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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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A dream come true: Whole Foods has a brand name line selling quality bacon (no nitrites) at a reasonable cost. Now I need to figure out where to buy an industrial oven where I can cook 100's of packs at a time -- a microwave oven only cooks one at a time.

EDIT: Dont get me wrong, this is one of my indulgences; I exercise, try to get my fruits, vegetables regularly, but I like bacon too much to leave it. So I broil it to make it leaner.
 
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Tonight's lentil soup had what the French would describe as " a certain I don't know what".
 
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WWGD said:
Tonight's lentil soup had what the French would describe as " a certain I don't know what".
It could be I don't need to tell you this but, "je ne sais quois" is generally a good thing:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/je-ne-sais-quoi
 
  • #2,604
I won't buy anything from Whole Foods, Their "fresh produce" is full of gnats. The worst food ever. I thought maybe it was just my store, then I watched Top Chef and several times chefs lost because the seafood they bought at Whole Foods was rotting and they lost because the seafood was inedible.
 
  • #2,605
I started putting parsley in my daily nutri-BLASTS!

https://www.nutribullet.com/

But you have to be careful, too much parsely gives it that weird parsley minty taste. So you have to be conservative. However, they play up the health benefits of parsley so much you feel inclined to overdo it, but don't fall for this.

I try to mix it up, but my current concoction in my fridge is organic Italian Kale, organic red chard, frozen blueberries, walnuts, non-organic cameo apple, non-organic parsley, and organic broccoli. You just blast the thing in the blender for 20 seconds and it tastes delicious. And cleanup is a SNAP! :woot:
 
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DiracPool said:
I started putting parsley in my daily nutri-BLASTS!

https://www.nutribullet.com/

But you have to be careful, too much parsely gives it that weird parsley minty taste. So you have to be conservative. However, they play up the health benefits of parsley so much you feel inclined to overdo it, but don't fall for this.

:woot:

So, Quinoa and Acai are not the solution to all of one's health problems anymore?
 
  • #2,607
zoobyshoe said:
It could be I don't need to tell you this but, "je ne sais quois" is generally a good thing:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/je-ne-sais-quoi
This one was also a good one; never heard of it being used to describe a negative quality, but then again, I have only
heard of it/ seen it being used a few times.
 
  • #2,608
You come from a town where
People don't bother saying hello
Unless somebody's born or dies

And I come from a place where they
Drag your hopes through the mud
Because their own dreams are all dying

Yeah< I'm that depressed!:oldbiggrin:
 
  • #2,609
@Lisa! Watch a few movies - they always help. If all fails, go for Spongebob.
 
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Cartoons always cheer me up when I'm feeling down.
 
  • #2,611
I will meet you in the Next Life, I promise you
Where we can be together, I promise you
I will wait till then in Heaven, I promise you
I promise, I promise

There's so many fighting
To get past the Pearly Gates
But nobody ever wants to die or get saved

Their intentions aren't that good
And I can smell the asphalt
That's their personal road to hell being paved

And when we walk down the street
The wind sings our name in rebel songs
But it's much to late when the fear is gone
o0)
 
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Lisa! said:
Yeah< I'm that depressed!:oldbiggrin:
Isn't there a mandatory joke now: oh, so you come from ...[enter city name]?

EDIT. Lisa! : I heard of this trick, I don't know if it works, but may be worth a try:
stare intently at a point anywhere for a few minutes. The idea is that the neurological
channels that relay input from your brain to your senses are the same as those relaying data
from the outside world to the brain, so that you cannot do both simultaneously, because the
channel can be used for one or the other, but not for both.
This means then that if you stare for a while, you cannot
receive/experience the depression. This is from NLP; I read about it a while back.
 
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nuuskur said:
No, it really isn't :/ With texlive you can do anything, with word you have to first google and find out whether what you want to do can be done in word in the first place ^^
Common, you know the amount of effort it took me to say something good about Minisoft or one of its products? You know how long I had to look?
 
  • #2,614
My daughter makes a difference in kids lives.

