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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.
  • #3,551
dkotschessaa said:
I used to get nostalgic, but now I don't. Ah...I remember the days when I used to be nostalgic...
You know, they just don't make nostalgia like they used to, do they ?.
 
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jim hardy said:
You know, they just don't make nostalgia like they used to, do they ?.

(Sigh...) Of course not, it is just not the same anymore.
 
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Maybe we could followup the nostalgia exchange with one about Deja Vu?
 
  • #3,555
lisab said:
If you drop a flatfish, will it land face-side up?
And if you go behind a flat fish's back, aren't you really going "under it's side?"
 
  • #3,556
Did I just made a post on Deja Vu? I though I did...
 
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zoobyshoe said:
And if you go behind a flat fish's back, aren't you really going "under it's side?"
The question I never got to was whether fish sleep. Sorry to derail your post.
 
  • #3,558
I just saw a listing of this really sick-sounding channel on my line up : Children on Demand.
Turns out it is about TV shows for children. Still, they should really change that name.
 
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WWGD said:
The question I never got to was whether fish sleep. Sorry to derail your post.
I once saw a ceramic sculpture at an art show which consisted of a kind of mass of worms. The sculpture was entitled, "When trout dream."
 
  • #3,560
A headline from the BBC news site this morning: "Hospitals fail to hit nurse targets". Well, that's a relief!
 
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  • #3,561
Speaking of Beethoven:
https://gma.yahoo.com/appraiser-describes-finding-beethoven-sketch-leaf-connecticut-home-202827229--abc-news-house-and-home.html
 
  • #3,562
My order of 1000 LED's arrived this afternoon from Hong Kong. I tried a few out and they're very bright! I'm happy. It was something like $20.00, shipping included, so that's about 2 cents per LED.
 
  • #3,563
I guessing those would be the white-bluish ones, about 6K temperature. needing about 3.5Vdc
 
  • #3,564
LED failure rate = ?
 
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  • #3,566
I don't know when the hungry rats have lunch, is it 9:00AM,12:00PM or 3:00PM or 6:00PM. They seem to eat randomly and whatever. :smile:
How can I make a test to determine which one is hungrier than the other by throwing some potato chips (my father has a plant growing potatoes here) towards their caves or where the garbage bin is?
 
  • #3,567
Twilight Zone marathon for new years' eve, including the more recent ones in color (which I actually like more than the older, black-and-white ones). Despite enjoying socializing, I have somehow turned into a loner , and a TV marathon and some good food, caffeine is like a small party. Should be fun, although I may have to decide between different programming marathons (I think there is also one on Burn Notice, but they seem to have those almost monthly): life is so hard!
 
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WWGD said:
Despite enjoying socializing, I have somehow turned into a loner , and a TV marathon and some good food, caffeine is like a small party.
My life has cycled between being very social and very private. I usually feel I'd rather have company, but I get to the point where I have to be alone for extended periods to integrate changes made during "social" periods. The prospect of hours of good TV can be very appealing sometimes.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
My life has cycled between being very social and very private. I usually feel I'd rather have company, but I get to the point where I have to be alone for extended periods to integrate changes made during "social" periods. The prospect of hours of good TV can be very appealing sometimes.
Ditto. I still look forward to the day where you can watch whatever is available in a list of programs without having to pay high prices for " on demand" programming. And, of course, I hope for friends who can accommodate this need to be alone from time to time and/or for extended periods of time.
 
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In Polish, so hardly readable for most of you, but it just hit the shelves here. Published by a small, but reasonably reputable publishing house.

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  • #3,571
If I'm not mistaken, "marcen borkowski" translates as "Borek?"
 
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zoobyshoe said:
If I'm not mistaken, "marcen borkowski" translates as "Borek?"

You are not mistaken.

That is, you made a spelling mistake :wink:
 
  • #3,573
Borek said:
You are not mistaken.

That is, you made a spelling mistake :wink:
I think what this means is, you are the author of this book. If so, congratulations!
 
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Borek said:
In Polish, so hardly readable for most of you, but it just hit the shelves here. Published by a small, but reasonably reputable publishing house.
A collection of nine short stories, sharing characters, and set mostly in the Zoliborz region of Warsaw in communist times, according to Google Translate.

Congratulations.
 
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Borek said:
In Polish, so hardly readable for most of you, but it just hit the shelves here. Published by a small, but reasonably reputable publishing house.

odwlekane_porzadki.jpg

Congrats!

Please say you have an English version coming out :woot:!
 
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Yes, if there's no English version, I won't ever be able to say this to him:

 
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WWGD said:
Twilight Zone marathon for new years' eve, including the more recent ones in color (which I actually like more than the older, black-and-white ones). Despite enjoying socializing, I have somehow turned into a loner , and a TV marathon and some good food, caffeine is like a small party. Should be fun, although I may have to decide between different programming marathons (I think there is also one on Burn Notice, but they seem to have those almost monthly): life is so hard!
The most important point is to live with it. If you are sensitive to heat, then just feel free to heat yourself up openly (back and forth). You like me ? then accept me.
Over here and on FB I will grow vegies.
 
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Silicon Waffle said:
The most important point is to live with it. If you are sensitive to heat, then just feel free to heat yourself up openly (back and forth). You like me ? then accept me.
Over here and on FB I will grow vegies.
Thanks, but I am one of the around 7 people in the world not in FB.
 
