Random Thoughts Part 5: Time to Split Again

[DiracPool]

I have this channel that shows "Starsky and Hutch" , a show, I think, from the 60s-70s, together with other shows and documentaries from that era. I think it is called Cloo.

Congrats on 2000 posts. I just reached my 1000 milestone last week. We're fighting ignorance one post at a time WWGD...

 

[fresh_42]

Congrats on 2000 posts. I just reached my 1000 milestone last week. We're fighting ignorance one post at a time WWGD...

All just O(1).

 

[WWGD]

Snow seems to have stopped coming down, seems no crises, major problems resulting from Jonas.

 

[WWGD]

All just O(1).

{-1,1} (ignorant statement deleted), the 1x1 orthogonal matrices? Just kidding.. O(1) applied
to what?

 

[HomogenousCow]

There was some buzz about a legitimate detection at LIGO a few weeks back, has anyone heard anything about that?

 

[fresh_42]

There's an Albert Hammond concert on TV. What does it tell that I can join in singing the songs?

 

[DiracPool]

There was some buzz about a legitimate detection at LIGO a few weeks back, has anyone heard anything about that?

You mean the rumor by that self-absorbed jackass Krauss?

https://twitter.com/lkrauss1/status/686574829542092800?lang=en

 

[fresh_42]

{-1,1} (ignorant statement deleted), the 1x1 orthogonal matrices? Just kidding.. O(1) applied
to what?

Length / number of typed symbols.

 

[WWGD]

Chinese New Year, the Monkey, starting February 2. Goodbye Goat, Hello Monkey.

 

[Borg]

Snow seems to have stopped coming down, seems no crises, major problems resulting from Jonas.

Another band coming through my area. We're definitely over 2 feet at this point.

 

[WWGD]

@DiracPool : Have you read or heard about the book Surfing Uncertainty by Andy Clark? I am an interested outsider in Cognition. Looks interesting but I don't know enough to determine how good, how worthwhile the book is :

http://www.cuil.pt/r.php?cx=002825717068136152164:qf0jmwd8jku&cof=FORID:10&ie=UTF-8&q=surfing+uncertainty+andy+clark&sa=Search

Kind of strange to have someone who has tenure and who's clearly brilliant to use the name 'Andy' instead of Andrew. Andy seems childlike, or something his close circle would use. Maybe just my hangup.

 

[WWGD]

Another band coming through my area. We're definitely over 2 feet at this point.

I am not sure around here, it was just my very unscientific survey of looking through the window of a 2nd floor apt. But the TV reports at around 4 p.m, said 23'' so far. EDIT How was the shoveling?

 

[DiracPool]

Another band coming through my area. We're definitely over 2 feet at this point.

I saw that crazyness on the news, I'm glad I live in Tacoma. It's raining cats and dogs here but its 46 degrees, we're used to that.

 

[Psinter]

Random thought: I've always wanted to follow a river upstream all the way up into the mountain and see where it leads to. Let's see, the water is coming from... *suspicious*

 

[DiracPool]

Have you read or heard about the book Surfing Uncertainty by Andy Clark?

No I haven't, but thanks for the link. I'll ask my girl at the campus library if we have it or if she can order it. In general though, I'm well familiar with models of "embodied cognition," and think they have the right idea, but most don't dive very deep into how the functional neuroanatomy of the brain would support their proposals.

 

[zoobyshoe]

There's this station on the Antenna TV...

I thought they were going to stop broadcasting that way altogether. I am pretty sure they have in this neck of the woods, anyway. There was a big informational campaign a couple years back to inform people that after a certain date, there wouldn't be any more signals for people to pick up with TV antennas.

 

[DiracPool]

I thought they were going to stop broadcasting that way altogether. I am pretty sure they have in this neck of the woods, anyway. There was a big informational campaign a couple years back to inform people that after a certain date, there wouldn't be any more signals for people to pick up with TV antennas.

Surely, you're joking Mr. Zoobyshoe. They've been broadcasting over the air since Marconi. I don't think they're going to stop any time soon

 

[OmCheeto]

Another band coming through my area. We're definitely over 2 feet at this point.

Are they on the run?

[.]

 

[DiracPool]

Are they on the run?

No, he lives on the Sunset strip, and he's two feet deep in hot groupies

 

[zoobyshoe]

Surely, you're joking Mr. Zoobyshoe. They've been broadcasting over the air since Marconi. I don't think they're going to stop any time soon

OK. I googled and found I had misunderstood what the change was:

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/...s/pulling-the-plug-on-analog-tv-206/index.htm

WHICH TVS WILL NO LONGER WORK WITH AN OVER-THE-AIR ANTENNA?

A TV that has only an analog tuner, called an NTSC tuner, will not be able to get free over-the-air digital programming. Your TV does not have a digital tuner if it is one of the following:

• An older picture-tube TV that is not a high-definition set.
• An HD-ready TV purchased several years ago.
• A new type of set, called a monitor, that has no built-in tuner of any kind.

 

[fresh_42]

Another band coming through my area. We're definitely over 2 feet at this point.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=87385

 

[zoobyshoe]

The weather channel seems to have dropped all regular programming in favor of covering the eastern ÜberBlizzard.

 

[OCR]

We have a plow dedicated to our subdivision and he is working hard right now.

Yeah, saw that on a news station...

Lol...

 

[WWGD]

Done with the old, ready to move into the new.

 

[WWGD]

Yeah, saw that on a news station... View attachment 94728

Lol...

You can put the car in your backpack after you're done.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Hi Silicon Waffle, hi Borg. Whatcha cooking...

Nothing...Kitchens in my area as you might know don't have as many ready-made or prepared ingredients. So it'll be tough to cook anything here, but this is truly a pretty good market.
Admittedly I am not patient enough to wait for any foods to get done after many steps and hours.

