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[zoobyshoe]

Why would the irish mob want to kill a CEO of gaming company
>.<

They based a game on the mob's known history, using insulting pseudonyms?

 

[Ibix]

Name another one like the Piraha.

I guess I should provide a link about them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirahã_people#Culture

I need to name two more to have many.

I was just being silly. I understand that there are a lot of languages with interesting foibles, but I'm not aware of any others with that particular oddity. There's one in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, but I don't think that counts.

Not very high, anyway. :D

 

[Ibix]

Probably working through the sequence Pre-Boomerang, Boomerang I, Boomerang II, Mulitvariable Boomerangs, Nonlinear Boomerang Algebra, ...

They're quite relaxed about those classes, though. If you miss one, it comes around again pretty soon. :D

 

[dkotschessaa]

They're quite relaxed about those classes, though. If you miss one, it comes around again pretty soon. :D

It wasn't that bad. I've just been waiting all day to use this image for something.

 

[OmCheeto]

It wasn't that bad. I've just been waiting all day to use this image for something.

You three, all get complimentary 1/2 million dollar yachts.

 

[lisab]

Any helicopter pilots here? This looks legit; is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K_aEajzNA

 

[AlephZero]

I once watched a helicopter picking up bundles of fence posts and rails from a truck, and dumping them along the line of where the fence was going to be built (the terrain was too rough to drive over). Not quite as quick as that Oregon guy, but close.

Notice there are no people standing around the trucks. It he screws up, he only kills himself!

 

[DennisN]

Any helicopter pilots here? This looks legit; is it?

I don't know.

Speaking of choppers I came to think of this video by a really serious DIY guy, controlling a tricopter over the Niagara Falls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMHr6LQhTRE

and also his Space Glider - FPV to Space and Back! (weather balloon, camera and glider reaching ca 30'000 m).

 

[Enigman]

My pineal hurts.

 

[OmCheeto]

Any helicopter pilots here? This looks legit; is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K_aEajzNA

The weather looks right.

Late for work!

Withrotor Aviation, Inc.

Christmas Tree Harvest - Every year we provide 40 days of helicopter support for the Christmas Tree Harvest in northern Oregon. With our Hueys we sling 3,000 pound pallets of Christmas Trees from the fields to the landings while we use our Jet Ranger to sling 700 pound bundles of Christmas Trees to the landings. All totaled we operate for 40 days and fly 280 hours. We are responsible for helping move 575,000 Christmas Trees.

Someone do the math!

 

[lisab]

My pineal hurts.

 

[Enigman]

No idea why...happens every time I do too much math (mild pressure around the general area). May be a benign cyst or something...

 

[dkotschessaa]

I once watched a helicopter picking up bundles of fence posts and rails from a truck, and dumping them along the line of where the fence was going to be built (the terrain was too rough to drive over). Not quite as quick as that Oregon guy, but close.

Notice there are no people standing around the trucks. It he screws up, he only kills himself!

The other week I was riding my bike to school, and saw a helicopter directly overhead. I was starting to get a little paranoid, like it was following me or something. Then it came lower...lower... OMG it was heading right for me... I was starting to really freak out.

Then I realized I was riding my bike through a medical campus and it was a medivac.

I saw it land and tried to snatch a picture. The attached isn't very good. But there it is.

 

[dkotschessaa]

No idea why...happens every time I do too much math (mild pressure around the general area). May be a benign cyst or something...

It's just the math muscles getting bigger, and bulking up to be more awesome.

That's what I tell myself anyway.

 

[dkotschessaa]

3 minutes until the end of my self imposed goof-off time cutoff. Will I go back to studying, or extend the threshold?

 

[Borek]

The other week I was riding my bike to school, and saw a helicopter directly overhead. I was starting to get a little paranoid, like it was following me or something. Then it came lower...lower... OMG it was heading right for me... I was starting to really freak out.

Then I realized I was riding my bike through a medical campus and it was a medivac.

I saw it land and tried to snatch a picture. The attached isn't very good. But there it is.

Makes me think of

 

[dkotschessaa]

(at approx 1:47)
3 minutes until the end of my self imposed goof-off time cutoff. Will I go back to studying, or extend the threshold?

Welp.

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

The other week I was riding my bike to school, and saw a helicopter directly overhead. I was starting to get a little paranoid, like it was following me or something. Then it came lower...lower... OMG it was heading right for me... I was starting to really freak out.

Then I realized I was riding my bike through a medical campus and it was a medivac.

I saw it land and tried to snatch a picture. The attached isn't very good. But there it is.

Have you watched Goodfellas recently?

