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[zoobyshoe]

Today I got an e-mail from my sister in which she notes:

"I can't remember if I mentioned I went back east in March for a conference in Boston and also visited Alex and Jennifer. the place I stayed in Boston was right between the two Marathon blasts."

 

[ChiralWaltz]

I said snuggle not smuggle. I'm a Dad not a pirate, yarrrr.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Tonight when I was drawing in a coffeehouse a girl came over to look at my drawing. Turns out she is studying geophysics. That's the first one of those I've ever met.

 

[collinsmark]

Did she introduce herself appropriately?

(https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=687741)

 

[collinsmark]

Oh, my. I totally drained out my bucket-o-ranch tonight. Now I've got to go get another sooner than later.

 

[dlgoff]

This one shipped itself: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-22278774

WOW. Free shipping.

 

[Bacle2]

I wonder if the people at McDonalds "Sound-test" the names of their new products. I went to McD's
yesterday (hadn't been to it in a long time), and the cashier asked me if I wanted a McCrap ( turned out to be McWrap, Phew! ) with my meal. How can I reply? Er...please spell it for me before I give you a definitive answer... or : I think someone's in the bathroom right now...or : is that part of the meal?

 

[Borg]

I wonder if the people at McDonalds "Sound-test" the names of their new products. I went to McD's
yesterday (hadn't been to it in a long time), and the cashier asked me if I wanted a McCrap ( turned out to be McWrap, Phew! ) with my meal. How can I reply? Er...please spell it for me before I give you a definitive answer... or : I think someone's in the bathroom right now...or : is that part of the meal?

Been to Kmart lately?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I03UmJbK0lA

 

[OmCheeto]

I wonder if the people at McDonalds "Sound-test" the names of their new products. I went to McD's
yesterday (hadn't been to it in a long time), and the cashier asked me if I wanted a McCrap ( turned out to be McWrap, Phew! ) with my meal. How can I reply? Er...please spell it for me before I give you a definitive answer... or : I think someone's in the bathroom right now...or : is that part of the meal?

I stopped by McDonalds for the first time in about 10 years this evening. (I was starving!)
I ordered a Big Mac.
What I heard from the "sound" device was; "Would you like anything besides your salad?"
Salad?
I just ordered a Big Mac.
"No thank you!", I said, "I JUST WANT A BIG MAC!"
"Would you like anything besides your salad?"

So I turned and looked, and saw that the little LED display said; "1 Big Mac"
I ran though the things that old people like myself might interpret as "salad", and decided that she had said "Sandwich".

I said; "No thank you! I'll just have the sandwich!"

...

When did hamburgers become sandwiches?

 

[dlgoff]

Then, it will surprise you that the most American of all establishments, McDonald’s, sells a sandwich in India with primarily lettuce, tomato, onion, and salad dressing. Called the Salad Sandwich, this entree item sells where a large chunk of the population is vegetarian and has no problem eating a salad inside a sandwich bun.

http://milkmiracle.net/2010/02/16/food-at-the-cultural-divide/

 

[Astronuc]

10 fascinating facts about President Ulysses Grant
http://news.yahoo.com/10-fascinating-facts-president-ulysses-grant-093220428.html

Grant was a gifted writer. After leaving the presidency, Grant became ill and was financially destitute. His memoirs, written as he was dying from throat cancer, show a clear, concise style, and his autobiography is considered among the best, if not the best, written by a president.

 

[Andre]

And peace returned after a week with two nieces who brought four little kids staying over, complemented with two grandchildren. Somebody said never have the toddlers outnumber the adults. That's true.

All six on the beach.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22026080/kids.jpg

The moment the adults stepped back the group 'exploded'.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22026080/kid2.jpg But it was a good refresher for the French language

 

[zoobyshoe]

Did she introduce herself appropriately?

(https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=687741)

Hmmm...not by your criteria, no. Also, unlike the person in that thread, this girl gave me the impression she was almost more about the math than the geophysics. She made a remark about getting exited when it came to the "creative" application of maths to the problem at hand. I asked her about the Earth's magnetic field but that seemed to bore her: she was all about earthquakes, which is why she had come to California.

