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[dkotschessaa]

Woohoo. New avatar that is slightly different from my old one.

 

[BillTre]

Woohoo. New avatar that is slightly different from my old one.

You've aged.

 

[dkotschessaa]

You've aged.

Mitch Hedberg: One time, this guy handed me a picture of him, he said "Here's a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture is of you when you were younger

 

[fresh_42]

Every picture is of you when you were younger.

My thoughts when I look in the mirror in the morning: Shall I shave? The guy in the past obviously isn't, so I didn't. A moment later, the guy, who was formerly my future wasn't either. So what sense would it make to shave?

Btw.: funny find on the internet: http://cosmos-book.github.io/high-jump/index.html
but don't let a kangaroo jump on Phobos!

 

[Borg]

Not that I'm superstitious but my wife has an important job interview on Friday the 13th.

 

[fresh_42]

Not that I'm superstitious but my wife has an important job interview on Friday the 13th.

I've had an exam on a day comparable to Mardi Gras,

 

[dkotschessaa]

Not that I'm superstitious but my wife has an important job interview on Friday the 13th.

Well, Fridays are generally regarded as the happiest day of the week, as it hails the coming of the weekend.

As for 13.

$1^2 + 3^2 = 10$ and then
$1^2 + 0^2 = 1$

So 13 is a happy number.

So really it's the best day!

-Dave K

 

[fresh_42]

Well, Fridays are generally regarded as the happiest day of the week, as it hails the coming of the weekend.

And not to forget Freyja! (Mind the list she stands for!)

Btw.: An exercise (induction) in my first year's book on calculus has been to show that the 13th is more often a Frigg-day than any other weekday.

 

[dkotschessaa]

And not to forget Freyja! (Mind the list she stands for!)

Btw.: An exercise (induction) in my first year's book on calculus has been to show that the 13th is more often a Frigg-day than any other weekday.

So we've got a Norse sex goddess and a happy number on the same day. Wow! Happy Friday the 13th!

 

[Borg]

Interview completed. Hoping for the best.

 

[Evo]

Ok, who new that Ritz crackers came in bacon flavor now and didn't tell me?

 

[Bystander]

who new that Ritz crackers

Seriously? Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.

 

[Evo]

Seriously? Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.

My K key is sticking?

 

[Bystander]

My K key is sticking?

Excuses. Excuses. Haven't noticed you posting "cute itten" stories.

 

[fresh_42]

Ok, who new that Ritz crackers came in bacon flavor now and didn't tell me?

Are you, like me, one these "If in doubt, add bacon!" people? Although, I'd probably say add bacon and melted cheese

 

[fresh_42]

First match went wrong ... hope the next gets better ...

 

[Borg]

Not that I'm superstitious but my wife has an important job interview on Friday the 13th.

Interview completed. Hoping for the best.

@fresh_42 and @dkotschessaa
You guys were right about it being lucky. She got an offer emailed to her this morning.

 

[dkotschessaa]

@fresh_42 and @dkotschessaa
You guys were right about it being lucky. She got an offer emailed to her this morning.

YEAH!

 

[zoobyshoe]

San Diego deluged with rain today. I powered my old Beetle through a particularly deep river, maybe two feet deep. When I came out on the opposite bank my brakes were suddenly not grabbing very well. It seems plain water acts as a lubricant in these old drum brakes.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I really enjoy The Doctor Blake Mysteries. It's on PBS Saturday nights.

Dapper Dr. Blake is a "Police Surgeon" and low key alcoholic who solves a murder a week in Ballarat, Australia. The show is unique on US TV for being set in Australia. Blake is the only Australian fictional detective I'm aware of, and the show is doubly interesting for being set in the 1950's. They do a super job of re-creating the era: cars, clothes, hairstyles, props.

 

[Borg]

I really enjoy The Doctor Blake Mysteries. It's on PBS Saturday nights.

Dapper Dr. Blake is a "Police Surgeon" and low key alcoholic who solves a murder a week in Ballarat, Australia. The show is unique on US TV for being set in Australia. Blake is the only Australian fictional detective I'm aware of, and the show is doubly interesting for being set in the 1950's. They do a super job of re-creating the era: cars, clothes, hairstyles, props.

You haven't seen Ms.[/PLAIN] Fisher's Murder Mysteries? Also in Australia but around the 1920's

 

[zoobyshoe]

You haven't seen Ms.[/PLAIN] Fisher's Murder Mysteries? Also in Australia but around the 1920's

Wow. I had that playing in the background while I was on the internet a couple times, and it completely failed to register she was Australian. Her accent sounds much more British.

 

[jim hardy]

You haven't seen Ms.[/PLAIN] Fisher's Murder Mysteries?

Who could forget her fan dance in episode "Murder Most Scandalous" ?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Bad weather here. A lot of people had no power overnight. Today we're supposed to get an even worse storm: very high winds predicted. San Diego has this problem that eucalyptus trees have been planted everywhere. They're very brittle and don't stand up to wind well. Big, heavy limbs come crashing down.

 

[zoobyshoe]

OK, the forecast was full of dire predictions, but it's already almost 4PM and no rain at all. I guess the storm's been delayed due to weather.

 

[Borg]

The fake news thread got locked but I thought that this story was interesting because of the scientific approach to the problem.

Cambridge scientists consider fake news 'vaccine'

Makes me wonder if someday there will be fake-news anti-vaxxers.

 

[fresh_42]

Makes me wonder if someday there will be fake-news anti-vaxxers.

?
And I thought me was the idealist ... FB is an entire fake-news-party and the orange-one just added Twitter and press conferences to the list! Just the immunization part seems to be too difficult to handle.

 

[Borg]

Maybe that didn't come out right. What I meant is whether the cambridge vaccine will someday be met with people believing that they shouldn't read the vaccine stories because it will cause some completely unrelated problem.

 

[zoobyshoe]

The fake news thread got locked but I thought that this story was interesting because of the scientific approach to the problem.

Cambridge scientists consider fake news 'vaccine'

That article seemed awfully uninformative about the inoculation method. I found this one, which is more detailed:
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-psychological-vaccine-immunize-fake-news.html

 

[dkotschessaa]

I'm lazy today because