 

[OCR]

You can put the car in your backpack after you're done.

A "through the windshield" view from a real MDT snowplow, during a normal Montana snowstorm, on I-90, near the Wyoming border.

About 7:57 AM...

 

[OCR]

Around 12:25 Am... different storm, though...

I was driving this truck, in all pictures...

 

[Borg]

I am not sure around here, it was just my very unscientific survey of looking through the window of a 2nd floor apt. But the TV reports at around 4 p.m, said 23'' so far. EDIT How was the shoveling?

Tough on the back and I haven't touched the end of the driveway near the street. If I shovel that, the plow will just fill it back in. I shoveled for 5 hours yesterday and this morning, it looks like I didn't do a thing - except for the mountains of snow next to the driveway. One thing that really helped was to use my recycling bin to pull the snow to where I wanted to dump it. Saved a ton of walking back and forth along with not having to carry the snow.

 

[WWGD]

Around 12:25 Am... different storm, though...

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View attachment 94746

I was driving this truck, in all pictures...

View attachment 94748

How did you get a hold of that truck? Filming a sci-fi movie?

 

[WWGD]

Tough on the back and I haven't touched the end of the driveway near the street. If I shovel that, the plow will just fill it back in. I shoveled for 5 hours yesterday and this morning, it looks like I didn't do a thing - except for the mountains of snow next to the driveway. One thing that really helped was to use my recycling bin to pull the snow to where I wanted to dump it. Saved a ton of walking back and forth along with not having to carry the snow.

Now I feel spoiled about complaining that Pizza Hut is not delivering.

 

[Psinter]

Nothing...Kitchens in my area as you might know don't have as many ready-made or prepared ingredients. So it'll be tough to cook anything here, but this is truly a pretty good market.
Admittedly I am not patient enough to wait for any foods to get done after many steps and hours.

Fire to the tin!

Me too, anything taking over 30 minutes to cook is a nope. Finding me cooking something for over an hour is because I had no idea what I had gotten myself into when I began.

 

[Borg]

Now I feel spoiled about complaining that Pizza Hut is not delivering.

I would have to agree with that.

 

[fresh_42]

Admittedly I am not patient enough to wait for any foods to get done after many steps and hours.

This way I became a specialist in carbon solid state physics
And did you know that even water can be burned? However, in this case the calcium part dominates the carbon part.

 

[Psinter]

I've never seen snow. I wish I was in the blizzard...



Time: 1:15 LOL! Norwegian is not impressed.

Some US Citizens: OMG!
Tourists: Yeah! This is fun, hahaha!
Norwegian: *Not impressed*

EDIT:

And did you know that even water can be burned?

Really? How? Don't you mean boil?

 

[WWGD]

Moore's law may be coming to an end : http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/400710/the-end-of-moores-law/page/6/

Still, it seems to have ended a while back: a PC with 4GB RAM and 2GHZ processor costs around the same now as it did 2 years ago when I bought mine.

 

[WWGD]

Will finally get to use my heavy duty Winter boots. They weight around a couple of pounds each, though.

 

[Psinter]

Saw in some shows on TV this BBC logo and I tried to look at the meaning of it, like what those letters stand for. Guess what is the first thing Google throws at me? I'm not even going to say it. Come on Google, can't I get anything serious these days? *sigh*

I know I joke a lot, but there are times when I want to be serious.

EDIT: It's British Broadcasting Corporation. In case someone is looking for it.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Well, I woke up about 7 AM and went out for coffee. I observed it was a warm, sunny morning, traffic was light and normal, none of the power had gone out, everything was fine. With a sigh of relief I wiped my brow and thanked goodness that San Diego had come through Jonas unharmed.

 

[DiracPool]

I was driving this truck, in all pictures...

Was the word "COOL" placed deliberately on the side of that truck?

 

[DiracPool]

Moore's law may be coming to an end : http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/400710/the-end-of-moores-law/page/6/

Still, it seems to have ended a while back: a PC with 4GB RAM and 2GHZ processor costs around the same now as it did 2 years ago when I bought mine.

Are you actually referencing an article written in the year 2000 in an argument that Moore's law may be ending?

 

[WWGD]

Are you actually referencing an article written in the year 2000 in an argument that Moore's law may be ending?

Ouch, forgot to check the date. Still, I have been reading about it recently. Will look for a fresher source.

 

[fresh_42]

Really? How? Don't you mean boil?

Nope. It's only boiling in the beginning but it ends up burning the calcium carbonate in it ...

D..., grandpa made it into the final.

 

[WWGD]

Nope. It's only boiling in the beginning but it ends up burning the calcium carbonate in it ...

D..., grandpa made it into the final.

Calcium Carbonate in water? Do you live near a Chemical plant () ?

 

[fresh_42]

Calcium Carbonate in water? Do you live near a Chemical plant () ?

I was guessing. Any calcium molecules for sure.

 

[WWGD]

(RANT) More than #$% 40 minutes to download an e-book --for pay, not a free one. EDIT: I am near a B&N, may just settle for physical book. All this technology and after an hour I end up walking to the bookstore. Life is a cycle.

 

[fresh_42]

More than #$% 40 minutes to download an e-book --for pay, not a free one. EDIT: I am near a B&N, may just settle for physical book.

Make them an offer for a reasonable server and bandwidth set up!

 

[WWGD]

Make them an offer for a reasonable server and bandwidth set up!

Seriously, what good is all this high tech machinery without a very basic level of customer service?

 

[fresh_42]

Seriously, what good is all this high tech machinery without a very basic level of customer service?

My first thought was, which I did not write: steeling may have been faster.

 

[WWGD]

My first thought was, which I did not wrote: steeling may have been faster.

You're sadly right.