 

[collinsmark]

First thing this morning, in a coffee deficient state, I done plopped down three hundred clams for Mathematica 9. (And yes I know that there are other, free programs out there that do about the same thing [I've used some of them before]. But what's done is done. What can I say.)

Mind you, I've never used Mathematica before, ever. When I started it up I had no idea what I was doing. It was easy to find a selection for "Getting Started With Mathematica." The selection merely takes you to a link on their website that has a collection of Getting Started With Mathematica videos. Unfortunately, none of them actually have anything to do with getting started with the thing and are nothing but marketing videos.

I eventually found the real "getting Started" instructions, but it took me awhile. ("2 + 2 SHIFT+ENTER." Ahh, the "SHIFT+ENTER" is what makes things work. Now I know what two plus two is. )

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

I just need to post here so that I can subscribe to this thread. I'm aware of the other option; namely, clicking the button up top. This just seems more... random.

 

[Bacle2]

Been to Kmart lately?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I03UmJbK0lA

Wow, if they did it on purpose, they did a good job. Plausiblely deniable.

 

[Bacle2]

I stopped by McDonalds for the first time in about 10 years this evening. (I was starving!)
I ordered a Big Mac.
What I heard from the "sound" device was; "Would you like anything besides your salad?"
Salad?
I just ordered a Big Mac.
"No thank you!", I said, "I JUST WANT A BIG MAC!"
"Would you like anything besides your salad?"

So I turned and looked, and saw that the little LED display said; "1 Big Mac"
I ran though the things that old people like myself might interpret as "salad", and decided that she had said "Sandwich".

I said; "No thank you! I'll just have the sandwich!"

...

When did hamburgers become sandwiches?

I saw this place who's BLT was Bread, Lettuce and Tomato. I guess that is close to a salad
sandwich, or a salad (with two major croutons).

 

[OmCheeto]

...

The moment the adults stepped back the group 'exploded'.

...

Poohdemonium?

My 6 brothers and sisters once left me and my poor old mother with their 6 toddlers for a weekend.

I was about 24, and ended up, never, ever, ever, having any children...

...

Oh god. I've just been told that I've seen "Gang Man Style" on the video.

All I saw was a Spiderman being creepy.

 

[OmCheeto]

http://milkmiracle.net/2010/02/16/food-at-the-cultural-divide/

This reminds me a bit of a sandwich we eat at the local fair.

Though it includes chicken.

So I guess it's a sandwich.

Though they call it a burger...

There was a myth that we added opium to get you addicted.

That cracked me up.

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It was the shredded cabbage and carrots you fools!

 

[Evo]

Boulevard unfiltered wheat beer was on sale for $5 off a 12 pack, so I broke down and bought one. I love this beer, but I think it's been two - three years since I splurged on some. Glad I did.

 

[Andre]

Poohdemonium?

My 6 brothers and sisters once left me and my poor old mother with their 6 toddlers for a weekend.

I was about 24, and ended up, never, ever, ever, having any children...

The trick is to keep the toddler concentration below the critical mass avoiding the positive feedback detonation, which must be below six as both examples show. I have to say that the oldest, Leany, was an exemplary moderator.

I had the good fortune to observe how my three toddlers develloped into beautiful caring people, despite our efforts to raise them. That was a great time and lots of fun, much much more important than the associated chores.

 

[Bacle2]

The trick is to keep the toddler concentration below the critical mass avoiding the positive feedback detonation, which must be below six as both examples show. I have to say that the oldest, Leany, was an exemplary moderator.

I had the good fortune to observe how my three toddlers develloped into beautiful caring people, despite our efforts to raise them. That was a great time and lots of fun, much much more important than the associated chores.

