Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[HomogenousCow]

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.

If there was an attempted deadly assault, shouldn't the police file charges?

 

[zoobyshoe]

If there was an attempted deadly assault, shouldn't the police file charges?

Well, it turns out I read his post wrong (it was a ginormous wall of text type thing, and kind of confusing). The incident with the knife was on thursday night, and the vandalism was Friday night. It seems they didn't even call the cops about the knifing, and she came back the next evening when they were out to dinner. His roommates got home first and found her vandalizing the place and they called the cops. She pulled a knife this time, too, but didn't stab anyone. The cops were there when my friend got home, but he hadn't called them, his roommates had.

Anyway, he responded to my query to say she was in jail at the current time. But earlier he said she was only being charged with the vandalism, presumably because he didn't call the cops about the knifing the previous night when it happened. I'm trying to get the story on why that would be.

He says she was fighting the cops, so they should be able to charge her with battery on a police officer, which I hope they do, but that's up to them, and is a completely separate crime than the ones committed against my friend.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

The word "foolish" sounds strange, I know its meaning but people I think tend to call the fools idiots more often. I think I am called so almost every day.

 

[OCR]

Then, she came back late at night when he was asleep... and tried to cut his member off.

Sounds like he wakes up kinda hard... lol

 

[Astronuc]

The Physics of Football

 

[zoobyshoe]

Remind me I have to change my oil today.

 

[Astronuc]

Remind me I have to change my oil today.

Change your oil today, Zooby!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Change your oil today, Zooby!

Doh!

Well, it's too late now. Maybe tomorrow.

 

[zoobyshoe]

There's a laundromat I pass often that has a sign boasting, "Every Wash is Sanitized!" And the more I think about it the less idea I have what the hell that's supposed to mean.

 

[thankz]

my schizo is going away. thanks to all of the people who helped me.

 

[JorisL]

Zooby don't forget your oil today!

 

[Borg]

Yes, don't forget your Zooby Lube.

 

[thankz]

you reminded me to take my oil, lol.

my new diet consists of:

a blender full of:
1 banana
3 cups water
3 cups milk
dextrose(fiber powder) about 4 tablespoons
one met-rx packet

10 mg dhea
one fish, flax & borage oil cap for omega 3,6 & 9

and a under 500 cal dinner

various teas and diet sodas sometimes

pickles or a sunbelt raspberry multigrain bar when I'm feeling like a snack

last time I checked (two months ago) I had lost 9 pounds

 

[DennisN]

"Sharpness is in the body of the beholder", said the castle guard who took an arrow on his duty.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Zooby don't forget your oil today!

Yes, don't forget your Zooby Lube.

Mission accomplished! My oil is changed!

 

[Borg]

I have noticed a pattern on PF. It seems that the more I post in different threads, the more alerts I have. Still investigating the cause for this...

 

[zoobyshoe]

I have noticed a pattern on PF. It seems that the more I post in different threads, the more alerts I have. Still investigating the cause for this...

Spooky!

 

[Enigman]

Harry Potter turned 35 today. As for me, turning twenty on a blue moon was quite interesting.

 

[WWGD]

When I listen to a song in a public place, it seems the people there are part of a video for the song .

 

[Borg]

The gimbal holder for my web cam broke last week. I figured I would see if there were any ideas on the internet for fixing it. I did find enough to give me an idea. I drilled a hole through a brass gas cap for the gimbal to fit through. Inside the cap is a couple of washers to hold it in place and a thin piece of cork for friction. It's not pretty but it works great.

 

[zoobyshoe]

It's not pretty but it works great.

Good hack!

Are you using it to spy on things outside the window?

 

[WWGD]

Scared the hell out of myself. I had left out some food for a few days and ended up with a pretty bad fly problem. So I bought a few
packs of fly paper ( basically a piece of material with glue in it so that flies get trapped in it *), and placed it around the apartment.
One night, I woke up groggy and walked towards the door. I ended up ensnared with the fly paper, which I thought , being groggy, was a
person trying to attack me and I started "fighting back" (I won) . Good thing I did not have a camera like Borg's filming it , I would have looked ridiculous, as a sort of Quijote, fighting. against fly paper instead of windmills.
* It does not affect Jeff Goldblum, tho.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Scared the hell out of myself. I had left out some food for a few days and ended up with a pretty bad fly problem. So I bought a few
packs of fly paper ( basically a piece of material with glue in it so that flies get trapped in it *), and placed it around the apartment.
One night, I woke up groggy and walked towards the door. I ended up ensnared with the fly paper, which I thought , being groggy, was a
person trying to attack me and I started "fighting back" (I won) . Good thing I did not have a camera like Borg's filming it , I would have looked ridiculous, as a sort of Quijote, fighting. against fly paper instead of windmills.

