Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[zoobyshoe]

My sister just won a $500 poetry award. Included, they're going to publish a little book of her poems. She won a different award a few years back, with a couple of her pieces being published in an anthology.

I have to say, she's doing awfully well in a field where the competition is vast.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

When is the party?

12/21 once and only once in every year.

 

[Borg]

For me, this has been the year of things needing to be repaired or replaced. Today's winner - ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding - a root canal.

 

[WWGD]

My sister just won a $500 poetry award. Included, they're going to publish a little book of her poems. She won a different award a few years back, with a couple of her pieces being published in an anthology.

I have to say, she's doing awfully well in a field where the competition is vast.

Have her sign up for PF, and ask Greg to make her Poetress(??) Laureate of PF --pretty sure PF doesn't have one yet. Then maybe on to national Poet Laureate.

 

[wolram]

For me, this has been the year of things needing to be repaired or replaced. Today's winner - ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding - a root canal.

Poor old Borg, you should have dentures fitted , once teeth go bad it is a never ending story.

 

[wolram]

I have a cold right now, i wonder why no one has found a cure

 

[Borg]

Poor old Borg, you should have dentures fitted , once teeth go bad it is a never ending story.

I'm nowhere near ready for something like that. I have a very good dentist and haven't had any problems for at least 10 years.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Have her sign up for PF, and ask Greg to make her Poetress(??) Laureate of PF --pretty sure PF doesn't have one yet. Then maybe on to national Poet Laureate.

Don't think she'd go for it. Being surrounded by science and math geeks might possibly be in her top ten list of experiences most closely resembling hell. At any rate, I've mentioned my participation at PF a few times to her and her eyes glaze over and she pitches forward unconscious, as if having been shot up with a strong soporific pharmaceutical.

 

[Enigman]

Browsing the darker corners of the interwebz when I suddenly came across this:


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http://imgur.com/gallery/XmLy39y

 

[BiGyElLoWhAt]

Is there anywhere on this forum that it's acceptable to speculate with respect to QCD? I would like to talk through some things with people that I can trust to know something on the matter. Thanks in advance =D

 

[WWGD]

Pretty weird: Sliced mushrooms $2.49 , 8 oz. Regular ( non-sliced) $1.99 10 oz. No distinction on type of mushroom made on the packaging. Are there really people willing to pay more than 50% extra to have their mushrooms sliced? Maybe the issue is the price difference --$0.50$ and not the ratio, for most people.

 

[Borg]

Pretty weird: Sliced mushrooms $2.49 , 8 oz. Regular ( non-sliced) $1.99 10 oz. No distinction on type of mushroom made on the packaging. Are there really people willing to pay more than 50% extra to have their mushrooms sliced?

What I never understand is when I see an 8 oz can that costs significantly more than buying two 4 oz. cans.

 

[WWGD]

What I never understand is when I see an 8 oz can that costs significantly more than buying two 4 oz. cans.

With the additional whammy of extra packaging for the two 4 oz. vs the 8 oz. Seems like paying attention can save you some $$.

 

[Borg]

With the additional whammy of extra packaging for the two 4 oz. vs the 8 oz. Seems like paying attention can save you some $$.

I could probably write a book about what I see in the stores.

 

[zoobyshoe]

One of the $.99 stores in the vicinity has provided an interesting choice of 0 calorie sweeteners for quite a while now: a box of 50 packets for .99, or a box of a hundred packets for .99. They're always sitting on the shelf right next to each other. The packets are exactly the same size, the 100 packet box is twice the size and weight of the 50 packet box. No hidden tricks of any kind. But the same price.

 

[WWGD]

Yes, the economic theory assuming a perfectly rational customer bit the dust for good.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

One of the $.99 stores in the vicinity has provided an interesting choice of 0 calorie sweeteners for quite a while now: a box of 50 packets for .99, or a box of a hundred packets for .99. They're always sitting on the shelf right next to each other. The packets are exactly the same size, the 100 packet box is twice the size and weight of the 50 packet box. No hidden tricks of any kind. But the same price.

Sometimes smaller is better. Back in the days when I bought breakfast cereal, they sometimes had a "special offer 50% extra" where the 500g packet had been increased to a 750g one (basically it was a 750g packet with a different label). However, the 750g packet was too large for my cupboard, so if I could find an old 500g packet I'd buy that, otherwise I wouldn't buy that cereal at all until the "special offer" had ended.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I got up at 6:00 A.M. but a couple hours later decided I hadn't gotten enough sleep, so I lay back down. At about noon an explosion woke me up. Turned out to be thunder, and the rain was coming down hard.

I hopped in the car and went to a coffee shop where I could sit outside under an overhang and watch the deluge. The lightning was close and the thunder particularly rich in sonic booms. I must have jumped out of the chair 5 times. Windows rattled and car alarms went off for blocks around me. All very unusual for San Diego. Especially in the summer.