It makes me think about this show I watched, I think in Nat Geographic:
It seems you are more of an exception in (your family) having that many children. Many countries in the world have negative population growth. Russia loses around 900,000 people
a year. Bulgaria had a population of around 9 mill in the 80's and now the population is around
7.2 million. Wonder what it may be like living in Bulgaria and seeing the population fade away
around you. I know it's happenning here in the U.S too, in places like Detroit, but Bulgaria has lost around 20% of its population since the 80's. They had a C-Span show about that,about a book "What to Expect When No one is Expecting". So much for fears of the population bomb --outside of a few countries.

 

[OmCheeto]

My sister sent out the following email to the family yesterday:

Subj: Gun Control

This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient,and the world will follow our lead into the future.

She wrote nothing herself, so I assumed she was using this as an implication that we not have gun registration.

So I thought back to when my mother was alive, and what she said regarding growing up in Hitler's Germany.
(I interviewed her 10 years before she passed away, as I knew she wouldn't live forever.)

My response:

We never had toothbrushes until Hitler took over.

Should we not brush our teeth because Hitler thought oral hygiene was a good idea?

and yes, you can quote me on that.

Happy Saturday everyone!

hmmm...

Does there already exist, a word, that describes not doing something, because Hitler did it?

Adolphobia?

 

[Andre]

Does there already exist, a word, that describes not doing something, because Hitler did it?

Adolphobia?

Maybe we should go for Godwinness (akin truthiness) as his law prohibits any serieus research into the sociologic and psychologic forces that led to the dark pages of the former century.

 

[OmCheeto]

The trick is to keep the toddler concentration below the critical mass avoiding the positive feedback detonation, which must be below six as both examples show. I have to say that the oldest, Leany, was an exemplary moderator.

I had the good fortune to observe how my three toddlers develloped into beautiful caring people, despite our efforts to raise them. That was a great time and lots of fun, much much more important than the associated chores.

hmmm... Looking over my notes, it would appear that there were only 5, and only 1 was a toddler. But poohdemonium happened anyways.

I had set them all at mom's picnic table with a scrap piece of wall paneling, with some paint and brushes. I had them all draw pictures. Everyone was having a great time, until, my two nieces, aged 5, discovered that when you smear all the paints together, it turned brown. The 5 independent images were rapidly turning into a homogenous brown mess, and my nephew, 7, started crying, so I told everyone to stop. I asked the girls what they were drawing, and they said; "POOP!"

I told everyone that the painting was done, and I had the girls sign the painting, as it was pretty much all poop.

It hangs on my bedroom wall.

Summer 1984​

My sixth and final niece was born 3 years later.
Ha! Guess what she majored in. Art History.

 

[OmCheeto]

It seems you are more of an exception in (your family) having that many children. Many countries in the world have negative population growth. Russia loses around 900,000 people
a year. Bulgaria had a population of around 9 mill in the 80's and now the population is around
7.2 million. Wonder what it may be like living in Bulgaria and seeing the population fade away
around you. I know it's happenning here in the U.S too, in places like Detroit, but Bulgaria has lost around 20% of its population since the 80's. They had a C-Span show about that,about a book "What to Expect When No one is Expecting". So much for fears of the population bomb --outside of a few countries.

One person's problem is sometimes another person's solution.

http://cdn.indulgy.com/LC/1B/7A/1657184612587371173rFTOeGZc.jpg​

Drats! Now I can't find it. Someone posted something to the effect; "...GMO's do what you want them to do...", in another thread.

When I saw that, I was all:

Yay! Great idea! Create a GMO that reduces human fertility by 90%! I'm now 100% in favor of GMO's!

at which point, a voice popped into my head:

So you want to virtually sterilize everyone?

At which point I said;

Not only YES, but, HELL YES!

But wouldn't this affect only poor countries?

Not only YES, but, HELL YES!

So you are in favor of eugenics.

No. I'm in favor of people not having so many babies, that they can't feed, nor keep them occupied, to the point, where they just all end up wanting to come to America!

What's wrong with immigration? If you go back between 40,000—16,500 years, the entirety of America could be considered immigrants.

