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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.
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jim hardy said:
you can do that in your head while driving...

but i never figured out so easy a way to go F to C .
I just treat everything as a 2:1 ratio from 30F which gets me closer than most people care about.

0F -> -15C (actual -17.7C)
10F -> -10C (actual -12.2C)
20F -> -5C (actual -6.6C)
32F -> 0C (I cheat here because everyone knows this)
40F -> 5C (actual 4.4C)
50F -> 10C (actual 10C)
60F -> 15C (actual 15.5C)
70F -> 20C (actual 21.1C)
80F -> 25C (actual 26.6C)
90F -> 30C (actual 32.2C)

Of course you could add an extra degree C for every 20F after 50F to get closer.
 
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Tonight is the season 5 premiere of American Horror Story. I am looking forward to it with much trepidation because the evil female lead that has always been given to Jessica Lange will be taken over by Lady Gaga. (Lange quit after last season citing the shooting schedule as too grueling. Each season tied her up for six months out of the year.) Although Lady Gaga seems like she could do evil quite well, it remains to be seen if she's enough of an actress to suck the viewer in.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
Tonight is the season 5 premiere of American Horror Story. I am looking forward to it with much trepidation because the evil female lead that has always been given to Jessica Lange will be taken over by Lady Gaga. (Lange quit after last season citing the shooting schedule as too grueling. Each season tied her up for six months out of the year.) Although Lady Gaga seems like she could do evil quite well, it remains to be seen if she's enough of an actress to suck the viewer in.

I look forwards to it as well when will it be out in the UK?
 
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Cool last nights episode of the Flash got part of a Kerr black hole right.
They nicely described the fact of it having "two event horizons".

Would've been cool if they did something with the Penrose process :)
 
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Running out of fresh episodes of " Two and a Half Men" . Need a new sitcom to vegetate on when I go back home , as a veg myself after a long day.
 
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Astronuc said:
Why This Author Calls Leadership Training A Bunch Of Bulls***
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/hi...-calls-leadership-training-a-bunch-of-bullsht

I've known quite a few people who've done leadership/management training. It didn't seem to help much.

I'm sure a lot of us who spent decades both in and out of management would concur.
I had two managers, who seemed to have studied only one book: "Winning Through Intimidation".
I've never read the book, but "Intimidation" seemed to be their style of management.
Googling for the book, turned up an article by another L&M expert, which seems to mirror your story pretty well:
Donald Trump Wins Through Intimidation [Forbes]
Aug 7, 2015
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Though the author concludes, correctly IMHO, that the world is changing, and once successful "old style" L&M techniques may not work in the future.
Now as to why it still works for Donald Trump, is another story.

hmmm... pfoogle pfoogle pfoogle
Donald Trump Running for President [Physics Forums]
Evo; "thread's open"
Evo; "Closed for moderation again".
Drak; "Mentors, please note that the thread is currently locked. Please refrain from posting until further notice".​

Hahahahaha! PF's funniest thread by far.
As the PF winner of the 2012 & 2014 "Funniest member" award, there is no one more qualified than me to judge that.
Drak obviously locked the thread, as he knew I was about to enter, and throw some serious smackdown, on some of those commentators.
And as the only PF member who has ever yelled at Greg's dad, I'm the only person qualified, as that takes kahunas. And I have kahunas!

ps. As the only PF member who has 5 or more boats, making me the wealthiest boat member here, I am right.
...
I would go on all day, but I'm starting to hear the distant sound of "hammers". :bugeye: :blushing: :bow: :redface:
 
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hmmmm...

A bit apprehensive about being the DOMald Trump of PF, but, meh...

.....

Does anyone know the word for "forty spoken languages", as in "I speak 40 languages"?

Bilingual means two.
Trilingual means three.

And how do you say it in Vietnamese?

From my notes, as I remember nothing, "I know nothing", sounds like; "Thoi cham biek yee" in Thien Viet.

ps. I'm having a most delightful time with new neighbors this morning. The girl, prior to "Bhen", pronounced "Ben", the Vietnamese gentleman, when I, in my best redneck accent, yelled out; "Where the hell are you from!*", claimed to be Ookranski.
I asked her how to say "I know nothing", in Ukrainian, and she said it in Russian!

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*slight embellishment of my initiation of the conversation. I'm never impolite to random strangers.
 
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Does anyone know the word for "forty spoken languages", as in "I speak 40 languages"?
Bilingual means two.
Trilingual means three.
I found it. It is quadragintilingual
 
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Silicon Waffle said:
I found it. It is quadragintilingual
Good grief! How am I supposed to remember that?

And is it wiki or the English language that shouldn't be trusted in this instance:
The matrix indicates that Latin Cardinal requires us to ride: unicycles, ducycles, and tricycles.
While the specific list indicates: Cardinal Latin series: unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, ...

Language, is stupid.
 
