Random Thoughts Part 5: Time to Split Again

[fresh_42]

There's really a need for a thread about funny jokes lurking around the corner in some serious threads.
Biker titled a thread electromagnetic induction and posted a question in it. I had automatically to think about a biker reaching a traffic light triggered by an induction loop and the induced current of his bike wouldn't be sufficient so he got stuck waiting.
Sorry @Biker, nothing personal, just an amusing imagination.

 

[Pepper Mint]

NASA can also record observable stuff into video files, can't they ? I thought they were only able to take pictures from above.

 

[Psinter]

Can you guess what is says?

 

[collinsmark]

Can you guess what is says?

Spoiler

It says, "Hi, how are you?"

 

[DennisN]

Very nice photos;
2016 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest’s Best Entries (20+ Pics)
http://www.boredpanda.com/national-geographic-travel-photographer-of-the-year-contest-2016/

 

[fresh_42]

Spoiler

It says, "Hi, how are you?"

Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis. For decades it would have been (almost automatically) "Hello world!".

 

[Psinter]

Spoiler

It says, "Hi, how are you?"

Yes!

Very nice photos;
2016 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest’s Best Entries (20+ Pics)
http://www.boredpanda.com/national-geographic-travel-photographer-of-the-year-contest-2016/

I like those pictures.

Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis. For decades it would have been (almost automatically) "Hello world!".

You have 1000!

 

[fresh_42]

You have 1000!

I'd wish I could have avoided this. The system badged me "Addicted"

 

[Psinter]

I'd wish I could have avoided this. The system badged me "Addicted"

Hihihi.

 

[JorisL]

You have 1000!

I think you meant "1000" instead of "1000!"

Homework: Extrapolate the time needed to reach thousand ( +/- a month) knowing fresh joined sept. 29th in 2015.

 

[fresh_42]

I think you meant "1000" instead of "1000!"

Homework: Extrapolate the time needed to reach thousand ( +/- a month) knowing fresh joined sept. 29th in 2015.

I guess you meant the factorial of a thousand in which case I'd like to bet that the sun is faster!

 

[Pepper Mint]

Let me sleep and disclaim what I want to disclaim or I will bring up a bunch of my whatsoever-as-long-as-it-works otherwise.

 

[Pepper Mint]

You know at around my age, I am not pursuing multiple academic paths anymore, I actually want to follow many men at the same time instead.
Uhmm.. to learn.

 

[Sophia]

Today I went to order new glasses as I wrote recently in another thread.
There was such a nice lady optician, she was like an angel, really. I was nervous about going there because I have multiple issues with my eyes and vision and I am always so tense and anxious when attention is paid to that or even worse - when my eyes are tested. It reminds of all the times I was bullied etc. That's why I keep avoiding visiting a proper ophthalmologist for years :-)

But this lady was so kind and helpful that she made me feel at ease. After testing she helped me choose the best frame (both elegant and youthful) and gave me quite a big discount.
Oh I don't know but people have a big impact on my mood and can make me feel great or miserable for hours, sometimes even days. And this lady has really made my day beautiful right in the morning.

 

[WWGD]

Sixty second street to be renamed Minute street for short.

 

[Psinter]

You know at around my age, I am not pursuing multiple academic paths anymore, I actually want to follow many men at the same time instead.
Uhmm.. to learn.

But I have a question: Are you an adult? I ask because of this:

Spoiler: Because adult life

When someone asks if you feel tired and why.

 

[Borg]

I know someone who works for a company that is being driven off a cliff by management. They are burning through cash reserves at an unsustainable rate. How do they cut expenses? Spend lots of money on consultants and new purchases. Sad.

 

[Psinter]

I know someone who works for a company that is being driven off a cliff by management. They are burning through cash reserves at an unsustainable rate. How do they cut expenses? Spend lots of money on consultants and new purchases. Sad.

What burning through cash reserves means?

I knew about two guys who spent the money of the company (not their salary) in their own private stuff. In the end they couldn't sustain the company and sold it. One would think that it would pain them, but they didn't lose anything, they were the bosses after all. The ones who had loses were the employees who got fired at the time of selling.

I don't think it is that rare to see that kind of behavior on corporations.

 

[Borg]

What burning through cash reserves means?

The company has money in savings to keep it running during times when their income is low. What should be an emergency fund is being used as a piggy bank.

 

[fresh_42]

The company has money in savings to keep it running during times when their income is low. What should be an emergency fund is being used as a piggy bank.

Yep. Reducing your equity ratio and thus decreasing your credit lines is a well worked out way towards chapter 11.

 

[Psinter]

The company has money in savings to keep it running during times when their income is low. What should be an emergency fund is being used as a piggy bank.

I see.

 

[Astronuc]

The discrimination against and displacement of aboriginal communities of Western Australia - still continuing.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/country-discrimination-against-displacement-aboriginal-193915838/photo-wonderful-surprise-see-perfect-white-photo-193915188.html

Shameful.

Kennedy Hill is just one community that exists in the shadows of Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett’s commitment to close down approximately 100 - 150 Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. it's not clear to me where these folks would go, or what the purpose of closing the small communities would be, unless it's to consolidate the population on some reservation or penal colony.

 

[JorisL]

Yay the basis for a home automation type system has been made.
I can now control the music player on my laptop from a tablet :-D

Next up:
* Automatically keep track of current playing track and only check again when it's done or skipped.
* Make the web interface nicer and cellphone ready.
* Create a github repo (when their done)

 

[WWGD]

Kind of weird situation where I was walking in the sidewalk at almost exactly the same rate as someone else for around ( what seemed) like a minute or two and I was just almost exactly left of her for the duration. It was kind of delicate as it was a woman and she may have suspected I was following her. But I finally purposefully slowed down and she passed me by.

 

[Pepper Mint]

It's the race of a turtle and a rabbit.

 

[Kevin McHugh]

Sometimes when I play solitaire, I think the universe is messing with me.

Sometimes when a I look at beautifully diffracted wavelength of light, I swear I'm looking at God.

 

[Pepper Mint]

 

[fresh_42]

Public restroom outside NC or TX?

 

[Pepper Mint]

Public restroom outside NC or TX?

Neither!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_in_culture

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!...

 

[fresh_42]

Neither!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_in_culture

Nice trick to avoid the automatic <peep> on PF. I got censored twice when I quoted a dialog of a Tarantino movie. They've even corrected a slang abbreviation ... Reminds me on what a British once said to me as I objected he wasn't pc: "Oh, never mind. We don't have that here. It's an American invention!"
(@ all objecting this quote. I well remember our discussion on it. No need to repeat it. Nevertheless, it is what David has said to me.)