 

[dkotschessaa]

Have you watched Goodfellas recently?

No, but it passes through my mind almost every time I see a helicopter overhead. So the notion never really dies.

 

[zoobyshoe]

No, but it passes through my mind almost every time I see a helicopter overhead. So the notion never really dies.

Quit the mob now. Squeal, and go into witness protection.

 

[zoobyshoe]

You buy a new one. Nothing wrong with the old one, it's just been superseded by something much better. But you don't throw the old one away.

Months or years later, you pick up the old one. Which applies to you?:

a.) It feels as familiar as the back of your hand. You can operate it as if you've never put it down.

b.) It feels like you've never seen it before. Your attempts to operate it are clumsy.

 

[Enigman]

I have an urgent need to [STRIKE][strike]troll[/strike] [/STRIKE]Hecatoncheire...

It is for the better that I don't have the time too...

 

[dkotschessaa]

You buy a new one. Nothing wrong with the old one, it's just been superseded by something much better. But you don't throw the old one away.

Months or years later, you pick up the old one. Which applies to you?:

a.) It feels as familiar as the back of your hand. You can operate it as if you've never put it down.

b.) It feels like you've never seen it before. Your attempts to operate it are clumsy.

c.) your wife made you throw it away when she made you buy a new one.

-Dave K

 

[Enigman]

Quit the mob now. Squeal, and go into witness protection.

That did NOT go well for M. Alice...until she got mad after that the mob was the one doing the squealing.
------------------------------------
[STRIKE]CEO[/STRIKE] Lawyer and Irish mob thingy...

 

[Ibix]

You buy a new one. Nothing wrong with the old one, it's just been superseded by something much better. But you don't throw the old one away.

Months or years later, you pick up the old one. Which applies to you?:

a.) It feels as familiar as the back of your hand. You can operate it as if you've never put it down.

b.) It feels like you've never seen it before. Your attempts to operate it are clumsy.

(a)

I recently had the opportunity to program a BBC Model B for the first time in nearly 20 years. It was like riding a bike. The only weird thing was I'd forgotten how freakin' fast a ROM based OS boots...

 

[zoobyshoe]

(a)

I recently had the opportunity to program a BBC Model B for the first time in nearly 20 years. It was like riding a bike. The only weird thing was I'd forgotten how freakin' fast a ROM based OS boots...

Congratulations!

I posted this because I've been having the opposite experience with old cameras.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Heard the baby's heartbeat for the first time. It sounds like a very happy little heartbeat. Stuck in my head like a song.

 

[zoobyshoe]

There was a very firey sky behind this fire station I passed this evening at sunset:

 

[Astronuc]

This Town Just Keeps Getting Worse…

http://billmoyers.com/2013/12/06/this-town-just-keeps-getting-worse…/

This Town just loves its circular metaphors — spinning and news-cycles and the revolving doors. As much as ever, it is a city of movers and shakers getting nowhere, except richer.

. . . .

 

[Borg]

This Town Just Keeps Getting Worse…

http://billmoyers.com/2013/12/06/this-town-just-keeps-getting-worse…/

This Town just loves its circular metaphors — spinning and news-cycles and the revolving doors. As much as ever, it is a city of movers and shakers getting nowhere, except richer.

. . . .

And, it's not just the politicians. The DC area has 6 of the 10 richest counties in the United States.

For the second consecutive year, Loudoun County, Va., a 520-square-mile suburban mass that sits 46 miles from the White House, weighs in as America’s richest county.

While Loudoun ranks at the top, it’s far from alone on the list of wealthiest counties that surround Washington. In fact, it’s just the beginning. The neighboring counties of Falls Church City, Fairfax, Arlington and Prince William in Virginia and Howard County in Maryland all make the cut, giving the D.C. area six of the nation’s ten wealthiest counties. All boast median household incomes between $93,000 and $117,000 annually.

 

[lisab]

So much is happening all at once, it's crazy. I always have that feeling that I'm forgetting something important.

 

[lisab]

so tired...so hungry...so tired...so hungry...so tired...

 

[Evo]

so tired...so hungry...so tired...so hungry...so tired...

Where did you find this video of me?

 

[OmCheeto]

So much is happening all at once, it's crazy. I always have that feeling that I'm forgetting something important.

THIRTEEN SQUARED!

and, the Boxer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzUEL7vw60U​

ps. Someone pointed at me today and said; "Balaclava!"

I thought he was an idiot, as we were discussing someone who was always bringing me baklava to impress me, and I gave him the evil eye, and the question: "Do you not know how to say Baklava"?

