Random Thoughts 7

[WWGD]

Interesting use of language: "Several Plethoras"

 

[DrGreg]

Why you shouldn't trust a computer to generate content without human supervision:

 

[WWGD]

I bought my phone in January 2023. This is its icon for . A bit outdated.

 

[BillTre]

I see two different icons for this.
One in the post on the website on my laptop:

And another that is a bit more modern in the email from the website alerting me to the post:

!!!

 

[WWGD]

Kind of embarrassing. I, the supposed hot shot science guy, taking like 20 some minutes to figure out at what point between 3 and 4 p.m., the hours and minute hands on the clock form a straight line. Since at 3 p.m the needles form 90 degrees *, with the hours hand at 0 deg, and minutes needle runs 12 x as fast as the hours needle, we have a simple 12x-(90+ x)=180. But I got all mixed up considering radians, degrees, converting back and forth between different units.

*Seemed easier here to use degrees , rather than radians.

 

[WWGD]

Kind of bizarre when I realizee all my YT feed was from around 3 to 4 years back and so much of it turned around Covid.

 

[Borg]

Ever had an idea that felt just so fundamentally radical that you thought that there has to be a flaw that you're overlooking? I having one of those moments today. I guess that I'll have to do the hard work to prove myself wrong.

Edit: Found the first thing that I didn't consider already but I don't think that it's a showstopper.

 

[jack action]

The clearest sign of intellectual chemistry isn't agreeing with someone. It's enjoying your disagreements with them.

Harmony is the pleasing arrangement of different tones, voices, or instruments, not the combination of identical sounds.

Creative tension makes beautiful music.

 

[Borg]

I need to remember that the next time I'm arguing with myself.

 

[WWGD]

I thought I was blazing a trail. Then , though a basic search, I realized many had tried to repop unpopped corn. Even several times.

 

[WWGD]

Guy calls me to followup for a job I applied two years ago. " Tell us about some experience or something special about yourself". Well, guy, I've been to the desert in a horse with no name. hasn't contacted me again.

 

[WWGD]

Hmm, nothing shows affection like offering food and then saying " If you don't eat it, Ill just throw it out anyway".

 

[WWGD]

Lady has her wallet carelessly embedded in her purse. She drops it, I point it out to her. Then she puts it back in her purse in the exact same precarious way.

 

[PhDeezNutz]

All permutations of Richard Feynman are funny if you replace Feyn with Fine and Richard with Dick. Just Sayin'

 

[collinsmark]

All permutations of Richard Feynman are funny if you replace Feyn with Fine and Richard with Dick. Just Sayin'

Richard Feynman did in fact go by the name of "Dick." It was his common name used by friends, family, and colleagues.

And of course, the "Feyn" in Feynman is pronounced the same as "fine."

So, realistically, that already was the way it was.

 

[PhDeezNutz]

Richard Feynman did in fact go by the name of "Dick." It was his common name used by friends, family, and colleagues.

And of course, the "Feyn" in Feynman is pronounced the same as "fine."

So, realistically, that already was the way it was.

Fine Man Dick is funny

now that i think about it other permutations may not be.

 

[nuuskur]

sheesh, it's been 10 years!

 

[Borg]

Fine Man Dick is funny

now that i think about it other permutations may not be.

You mean like someone I knew whose parents named him Richard Edward? (Dick Ed)

 

[PhDeezNutz]

You mean like someone I knew whose parents named him Richard Edward? (Dick Ed)

That's rough man. Was his middle initial H? Oh god that would be cruel.

 

[Astronuc]

The governor, Gavin Newsom, imposed a state of emergency on Monday as officials cut power to 245 homes in the seaside community, about 25 miles (40km) south of Los Angeles, due to worsening land movement. The electricity provider in the region, Southern California Edison, shut off power to 140 homes on Sunday and another 105 on Monday, citing the risk of igniting fires.

‘Gigantic’ landslides hit California coastal town: ‘Watching their homes crumble’​

https://news.yahoo.com/news/hundreds-coastal-california-homes-lose-201532932.html

Nice view from expensive houses that are built on unstable ground. They should have known that.

Rancho Palos Verdes is now grappling with buckling streets, buildings sinking and cracking and hundreds of families forced to leave their homes, said Janice Hahn, a Los Angeles county supervisor, at a news conference on Monday.

I've seen a similar situation on Soledad Mountain in LoJolla, Ca, where a water leak in a water main soaked the ground down grade such that a portion of the mount subsided with the road and several houses.

 

[Tom.G]

Due to heavy rain the last two years, a slip plane was lubricated and the area started slowly sliding to the sea. There was enough water in the saturated ground that it seeped down to another, previously unknown, slip plane, about 600 feet deep.

With the two active slip planes, some areas were/are traveling as much as 1 foot per week.

Sounds terminal to me.

Tom

 

[Borg]

That's rough man. Was his middle initial H? Oh god that would be cruel.

Yeah, pretty rough. That was his first and middle name.

I've always liked Tom Hanks' combination of his first initial and last name - THanks. I can just imagine his email signature.

Thanks,
THanks

 

[symbolipoint]

I found an old box of face masks from the Covid days. I thought Id use them as eye covers for sleeping. Snag: I have ears. Masks were on the snug side and width of my face around /including my ears is larger than around my mouth.

COVID days are still with us.

I bought a box of paper-ish masks, 50 ea. per box, and from 3 years ago, still have most or half of them still in the box.

Cloth masks can be made, for those individuals motivated to do it. And no need for sewing machine.

 

[WWGD]

COVID days are still with us.

I bought a box of paper-ish masks, 50 ea. per box, and from 3 years ago, still have most or half of them still in the box.

Cloth masks can be made, for those individuals motivated to do it. And no need for sewing machine.

By what account is Covid still a major issue?

 

[WWGD]

Wow, pickpocketing, tourist theft still a major issue. Some have taken it onto themselves to fight them, take them on in several YT channels.

 

[symbolipoint]

By what account is Covid still a major issue?

Still comes up in news reports. Summer surge we've been informed; and revised vaccines now being issued. Enough to convince me. I do not currently know the general data on hospitalizations and deaths.

 

[collinsmark]

Wow, pickpocketing, tourist theft still a major issue. Some have taken it onto themselves to fight them, take them on in several YT channels.

While I don't wish to undermine any real threats (pickpocketing and tourist theft do in fact occur, unfortunately), some YouTube videos of such things are staged. Maybe (certainly) not all, but some.

(Why would anybody stage a theft and post it to YouTube? I don't know. Pick a reason. It's a lot easier to stage an altercation than stumble upon a real one, I suppose.)

I guess my point is that when watching such videos, keep a skeptical eye open.

 

[WWGD]

While I don't wish to undermine any real threats (pickpocketing and tourist theft do in fact occur, unfortunately), some YouTube videos of such things are staged. Maybe (certainly) not all, but some.

(Why would anybody stage a theft and post it to YouTube? I don't know. Pick a reason. It's a lot easier to stage an altercation than stumble upon a real one, I suppose.)

I guess my point is that when watching such videos, keep a skeptical eye open.

Valid point, but these didn't seem staged, as, among other things, local authorities were involved, and I verified they were the real ones.

 

[Borg]

I went to a performance with my wife on Friday of an ABBA tribute band. Now I know what Matt Damon's character felt like. Thankfully the performance ended after two hours.

 

[WWGD]

I went to a performance with my wife on Friday of an ABBA tribute band. Now I know what Matt Damon's character felt like. Thankfully the performance ended after two hours.

Mama mia!