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[Ibix]

I called my mum and she drove all the way up to college to throw it out the window. Sike! I'm actually, like really, unbelievably brave and after a pretty long stare-off I captured the little miscreant all by myself

Apparently those really big ones you see wandering around are males out on the pull. As long as you don't look like a hot lady spider it'll ignore you.

In halls I once captured a really large spider in an empty ice cream tub. I was ready for bed when I spotted it, but I didn't want to throw it out of my ill-fitting ground floor window, so I started getting dressed again, planning to walk down to the main entrance and chuck it far away from my room. But I could hear a strange tapping noise while I was dressing. I eventually worked out that I could actually hear the spider walking around on the raised base of the ice cream tub, which was presumably acting a bit like a drum skin. I was half afraid it was going to wrestle me when I opened the lid...

I did, indeed, throw it far away from my room.

 

[WWGD]

I got into an absurd discussion when someone stated, about an issue" No one knows about it. No one cares". But if no one knows about it, how can they be expected to care? It went into a bizarre, absurd exchange after that. I want thosr 10 minutes of my life back!

 

[WWGD]

Spider in an

Apparently those really big ones you see wandering around are males out on the pull. As long as you don't look like a hot lady spider it'll ignore you.

In halls I once captured a really large spider in an empty ice cream tub. I was ready for bed when I spotted it, but I didn't want to throw it out of my ill-fitting ground floor window, so I started getting dressed again, planning to walk down to the main entrance and chuck it far away from my room. But I could hear a strange tapping noise while I was dressing. I eventually worked out that I could actually hear the spider walking around on the raised base of the ice cream tub, which was presumably acting a bit like a drum skin. I was half afraid it was going to wrestle me when I opened the lid...

I did, indeed, throw it far away from my room.

Spider in an ice cream tub? They're running out of ideas for new ice cream flavors! Maybe Pralines & Spider bits?

 

[Ibix]

Spider in an ice cream tub? They're running out of ideas for new ice cream flavors! Maybe Pralines & Spider bits?

It's the spider venom that gives it the flavour.

Actually, the ice cream tub was the only thing I had to hand that was large enough to catch the thing. I'd have broken its legs if I used a glass and it moved even slightly.

 

[fresh_42]

Spider in an
Spider in an ice cream tub? They're running out of ideas for new ice cream flavors! Maybe Pralines & Spider bits?

I have heard from a shop here (Berlin IIRC) which offers "Döner" flavor.

 

[WWGD]

I have heard from a shop here (Berlin IIRC) which offers "Döner" flavor.

I've heard of avocado, plantain and black bean ice cream flavors. Not desperate to try them.

 

[Keith_McClary]

I often start with my phone at x%. If I go out and not use it at all for an hour or so, it will often remain at x%.

It's mining bitcoins.

 

[fresh_42]

I wonder why nobody ever tried to use background em to charge cellphones.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

delighted to see that PF looks the exact same as the last time I was here. I wish I could be a meaningful presence but alas lol

 

[WWGD]

I wonder why nobody ever tried to use background em to charge cellphones.

I was surprised to read you can now charge your phone remotely. So maybe sometjing along those lines.

 

[WWGD]

delighted to see that PF looks the exact same as the last time I was here. I wish I could be a meaningful presence but alas lol

Welcome back.

 

[WWGD]

It's mining bitcoins.

It should mine it's own business. Maybe that's what is doing.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

Welcome back.

why thanks. It's like I come back annually every year, read a little, and realize there's nothing I have worth contributing so it's just a matter of time in which one slinks back into the cave of shame.

 

[WWGD]

To advertise himself, the clown mimed his own business.

 

[WWGD]

I wrote a pretentious little booklet called " So am I". It is a followup to Von Neumann's " I am a Mathematician".

 

[Klystron]

I like the new world. {snip}Google? They only try to figure out which music I like most, desperately and in vain. If you can't convince them, confuse them.

You tube has offered me just about every type of music; a few times even things I liked.

I love living in the future.

YouTube music suggestions often seemed fey. I play a favorite song. YT follows with a song supposedly based on my favorite but almost always something annoying if not disgusting. Now with Google ownership the suggested selections have become sadistic.

I enjoy "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones. YT/Google follows with Herman's Hermits played at Alvin and the Chipmunks speed. Not "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter" or "Woke Up This Morning" but some clinker from the album filler.

Nostalgic for some Soviet rock, I listen to Picnic. YT/G follows with a children's choir singing Stalin's greatest folk hits. I reject the song. YT/G plays the soundtrack from the movie "Picnic".

Once I liked a YT suggestion from an artist I did not know. So, I liked the song. Now every list and mix includes songs by that artist irrespective of genre or any logic. That one like was a fluke, perhaps a deliberate parody. Every other song is in a genre I never enjoy. Refer to "Most Hated Music" thread.

 

[WWGD]

Wow, they seem to have a problem with feral pigs in part of the world. Check this out: Shwarma for everybody, it's on me

 

[Keith_McClary]

feral pigs in part of the world

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-predicted-population-density-of-wild-pigs-for-habitat-occurring-across-the-world_fig3_314394782​

 

[WWGD]

Or plot it! If it wasn't then NP=P wouldn't be a problem.

Don't get the point here. How does NP=P relate to the exponential?

 

[WWGD]

Re charging/"de-charging" the phone, function does not seem linear. Phone seems to charge increasingly faster, decay increasingly faster ( i.e., the lower the charge left, the faster it loses charge).

 

[fresh_42]

Don't get the point here. How does NP=P relate to the exponential?

We can solve SAT in exponential time, but not in polynomial. If $x\longmapsto e^x$ was a polynomial, then $NP=P$ would be decided.

