Random Thoughts Part 5: Time to Split Again

  • Thread starter Thread starter Evo
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Random Thoughts
Join the discussion
Registration is free. Ask a follow-up in this thread, or start your own.
Sign up Log in
2,662 replies · 183K views
I went to calculate something just out of curiosity, but I saw the solar panel on my calculator needed cleaning. One thing lead to another and I ended up cleaning the whole thing; between the keys and such. Then I couldn't remember what I was going to calculate. It's been over two hours and I still can't remember.
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: Psinter, ProfuselyQuarky, Pepper Mint and 1 other person
Physics news on Phys.org
Well now you have three things. One, a clean calculator. Two, an estimate of the typical time needed to clean a calculator. Three, evidence that whatever you wanted to calculate probably wasn't that critical.
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: zoobyshoe
I ain't afraid of losing my job, I'm only worried about being unable to find a new one.
 
Ibix said:
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...
Probably the same people who are surprised to see a sign in maps used to give orientation, that reads " You are Here". Then they ask: "How do they know"?
 
WWGD said:
Probably the same people who are surprised to see a sign in maps used to give orientation, that reads " You are Here". Then they ask: "How do they know"?
Big Brother is watching, man!

I'm pretty smart, but am occasionally called scatter-brained. That's totally justified. The guy I was talking about goes way beyond me. He's perfectly capable of fairly detailed planning and clever problem solving if formally presented with a task. Left to his own devices he won't realize there's a problem to be solved until he's already lost the flashlight and forgotten he has two hands.
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: WWGD and Psinter
Once I decided to take a different route to home from uni and night fell while I was still driving. I went up a mountain with a road full of curves and I couldn't see very well. At one point I almost fell over a cliff in the mountain while taking a curve.

My heart beat increased so much, I stopped the vehicle. Took a deep breath and after a few seconds I resumed driving. This time very slowly and with the lights at max intensity.

Stuff that happens.
 
Psinter said:
At one point I almost fell over a cliff in the mountain while taking a curve.
Did you happen to be speeding? Perhaps swatting a fly? :biggrin:

But seriously, that's scary. Luckily you were driving alone. If that happened while I was with someone, I'd probably scream, the driver would panic and, in the panic, accidentally hit the gas, and then we'd go off the cliff. The end. o:)
 
ProfuselyQuarky said:
Did you happen to be speeding? Perhaps swatting a fly? :biggrin:

But seriously, that's scary. Luckily you were driving alone. If that happened while I was with someone, I'd probably scream, the driver would panic and, in the panic, accidentally hit the gas, and then we'd go off the cliff. The end. o:)
:DD That's comic.

I wasn't speeding. Oddly enough, when I realized I was going straight for the cliff in the curve, I hit the gas in a temporary panic, but instantly hit the break too. The temporary panic made me confuse the break with the gas. By luck, I came to a full stop before the tires and the vehicle went beyond a point of no return.

Edit: Thank goodness I wasn't in a Ferrari or a Corvette. Had I hit the gas in one of those vehicles with so much horsepower, I don't think I would have had the time to break. Given the acceleration I would have gone straight to the cliff. No funeral, straight to the pit at the bottom of the mountain. o:) :biggrin:
 
WWGD said:
Probably the same people who are surprised to see a sign in maps used to give orientation, that reads " You are Here". Then they ask: "How do they know"?
:biggrin: PF = Physics Forums or Psychopath Forensics.
 
Pepper Mint said:
:biggrin: PF = Physics Forums or Psychopath Forensics.
No, no. The last one is commonly known as Fox News.
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: ProfuselyQuarky and Pepper Mint
ProfuselyQuarky said:
Did you happen to be speeding? Perhaps swatting a fly? :biggrin:

But seriously, that's scary. Luckily you were driving alone. If that happened while I was with someone, I'd probably scream, the driver would panic and, in the panic, accidentally hit the gas, and then we'd go off the cliff. The end. o:)
No, the fly came in when I was conducting a concert. Great music resulted.
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: Psinter
WWGD said:
No, the fly came in when I was conducting a concert. Great music resulted.
Yeah, I've heard that you can do almost everything in the Central Park. So just a question: have there been musicians around? I mean as an intellectual man those won't be necessarily necessary. :biggrin:
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: Pepper Mint
WWGD said:
No, the fly came in when I was conducting a concert. Great music resulted.
That reminds me of this:

-a-robot-write-a-symphony-can-a-robot-turn-a-canvas-into-a-beautiful-masterpiece-can-you-quote-1.jpg


I for once have never written a symphony.
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: OmCheeto, Pepper Mint, ProfuselyQuarky and 1 other person
WWGD said:
No, the fly came in when I was conducting a concert. Great music resulted.
Eww, it is the mature figure of a disgusting maggot. You were probably using your baton to chase him away while the rest of other musical players thought you were guiding them with a totally new composition.
 
