Random Thoughts 7

[fresh_42]

How do you decide, given daily temperature data in two cities, which you would consider better? Max? Min? Median?

Humidity.

 

[WWGD]

For snow boarding? Waterskiing?

Yes, good points, just what most would consider overall better whether. But not clear how to pin it down specifically.

 

[WWGD]

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Simpsonische Paradoxen?

 

[fresh_42]

Yes, good points, just what most would consider overall better whether. But not clear how to pin it down specifically.

I think it depends on where you have been raised. My friend who grew up in NM considers everything below 25°C as bitter cold whereas my well-feel temperature depends heavily on humidity. I even like -10°C if it is dry and warm clothes are available.

I guess that the average human being considers anything around 21°C plus minus 3°C as an average temperature as desirable.

 

[WWGD]

I think it depends on where you have been raised. My friend who grew up in NM considers everything below 25°C as bitter cold whereas my well-feel temperature depends heavily on humidity. I even like -10°C if it is dry and warm clothes are available.

I guess that the average human being considers anything around 21°C plus minus 3°C as an average temperature as desirable.

So anyone outside of Southern California will be unhappy.
So, choose percent of days within that range?

 

[Tom.G]

Another measure is Heat Index, That is some (unknown to me) combination of temperature and relative humidity. Also sometimes called Feels Like.

It seems to be (or was?) used mostly by weather forecasters on the TV stations.

 

[WWGD]

Another measure is Heat Index, That is some (unknown to me) combination of temperature and ralative humidity. Also sometimes called Feels Like.

It seems to be (or was?) used mostly by weather forecasters on the TV stations.

The joke was that San Diego 's forecast was the world's shortest: " Yes, tomorrow will be yet another perfect day 74 degrees, no clouds. Good night.".

 

[Astronuc]

Doctor Who Invented a Brilliant Storytelling Trick — And Turned Itself Into a Phenomenon​

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/doctor-who-books-timeline-canon

I watched the original Dr Who in the 1960s with my father. I thought it was great. Tom Baker (the fourth Doctor, 1974 to 1981) was my favorite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Doctor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who

 

[fresh_42]

How many counties are there in the USA? I mean, there are really, really many and definitely too many for a republic:

county (n.)
...
From late 14c. as "the domain of a count or earl."

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=county

Btw., Germany seems to be full of topologists. We call counties circles.

 

[WWGD]

How many counties are there in the USA? I mean, there are really, really many and definitely too many for a republic:
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=county

Btw., Germany seems to be full of topologists. We call counties circles.

It was a trivia question a while back. It was 3,007, and the largest in the mainland US was San Bernardino in CA.

 

[WWGD]

Do they really check that city road systems are strongly-connected? Doesn't seem like it at times.

 

[WWGD]

How many counties are there in the USA? I mean, there are really, really many and definitely too many for a republic:
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=county

Btw., Germany seems to be full of topologists. We call counties circles.

Can you go between all counties without crossing any road twice? Herr Euler would be able to tell.

 

[Bystander]

It was a trivia question a while back. It was 3,007, and the largest in the mainland US was San Bernardino in CA.

Does, or doesn't, include "shires, parishes, 'hundreds,'" and other local sub-units of various states/commonwealths?

 

[Ibix]

Do they really check that city road systems are strongly-connected? Doesn't seem like it at times.

I've seen a student residence that didn't have that property. They'd installed swipe card doors, but some had been installed the wrong way round. So there were places you could get to that you couldn't get back out of if you didn't have a card.

(Obviously that wasn't strictly true, as you could go out of a window and presumably the fire alarm released the doors (although you possibly shouldn't bet on that given that the doors were obviously fitted incorrectly).)

 

[WWGD]

Does, or doesn't, include "shires, parishes, 'hundreds,'" and other local sub-units of various states/commonwealths?

Maybe not. There are townships, parishes ( LA*), etc.

* Either use L.A for Los Angeles or use the full name Louisiana.

 

[Astronuc]

A really bad headline -

Well-Preserved P-38 Fighter Jet Recovered in Italian Sea 80 Years After It Went Down During WWII​

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/well-preserved-p-38-fighter-170000877.html (may be edited/corrected at some point).

The P-38 Lightning was a twin prop aircraft. I don't recall the US or allies flying jet aircraft during WWII.

 

[WWGD]

Don't know if it's just the latest scam going around, but I've received several emails from Eastern European women asking if I'm available, interested in marriage, asking for my " coordinates" : Yes/no, age, employment status, etc.

