Can PF Random Thoughts be Split to Help with Server Load?

[HeLiXe]

great now we have to work on getting this thread to 1 mil + views

 

[Kholdstare]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W53Zjdh8AA#!

 

[zoobyshoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W53Zjdh8AA#!

Well, she played a law student once or twice, you know.

 

[Bacle2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W53Zjdh8AA#!

I saw Reese Without Her Spoon.

 

[Office_Shredder]

You don't need to take away the guns. Just impose a sales tax on bullets. Say $100 each.

Then only the Amish will have bullets


(I realize this statement doesn't make any actual sense)

Honestly though for the apparent abundance of gun owners in the US compared to other first world countries, I have never in my life actually seen a real gun (nor do I want to). I guess I got lucky in terms of where I was brought up.

This is a terrible attitude. As if the mere sight of a gun is going to scar you or remove some vestige of innocence or dignity from you.

Move to Switzerland and enjoy being conscripted into the militia and required to keep a gun in your home

 

[davenn]

... This is a terrible attitude. As if the mere sight of a gun is going to scar you or remove some vestige of innocence or dignity from you.

agreed
I grew up on a farm and as with most farms the owners always had guns for pest control.
I learned to shoot a .22 rifle when I was ~ 10 yrs old and in my teens had many supervised (by dad) wanders around the farm shooting rabbits and other pests. He taught me a healthy respect for firearms both in their safe use of and in their care of ( proper cleaning, storage etc)
That followed me all through life as I grew up and owned my own rifles.
Something I would never regret

Move to Switzerland and enjoy being conscripted into the militia and required to keep a gun in your home

compulsory conscription huh, how does that work ie. age and for how long ?

New Zealand and Australia used to have compulsory consciption ... when you turned 18 and got 6 weeks or so of boot camp. I really feared the thought of it when I was a teen. fortunately there was a change in govt. just prior to my 18th birthday, compulsory military training was abolished and I was spared the experience ;)

Dave

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

This is a terrible attitude. As if the mere sight of a gun is going to scar you or remove some vestige of innocence or dignity from you.

Indifference towards viewing guns does not equate to one fearing their taking of innocence or dignity. I fail to see a point, or rationality, in this post.

 

[lisab]

OK, we all know how gun discussions end up. Please stop now and start getting random.

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

OK, we all know how gun discussions end up. Please stop now and start getting random.

Typical gun-lover stance

In other news, I made a twitter account today.

 

[PhizKid]

can we talk about swords

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

can we talk about swords

No. But daggers, on the other hand...

 

[wukunlin]

Having another one of those "WHY AM I EVEN DOING AN MSC!?" moment... stupid setup has been giving me rubbish data for the past week and I just can't find where the problem is :S

ugh.. whatever I'll go back and keep trying to find out...

 

[Bacle2]

It's vulture time:

A supermarket nearby is closing , and offering discounts, closing day is 5/18.
Maybe there are Mathematical models for the optimal strategy : how to get good stuff at the
best prize; as the 18th approaches, the discount rates will be higher, but more stuff will be gone
the more one waits. I got a bunch of expensive cheeses and salamis. Maybe I'll go back when my
stomach is O.K again.

Re my last post, I meant to say that I saw Reese Witherspoon without her spoon. I can't think of
someone with a 'knife' in their names, and 'fork' is too risky.

There was a show on CNN with Steve Israel, Geoffrey Canada and Donna Brazzile as guests. Wonder
if the choice was a coincidence. Maybe they could have invited Michael Jordan too.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Re my last post, I meant to say that I saw Reese Witherspoon without her spoon. I can't think of
someone with a 'knife' in their names, and 'fork' is too risky.

Indeed! Do you not know who I am?!

-Niles T. Forkington

 

[Evo]

I can't think of
someone with a 'knife' in their names, and 'fork' is too risky.

http://www.houseofnames.com/knife-family-crest

 

[ImATrackMan]

I got a bunch of expensive cheeses and salamis.

(A nice sharp cheddar is best for what follows)

Cook an egg (scrambled for best results) or two, and put all three ingredients IN a carved out, oven crisped cuban bread roll.

