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The discussion revolves around the splitting of larger threads to alleviate server load, specifically continuing the Random Thoughts thread. Participants express their thoughts on various topics, including the emotional impact of the game Bioshock: Infinite, which one user describes as "haunting." They discuss the game's cover art, noting the absence of the female co-lead, Elizabeth, from the front cover, and reference an interview with Ken Levine that suggests this was a marketing compromise. The conversation shifts to personal anecdotes, including family dynamics and humorous observations about everyday life, such as experiences at McDonald's and the challenges of parenting toddlers. The thread features a blend of light-hearted banter, reflections on gaming, and casual storytelling, highlighting the community's camaraderie.
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Today a young, tiger-striped cat committed an enthusiastic act of guerrilla acupuncture on my right arm. One second I was petting it, the next I was being stabbed by 20 claws and 26 teeth.
 
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Ouch!
I had a similar experience with a dog few days ago...thank Anubis that my reflexes were faster than his jaws. You weren't so lucky I guess. And get it checked, will you.
Okay, porcupine fish slap canceled (wasn't making much of a headway anyway...) Consider yourself reckoned for revealing PF's fishy secret.
Glory to Lady Bast.
-Just kidding, don't mind me...
 
  • #1,323
I think I like PF because many people agree to offer free help to others in need.
I know randomness is randomness, no standardized formula exists to break what is supposed or considered random.
 
  • #1,324
zoobyshoe said:
We're in the middle of a tremendous heat wave here. Are you really needing a space heater already there?

Yeah, hard to believe isn't it - it's 61F (16C) outside right now. Chilly.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
Today a young, tiger-striped cat committed an enthusiastic act of guerrilla acupuncture on my right arm. One second I was petting it, the next I was being stabbed by 20 claws and 26 teeth.

I hope you recover from your catupuncture treatment.
 
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My first math club meeting today with me as president. We are having a game (like Jeopardy) with prizes. (My VP did an awesome job of putting this together in powerpoint.) Got prizes (bargain bins and dollar store) ordered pizza and drinks, and have drinks chilling in faculty fridge (Due to a campaign promise - "no more lukewarm soda.)

Wish me luck.

-Dave K
 
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lisab said:
I hope you recover from your catupuncture treatment.

"elaborate placebo" indeed...

-Dave K
 
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lisab said:
Yeah, hard to believe isn't it - it's 61F (16C) outside right now. Chilly.
That's real jacket and sweater weather.

It's coming up on noon right now and my inside thermometer is reading 85F (30C). However I have a pretty good fan trained on me.
lisab said:
I hope you recover from your catupuncture treatment.
The cat is a feral cat that showed up as a kitten at the Newtonian Cafe. It was alone, no mother or siblings in evidence. All the customers fed it scraps and tried to tame it. Eventually, this worked and it is not afraid of people anymore. However, I think it didn't get enough rough-and-tumble experience with other cats to understand claws and teeth hurt. It's probably never been on the receiving end and doesn't know to pull its punches.

Anyway, today my wounds have scabbed over nicely and should be gone it a couple weeks. Unless it strikes again!
 
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dkotschessaa said:
My first math club meeting today with me as president. We are having a game (like Jeopardy) with prizes. (My VP did an awesome job of putting this together in powerpoint.) Got prizes (bargain bins and dollar store) ordered pizza and drinks, and have drinks chilling in faculty fridge (Due to a campaign promise - "no more lukewarm soda.)

Wish me luck.

-Dave K
Sounds like great fun!
 
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inotyce said:
I know randomness is randomness, no standardized formula exists to break what is supposed or considered random.

You might be quite interested to know that there is an entire field of study dedicated to random signals and random processes. It's often called "noise theory." It's one of those fields studied by electrical engineering graduate students that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with electricity.

Noise theory sort of defies classification. Is it engineering? Is it physics? Is it mathematics? It's all of them. It is none of them. (Although if thoroughly pressed, with a gun to one's head, one would have to eventually concede that it falls into the mathematics category.)

Did you know that the inverse Fourier transform of a signal's power spectral density is its autocorrelation function? I think about these things all the time.
 
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That sounds like an awesome real analysis.@^
 
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Really neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed cooooblackfeeeeeeeee.....
 
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All systems shutting down, have...run...out...of...coff...
 
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Enigman said:
All systems shutting down, have...run...out...of...coff...
Enigman, I find your avatar difficult to look at, :eek: could I possibly convince you to find a less frightening one? PLEASE?
 
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Evo said:
Enigman, I find your avatar difficult to look at, could I possibly convince you to find a less frightening one? PLEASE?
I may perhaps then reason with you a thousand arguments,
I might point to my toil, I might ask your indulgence,
I may perhaps then wish you silent, calling it my freedom of choice,
But then the fact remains yet that:
All the reasonings of men are not worth a single sentiment of a woman,
Thus do I humbly beg your pardon and ask your indulgence for just a little while,
\large \mathcal Milady \ \ \mathfrak E\mathcal ternity
--------------------
AV2.gif
 
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This kid has a talent, Evo.. I say give him a PF poetry honorary medal.

... Do we have that?
 
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Well, let me know if you change it, in the mean time, that's ok, I've blocked it because it's that disturbing (to me).
 
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Gad said:
This kid has a talent, Evo.. I say give him a PF poetry honorary medal.

... Do we have that?
No, but I can't see his posts anymore. :approve:
 
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Lolol
 
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Borek said:
IR forum no longer exists.

Please, oh please, tell me, that they didn't get rid of the UV forum. :cry:
 
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Gad said:
This kid has a talent,
Kid, milady? If then that be your wish from me then a kid it shall be, for faces I have none, only facets to speak of.
kaito-kid333333.jpg


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Trying to find an old post, as a reference to an answer to a new post, I PF googled: OmCheeto Crackpot

There were 42 results... :blushing:

hmmmmm...

wait!

lisab: 83!
gad: 23 (good job!)
evo: 424! (wow...)
Enigman: 36?

hmmm... Aren't you new around here?

click, click. Yes...

There is a flaw in the Matrix. :eek:
 
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Did you see that lady in the red dress?
 
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It is done ##\large \mathcal Milady \ \ \mathfrak E\mathcal ternity##.
Will someone please quote that for me?
 
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Enigman said:
It is done ##\large \mathcal Milady \ \ \mathfrak E\mathcal ternity##.
Will someone please quote that for me?

Done.
 
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Thanks Om.
 
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turbo said:
Did you see that lady in the red dress?

This lady?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt2YIpZWBqA​
 
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Lol turbo :smile:
 
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Enigman said:
I may perhaps then reason with you a thousand arguments,
I might point to my toil, I might ask your indulgence,
I may perhaps then wish you silent, calling it my freedom of choice,
But then the fact remains yet that:
All the reasonings of men are not worth a single sentiment of a woman,
Thus do I humbly beg your pardon and ask your indulgence for just a little while,
\large \mathcal Milady \ \ \mathfrak E\mathcal ternity

The force is strong with this one. (*)
 
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Enigman said:
Thanks Om.
Thank you!
 

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