Is it time for Random Thoughts - Part 4?

[Nikitin]

I've been up all night, for some unknown reason, at 1am, my dog decided it would be a good idea to jump on my bed over the night stand, knocking everything on it onto the floor and landing on my face. Everything went flying, the candle, the lamp, my jewelry, meds, my full glass of iced tea. Luckily the candle was one of those flameless ones, so no fire or melted wax. He had the entire bed to jump on. No obstacles. He chose to jump over the nightstand. He's barely a foot tall at the top of his head. I have a very high bed and that is a very high stand. I can't believe he made it.

Ooh he just wanted to make some fun! At least you have a nice story to tell now.

I have noticed that no one seems to have any post count anymore. Now we have a "message" count. I pondered that for a while and couldn't figure it out. Is the word "post" somehow politically incorrect now? When we "posted", did postmen go postal? Did they feel "dumb as a post?" I scour my conscience for whom we might have been offending. There had to have been a reason for the change. I can't see it, though.

Making a "post" suggests you are making an effort, which is not fitting as this is a social media site. Blurting out a "message", however, fits much better in. I say good show. Down with the old, in with the new!

Next, I suggest we limit replies to 200 characters to discourage needless TL;DR complexities.

 

[Astronuc]

There ARE good people in this world.

http://www.upworthy.com/their-son-w...se-when-this-happened-right-before-their-eyes

 

[WWGD]

New York exports garbage, but at a cost of $300 million/yr.

https://screen.yahoo.com/new-york-times/where-does-trash-160134215.html

Some of that trash used to go to a landfill in Staten Island, the Fresh Kills (interesting to have the qualifier 'fresh' in the name of a landfill), but not anymore; apparently someone powerful asked to have it closed down.

 

[edward]

Some of that trash used to go to a landfill in Staten Island, the Fresh Kills (interesting to have the qualifier 'fresh' in the name of a landfill), but not anymore; apparently someone powerful asked to have it closed down.

This reminds me of the great garbage barge fiasco of the mid 1980's

http://www.nytimes.com/video/booming/100000002206073/voyage-of-the-mobro-4000.html

 

[dkotschessaa]

First time grading papers (for a calculus class). I must say it is a curious activity.

-Dave K

 

[DataGG]

hahaha @Evo... Loled at that guy that's posting questions in his profile..

 

[Enigman]

Time to burn.

 

[Evo]

hahaha @Evo... Loled at that guy that's posting questions in his profile..

I couldn't let him keep wondering what was wrong.

 

[TumblingDice]

Time to burn.

I wish I could say the same. Hey pal, it's Sunday! I have trouble remembering, but isn't Sunday supposed to be reserved for relaxing with family and friends, enjoying a breath of fresh air, watching butterflies and smelling the roses...?

Maybe you can be the team player who gets out and reports back so we can remember what it was like (or how it should be!).

 

[Psinter]

Uff, I'm alive! The pitiful flavivirus could not handle my awesomeness and left my body. I'm just kidding, that was actually very dangerous. *serious* To think such a small thing could cause me so much damage.

I'm going to buy some plants with strong odor to keep those nasty mosquitoes away.
Sources (plant):

• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/08/010828075659.htm
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21056438

(That last link full text is located at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031942210003729) (I don't know if everyone can access it, I can access it thought, through my uni's database portal)

 

[Medicol]

Uff, I'm alive! The pitiful flavivirus could not handle my awesomeness and left my body. I'm just kidding, that was actually very dangerous. *serious* To think such a small thing could cause me so much damage.

I'm going to buy some plants with strong odor to keep those nasty mosquitoes away.
Sources (plant):

• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/08/010828075659.htm
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21056438

(That last link full text is located at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031942210003729) (I don't know if everyone can access it, I can access it thought, through my uni's database portal)

Will nepetalactone in catnip keep my cats away too ?

 

[Psinter]

Will nepetalactone in catnip keep my cats away too ?

Nooooooo! Hehe. I think it will attract them. But who knows.

Spoiler

Argh, struggling here with quotes... wait, I'm getting the hang of it.

