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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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Sorry to hear that, dkotschessaa :(
 
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Sorry to hear that, DK. OTOH - if I read what have happened correctly that was pretty fast. Its a lucky way.
 
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Borek said:
Sorry to hear that, DK. OTOH - if I read what have happened correctly that was pretty fast. Its a lucky way.

Yeah, for somebody scientifically minded I found the randomness of it, along with the quickness, kind of re-assuring. There were no questions like "What could we have done differently?" Also, he had a living will, which made things very easy.
 
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So sorry for your loss.
 
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Best wishes dkotschessaa. That's a tough one. :frown:
 
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That's awful, dkotschessaa. I'm sorry for your loss. :frown:
 
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Enigman said:
No idea. The last thing I remember before waking up and noticing the injury was Rowling flying on a broom and crying 'the ... did it'. A contention which I very much doubt...
Next time I disregard authors speaking to me in dreams shoot me...
Back to Ellery Queen now.
 
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Depression
 
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dkotschessaa said:
Dad didn't make it. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/cjd/detail_cjd.htm. Trying to figure out how to pick up my semester from here. Profs can put off tests for me but that doesn't really give me time to go through my process. ugh. Thank goodness for my wife.
I can relate to your loss. Keep your chin up.
 
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I kind of feel bad sending the thread in that direction now.

Lots of other things in life are good. Wife is still pregnant, happy (circumstances notwithstanding) healthy and hungry. I just saw Gravity and might go seen Enders game (finished the book this morning). Life is beautiful. Just often difficult.
 
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dkotschessaa said:
I kind of feel bad sending the thread in that direction now.

Lots of other things in life are good. Wife is still pregnant, happy (circumstances notwithstanding) healthy and hungry. I just saw Gravity and might go seen Enders game (finished the book this morning). Life is beautiful. Just often difficult.

:smile: Yep, you can't have good without bad, light without dark, up without down...isn't that just like life?
 
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lisab said:
:smile: Yep, you can't have good without bad, light without dark, up without down...isn't that just like life?

You should write a song. :wink:

:cry:
 
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2*3*5*7

Primes, are funny.

But the people who label them, are funnier still, IMHO.

Good night. :zzz:
 
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OmCheeto said:
2*3*5*7

In two weeks it will be 142 (and less than week ago it was 63).
 
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Borek said:
In two weeks it will be 142 (and less than week ago it was 63).

I don't think I've had this much fun with numbers since I was a child. I think I was about 10 years old when I was introduced to the concept of the different base systems. I was so fascinated by the fact you could count in other than base 10, that I wrote out the multiplication tables for all the bases from 2 through 16. Of course, that was long before computers, so I'm sure I did it all on paper. But when computers did finally arrive 8 years later, I probably said to myself; "I recognize that number system. That's base 16!"

Today I was not able to do the calculation in my head. Though I think only savants and numerophiles would know the factors of 209.

ps. I think google is broken. When I googled "what are people that love numbers called?" it came up with:

Obamacare's Website Is Crashing Because It Doesn't Want You To ... :confused:
Proper Course: Anal-Retentive People Like Numbers :mad:
Whoops! President Infomercial: You guys, just use the phone - Twitchy :confused:
No More Apologies: Why Obama Has to Get Mad About His Broken :confused:
Polyamory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :redface:
Summer of Love - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :smile:​
 
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I think I mentioned the other day, that they are shutting down one of our satellite campuses, and they've been transporting their library books to our main campus "old" library.

Yesterday, I checked out the latest batch of books, and saw the following titles:

Journal of Insanity 1910
Journal of Hygiene 1908​

I laughed.
 
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A friend has a book that he got when his university library was having a clear out. It was published in the 1920s and explains that atoms are made of a protons in the centre with electrons orbiting. Some workers claim that there might also be a neutral particle in the nucleus, but this is obvious rubbish. :D
 
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OmCheeto said:
"I recognize that number system. That's base 16!"
What you think you said: "That's base 16 (excitement)."
What you really said: "That's base 20922789888000."

