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[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!

 

[OmCheeto]

I just went totally PF on one of my FB friends posts. After an hour of disproving his hogwash, he was so upset, he deleted the entire thread. Take that disinformation spreader! Bwah hahahahaha!

 

[Caveat]

I consider myself superior to all humansjust some random thought of mine for the day, have a good one

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I consider myself superior to all humans


just some random thought of mine for the day, have a good one

But do you consider yourself non-human or merely recursively inconsistent (in that you can't be superior to yourself)?

 

[Caveat]

But do you consider yourself non-human or merely recursively inconsistent (in that you can't be superior to yourself)?

I am an bot, sir

lol @ me being a mere mortal human

have a good day

 

[Mandelbroth]

But do you consider yourself non-human or merely recursively inconsistent (in that you can't be superior to yourself)?

It's only a partial order on the set of human beings, though.

 

[zoobyshoe]

There's a new show on the Travel Channel called America Declassified. It's very interesting because they pretend to cater to conspiracy theorists, that is: they start by hyping a given conspiracy theory as if they might buy into it, but then upon investigation, they always determine there's nothing to it.

Anyway, apparently there's a conspiracy theory to the effect that recycling centers don't recycle anything, they just gather it and secretly transport it to landfills in the dead of night. So, they sent one of their investigators to a recycling center to eyeball what was actually going on. He determined that they do actually separate stuff by material, paper, plastic, steel, aluminum, glass, and bundle it up in tight bales. Then it's sold to other plants where the actual recycling into raw, fresh product takes place. (Mind you, he didn't actually follow any of it to any of those secondary plants.)

Anyway, the thing that got me is that they told him none of the paper is recycled in this country. It is sold, and shipped to, China, for some reason, and recycled there. That's somehow more cost effective than recycling it here.

Aluminum, they told him, was the cash cow of the recycling business. They don't really make any money off anything else, and the whole operation is actually carried by the aluminum.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Epistlogenic memory? :

I was walking down the street a couple blocks from my place when I hear a guy calling my name, "Mr.Shoe! Mr. Shoe!" I look and see it's a mailman. He say's, "I've got a package for you, too big for the mailbox. Are you going to be home in about an hour?"

It was weird, because he can't have glimpsed me more than two or three times when I happened to be arriving or leaving just when he dropped the mail off. Somehow, though, he had correctly fastened my face to my name and address in his memory. It made me wonder if he has everyone on his route similarly memorized.

I've long known that baristas quickly develop caffeinogenic memories, but I didn't realize mailmen might have their version.

 

[AlephZero]

Anyway, the thing that got me is that they told him none of the paper is recycled in this country. It is sold, and shipped to, China, for some reason, and recycled there. That's somehow more cost effective than recycling it here.

The transportation costs are probably effectively zero. if there are a fleet of container ships bringing everything from cheap clothing to all of Apple's manufacturing in one direction across the Pacific, you might as well fill them up with something on the return journey.

And the recycled paper probably makes the fancy packaging for the the next batch of iPods.

This reminds me of a Christmas horror story from the 1970s. Selling stuff to Eastern Europe could be problematic because of the lack of convertible currency, so there was often an element of barter involved. One time, we traded some jet engines for an appropriate quantity of "forestry products". That seemed OK, considering the amount of wood the UK imported from the Baltic region anyway.

The "forestry products" that arrived included about a hundred tons (literally) of Christmas cards. With the greetings printed in Romanian.

Still, I guess the factory manger who was awarded the supreme something or other of the Soviet wherever, for meeting his Christmas card output targets in the five year plan, was happy

 

[zoobyshoe]

The transportation costs are probably effectively zero. if there are a fleet of container ships bringing everything from cheap clothing to all of Apple's manufacturing in one direction across the Pacific, you might as well fill them up with something on the return journey.

Maybe, but it seems they'd be burning more diesel loaded with tons of paper than empty.

This reminds me of a Christmas horror story from the 1970s. Selling stuff to Eastern Europe could be problematic because of the lack of convertible currency, so there was often an element of barter involved. One time, we traded some jet engines for an appropriate quantity of "forestry products". That seemed OK, considering the amount of wood the UK imported from the Baltic region anyway.

The "forestry products" that arrived included about a hundred tons (literally) of Christmas cards. With the greetings printed in Romanian.

Still, I guess the factory manger who was awarded the supreme something or other of the Soviet wherever, for meeting his Christmas card output targets in the five year plan, was happy

I could use a jet engine. Where do I send the Christmas card?

 

[AlephZero]

Maybe, but it seems they'd be burning more diesel loaded with tons of paper than empty.

Apart from the manouvering at the ends of the voyage, the fuel burn doesn't depend on the mass of the ship, only how fast it's going and how deep in the water it is.

But you don't want to be bobbing around like a cork across a thousand miles of open water, so if there was no cargo you would be carrying more water ballast to compensate.