Is it time for Random Thoughts - Part 4?

[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]

 

[Enigman]

Yay! Color burn and multiply.

Done...I think.

 

[OmCheeto]

Done...I think.
View attachment 73959

I'm pretty sure I have his stamp.

I was never much a fan of poetry though.

What a shame, how I wasted my youth, not knowing who I'd gazed upon, in utter ambivalence.

 

[Enigman]

Now guess whose face it is for extra credits.
:P

Spoiler

Jeremy Brett doing the Holmsian B*tch face

 

[OmCheeto]

Now guess whose face it is for extra credits.
:p

Spoiler

Jeremy Brett doing the Holmsian B*tch face

Ah! I spent an hour looking for a Buster Keaton profile, then saw you'd posted a spoiler.
I've never heard of that guy.

 

[OmCheeto]

The things I thought were humorous, as a 7 year old.

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[zoobyshoe]

If you're tired of using the word "interpolate" when speaking pedantically, you may try the alternate term, "intercalate," which I just ran across today:

Definition of INTERCALATE
transitive verb
1: to insert (as a day) in a calendar
2: to insert between or among existing elements or layers
— in·ter·ca·la·tion noun
Examples of INTERCALATE

1. <between the recipes for hearty peasant dishes, the author intercalates fond reminiscences of her year in the French countryside>

 

[collinsmark]

If you're tired of using the word "interpolate" when speaking pedantically, you may try the alternate term, "intercalate," which I just ran across today:

Definition of INTERCALATE
transitive verb
1: to insert (as a day) in a calendar
2: to insert between or among existing elements or layers
— in·ter·ca·la·tion noun
Examples of INTERCALATE

1. <between the recipes for hearty peasant dishes, the author intercalates fond reminiscences of her year in the French countryside>

I might have to use that. It could be useful describing the operation of discrete time synchronization, where the circuit occasionally duplicates or deletes samples for the sole purpose of maintaining synchronization (and coherence) between sample streams with independent clock sources.

But what's the opposite? (Similar to how decimation is the opposite of interpolation.) Erase? Delete? Hmm. How about annihilate. Intercalation and Annihilation. 'Certainly has a ring to it.

 

[zoobyshoe]

But what's the opposite?

Inter --> disinter. So, disintercalate, maybe.

 

[Enigman]

Remove?

 

[OmCheeto]

If you're tired of using the word "interpolate" when speaking pedantically, you may try the alternate term, "intercalate," which I just ran across today:

Definition of INTERCALATE
transitive verb
1: to insert (as a day) in a calendar
2: to insert between or among existing elements or layers
— in·ter·ca·la·tion noun
Examples of INTERCALATE

1. <between the recipes for hearty peasant dishes, the author intercalates fond reminiscences of her year in the French countryside>

But I love interpolating when speaking pedantically. According to the new search engine, I've used the term 19 times in the last 7 years, in both forms.

Though one was from a short story, so I don't know if that one counts.