Taking the time, teaching respect, giving confidence, makes a winner.
coach.jpg
respect.jpg
nice.jpg
winner.jpg
 
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I have been working off and on for over a month putting a new top on a guitar. I got a cheap, mass produced guitar used at the swap meet for $10 to experiment on. The sound board was warped, but I figured I could slap a door-skin replacement on it without much trouble. Turns out I had to make all kinds of clamps, and I figured I'd better lacquer it, So, I have shelled out about $20 more. I am one of the few people I know who can sped $30 and several hours of work to turn a $10 guitar into a $15 guitar.
 
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Kind of weird to see the main guy from "Burn Notice" staring in "Fargo".
 
  • #2,617
zoobyshoe said:
I have been working off and on for over a month putting a new top on a guitar. I got a cheap, mass produced guitar used at the swap meet for $10 to experiment on. The sound board was warped, but I figured I could slap a door-skin replacement on it without much trouble. Turns out I had to make all kinds of clamps, and I figured I'd better lacquer it, So, I have shelled out about $20 more. I am one of the few people I know who can sped $30 and several hours of work to turn a $10 guitar into a $15 guitar.

But think of the skills you have squired:biggrin:
 
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I've been putting in an average of 14 hours of practice a week on my (electric) guitar for almost 2 years now, but I still can't play those 16th notes at 240bpm. Kinda frustrating when sustained hard work doesn't pay off.
 
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Don't know why I did this: I was leaving a public bathroom at a coffee shop and saw someone walking in.
I told him: good luck!
 
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  • #2,620
Had some yogurt go bad. What does it turn into? Isn't Yogurt a form of spoiled cheese? How can
spoiled cheese become spoiled? I guess similar to the way cheese itself --spoiled milk-- may rot.
 
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WWGD said:
Had some yogurt go bad. What does it turn into? Isn't Yogurt a form of spoiled cheese? How can
spoiled cheese become spoiled? I guess similar to the way cheese itself --spoiled milk-- may rot.
I dare you to eat it!
 
  • #2,622
KiggenPig said:
I dare you to eat it!
Only if I can respond with a dare to you in return -- after I recover.
 
  • #2,623
Challenge accepted --- only because midterms are tomorrow and next week. Perhaps I can have them deferred if I get sick enough!
 
  • #2,624
KiggenPig said:
Challenge accepted --- only because midterms are tomorrow and next week. Perhaps I can have them deferred if I get sick enough!
Will you send some KGB thugs after me if you get too sick?
 
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:DD I can't resist! But I like it...badly! You excite me, so please tell me when you want me to excite you back!
 
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Silicon Waffle said:
:DD I can't resist! But I like it...badly! You excite me, so please tell me when you want me to excite you back!
Maybe you meant to post to some other forum ...?!??
 
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WWGD said:
Maybe you meant to post to some other forum ...?!??
Yes!...:-p
 
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WWGD said:
Kind of weird to see the main guy from "Burn Notice" staring in "Fargo".
Oh, but he was so good! He completely changed his appearance and demeanor. It took me 5 minutes to figure out where the hell I'd seen him before.
 
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WWGD said:
Will you send some KGB thugs after me if you get too sick?
Here in the Soviet Republic of Canuckistan we have Mounties. The most you'll get is a night in a warm jail cell with a moose, guarded by a Mountie who is most likely a bloody Maple Leafs fan.
 
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KiggenPig said:
Here in the Soviet Republic of Canuckistan we have Mounties. The most you'll get is a night in a warm jail cell with a moose, guarded by a Mountie who is most likely a bloody Maple Leafs fan.
I actually can't agree more.
 
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Silicon Waffle said:
I actually can't agree more.
Why can't you :) ?
 
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KiggenPig said:
Here in the Soviet Republic of Canuckistan we have Mounties. The most you'll get is a night in a warm jail cell with a moose, guarded by a Mountie who is most likely a bloody Maple Leafs fan.
So what is it with the so-not-Canadian Avatar?
 
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WWGD said:
So what is it with the so-not-Canadian Avatar?
He's not Canadian. He slipped up with the crack about a jailed moose. He just about said, "moose and squirrel."
 
