Random Thoughts Part 5: Time to Split Again

[WWGD]

Strange thing. Here (est. ¼ around the globe) it's unusually windy, too.

Hairy Ball Theorem (Nothing vulgar, this is the actual name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem)?

 

[zoobyshoe]

I'm researching tablets. There's this really cheap RCA tablet ($40). Now, you would think it's cheap due to not having any fancy features. Customer reviews, however, indicate that the battery and charging system is highly defective. You would think, rather than build up a bad reputation, RCA would take it off the market. But it's still being distributed and bought, presumably by unwary people who will not find out about the bad battery until about 3 months after they buy it.

 

[fresh_42]

Hairy Ball Theorem (Nothing vulgar, this is the actual name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem)?

I see the English trivialization reads "you can't comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick".
The German is better: "Du kannst den Igel nicht striegeln." (You cannot groom the hedgehog.)

 

[fresh_42]

Why can't I find at least one photo of Frederick Douglass smiling? Can you guys find one for me?

I've tried. "Frederick Douglass smiling" gets you a little further, i.e. on some pictures there is a touch of a smile. However, at those times it wasn't usual to smile on portraits which were the pictures mainly taken. And then there is the most significant part of all: far too much hair!

 

[WWGD]

I've tried. "Frederick Douglass smiling" gets you a little further, i.e. on some pictures there is a touch of a smile. However, at those times it wasn't usual to smile on portraits which were the pictures mainly taken. And then there is the most significant part of all: far too much hair!

But maybe he's got a Hairy Ball Theorem-like result that prevents him from combing it.

 

[WWGD]

I've tried. "Frederick Douglass smiling" gets you a little further, i.e. on some pictures there is a touch of a smile. However, at those times it wasn't usual to smile on portraits which were the pictures mainly taken.

True, you look at today's portrait and you would believe humanity has conquered all of its problems, with the big smiles with teeth popping out, like a freshly-picked corn husk.

 

[fresh_42]

But maybe he's got a Hairy Ball Theorem-like result that prevents him from combing it.

Funny how two hanks so clearly far away from each other all of a sudden converge.

https://camo.derpicdn.net/2f9df79e3...url=http://s8.postimg.org/d6aw23lwl/Stomp.png

 

[fresh_42]

I visited Berlin once. There's a Starbucks on the square where the Brandenburg gate stands. I can't now remember if it's actually in the former Soviet embassy or just next door.

I've been to another one there about a mile away just to give it a try. It's been expensive, senseless and instead of offering different tastes of coffee varying with their origins and roasting procedures, they serve different kinds of chemicals added to it.
Better to visit the Hard Rock Cafe in a case of homesickness.

 

[WWGD]

I am now starting my sentences with " My life coach told me..." just to see how people react. Hopefully the reaction will be better than the one I got from " My psychiatrist ...". Wonder the reaction I would get from " My project manager told me ..."

 

[zoobyshoe]

I've been to another one there about a mile away just to give it a try. It's been expensive, senseless and instead of offering different tastes of coffee varying with their origins and roasting procedures, they serve different kinds of chemicals added to it.
Better to visit the Hard Rock Cafe in a case of homesickness.

I went to another one several thousand miles away from it, just now, only to find it was closed today due to a power outage. I would have preferred a senseless Berliner Starbucks to one that was closed.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I am now starting my sentences with " My life coach told me..." just to see how people react. Hopefully the reaction will be better than the one I got from " My psychiatrist ...". Wonder the reaction I would get from " My project manager told me ..."

Try: "Today my Lord and Master, Satan told me..."

 

[fresh_42]

I am now starting my sentences with " My life coach told me..." just to see how people react. Hopefully the reaction will be better than the one I got from " My psychiatrist ...". Wonder the reaction I would get from " My project manager told me ..."

Promise me to change it to "God told me ..." as soon as you leave city limits in order to avoid serious damages to your health.

 

[Ibix]

And then there is the most significant part of all: far too much hair!

My statistical mechanics lecturer realized we all needed a short break half way through an hour of statistical mechanics. He always gave us five minutes of biographical stuff about a famous thermodynamicist or statistical mechanic. We rapidly christened the segment "silly beards through the ages", as there was some truly epic facial hair on some of those guys.

We wondered if it was something to do with insulation.

 

[Ibix]

It's been expensive, senseless and instead of offering different tastes of coffee varying with their origins and roasting procedures, they serve different kinds of chemicals added to it.