 

[BillTre]

Don't know if it's just the latest scam going around, but I've received several emails from Eastern European women asking if I'm available, interested in marriage, asking for my " coordinates" : Yes/no, age, employment status, etc.

Tell them you're George Santos.
Out of congress now, so available.

 

[berkeman]

asking for my " coordinates" :

I don't think you have anything to worry about...

https://www.wellsandassociates.com/blog/beam-us-up-scotty-new-transporter-room-at-wa/

 

[WWGD]

I don't think you have anything to worry about...

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https://www.wellsandassociates.com/blog/beam-us-up-scotty-new-transporter-room-at-wa/

Ah, maybe we can hook up Santos with " Beam me up Scotty" James Trafficant. If Trafficant hasn't been ( beamed?) up yet.

 

[WWGD]

Awkward moment. Split and fell at a ( somewhat of a ) stranger's place, had nothing sturdy to help lift myself up, as stranger walked on, me kissing a wall to lift myself.

 

[fresh_42]

Awkward moment. Split and fell at a ( somewhat of a ) stranger's place, had nothing sturdy to help lift myself up, as stranger walked on, me kissing a wall to lift myself.

Kissing a wall? That reminds me of that American tourist in Israel who couldn't remember the name of that famous location in Jerusalem, so he asked the cab driver: "Can you drive me to that famous place here where the Jews mourn and cry?" He drove him to the Jerusalem tax office.

 

[WWGD]

Kissing a wall? That reminds me of that American tourist in Israel who couldn't remember the name of that famous location in Jerusalem, so he asked the cab driver: "Can you drive me to that famous place here where the Jews mourn and cry?" He drove him to the Jerusalem tax office.

More like fondling it.

 

[berkeman]

Awkward moment. Split and fell at a ( somewhat of a ) stranger's place, had nothing sturdy to help lift myself up, as stranger walked on, me kissing a wall to lift myself.

This means nothing without pictures or a YouTube video...

 

[WWGD]

This means nothing without pictures or a YouTube video...

How about an Insight?

 

[fresh_42]

How about an Insight?

This is a physicists' website. I know how that works. You would start by neglecting air resistance and friction and conclude that you had no chance to stand up.

 

[WWGD]

This is a physicists' website. I know how that works. You would start by neglecting air resistance and friction and conclude that you had no chance to stand up.

Ok, I'll start my account from the get go.
I left my place with an initial velocity of 5ft/ second.
Now, just writer's block. Tbc.

 

[Borg]

In order to simplify the equations of motion, you can substitute a spherical cow.

 

[BillTre]

In order to simplify the equations of motion, you can substitute a spherical cow.

Bounces better?

 

[Borg]

Bounces better?

I thought we were working on a group insight. Your turn.

 

[fresh_42]

Congratulations, Shaun!

(Shaun shot a max at the shoot-out.)

 

[WWGD]

Congratulations, Shaun!

(Shaun shot a max at the shoot-out.)

A max? Hope it wasn't neither the sheriff nor the deputy.

 

[Ibix]

Going to visit family on the train. It's three trains each way - one long range one and a short commuter service at each end.

I've just picked up the tickets, which are thin cardboard the size of a credit card with a magstripe. For three people, I have:

• 3× outbound tickets valid on any service that day
• 3× return tickets valid on any service in the following month
• 3× seat reservations on a specific train for the long range leg of the outbound journey
• 3× seat reservations on a specific train for the long range leg of the return journey
• 3× seat reservations on a specific train for the first leg of the return journey informing me that there are no seat reservations on that service
• 3× seat reservations on the a specific train for the last leg of the return journey informing me that there are no seat reservations on that service
• 1× coupon telling me that I've collected 19 tickets

Confusingly, I have no tickets telling me that there they don't reserve seats on the outbound commuter services.

Why it takes 12 pieces of card to tell me I have six seats on two train services, I do not know.

 

[WWGD]

I wonder what type of English language non-natives will learn from hearing Queen songs, with lines like :
" Tatterde malion and a yanketer.."
Or
" Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango"

They will believe Galileo was just a poor boy from a poor family.

 

[WWGD]

I guess MS Word's editor isn't much better than auto (in)correct. Seems a letter to Prof. Escalera, got mangled into a letter to " Stair Master".

 

[WWGD]

Going to visit family on the train. It's three trains each way - one long range one and a short commuter service at each end.

