Random Thoughts 7

[WWGD]

Just made it up "May the 'Best Day of your Life' know no upper bound"

Based on the song by that name.

 

[BillTre]

 

[fresh_42]

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Not if you manage to organize a time-travel and fish a megalodon.

 

[skyshrimp]

I just asked ChatGPT to tell me which countries have populations that are closest to Mordor.

It gave me a detailed top 5 and seemed to be enjoying itself

It can be brutally honest if you phrase questions correctly.

 

[WWGD]

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Wonder what the leftmost guy would look next to Yao. Better not to have them next to each other; Yao may accidentally step on him.

 

[WWGD]

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They call "The Rock"'s son, "Prudential": A piece of the rock(Rock).

 

[WWGD]

Wow, almost even scary when you ask a followup to a 9 year old online question and you get an answer some 30 seconds afterwards.

 

[WWGD]

Weird to see my phone notification song used in a movie.

 

[Borg]

My next vacation can't start soon enough.

 

[WWGD]

Interesting chart:

 

[Borg]

I'm on vacation and my wife invited her widowed friend to join us. So here I am walking around a beach resort getting strange looks like I have two wives. The look that we got from one woman at dinner was too funny.

I've decided to just own it.

 

[WWGD]

I'm on vacation and my wife invited her widowed friend to join us. So here I am walking around a beach resort getting strange looks like I have two wives. The look that we got from one woman at dinner was too funny.

I've decided to just own it.

Maybe could've tried vacationing in Utah. They go more by " Eight is Enough". Or so I hear.

 

[Borg]

I'm guessing that the woman at dinner drew the same conclusion about our arrangement.

 

[BillTre]

I'm on vacation and my wife invited her widowed friend to join us. So here I am walking around a beach resort getting strange looks like I have two wives. The look that we got from one woman at dinner was too funny.

I've decided to just own it.

Pictures would have been interesting.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I'm on vacation and my wife invited her widowed friend to join us. So here I am walking around a beach resort getting strange looks like I have two wives. The look that we got from one woman at dinner was too funny.

I've decided to just own it.

A few years ago I actually took two women out for dinner. It was certainly a new kind of social challenge!

Spoiler

I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The other day I caught Smerconish (CNN political show) invoking Ockham's Razor; incorrectly of course.

"The obvious answer is almost always correct"

Now how much should I trust his interpretation of current events? Egad!!!!

 

[WWGD]

The other day I caught Smerconish (CNN political show) invoking Ockham's Razor; incorrectly of course.

"The obvious answer is almost always correct"

Now how much should I trust his interpretation of current events? Egad!!!!

You're not likely to find someone who gets everything right. He may have also failed while trying to simplify a point. Now, if you catch them making 3-4 mistakes in a short time that's a clearer indication of ineptitude.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

You're not likely to find someone who gets everything right. He may have also failed while trying to simplify a point. Now, if you catch them making 3-4 mistakes in a short time that's a clearer indication of ineptitude.

My take is he is intellectually sloppy and doesn't do his homework. I often watch him because there isn't much else interesting to watch at 6 AM on Saturday mornings. And lately he has been annoying me. But this degree of sloppiness shocked me. I expected better than that.

 

[WWGD]

My take is he is intellectually sloppy and doesn't do his homework. I often watch him because there isn't much else interesting to watch at 6 AM on Saturday mornings. And lately he has been annoying me. But this degree of sloppiness shocked me. I expected better than that.

Ok. I haven't owned a TV for a while. What annoys me is people in YT who drop by videos and comment on how they don't like a song, sport, etc? Just don't watch it then.

 

[WWGD]

Final exam in Astronomy administered by Carl Sagan.

 

[OmCheeto]

Being old, I did a search yesterday, on how likely I am to get a hip fracture.
Today, I looked at the growth of the S&P 500 Index fund.

The equation today, looked spookily familiar.

Upon confirmation, it reminded me of the old Pirates vs 'something or other' not-a-correlation.

That is all.

ps. References available on request.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Fun Fact: Many years ago, my uncle ran the service department at a very large GM dealership in Los Angeles. This place was huge! They had a service center dedicated to servicing large busses. And many of these busses were the personal busses of celebrities who used them for travel; mainly movie stars and musicians. Since he ran the department, my uncle could check out a bus for some bogus reason and take them for a personal road trip. No one knew the difference. He was the boss.

One year my uncle, his wife and daughter, my ex and I, and I think my sister all took Willy Nelson's bus on a 1000-mile road test for a week to visit other family members. Because of my work on mobile CAT scanners and MRI, which were on large busses and tractor trailers, I was licensed to drive a bus. So was my uncle. So off we went. It was very nice inside a heck of a way to travel.

Guess what we found in a tray under one of the beds.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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And if by some miracle it remains intact, it will circumnavigate the galaxy in 400-450 million years.

