Is it time for Random Thoughts - Part 4?

[Jonathan Scott]

Bombus (Latin, from the ancient Greek meaning "buzzing") is used as the scientific family name for bumblebees, so it sounds a bit tautologous to me.

 

[OmCheeto]

If it's working for you, you're good. I'm just surprised such a small motor doesn't overheat before you're done with the lawn.

I can only imagine, that is was because of over engineering.
And, that I only have about 500 ft² of lawn.
The other 4500 ft² of property, I would describe as; "A bumpy geometric plane of dirt, with patches of moss, dotted with rocks, which acts as a leaf collector, in the fall".

Surrounding a hyper dimensional thingy in the middle, of course.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Bombus (Latin, from the ancient Greek meaning "buzzing") is used as the scientific family name for bumblebees, so it sounds a bit tautologous to me.

So, "bombilating bees" would be akin to saying, "buzzing buzzers."

 

[zoobyshoe]

And, that I only have about 500 ft² of lawn.

I guess that's not so much lawn to tackle.

 

[zoki85]

Phenomenon of disappearing socks strikes again. As it seems, one more is gone

 

[TheDemx27]

99% of most thoughts are of things that only apply/reside in the space of 10 mile thick sphere with a diameter of 12,000 kilometers in an incomprehensibly large universe.

 

[TumblingDice]

99% of most thoughts are of things that only apply/reside in the space of 10 mile thick sphere with a diameter of 12,000 kilometers in an incomprehensibly large universe.

Randomly guessing and asking, did your thought measure that as the distance/volume covered at c over the lifetime of a 'thought'...?

<-- Looking like four is my number for the day, with 444 posts. Now I just need to figure out if it's lucky for today, something I should be careful about, or Murphy's Law waiting to catch me off guard...

 

[TheDemx27]

Randomly guessing and asking, did your thought measure that as the distance/volume covered at c over the lifetime of a 'thought'...?

No :p

<-- Looking like four is my number for the day, with 444 posts.

dubs. check em.

 

[JorisL]

Turns out I have forgotten most of my electronics >.<
Can't even figure out what to use for a high powered 0.5-1 Hz strobe light...

Feel stupid now

 

[Enigman]

SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK...Zzzzz...

 

[Medicol]

Every time I click the smilies icon, the page is directed to another strange page but it works the second time on. We must do something, This is something, We must do this.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Every time I click the smilies icon, the page is directed to another strange page but it works the second time on. We must do something, This is something, We must do this.

Your army is ready:
:L:k:):soo):w;):(:p:D

 

[lisab]

SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK...Zzzzz...

'night, e-man! Sweet dreams :)!

 

[nuuskur]

SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK...Zzzzz...

You are the weak, and I am the tyranny of coffee makers.

 

[Enigman]

Don't think anyone has slept so soundly after downing a red bull, maybe I should sue them.
(serves them right for that crappy Holmes commercial)

 

[zoobyshoe]

PBS is about to air Secrets of the Tower of London, "A tour of the Tower of London, which has served as a royal castle, prison, place of execution and torture, armory and mint during its almost 1000 years of existence."

 

[Astronuc]

Susan Mellen spent 17 years in prison for a crime (murder) she did not commit. She was released last Friday.

Deirdre O'Connor, who runs an organization called http://www.innocencematters.org/index.php/home/the-innocent/susan-mellen , had been investigating another case when she stumbled upon Mellen's.

http://news.yahoo.com/katie-couric-...eed-from-prison-after-17-years-200940337.html

 

[Astronuc]

Remember 'All in the Family' - a cutting edge or edgy sitcom, ahead of its time, and at times dealing with painful topics?

