Clonus Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Apparently I am now black. http://www.nationalpost.com/most_popular/story.html?id=261254 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Are there any rap love songs? Not sex, not hos, not pimps, but actual love songs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I. HATE. This. Place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Is it too much to say "Aquaman is just a watered-down Prince Namor?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Last night, I had a flashback of sorts. I was dozing off while watching TV. Something made me think of a house I lived in as a kid. For a moment, I could swear I was looking outside the gate. I vaguely remember my aunt also being there. Okay, it was just a dream. But I woke up early in the morning with a song I hadn't remembered for 30 years playing in my head. Remember the cartoon The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan? It was one of the songs they sang there. In case you're curious about song I suddenly remembered, I just did some digging and found this site. It's the second track. It's not bad by any stretch of the imagination, but what a weird way to wake up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Saw another satellite last night. It was heading north. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings So I now have Firefox at work. On a related note, what in the world would possess a company whose ads I've actively ignored before to think that I'll change my mind if they shove them in my face, then crash my browser when I close them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Remember that crappy Scifi channel movie Alien Apocalypse, starring everyone's favorite chin Bruce Campbell? Yeah, turns out one of our subsidiary companies is to blame for that one. Bill. (I take no blame for Mansquito or Chupacabra: Ship of Death though!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings "I'm pretty sure it's illegal whether they arrest you or not!" "That's why your income will never exceed five digits." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Are there really people out there than honestly think that someone is somehow more dead if they are killed by a gun than if they are killed some other way? The terms "Gun Crime" and "Gun Violence" are useless terms. Separating out "Gun Violence" from violence in general would be like setting up a separate category for violence committed while wearing denim jeans. The problems are the crime and violence, not that the person committing the crime or violence happened to have a gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I don't know if this counts as random, given there was an inspiration, but it's not a direct reply, so.... This is interesting: "In general, guns are most often used in intimate homicide but weapon type varies by relationship. From 1990 to 2005 -- Over two-thirds of the spouse and ex-spouse victims were killed by guns. Boyfriends were more likely to be killed by knives than any other group of intimates. Girlfriends were more likely to be killed by force than any other group of intimates. " This and lots of interesting homicide tidbits at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/intimates.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/333_murder_victims_circumstances_and_weapons_used.html is neat, there's stats on guns (with handguns as a subcategory), cutting or stabbing, blunt objects, personal weapons (Hands, fists, feet, etc.), strangulations or asphyxiations, and fire. Hmm, from 1980 to 1999, cutting or stabbing fell out of favor since their heyday in the '80s. One could roughly say that guns went up as cutting/stabbing went down, I guess murderers got more efficient. I wonder what leading indicators there are for weapon types for homicides? Price of guns adjusted for inflation? I like that this page has "circumstances" as well. But I wonder if they changed methodologies? Arguments declined from fairly significantly from 1985 to 1991 and have stayed near that level since. Unknown causes have increased significantly. Ah, maybe a population more aware of their rights and remaining silent, so as not to give motive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Wow, I had no idea Montel Williams was still on TV. He just folded after 17 years. SEVENTEEN!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings To whom it may concern, I don't know any rap love songs, but do know a folk song done in a rap style (from early 1970s). Cordially, Baz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Having a cold is bad. Having a cold when you talk to people for a living is worse. Can't work. Can't exercise. Can't write. Not enjoying reading or DVDs. I am comforted only by the knowledge that, despite my illness, I remain one remarkably sexy man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Having a cold is bad. Having a cold when you talk to people for a living is worse. Can't work. Can't exercise. Can't write. Not enjoying reading or DVDs. I am comforted only by the knowledge that, despite my illness, I remain one remarkably sexy man. Oh no, the cold has made him delirious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSword Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Getting dumped sucks (D+14 hours), though its great for my diet as the lack of appetite means I am eating healthier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings The young'uns here may not understand, but with this place just a few blocks from my office, I have to see their current lead show before it ends in late April. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Watching grass grow?: Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant on Earth. It has been clocked surging skyward as fast as 121 cm (47.6 inches) in a 24-hour period.[10] It can also reach maximal growth rate which exceed 1 metre (40 inches) per hour for short periods of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I've come to the conclusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Sounds like the live Cute with Chris show in LA went really well, and as hoped it was filmed and should be available soon, YEAH! We wanted to get tickets and fly down to LA for the evening, but the show sold out so fast! On a completely different note, in the course of a routine search, I came across this guy's site, and as I was perusing for contact info to find something out (long story, not relevant), I saw this, http://adam.legendary.org/index.php/Main_Page , which isn't remarkable to anyone necessarily except here's the semi-weird (and obviously nonetheless certainly also explicable) coincidence that he and I both have the exact same job (Enterprise Architect), we're both world building RPGers, and we're both composer/musician types - egad! Although he's INTP and I'm INTJ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Gee, I wouldn't have thought that building a bow, and an arrow -- seperately -- would have been so difficult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Been watching Fight Science, an excellent series on the National Geographic Chanel. Two musings: 1) What goes on in the body of a highly trained human can be vastly different from what goes on in the body of an untrained human. That doctors, nutritionists, martial arts instructors and exercise gurus so often fail to realize this is the cause of much pointless pain and suffering. Related Note: Nutritionists who refuse to look at the research on protein needs and activity types and levels are harming people through willful ignorance. 2) Scientists talking about subjects outside of their area of specialization can be just as uninformed as anyone else; smug as well. However, at least a scientist will generally admit he's wrong when faced with the evidence, especially when he conducts the tests himself; that's not the case with the average Joe in an Internet argument. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmadanNaBriona Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Ego sum a lectus I am a couch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Go to Google. Type "Find Chuck Norris". Click I'm Feeling Lucky. That is all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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