Thread: Unusual materials as related to straight razors

Your IQ is 180?? Never would have guessed that in a thousand yrs

Hard to believe, isn't it. I was tested several times when I was growing up because they thought that I had a severe learning disorder. The first time they got the results back the psychologist couldn't believe that I had scored that high and so had me retested to confirm the first. My brain is like a finely tuned Ferrari with half of the spark plugs missing, it runs, just not that well.

Originally Posted by guitstik

Hard to believe, isn't it. I was tested several times when I was growing up because they thought that I had a severe learning disorder. The first time they got the results back the psychologist couldn't believe that I had scored that high and so had me retested to confirm the first. My brain is like a finely tuned Ferrari with half of the spark plugs missing, it runs, just not that well.

Not that bright but Austistic and can understand the problem.
~Richard

Impressive. You are saying your IQ is higher than most on the level of Da Vinci in fact and higher than ... Stephen William Hawking was born on 8th January, 1942 in United Kingdom. His IQ is 160. He is devoted to the core fields of science and have worked on gravitational theorems in the framework of general relativity, and many theoretical predictions on black holes stating that they emit radiations and known as hawking radiation. He attended Oxford University in 1959 when he was only 17 years old.

He was the first to explain the cosmology thesis by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He is a vocal supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Stephen is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the highest civilian award in the United States. He was also a professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009.

You would need to know the grit rating of the calcium aluminate you would be using, no point in using 0.5 CrOx unless the calcium aluminate is of equal or lesser size. The other problem i can see is how to adequately mix the components in order to achieve a consistent abrasive. Give it a go! We can discuss it until the cows come home (and with the drift towards urban living that's going to be a long time for most of us), the only way we'll know is if you actually make one. Who knows, we may all be filling our trash cans with Nortons and Naniwas by this time next year!

I put this out here because I know from experience exactly what will happen if I attempt to do this, NOTHING. I lack the focus necessary to put this into motion and so I figured to get others involved to see what they could come up with, if anything. I had considered the X factor of the grit rating for the calcium aluminate and I guess that I will have to do a little more research into it by reading a few more Engineering Journals to see if it is even listed.

Believe it or not, there are a LOT of people with extremely high IQ's that have done nothing with it. A few years ago I was involved in a Nation wide research study for ADD and the effects of stimulants as well as anti depressants. Part of the study was another IQ test. I was not even in the top 10% of IQ's, in fact I was barely in the 50% of the study. The highest IQ was a young man that was rated well off the charts in the 230-250 range of intelligence but because of the ADD he had taken to years of self medicating using just about every illegal drug possibly known to man and he still tested in the super genius range.

Originally Posted by guitstik

I put this out here because I know from experience exactly what will happen if I attempt to do this, NOTHING. I lack the focus necessary to put this into motion and so I figured to get others involved to see what they could come up with, if anything

Wait, hold on, I'm confused. It might be because I don't have an IQ of 180 but didn't you say you had "just over two pound of cro ox" and was looking for ideas to do something with it !

I was really interested to see where this experiment would end but it sounds like it already has

Originally Posted by mike1011

Wait, hold on, I'm confused. It might be because I don't have an IQ of 180 but didn't you say you had "just over two pound of cro ox" and was looking for ideas to do something with it !
I was really interested to see where this experiment would end but it sounds like it already has

Don't worry I'll type slowly for those of you only in the double digits. The original purpose for buying the CrOx was to see what all the fuss was about, obviously I don't need two pounds for that. I lose focus easi... SQUIRREL!!!

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Most of the Oleans barber hones (made for a bewildering number of companies bu a few companies in Oleans) were either 'cold' or 'hot' - the cold were liquid left to set up and the hot ones were baked. Earlier incarnations were indeed shellac, but thy did not hold up well. As Jimmy said, Randy is da man for this info.

Ah, Guitstik dear boy - I feel sorry for you. Only 180 IQ-wise? Such a shame.

My own is 140,140 - quite impressive, or so I am told. Mind you, I am afflicted with double vision... HAR!

Regards,
Neil

Neil, was that hot or cold pressed cement hones or just a clay/resin?

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

The ability to speak several languages has nothing to do with intellect, in my opinion. The are are probably millions of souls that easily command at least two. I think typical of speaking several languages are all the immigrants that came from Eastern Europe in the early 20th century. I'll take my family as an example. My father, my mother's parents and a couple of unrelated uncles. All from Eastern Europe. All spoke Russian, Polish, German, Czechoslovakian (grandfather only), Yiddish, Hebrew and English to varying degrees. I'd swear my dad's accent got worse the longer he was in America. My mother, while a hell of a lot smarter than people thought spoke only Yiddish and impeccable English. You have an ear for language or you don't.

(and by the way, my IQ, last time it was checked was 155. Thought of joining Mensa but I hate tests with a passion.)

I give the man credit, he is very intelligent but at the same time he does lack common sense at time. He is also like a big kid that plays pranks and thinks he is funny when he isn't. I am impressed with the fact that the man speaks five languages. There are not that many people that can do that but he was raised in Tunisia where there is a melting pot of languages to choose from but still only a small number of people that pick up that many dialects.

Originally Posted by guitstik

I give the man credit, he is very intelligent but at the same time he does lack common sense at time. He is also like a big kid that plays pranks and thinks he is funny when he isn't. I am impressed with the fact that the man speaks five languages. There are not that many people that can do that but he was raised in Tunisia where there is a melting pot of languages to choose from but still only a small number of people that pick up that many dialects.

If you are referring to me, Razorfeld, I was not born in Tunisia, I speak English passable, swear a little in Yiddish, forgot all my Hebrew after my Bar Mitzvah, resemble being a big kid at times, playing pranks require a physical presence, and humor is subjective. (But my fake accents are killers)

Go for it. Add another item to be desired/coveted. Feed the need for the masses. We need to start thinking of a name for this revolutionary product (should it come to fruition).

As an aside, and not to derail this thread, early in my ill fated marriage, we let ourselves be Guinnea Pigs for a friend taking a psychology course and had to give some IQ tests. I think one of the underlying (and festering) causes of the divorce was because I tested 15 points higher than her. No words were spoken but the look on her face told volumes of how she was thinking. As a wag or two would say, "That's life", "Tough T****e", "Live with it" or some such thing.