Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[WWGD]

Interesting hit: I submitted my CV to a bunch of job sites and one of the offers I got was" "part time neurosurgeon". I guess if the part is really, really small, like just enough time to wash my hands, I can pull it off. Beyond those 2 minutes, it is highly questionable. I mean, I imagine accepting the offer, like in some movies, and then trying to BS my way; seems like would be particularly difficult for this choice of job.

 

[WWGD]

I got up at 6:00 A.M. but a couple hours later decided I hadn't gotten enough sleep, so I lay back down. At about noon an explosion woke me up. Turned out to be thunder, and the rain was coming down hard.

I hopped in the car and went to a coffee shop where I could sit outside under an overhang and watch the deluge. The lightning was close and the thunder particularly rich in sonic booms. I must have jumped out of the chair 5 times. Windows rattled and car alarms went off for blocks around me. All very unusual for San Diego. Especially in the summer.

I guess the song title " It almost never rains in Southern California" was not catchy-enough.

Maybe you could try to write a Bohemian's (my friend pronounces it like "Bahamian") guide to San Diego, describing different coffee shops. I am thinking of doing the same here myself. Though maybe a website/blog would be better, specially to allow for updates/changes. But then it is tricky, since you cannot take ad revenue from the sites you rate/describe. I think your writing is richer than mine; I think my technical work has hindered my (non-technical) writing skills, I in part since most of what I write requires the use of only relatively few words.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Maybe you could try to write a Bohemian's (my friend pronounces it like "Bahamian") guide to San Diego, describing different coffee shops. I am thinking of doing the same here myself. Though maybe a website/blog would be better, specially to allow for updates/changes. But then it is tricky, since you cannot take ad revenue from the sites you rate/describe. I think your writing is richer than mine; I think my technical work has hindered my (non-technical) writing skills, I in part since most of what I write requires the use of only relatively few words.

Any such book would be good for about two weeks. The scene changes rapidly, and there has been a steady decline in good places over the past 4 years with many of the best spots having closed for various reasons. I have actually taken to exploring 24 hour donut shops as an alternative but they universally suffer from a lack of the sine qua non of a 'Hang Out," which is that none of them has a public restroom. You've got an hour tops before your bladder explodes. Maybe I could call it, "The Decline and Fall of Caffein Civilization in San Diego," but it would be a book mostly about the past, not the present.

 

[WWGD]

Any such book would be good for about two weeks. The scene changes rapidly, and there has been a steady decline in good places over the past 4 years with many of the best spots having closed for various reasons. I have actually taken to exploring 24 hour donut shops as an alternative but they universally suffer from a lack of the sine qua non of a 'Hang Out," which is that none of them has a public restroom. You've got an hour tops before your bladder explodes. Maybe I could call it, "The Decline and Fall of Caffein Civilization in San Diego," but it would be a book mostly about the past, not the present.

Ditto here, but that is why I also mentioned a blog, to help account for changes. Now that you mention bathrooms, I had a charming exchange with a complete stranger recently. He started mentioning, out of nowhere (we had not started a conversation by then ) how certain "byways" along buildings here had been closed to the public recently. He mentioned that those were the places where he would urinate when nature called. He went on , with a lot of detail,. to give me a list of good spots and tricks for urinating in public places without getting caught. Now, how about that for a book/weblog? UrineTown (Your in Town)?
Moreover , go figure, Greg will not allow me to post any of what I learned about guerrilla urination in the "insights" blog. I give up!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Ditto here, but that is why I also mentioned a blog, to help account for changes. Now that you mention bathrooms, I had a charming exchange with a complete stranger recently. He started mentioning, out of nowhere (we had not started a conversation by then ) how certain "byways" along buildings here had been closed to the public recently. He mentioned that those were the places where he would urinate when nature called. He went on , with a lot of detail,. to give me a list of good spots and tricks for urinating in public places without getting caught. Now, how about that for a book/weblog? UrineTown (Your in Town)?
Moreover , go figure, Greg will not allow me to post any of what I learned about guerrilla urination in the "insights" blog. I give up!

That would certainly be a major contribution to literature.

I think it would have been interesting had you been able to record this guy. Then the recording could be given to an appropriate cartoonist, someone of the likes of R. Crumb, who could render it as a comic (or "graphic novel" as they are pretentiously referred to nowadays).

 

[zoobyshoe]

Same thing today: another deluge from the sky!

