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WWGD said:
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...:oldwink:
 
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DiracPool said:
Congrats on 2000 posts. I just reached my 1000 milestone last week. We're fighting ignorance one post at a time WWGD...:oldwink:
All just O(1).
 
Snow seems to have stopped coming down, seems no crises, major problems resulting from Jonas.
 
fresh_42 said:
All just O(1).
{-1,1} (ignorant statement deleted), the 1x1 orthogonal matrices? Just kidding.. O(1) applied
to what?
 
There was some buzz about a legitimate detection at LIGO a few weeks back, has anyone heard anything about that?
 
There's an Albert Hammond concert on TV. What does it tell that I can join in singing the songs?
 
WWGD said:
{-1,1} (ignorant statement deleted), the 1x1 orthogonal matrices? Just kidding.. O(1) applied
to what?
Length / number of typed symbols.
 
Chinese New Year, the Monkey, starting February 2. Goodbye Goat, Hello Monkey.
 
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WWGD said:
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.
 
@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.
 
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Borg said:
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?
 
Borg said:
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.
 
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*
Yellow smiley face emoji with heavy-lidded eyes looking sideways and a small flat mouth, conveying a suspicious or unimpressed expression.
 
WWGD said:
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.
 
DiracPool said:
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.
 
zoobyshoe said:
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 :oldtongue:
 
Borg said:
Another band coming through my area. We're definitely over 2 feet at this point.
Are they on the run?

[.]
 
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OmCheeto said:
Are they on the run?

No, he lives on the Sunset strip, and he's two feet deep in hot groupies :wink:
 
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DiracPool said:
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 :oldtongue:
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.
 
The weather channel seems to have dropped all regular programming in favor of covering the eastern ÜberBlizzard.
 
Borg said:
We have a plow dedicated to our subdivision and he is working hard right now.

Yeah, saw that on a news station... :oldtongue:
Red Smart Fortwo city car fitted with a small yellow snow plow blade, driving through a snowy parking lot with other cars nearby.


Lol...
 
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Done with the old, ready to move into the new.
 
OCR said:
Yeah, saw that on a news station... :oldtongue:View attachment 94728

Lol...

You can put the car in your backpack after you're done.
 
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Psinter said:
Hi Silicon Waffle, hi Borg. Whatcha cooking... :smile:
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.
 
WWGD said:
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...

View through a truck windshield of a snow-covered road running into a blizzard, with tan dry grass banks on the right and a red vehicle hood and cream-colored plow blade in the foreground.


View through a vehicle windshield of a snow-covered highway in heavy snowfall, with a red vehicle hood and a grey side mirror in the foreground.


Blurred photo through a rain-spotted windshield of a snowy highway with a snowplow's orange hood and cream-colored blade in the foreground, falling snow and snow-covered roadside beyond.


View through a truck's windshield of a snowy plain in heavy snowfall, with a wiper blade crusted in ice and a snow-covered fence line in the distance.
 
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Around 12:25 Am... different storm, though...

Photo taken at night through a windshield during heavy rain, with water droplets and streaks of light scattered across the glass, a truck hood and road visible below.


Photo taken at night through a windshield during heavy rain or hail, with countless bright specks streaking across a dark scene and a wet road in the foreground.


Night photo of snow blowing from an orange snowblower chute, with snowflakes streaking through the dark air and snow piled at the lower left.


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

Orange dump truck with a plow blade and wing plow, coated in ice and snow, parked on a snowy road with a snow bank behind it.
 
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WWGD said:
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.
 
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