True, but, I don't like all these new people. Their ideals and habits are very alien. They should stay home. Look at those two Chechnyan dudes.

So you hate all foreigners then...

Good god no. I've never even met a Chechnyan. I have many foreign friends, whom I would gladly step in front of, to stop a bullet. My Russian friend just yesterday told me the story of Ivan Susanin, who gave his life to save the Czar from incompetent invading Poles.

So now you hate people from Poland then...

Nooooo! My mother was born in Poland you imbecile! You are implying that I'm self-loathing!

What's with all the exclamation points?

...

[PLAIN]http://www.europa.com/%7Egarry/No-I-dont-need-ANGER-MANAGEMENT-You-need-to-quit-PISSING-ME-OFF.jpg[/CENTER]

A much abbreviated example, of what goes through my head, on a typical Saturday morning.

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Ok to delete, infract, and ban, as I've saved my post.
Oh look! The sun is out!​

 

[Borg]

A squirrel has found a way into my attic. This is a job for Homeowner Man! yipee...

 

[Astronuc]

In South Carolina Congressional Race, [STRIKE]Drama[/STRIKE] Circus Outpaces Discussion of Issues
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/u...race-drama-outpaces-discussion-of-issues.html

Mr. Sanford’s ex-wife claimed that he had slipped into her house to watch the Super Bowl with their 14-year-old son in violation of court orders.

And we wonder why government is dysfunctional.

 

[Bacle2]

Kind of interesting, the trio of last names:

Beck, Becker, Beckest .

Different scales of being Beck, I guess: You're Beck, but she is Becker and the other one is the Beckest of all. I wonder if there are other (trios of) last names of this type.

Edit: I found a pair of this type: Bessem and Bessemer, but there seems to be no one

"last-named" Bessemest. It may a good one if you're thinking of going into witness protection,

or maybe just anyone thinking of a change of last names.

Edit 2: Talked with a French guy who brought up Becquerel. Any suggestions on where he could

fit in the order Beck< Becker< Beckest ?

 

[Bacle2]

In South Carolina Congressional Race, [STRIKE]Drama[/STRIKE] Circus Outpaces Discussion of Issues
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/u...race-drama-outpaces-discussion-of-issues.html



And we wonder why government is dysfunctional.

But there's more: after his divorce, and after parading himself with his new Argentinian lover,
(together with the whole public spectacle of his "hiking the Appalachian Trail")Mark Sanford expected his ex-wife to run his comeback campaign for governor, I think, for free.

 

[lisab]

In South Carolina Congressional Race, [STRIKE]Drama[/STRIKE] Circus Outpaces Discussion of Issues
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/u...race-drama-outpaces-discussion-of-issues.html



And we wonder why government is dysfunctional.

His excuse went something like, "I didn't want my 14-year-old to watch the Super Bowl alone!"

Riiiiiight, that makes total sense then.

 

[lisab]

A squirrel has found a way into my attic. This is a job for Homeowner Man! yipee...

Oh noes, Borg hasn't posted since this one! I hope he wasn't up against this kind of squirrel...

http://crownflint.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/squirrel_with_machine_gun.jpg?w=640

 

[Evo]

LOL lisab! I have to add that one to my collection!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

As I had mentioned in a now closed thread, I had inadvertently eliminated most of the salt from my diet without realizing it. Surely it is a combination of diet, exercise, and reduced stress levels, but my blood pressure is now running about 120/80! Both were about 10 points higher a year ago.

 

[Borg]

Oh noes, Borg hasn't posted since this one! I hope he wasn't up against this kind of squirrel...

http://crownflint.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/squirrel_with_machine_gun.jpg?w=640

I'm still here.

 

[Borek]

Survival of the fittest.

 

[PhizKid]

hi!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Survival of the fittest.

Interesting, but the guy has completely missed the fact he's breeding them to be harder and harder to eat.

 

[Borg]

Interesting, but the guy has completely missed the fact he's breeding them to be harder and harder to eat.

I'm sure that they wouldn't survive a Death Ray (some assembly required).