Today, though, there was a mysterious lack of concomitant electrical activity.

In any event, it would be nice, if somewhat inconvenient, if this kept up till our drought was reversed.

 

[Borg]

The "Watch blah, blah online" spammers have changed their tactics to create posts with semi-plausible titles with links to their spam on reddit. Every one of the ones that I've reported in the last two weeks has been posted in the Quantum Physics thread. Such weird quantum behavior...

 

[WWGD]

I was asked if I wanted to do Pro Bono Work. No idea what Bono has to see with it, but I think he's rich enough as it is..

 

[zoobyshoe]

I was asked if I wanted to do Pro Bono Work. No idea what Bono has to see with it, but I think he's rich enough as it is..

I can't believe you edited this, but failed to correct, "...has to see with it...".

Didn't you mean, "...has to do with it..."?

 

[WWGD]

I think this

I can't believe you edited this, but failed to correct, "...has to see with it...".

Didn't you mean, "...has to do with it..."?

I think here in the NEast " it has to see with it" is common, though I am not sure. But definitely not as tubular as "has to do with it".

 

[Evo]

I think thisI think here in the NEast " it has to see with it" is common, though I am not sure. But definitely not as tubular as "has to do with it".

Never heard the expression "has to see with it" when what is meant is "has to do with it". I lived in the NE for a number of years.

 

[WWGD]

Never heard the expression "has to see with it" when what is meant is "has to do with it". I lived in the NE for a number of years.

Maybe it has to _do_ with my weirdness, making up my own sayings.

 

[Evo]

Maybe it has to do_ with my weirdness, making up my own sayings.

LOL! I make up my own words, it's a good thing.

 

[WWGD]

I like to move my head side-to-side , when I see someone listening to music and moving their head up-and-down. It seems to have a weird confusing effect .

EDIT: Though I did get a few hits for "nothing to see":

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nothing_to_see

 

[zoobyshoe]

EDIT: Though I did get a few hits for "nothing to see":

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nothing_to_see

I've never heard of this. Even if people are saying it, I wouldn't emulate them. It has a brain-damaged aura to it, like the speaker has severe expressive aphasia.

 

[WWGD]

I've never heard of this. Even if people are saying it, I wouldn't emulate them. It has a brain-damaged aura to it, like the speaker has severe expressive aphasia.

The French use the expression "Rien a Voir" , which I think translates to "Nothing to see With"

http://en.bab.la/dictionary/french-english/n-avoir-rien-%C3%A0-voir-avec

 

[zoobyshoe]

The French use the expression "Rien a Voir" , which I think translates to "Nothing to see With"

http://en.bab.la/dictionary/french-english/n-avoir-rien-%C3%A0-voir-avec

The French are all brain damaged, yes. Ignore them.

 

[WWGD]

The French are all brain damaged, yes. Ignore them.

Good, I can now eat Freedom Fries!

 

[strangerep]

From "Dilbert", Wed 15 July 2015:

Advice is just ego and ignorance disguised as helpfulness.

I must try harder to remember that.

 

[ShayanJ]

From "Dilbert", Wed 15 July 2015:
I must try harder to remember that.

Strange from a science "Advisor"!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Dilbert is just ego and ignorance disguised as humor.

 

[strangerep]

Strange from a science "Advisor"!

Heh, I never asked for that title, and was somewhat embarrassed when it magically appeared one day. Remember: I am only a "Strange Representation of a Science Advisor".

[OTOH, the award did make me more careful about the things I'd say. ]

Perhaps the Dilbert quote should say "Unsolicited advice [...]".

 

[strangerep]

[...] Dilbert is just ego and ignorance disguised as humor.

You don't like Dilbert??

 

[HomogenousCow]

Can electrical sockets in the UK handle desktops with 1500 watt PSUs?

 

[OmCheeto]

...PSUs?

Power Sucking Units?

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Can electrical sockets in the UK handle desktops with 1500 watt PSUs?

The standard UK electrical socket handles up to approx 3KW (nominally 13A at approx 230V).

 

[WWGD]

Just applied to a dream job at MLBaseball. Keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[HomogenousCow]

The standard UK electrical socket handles up to approx 3KW (nominally 13A at approx 230V).

Should be fine then. But just in case, would connecting my desktop computer to its own power socket help? (as in, having my monitor and other peripherals on another socket)

 

[zoobyshoe]

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.

 

[Silicon Waffle]