Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[OmCheeto]

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Anyways, the top NOAA recorded wind gust yesterday, down here, was 130 mph. (Mt. Hebo)
....

Hmmm... I guess I'm just used to living in a windy area.
I would have never guessed that a mere 130 mph is "Cat 4", on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

Or, maybe it was the time I changed the lightbulb, on the flight deck of the USS Saratoga, off the coast of Florida, somewhere in the Atlantic ocean, sometime in the summer of 1979, during a hurricane.

Which kind of reminds me of a news flash I saw this morning.

hmmm...

 

[Enigman]

I hate this time of the year.

 

[nuuskur]

One of my favourite video games: Heroes of might and magic 3 is getting a remake, but unfortunately Ubisoft is going to remake the weakest game in the H3 series :< *tears*

 

[DennisN]

Crappy journals...
"A paper by Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel was accepted by two scientific journals"
http://www.vox.com/2014/12/7/7339587/simpsons-science-paper

 

[RonL]

I hate this time of the year.

Would a hug from someone in the sisterhood make it better (not me, just to be clear)

 

[Medicol]

Enigman, let it go!

 

[Enigman]

(not me, just to be clear)

You haven't got a choice in the matter.
*BearHug*

 

[edward]

I just realized that Friday the 13th falls on Saturday this month. Churchill "churchy"La Femme may he rest in peace.

 

[RonL]

You haven't got a choice in the matter.
*BearHug*

Well I wasn't even down, but now I feel much better, THANKS:w:D

 

[Borg]

12/13/14 15:16:17

 

[RonL]

12/13/14 15:16:17

Drats, I missed it, I was out in the shop building a second floor. now I need to get back to work:D

 

[OmCheeto]

Drats, I missed it, I was out in the shop building a second floor. now I need to get back to work:D

I'll celebrate it for you, Ron. It's only 13:09, over here on the commie coast. :)

 

[RonL]

I'll celebrate it for you, Ron. It's only 13:09, over here on the commie coast. :)

Your a real pal Om, I can go out again feeling all is well :D had to come in and get a refresher screwdriver so that I can steady my balance while walking the 2 X 6 joist, using a real power screw driver:). It's a pretty good day here, hope you haven't had too much rain:(

 

[WWGD]

I hate this time of the year.

I always start lying to myself at this point about how great I think Winter really is. And I start complaining at the beginning of March about how I hate it. Otherwise it is too hard to get through it.

Drats, I missed it, I was out in the shop building a second floor. now I need to get back to work:D

No problem, just wait until the next sequence of this sort in 01/02/2103 at 04:05:06 .

 

[OmCheeto]

Your a real pal Om, I can go out again feeling all is well :D had to come in and get a refresher screwdriver so that I can steady my balance while walking the 2 X 6 joist, using a real power screw driver:). It's a pretty good day here, hope you haven't had too much rain:(

No rain.
Incredibly beautiful day.
I measured the surface temperature of the front of my house @ 90+°F about an hour ago.
Infrared thermometers, are the bomb.
Though, as I mentioned, they don't work on stainless steel.
Nor, as I discovered the other day, when you point them at the sky.
I decided that my new thermometer was trying to measure the cosmic background radiation temperature, as it was way lower than it should have been.
So I built a thermal reflecting station, above my doorbell.

ps. I missed celebrating the moment, by "that" much.

I was out feeding my cat.

 

[RonL]

I always start lying to myself at this point about how great I think Winter really is. And I start complaining at the beginning of March about how I hate it. Otherwise it is too hard to get through it.
No problem, just wait until the next sequence of this sort in 01/02/2103 at 04:05:06 .

