Lunch Conversation

I almost didn’t go to lunch today. It was a tossup. Ken was “Adamed”. Ken did not get his meal with everyone else. He had wait for what I would consider too long a time for his meal. I reminisced about the days Adam’s mom would track down the kitchen staff who screwed up and not let the manager get away without compensating in some way. She was or is the manager in a retail store and simply will not put up with such nonsense.

• Trees
• How to tell when trees are stressed (higher a tree guy to tell you)
• Sometimes bushes are worth more than the trees next to them.
• Trees can’t use the dirt under concrete very well. (I suspected this)
• Trees use mostly the soil within the first 30 cm of ground or so.
• Deep roots are really for water.
• Pressure fertilize watering trees (with the probe that squirts the mixture under the ground) may simply aerate the soil
• Oxygen rich soil may promote microbial growth that the tree depends on to get nutrients out of the soil.
• Beards! Heck ya!!
• Kids
• How different they they are from one another even only a year apart.
• Private schools and curriculum.
• Molecular Physics compared to chemistry
• Controlling the magnetic spin of molecules to force electron tunneling between molecules.
  I believe this was to ram electrons down the throat of tiny structures like Buckyballs.
• 3D printing and Molecular Physics
• Citizenship (U. S.)
• Half the folks at the table were from Britain. At least one is seeking U. S. citizenship.
• Have no assets and you get a free ticket.
• Similar crap happening in Britain.
• International affairs
• Russia, WTF!
• Why is Russia doing the things it’s doing.
• It can
• Snowden (the prick)
• Russia killing civilians and blaming the CIA.
• The oil pipeline going through Ukraine is now running from Eastern Europe in to Ukraine.
• Libya and issues there - We saw something happening on the TV in the restaurant, but couldn’t make it out.
• Work (not too much)
• How our infrastructure uses our old equipment.
• How some of our old equipment is not nearly as reliable as our new stuff.
• Planning around IT issues
• How much we depend on our network for everyday work.