 

[WWGD]

We can solve SAT in exponential time, but not in polynomial. If $x\longmapsto e^x$ was a polynomial, then $NP=P$ would be decided.

A bit more convincing than NP=P iff N=1 or P=0. ;). That was from sci.math a few years back.

 

[Keith_McClary]

They're running out of ideas for new ice cream flavors!

 

[collinsmark]

I wonder why nobody ever tried to use background em to charge cellphones.

They have. And while it's possible in theory, you would need an impractically large charging (i.e., EM gathering) loop. Any way you look at it, there would be lots of wire involved.

 

[WWGD]

They have. And while it's possible in theory, you would need an impractically large charging (i.e., EM gathering) loop. Any way you look at it, there would be lots of wire involved.

I heard it is possible to send power wirelessly/remotely, but I don't know the details.

 

[WWGD]

How do you reply to someone saying " Hey, is that you?" . Yes, last I checked, I was me.

 

[dlgoff]

Wow, they seem to have a problem with feral pigs in part of the world. Check this out: Shwarma for everybody, it's on meView attachment 282083

When I worked for the Kansas Animal Health Dept. There were expeditions where they took helicopters to shoot feral pigs to stop the spread of pseudorabies

 

[WWGD]

When I worked for the Kansas Animal Health Dept. There were expeditions where they took helicopters to shoot feral pigs to stop the spread of pseudorabies

Is it reasonably under control? They seem at least to not have reached the cities.

 

[Tom.G]

I heard it is possible to send power wirelessly/remotely, but I don't know the details.

A guy named Nikola Tesla tried that over a century ago.
Result: Quite impractical

https://www.google.com/search?&q=tesla+wireless+power+transmission+experiments

 

[dlgoff]

Is it reasonably under control? They seem at least to not have reached the cities.

From the testing we did, it seemed to be.

 

[Keith_McClary]

Is it reasonably under control?

685 × 688

 

[WWGD]

View attachment 282164685 × 688

Seems to have somewhat stabilized since 2004, but it did seem pretty bad back then.

 

[dlgoff]

Seems to have somewhat stabilized since 2004, but it did seem pretty bad back then.

IIRC The testing we did was in 2009

 

[WWGD]

IIRC The testing we did was in 2009

How about a massive BBQ, with one of those on a spit? Should be able to feed like 50 people?

 

[dlgoff]

How about a massive BBQ, with one of those on a spit? Should be able to feed like 50 people?

I think I'll pass.

 

[fresh_42]

How about a massive BBQ, with one of those on a spit? Should be able to feed like 50 people?

One thing is for sure: we cannot speak of spare ribs anymore in that case.

 

[Keith_McClary]

The wild pigs are the legacy of a failed attempt to diversify meat production with wild boars.

The porcine pests were imported from Europe in the 1980s and 1990s for livestock or "penned game" for hunters.

Many boars escaped their pens and mated with pigs, said Aschim, and they're now causing damage wherever they go.

 

[WWGD]

Is this behavior unique to Pigs/Boars? I have heard of feral cats, but AFAIK, it is a minor, local thing, not packs of wild cats traveling along whole countries?

 

[fresh_42]

Is this behavior unique to Pigs/Boars?

Nope. It is called Columbian exchange.

 

[WWGD]

Nope. It is called Columbian exchange.

Pablo Escobars roaming wildly?

 

[fresh_42]

Pablo Escobars roaming wildly?

Rather fruits and bees, and potatoes on the other side of the pond.

Edit: Is it Columbus exchange? I mean Columbus didn't exchange. Not even his incapabilty to navigate.

 

[WWGD]

Rather fruits and bees, and potatoes on the other side of the pond.

I was thinking more of packs of wild animals running around. Sort of like those in spring break ;).

 

[WWGD]

At any rate, one of my dreams was to have an animal made out of spare ribs you could eat and each time you took one, another rib would grow to replace it.

 

[Keith_McClary]

I mean Columbus didn't exchange.

important plants had already been introduced in Europe by Columbus when he returned from his first voyage in1493, e.g. corn (Zea mays), whose presence in Italy is documented from 1495. The first spontaneously-growing neophyte reportedin Italy is Amaranthus retroflexus. A dried sample of this species, conserved in the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome, Gherardo Cibo’sherbarium, testifies to the fact that this annual herb already grew spontaneously in 1532; owing to the speed at which it spreads, it has since become one of the most harmful agricultural weeds in Italy

 

[WWGD]

important plants had already been introduced in Europe by Columbus when he returned from his first voyage in1493, e.g. corn (Zea mays), whose presence in Italy is documented from 1495. The first spontaneously-growing neophyte reportedin Italy is Amaranthus retroflexus. A dried sample of this species, conserved in the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome, Gherardo Cibo’sherbarium, testifies to the fact that this annual herb already grew spontaneously in 1532; owing to the speed at which it spreads, it has since become one of the most harmful agricultural weeds in Italy

As long as coffee is available in all continents, all is OK , as far as I'm concerned.

 

[WWGD]

Still brutal , the quarantine, for coffee-shop hangers like myself. Seems Starbucks has become a take out-only chain.

 

[WWGD]

Re random, just learned the accents on Czech letters are called diacritics. But I am too lazy to find out the name of the slashed lines in some Polish words.

 

[WWGD]

Site for filling surveys for pay seemed like a fun way of making money until I computed it came down to around $2.50 per hour on average. I think I will pass.

 

[Borg]

Interviews...

 

[Ibix]

Interviews...

I sympathise. The only thing worse than having a job interview is running one, IMO.