He said; "What? Your hat is a Balaclava."

I googled it, and he was correct. I was wearing a Balaclava. Never heard that word before.

But, as you can imagine, my mind went wild with Balaclava, Baklava, Balalaika, and Lake Baikal, for the rest of the day.

It made me smile.



pps. And I made everyone listen to Lara's Theme.

as no one knew what a Balalaika was...

kids. :!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RGWE6zJKXk​

 

[turbo]

The Boxer is perhaps my most favorite S&G song.

Currently listening to BB King's Bluesville on Sirius. One interesting treat is that they feature Hugh Loarie (Dr Greg House) now and again. The guy is a pretty competent pianist and trends toward blues.

 

[turbo]

I love my new jacket. It is a fleece-lined hooded jacket (don't shoot me, GZ!) and it keeps me toasty. My wife has to take a neighbor to the factory store, and will pick up another jacket for me, if they are still in stock. The items in the factory store are about 50% off normally, and she gets another 60% off that discounted price, so stuff is really cheap. I won't live long enough to wear out a second jacket, but they will need to be washed frequently - polar-fleece = dog-hair magnet.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I just read a spy novel where the special forces guys and also the terrorists were always donning their balaclavas.

Controversy and concealment[edit]

British Police in Kent confiscated the War on Terror board game partly due to the inclusion of a balaclava. Police said it "could be used to conceal someone's identity or could be used in the course of a criminal act".[10]

Some balaclava-wearing sympathisers of kitty Riot were arrested in Marseille, France in August 2012 for being in breach of the French ban on face covering.[11]

A balaclava may also be used for concealment purposes, in the course of illegal activities by criminals, and occupationally by SWAT and Special Forces personnel. It may also be used by irregular military forces or paramilitary organizations to conceal their identities and has been used as an identifying feature in fictional representations of such groups.

-wiki

 

[Borek]

Someone needs to redo their nails.

 

[Enigman]

Where did you find this video of me?

Ha! I knew you weren't edible.
^{Stop dieting you are as thin as a celery stick.}

 

[Astronuc]

Math is beautiful.

http://www.upworthy.com/math-is-astoundingly-beautiful-and-weve-found-the-video-to-prove-it-aa3-7a-2

 

[dkotschessaa]

Math is beautiful.

http://www.upworthy.com/math-is-astoundingly-beautiful-and-weve-found-the-video-to-prove-it-aa3-7a-2

This is very cool. I was kind of expecting one of those sentimental videos of fibonacci sequences on butterflies and what not, but this was not that at all.

 

[Astronuc]

And now for something completely different.

'You can't take facts [or make up stuff] and then try to change them to fit some sort of a political agenda', unless . . . . . And then things get 'really weird'.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/t...---s--t-s-getting-weird-edition---black-santa

 

[Astronuc]

A Science Icon Died 17 Years Ago. In His Last Interview, He Made A Warning That should give one pause to think - and ultimately act.

http://www.upworthy.com/a-science-i...-he-made-a-warning-that-gives-me-goosebumps-5

 

[Enigman]

I hate goodbyes...

 

[zoobyshoe]

Big Fish News:

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/excursions/post/muskie-anglers-enjoy-rare-world-record-spree/

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/natu...auled-from-depths-by-florida-shark-fisherman/

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/outposts/post/monster-catfish-landed-after-fishing-line-is-cut/

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/natu...ed-snout-identified-as-a-long-nosed-chimaera/

 

[dlgoff]

Big Fish News:
...

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/natu...auled-from-depths-by-florida-shark-fisherman/

...

That's one big barb.

How big?

This big.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/images/060905-irwin_big.jpg

 

[Lisa!]

I'm bored! I need something to look forward to...

 

[Astronuc]

A Formula for Happiness
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/opinion/sunday/a-formula-for-happiness.htm

Arthur Brooks [president of the American Enterprise Institute] provides interesting perspective and insight.

One key to happiness through work [includes academics] is 'earned success'.

 

[OmCheeto]

A Formula for Happiness
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/opinion/sunday/a-formula-for-happiness.htm

Arthur Brooks [president of the American Enterprise Institute] provides interesting persepctive and insight.

One key to happiness through work [includes academics] is 'earned success'.

I get this, when I click on that link:

Become a New York Times digital subscriber

$3.75/week

ps. Should I make LisaB "earn" her $200,000,000?

It might sound like an indecent proposal to others, but to me, it would be; "Tell me why Platinum is less reactive than Nickel, and then you can have your bloody money...".

 

[drizzle]

I'm bored! I need something to look forward to...

Come to chat!