On or about 12-26-05 18:32, Ardith Hinton did engage James Bradley

 AH>           I hope so!  I'm too busy to polish my halo right now...

L! You missed a spot. 


 AH> re: Pilates exercise ball/cushion
 JB>  notion that it could be utilized elsewhere.

 AH>           Bingo!!  I like the way you think....  :-)

I suggested my neighbour might want to borrow mine, for a short trip he was
planning. He said, he uses that bubble wrap sheeting folded a couple of times
over itself. Now, I think I will use his idea, and just leave a sheet in my
father's car, for when I chauffeur him. Less money than buying another
Pilate-licensed product. More convenient that fetching one cushion between two
or three different places, and who cares if that product springs a leak? 



 JB>  If you want a C-clamp opened or closed, ask a well
 JB>  trained or experienced nurse to do it.

 AH>           Hmm.  Is that the kind of clamp used in surgery?

I think more for traction systems. The ones I bought from auction, were
balanced so one couldn't use momentum to torque the screw, but when I 
disassembled a bunch of stuff from the top of one for a project, I found the
technique was usable on it.


 JB>  Back to this "Thera-Band". Is it the latex sheeting
 JB>  that would make a dynamite sling-shot?

 AH>           Technically a catapult??  Yes, it probably would... [grin].

I think what most people call a catapult, best suits a Trebuchee.sp? Another
"catapult" device might be a sling of sorts. (Forget the name
just now.) What
it is, is a lever, with a payload at one end of a 'stick', a rope, and a pivot.
Much *like* a Trebuchee, but the 'spring' is a gravity powered arrangement in a
Trebuchee, not a rope under tension(/compression?).

A sling-shot, is Denice The Menaces', and Bart Simpsons' weapon of choice.


 AH>           Nope.  Regency Medical Supplies in Burnaby has
 AH> rolls of the stuff on display just inside the door.  Your
 AH> local pharmacy may not have it on display, but chances are
 AH> they'll produce it from some obscure corner if you know
 AH> enough to ask for it by name & you know which colour you
 AH> want.  Hint... if the colour happpens to go well with your
 AH> exercise togs you can consider it a bonus.  :-))

I'm more apt to match the new sofa. 

 JB>  If I attach my keys to a 2' ball, I might stand a
 JB>  chance... When they invent one with a homing device,
 JB>  I'm trusting I'll be the first to hear about it? (-;


 AH>           Good idea!  How about a GPS, or something that
 AH> will ring like a cell phone whenever you call a certain
 AH> number?  Another spare-time project....  ;-)

Ya... Radio control, to turn on the GPS, where that will send its coordinates
back to the transmitting device, (Technically a transceiver in this situation.)
where one could narrow the location to about forty feet.

Or, you could just have the keys ring an annunciator, like a cordless phone, to
'page' the location of the phone. That way, one could use an off-the-shelf
product, and let some other schmuck engineer it, and blister pack it for you.




 JB>  together all sorts of string and tacked pulleys around
 JB>  the walls so I could flip the switch from bed.

 AH>           Uh-huh.  When I first moved away from my parents' house I
 AH> lived in a slum apartment where the main room was illuminated by a
 AH> light bulb with a pull chain in the centre of the room.  I
 AH> attached a piece of string so I could pull the chain from
 AH> the doorway.  I used eyelet screws in this application....
 AH> :-)

L!!! I use a length of wire, (Gotta use what's handy! ;-) and a screw-in switch
in the bedroom light socket to shut it off. Because the halogen task lighting
never seems to last as long as the technology has promised, I have a pile of
dead task lights herding around my head-board. 


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