Isn't math wonderful? :smile:
 
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Evo said:
These books instantly made me think of Om.
http://www.workman.com/products/9780761156871/
http://www.workman.com/products/9780761150206/
For micromass
http://www.workman.com/products/9780761163749/
Found a book for Gad
http://www.workman.com/products/9781580175746/
I'm going through their catalog, I loved these kinds of books as a child.

They had these books when we were children?
Why did I never see these books?

:cry:

You know me too well, Evo.

That video not only recounts what you know of my life, but also, what you don't know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1EYgZKKPlM

I had a professor the other day, trying to get eggs shipped from Texas, without breaking.

She had tried both FedEx and UPS. Eggs broken!

So she used USPS, and her eggs, once again, arrived broken.

I theorized that the eggs were being flown in an airplane, in an unpressurized compartment, and were exploding.

I suppose now, I should run to the store, buy some eggs, put them in some type of chamber, figure out what the atmospheric pressure is at 30,000 feet, draw that vacuum, and see what happens.


--------------------------
Numerous researchers at my institution use embryonic fertilized eggs for scientific research.
 
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OmCheeto said:
2*3*5*7

I've often wondered why the people who invented CD audio picked the sample rate 44100 = 22*32*52*72
 
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AlephZero said:
I've often wondered why the people who invented CD audio picked the sample rate 44100 = 22*32*52*72

I've never wondered such a thing. But now that you mention it, I'm wondering too.

:confused:

googling yielded some logical information:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/audio/44.1.html

In 60 Hz video, there are 35 blanked lines, leaving 490 lines per frame or 245 lines per field, so the sampling rate is given by :

60 X 245 X 3 = 44.1 KHz

...

Even though CD has no video circuitry, the equipment used to make CD masters is video based and determines the sampling rate.

Though it has been so long since I've looked at video numbers of old, this may be all make believe gibberish.
 
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OmCheeto said:
In 60 Hz video ...

But not in Europe with 50Hz mains electricity. The CD system was invented by Philips, IIRC.

And for some obscure reason, the NTSC standard is actually 29.97 frames /sec (times 2 with interlaced frames), not "60 Hz".

But in Europe, we think NTSC means "Never Twice the Same Color".
 
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AlephZero said:
But not in Europe with 50Hz mains electricity. The CD system was invented by Philips, IIRC.

And for some obscure reason, the NTSC standard is actually 29.97 frames /sec (times 2 with interlaced frames), not "60 Hz".

But in Europe, we think NTSC means "Never Twice the Same Color".

I don't know much about Europe.
I was only there once, when I was 11. My mom dragged me there.
She was from there.

All of her siblings made fun of me. They would stand around, and say; "ELF? ELF! ELF? ELF!".

I never went back.

-----------------------
I think I may have been a bit short for my age
 
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OmCheeto said:
I don't know much about Europe.

I know that I'd love to live on the border of Germany and Spain, but France is kind of in the way. Not that I have a problem with France. But if they could just sort of swap it with one of the other two. That'd be great.

Maybe I should just move to the middle of France.

-Dave K
 
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dkotschessaa said:
I know that I'd love to live on the border of Germany and Spain, but France is kind of in the way. Not that I have a problem with France. But if they could just sort of swap it with one of the other two. That'd be great.

Maybe I should just move to the middle of France.

-Dave K

I thought you lived in Florida?
I spent a year in Florida. I loved it. (Jacksonville and Orlando, 6 months each)
But I was young then...

ps. Andre has a relative with a bed-n-breakfast in France. as I recall.
Just go visit, and then decide.

People are always telling me how wonderful Alaska is.
I lived there. It's a nice place to visit, but it really sucked living there.
Om's friend; "Look at how pretty it is!"
Om; "Yah, right... Until the mosquitoes, horse-flys, and no-see-ums, suck the blood out of you..."
 
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OmCheeto said:
ps. Andre has a relative with a bed-n-breakfast in France. as I recall.

Château de Montcru
 
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Borek said:
Château de Montcru


http://www.au-chateau.com/Montcru.htm
au Château Banner
Château de Montcru has closed and is no longer on our site.

:cry:

[many expletives deleted...]

:cry: :cry:
 
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