Best sandwich ever, and believe me I've done it countless times... And now that I think about it, I should post this in The Food Thread.

 

[dkotschessaa]

We figured out how to make butter from scratch, but whipping cream until it's no longer whipped cream. We are utterly fascinated by this process that people have been doing for at least 2000 years. Oh and it's damn good.

Also straining homemade yogurt to make it greek and soaking beans to make sprouts. Gotta whole little lab going on in that kitchen...

 

[OmCheeto]

http://www.houseofnames.com/knife-family-crest

Scots!

They are kind of funny. You can't mention a little turn of the millennia "man purse" that you strap around your waist, lest you want to get slapped.

-------------------------
ps. I spent at least 4 minutes the other day looking for my fanny pack. Never did find the little badger...

 

[Bacle2]

Indeed! Do you not know who I am?!

-Niles T. Forkington

Ah, and there's also Mack the Knife--maybe related to the family from Evo's link.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Doppelgangers... my least favorite sci-fi cliche plot device. ugh

 

[zoobyshoe]

Doppelgangers... my least favorite sci-fi cliche plot device. ugh

Doppelgangers are very interesting to me because the probable origin of the concept is the neurological phenomenon of autoscopy, the hallucination of seeing yourself from the outside, from an external viewpoint.

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/165/6/808.abstract

Most cases of this are associated with simple partial epilepsy.

What I think this experience demonstrates is that we require some dedicated neural mechanism to tell us we are located in our bodies. When that mechanism is compromised we aren't sure where we are located and under some circumstances will hallucinate we are seeing ourselves from the outside.

 

[wukunlin]

Having another one of those "WHY AM I EVEN DOING AN MSC!?" moment... stupid setup has been giving me rubbish data for the past week and I just can't find where the problem is :S

ugh.. whatever I'll go back and keep trying to find out...

while that problem is solved. This @#$% lock in amplifier just won't give any data to my computer, aarrrggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[Bacle2]

(A nice sharp cheddar is best for what follows)

Cook an egg (scrambled for best results) or two, and put all three ingredients IN a carved out, oven crisped cuban bread roll.

Best sandwich ever, and believe me I've done it countless times... And now that I think about it, I should post this in The Food Thread.

Good idea, but I'll have to wait a while; I have been eating so much that I get short of breath just by using the remote.

 

[turbo]

Good idea, but I'll have to wait a while; I have been eating so much that I get short of breath just by using the remote.

That's inspiring. I can get winded by just changing my mind.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Doppelgangers are very interesting to me because the probable origin of the concept is the neurological phenomenon of autoscopy, the hallucination of seeing yourself from the outside, from an external viewpoint.

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/165/6/808.abstract

Most cases of this are associated with simple partial epilepsy.

What I think this experience demonstrates is that we require some dedicated neural mechanism to tell us we are located in our bodies. When that mechanism is compromised we aren't sure where we are located and under some circumstances will hallucinate we are seeing ourselves from the outside.

That's possibly one origin, though a bit abstruse. The way it's used as a plot device (and a very worn one) is usually playing on fears that somebody is not who they seem, or basic questions about identity, or whether we are (as you kind of hint at) defined by our physical bodies or something else.

 

[collinsmark]

Today's xkcd:

I'm So Random

(With mouseover: "In retrospect, it's weird that as a kid I thought completely random outbursts made me seem interesting, given that from an information theory point of view, lexical white noise is just about the opposite of interesting by definition.")

[Source:http://www.xkcd.com/1210/]

 

[Borek]

http://world.time.com/timelapse/

 

[Borek]

Wow. Talk about luck. Picture taken after tornado in Poland, July 2012.

http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/wiadomosci/zwyciezcy-grand-press-photo-2013,5513898,14289195,fotoreportaz-duzy.html

 

[HeLiXe]

Good idea, but I'll have to wait a while; I have been eating so much that I get short of breath just by using the remote.

lolol

 

[Borek]

3 y.o. son of our friends, asked what was for dinner at kindergarten: "meat, potatoes and leaves".

(Note: dinner here is eaten at about the same time you eat lunch.)