I'm not a huge fan of Starbucks myself. We mostly stopped there because we'd realized that the random railway tracks across the middle of the square were probably tracks for a camera, and they were shooting some Tom Cruise flick at the time (Valkyrie maybe?). We didn't see him.

 

[fresh_42]

We wondered if it was something to do with insulation.

My guess is it has something to do with the historic timestamp. In former times a suntan meant you have to make your money with hard work outside. Consequently being pale was necessary to belong to upper classes. Nowadays a suntan means you can afford expensive holidays and therefore being pale puts you in lower classes. I think it's similar with beards: if you had a big one you couldn't be young, served as a soldier or worked in minor jobs. Via the equation age ≅ respect it symbolized integrity and a stand as scholar.

Although all of these arguments are somehow stupid we still obey them to some more or less small extend.

 

[Sophia]

That's why we have hipsters nowadays . Fashion styles return cyclically.

 

[WWGD]

My guess is it has something to do with the historic timestamp. In former times a suntan meant you have to make your money with hard work outside. Consequently being pale was necessary to belong to upper classes. Nowadays a suntan means you can afford expensive holidays and therefore being pale puts you in lower classes. I think it's similar with beards: if you had a big one you couldn't be young, served as a soldier or worked in minor jobs. Via the equation age ≅ respect it symbolized integrity and a stand as scholar.

Although all of these arguments are somehow stupid we still obey them to some more or less small extend.

Now that I have job, I can afford to go on interviews wearing a fake beard that I alternatively put on and take off every time the interviewer turns away from me.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Now that I have job, I can afford to go on interviews wearing a fake beard that I alternatively put on and take off every time the interviewer turns away from me.

Teller of Penn & Teller did a bit once. He went into some place that asks for I.D. (maybe a car rental place). He hands over a fake I.D. that shows him wearing a red clown nose. While the person is looking at it, he quickly slips a red nose onto his real face.

 

[WWGD]

Teller of Penn & Teller did a bit once. He went into some place that asks for I.D. (maybe a car rental place). He hands over a fake I.D. that shows him wearing a red clown nose. While the person is looking at it, he quickly slips a red nose onto his real face.

That's it! Every time I try a joke, I find out it has already been done. Too many people doing too many jokes, we will soon run out and just start repeating them. Maybe the Germans will catalog them and then one can just spit out a number instead of the actual joke. They are methodical people.

 

[Ibix]

then one can just spit out a number instead of the actual joke.

That's an old one. Turns out there's this one guy who shouts "26! 37! 18!" just as much as everyone else, but no-one laughs. Some people just can't tell a joke.

 

[WWGD]

That's an old one. Turns out there's this one guy who shouts "26! 37! 18!" just as much as everyone else, but no-one laughs. Some people just can't tell a joke.

Didn't I tell you?we are running out of jokes.

 

[Ibix]

Didn't I tell you?we are running out of jokes.

You did. I was citing your own post as evidence for that.

 

[WWGD]

You did. I was citing your own post as evidence for that.

I just believe in recycling...

 

[zoobyshoe]

Soup:

I had to buy Beef with Country Vegetables, because they seem to be out of Beef with City Vegetables.

 

[fresh_42]

Maybe the Germans will catalog them and then one can just spit out a number instead of the actual joke.

Well, the British already have done some research:



By the way, they have found a joke on a stone tablet which is considered as the oldest joke of mankind. Either from the ancient Egyptians or Babylonians, can't remember. The joke is about farts.

 

[Psinter]

When you fight one person and all your movements are highly disciplined as in martial arts, but then you have to fight 5 at the same time and you go Gorilla Mode all over the place and there's no discipline whatsoever in your movements.

All your fine and disciplined punches convert into a savage melee (disorganized close combat).

I've been looking into history and there appears to be conflict almost every year of history at one place or another of the world... Humans.

 

[zoobyshoe]

On TV these people shot a wild turkey and it is really big.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I hadda get a new phone and now I'm trying to memorize my new phone number. I think it would be better if people were assigned a lifetime phone number at birth.

 

[fresh_42]

I had to buy Beef with Country Vegetables, because they seem to be out of Beef with City Vegetables.

City Vegetables are with Cadmium, Lead and Mercury, Country Vegetables are without.

 

[Psinter]

I hadda get a new phone and now I'm trying to memorize my new phone number. I think it would be better if people were assigned a lifetime phone number at birth.

I never memorize anyone's number. If I lose my contacts, which happens from time to time when I tinker with my phone and have no backup, then it's all over.