More likely it will merge with an alien probe, become a lifeform, and return to earth looking for its creator.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school...

It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it.

Nobody does.

Spoiler: Can you name the author?

Richard P. Feynman, QED, The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

 

[collinsmark]

[...] merge with an alien probe, become a lifeform, and return to earth looking for its creator.

We'll have to wait for the launch of Voyager 6 first. (Voyager 1 doesn't make the cut.)

 

[OmCheeto]

Doh! It happened again.

Was trying again to figure out the probability of me breaking my hip, when an intermediary graph reminded me of solar panel output graphs from my younger years.

linear-ish, then whoa!, then linear-ish again.

I'm blaming this on Martin Gardner. That bastard got me REALLY going.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Name that show! (Hint: Does not have the word "Happy" in the title.)

 

[WWGD]

Attn: NFL recruiters:

 

[WWGD]

Being old, I did a search yesterday, on how likely I am to get a hip fracture.
Today, I looked at the growth of the S&P 500 Index fund.

The equation today, looked spookily familiar.

Upon confirmation, it reminded me of the old Pirates vs 'something or other' not-a-correlation.

That is all.

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ps. References available on request.

Nothing hip about a fracture. Strength training has helped me. I've fallen hard on a combination of cement and hardened snow a few times without any issues.

 

[fresh_42]

Attn: NFL recruiters:

Illegal block in the back (Rule 12.3.b), loss of 10 yards.

 

[WWGD]

Illegal block in the back (Rule 12.3.b), loss of 10 yards.

Wow, Deutschland knows football ( Maybe soccer too.)

 

[fresh_42]

Wow, Deutschland knows football ( Maybe soccer too.)

I had to look up the section.

 

[WWGD]

I had to look up the section.

I'm citing "Aussie Rules Footbal". Kind of strange how your English usage is unusual in some ways but absurdly better than average in others.

 

[pinball1970]

A happy way to start the day:

What they do not tell you is that it was in fact the Buffalo, that placed the poor creature in that position in the first place!
The fiend!

 

[WWGD]

What they do not tell you is that it was in fact the Buffalo, that placed the poor creature in that position in the first place!
The fiend!

At least s/he made up for it.

 

[pinball1970]

At least s/he made up for it.

Playing to the crowd, "Hey I'm a large bovine but I will happily help out my testudine brother..."
Like he's all innocent and playing the hero.

 

[WWGD]

Playing to the crowd, "Hey I'm a large bovine but I will happily help out my testudine brother..."
Like he's all innocent and playing the hero.

Don't remind me of the times in Japan's Subway Sandwich place with an employee named 'Ahiro'.

 

[OmCheeto]

Nothing hip about a fracture. Strength training has helped me. I've fallen hard on a combination of cement and hardened snow a few times without any issues.

In your mid 60's? Good for you for staying so active!
Just be aware that 1 in 5 people who fracture their hips die within the next year.

 

[WWGD]

In your mid 60's? Good for you for staying so active!
Just be aware that 1 in 5 people who fracture their hips die within the next year.

Not quite there yet. Wish you well , though.

 

[WWGD]

I'd like to see someone at some point say "Needless to say", and say absolutely nothing afterwards.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I'd like to see someone at some point say "Needless to say", and say absolutely nothing afterwards.

Needless to say....

 

[WWGD]

Needless to say....

By someone who needs no introduction :

 

[WWGD]

Before Summer ends...

 

[OmCheeto]

Just ordered a bunch of oddball fish to be delivered tomorrow morning.

cost	lb	what
$7.60	1	catfish fillets
$8.00	1	boneless skinless cod fillets
$11.00	2	boneless skinless tilapia fillets
$19.00	1.5	Atlantic Salmon Fillet
$11.00	2	Swai Fillets Boneless & Skinless
$56.60	7.5	total

I plan on smoking it all.

 

[WWGD]

Just ordered a bunch of oddball fish to be delivered tomorrow morning.

cost	lb	what
$7.60	1	catfish fillets
$8.00	1	boneless skinless cod fillets
$11.00	2	boneless skinless tilapia fillets
$19.00	1.5	Atlantic Salmon Fillet
$11.00	2	Swai Fillets Boneless & Skinless
$56.60	7.5	total

I plan on smoking it all.

Then get some rolling paper too ;).

 

[BillTre]

Oddball fish means something different to me:

Here's some guy's list.

 

[OmCheeto]

Oddball fish means something different to me:

Here's some guy's list.

I miss being a fish person.
When I was about 8, my mom took me to the local Woolworths store where they were giving away free goldfish. Beings that she was by that time single, with 6 other children to take care for, 'free' was a price she could afford to spend on me.
For the next 60 years, I was seldom without some 'oddball' fish.
One of my favorites were the mouthbrooders. I raised at least one batch.
Of course, just being a hobby, once I reached adulthood, I kept them only as pets.