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[Enigman]

sh sh sh sh sh she was shakin

Who? The cat lady?

 

[krash661]

Who? The cat lady?

 

[Borek]

Someone just asked good questions. I think I know the answer, but it is probably one of those answers that is better to be ignorant of. Things can get interesting.

I will not keep you posted.

 

[Enigman]

... enter our brains and induce high risk-taking behaviour, schizophrenia, depression and anxiety...

Yep, definitely a crazy cat lady, though this is the first instance of the parasite inducing parkinson's...

 

[lisab]

Someone just asked good questions. I think I know the answer, but it is probably one of those answers that is better to be ignorant of. Things can get interesting.

I will not keep you posted.

Hmmmm, mysterious and interesting!

 

[pyzicslolito]

Hi, I am new here and I am now in a bad mood.:(

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

Someone just asked good questions. I think I know the answer, but it is probably one of those answers that is better to be ignorant of. Things can get interesting.

I will not keep you posted.

Don't let me know when something happens.

 

[drizzle]

Have you ever felt handuffed while you're not.. sigh.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Have you ever felt handuffed while you're not.. sigh.

Do you mean you feel like your hands are tied?

 

[Borek]

Have you ever felt handuffed while you're not.. sigh.

Handuffed - manually covered with dough.

 

[drizzle]

Do you mean you feel like your hands are tied?

Metaphorically, yes.

 

[drizzle]

Handuffed - manually covered with dough.

.. :)

 

[ChiralWaltz]

Sometimes, I feel the same way

 

[zoobyshoe]

A guy came by a coffee house I was at this morning passing out ads for a super-nutritional supplement that would cure everything. It had testimonials from people who were cured of cancer, had their grey hair turn dark again, and had their amputated limbs grow back. All along their problem had been occult vitamin/mineral deficiencies, which this supplement alleviated.

So, I have as many little aches and pains as the next nonagenarian my age, and I wondered if that was because I had an occult vitamin/mineral deficiency. I went to the store twice today and bought a bunch of kinds of fruit I don't normally eat. Like cranberries. (I have this idea cranberries are really good for you, but I don't eat them very often.)

This reminded me I have about 5 containers of rosemary in the fridge that I bought over a year ago. I bought it because I read that a cup of rosemary tea every day is good for your memory. I keep forgetting to drink it, though.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/27/rosemary-brain-memory-18-cineole_n_1304250.html

 

[Borg]

I ran across a site today with some interesting visualizations of Pi And other numbers.

 

[lisab]

For those who might be considering going off the beaten path, a cartoon from the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson.

 

[lisab]

Today I was talking with a friend at work. I told her, I have four days off because I'm taking tomorrow and Friday off. She said, so you have five days off. I looked at her, puzzled. She said, Monday is a holiday, you know. I said, no I did not know that.

So...I have five days off, and I'm happy I have friends who keep track of these things .

 

[drizzle]

Evo, empty your inbox please..

 

[Evo]

Evo, empty your inbox please..

It's empty, has been all day. Try again.

 

[trollcast]

 

[lisab]

nice, trollcast!

 

[inotyce]

How could you make it! I am so much amazed!

 

[Evo]

I wouldn't be able to eat/drink that, it's art!

 

[OmCheeto]

I ran across a site today with some interesting visualizations of Pi And other numbers.

We did that with thread and nails back in the 60's. Of course, we didn't know why.

 

[drizzle]

It's approved!

Not sure if I should be happy about it or not, but I feel happy.

 

[trollcast]

How could you make it! I am so much amazed!

I didn't make it, I just found the picture on the internet.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Wow. I thought the little hearts I put in my wife's cappuccinos in the morning were cute.

I need to learn this art more thoroughly.

-Dave K

 

[trollcast]

It looks like that cat and fish latte art was made by a japanese barista called Kazuki Yamamoto, http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/05/kazuki-yamamotos-incredible-3d-coffee.html

Here's a video of him making that cat and fish design:

 

[dkotschessaa]

lots of great little techniques in there. I won't be able to make anything so elaborate, but I'm sure I can come up with something cool.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I didn't make it, I just found the picture on the internet.

It's really, really impressive. I'm amazed anyone would think of it, much less be able to make it.

 

[dkotschessaa]

It's really, really impressive. I'm amazed anyone would think of it, much less be able to make it.

So many amazing ones in the google image search for latte art that I couldn't pick one to post.

 

[Borek]

Makes me wonder how long it will take for espresso machines to have a printer cartdridge... Some of the images suggest I am not the first person to think about printing in this context.

http://opikalo.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/can_latte.jpg

Edit:



You can preorder them.

 

[Enigman]

Ah finally! The site wasn't connecting for 3 days now; probably something weird with the servers.

 

[AlephZero]

Makes me wonder how long it will take for espresso machines to have a printer cartdridge...
You can preorder them.

But if you want a really complex design that takes 7 hours to print, you had better like cold coffee.

 

[dlgoff]

Makes me wonder how long it will take for espresso machines to have a printer cartdridge... Some of the images suggest I am not the first person to think about printing in this context.