I've just picked up the tickets, which are thin cardboard the size of a credit card with a magstripe. For three people, I have:

• 3× outbound tickets valid on any service that day
• 3× return tickets valid on any service in the following month
• 3× seat reservations on a specific train for the long range leg of the outbound journey
• 3× seat reservations on a specific train for the long range leg of the return journey
• 3× seat reservations on a specific train for the first leg of the return journey informing me that there are no seat reservations on that service
• 3× seat reservations on the a specific train for the last leg of the return journey informing me that there are no seat reservations on that service
• 1× coupon telling me that I've collected 19 tickets

Confusingly, I have no tickets telling me that there they don't reserve seats on the outbound commuter services.

Why it takes 12 pieces of card to tell me I have six seats on two train services, I do not know.

Wow, multiply that by, what a billion yearly riders. Imagine the savings when rationalizing the system.

 

[Tom.G]

Can you IMAGINE the confusion/complexity if the boarding passes had to be read for all possible trip combinations to see if you were allowed on a particular trip??

Seems like the possible combinations is a factorial of the number of stations.

 

[WWGD]

New rule:
If someone is doing a blackboard presentation and uses simultaneously letters u and v or
n and m or i and j, its legal to shoot them.

 

[WWGD]

I can understand names like April, May, June. But I've recently seen women with first name ' January '. I have trouble seeing how it would elicit cozy feelings.

 

[Tom.G]

Brrr...
(or maybe her parents were trying to warm up after a hard harsh Winter.)

 

[Mayhem]

Old people need to stop giving advice on how to get jobs. I was told to hand out printed resumes and applications and each time they looked at me like I was stupid and reffered me to their online application portal.

 

[BillTre]

Old people need to stop giving advice on how to get jobs.

They ain't gonna stop, but you don't have to listen to them.

 

[Astronuc]

Villagers Collected 'Sacred 'Stones' for Generations, They Turned Out to Be Fossilized Dinosaur Eggs: Report​

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...e-fossilized-dinosaur-eggs-report/ar-AA1lLzUg

The people of Padlya in Madhya Pradesh have been digging up the palm-sized balls for generations, regarding them as sacred stones. Scientists determined that the objects were actually fossilized eggs laid by titanosaurs, a large long-necked dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period, between 145 to 66 million years ago. Research has revealed that the area's Narmada Valley may have been a breeding ground of the dinosaur based on 256 fossilized titanosaur eggs across 92 nesting sites.

New Late Cretaceous titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg clutches from lower Narmada valley, India: Palaeobiology and taphonomy​

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278242

 

[DennisN]

Neil deGrasse Tyson is making his cases just excellently.. (and Charles Barkley is very funny )

Neil deGrasse Tyson on aliens, UFOs and exploring space (CNN today, 1 hour ago)


(and, by the way, I have exactly the same view on these things as Tyson)

 

[DaveC426913]

For the longest time I touted that "December 21st is the shortest day of the year. The days only get longer from here!"

Until a buddy pointed out: "False. All days are the same length."

And now I just can't ever say that anymore.

"December 21 has the shortest sunrise-sunset duration of the year." or
"December 21 has the shortest daylight duration of the year." just don't have the same ring.

 

[Tom.G]

For the longest time I touted that "December 21st is the shortest day of the year. The days only get longer from here!"ry rephrasing as:

December 21st
has the shortest daylight time
has the fewest daylight hours
of the year.

 

[Ibix]

The opposite solstice, but my dad went into work on June 22nd, put on his best broad Yorkshire accent, and observed "evenin's are drawin' in".

 

[Rive]

Got this one yesterday:

It's Christmas, not an FDA inspection! Stop cleaning!

Big truth

 

[pinball1970]

Have good day all.

 

[pinball1970]

I went to the pub the other week and I was wet through as it had been raining.

Whilst ordering beer at my local, a Scottish man at the bar who I did not know looked at me and said that he was from Glasgow and some other things I could not quite understand.

What I did manage to decipher was this:

“I live in Glasgow and its always raining there, you want to try living in my world….”

Ok….Right.

If you want sympathy for being rained on all the time, Manchester really is not the place to come and find it.

(To put this in context, Manchester is known as the “Rainy City,” the reason is not straightforward or accurate and may be something to do with the industrial revolution rather than rain/rain days.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/britain-s-rainiest-cities-revealed-good-news-for-londoners- )