  • #3,579
Kind of interesting to consider the relationship between one's mental state and the
condition of one's office/room/apartment : when one is sharp and has it together, it is clean and organized, and when one's condition is more confused, it reflects as messiness in one's physical environment. But more interesting to me is what happens the other way around, when one organizes one's place, this may help clear up one's mind. Of course, it is hard, since one starts with a state of confusion, but I wonder what effect his cleaning and organizing may have on one's mental state.
 
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WWGD said:
when one is sharp and has it together, it is clean and organized, and when one's condition is more confused, it reflects as messiness in one's physical environment.

Hmm. I know of many examples to the contrary. Perhaps there's a correlation, but I estimate only a loose one.

But more interesting to me is what happens the other way around, when one organizes one's place, this may help clear up one's mind. Of course, it is hard, since one starts with a state of confusion, but I wonder what effect his cleaning and organizing may have on one's mental state.

You might be onto something there. I would sometimes do cleaning as a form of procrastination. My apartment/room/office was often spotless during finals week or when a project deadline was imminent.
 
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collinsmark said:
Hmm. I know of many examples to the contrary. Perhaps there's a correlation, but I estimate only a loose one.
You might be onto something there. I would sometimes do cleaning as a form of procrastination. My apartment/room/office was often spotless during finals week or when a project deadline was imminent.

Wonder if one could define a sort of measure of entropy in the environment and correlate it with mental state. Maybe some brain wavelengths also correlate with states of mind.
 
  • #3,582
I was overhearing the song : " I am dreaming of a white christmas..."

Keep dreaming, it is 57 degrees out, expecting 71 deg for christmas day.
 
  • #3,583
WWGD said:
I was overhearing the song : " I am dreaming of a white christmas..."

Keep dreaming, it is 57 degrees out, expecting 71 deg for christmas day.
Yes, I have been waiting for that day since many months ago. What can I do with 71 ?:DD
 
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Silicon Waffle said:
Yes, I have been waiting for that day since many months ago. What can I do with 71 ?:DD

Yes, it seems we may end up with a mild spring...er, I mean winter.
 
  • #3,585
WWGD said:
Yes, it seems we may end up with a mild spring...er, I mean winter.
Still it's better than a cold winter, I don't need a enjoyable spring at 57, 71 is clearly warmer and sure works better mentally.
 
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Silicon Waffle said:
Still it's better than a cold winter, I don't need a enjoyable spring at 57, 71 is clearly warmer and sure works better mentally.
I agree, unfortunately there are environmental problems that result from such a warm winter. Otherwise, it would be great.
 
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  • #3,587
What a pleasantly bizarre week.
 
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WWGD said:
I was overhearing the song : " I am dreaming of a white christmas..."

Keep dreaming, it is 57 degrees out, expecting 71 deg for christmas day.
You might as well be in San Diego.

I keep hearing these jazz versions of Christmas carols from the early 1960's. They're awful. I don't understand what those people were thinking.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
You might as well be in San Diego.

I keep hearing these jazz versions of Christmas carols from the early 1960's. They're awful. I don't understand what those people were thinking.

EDIT:Besides, white christmases* , snow is fun when you look at it from a window far away, or in a postcard. Or maybe I have the wrong attitude.*Is there a standard plural for christmas?
 
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WWGD said:
Besides, white christmases* , snow are fun when you look at them from a window far away, or in a postcard.
Or maybe I have the wrong attitude.*Is there a standard plural for christmas?
"Christmases."

Also, it should be, "Snow IS fun when you look at IT from a window..."
 
  • #3,591
zoobyshoe said:
"Christmases."

Also, it should be, "Snow IS fun when you look at IT from a window..."

Yes, I don't know where I got the snow are fun from. Let me edit it (NOT let me edit THEM, etc.) .
 
  • #3,592
They deleted that Russian crackpot thread too quickly, didn't even have time to appreciate it.
 
  • #3,593
HomogenousCow said:
They deleted that Russian crackpot thread too quickly, didn't even have time to appreciate it.
It was pretty good as far as crackpots go. I must say that I've never seen one trying to go back in time to save Marilyn Monroe before. :oldtongue:
 
  • #3,594
Borg said:
It was pretty good as far as crackpots go. I must say that I've never seen one trying to go back in time to save Marilyn Monroe before. :oldtongue:
I only google translated the first part, does he really go on to talk about Monroe?

edit: okay I see it now, my bad.
 
  • #3,595
You really shouldn't repost his link. His Objective at the end was to save her. I don't read russian so I guessed that he wanted to go back in time.
 
  • #3,596
Deleted the link. The bad translation makes it even better.
 
  • #3,597
HomogenousCow said:
What a pleasantly bizarre week.

But I think that even "bizarrerer" is the contrast between the last week of December and the 1st week of January, much more so than the contrast between the last week of a month and the first week of the subsequent month. And the 1st week of January is also weird by itself, on its own.
 
  • #3,598
I'm reading about the Fast Inverse Square Root function and this is truly remarkable.
 
  • #3,599
HomogenousCow said:
I'm reading about the Fast Inverse Square Root function and this is truly remarkable.
Isn't the inverse of the square root function just the squaring function?
 
  • #3,600
Borek said:
In Polish, so hardly readable for most of you, but it just hit the shelves here. Published by a small, but reasonably reputable publishing house.

odwlekane_porzadki.jpg
Congratulations. :bow:
 
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