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[1oldman2]

You are reminding me of "waiting" time.
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https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Waiting_Time.html?id=ukYzTinGbFwC ?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Wow! Some kind of jet just flew over my house so close I thought it was fixing to crash land. Unbelievably loud!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Can you find the mobile phone?

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14612099.Can_you_spot_the_mobile_phone_in_this_photo_/

I would guess PFers are better at this than most.

 

[fresh_42]

Can you find the mobile phone?

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14612099.Can_you_spot_the_mobile_phone_in_this_photo_/

I would guess PFers are better at this than most.

I have an idea.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I have an idea.

I think if you found it you would be more certain. There is a clearly mobile phone shaped anomaly in the carpet. When I finally found it, I was certain I'd found it.

 

[Pepper Mint]

heiroglyphics ?

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Waiting_Time.html?id=ukYzTinGbFwC ?

Yes and Yes.

 

[Ibix]

I think if you found it you would be more certain. There is a clearly mobile phone shaped anomaly in the carpet. When I finally found it, I was certain I'd found it.

Agreed. My grandma had a carpet like that one, which is why I learned the trick of sweeping a torch around along the ground and looking for shadows. It's also why I only have plain carpets...

 

[Pepper Mint]

It's the phone's camouflage

 

[zoobyshoe]

Agreed. My grandma had a carpet like that one, which is why I learned the trick of sweeping a torch around along the ground and looking for shadows. It's also why I only have plain carpets...

Yeah, that's how I found it, by serially scrutinizing small areas as if looking for a dropped screw. The tell-tale anomaly doesn't register in a more macroscopic view.

 

[Ibix]

Yeah, that's how I found it, by serially scrutinizing small areas as if looking for a dropped screw. The tell-tale anomaly doesn't register in a more macroscopic view.

Zoom is most definitely necessary for this one, yes. I started looking for asymmetries, but that quickly got difficult as I moved away from the symmetry lines, so I switched to zoomed in grid searching and found it fairly quickly.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Zoom is most definitely necessary for this one, yes. I started looking for asymmetries, but that quickly got difficult as I moved away from the symmetry lines, so I switched to zoomed in grid searching and found it fairly quickly.

I didn't think to try an actual zoom function. I just meant I concentrated on very small areas. Forget the forest, examine every tree. Eventually you find the little group that's a different species.

 

[Ibix]

I didn't think to try an actual zoom function. I just meant I concentrated on very small areas. Forget the forest, examine every tree. Eventually you find the little group that's a different species.

Nice way of putting it.

I was looking on a phone. Even knowing what I'm looking for and where I can't see it in the full image on that screen size. But the zoom was helpful in cutting out all the distractors in the rest of the image.

 

[Sophia]

My current horoscope (Scorpio) is truly prophetic.
"Obey traffic rules while driving and you will avoid an accident. There might be bills in your mail box, don't forget to pay them. "
I think Nostradamus is a total newbie compared to this fortune teller!

 

[beamie564]

My current horoscope (Scorpio) is truly prophetic.
"Obey traffic rules while driving and you will avoid an accident. There might be bills in your mail box, don't forget to pay them. "
I think Nostradamus is a total newbie compared to this fortune teller!

At least they give good advice
I was just reading about Nostradamus.. Do people really believe his "predictions" are true?!

 

[Sophia]

At least they give good advice
I was just reading about Nostradamus.. Do people really believe his "predictions" are true?!

That's right. Other times they advise to eat healthy food or to exercise :-)
Yes, some people believe that Nostradamus was right.

 

[fresh_42]

I think if you found it you would be more certain. There is a clearly mobile phone shaped anomaly in the carpet. When I finally found it, I was certain I'd found it.

You are right, now that I got it. My first thought was: Nowadays many people use their iPhone for internet access and that would be the one they see and cannot find in the picture.

 

[zoobyshoe]

You are right, now that I got it. My first thought was: Nowadays many people use their iPhone for internet access and that would be the one they see and cannot find in the picture.

Ah. You thought it might be a trick question.

 

[WWGD]

I was thinking of this idea for cutting down on violence in prisons. Give all prisoners t-shirts or shirts with an image of a teddy bear or a puppy in them. Seems like it would make it hard for anyone to either intimidate and/or appear intimidating to others. And if some remain violent even after this, they could be punished by making them wear an image of Justin Bieber ( or, if not cruel and unusual, make them listen to his music). I actually heard once of something somewhat along these lines: a 7-11 store in the suburbs was having trouble with some teens hanging out in their parking lot, so they started pipping -in classical music , which, for some reason, the teens could not stand, and eventually stopped hanging out nearby.https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...iminals-away/2011/10/11/gIQAgDqPEQ_story.html

 

[fresh_42]

... making them wear an image of Justin Bieber ( or, if not cruel and unusual, make them listen to his music).

Are you looking for trouble with AI?

Edit: Has anyone ever asked, why the Canadians regularly send him to the USA and across the world?

 

[Pepper Mint]

Inmates have dignity and prides .

 

[WWGD]

Are you looking for trouble with AI?

Edit: Has anyone ever asked, why the Canadians regularly send him to the USA and across the world?

AI?? And yes, I guess the hint to Bieber is clear.

