Is it time for Random Thoughts - Part 4?

[Evo]

Bukowski wrote in English - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_(novel) - I doubt it was translated twice ;)

I saw a Russian translation, which was why i was wondering if your copy was in English. Because if it had been translated into Polish, that might have been the problem.

 

[zoki85]

Bukowski... eh. Anybody for canoodling ?

 

[DennisN]

A normal human has got one mouth and two ears. Maybe evolution is teaching us a lesson that it is more advantageous to listen than to speak. But I know too many people who do the opposite. Will they finally evolve into a new human species, a species with two mouths and only one ear? Oh, the horror...

 

[Enigman]

Alice Montenegro or Adrastea Terrence.
meh... Alice Adrastea Terrence.
I could pull both Madam Mailce and Miss Terry gags with that...

 

[nuuskur]

I am bloody trying to teach differential calculation to a person. When I present them with a problem, they just give me an answer. I am crying inside "I do not care about the answer, show me what you did to find the answer!" :<

 

[OmCheeto]

A new one showed up today! I'm guessing 12-ish.
They speak Chuuk, which rhymes with spook, and not Chuck.

And the answer was; "ee-sah ma-lay ma-tat"

The only person's name I learned was "eye see". He looked about 20, but claimed to be 45.

I am seriously in love with my new neighbors.
I went over and asked permission to sit down.
They said yes!
And they finished the limerick; "Nope, we know no one from Yap".

:)

 

[Astronuc]

The college dropout billionaire who’s revolutionizing medicine

A standout member among the new-editions to this very elite club is 30-year old college dropout Elizabeth Holmes. Holmes reportedly “labored in secret” for almost a decade while developing a revolutionary new blood-testing technology. In 2003 she took her findings to the public and founded Theranos-- the company announced partnerships with Walgreens and other major drugstores to bring a new type of blood testing to consumers. Holmes’ technology calls only for a single finger-prick and a very small amount of blood for medical testing—as opposed to the full vial (or vials) of blood typically drawn for testing in most labs and medical offices. The prick is said to be painless and Theranos’ testing-methods only a fraction of the cost of commercial labs.

The biotech founder is the youngest self-made woman on the Forbes 400 list with a net worth of $4.5 billion. Holmes dropped out of Stanford University her sophomore year as a chemical engineering major and used her tuition money to found her company. Holmes’ tests do not have to be performed in a doctor’s office, and by skipping the big labs most results can be ready in a few hours. “She could totally overturn an entire industry if Theranos is as successful as it seems to be,” says Brown.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-...tionizing-the-medical-industry-170558675.html

 

[OmCheeto]

The college dropout billionaire who’s revolutionizing medicine
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-...tionizing-the-medical-industry-170558675.html

My favorite kind of story.

 

[Astronuc]

One may have to pay depending on 'How one does it', because apparently 'How one uses How matters'.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/word-trademarked-does-headline-022049822.html

 

[Astronuc]

The Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechcon...paign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202406

"Ada Lovelace is Lord Byron's child, and her mother, Lady Byron, did not want her to turn out to be like her father, a romantic poet," says Isaacson. So Lady Byron "had her tutored almost exclusively in mathematics as if that were an antidote to being poetic."

Lovelace saw the poetry in math. At 17, she went to a London salon and met Charles Babbage. He showed her plans for a machine that he believed would be able to do complex mathematical calculations. He asked Lovelace to write about his work for a scholarly journal. In her article, Lovelace expresses a vision for his machine that goes beyond calculations.
. . . .

Grace Hopper on Letterman

 

[OmCheeto]

One may have to pay depending on 'How one does it', because apparently 'How one uses How matters'.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/word-trademarked-does-headline-022049822.html

Oh! That give me a great idea. Someone should trademark "Like", and charge a penny per instance of clicking. They'd be a trillionaire in no time. :)

Oh wait,

On Wednesday, April 21, 2010, a U.S. federal trademark registration was filed for LIKE by Facebook Inc., Palo Alto, CA 94301. The USPTO has given the LIKE trademark serial number of 85020068. (ref)​

[expletive deleted]

 

[Medicol]

Finally she gets married, Yeahhh
http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/05/woman-marries-herself-after-getting-fed-up-with-being-single-4893033/

 

[Enigman]

How does one fall for the same person three four flipping times?
-__-

 

[OmCheeto]

The Chuuks have invited over more Chuuks. I hear many women singing a cappella from inside their house. It sounds wonderful. :)
They did this the other night also. I wonder if they are singing for the coming eclipse in the morning?
I can't understand a word of it.

 

[edward]

The Chuuks have invited over more Chuuks. I hear many women singing a cappella from inside their house. It sounds wonderful. :)
They did this the other night also. I wonder if they are singing for the coming eclipse in the morning?
I can't understand a word of it.

Are you sure that they are just singing?