Although I'm in good health @72, don't think I'll be there :(, but I'll make an effort :D

 

[RonL]

No rain.
Incredibly beautiful day.
I measured the surface temperature of the front of my house @ 90+°F about an hour ago.
Infrared thermometers, are the bomb.
Though, as I mentioned, they don't work on stainless steel.
Nor, as I discovered the other day, when you point them at the sky.
I decided that my new thermometer was trying to measure the cosmic background radiation temperature, as it was way lower than it should have been.
So I built a thermal reflecting station, above my doorbell.View attachment 76582ps. I missed celebrating the moment, by "that" much.

View attachment 76581

I was out feeding my cat.

It's the thought that counts, I'm in for the evening and in good health :) I added about 300 sq ft of upper level floor space in a 1200 sq ft shop, now I can procrastinate getting rid of stuff a little longer:(:D:(:D

 

[WWGD]

Example of unclear analogies: "Love is like oxygen". What, can you breathe love?
I mean, people often use analogies without specifying the analogous quality . Analogous
in what way?

 

[lisab]

At the grocery store today, I saw a woman ask a man - a stranger - for help reaching an item on an upper shelf. Nothing strange about that, I do it all the time because I'm about 162 cm. But the woman was very very small, and the man she asked was about my height. He was giggling the whole time -- it was probably the first time he'd ever been asked for help reaching something!

 

[edward]

It's the thought that counts, I'm in for the evening and in good health :) I added about 300 sq ft of upper level floor space in a 1200 sq ft shop, now I can procrastinate getting rid of stuff a little longer:(:D:(:D

The more space you have the more stuff you will have. Way back when my daughter was about 16 I asked her if I could use her playhouse to store some things in. She said; "No but I will sell it to you and you can do what ever you want." Here we are twenty years later and I still have stuff in there.

The top of the desk my wife and I shared was always cluttered. I bought another desk for my office and now they are both cluttered. I haven't been able to close the roll top in years.

 

[WWGD]

The more space you have the more stuff you will have. Way back when my daughter was about 16 I asked her if I could use her playhouse to store some things in. She said; "No but I will sell it to you and you can do what ever you want." Here we are twenty years later and I still have stuff in there.

The top of the desk my wife and I shared was always cluttered. I bought another desk for my office and now they are both cluttered. I haven't been able to close the roll top in years.

This is kind of vaguely -related, but something similar happens with building roads and traffic levels; a sort of " if you build it , they (cars) will come": building more roads does not , in general, decrease traffic, because (the theory goes) people are more likely to choose to drive if there are more roads.

 

[RonL]

The more space you have the more stuff you will have. Way back when my daughter was about 16 I asked her if I could use her playhouse to store some things in. She said; "No but I will sell it to you and you can do what ever you want." Here we are twenty years later and I still have stuff in there.

The top of the desk my wife and I shared was always cluttered. I bought another desk for my office and now they are both cluttered. I haven't been able to close the roll top in years.

I can tell that you know the real truth, so I best leave it at that :)

 

[ImperialThinker]

If you relate to students as well as you do here, you'd own the place.

Danger's theory of relativity.

 

[drizzle]

Danger's theory of relativity.

I laughed hard at that. Thanks.

 

[Danger]

Example of unclear analogies: "Love is like oxygen". What, can you breathe love?
I mean, people often use analogies without specifying the analogous quality . Analogous
in what way?

In that particular instance, the next few lines actually do explain the analogous quality—it's just a really inane and untrue one. (The "oxygen" part is true; the "love" part isn't.) They get points for trying, though.

 

[ImperialThinker]

Love may be oxygen imo... well , they do say, love is in the air.

 

[lisab]

Love may be oxygen imo... well , they do say, love is in the air.

Only about 20%.

 

[RonL]

Consider the #1 delivery method for aphrodisiacs around the world :)

 

[Danger]

Consider the #1 delivery method for aphrodisiacs around the world :)

I favour injection.

 

[ImperialThinker]

We can't really enjoy
Childhood : Have Time and Energy but no Money
Middleage: Have Money and Energy but no Time
Oldage : Have Time and Money but no Energy
:(:(:(