 

[Evo]

One of the $.99 stores in the vicinity has provided an interesting choice of 0 calorie sweeteners for quite a while now: a box of 50 packets for .99, or a box of a hundred packets for .99. They're always sitting on the shelf right next to each other. The packets are exactly the same size, the 100 packet box is twice the size and weight of the 50 packet box. No hidden tricks of any kind. But the same price.

Same ingredient?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Same ingredient?

That I haven't checked. They are two separate manufacturers, though.

 

[WWGD]

Interesting hit: I submitted my CV to a bunch of job sites and one of the offers I got was" "part time neurosurgeon". I guess if the part is really, really small, like just enough time to wash my hands, I can pull it off. Beyond those 2 minutes, it is highly questionable. I mean, I imagine accepting the offer, like in some movies, and then trying to BS my way; seems like would be particularly difficult for this choice of job.

 

[WWGD]

I got up at 6:00 A.M. but a couple hours later decided I hadn't gotten enough sleep, so I lay back down. At about noon an explosion woke me up. Turned out to be thunder, and the rain was coming down hard.

I hopped in the car and went to a coffee shop where I could sit outside under an overhang and watch the deluge. The lightning was close and the thunder particularly rich in sonic booms. I must have jumped out of the chair 5 times. Windows rattled and car alarms went off for blocks around me. All very unusual for San Diego. Especially in the summer.

I guess the song title " It almost never rains in Southern California" was not catchy-enough.

Maybe you could try to write a Bohemian's (my friend pronounces it like "Bahamian") guide to San Diego, describing different coffee shops. I am thinking of doing the same here myself. Though maybe a website/blog would be better, specially to allow for updates/changes. But then it is tricky, since you cannot take ad revenue from the sites you rate/describe. I think your writing is richer than mine; I think my technical work has hindered my (non-technical) writing skills, I in part since most of what I write requires the use of only relatively few words.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Maybe you could try to write a Bohemian's (my friend pronounces it like "Bahamian") guide to San Diego, describing different coffee shops. I am thinking of doing the same here myself. Though maybe a website/blog would be better, specially to allow for updates/changes. But then it is tricky, since you cannot take ad revenue from the sites you rate/describe. I think your writing is richer than mine; I think my technical work has hindered my (non-technical) writing skills, I in part since most of what I write requires the use of only relatively few words.

Any such book would be good for about two weeks. The scene changes rapidly, and there has been a steady decline in good places over the past 4 years with many of the best spots having closed for various reasons. I have actually taken to exploring 24 hour donut shops as an alternative but they universally suffer from a lack of the sine qua non of a 'Hang Out," which is that none of them has a public restroom. You've got an hour tops before your bladder explodes. Maybe I could call it, "The Decline and Fall of Caffein Civilization in San Diego," but it would be a book mostly about the past, not the present.

 

[WWGD]

Any such book would be good for about two weeks. The scene changes rapidly, and there has been a steady decline in good places over the past 4 years with many of the best spots having closed for various reasons. I have actually taken to exploring 24 hour donut shops as an alternative but they universally suffer from a lack of the sine qua non of a 'Hang Out," which is that none of them has a public restroom. You've got an hour tops before your bladder explodes. Maybe I could call it, "The Decline and Fall of Caffein Civilization in San Diego," but it would be a book mostly about the past, not the present.

Ditto here, but that is why I also mentioned a blog, to help account for changes. Now that you mention bathrooms, I had a charming exchange with a complete stranger recently. He started mentioning, out of nowhere (we had not started a conversation by then ) how certain "byways" along buildings here had been closed to the public recently. He mentioned that those were the places where he would urinate when nature called. He went on , with a lot of detail,. to give me a list of good spots and tricks for urinating in public places without getting caught. Now, how about that for a book/weblog? UrineTown (Your in Town)?
Moreover , go figure, Greg will not allow me to post any of what I learned about guerrilla urination in the "insights" blog. I give up!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Ditto here, but that is why I also mentioned a blog, to help account for changes. Now that you mention bathrooms, I had a charming exchange with a complete stranger recently. He started mentioning, out of nowhere (we had not started a conversation by then ) how certain "byways" along buildings here had been closed to the public recently. He mentioned that those were the places where he would urinate when nature called. He went on , with a lot of detail,. to give me a list of good spots and tricks for urinating in public places without getting caught. Now, how about that for a book/weblog? UrineTown (Your in Town)?
Moreover , go figure, Greg will not allow me to post any of what I learned about guerrilla urination in the "insights" blog. I give up!

That would certainly be a major contribution to literature.

I think it would have been interesting had you been able to record this guy. Then the recording could be given to an appropriate cartoonist, someone of the likes of R. Crumb, who could render it as a comic (or "graphic novel" as they are pretentiously referred to nowadays).

 

[zoobyshoe]

Same thing today: another deluge from the sky!

Today, though, there was a mysterious lack of concomitant electrical activity.

In any event, it would be nice, if somewhat inconvenient, if this kept up till our drought was reversed.

