Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 8, 2019 Report Share Posted February 8, 2019 This is addictive. InspiroBot. I am an artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence. https://inspirobot.me/ Lucius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 We had another cold wave come through here Friday afternoon; since noon Friday most of a foot of snow has fallen, most of which is still with us. We have kept the bird feeders stocked, including the hummingbird feeder. I have found that if I bring it in after dark, let it thaw on the kitchen counter, and put it out again early, and while it is slushy by end of day, they can syill get liquid food. This morning I slept in til 6:30, and after setting the coffee going, I took the hummingbird feeder out. The ornery little git was out there waiting, and cursed me vehemently the entire time it took me to go out through the door, negotiate the snowy back porch, take the one step up the rockery so I could hang it, reverse course, and get back in through the back door. And I thought the cats were impatient. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 'Stargate' Actor Carmen Argenziano died today. He was 75. Lawnmower Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 The Favourite and Roma were the big winners at the Bafta awards last night. Lady Gaga was at the Grammys but Bradley Cooper attended and picked up an award on behalf of Gaga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 I dreamed up a new character: a funeral director that caters specifically to baseball players. In my half-awake state this seemed brilliant. I wonder if I can make something out of this... ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 12, 2019 Report Share Posted February 12, 2019 Townsend's warbler Ruby-crowned kinglet Anna's hummingbird Bewick's wren Bushtit Dark-eyed junco Northern flicker Steller's jay Black-capped chickadee Starling Red-breasted nuthatch White-crowned sparrow Fox sparrow Rufous-sided towhee Varied thrush Downy woodpecker Pileated woodpecker Chestnut-backed chickadee Song sparrow House finch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 12, 2019 Report Share Posted February 12, 2019 About 9:30 last night, as the temperature was rising and the snow was beginning to turn to rain, a couple of branches in the Douglas Fir in the back yard broke off and came down. Took out the back fence. (Context: by Monday evening we had had well over a foot of snow fall since about noon Friday, so there was pretty considerable buildup all over; Seattle area has been pretty much paralyzed.) No damage to anything but fence and foliage, but an unnerving thing to listen to right before going to bed. I went out and confirmed that the deadfall was not blocking anything but back yard (it didn't impinge on the arterial street right behind the back fence), so I took pictures, the wife called the homeowners' insurance, and once the snow has melted away I'll be able to maneuver out there (about a foot and a half of snow inside the yard, where there had been some drifting behind that fence before it was taken out), consider my options, and start cleaning up. The ones that broke off ... I think I can encircle the thickest part of the fall with both my hands (one hand is completely out of the question). Oh, and DSL service into our neighborhood seems to have died an hour or two prior to the branch-breaking, so the boredom level is higher at home than we have become accustomed to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 13, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2019 Got my finger on the reset button and am having a damn hard time thinking of a reason not to push it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 Quote …It was conceived mentally on the 8th [of] March in this year one thousand six hundred and eighteen, but submitted to calculation in an unlucky way, and therefore rejected as false, and finally returning on the 15th of May and adopting a new line of attack, stormed the darkness of my mind. So strong was the support from the combination of my labor of seventeen years on the observations of Brahe and the present study, which conspired together, that at first I believed I was dreaming, and assuming my conclusion among my basic premises. But it is absolutely certain and exact that the proportion between the periodic times of any two planets is precisely the sesquialterate†proportion of their mean distances… It's 400 years since Kepler's 3rd Law of planetary motion was found and published. 68 years later, Newton showed that this relationship is required by the laws of motion and gravitation, and Newton's extension of Kepler's 3rd Law remains the means by which we determine the masses of astronomical objects. Oh, and "sesquialterate" means the 3/2th power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 23, 2019 Report Share Posted February 23, 2019 How an X-Men writer inspired binge-worthy, character-drivenTV from Buffy to Game of Thrones http://theconversation.com/how-an-x-men-writer-inspired-binge-worthy-character-driven-tv-from-buffy-to-game-of-thrones-110764 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2019 Report Share Posted February 24, 2019 One of a local TV station's weather people is a woman who frankly is in the uncanny valley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2019 I AM SURROUNDED BY IDIOTS - DANGER CLOSE - DANGER CLOSE - DROP ALL REMAINING ORDNANCE ON MY POSITION - IT'S BEEN A LOVELY WAR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 5, 2019 Report Share Posted March 5, 2019 On 12/31/2011 at 5:15 PM, Cancer said: Re: A Thread for Random Musings Once upon a time, at the dawn of the Web (1994, 95), when you typed "cottage cheese" into the few available search engines, you usually got this page as the only hit. Good to see it's still around. Still there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 7, 2019 Report Share Posted March 7, 2019 Sometime in the last few months my institution acquired Yet Another Assistant Vice President. What do AVPs do here? They spend money. So they get lots of spam. Unfortunately, his email address here is different from mine in only one way; take my email address, slap one more letter on the end of the username (just before the "@"), and then you have his. Or, more to the point, take his email, drop the last letter off the username, and bingo, I get it instead. I note that spammers with money have tools that know how to get around the spam filters, so not all of this stuff gets shunted to the junk folder; one or two a week drop into my inbox, like diarrhea into a sick-house toilet. I'm not gonna double the spammers' suckerlists by sending them a correction (actually, I did do that once, before I realized what was going on), just resigning myself to manually deleting more stuff ... again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted March 7, 2019 Report Share Posted March 7, 2019 I am totally over SharePoint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 8, 2019 Report Share Posted March 8, 2019 Dear Cranky Guy Who Honked At Us While Lady P Was Getting Out Of The Car: A) Get over yourself. The extra 30 seconds you had to wait to swap out your propane tank isn't that big a deal. And, frankly, neither are you. 2) As it turns out, I don't have a firearm in the car. The next guy you honk at might. iii) Bite me. Respectfully submitted, -P Hermit and Cancer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 9, 2019 Report Share Posted March 9, 2019 Somedays even when I try to keep myself from offending, I find out I've done just that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted March 12, 2019 Report Share Posted March 12, 2019 A Martian landscape may be a good way to learn how to paint with the Zorn Palette, especially since my artistic ability is itself quite limited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 14, 2019 Report Share Posted March 14, 2019 It came to me this week. What does USA stand for or mean ? Unexpected Shark Attack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2019 Is cheesecake a pie? Is Boston cream pie a cake? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted March 15, 2019 Report Share Posted March 15, 2019 I seem to have a rotator cuff injury. No idea how it happened, but if I move the wrong way now pain shoots through me such as I have never felt before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 15, 2019 Report Share Posted March 15, 2019 Think that might be a "mouse shoulder" posture-generated RSI thing? I've had one of those, generated by a bad workstation plus chair plus mouse location. It wasn't sudden onset, but it got pretty bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted March 15, 2019 Report Share Posted March 15, 2019 32 minutes ago, Cancer said: Think that might be a "mouse shoulder" posture-generated RSI thing? I've had one of those, generated by a bad workstation plus chair plus mouse location. It wasn't sudden onset, but it got pretty bad. Not this time; I've had that pleasure as well. It's in my left, i.e. useless shoulder. I suppose that's a blessing in a way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 15, 2019 Report Share Posted March 15, 2019 No one but Logan look at this. Try masturbating with your other hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted March 16, 2019 Report Share Posted March 16, 2019 My YouTube recommendations include a video on using cork bark as miniature terrain. Sounds good, but why is it listed under "Cooking"? L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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