Now you've gotten me trying to find my old Epson dot matrix printer. Luckily I've got a serial port card installed for just such a project.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Tonight I made that most elementary of driving errors: ignoring the gas gage.

Luckily I was only about 4 blocks from a gas station when I rolled to a stop. I also still had the gas can I bought the last time I did this, about 2 years ago.

Have you ever run out of gas while driving? I'll bet there are some of you who haven't.

 

[AlephZero]

Have you ever run out of gas while driving?

It's hard to do that by accident in my current car. With about 75 miles range left, a warning light on the dashboard comes on. At about 30 miles, you get some loud beeps and a message on the dashboard display.

I don't know if there are any more warnings before you hit 0 - that's as close as I've been.

I must have run out sometime in the past, since I've got an ancient gas can rusting away in the garage - but I can't remember why I bought it.

 

[Enigman]

-Stardust project by Sergio Albiac

An automated process will create human portraits as generative collages, using as sources some images from the Hubble space telescope. Generated portraits will be exhibited at the flickr Stardust Portrait exhibition.

You can send your own photo to get its digitized portrait, more about the project and instructions for participating here: http://www.sergioalbiac.com/wall/stardust.html

 

[DennisN]

Speaking of latte art, I got this link today in a mail from my father:

15 Surreal Landscapes Made from Food:
http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/surreal-landscapes-made-from-food-carl-warner/

(from http://www.carlwarner.com/foodscapes/)

 

[dkotschessaa]

I found myself googling "Does Data obey asimov's three laws of robotics" today. I'm pretty sure that makes me the biggest nerd ever, except for all the people that have already asked/discussed that exact question on other forums...at length...with examples.

-Dave K

 

[Borg]

Tonight I made that most elementary of driving errors: ignoring the gas gage.

Luckily I was only about 4 blocks from a gas station when I rolled to a stop. I also still had the gas can I bought the last time I did this, about 2 years ago.

Have you ever run out of gas while driving? I'll bet there are some of you who haven't.

Does coasting into the gas station and right up to the pump count?

 

[NATURE.M]

-- I recently watched American History X, and I must say it was an amazing movie. Edward Norton delivered a brilliant performance- defiantly one to remember.

 

[zoobyshoe]

It's hard to do that by accident in my current car. With about 75 miles range left, a warning light on the dashboard comes on. At about 30 miles, you get some loud beeps and a message on the dashboard display.

I don't know if there are any more warnings before you hit 0 - that's as close as I've been.

Nice features! I suppose most cars newer than mine must have similar warnings in place. I didn't think of that.

Does coasting into the gas station and right up to the pump count?

Haha! The very same thing happened to me the time before last, about 4 years ago. As soon as I got into position at the pump, the engine sputtered and died. Perfect timing.

 

[Borg]

Haha! The very same thing happened to me the time before last, about 4 years ago. As soon as I got into position at the pump, the engine sputtered and died. Perfect timing.

Mine ran out about 100 yards short of the pumps. I made it the rest of the way on my Prius's battery.

I always pay attention to the gas gauge but that was when I found out that my warning light doesn't give much warning if I've been driving on a smooth highway. It ran out within 5 miles of the light flashing. Normally the sloshing of stop and go traffic causes it to warn me with at least a gallon which is good for at least 40 miles - most of the time it starts flashing with about 2 gallons (80 to 100 miles) left in the tank so I really got blindsided that time.

 

[zoobyshoe]

-- I recently watched American History X, and I must say it was an amazing movie. Edward Norton delivered a brilliant performance- defiantly one to remember.

I wasn't sure the first time I saw you do this, but now I'm more sure you are misspelling 'definitely' by accident.

Check it out:

http://www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com/

 

[zoobyshoe]

Mine ran out about 100 yards short of the pumps. I made it the rest of the way on my Prius's battery.

I always pay attention to the gas gauge but that was when I found out that my warning light doesn't give much warning if I've been driving on a smooth highway. It ran out within 5 miles of the light flashing. Normally the sloshing of stop and go traffic causes it to warn me with at least a gallon which is good for at least 40 miles.

I would think they'd be able to create some fancy, incredibly accurate gas measurement system these days, like, say, ultrasonic determination of the volume of gas remaining in the tank. On the other hand, in my case, all I need to do is stop cutting it close because I'm a little too impatient to add a gas stop to my schedule.

 

[OmCheeto]

I wasn't sure the first time I saw you do this, but now I'm more sure you are misspelling 'definitely' by accident.

Check it out:

http://www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com/

it might be spell check's fault.

I've been battling with saber/sabre all day...

 

[zoobyshoe]

it might be spell check's fault.

I've been battling with saber/sabre all day...

Yes, Spell Check defiantly refuses to red flag words that are proper words in their own right, on the mere suspicion they might be out of context.

 

[Enigman]

I once typed friends as fiends while writing up a speech, the guy who gave the speech raised a lot of eyebrows...
Good Morning Ladies, Gentlemen and all my dear FIENDS.
Can't think about it without laughing my head off. Serve him right for not writing his own speeches.

 

[drizzle]