There is a little known, Tarantino-esque, film from way back in 1997 called Flypaper.

Flypaper is a 1997 crime feature film staring Craig Sheffer, Robert Loggia, Sadie Frost, Talisa Soto and Lucy Liu. It was written and directed by Klaus Hoch.

Greed, lust and fate bring together a motley collection of oddballs and lowlifes for some rather sticky situations in Hoch's twisted neo-noir debut. Three separate but interconnected stories, all set on a deceptively sunny day in California and centered on one million dollars in cash, inspire Hoch's quirky characters to commit acts both devious and depraved in an attempt to make the big score.

This doesn't have much to do with your post, however.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Harry Potter turned 35 today. As for me, turning twenty on a blue moon was quite interesting.

It is probably better than turning blue on a twenty moon.

 

[Enigman]

It is probably better than turning blue on a twenty moon.

Oh, unimaginably better. Especially since I had a lot of blue to look at.

 

[Borg]

Good hack!

Are you using it to spy on things outside the window?

Thanks. It's pointed at a neighborhood common area that gets a decent amount of foot traffic.

 

[Lisa!]

Moderators:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/killing-all-the-lions-and-tigers.825469/page-7

 

[WWGD]

Finally tried a couple of things that had been intriguing me: bubble tea and this Argentinian drink Mate ( pronunciation: emphasis on the e ). Both pretty good. Next will be going to a Canadian restaurant and an Australian restaurant I saw, which seemed affordable. Just curious to see what they serve.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Mate ( pronunciation: emphasis on the e ).

Are you sure? I think it's supposed to be two syllables, but emphasis on the first syllable: MAH-te. Emphasis on the second syllable: mah-TE, would mean, "I killed.":

Both the spellings "mate" and "maté" are used in English.[6][7][8] An acute accent in Spanish indicates the stressed syllable in a word; an accent on the "e" sometimes seen in English is a hypercorrection used to indicate that the word and its pronunciation are distinct from the English word "mate". As the Yerba Mate Association of the Americas points out, with the accent the word "maté" in Spanish means "I killed".[9]

 

[lisab]

Harry Potter turned 35 today. As for me, turning twenty on a blue moon was quite interesting.

Happy belated Birthday, E-man!

 

[HomogenousCow]

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/plancks-constant-is-an-energy-constant.826014/

An amusing read.

 

[wolram]

It is my 300th unbirthday today for this year and i have run out of ways to celebrate, any suggestions?

 

[HomogenousCow]

It is my 300th unbirthday today for this year and i have run out of ways to celebrate, any suggestions?

What does that mean?

 

[lisab]

What does that mean?

If you were not born on leap day, you have four birthdays and 1457 unbirthdays every four years.

If you were born on leap day, then you have one birthday and 1460 unbirthdays every four years.

 

[zoobyshoe]

If you were not born on leap day, you have four birthdays and 1457 unbirthdays every four years.

If you were born on leap day, then you have one birthday and 1460 unbirthdays every four years.

I thought an "unbirthday" was that day exactly six months from your birthday. The rest of the days of the years would be "non-birthdays."

 

[rootone]

No, an 'Unbirthday' is what goes on in one of those multiverses with different rules.
Everyone gets younger and then you eventually are absorbed by your mother.

 

[zoobyshoe]

No, an 'Unbirthday' is what goes on in one of those multiverses with different rules.
Everyone gets younger and then you eventually are absorbed by your mother.

My reaction: unbelief.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Please send a man with the right tool to finish the job and satisfy my wife.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I read a 400 page novel today. I got it out of the library about noon and finished it a couple hours ago. That kinda bothers me. I wish they would last longer.

 

[Borek]

 

[WWGD]

Strange, it seems most strings you can form in a language are nonsense. I went with a group to an Italian restaurant and I was trying to impress them with my ( actually non-existing ) knowledge of Italian food other than pizza or pasta. So I made up some Italian -sounding foods and got no "hits" : how about some Sprotzzini? And Vavgagazzi? Cortemi? Fuallucci? Vernumilli? Brogemmi? None an Italian dish, not even an actual Italian word. Kind of difficult to count all "reasonable" strings of letters to figure out the percent of these strings that are actual words (meaning divide count of words in Italian dictionary by total number of strings). Wonder if the same is the case in different languages.

 

[WWGD]

No, an 'Unbirthday' is what goes on in one of those multiverses with different rules.
Everyone gets younger and then you eventually are absorbed by your mother.

And you give people presents? But how do you know whom to give presents? How to figure out who came to your unparty?