Norman Lear reflects on the show with Katie Couric - http://news.yahoo.com/katie-couric-interviews-norman-lear-045941083.html

 

[Medicol]

Will people get old (wrinkles on their faces) if they keep planning and organizing what to do today and tomorrow ? It's a long lasting effort.
I tried but the next 2-3 days I missed some tasks as well as overlapped several and finally my schedule was actually rescheduled unexpectedly until one day I sent the schedule file to my trashbin. There I went back to days without any plans.

 

[JorisL]

Worst C-code I have encountered so far...

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/LU_decomposition#C

Now I need coffee to get rid of that filthy taste it left behind. (I might have vomited a little bit)

 

[Choppy]

I was watching old episodes of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe today with my kids, and I don't know why I never realized this before, but...
Castle Grayskull... is actually green.

 

[Medicol]

hygiene :k ugly make-up retarded
:L flushing spicy breakfast

 

[zoki85]

Beautiful, smart babe but with a bad smell from mouth
Life aint fair

 

[OmCheeto]

After 12,000 or so random thoughts over the last 72 hours, some deity sent me the following sign:

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I have no idea how to interpret this, other than, I found a frog.

 

[Astronuc]

UN rights chief: Ebola, extremists 'twin plagues'
http://news.yahoo.com/un-rights-chief-ebola-extremists-twin-plagues-095407858.html

 

[OmCheeto]

If it's working for you, you're good. I'm just surprised such a small motor doesn't overheat before you're done with the lawn.

Ok then. It's Thursday, so the recycle man emptied my bin. So I again attempted to destroy my mower, which I did most adequately. The melamine shaft broke off when I hit a 20 lb rock covered with holly branches.

This sent me into a bit of a panic, as the only other mower I have is Om powered.

It took me a bit longer to mow the lawn, but it worked. I'm guessing I have no more than a 1/10 hp output, so I'm calling BS on the assertion that a 1/3 hp mower is underpowered.

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So there.

And yes, my neighbor 2 doors down did make a fence out of metal corrugated roofing material which sounded like 100 garbage cans being towed down the street by a pickup truck the first time we had a healthy wind.

But, I think he is either a scientist, and/or, an engineer, as the noise, has since stopped.

:)

 

[zoki85]

I'm guessing I have no more than a 1/10 hp output, so I'm calling BS on the assertion that a 1/3 hp mower is underpowered.

Only 75 W? Man, you got to work out more often :D

 

[Borg]

UN rights chief: Ebola, extremists 'twin plagues'
http://news.yahoo.com/un-rights-chief-ebola-extremists-twin-plagues-095407858.html

Speaking of Ebola and extremists, I saw a headline in a Google result yesterday that claimed that 2000 martyrs in Saudi Arabia were being given Ebola so that they could be released in the United States. It's amazing what some people will dream up.

 

[zoobyshoe]

So I again attempted to destroy my mower, which I did most adequately.

Craigslist.

 

[Evo]

PBS is about to air Secrets of the Tower of London, "A tour of the Tower of London, which has served as a royal castle, prison, place of execution and torture, armory and mint during its almost 1000 years of existence."

They're having a series on castles and important homes, it's been very good.

 

[zoobyshoe]

They're having a series on castles and important homes, it's been very good.

Tower of London turned out to be pretty interesting. Another one I've been enjoying is "Secrets of the Dead."

 

[Evo]

Another one I've been enjoying is "Secrets of the Dead."

Yes, I've also been watching.

 

[Evo]

Why, WHY, in TV and movies, when people go into a crime scene or similar, that they NEVER turn on the lights? They go into the dark with flashlights. This is so STUPID, why not just turn on the lights? I keep screaming at the tv "turn on the lights you idiots, just might help you see things". That's what light switches are for, but they can't seem to remember that.

 

[OmCheeto]

Craigslist.

Oh ye of little faith...

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Once the Elmer's Glue has dried, by morning hopefully, the chaos shall resume...

 

[Evo]

Wow, watching Masterchef Australia, and the challenge is to cook from the ingredients of one continent and the North American continent was chosen. The two contestants were "oh no, that's horrible!' Horrible? They have to choose from lobsters, oysters, shrimp, clams, fish, beef, pork, fowl, an enormous variety of vegetables and fruit.

