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[WWGD]

I understood the weird look I received recently. I meant to tell someone I was doing a Spring Cleaning on Steroids. Instead, I said I'm doing a Spring cleaning on ...Hemorrhoids.

 

[WWGD]

Wonder if it would make sense to include the links to free books put out by Springer?

 

[Tom.G]

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=springer+free+books

(maybe Google should be promoted to one of your "Best Friends")

 

[WWGD]

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=springer+free+books

(maybe Google should be promoted to one of your "Best Friends")

I did look, though I remember seeing Math books at some point, but not in their current webpage.

 

[Tom.G]

Checking the Google search results found a site with a list sorted by subject:
https://hnarayanan.github.io/springer-books/

 

[WWGD]

Checking the Google search results found a site with a list sorted by subject:
https://hnarayanan.github.io/springer-books/

Thanks for the link, but these are not free, but discounted:

 

[fresh_42]

If it looks like a duck,
walks like a duck,
and quacks like a duck,

then it is definitely a **** AI if you had to ask.

 

[nsaspook]

the dead zone where all sense of time and space seems to disappear ....

 

[fresh_42]

Back in my days it was more like this:

We didn't know sleep and the fridge was empty anyway.

 

[Grelbr42]

We didn't know sleep and the fridge was empty anyway.

The first ever webcam was pointed at the coffee pot so that people didn't need to walk all the way there to find the pot empty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

I wonder what people did when it was empty?

 

[nsaspook]

The first ever webcam was pointed at the coffee pot so that people didn't need to walk all the way there to find the pot empty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

I wonder what people did when it was empty?

 

[WWGD]

Not too confident about an organization called the " Feil" organization.

 

[Borg]

The first ever webcam was pointed at the coffee pot so that people didn't need to walk all the way there to find the pot empty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

I wonder what people did when it was empty?

Don't forget its HTTP Coffee Pot protocol 418 - I'm a teapot.

 

[pinball1970]

Random book. Totally forgot I had this, I have Griffiths but got bogged down quick. I will try again but was wondering if you guys had come across it.

 

[fresh_42]

I am basically satisfied with Google, but one thing sucks as hell. If I searched for something, then they fill both of my caches, the German and the English one. But if I clean up one cache, the other one remains untouched.

 

[Astronuc]

https://www.theguardian.com/news/20...-race-adventure-lifetime-tragedy-simon-speirs

Sometimes the risks and cost are just too great.

 

[BillTre]

That makes too much sense!

 

[Rive]

The 'flea market' of my favourite IT site is littered with all those 'mining rigs'
It's quite tempting to put up some real hard ware (for real men)

 

[BillTre]

 

[DrGreg]

He also reacted similarly to the UK sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf:



Summary: when he first saw it, his intention was to sue, until he realised it was a comedy and he subsequently became a great fan.

 

[pinball1970]

Paul Dirac interview

 

[fresh_42]

Paul Dirac interview

I have a book. The elementary particles. Copyright: 1943.

 

[Astronuc]

Kansas farmers abandon wheat fields after extreme drought
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kansas-farmers-abandon-wheat-fields-100000061.html

WICHITA, Kansas, May 22 (Reuters) - Farmers in Kansas, the biggest U.S. producer of wheat used to make bread, are abandoning their crops after a severe drought and damaging cold ravaged farms.

They are intentionally spraying wheat fields with crop-killing chemicals and claiming insurance payouts more than normal, betting the grain is not worth harvesting, Reuters found on a three-day tour of the state. Other growers are turning over dismal-looking fields to cattle for grazing.

Abandoning fields will lead to a smaller U.S. wheat supply in the world's No. 5 wheat exporter, with stocks seen falling to a 16-year low. High rates of abandonment deal an economic blow to farm towns and force wheat buyers to adjust procurement plans by buying the staple grain elsewhere.

Nationally, winter-wheat farmers plan to abandon 33% of the acres they planted, the highest percentage since World War I, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a May 12 report.

Kansas farmers are expected to abandon about 19% of the acres planted last autumn, up from 10% last year and 4% in 2021, according to the report. But farmers, grain traders and representatives of major food companies who traversed the state on an annual crop tour last week warn of an even greater percentage of unharvested acres.

 

[Astronuc]

Edge of Nowhere: Journey to Macquarie Island (Full Documentary) | TRACKS​

Macquarie Island is about 930 miles (1500 km) southeast of Tasmania. One gets there by boat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macquarie_Island
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/629/

The island is the exposed crest of the undersea Macquarie Ridge, raised to its present position where the Indo-Australian tectonic plate meets the Pacific plate. It is a site of major geoconservation significance, being the only place on earth where rocks from the earth’s mantle (6 km below the ocean floor) are being actively exposed above sea-level. These unique exposures include excellent examples of pillow basalts and other extrusive rocks.

 

[WWGD]

Every tab everything working except YouTube. I was searching for SysInternals. Which I never had??

 

[hmmm27]

That you, Yoda ?

 

[pinball1970]

That you, Yoda ?

No. Not quite l.

Everything working it was.
Searching the net I am.
SysInternals searching I was.
Owned never had did I.

 

[pinball1970]

That you, Yoda ?

Star wars is stupid. Totally do not get it.

 

[phinds]

Star wars is stupid. Totally do not get it.

Get it, totally I do not. Stupid it is.

 

[hmmm27]

I thought MS changed the name to PowerToys, or something like that, but apparently not. Latest update, yesterday.

 

[pinball1970]

FA cup, oldest football (soccer) competition in the world (1871) played on the 3rd June with an all Manchester final (Man U and Man C) for the first time in history.

 

[fresh_42]

Does anyone remember Catweazle? Germany made a movie 50 years after the series (26 episodes)!

 

[DrGreg]

Does anyone remember Catweazle? Germany made a movie 50 years after the series (26 episodes)!

Yes. I guess many people of roughly my age from the UK would remember it. And I guess it was sold to a number of other countries, given that it was made on film rather than video tape, by "London Weekend International", a subsidiary of London Weekend Television.

Catweazle

 

[fresh_42]

Yes. I guess many people of roughly my age from the UK would remember it. And I guess it was sold to a number of other countries, given that it was made on film rather than video tape, by "London Weekend International", a subsidiary of London Weekend Television.

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Catweazle

IIRC it was broadcast here in Germany on Sunday afternoons. And I still use the words "electric-trick" occasionally. Not sure whether this was due to translation or in the original script as well. I just found it interesting that they produced a movie 50 years later and still count on the fact that people will remember it. And there was only one choice for the lead actor, which they indeed have chosen.

 

[DrGreg]

And I still use the words "electric-trick" occasionally. Not sure whether this was due to translation or in the original script as well.

I don't remember that, but I do remember "telling bone" for "telephone".