 

[Borg]

The "Watch blah, blah online" spammers have changed their tactics to create posts with semi-plausible titles with links to their spam on reddit. Every one of the ones that I've reported in the last two weeks has been posted in the Quantum Physics thread. Such weird quantum behavior...

 

[WWGD]

I was asked if I wanted to do Pro Bono Work. No idea what Bono has to see with it, but I think he's rich enough as it is..

 

[zoobyshoe]

I was asked if I wanted to do Pro Bono Work. No idea what Bono has to see with it, but I think he's rich enough as it is..

I can't believe you edited this, but failed to correct, "...has to see with it...".

Didn't you mean, "...has to do with it..."?

 

[WWGD]

I think this

I can't believe you edited this, but failed to correct, "...has to see with it...".

Didn't you mean, "...has to do with it..."?

I think here in the NEast " it has to see with it" is common, though I am not sure. But definitely not as tubular as "has to do with it".

 

[Evo]

I think thisI think here in the NEast " it has to see with it" is common, though I am not sure. But definitely not as tubular as "has to do with it".

Never heard the expression "has to see with it" when what is meant is "has to do with it". I lived in the NE for a number of years.

 

[WWGD]

Never heard the expression "has to see with it" when what is meant is "has to do with it". I lived in the NE for a number of years.

Maybe it has to _do_ with my weirdness, making up my own sayings.

 

[Evo]

Maybe it has to do_ with my weirdness, making up my own sayings.

LOL! I make up my own words, it's a good thing.

 

[WWGD]

I like to move my head side-to-side , when I see someone listening to music and moving their head up-and-down. It seems to have a weird confusing effect .

EDIT: Though I did get a few hits for "nothing to see":

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nothing_to_see

 

[zoobyshoe]

EDIT: Though I did get a few hits for "nothing to see":

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nothing_to_see

I've never heard of this. Even if people are saying it, I wouldn't emulate them. It has a brain-damaged aura to it, like the speaker has severe expressive aphasia.

 

[WWGD]

I've never heard of this. Even if people are saying it, I wouldn't emulate them. It has a brain-damaged aura to it, like the speaker has severe expressive aphasia.

The French use the expression "Rien a Voir" , which I think translates to "Nothing to see With"

http://en.bab.la/dictionary/french-english/n-avoir-rien-%C3%A0-voir-avec

 

[zoobyshoe]

The French use the expression "Rien a Voir" , which I think translates to "Nothing to see With"

http://en.bab.la/dictionary/french-english/n-avoir-rien-%C3%A0-voir-avec

The French are all brain damaged, yes. Ignore them.

 

[WWGD]

The French are all brain damaged, yes. Ignore them.

Good, I can now eat Freedom Fries!

 

[strangerep]

From "Dilbert", Wed 15 July 2015:

Advice is just ego and ignorance disguised as helpfulness.

I must try harder to remember that.

 

[ShayanJ]

From "Dilbert", Wed 15 July 2015:
I must try harder to remember that.

Strange from a science "Advisor"!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Dilbert is just ego and ignorance disguised as humor.

 

[strangerep]

Strange from a science "Advisor"!

Heh, I never asked for that title, and was somewhat embarrassed when it magically appeared one day. Remember: I am only a "Strange Representation of a Science Advisor".

[OTOH, the award did make me more careful about the things I'd say. ]

Perhaps the Dilbert quote should say "Unsolicited advice [...]".

 

[strangerep]

[...] Dilbert is just ego and ignorance disguised as humor.

You don't like Dilbert??

 

[HomogenousCow]

Can electrical sockets in the UK handle desktops with 1500 watt PSUs?

 

[OmCheeto]

...PSUs?

Power Sucking Units?

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Can electrical sockets in the UK handle desktops with 1500 watt PSUs?

The standard UK electrical socket handles up to approx 3KW (nominally 13A at approx 230V).

 

[WWGD]

Just applied to a dream job at MLBaseball. Keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[HomogenousCow]

The standard UK electrical socket handles up to approx 3KW (nominally 13A at approx 230V).

Should be fine then. But just in case, would connecting my desktop computer to its own power socket help? (as in, having my monitor and other peripherals on another socket)

 

[zoobyshoe]

A couple days ago this guy I know asked on Facebook if anyone knew how to get a restraining order. He was being stalked and harassed by an ex-girlfriend.

Today he posts that she broke into his house last night when he was out and trashed thousands of dollars of stuff, mostly electronics. Then, she came back late at night when he was asleep and attacked him with a knife and tried to cut his member off.

He and his housemates restrained her and called the cops. She was still screaming insanely when the cops got there and took her away.

Then he said something mysterious, which is that a judge granted him an immediate restraining order today: he didn't have to go through the usual filing and wait. Now, what is mysterious to me is that he shouldn't need it now: she should either be in jail or undergoing psychiatric evaluation. I posted that, but he hasn't responded yet. What I'm afraid of is that he might not be pressing charges for the attack.

 

[Silicon Waffle]