lemming Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I need to get ready for a trip where I will not have much access to the net. See everyone in October. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Hatehatekillmaimhateeviscerate Every time I leave the apartment for any reason I come back home in a violent rage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 14, 2009 Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings She asked me why...I'm just a hairy guy I'm hairy noon and night; Hair that's a fright. I'm hairy high and low, Don't ask me why; don't know! It's not for lack of bread Like the Grateful Dead, darling... This song popped in my head as I was cleaning today. I am proof that you don't need to have a dog or a cat to have hair appear all over your place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted September 14, 2009 Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings My cats have been sleeping on the bed all day. They will get up soon for their dinner. Cats do indeed have Staff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Kanye West needs to stop getting drunk at awards shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Kanye West needs to stop getting... And classy by Mrs Knowles* to invite Swift to continue her acceptance speech. *who I don't particularly like for other reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 On the road again... Well, I'm off. Moving day is finally here. Getting the truck loaded up tomorrow morning early, then hitting the highway. Exciting and scary. I guess that's what you would call anxious, though that word just doesn't feel right. I feel like I've hit my personal reset button so many times that it should be old hat by now. I still don't know what I'll do for money when I get there, but my expectations and desires have changed so much I think I'll find something. Something away from people. It's funny, Dad is scared I'll become a recluse, but that's exactly what I want. Don't know when I'll get computer access again, so I'll be gone from here for a while. Be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings "There is a fine line between ego and confidence" -- Me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Watching a zeppelin fly above while an orchestra plays Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel Waltz is a surreal experience. I ought to know; I experienced it on Friday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings No man is an island; I'm more like a remote peninsula. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Never eat powdered confections while wearing black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klytus Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Having an accountant as a sidekick in Legends of Zork is made of win Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings So, stretched over 2 continents, I have six siblings, half-siblings, and step-siblings In the continental US, I have four. Of the five of us, four have lost our jobs in the last year. I just found out today, that upon arriving home from being laid off from her job, my sister was told by her husband that he didnt' want to be married to her anymore. Seriously? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted September 22, 2009 Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings A note to psychiatrists everywhere: If the paranoid psychotic you're monitoring mutters violently to themselves at night, they're not ready to be released into the general populace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Well, the move is finally complete. I'm in my new old home in Kentucky and got phone/internet connected at last. This is the house I lived in as an undergrad and it's been rented out to some really revolting people for the last twelve years. It looks and smells like an ashtray with vague undertones of dog crap. I'm going to be renovating the place for quite a while, a project which I find I'm looking forward to. The question now is: What next? Back to school? Find a job doing... who knows? Try and start a new career? I might even try to ... *gasp* date again. I don't know. I don't know anything anymore. The reset button has been pressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 27, 2009 Report Share Posted September 27, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Japan is a nation of advanced cellphone technology,” said Mr. Tsujimoto of Capcom. “By harnessing that strength, we can compete with America.” Japanese companies have been especially successful in combining mobile phone games with social networking. Gree, a fast-growing site with about 12.6 million users, gets visitors hooked on its social networking service, then offers cellphone games on its mobile version. The company makes money on advertisements and by charging for premium accounts. Linking social networks with gaming is one way forward for the video game industry, said Gree’s chief executive, Yoshikazu Tanaka. “After a certain point, consumers will say, enough with the high-spec hardware. Then the focus turns to content, to building communities around games,” he said. (source) Oh great...the smartphone becomes the social-notworking (aka Facebook/Myspace) phone. Just what the smartphone needs more f* ads. I'm sure Google is licking their lips, and wouldn't hesitate to turn Android into an ad-based social networking/gaming phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings That was a very good two weeks and the direction has been chosen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I have to wear an eyepatch to function right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Arrrh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Why aren't there any Amorous Solids? The only ones I know are Platonic ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I'm three days into school and no books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 2, 2009 Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings "We have seen the ancestor, and it is not a chimpanzee." -- paleoanthropologist Tim White, about Ardipithecus ramidus, in Science, 2 Oct 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 2, 2009 Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Scientific throw-away lines that go far to explain Teh Bunneh and the threat he represents. (Spoilered text includes detailed technical discussion of mammalian male reproductive mechanisms, so technical it should be safe for work, but people get squeamish....) Sperm competition. Two key factors dominate anthropoid reproductive behavior and are therefore diagnostic of socio-sexual structure: (i) sperm competition and (ii) male-to-male competition for mates. Various anatomical correlates distinguish monogamous or single male primates from other species whose males engage in sperm competition. Among the most obvious is the much higher ratio of testes volume to body mass. Human ratios are generally similar to those of monogamous gibbons and solitary orangutans, but the ratios are three times higher in Pan (41, 42) and other sperm-competing species such as Brachyteles (43). Moreover, human testes are most similar to those of gibbons with respect to their higher proportion of intertubular (non-seminiferous) tissue (42). Mammalian sperm competition is generally accompanied by elevated ejaculate quality (44), which is also notably poor in humans. In Homo sapiens, the absolute rate of sperm production is only about 20% that of much smaller rhesus macaques (45). Another measure, spermatogenesis efficiency (daily sperm production per gram of testes), "varies from about 2.65 x 10^7 in rabbits to <0.06 x 10^6 in humans" (46). The estimated corresponding value in chimpanzees is greater than that of humans by two orders of magnitude (42). -- C. Owen Lovejoy, in "Reexamining Human Origins in Light of Ardipithecus ramidus", Science 2 October 2009, Vol. 326. no. 5949, pp. 74 (The Arabic numbers in parentheses are footnotes in the original text; emphasized text has been set in bold by the poster) (Pan is the genus of the chimpanzee; Brachyteles is the genus of woolly spider monkeys.) The guy's no human chauvinist, either, as evidenced by the sentence ending "... which is notably poor in humans." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings It's true about Chinese food, even home-cooked;you are hungry again 30 minutes later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I would like to nominate those steam in the bag frozen veggies for invention of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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