Random Thoughts Part 5: Time to Split Again

[zoobyshoe]

I am walking in the streets and this guy approaches me and asks me: which way is East? I tell him. He says thanks, and starts heading South. I assume he chose a contrived way of figuring out which way is South : by knowing where the East is, where he could have plainly asked which way is South directly

He just wanted to be oriented:

The foundation for all these words is the noun “orient,” first recorded in the works of Chaucer in the late 14th century. It originally meant a region situated to the east.

Thus, the verb “orient” (first recorded in 1728) originally meant “to place or arrange (a thing or a person) so as to face the east,” according to the OED.

The more general senses of the verb “orient”— including “to position or align (a structure, etc.) with, or in a particular way relative to, the points of the compass, or other specified points,” or “to turn towards a specified point or direction”—developed from the middle to the late 19th century.

http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/01/orientate.html

He could have asked directly for South, but that wouldn't have been as classical.

 

[fresh_42]

There are some people in the world who always cause me instantaneously to smile when I see them. The Dalai Lama and Chuck Berry are among them (for me). Does anyone else experience this effect?

 

[WWGD]

He just wanted to be oriented:

http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/01/orientate.html

He could have asked directly for South, but that wouldn't have been as classical.

Ah, maybe that is why the word orient (noun), oriental, etc. refer to the East

 

[Psinter]

I am walking in the streets and this guy approaches me and asks me: which way is East? I tell him. He says thanks, and starts heading South. I assume he chose a contrived way of figuring out which way is South : by knowing where the East is, where he could have plainly asked which way is South directly

Other funny situation. Someone asks you for directions for a place and you say:

Take a left on the third traffic light. Keep going forward and you will see to your left a big building. That's not the place you are looking for. Keep moving forward and you will see to your right an orange house. That's not the place you are looking for either... Keep moving forward...

Finally you will see a blue building... That's not the building you are looking for... It's the one besides it.

 

[WWGD]

Other funny situation. Someone asks you for directions for a place and you say:

Take a left on the third traffic light. Keep going forward and you will see to your left a big building. That's not the place you are looking for. Keep moving forward and you will see to your right an orange house. That's not the place you are looking for either... Keep moving forward...

Finally you will see a blue building... That's not the building you are looking for... It's the one besides it.

How about when someone asks you directions to a place right in front of where you are? I ask them to take a left four times and then turn right.

 

[Ibix]

How about when someone asks you directions to a place right in front of where you are? I ask them to take a left four times and then turn right.

I went to a conference once. One guy arrived a bit late and had forgotten to print the directions to the hotel. He got off the train, jumped into a cab and asked to be taken to the Railway Hotel. The clue is in the name, folks, and I gather that the cabbie's expression communicated that quite clearly...

 

[Psinter]

How about when someone asks you directions to a place right in front of where you are? I ask them to take a left four times and then turn right.

That's golden.
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I think this is the funniest comment I've found to date in YouTube:

This comment section is sure to be full of well reasoned, rational responses and everyone will get along great.

You need to be positive, right?

 

[Ibix]

I think this is the funniest comment I've yet to find in YouTube:

This comment section is sure to be full of well reasoned, rational responses and everyone will get along great.

You need to be positive, right?

Were they discussing creationism or something controversial like cute cat videos?

 

[Psinter]

Were they discussing creationism or something controversial like cute cat videos?

No. It was a video of some girls stealing... I think... I don't know... I didn't really got what they were doing. The recording was of bad quality, it looked like someone on a phone moving it up and down. No stability to see if they were stealing or what they were doing.

 

[Pepper Mint]

No. It was a video of some girls stealing... I think... I don't know... I didn't really got what they were doing. The recording was of bad quality, it looked like someone on a phone moving it up and down. No stability to see if they were stealing or what they were doing.

Naughty girls! My mom would whip me to dead if I did something similar, or worse I might not be allowed to eat her yummy cheesy self-made hamburger for dinner.

 

[Psinter]

Naughty girls! My mom would whip me to dead if I did something similar, or worse I might not be allowed to eat her yummy cheesy self-made hamburger for dinner.

Mmmmmmmm. Sounds yummy.

 

[Psinter]

ℭᎪΝ ɏℴᵘ ᴅᴏ ℐℋℐ₴?

ᴄᴀᴺ ɏℴᵘ?

♖♘♗♕♔♗♘♖
♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙

♟♟♟♟♟♟♟♟
♜♞♝♛♚♝♞♜

SℋᎪɭɭ ѡΕ?

 

[fresh_42]

♖♘♗♕♔♗♘♖
♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙

...♟

♟♟♟...♟♟♟♟
♜♞♝♛♚♝♞♜

(How shall I make the spaces?)

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

Does anyone else experience this effect?

Yes

 

[Psinter]

Maybe we should use dots. Can't make it work with spaces. We could use the code tag which accepts spaces, but I don't know if you will find it too small for you. I'm okay with it, though.

