferre" and means "compare" or "see also"

Example: I don't think get-rich quick strategies ever work (cf. free lunch).

For example, the portmanteau "ringtone" should be "ringtune", because a "tone" is a sustained pitch while "tune" is a melody and modern ringtones are frequently melodies.

It's not a malapropism, because it's not absurdly inappropriate. It's also not archaic because the word is still being used. Would you call that an anachronism?

I've heard it used by a couple of comedians.

I think it refers to a type of person.

It's like "esoteric chemistry" or an "esoteric equation" or something. It's an abstract word for chemical equations in general.

What's that word? Starts with an "e", I think. In Chemistry, when you're using equations to calculate chemical reactions. Sounds like "esoteric" or "elastic" or something.

I've read the Wikipedia intro on finite or "Galois" fields, but I'm still not sure what's so special about them.

Specifically, how are they different from sets? Isn't using a finite field the same as using modular arithmetic--in that once it reaches the limit it wraps around?

I'm just looking for the name so I can research how to make one.

This is C, not C++

I assume the variables inside the two "instances" of the Windows Procedure won't affect each other, correct?