Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[Silicon Waffle]

Blank Tournament, failed!

 

[OmCheeto]

And, I'm off again!
Can't say no.

Though, there are only 5 Vespa Virgins heading in that direction this time.
See you on Monday.

 

[wolram]

...If you don't mind having a full 2 days of sunlight every year? At least that is the reputation.

Ha, we are basking in a 70f heat wave at the moment

 

[zoobyshoe]

He should be ready for a surprise. But judging from the story chances are he will see the film as properly developed.

So, I had to google, and there's something people are calling "Caffenol."

http://caffenol.blogspot.com/

Instant coffee, vitamin C, and washing soda.

 

[Ibix]

Ha, we are basking in a 70f heat wave at the moment

With occasional exciting thunder/rain/hail storms. I almost had to swim to work this morning.

 

[collinsmark]

So, I had to google, and there's something people are calling "Caffenol."

http://caffenol.blogspot.com/

Instant coffee, vitamin C, and washing soda.

Fascinating.

Now I'm thinking that good ol' espresso (no cream, sugar or washing soda) might make a good stop bath.

I don't know what one would do for fixer though.

 

[Borek]

So, I had to google, and there's something people are calling "Caffenol."

http://caffenol.blogspot.com/

Instant coffee, vitamin C, and washing soda.

Interesting, but the original statement (as quoted by you) that you can develop the film "because of acid" is quite inaccurate. Caffeic acid (as well as ascorbic acid) are reducing agents - and it has nothing to do with the fact they are acids.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Interesting, but the original statement (as quoted by you) that you can develop the film "because of acid" is quite inaccurate. Caffeic acid (as well as ascorbic acid) are reducing agents - and it has nothing to do with the fact they are acids.

Even if his reasoning about why it works is wrong, I'm still surprised there is any truth to it at all.

It makes me wonder how this got started. A freak accidental discovery, or did someone with some chemistry knowledge McGyver it up when caught short on developer?

 

[JorisL]

Getting pissed of by these course notes (quite possibly the worst I've ever had including scans of old slides for an overhead projector with just sketches)

The mass-velocity effect. The dependence of the electron mass on the electron velocity causes altered orbits for high-speed electrons (= the ones closest to the nucleus).

Really? Relativistic mass?
Mind you these notes are aimed at master's students and there have been plans to make a book out of them.
Only 190 pages to go :-(

Way too distracting.

\end{venting}

 

[Astronuc]

The Idea of Wellbeing
The Reith Lectures, Dr Atul Gawande: The Future of Medicine

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v380z#auto

Health care accounts for 10% of the global economy and there are about 8 million doctors in the world.

 

[Lisa!]

I can't stand my boss anymore. I don't want to quit my job though!

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I can't stand my boss anymore. I don't want to quit my job though!

Me neither

 

[zoobyshoe]

Jurassic Park is now simultaneously playing on four separate cable channels: USA, Bravo, E!, and Sci-Fi.

 

[Lisa!]

Natalie Portman is the most beautiful woman on Earth according to science! I think she's very pretty but not on my 10 most beautiful women list.

 

[WWGD]

Jurassic Park is now simultaneously playing on four separate cable channels: USA, Bravo, E!, and Sci-Fi.

I think insipid, vanilla 'Friends' is playing on every single network. Not simultaneously, but if you flip around,you will find find friends playing every other hour -or-so. I doubt a single real controversy has been depicted on any episode.

 

[Psinter]

I'm pretty sure they did. Cosmetics, from what I am lead to believe, have been around since the dawn of civilization (maybe before even).
http://cosmeticsinfo.org/Ancient-history-cosmetics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmetics_in_Ancient_Rome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_cosmetics_in_ancient_Egypt

Nice. Thanks for that info. :) It's always good to know. (I got the job btw, Sharpie Brow worked perfectly. *Yay*)
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I'm just going to leave this here.

 

[WWGD]

Isn't the issue of games strange? I mean coming up with the rules to play Baseball, Soccer/Futbol, Basketball, etc.? I would say easily 99.999% of rules one would com up with to design a new game would produce nothing of value, maybe not even anything coherent at all , and most likely would end up being like 43-man Squamish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43-Man_Squamish . Yet someone came up with such collection of rules?
I am forwarding this to Ancient Aliens' Tsoukalos,as clear , indisputable evidence that aliens came up with Baseball. Since this is a theory I came up with, I am an" Ancient Alien Theorist" , and my theory is supported in that, as the show goes, now it can be said by Tsoukalos et Al. that "some Ancient Alien theorists believe, that Baseball..." . This is an oftenused argument in the show.

 

[WWGD]

I wonder what a paranoid poster would think if s/he went to "My PF" ( 4 left from the cat) , and s/he read: "So and so is following you". I just PMd Greg about this clearly urgent issue.

 

[Psinter]

I wonder what a paranoid poster would think if s/he went to "My PF" ( 4 left from the cat) , and s/he read: "So and so is following you". I just PMd Greg about this clearly urgent issue.

It doesn't matter because:

http://c4b803b63wnp4kay1hyjpw15wl.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/tumblr_muvbnm3GfC1sffwkfo1_500.png

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[Silicon Waffle]

Can't believe this keeps me laughing a lot.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

My boss is being more and more ridiculously practical. I'll watch if she still wants to become Virgin Mary or Goddess wearing Prada. Bhuhahaha .
Yes, Christian Republicans ideas suck!