 

[Pepper Mint]

I just checked my bank account and am very satisfied with the amount I have earned so far, not much though but I wonder if I you also agree that I should fly.

 

[Borg]

Pokemon Go is becoming very popular and there are already lots of reports of accidents, robberies, and just plain stupidity. I think that I had two players even run by my house today. I was looking out the window when two guys ran up to my backyard fence while looking at their phones. When they got there, they seemed to decide that they couldn't get to something and ran off in another direction. It's going to be a strange summer.

 

[DiracPool]

I don't have the source data, but a few years ago I estimated that, planet-wide, 250,000 people died everyday and 350,000 new kids were born everyday. Can you imagine what the oceans would look like if 250,000 humpback whales died every day?!

http://www.grindtv.com/wildlife/wal...to-land-again/?yptr=yahoo#8FY1LDJZg0QkT6oS.97

 

[DiracPool]

See, I knew I should have been a rock star instead of a scientist. BAD ME, BAD ME!

https://www.yahoo.com/music/mick-jagger-dad-again-age-72-231614717.html

 

[Pepper Mint]

I am not a fan of psychology or psychiatry. But what terminology should I use to describe people who I once shared with them, for example, my thoughts of how important about being able to land a job was to me and later they turned against me and threatened me that they would fire me if I disobeyed their orders ?

 

[fresh_42]

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[Borg]

The Pokemon insanity continues - Yelp now allows you to filter businesses by whether there is a PokeStop nearby.

 

[wolram]

Is 65 to late to get a job, i have been out of the job market for 8 years and i am now looking for a job in engineering , i have a wealth of skills, electrical, pneumatics,
mechanics, but i can not get a job, what do you think is 65 to old for a job?

 

[jim hardy]

what do you think is 65 to old for a job?

Perhaps as a direct hire. "Catbert" in HR department wants somebody from whom he can extract thirty years service.
But
In my (former) industry there is a whole world of contractors who travel from site to site
https://roadtechs.com/
https://www.nukeworker.com/
http://www.industrialprojectsreport.com/RoadTechs

it's not uncommon for someone with a niche skillset to spend a decade in one place as a contractor.
Your skills sound like an I&C(instrumentation and controls) type .

old jim

 

[zoobyshoe]

A boiled watch never pots.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Adventures in Beetleism:

This guy on the Beetle forum was watching a youtube on how to adjust his valves. Apparently, whoever made the video wasn't completely explicit and, instead of saying you had to point the distributor rotor toward the #1 cylinder spark plug wire, he instructed the viewer to point it toward the # 1 cylinder. And this guy did just that, and royally screwed up his valve adjustment.

 

[jim hardy]

A boiled watch never pots.

A watched Xerox machine never warms up..

 

[Pepper Mint]

A watched Xerox machine never warms up..

True...it's strange to me.

 

[fresh_42]

A watched Xerox machine never warms up..

True...it's strange to me.

Spoiler

 

[Ibix]

A watched Xerox machine never warms up..

It's only a problem for those with a cold, rational gaze. Fluffy warm humanities types get almost instant response.

It does them no good, however. One generally needs an engineering degree of some kind to actually operate an office copier/printer/scanner/fax/kitchen sink.

 

[fresh_42]

One generally needs an engineering degree of some kind to actually operate an office copier/printer/scanner/fax/kitchen sink.

... and a linguistic degree of some kind to read the manual.

 

[Ibix]

... and a linguistic degree of some kind to read the manual.

I've never seen an operating manual or any kind of training material for our office printers. Sure I can use them to print and copy, and I deduced some of its job management features by studying the control panel. But I have the feeling that anything with a touch screen can probably do more than that...

It's just occurred to me that I can probably download a manual for it. I've only been working here ten years...

 

[fresh_42]

It might be different nowadays. In the 80s manuals often have been translated from some asian language into english and from there into my language. The results had been somewhere between funny and totally cryptic.

 

[Ibix]

I was in Brunei for a few months, years ago. I gather the Sultan has got religion since then, but at the time it was quite tolerant of its large chinese minority and many westerners. Many restaurants served alcohol, and they all had a sign up saying, in Malay, that muslims were not allowed to drink alcohol. It was also written in English... almost. The English actually said "Muslims are restricted to drinking alcohol in this restaurant".

As I recall, the signs were different styles in different places, so I presume this was the official English statement that was carefully reproduced on all such signs.

 

[ebos]

A watched microwave oven distorts space-time.

 

[fresh_42]

A watched microwave oven distorts space-time.

In this case you really should lower the power! The energy density is far too high if you can recognize it!

 

[Ibix]

A watched microwave oven distorts space-time.

Only during a supernova.

 

[zoobyshoe]

A watched microwave oven distorts space-time.

Well, a watch in the microwave gets distorted.

 

[ebos]

The quick wits are out in full force today...

 

[zoobyshoe]

A watched wit always quips.

 

[zoobyshoe]

So, yeah, I got distracted and sure enough the pot started to boil. Now I wonder how long it'll take for the stew to cook.

 

[fresh_42]

I'm the only person I know of who burnt water (several times). Interesting things happen to the pot then ...

 

[DennisN]

Original Apollo 11 guidance computer (AGC) source code:
The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule (Quartz)
The code on GitHub: http://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/

 

[Pepper Mint]

Farmers encouraged Christians to fight more.