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The discussion revolves around a variety of topics, beginning with the reopening of a thread on the Physics Forums. Participants express relief at the continuation of the conversation and share light-hearted banter about past threads. There are inquiries about quoting from previous threads and discussions about job opportunities for friends. The conversation shifts to humorous takes on mathematics, particularly the concept of "Killing vector fields," which one participant humorously critiques as dangerous. Participants also share personal anecdotes, including experiences with power outages and thoughts on teaching at university. The tone remains casual and playful, with discussions about the challenges of winter, the joys of friendship, and even a few jokes about life experiences. The thread captures a blend of humor, personal stories, and light philosophical musings, all while maintaining a sense of community among the forum members.
  • #201
I sometimes wish these threads were split into good things and bad things. Some days I don't want to read bad things. And don't get me started on things which happen to Evo!
 
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  • #202
Jonathan Scott said:
I sometimes wish these threads were split into good things and bad things. Some days I don't want to read bad things. And don't get me started on things which happen to Evo!
Generally speaking, I wish people wouldn't post thread stoppers: anything that requires dealing with before you can blithely continue posting random thoughts. A thread stopper could be good or bad. Things like, "Hey, I got married today!," and "Hey, my kid took a gun to school and killed half the faculty today!" are equally thread stopping.

That said, I would like to push randomly forward and express my appreciation for fans, and indeed, all air blowing devices. On the other hand, I am dismayed that I cannot acertaine the whereabouts of my good tweezers.
 
  • #203
zoobyshoe said:
Generally speaking, I wish people wouldn't post thread stoppers: anything that requires dealing with before you can blithely continue posting random thoughts. A thread stopper could be good or bad. Things like, "Hey, I got married today!," and "Hey, my kid took a gun to school and killed half the faculty today!" are equally thread stopping.

That said, I would like to push randomly forward and express my appreciation for fans, and indeed, all air blowing devices. On the other hand, I am dismayed that I cannot acertaine the whereabouts of my good tweezers.
Sometimes when looking for something and just about to give up, I find it in one of my hands. ?:):oops::D
 
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  • #204
Lisa! said:
I wish people were less insecure! :oldeyes:
I better catch this before Danger does :w...I'm pretty secure, what do you need ?:eek::nb):oldlove::oldcool::biggrin:
 
  • #205
RonL said:
Sometimes when looking for something and just about to give up, I find it in one of my hands. ?:):oops::D
I know what you mean, but I found them at the back of the drawer buried under all the other stuff I can never find when I want it because it's buried in tweezers.
 
  • #206
RonL said:
I better catch this before Danger does :w...I'm pretty secure, what do you need ?:eek::nb):oldlove::oldcool::biggrin:

:olduhh::biggrin:
 
  • #207
Pickled ambarella fruits taste sooo good...

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  • #209
Infants stands for high school students, Babies stands for college students
 
  • #210
Lisa! said:
:olduhh::biggrin:
OK, now I'm a little insecure :nb) :D
 
  • #211
RonL said:
OK, now I'm a little insecure :nb) :D
That doesn't sound good!:devil:
 
  • #212
Lisa! said:
That doesn't sound good!:devil:

Thanks, now I feel better. :w:cool::D
 
  • #213
Have a good/warm/lovely Sunday!
 
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  • #214
People in my country celebrate tonight since it is the longest and darkest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere!:angel:
 
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Lisa! said:
People in my country celebrate tonight since it is the longest and darkest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere!:angel:
Yes, it's worth celebrating the fact that the days are no longer getting darker and gloomier. And nowadays we can do that without having to wait for a few days for the priests (for example at Stonehenge) to confirm that the sun has indeed started returning after the winter solstice, so we don't need to wait until around 25th December. Long ago, that was a very natural time to celebrate in many cultures, but now it's been hijacked by commercial interests, under the excuse of a religious festival or two.
 
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  • #216
The day my brother came over to help me bring down my dead tree, I told him that I was smitten with someone named Sadi Carnot.
He said that that was a very sexy name, and asked if I had a picture of her.
It took me half an hour to explain why I was in love with a guy, 4 times my age.

Perhaps I'll read up on "Pam" Dirac, for our next encounter.
 
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  • #217
OmCheeto said:
The day my brother came over to help me bring down my dead tree, I told him that I was smitten with someone named Sadi Carnot.
He said that that was a very sexy name, and asked if I had a picture of her.
It took me half an hour to explain why I was in love with a guy, 4 times my age.

Perhaps I'll read up on "Pam" Dirac, for our next encounter.
Might be a good thing you didn't show him a picture :D
 
  • #218
I have re-discovered cottage cheese. It's better than I remembered.
 
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  • #219
In celebration of the days ceasing to get shorter, we've just been visiting a family who invited lots of musical people (mostly singers and a couple of instrumentalists as well as ourselves) for a couple of hours of singing, drinking of mulled wine and eating of stollen and other Christmassy food. We sang quite a few Christmas carols, many in full harmony, and I accompanied on the piano or joined in with the melody on the violin. The family is from Germany and so are some of their friends, so in addition to familiar Christmas carols they also produced the music for some German songs that they sing at this time of year. All very enjoyable.
 
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  • #220
Jonathan Scott said:
In celebration of the days ceasing to get shorter, we've just been visiting a family who invited lots of musical people (mostly singers and a couple of instrumentalists as well as ourselves) for a couple of hours of singing, drinking of mulled wine and eating of stollen and other Christmassy food. We sang quite a few Christmas carols, many in full harmony, and I accompanied on the piano or joined in with the melody on the violin. The family is from Germany and so are some of their friends, so in addition to familiar Christmas carols they also produced the music for some German songs that they sing at this time of year. All very enjoyable.