 

[Silicon Waffle]

 

[Borg]

View attachment 86877

That's for sure.

For those who don't know.
HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, gets beheaded in Philadelphia

 

[Silicon Waffle]

The article's writer's name attracts me most.

 

[WWGD]

I read a 400 page novel today. I got it out of the library about noon and finished it a couple hours ago. That kinda bothers me. I wish they would last longer.

Drop by a B&N and there are 100's to read if you sit there.

 

[OmCheeto]

That's for sure.

For those who don't know.
HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, gets beheaded in Philadelphia

hmmm... They claim the head is missing. Anyone know the whereabouts of THAT dentist? Maybe it's on his wall.

 

[OmCheeto]

On a slightly happier note, yesterday, I had the privilege of rescuing a lost dog.
At around 10 am, my new bff and I were sitting, admiring our "gutter garden" creation,

when a young black lab wandered by.
It seemed a bit lost, and hungry, so I fed it.

Probably a mistake, as she decided that she loved me after that.
She had no collar, so my bff and I started by asking some of the local neighbors if they recognized her. Nyet!
The neighbor two houses down, has dogs about her size, so she loaned us a leash, as the dog insisted on sitting in the middle of the road.

So we got the leash on her, and she was happy to sit with us, next to the gutter garden.

After about an hour of discussing what we should do with her, my bff and I made a trip with "Missy Lu" to the store, as my bff is a great fan of beer, and I didn't have enough for him.
None of the 20 or so people we passed on the trip recognized her.
She didn't answer to "Missy Lu", so we we assumed that was not her given name. I had originally wanted to call her "Lucy", as I no longer have any goldfish by that name. Bff added the "Missy", and we shortened the whole thing to "Missy Lu".

So we got back home, and Missy Lu took a nap.

I've never had a dog, but I think this means she REALLY trusted us. I thought that was nice.

Fast forward to about 4 pm, and bff and I are both out of beer, so we decided to be more proactive.
Someone had mentioned earlier, that they thought someone 4 houses down, with a white picket fence, had a black lab.
So bff, Missy Lu, and I, went for another walk.

There was no one home, but their next door neighbor said it was their dog, so we opened the gate, and let Missy Lu loose.
Unfortunately, the next door neighbor's mother said it couldn't possibly be their dog, as their dog barked non-stop, and Missy Lu was quiet as a mouse.
(Except for the time on the way to the store when we passed the house with two very excited Rottweilers, who barked like there was no tomorrow, and Missy Lu barked back. I think that might be how some dogs say; "Hi! Nice to meet you!".)
But bff and I would have no part of the debate, so we went back to the gutter garden.

5 minutes later, a lady from the opposite end of the street, with an empty dog leash in her hand, asked if we'd seen a black lab.
Ooops!
So we all went down to the house with the white picket fence, and the dog was gone!

I can only imagine the conversation between the next door neighbor and her mother:

Neighbor lady; "Are you sure it's not their dog"?
Mom; "100% sure. This dog doesn't bark. Their dog barks like a [expletive deleted]".
Neighbor lady; "What are we going to do? We just had that strange man, and his psychotic looking friend, put the dog in their front yard. They are going to kill us!"
Mom; "Let's let it loose. It'll find its way home".​

Fortunately, another neighbor had spotted Missy Lu going on an adventure down a cul-de-sac, and pointed us in the right direction.

And Missy Lu, and her rightful owner, were reunited.

As we all got back to the land of the gutter garden, the owner's husband showed up in their SUV.
He had apparently been responsible for watching the dog, and had apparently told his wife that Missy Lu had just escaped.
I think I may have gotten him in a bit of trouble, as I'd told his wife, that we'd been taking care of the dog for the last 6 hours.

The husband seemed a bit eager to leave, but I told him that he owed me and my bff $3.00, for 6 hours of dog sitting, and 2 weeks worth of cat food, that Missy Lu could not seem to get enough off.
It was my bff friend's idea about the reward, but I was just teasing the gentleman.
So when he handed me a $20 bill, I said I was just teasing, as his dog was probably the most delightful dog I'd ever met in my life, and it had been a real privilege to make her acquaintance.
He refused to take the money back.

I don't know what I'll do today.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

...
The husband seemed a bit eager to leave, but I told him that he owed me and my bff $3.00, for 6 hours of dog sitting, and 2 weeks worth of cat food, that Missy Lu could not seem to get enough off.
...

I would be shameful to tell such a psychological joke to get the money back.. .

Be sincere to yourself, do you and your bff really love the dog ?
What is BFF by the way ?

 

[OCR]

What is BFF by the way ?

Usually it means, "best friends forever" ... not always, though...