death tribble Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 Saw a submarine leaving port while out on the shopping trip. Small thing not like the ballistic submarines. Possibly Dutch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
"V" Posted April 18, 2018 Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 On 4/14/2018 at 9:38 PM, tkdguy said: I read an online reference to The Hobbit when I realized that "Misty Mountains" would make a great name for a porn star. I enjoyed the scene she did with Dungeons Deep and Caverns Cold. tkdguy and Pariah 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 School shooting in nearby Ocala. My co-worker has a kid there. Closest one geograhically I've been to now. Good news: no fatalities, they have the shooter. Just another kid there, and apparently he shot at a door, dropped the gun, then ran and hid. One kid taken to hospital, shot in the leg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 A student today said that in one of her courses the instructor was having them do Myers-Briggs type things for assessing strengths and so on. I told her that personalty tests where others get the results are never administered for the test subject's good, and all they are are the beginnings of manipulation, whereby the outside agency with the test results can be expected to exploit weaknesses, provoke reactions, etc., in the test subjects for the advantage of the tester. (I firmly believe this to be true, FWIW.) Since truly random responses are fairly easy to detect, I suggested that she answer the questions as if she could be suspected to go into homicidal rage when others tried manipulating her in that way. The students in the room were initially shocked by this, but the student in question took my advice, erased her initial responses, and put in the latent-killer responses. ... And duly reported she got the same Myers-Briggs type as before. L. Marcus, Pariah, lemming and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 14, 2018 Report Share Posted May 14, 2018 Dame Tessa Jowell the MP who got the Labour government to apply for the 2012 Olympics has passed away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 15, 2018 Report Share Posted May 15, 2018 I need to stop reading posts and watching videos about food late at night. I'm trying to kick my midnight snack habit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 16, 2018 Report Share Posted May 16, 2018 A Chromebook isn't quite a computer, but it is a reasonable approximation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 17, 2018 Report Share Posted May 17, 2018 I ❤️ astrophysics. Cancer and Pariah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted May 18, 2018 Report Share Posted May 18, 2018 Welp. Here I am, at the out-patient hotel at the University Hospital of Norrland. I've been enered into the rolls of the thoracical surgery ward, all tests have been run and samples have been taken. Next thing is surgery on Monday morno. What to do in Umeå on a lazy weekend? I know! Let's go to the Norrland's Open Kendo Championship! Pariah and Old Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted May 23, 2018 Report Share Posted May 23, 2018 Muse. Muse? Muse! Muuusee *Nod* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 23, 2018 Report Share Posted May 23, 2018 Cranberry macadamia nut cookies are actually quite delicious. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 28, 2018 Report Share Posted May 28, 2018 Fyi, I won't be online too often this week as my computer is being fixed. I am using my phone right now, but I find posting this way kind of a pain. I will drop by occasionally, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 Housemates are caring for their elderly mother. The woman is going to drive her daughter insane, and possibly me as well. lemming 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 Doing these prospective med student interviews and writing up reports from them certainly reminds me that yes, I am a judgmental b*****d, but there's not as much satisfaction in that as might be guessed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 In a desperate attempt to get my mojo back, I put up this: Would love input Okay, so this isn't so much a random musing as a deliberate plug lemming and Cancer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 I am finishing up a second BA and getting ready to apply to doctoral programs. If anyone wants to know why our society is growing so vacuous and trite, the non-degree core course requirements at universities are increasingly filled with counter-intellectual and empirically disreputable ideological bullshit. Indoctrination is not education. And, while many degrees have serious core classes, others allow core requirements to be filled with classes that are nonsensical and perilously idiotic at best. This is especially true at the undergraduate level, which is as far as most university "educated" people ever go. Most of these oddball courses are taught by "academics" who seem to believe repeating utter (and often offensive) nonsense with a straight face and moralizing tenor makes it true rather than deeply ironic. Its not that our educated elites have failed. Its that they are AWOL from all but the most advanced, specialized, and serious of courses. Bazza and Hermit 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 The cat seems to rather like cheesecake. Hadn't noticed that before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 I thought about staying home and taking a mental health day, but it's more rewarding to nurse your antisocial paranoid grudges at work where they get triggered more often. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 4, 2018 Report Share Posted June 4, 2018 I am going to have to name a character Floyd Monzogabbro, a corruption of a phrase from geology. The real term's first word is "foid". tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 5, 2018 Report Share Posted June 5, 2018 For a moment, I thought I might have invented Möbius pants, but more careful inspection of the situation revealed merely a garment malfunction I had not previously heard of. In the men's room, of course. Finished using the urinal, but I had succeeded in untucking my shirt, so I had to undo the pants and belt (and unfoul the front of the shirt bottom from the zipper). With some errors induced by my DEX 5, eventually I got all that done. Next step is to put everything back as it should be, and all of zipper, bottom shirt button, top pants button, and belt closed up in the conventional manner. Several repeated failures later, things would not close. And the tongue end of the belt was coming out of the not-fully-zipped fly, which made no sense whatsoever. My first impression was that I had developed a topological singularity in my garments such that belt emerged through the pants in a way not in accordance with standard 3-D Euclidean geometry (hence "Möbius pants"), which was at that moment intensely irritating, but would have been just insanely, unspeakably great when looked on in a more general way. After all, if you can induce that kind of singularity repeatably, then if you could do it in the right way you might be able to come out, say, near Alpha Centauri. For a moment I was blinded by the prospect of having pulled an interstellar drive out of my pants. Not only would that answer uncountable prayers for solving and/or dodging Earthbound problems, it would also be just about the greatest imaginable geek line for impressing babes in random conversation. Sadly, it was not so. Moving over towards the mirror so I could see what the Hell was going on, even mirror-reversed visual inspection revealed a more mundane arrangement, albeit one explicable only in terms of the aforementioned DEX 5. Somehow I had looped the end of my belt over the waistband of my pants, then run it outward through the notched top of the pants with the fly fully unzipped, then buttoned the waistband over the belt tongue and tried zipping up the fly. This was the arrangement I initially observed and, with the power of my INT 24, was able to reproduce without the topological singularity. Oh well. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Meanwhile, it seems the place we stayed for a week on Hawaii back in early 2014 has been overrun and buried by the lava flow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Why do we call this planet "Earth" when three-quarters is water? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 19 hours ago, Cancer said: For a moment I was blinded by the prospect of having pulled an interstellar drive out of my pants. May I quote you on that? 16 minutes ago, Bazza said: Why do we call this planet "Earth" when three-quarters is water? 3/4 of the SURFACE yes, not of the mass or volume. Naming it after a surface feature would be superficial don't you think? Lucius Alexander The palindromedary wants to name it Bob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 8 hours ago, Lucius said: May I quote you on that? Of course; you just did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 15 hours ago, Cancer said: Meanwhile, it seems the place we stayed for a week on Hawaii back in early 2014 has been overrun and buried by the lava flow. Yup, it and the area for several blocks around. Guess I add those pics to the folder "Places that aren't there any more". EDIT: Link At times USGS's tag line, "Science for a changing world", seems to challenge the bounds of good taste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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