 

[zoobyshoe]

I was out drawing at a coffeehouse last night when I felt a very disturbing sensation on my right wrist: something peculiar was touching me. I was wearing a button down shirt with the sleeves rolled back just past my wrists. Looking down, I saw a huge cockroach hanging onto my sleeve, testing my wrist with its antennae.

 

[blue_leaf77]

Think you know about Miley Cyrus?
http://www.biography.com/people/miley-cyrus-299134

 

[Evo]

I was out drawing at a coffeehouse last night when I felt a very disturbing sensation on my right wrist: something peculiar was touching me. I was wearing a button down shirt with the sleeves rolled back just past my wrists. Looking down, I saw a huge cockroach hanging onto my sleeve, testing my wrist with its antennae.

EWWWWWW.

 

[Evo]

Think you know about Miley Cyrus?
http://www.biography.com/people/miley-cyrus-299134

Is this supposed to be interesting, because it's not.

 

[blue_leaf77]

It's not, which is why it suits the title of this thread because it's not titled "interesting random thoughts part 4".

 

[zoobyshoe]

It's not, which is why it suits the title of this thread because it's not titled "interesting random thoughts part 4".

IMO, it came in like a wrecking ball.

 

[WWGD]

I was out drawing at a coffeehouse last night when I felt a very disturbing sensation on my right wrist: something peculiar was touching me. I was wearing a button down shirt with the sleeves rolled back just past my wrists. Looking down, I saw a huge cockroach hanging onto my sleeve, testing my wrist with its antennae.

Isnt that the same place as the one with the rats playing in the dumpster? If so, maybe not too many options for coffee hoses nearby?

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I may die sooner than expected.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Isnt that the same place as the one with the rats playing in the dumpster? If so, maybe not too many options for coffee hoses nearby?

No, the rat dumpster was by a donut shop in a completely different part of town.

The cockroach was the large species that lives in storm drains. You often see them on the sidewalks here at night everywhere in San Diego. It's presence there was no reflection on the coffee house. They just occasionally wander into buildings. On the other hand, if you see a small species of roach, that would indicate the establishment is infested.

 

[ShayanJ]

I may die sooner than expected.

That applies to everyone!

 

[Silicon Waffle]

It'll be unfair if I do but you don't.

 

[Lisa!]

I may die sooner than expected.

Me too!

 

[Borg]

I'll probably die sooner than expected because I expect to live to 150.

 

[ShayanJ]

I'll probably die sooner than expected because I expect to live to 150.

You expect to die sooner than expected because you expect to live 150 years. Contradictory expectations!

 

[Borg]

You expect to die sooner than expected because you expect to live 150 years. Contradictory expectations!

That may be.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Heh very scientific, I love PF because of people's scientific thoughts to look for truths, those of which once get blended with real analysis and advanced math qualitatively and quantitatively can beautify most of the outcomes.

 

[WWGD]

You expect to die sooner than expected because you expect to live 150 years. Contradictory expectations!

If no one had contradictory emotions/expectations, there would be no poetry. I am almost 100% every person has inconsistent views/ideas/etc. in one area or another.

 

[WWGD]

My biggest dream as an instructor has always been that of receiving a non-sarcastic slow clap.

http://www.cuil.pt/r.php?cx=0028257...D:10&ie=UTF-8&q=slow+clap,+you+tube&sa=Search

 

[thankz]

I found out today that I couldn't convert .387096774193548 into a fraction, I did already learn factoring and the rules of divisibility but I swear as people keep trying to change my mind I find out I know nuthin lol. as a side note I think I might have come up with a quantum optical computer, I just don't know enough yet so right now it's speculation.

 

[OmCheeto]

That applies to everyone!

Not me. I expected to die half a lifetime ago.
Things are not going as planned...

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I don't know who Omcheeto is .
Except Greg's real face, I know no one's.

 

[zoobyshoe]

O.K. After 10 episodes I finally decided Modern Family is funny.

 

[zoobyshoe]

No, on second thought, I'm still not sure if it is.

 

[ShayanJ]

Just heard the news below:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-dirty-bombs-in-nuclear-test-reports-say.html
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20150609/1023105032.html
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/19130-israel-experiments-with-dirty-bomb
I'm wondering how people think US (government) is honest in his worries about Iran's nuclear program!

 

[Borg]

I'm wondering how people think US (government) is honest in his worries about Iran's nuclear program!

The chants of Death to America and Death to Isreal probably have something to do with it.

 

[Psinter]

I'm wondering how people think US (government) is honest in his worries about Iran's nuclear program!

As a matter of fact I don't think any government of any country in the world is honest about anything. Not that I'm anti-government. Just that I don't trust them. It's not like they trust me either... The feeling is mutual .

 

[ShayanJ]

The chants of Death to America and Death to Isreal probably have something to do with it.

Well, those chants are what US authorities have bought for themselves with their actions in Iran and other countries in the world. Also the fact that they don't seem to be willing to change their path.

 

[Borg]

Well, those chants are what US authorities have bought for themselves with their actions in Iran and other countries in the world. Also the fact that they don't seem to be willing to change their path.

I don't consider either country to be blameless. We all live in countries with their own propaganda. If you want to PM me, I'll be happy to discuss. Otherwise, I think this would get us both banned.

 

[ShayanJ]

I don't consider either country to be blameless. We all live in countries with their own propaganda. If you want to PM me, I'll be happy to discuss. Otherwise, I think this would get us both banned.

I didn't say one of them is blameless too. But the fact that all over the world, its Iran who is doing all the wrong thing and US is the saviour, is extremely ridiculous.
Yeah, we shouldn't continue this discussion here. I also I would love to have such discussions but I don't think there can be any good result.