 

[WWGD]

When the lady in the table next to mine mentioned she wanted fish, the helpful waiter offered to teach her how to fish*

* I intentionally avoided mention of the waiter 'taking out his rod' and teaching her how to fish, to avoid overloading the joke **

** I also avoided mention of a bizarre conversation I overheard of a guy telling a bartender that " his friend's wife

did not let him put his fishing rod in her back yard" ; can't tell if it was meant as a joke or not. ***

***...

 

[Enigman]

Something is seriously wrong if Jon Stewart and John Oliver are my principal sources of news about current events...

 

[OmCheeto]

My new neighbors are not Malaysian. They are Micronesian.

I asked.

Though, their command of the local language, and customs, seemed very limited, so I did not ask the obligatory question.

 

[OmCheeto]

Something is seriously wrong if Jon Stewart and John Oliver are my principal sources of news about current events...

I disagree.

See my latest favorite quote.

hmmm... On the other hand, what is, "news"?

 

[zoobyshoe]

My new neighbors are not Malaysian. They are Micronesian.

I asked.

Though, their command of the local language, and customs, seemed very limited, so I did not ask the obligatory question.

91.1% of Micronesians 15 and older are overweight. The main cause of this is their love of Spam. Bring them some Spam and they'll answer any quetion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_Pacific

 

[OmCheeto]

91.1% of Micronesians 15 and older are overweight. The main cause of this is their love of Spam. Bring them some Spam and they'll answer any quetion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_Pacific

100% of Micro*nesian children are very, very tiny. They've been running up and down the street for weeks, terrorizing the local automotive speed demons.

*I'm assuming this is how they came about having the name.

 

[lisab]

100% of Micro*nesian children are very, very tiny. They've been running up and down the street for weeks, terrorizing the local automotive speed demons.

*I'm assuming this is how they came about having the name.

*wonders what macronesians look like*

*realizes they're probably called "Alabamans" here*

 

[zoobyshoe]

Strange recent influx of men joining, using their apparent real first and last names as usernames and apparent real photos as avatars.

 

[WWGD]

100% of Micro*nesian children are very, very tiny. They've been running up and down the street for weeks, terrorizing the local automotive speed demons.

*I'm assuming this is how they came about having the name.

The part "nesia" means island. Just like in Indonesia. Micronesia stands for small island.

 

[OmCheeto]

The part "nesia" means island. Just like in Indonesia. Micronesia stands for small island.

So Paul Simon was forgetful?

He claimed to be an island.

I am a rock, I am a neee-eee-eee-eee-z-ah

hmmm...

And a Nesia never cries...

 

[dkotschessaa]

I expected my first tests in grad school to be pretty bad. I didn't expect them to be so...blank.

 

[Borek]

Strange recent influx of men joining, using their apparent real first and last names as usernames and apparent real photos as avatars.

I don't expect them to last long.

 

[dkotschessaa]

If nobody knows I'm doing math, is that discreet math?

 

[nuuskur]

If nobody knows I'm doing math, is that discreet math?

Well, you are being only somewhat discreet about it (we know :D ), I suspect no :P

 

[WWGD]

So Paul Simon was forgetful?

He claimed to be an island.

I am a rock, I am a neee-eee-eee-eee-z-ah

hmmm...

And a Nesia never cries...

No (wo)man is an island/nesia. Catchy .

 

[WWGD]

There is a kosher Dunkin Donuts near my school. They don't carry bacon, so I have disguised myself as a Rabbi a few times, gone to DD and tried to convince them that the rules of Judaism have changed , and bacon is now kosher. It has not worked so far. I will try it once more, and if it doesn't work, I will just have to walk two extra blocks to another DD that carries bacon.

 

[WWGD]

I don't expect them to last long.

How so?

 

[Borek]

How so?

If I tell you, I'll have to kill you.

 

[WWGD]

If I tell you, I'll have to kill you.

Wow, PF's new Mentor job duties are pretty extreme.

 

[WWGD]

I wonder if Ricky Lake, Joan Rivers and Mel Brooks are part of the Wat(t)ers family.