♖♘♗♕♔♗♘♖
...♙♙♙♙♙♙♙

♙...♟

♟♟♟...♟♟♟♟
♜♞♝♛♚♝♞♜

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

C'mon, you're not seriously going to play chess like that?

 

[Psinter]

C'mon, you're not seriously going to play chess like that?

I'm already on it.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

I'm already on it.

Let's see who's first to get a checkmate, then

 

[Psinter]

Let's see who's first to get a checkmate, then

Although I'm a little sleepy right now. I'll come back in a few hours. This may take some time to finish.

I'll be waiting for your move, fresh...

 

[fresh_42]

Maybe we should use dots. Can't make it work with spaces. We could use the code tag which accepts spaces, but I don't know if you will find it too small for you. I'm okay with it, though.

♖♘♗♕♔♗♘♖
...♙♙♙♙♙♙♙

♙
...♟♟

♟♟...♟♟♟♟
♜♞♝♛♚♝♞♜

Explain which code tags, please. And I inserted the missing row.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

SℋᎪɭɭ ѡΕ?

Please don't hijack this "Random Thoughts" thread for the purpose of your Chess game / Font test.

 

[Psinter]

Yeah, I lost the interest.

Explain which code tags, please. And I inserted the missing row.

It's the code tags you use when posting code like C, Java, etc.
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You know, I still don't understand why some people yell "Shotgun!" before they get in a car.

 

[fresh_42]

It's the code tags you use when posting code like C, Java, etc.

Can you show this because I often fight with spaces when I want to write formulas, e.g. ... for $ε < 0 |x-a| < -ε$ or something like that. It looks awful without spaces.
How would you write it as: ... for $ε < 0$ 3 spaces $|x-a| < -ε$?

 

[Psinter]

Can you show this because I often fight with spaces when I want to write formulas, e.g. ... for $ε < 0 |x-a| < -ε$ or something like that. It looks awful without spaces.
How would you write it as: ... for $ε < 0$ 3 spaces $|x-a| < -ε$?

Yes. I don't think you can use spaces in Latex.

The code I talk about is in the + symbol of the editor. You click it and add your code. The tag respects the spaces and formatting. However, writing Latex there will not display the latex.

On the other hand there is this: https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Spacing_in_math_mode

<br /> \begin{align*}<br /> \epsilon &lt; 0 \quad \left | x - a \right | &lt; -\epsilon \\<br /> \end{align*}<br />

\begin{align*}
\epsilon < 0 \quad \left | x - a \right | < -\epsilon \\
\end{align*}

Is that what you were looking for in latex?

Edit: Oh my! It's actually displaying latex in the code! You see that? It's trying to make me look bad.

 

[fresh_42]

Oh my! It's actually displaying latex in the code! You see that? It's trying to make me look bad.

Yep, thank you! Perfect.

Don't bother. Machines are mean, very mean. Especially computers.
Once in the 90's (at a time when bluescreens weren't so rare as you might think now) I've read about a guy who got so angry that he shot his computer. (In the US seemingly something you must expect.)
Nevertheless, they've put him in the loony bin. This, however, could nobody around me (including me) understand. We all felt it might be a logic reaction sometimes.

 

[Borg]

I opened my wallet on Friday to discover that I didn't have my driver's license. It took me a few panicked minutes to remember that a customer service rep at Home Depot had asked for it 3 days earlier and didn't return it. Fortunately, they had it in a safe waiting for me to come back. I am surprised that they didn't try to call me though. What if I didn't remember where it was?

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

I opened my wallet on Friday to discover that I didn't have my driver's license. It took me a few panicked minutes to remember that a customer service rep at Home Depot had asked for it 3 days earlier and didn't return it. Fortunately, they had it in a safe waiting for me to come back. I am surprised that they didn't try to call me though. What if I didn't remember where it was?

That happened before . . . only instead Home Depot, we were on our way back to California (currently in Tennessee) to realize that the driver's license was in Virginia.

 

[Borg]

That happened before . . . only instead Home Depot, we were on our way back to California (currently in Tennessee) to realize that the driver's license was in Virginia.

Yikes! Fortunately I didn't have to drive that far.

 

[Pepper Mint]

I opened my wallet on Friday to discover that I didn't have my driver's license. It took me a few panicked minutes to remember that a customer service rep at Home Depot had asked for it 3 days earlier and didn't return it. Fortunately, they had it in a safe waiting for me to come back. I am surprised that they didn't try to call me though. What if I didn't remember where it was?

It'll be alright then though because you'll soon learn you do or don't know where it is anymore when you need it.
But I think you should also think of plans to renew, replace or remake one just in case you discover it's gone and no way you can get it back.
Other than that, you just don't need to drive at all anymore, e.g you become old, you hire someone to drive you around instead etc, so having a driver license is of no use.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

Yikes! Fortunately I didn't have to drive that far.

Luckily we knew exactly which store it was at, so the license was mailed back to our house. Of course, driving back without that precious piece of plastic was slightly nerve-racking.