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WWGD said:
So what is it with the so-not-Canadian Avatar?
It just cracked me up so I used it.
 
  • #2,635
PWiz said:
I've been putting in an average of 14 hours of practice a week on my (electric) guitar for almost 2 years now, but I still can't play those 16th notes at 240bpm. Kinda frustrating when sustained hard work doesn't pay off.

I think I remember reading or hearing an interview where the guitarist for Pink Floyd said his fingers got all mixed up trying to playing fast. Maybe fast is not your thing. With all that practice you can probably do some great covers though.
 
  • #2,636
You literally have to slow down your playing a complete crawl, and play it repeatedly over and over until you progressively get a little faster. Guitar takes a ton of patience, which is why many people give up the instrument altogether.

If you persist, you will see results.

And as Spinnor said, David Gilmour is a good example of how sometimes less is more. But it all depends on what you like or want to play.
 
  • #2,637
Several people brought donuts to work today. I had the bacon donut. Ummm, sugar, salt, and cholesterol... :woot:
 
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Borg said:
Several people brought donuts to work today. I had the bacon donut. Ummm, sugar, salt, and cholesterol... :woot:

The three food groups, in a single snack!
 
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zoobyshoe said:
He's not Canadian. He slipped up with the crack about a jailed moose. He just about said, "moose and squirrel."
But moose in Canadian translates to mouse. A moose in the heuse.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
He's not Canadian. He slipped up with the crack about a jailed moose. He just about said, "moose and squirrel."

I always here "moose and squirrel" in Natasha's voice.

If you know what I'm talking about, you just dated yourself :biggrin:.
 
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lisab said:
If you know what I'm talking about, you just dated yourself :biggrin:.

There's online dating for you,
 
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  • #2,642
I posted this clip in the animal lovers thread a while ago, and later I could not get rid of the feeling that the clip may be representative of what it feel like when members and moderators crawl around on PF and read posts they don't agree with... does it feel like this, I wonder? :smile:
 
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  • #2,643
Sound like they are saying Arp, Arp to me:biggrin:
 
  • #2,644
wolram said:
Sound like they are saying Arp, Arp to me:biggrin:

Why would they say Arp, Arp to you, when you are not even there?

EDIT: Ah, sorry, I seem to have an autistic thing from time to time.
 
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  • #2,646
zoobyshoe said:
This is interesting: McDonalds seems to be crumbling to ruin due to bad leadership:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mcdonalds-franchisees-brand-deep-depression-160253843.html

I guess they've completely lost sight of what made the place a strong business back in the day.

Haven't been to one for months. But maybe valid points in the article on trying to please everyone, with salads, yogurt, etc. Still, Wendy's offers similar fare, but seems to be doing well.
 
  • #2,647
WWGD said:
Why can't you :) ?
I just think I can't live without him. I love my husband just sooo much. :nb)
 
  • #2,648
There was this guy today , who's name was "Mort", short for Morton. Remembering my high school French, I told him: "If you went to France you would be dead", which is literally true. He somehow took this as a threat from me. So much for a stupid joke; I had done something similar with this woman whose name was "Nada" (really Nadia, but she pronounced it as Nada): "If you went to Spain, you would be nothing" , which almost got me a slap in the face.
 
  • #2,649
zoobyshoe said:
This is interesting: McDonalds seems to be crumbling to ruin due to bad leadership:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mcdonalds-franchisees-brand-deep-depression-160253843.html

I guess they've completely lost sight of what made the place a strong business back in the day.
I think the all day breakfast is a smart move. I would go there for a breakfast item late in the day instead of not going there at all. It's not like their breakfast items are custom and difficult, they can be slapped on the grill with no effort.

Sonic has always served their breakfast menu all day.
 
  • #2,650
Evo said:
I think the all day breakfast is a smart move. I would go there for a breakfast item late in the day instead of not going there at all. It's not like their breakfast items are custom and difficult, they can be slapped on the grill with no effort.

Sonic has always served their breakfast menu all day.

I guess BK is the only major fast food place, at least burger place, that has no breakfast,
 

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