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Very intelligent human beings.
 
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OmCheeto said:
Good grief! How am I supposed to remember that?

And is it wiki or the English language that shouldn't be trusted in this instance:
The matrix indicates that Latin Cardinal requires us to ride: unicycles, ducycles, and tricycles.
While the specific list indicates: Cardinal Latin series: unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, ...
[...]
As an English native speaker, which one does it sound more familiar that you prefer to use now , ducycle or bicycle ?
I like both myself.
 
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I was just listening to a cover of Bob Dylan's. "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright", by by Ramblin' Jack Elliot.

The original lyric is,

It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don’t matter, anyhow
An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don’t know by now

But Elliot sang that last line as,

If'n you don't know by now

That first word -- "if'n". Now, *that* is straight-up, ol' time American slang!

Here's the recording I was listening to:



Wow, Dylan wrote it in 1963. The year I was born.
 
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lisab said:
Wow, Dylan wrote it in 1963. The year I was born.
So you're just a babe; but it don't matter, anyhow :approve:

Here's the real one for ya.

 
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lisab said:
I was just listening to a cover of Bob Dylan's. "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright", by by Ramblin' Jack Elliot.

The original lyric is,
But Elliot sang that last line as,
That first word -- "if'n". Now, *that* is straight-up, ol' time American slang!

Here's the recording I was listening to:



Wow, Dylan wrote it in 1963. The year I was born.


Oh boy you are younger than i thought, are you free for a date:biggrin:
 
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Same issue when I use either honey or brown sugar as a sweetener in my coffee. Barely sweetens for the most part , even when using a lot, and then the very last drop is perfectly sweetened, making me wish the whole cup had tasted like that.
 
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I got a flu shot this past week. I strongly recommend getting a flu shot, rather the contracting the illness.
 
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Astronuc said:
I got a flu shot this past week. I strongly recommend getting a flu shot, rather the contracting the illness.
Good luck convincing the anti-vaxxers.
 
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Will start doing more cooking , both oven and pan, in Fall and Winter; heat from cooking helps keep place warm , so can use lower heat, at last for a few hours after done cooking.
 
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MaKayla Dyer killed only three weeks after her 8th birthday by an 11-year-old boy over a puppy.
The boy used his father’s 12-gauge shotgun, which he got from an unlocked closet, according to the sheriff. He fired at her from his house Saturday, killing the girl who was in her yard, . . . .

So what to do with a juvenile who simply kills someone with whom he has a disagreement?

What to do about adults who are irresponsible and allow children access to guns when the children accidentally or deliberately kill someone?

http://ktla.com/2015/10/08/tennesse...fused-to-let-him-see-her-puppy-sheriffs-dept/

Requiring that folks put their guns under lock or otherwise secure from misuse would be a start, but it won't bring MaKayla or other children back.
 
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Astronuc said:
MaKayla Dyer killed only three weeks after her 8th birthday by an 11-year-old boy over a puppy.
The boy used his father’s 12-gauge shotgun, which he got from an unlocked closet, according to the sheriff. He fired at her from his house Saturday, killing the girl who was in her yard, . . . .

So what to do with a juvenile who simply kills someone with whom he has a disagreement?

What to do about adults who are irresponsible and allow children access to guns when the children accidentally or deliberately kill someone?

http://ktla.com/2015/10/08/tennesse...fused-to-let-him-see-her-puppy-sheriffs-dept/

Requiring that folks put their guns under lock or otherwise secure from misuse would be a start, but it won't bring MaKayla or other children back.

Deja Vu all over again, sadly.
 
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Logistics for getting work done did not go as expected. Need to redraw.
 
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Astronuc said:
I got a flu shot this past week. I strongly recommend getting a flu shot, rather the contracting the illness.

I had a flu shot and it made me ill, i am one of the lucky ones i hardy ever have a cold if i do it only lasts a day or so.
 
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wolram said:
I had a flu shot and it made me ill, i am one of the lucky ones i hardy ever have a cold if i do it only lasts a day or so.
I usually get a cold once per Fall/Winter , but last two years I did not get one somehow.
 
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wolram said:
I had a flu shot and it made me ill, i am one of the lucky ones i hardy ever have a cold if i do it only lasts a day or so.
My wife had the flu one year and ended up with pneumonia that lasted 3 weeks. We decided to get our shots every year after that.
 
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I found a renegade eyebrow hair the other day and decided to counteract this aging insult by buying the mature man's hair grooming kit with the stylized eyebrow grooming attachment.

Now I have no left eyebrow and a very bushy right eyebrow
 
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DiracPool said:
I found a renegade eyebrow hair the other day and decided to counteract this aging insult by buying the mature man's hair grooming kit with the stylized eyebrow grooming attachment.

Now I have no left eyebrow and a very bushy right eyebrow

hmmm... Might be a good look for Halloween.
An avant-garde version of the Clockwork Orange eyelash theme, perhaps?

