L. Marcus Posted June 12, 2020 Report Share Posted June 12, 2020 The nurses are doing maid cosplay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted June 16, 2020 Report Share Posted June 16, 2020 I remember Judas Priest's first appearance on Top of the Pops with Take on The World. Did not think much of them at the time. Saw it again and I like it. It's simple and plays to Metal strengths. Sing along chorus, good drum beat and guitar work. Too simple for me at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 NCIS will reach 400 episodes in the next season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 How wide can a chair be before it becomes a bench? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 Two seats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 Hmm, I tend to think of benches as long and narrow. If you have something that is long and wide, then you have a bed or a table or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 19, 2020 Report Share Posted June 19, 2020 Happy Midsummer! It's mandatory! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted June 26, 2020 Report Share Posted June 26, 2020 So as part of my "postblogging technology" hobby, I do little appendices where I try to do a deep dive into current problems in technology in the period I'm looking at. Since I'm doing the spring of 1950 right now, a very pressing issue is Edward Teller running around telling everyone that he knows how to make a hydrogen bomb, when, in fact, he doesn't. So this raises an interesting question about all the mistaken ideas there might have been about hydrogen bombs and related subjects (including how stars work!) specifically in the spring of 1950. To make a long story short, I'm no Edward Whittaker, and anyway much of this stuff didn't get published anyway, but I did learn some things. Did you know that einsteinium was first discovered in the fallout from Ivy Mike? Did you know that this success led to a series of nuclear tests in the 1950s that aimed at making new transuranic elements, including using bombs make of mixed plutonium, neptunium, americium and thorium? (The higher transuranic elements make disappointing booms in fission bombs --or, at least they did in the 1960s.) Did you know that they detected einsteinium in a star in 2008, for which astrophysics apparently has no explanation whatsoever. Although aliens might be dumping nuclear waste, the star in question is a long way from anywhere you might want a nuclear reactor; a hidden reservoir of slowly decaying "island of stability" elements is both gonzo and suggestive that there might be a lot more of these elements than theory currently predicts. Anyway, I ask if you knew any of that, because I sure as heck didn't! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 26, 2020 Report Share Posted June 26, 2020 It's probably an art installation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 26, 2020 Report Share Posted June 26, 2020 I read the entire article looking for something that would genuinely surprised me. I didn't find it. The Stranger-Than-Fiction Secret History of Prog-Rock Icon Rick Wakeman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 26, 2020 Report Share Posted June 26, 2020 4 hours ago, Lawnmower Boy said: ... Did you know that they detected einsteinium in a star in 2008, for which astrophysics apparently has no explanation whatsoever. ... As someone who is in that racket, I do not for an instant believe the claim of detection of Es. Even in Przybylski's Star. Ap stars be damned. The magnetic fields are so strong, as well as being variable with location on the star and in time, and the line splittings induced by those fields are so uncontrolled, that no one ought to imagine that as being real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted June 26, 2020 Report Share Posted June 26, 2020 8 minutes ago, Cancer said: As someone who is in that racket, I do not for an instant believe the claim of detection of Es. Even in Przybylski's Star. Ap stars be damned. The magnetic fields are so strong, as well as being variable with location on the star and in time, and the line splittings induced by those fields are so uncontrolled, that no one ought to imagine that as being real. Yeah, well, the most obvious explanation is that it is an observational artefact, but I do so want it to be true . . . tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 30, 2020 Report Share Posted June 30, 2020 The music of The Moody Blues requires active listening. It doesn't really make for good background music unless you're already intimately familiar with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 30, 2020 Report Share Posted June 30, 2020 That feeling when you can't find what you're looking for in the refrigerator, and suddenly realize that it's actually in the dishwasher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 I'm really tired of 2020. It's July 1st, can't we just drop the ball, sing Ol Lang Syne and start 2021 now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted July 2, 2020 Report Share Posted July 2, 2020 11 hours ago, Starlord said: I'm really tired of 2020. It's July 1st, can't we just drop the ball, sing Ol Lang Syne and start 2021 now? Remember when we were saying that about 2019? Be careful what you wish for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 2, 2020 Report Share Posted July 2, 2020 Or 2016. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaon Posted July 2, 2020 Report Share Posted July 2, 2020 Hermaphroditus' name is the basis for the word hermaphrodite. His name is compounded of his parents' names, Hermes and Aphrodite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 10, 2020 Report Share Posted July 10, 2020 It is quite comforting watching to see the old Tour de France footage from 2018 even though I know the result. The theme music is good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 12, 2020 Report Share Posted July 12, 2020 I don't think I've ever built a Champions character without the Hunted Disadvantage/Complication/Situation. Until today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 14, 2020 Report Share Posted July 14, 2020 Using your laptop while wearing your laser safety glasses (which are kind of the ultimate in blue-blocking, a factor of ten million or more attenuation at wavelengths less than 450 nm) is interesting but generally workable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 14, 2020 Report Share Posted July 14, 2020 It is Bastille Day. Do not expect anything from the French until the 16th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 15, 2020 Report Share Posted July 15, 2020 The actors who portray Michael Burnham and Cadet Tilly were born in the same year, 1985. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 17, 2020 Report Share Posted July 17, 2020 I was wondering what the song being sung in the adverts for the game The Last of Us Part II was and it was True Faith by New Order. I remember it coming out in 1987 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 20, 2020 Report Share Posted July 20, 2020 Had my first haircut since lockdown on Friday. Did not really notice difference. Unlike with finger and toe nails and the beard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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