It seems there are still some tickets left for the Petty Cash tour ( Tom Petty , Rossane Cash); maybe I'll get one.

 

[Enigman]

Micronesia...

 

[zoobyshoe]

We can't really discuss Micronesia without reference to it's most important island, Ponape (now Pohnpei), which has the distinction of being one of the wettest places on earth:

Pohnpei "upon (pohn) a stone altar (pei)" (formerly known as Ponape) is the name of an island of the Senyavin Islands which are part of the larger Caroline Islands group. It belongs to Pohnpei State, one of the four states in theFederated States of Micronesia (FSM). Palikir, the FSM's capital, is located on Pohnpei Island. Pohnpei Island is the largest, highest, most populous, and most developed single island in the FSM. The islanders of Pohnpei have a reputation as being the most welcoming of outsiders among residents of the island group.[citation needed]

Pohnpei also contains a wealth of biodiversity. It is also one of the wettest places on Earth with annual recorded rainfall exceeding 300 inches (7,600 mm) each year in certain mountainous locations...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohnpei

 

[TumblingDice]

We can't really discuss Micronesia without reference to it's most important island, Ponape (now Pohnpei), which has the distinction of being one of the wettest places on earth:

Good info! I was thinking that the "toilet bowl" on Kauai was the wettest. Perhaps inaccurate - just a tasty info-nibblet for tourists...

 

[Enigman]

Yay! Color burn and multiply.

 

[OmCheeto]

We can't really discuss Micronesia...

I agree. We shouldn't.

ps. I thought you were just joking about the Spam.

Ha!

 

[OmCheeto]

I agree. We shouldn't.

ps. I thought you were just joking about the Spam.

Ha!

Ha! The young lady I was grooming as my replacement, at my former place of employment, is of Micronesian decent.
Specifically, the island of Yap.
Smartest person I ever met in my life.
They have big money on that Island.

ps. One of the ladies I used to work with, had the surname of Yapi. She is from Côte d'Ivoire.
I know a lady from Yap, and a lady named Yapi, from opposite sides of the world.
I always thought that was a very random coincidence.

 

[Borek]

I know a lady from Yap

Sounds like a beginning of a limerick.

 

[WWGD]

Sounds like a beginning of a limerick.

I think you're confusing it with 'Yaptucket'.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I know a lady from Yap

Sounds like a beginning of a limerick.

There once was a lady from Yap
(Don't ask me: go look on a map,)
She so liked to eat spam
That to Pohnpei she swam
There she ate a whole case in a snap.

 

[lisab]

We can't really discuss Micronesia without reference to it's most important island, Ponape (now Pohnpei), which has the distinction of being one of the wettest places on earth:

Wouldn't the wettest place on Earth be...water?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Wouldn't the wettest place on Earth be...water?

Well, it would be a place that's underwater, yes. Therefore, the wettest place on Earth would be Atlantis.

 

[TumblingDice]

Wouldn't the wettest place on Earth be...water?

...?

! - oo) - !

______

 

[collinsmark]

Palindrome post count again!

(2002 -- this is the last chance I get to proclaim that for awhile)

 

[TumblingDice]

Palindrome post count again!

Whoa nellie, I'm in good company! (For maybe 15 minutes while I stretch my legs...)
Much easier <1000...
<-- 414

 

[WWGD]

Palindrome post count again!

(2002 -- this is the last chance I get to proclaim that for awhile)

Until 2112 --the number of posts, not the year. Dice will only have to wait until 424.

 

[Borek]

Wouldn't the wettest place on Earth be...water?

Depends on how you define it, but I would say the wettest place is not just in water, but somewhere in the Mariana Trench. Water may be not very compressible, but squeeze it to 1100 atm and there will be definitely more water per liter of water than at the surface.

 

[Enigman]

Since I can't actually dance and I do feel like it, I'll just leave it here-

http://38.media.tumblr.com/dfef1863603962cf962b057a30ff1f53/tumblr_mz1hrk08wg1rzik3go1_250.gif

 

[Medicol]