For my eyebrows, I've always just used a small pair of very sharp scissors.
My older brother used to make fun of the fact that I trimmed my eyebrows.
I told him I was disguising the fact that I was a Mentat.

dune.mentat.eyebrows.jpg
 
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Doing work at coffee shops suspended for now. Back to working at home.
 
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So you have an espresso machine at home?
 
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DiracPool said:
So you have an espresso machine at home?
No, I use a Chai mix. But I do drop by the local coffee shop, relax, get buzzed , then go back home. That somehow has changed things so that I automatically relax when I hang out in a coffee shop.
 
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WWGD said:
No, I use a Chai mix

Chai mix? What is that you fluffy organic hippie? I like my coffee strong and with no creamer :wink:

WWGD said:
That somehow has changed things so that I automatically relax when I hang out in a coffee shop.

I used to relax at the coffee shop and get "buzzed" back in the day when they had cybercafes, but now it's just easier to blast by a drive-through barista stand in the morning and get back to my laptop at home
 
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DiracPool said:
Chai mix? What is that you fluffy organic hippie? I like my coffee strong and with no creamer :wink:

No, it is just a very quick way of making a caffeinated drink. Also, the fact that it is cold, means I can slurp it in a few seconds and so it goes into my system almost immediately. Usually one nurses a hot drink ( at least I do), if only because it is too hot to gulp it down.
 
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WWGD said:
No, it is just a very quick way of making a caffeinated drink. Also, the fact that it is cold, means I can slurp it in a few seconds and so it goes into my system almost immediately.

Sounds intriguing. Unfortunately, the last thing I need as a recovering party animal is a mechanism to deliver drugs to my system "immediately" o0)

I don't slurp, I sip (these days).
 
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I inevitably slurp, because the liquid is hot
 
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nuuskur said:
I inevitably slurp, because the liquid is hot

So you're a hot slurper? Doesn't that burn your throat?
 
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I've made a lot of friends over my lifetime, and not many of them still call me. I always think that if I haven't talked to somebody I knew in the past for a few years, they obviously must be DEAD. But that ends up rarely being the case. Do you guys have the same experience? (btw, "guys" includes gurls, too, it's a generic term)
 
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DiracPool said:
I've made a lot of friends over my lifetime, and not many of them still call me. I always think that if I haven't talked to somebody I knew in the past for a few years, they obviously must be DEAD. But that ends up rarely being the case. Do you guys have the same experience? (btw, "guys" includes gurls, too, it's a generic term)
Maybe some lost your phone number, it may be easier to keep contact by email, tho it is not easy to do , obviously, after you lose track of them. OF course, email is a little colder than having an actual conversation.
 
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I think it's inevitable that a persons friend base shrinks over the years, especially when everyone reaches adulthood. Life takes over. I'm in my mid-20's and out of the few dozen friends from high school/junior high, I have periodic contact with perhaps 4-5 of them. Also, friendship is a two-way street, meaning you have to call them occasionally.
 
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KiggenPig said:
I think it's inevitable that a persons friend base shrinks over the years, especially when everyone reaches adulthood. Life takes over. I'm in my mid-20's and out of the few dozen friends from high school/junior high, I have periodic contact with perhaps 4-5 of them. Also, friendship is a two-way street, meaning you have to call them occasionally.

Try being in your mid-40's like me. You are right, though, I think this is the unfortunate consequence of "relationship entropy." I'm as guilty as anyone else. I think my guilt may come from the fact that I didn't reach the high ascension I thought I would achieve in later life. I always thought I would be someone special and important and that I would give something back to my childhood friends (high school and college) who made me feel important. I feel I fell short of that and I am embarrassed to try to contact them.

Trivial, I know, but our brains are ruled by (sometimes) irrational emotions.
 
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So, American Horror Story: Hotel just about put me to sleep. It was unmitigated gore with no sympathetic characters.

The good news is that A&E has a new miniseries called The Enfield Haunting, which is actually well done. The plot is nothing new, it's much like the film Poltergeist, but they make all the characters sympathetic and realistic.
 
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Still liking the show " New Adventures of old Christine" , but I have watched enough episodes that reruns are starting to kick in. Wish it was easier to produce these episodes so that there would be maybe even 1000 different ones, repeats/reruns less likely. Incredibly, it seems, most sitcoms seem to put out only around 20 a year. Seinfeld put out 190 episodes in some 9 years. And this Christine (meaninng Julia Dreyfuss) from the "New Adventures" has succeeded in a major way in like three consecutive shows, including Seinfeld. O top of that, she was born into a family of billionaires. Your typical " Riches to Riches" story, I guess.
 
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October is the best time of the year. Midway through the semester, CFL and NFL seasons are going, MLB playoffs, and best of all the NHL season starts. Hockey is a religion in our family; we are stereotypical Canadians.
 
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