WWGD said:
No, the fly came in when I was conducting a concert. Great music resulted.
A couple of weeks ago I was playing the violin in an orchestra rehearsal (in the leader/concertmaster position) and just as we were about to resume playing a huge shiny fly landed on the tip of my bow, which I noticed because of feeling the impact on the bow weight! I waved the bow around a bit but the fly clung on tightly so I held up the bow to show people (and the conductor) the reason for my strange activity. I excused myself for a moment and stood up and flicked the bow hard and heard the fly hit something, but I didn't see where it went. That was quite distracting, and great music definitely did not result.
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: Pepper Mint
Jonathan Scott said:
A couple of weeks ago I was playing the violin in an orchestra rehearsal (in the leader/concertmaster position) and just as we were about to resume playing a huge shiny fly landed on the tip of my bow, which I noticed because of feeling the impact on the bow weight! I waved the bow around a bit but the fly clung on tightly so I held up the bow to show people (and the conductor) the reason for my strange activity. I excused myself for a moment and stood up and flicked the bow hard and heard the fly hit something, but I didn't see where it went. That was quite distracting, and great music definitely did not result.
I guess I was thinking more about a cartoon with Porky Pig, where he was directing an orchestra when someone accidentally plugged his behind to an electrical outlet, i.e., he had a cable coming out of the outlet and plugged it up Porky's behind, making Porky move around like crazy. I was laughing almost nonstop like for a whole week.
 
Borg said:
You haven't seen data.gov?
No, I will check it out, thanks.
 
Counting the time til your OMG post. :oldwink:
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: WWGD and ProfuselyQuarky
Jonathan Scott said:
... a huge shiny fly landed on the tip of my bow, which I noticed because of feeling the impact on the bow weight!
That's amazing. :bow:
 
World hockey championship starting today!
That's a big deal in my area :) Though our team has been playing quite bad in recent years (except for Silver in 2012), most people get excited about the event each year.
In fact, this is one of very few sport events (such as the Olympics and figure skating championships) that I ever watch on TV :p
 
dlgoff said:
That's amazing. :bow:
Yet amazing things occur only once in a blue moon on PF's random thread.
It's truly sad to see conservative young people without a "seriously" positive attitude to be accepting of changes.
 
Last edited:
:eek: Why didn't this occur to me before? I could then walk over 30,000 miles before having to change my tennis! :-p

Source
46WopqY.jpg
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: Pepper Mint and Sophia
Not going gentle into it.
 
Nyquist wins the Kentucky Derby!

i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2016%2F0507%2Fr81138_1296x518_5%2D2.jpg


I had a cat named Nyquist. Actually, his full name was "Nyquist Stability Criterion for the function GH(s)," but he usually just went by Nyquist. He was an infamous cat among those who knew him. Vicious as all get out. He had utter mastery of his claws. He was quite a smart cat too. He would open doors by himself. And close the doors behind him.
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: Pepper Mint
collinsmark said:
I had a cat named Nyquist. Actually, his full name was "Nyquist Stability Criterion for the function GH(s)," but he usually just went by Nyquist.
Relevant: https://m.xkcd.com/26/
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: Pepper Mint and collinsmark
The tap used to open a tab in a browser seems unfortunately similar to the tap used to close it. I keep trying to do one and end up doing the other.
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: Pepper Mint

Similar threads

What is the newest installment of 'Random Thoughts' on Physics Forums?

  • Evo
  • · Replies 11K ·
  • Other Physics Topics
370
Replies
11K

Random thoughts: computers, Internet, security and privacy

  • Sophia
  • · Replies 78 ·
  • Computing and Technology
3
Replies
78