I was just invited to the family Christmas eve party by my sister in law.
I told her that I'd just purchased my very first chain saw, as a "selfie" kind of present.
She said I could leave it at home.
 
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  • #221
On Friday, I gave my husband a microscope for his birthday. It was a bit of a gamble -- I don't know much about microscopes and it was a used one. It's compound binocular microscope made by American Optics before they were sold to Leica.

Happy to say it works well! After doing (nearly) all our chores, we've been getting acquainted with the FANTASTIC community of algae, worms, crustacean larvae, paramecium, etc. etc. etc., that live in one of the many puddles on our farm.

Neighbors/squatters we didn't know we had :biggrin:.
 
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  • #222
lisab said:
I have re-discovered cottage cheese. It's better than I remembered.

I have this odd theory that if I eat something that is not good for me I need to counter that by eating something that is healthy along with it. This afternoon I ate a large brownie, but I countered that with s cup of Greek Yogurt and half of a banana. Is this logical or am I nuts?

Signed: Nutritionally challenged in Tucson
 
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  • #223
edward said:
I have this odd theory that if I eat something that is not good for me I need to counter that by eating something that is healthy along with it. This afternoon I ate a large brownie, but I countered that with s cup of Greek Yogurt and half of a banana. Is this logical or am I nuts?

Signed: Nutritionally challenged in Tucson
Well, nuts are healthy, too.
 
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  • #224
lisab said:
Well, nuts are healthy, too.

There were nuts in the brownie. :D
 
  • #225
My SO is knitting me a scarf. She said it was surprisingly thick (something about double-knitting). I asked her if it would make a reliable condom. I got a look.
 
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Funny line in a movie staring Clint Eastwood, but can't remember the name of the movie. Clint's character is being followed by some thug. When he notices, Clint follows him, pins the thug to the ground and asks him: "who sent you after me"? The thug replies: "it was my superiors", to which Clint says " That doesn't narrow it down much".
 
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  • #231
lisab said:
Well, nuts are healthy, too.
Edward, good news: You're healthy! :)
 
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  • #232
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  • #233
My document says I have to shift 16 bits instead of 8 to make a integer (shifting 8 only creates a 2 byte short). So in this case there are 4 slots available (the case with 2 slots is used when shifting 8 bits). Once I shift 16 bits, I get odd values. when I shift 8, I get the correct ones.
I shift only 8 bits in a 4 slot case, which is not correct then. :(
 
  • #234
In the mornin' you go gunnin'
For the man who stole your water...
 
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The Sci-Fi channel is now airing episodes of CSI. Which confirms what a lot of people have been saying all along.
 
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  • #236
zoobyshoe said:
In the mornin' you go gunnin'
For the man who stole your water...

What else can you do
When the man made a boo-boo ?
 
  • #237
It's a little strange to me that there are people who are very resourceful and always making long and informative posts but none really attracts me. Meanwhile my professor only writes up something as short as a paragraph of about 4-6 sentences, but I just keep reading it again and again almost everyday. :DD Her words are rhythmic, which makes her posts sound like beautiful poems.
 
  • #238
My sister misidentified my solar powered snowflake on the top of my fake Christmas tree as a star.

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The thought of a solar powered star, struck me as funny.
 
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  • #239
OmCheeto said:
My sister misidentified my solar powered snowflake on the top of my fake Christmas tree as a star.

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The thought of a solar powered star, struck me as funny.
Lot's of salad bowls and pepper mills in that pile :D might some serious heat as well :eek:
 
  • #240
I'm waiting for a pizza. Pizza guy hurry up, I'm hungry like a lion !
 
  • #241
RonL said:
Lot's of salad bowls and pepper mills in that pile :D might some serious heat as well :eek:

As I've mentioned, the tree was dead. But, speaking of salad bowls... going through the wood the last few days, I saw some really beautiful sights. Every time I cut through something, I was like; "Phinds! OMG!"
 
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  • #242
OmCheeto said:
As I've mentioned, the tree was dead. But, speaking of salad bowls... going through the wood the last few days, I saw some really beautiful sights. Every time I cut through something, I was like; "Phinds! OMG!"
:DD
 
  • #243
OmCheeto said:
As I've mentioned, the tree was dead. But, speaking of salad bowls... going through the wood the last few days, I saw some really beautiful sights. Every time I cut through something, I was like; "Phinds! OMG!"

I built a project using gnarly old dead Mesquite limbs. It is close to the street, and spans from one living tree to another. It is actually very sturdy considering that there are no fence posts in the ground ; they only touch the ground. Have I discovered a new art form or are my neighbors right about my being nutz? I could put some solar lights on it.

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Edit; Opps I forgot I call it the unfence.
 
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  • #244
And you fire till he is done in
But they catch you at the border...
 
  • #245
OmCheeto said:
My sister misidentified my solar powered snowflake on the top of my fake Christmas tree as a star.

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The thought of a solar powered star, struck me as funny.

If the light stays white it is a snowflake. If it is one of the solar lights that changes colors it is a star.
 
  • #246
edward said:
If the light stays white it is a snowflake. If it is one of the solar lights that changes colors it is a star.
I guess it's a star then.
 
  • #247
zoki85 said:
I'm waiting for a pizza. Pizza guy hurry up, I'm hungry like a lion !
Poor Noid!

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  • #248
Rotten excuse of the day:

The accident was not my fault officer. I had been drinking heavily and failed to notice that I was driving far to fast to control my vehicle.
 
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  • #249
Sad onion!
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  • #250
Merry xmas everyone!
 
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