So what did they come up with? Bagels (pre-made, he's just making a flavored ready made cream cheese filling) for one chef and meringue for the other, and this is in the finals. This is so bad, I say eliminate them both. Seriously, almost every main ingredient on Earth and they can't think of anything to cook? The dish doesn't have to be North American in style or flavor, just use the ingredients, they're idiots.

So the guy cuts open a pre-cooked bagel, gets pre-made cream cheese and gets smoked salmon...

She whips up a meringue, and makes a vanilla cream and berries.

It's surreal that they would even have these *dishes* accepted

Lol, both dishes were such a joke, they judged them based on which was prettier.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Once the Elmer's Glue has dried, by morning hopefully, the chaos shall resume...

Oh yeah! Elmer's glue is great on machine parts! I'm pretty sure those stealth planes are bonded together with Elmer's and the Navy uses it a lot on aircraft carriers in place of rivets.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Wow, watching Masterchef Australia, and the challenge is to cook from the ingredients of one continent and the North American continent was chosen. The two contestants were "oh no, that's horrible!'

If you're in a horror movie...

 

[Enigman]

Cold limbics.

 

[TumblingDice]

Oh yeah! Elmer's glue is great on machine parts! I'm pretty sure those stealth planes are bonded together with Elmer's and the Navy uses it a lot on aircraft carriers in place of rivets.

I hear ya' Zooby, but according to OmCheeto, the Elmer's doesn't "get it done" all by itself:

I added some baling wire and tie wraps to improve dependability.

Ahh... Yet another testament to Occam's razor. (Way to go, OmCheeto!)

 

[Astronuc]

Making a difference in the world -

Build a forest one tree at a time on Majuli Island in the Brahmaputra. "Since 1979, Jadav Payeng has been planting hundreds of trees on an Indian island threatened by erosion. In this film, photographer Jitu Kalita traverses Payeng’s home—the largest river island in the world—and reveals the touching story of how this modern-day Johnny Appleseed turned an eroding desert into a wondrous oasis."

http://video.nationalgeographic.com...t-bigger-than-central-park-to-save-his-island

http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/tags/majuli/

 

[Medicol]

What happens if my past doesn't make sense to who I am now becoming ? I only hope I will always be alive.

 

[zoobyshoe]

17 billion toilet paper tubes per year. The Empire State building. Twice.

 

[Borg]

I don't get the allure of celebrity gossip. Whenever I see a copy of a paparazzi-fueled rag at the checkout like People magazine, my first thought is that it should be called 'Peephole'.

 

[Enigman]

I don't get the allure of gossip.

 

[nuuskur]

Gossip is mostly drama, people need it for some unkown reason. It's like the zombies in Resident Evil: they hunger for flesh, but do not require it.

 

[Borg]

I don't get the allure of gossip.

Yeah, there's that too. :D

 

[Medicol]

I thought I caught another fish :( . Darn it turned out to be an ugly toad. I lost 2 baits within one month. You agree I am leading a miserable life ?

 

[nuuskur]

huh?

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Why, WHY, in TV and movies, when people go into a crime scene or similar, that they NEVER turn on the lights? They go into the dark with flashlights. This is so STUPID, why not just turn on the lights? I keep screaming at the tv "turn on the lights you idiots, just might help you see things". That's what light switches are for, but they can't seem to remember that.

If it's a crime scene, aren't light switches one of the first places to check for fingerprints? Not that any of that is logical anyway.

 

[WWGD]

Yeah, there's that too. :D

I like those gossip shows from time-to-time. They are completely mindless; it is nice every once in a while to be able to
veg-out and go through something without having to think it through nor understand it. I have more than enough challenges as it is in my life. I completely forget about it a few hours after word , it is like brain candy.