 

[Medicol]

I can't believe it that there are still a lot of tiny company owners getting "excited" about others's master or phd thesis. I think they want to get the ideas to build their own stuff and sell them for money.

 

[zoki85]

Blackboards in porn
So bad science classes:D

 

[WWGD]

I wrote a small booklet to pretentiously follow up on Wiener's book " I am a Mathematician". My booklet is
just titled "So am I".

 

[DennisN]

Alert! I have mislaid one of my books at home. If anybody knows where it is please pm me asap. Even though the new PF interface and functionality is mighty nice, there is no longer any blog function. This means you can not write any blog post which describes where my book may be, so you will have to use pm.

If you are a real true friend you also have the option to write and upload a paper about the possibilities and probabilities of where the book might be. If you choose to do so, I will happily review the paper and provide feedback to the author. Acceptable scientific journals are listed here: http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/.

(Note: there are some people who stubbornly claim that I am egotistical. The problem those people have is that they do not understand that their opinions are not as important as mine.)

 

[Medicol]

New Year is coming :(

 

[DennisN]

Just stumbled upon this very powerful clip (I had not seen it before)

Also here: http://www.upworthy.com/they-took-a-camera-to-a-remote-area-in-greenland-and-what-they-recorded-is-simply-terrifying?g=2&c=upw2

 

[zoobyshoe]

Anyway, I fell asleep yesterday afternoon and dreamt a really, really huge boa constrictor was curled up behind some bushes. These cats I feed were trying to drive it away, and a second later, it's head emerged from the bushes with a cat in it's mouth. I laid down and started pounding on it's head with my fist trying to make it let go of the cat, but my arm seemed to have hardly any strength, and it's head was very tough. It went back into the bushes with the cat and I was afraid the kitty was a gonner. I tried to stand up but it turned into a paralysis dream. I couldn't get anybody parts to move. I was paralyzed on the ground with a huge snake less than three feet away. I tried so hard to call for help, and it seemed I had actually succeeded in making some noise, but no one heard me. I was sure the snake was going to come back out, swallow one of my legs and bite it off. I willed and willed myself to move. Finally, there was a kind of simultaneous realization I was dreaming and the return of my ability to move, and I woke up.

I read something somewhere that laid the cause of sleep paralysis to lack of potassium. So, when ever I get dreams like this I go get some bananas.

I'm creeped out because one of the cats has actually disappeared. I haven't seen it for days, and it is the very cat the snake ate in the dream.

 

[TumblingDice]

I'm creeped out because one of the cats has actually disappeared. I haven't seen it for days, and it is the very cat the snake ate in the dream.

Just out of curiousity, have you emptied your vacuum cleaner lately...?

 

[collinsmark]

Gotta keep reminding myself to finish coffee before posting. Otherwise I get all crabby.

 

[ChiralWaltz]

The fireworks are about to begin…

 

[Enigman]

Not satisfied with ruining Sherlock Holmes, Downey Jr. is now making an attempting at Perry Mason... Don't you dare mess this one up, Bob.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Not satisfied with ruining Sherlock Holmes, Downey Jr. is now making an attempting at Perry Mason... Don't you dare mess this one up, Bob.

You have to understand that actors don't make the decisions about how the characters they play are going to be portrayed. That's generally the director's decision (but ultimately the producer's, since the producer hires the director). An actor's job is to be as flexible as possible, to do whatever the director requires. It's a liability for an actor to have a strong idea of how some character should be played. It would just put him at loggerheads with the director.

Given that the writers and producer of Sherlock Holmes didn't understand the character and thought it should be reworked, Downey actually did an excellent job.

It is a mystery to me why writers think there's something to be gained by reworking old material when it would be much more interesting if they would work to better capture the essence of the original, but it happens all the time. Everyone's grasping at a new "take" on old stuff when the original "take" has never actually been successfully translated to the screen.

 

[Enigman]

Oh, I completely agree. But Downey Jr. has got to have some kind of pull if he is the lead and his wife is one of the producers.
IMO Downey could make an excellent Perry Mason in view of his Tony Stark, but I just have this feeling he is going to screw this up.

 

[Borek]

It is a mystery to me why writers think there's something to be gained by reworking old material

Oh come on, don't you know you are the only person in the world being right and everyone else is an idiot? How could this medieval moron of Conan Doyle (or was he even earlier?) know what he was writing about?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Oh, I completely agree. But Downey Jr. has got to have some kind of pull if he is the lead and his wife is one of the producers.
IMO Downey could make an excellent Perry Mason in view of his Tony Stark, but I just have this feeling he is going to screw this up.

Being the lead really wouldn't get him any pull. His wife being one of the producer's might, but that only matters if he has some interest in shaping the film, which he might not.

Personally, I don't see any point at all in redoing Perry Mason. It would be easy enough to outright create a whole new modern lawyer character. Courtroom drama is a perennial favorite.