Is it time for Random Thoughts - Part 4?

[Modest Learner]

It could be worse. They could make it a 5 part trilogy.

Ahem...5...part...trilogy??

 

[B. Elliott]

Yay! They finally fixed something.

ps. I can't remember whether or not we replaced the Lithium-Bromide beast with an R-114 refrigeration unit on my old boat.

pps. Have we thrown you a welcome back party yet?

Oh, plenty of scares from R-114 leaks underway. Most of the time it was just the pos atmosphere analyzer going out of cal and alarming. "HEY EVERYONE, WAKE UP! I'M JUST A FALSE ALARM!"

Not yet. :D

 

[collinsmark]

Ahem...5...part...trilogy??

I believe it was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy.

 

[jim hardy]

As in Tappet Brothers' "third half of our show"...

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

If only I could find a job when I could sleep during the day and be up all night...:zzz:

That would be ideal.

I always thought, when I was a lot younger, that if I became an astronomer I would just get to work with observatories at night and sleep during the day, but really researchers just get little time slots, take a butt-load of data, and then have to sleep at night like normal people

 

[Astronuc]

Why do some people drive their car into a flooded area?

http://news.yahoo.com/video/monsoon-rains-floods-threated-southwest-001655682.html

 

[AlephZero]

Something you can't do with an e-book: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-28252813

(Note, the book itself was not part of the library's stock, but an "anonymous donation".)

 

[DennisN]

A very nice photo/animation site, if you like geometry, fractals, design and...hmm...various stuff...
http://parametricworld.tumblr.com/

e.g.

 

[Pond Dragon]

Part of me wants to teach the second level of calculus somewhere once I get my PhD.

The reason is simple. Eventually, there will be some trouble-making kid in my class, who will inevitably cause a problem on the day I introduce Taylor series. Then, I could tell him to "cool his jets."

Hope this counts as a (pseudo)random thought.

 

[BobG]

Why do some people drive their car into a flooded area?

http://news.yahoo.com/video/monsoon-rains-floods-threated-southwest-001655682.html

Because I have drain plugs in the floor of my Jeep. It would be a shame to never use them.

 

[OmCheeto]

I always thought the road in front of my house was pretty flat. Once you start doing bicycle physics experiments, you discover it is not so.

The same thing happened to me 5 years ago when I brought my then new truck home for the first time. I always thought my driveway was perfectly level. None of my previous 5 cars moved when I parked. But my truck took off, like a rat out of an aqueduct. Voom! Fortunately, it slopes away from the street, and the lawn gently caught her.

 

[dlgoff]

I always thought the road in front of my house was pretty flat. Once you start doing bicycle physics experiments, you discover it is not so.

The same thing happened to me 5 years ago when I brought my then new truck home for the first time. I always thought my driveway was perfectly level. None of my previous 5 cars moved when I parked. But my truck took off, like a rat out of an aqueduct. Voom! Fortunately, it slopes away from the street, and the lawn gently caught her.

Bicycles? Truck coasting uphill? Level road?

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

 

[OmCheeto]

Bicycles? Truck coasting uphill? Level road?

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

Ok. Maybe my road and driveway are flat. But the only explanation of unexplained time-space curvature would be micro, non-evaporative, black holes, planted, by, aliens...

 

[zoobyshoe]

There's something really wrong with the Contour commercials.

 

[Borek]

Bicycles? Truck coasting uphill? Level road?

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

I know of two similar roads in Poland. One near Wiele, other near Żar mountain.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I fell asleep with the TV on this afternoon and had a long, fascinating dream incorporating dialog and narration from the TV show.

The show was this thing on Sci-Fi where the guy goes all over the world chasing down legendary beasts and myths.

 

[Borg]

I average about 10K miles per year on my car. I've driven over 3000 miles in the last 4 weeks.

 

[Lisa!]

I fell asleep with the TV on this afternoon and had a long, fascinating dream incorporating dialog and narration from the TV show.

The show was this thing on Sci-Fi where the guy goes all over the world chasing down legendary beasts and myths.

I should try that!

 

[Borek]

Absolutely best SF dreams I ever had happened when I had a very high fever from tonsillitis. I was 21 or something at the time. The scene I remember best was in a pilot cabin of some kind of a spaceship (in a way similar to Millennium Falcon). I was talking with someone and he made some gurgling noise. I asked "What's that" and he answered "curse in an high Akiel dialect". "What does it mean?" I asked. "Untranslatable, we lack appropriate organs".

