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November 6, 2006

Jim: A Three-Hour Lesson

”Okay,” the professor said. “Let’s try this again. The way we calculate amperes is by multiplying horsepower by 746 and then dividing the result by the efficiency percentage of the circuit.”

“Is that for alternating current?” I asked.

The professor shook his head and sighed. “That’s a corollary of Ohm’s Law for direct current.”

“So…”

“So for a single phase alternating current, you also need to multiply the divisor by the power factor.”

“I’m not sure what all this means,” I mumbled.

“What it means,” the professor replied. “Is that you need to pedal that bamboo and coconut bike faster.”

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Comments

I don't think the professor really knows what it all means either.

Posted by: kasac at November 6, 2006 9:09 AM · Permalink

Heh. Gilligan always mumbles.

Posted by: Keiran Halcyon at November 6, 2006 10:05 AM · Permalink

Keiran, if that's true then it was a lucky choice. I haven't seen that TV show in so long that I've almost completely forgotten the characters' mannerisms. I remember the skipper used his hat to hit Gilligan a lot.

Posted by: Jim Parkinson at November 6, 2006 12:50 PM · Permalink

IIRC (it's been upwards of 10 years for me), Gilligan was the type who would say things sotto voce for the benefit of the audience when he was too worried about his public image to speak up.

Posted by: Keiran Halcyon at November 6, 2006 1:58 PM · Permalink

I always wondered why the rest of the islanders didn't stomp the Howells.

Okay, so maybe they thought they'd get a huge financial reward when they got rescued. But they had plenty of swag with them every episode, and it's not like they couldn't have claimed to have lost both of them overboard.

Just toss 'em to the sharks, and bury the remains as deep as possible.

Posted by: Laurence Simon at November 6, 2006 3:03 PM · Permalink

Hehe, Laurence. Sort of a Gilligan's Island with a few Lord of the Flies Coral Island twists.

It's too bad all the original characters from the TV show are either ancient or dead. That'd make for an interesting movie.

Posted by: Jim Parkinson at November 6, 2006 3:13 PM · Permalink

Mr. Howell, Jim Bacchus (Bachhus...Bacchas...whatever) wasn't his roll in "It's a mad mad mad mad world" funney?

Posted by: kasac at November 6, 2006 4:43 PM · Permalink

funney - that's funny

Posted by: kasac at November 6, 2006 4:44 PM · Permalink