 

[zoobyshoe]

I'm sure that they wouldn't survive a Death Ray (some assembly required).

True, but I don't want to have to be required to kill my M&M's with a death ray before I can eat them.

 

[AlephZero]

Be thankful you aren't in the UK. Since American furry-tailed rats (a.k.a. grey squirrels) are an alien pest species, if you capture one (even accidentally) it's illegal to relase it back into the wild. But it's also illegal to cause any animal cruelty while killing it. Catch-22!

 

[Evo]

Survival of the fittest.

 

[OmCheeto]

Survival of the fittest.

I spent 20 minutes researching, and trying to come up with a "creationist" rebuttal, that M&M's cannot evolve. The only thing I could come up with was;

Where are the "intermediate" M&M fossils?

Someone else can have my badge... and sacrifice me to the Volcano...

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The four other creationist points, made me just want to cry.

1 SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
2 MISSING LINKS
3 THERMODYNAMICS
4 BIG BANG BALONEY
5 OXYGEN DILEMMA

ps. LisaB, do not google that. It is obscene!
I nearly threw up.

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

I spent 20 minutes researching, and trying to come up with a "creationist" rebuttal, that M&M's cannot evolve. The only thing I could come up with was;

Where are the "intermediate" M&M fossils?

Someone else can have my badge... and sacrifice me to the Volcano...

------------------
The four other creationist points, made me just want to cry.

1 SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
2 MISSING LINKS
3 THERMODYNAMICS
4 BIG BANG BALONEY
5 OXYGEN DILEMMA

ps. LisaB, do not google that. It is obscene!
I nearly threw up.

Don't forget Catastrophism, where the happenstance of related fossils in nearby areas was explained in saying that catastrophes (hence the name) caused the fossils to be spread out, and that rather than evolution occurring, the old species was simply killed off entirely, and then a new, relatively similar one, was created.

My bio textbook noted how this was a somewhat prominent theory back in the days before, or coinciding with, Darwin. I only mentioned it because I love the concept of it:

"Well then how did these fossils get from here, to there, without the species changing locations, and ultimately evolving due to genetic drift?"

"Clearly the original species was destroyed, and then its remains were thrown around the Earth by tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, floods, or whatever natural disaster you can think of."

They were met with some trouble when it could be definitively shown that no natural disaster happened somewhere. Then God did it.

 

[Borek]

Yay.

 

[Andre]

I spent 20 minutes researching, and trying to come up with a "creationist" rebuttal, that M&M's cannot evolve.

For several reasons Mitochondrial DNA research is very helpful in tracking recent detailed diversification of species. You could consider to attempt rebuttal by M&M mDNA evidence.

 

[Bacle2]

A man against himself? I convinced my friend that Eugene V. Debs was a Supreme Court case (strange that his name came up; can't remember how ): " Yes, see the V ? Same as in Roe V. Wade, or Brown V. BOE " Maybe I should tell him the truth so he doesn't make an idiot of himself when talking to others ( we play jokes on each other ) . I had "corrected" my nephew ( 8 y.o back then) a few years back into using the expression "self-defecating humor". I wonder what happened with that.

 

[dkotschessaa]

A man against himself? I convinced my friend that Eugene V. Debs was a Supreme Court case (strange that his name came up; can't remember how ): " Yes, see the V ? Same as in Roe V. Wade, or Brown V. BOE " Maybe I should tell him the truth so he doesn't make an idiot of himself when talking to others ( we play jokes on each other ) . I had "corrected" my nephew ( 8 y.o back then) a few years back into using the expression "self-defecating humor". I wonder what happened with that.

I'm on my 7th reading of this post. I think I've almost got it.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Tonight my new Geophysicist pal told me about the pancakes of Venus:

This made me leary about how hard a science Geophysics actually is, because these are clearly not pancakes. They're jellyfish.

 

[DennisN]

Hubble Space Telescope has captured comet ISON. I've enhanced and filtered the image, and now more details can be seen.