You don't want the fever to go down when you see such things.

 

[Borg]

Absolutely best SF dreams I ever had happened when I had a very high fever from tonsillitis. I was 21 or something at the time. The scene I remember best was in a pilot cabin of some kind of a spaceship (in a way similar to Millennium Falcon). I was talking with someone and he made some gurgling noise. I asked "What's that" and he answered "curse in an high Akiel dialect". "What does it mean?" I asked. "Untranslatable, we lack appropriate organs".

You don't want the fever to go down when you see such things.

After I saw the movie Inception, I had a few dreams within dreams. I actually woke up in my dream and understood that I had been dreaming - then I woke up from that one. It was very surreal but no fever required.

 

[DennisN]

"Untranslatable, we lack appropriate organs".

Very fun!

After I saw the movie Inception, I had a few dreams within dreams. I actually woke up in my dream and understood that I had been dreaming - then I woke up from that one. It was very surreal but no fever required.

I've had a couple of such dreams too. One of the weirdest dreams was one in which I woke up from a dream and told myself to test if I was still dreaming by touching some object (a table or something, I can't remember what it was). I touched the object and decided that it was real and that I was not dreaming. But I was dreaming .

 

[zoobyshoe]

Very fun!


I've had a couple of such dreams too. One of the weirdest dreams was one in which I woke up from a dream and told myself to test if I was still dreaming by touching some object (a table or something, I can't remember what it was). I touched the object and decided that it was real and that I was not dreaming. But I was dreaming .

The opposite of a lucid dream: where you are dreaming but specifically question it and come to the conclusion you aren't. I have had this many, many times, and I hate it!

 

[OmCheeto]

My neighbors abandoned their fish.

They left one person behind to clean up before the landlord showed up, and he asked me if I would take them. Since I have a fish tank, I said yes.

I now have, in addition to my original tribe, 4 comet goldfish, 2 neon tetras, 2 bleeding heart tetras, and a glass cat.

Once I got them home, he asked me if I wanted the aquarium. I said sure, why not.

Anyways, the reason I brought this up is, because there were about 20 kg of "ornaments", half of which were in two boxes. Upon inspection, I decided that none of the ornaments, aside from a few interesting rocks, would have ever graced any of my aquariums. This was obviously a "woman's" fish tank!

Is there a field of study known as ichthyoanthropology? i.e. the study of the determination of the gender and life path of the person, based upon the junk they've had in their fish bowls?

ps. In one of the boxes, was a child's white sock, embroidered with; "HAPPY HOOKER". Not sure what that says about the family. Maybe dad bought them. I saw no signs of embroidery, crocheting, knitting, nor fishing gear, in the house.

pps. Hey! She's still alive! And still looks happy.

ppps. I also got a free wheelbarrow. Had a flat tire. Two punctures. Kinda fixed them. Just long enough to haul all this crap across the street.

pppps. I'm feeling like I'm 16 again. Infinite amounts of free time.

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.

 

[dlgoff]

Absolutely best SF dreams I ever had happened when I had a very high fever from tonsillitis. ... I was talking with someone and he made some gurgling noise. I asked "What's that" and he answered "curse in an high Akiel dialect". "What does it mean?" I asked. "Untranslatable, we lack appropriate organs".

You sure it was fiction?

I've learned a lot from micromass.

 

[lisab]

I've learned a lot from micromass.

We all have .

 

[WWGD]

You sure it was fiction?

I've learned a lot from micromass.

That is not the way I thought he looked!

 

[Medicol]

I don't know who this is (the guy in the image) but people around on the net like to use his picture with words like this.

 

[WWGD]

I don't know who this is (the guy in the image) but people around on the net like to use his picture with words like this.

Didn't you read below the picture ? That's micromass.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Didn't you read below the picture ? That's micromass.

Yes. When we first saw his hair, back in the day, there was a general clamor to make him a mentor.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I saw this very entertaining movie on TV tonight. It was called Red, and starred Bruce Willis as an ex-CIA agent who was targeted for termination. Many guns were fired and many people died during the movie. Somehow, it remained basically a comedy. I understand there's a sequel.