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[WWGD]

Thanks, I guess. You'll have still 3:25 to go. Times square?

Nein. Ich went home. Sorry for the boring story. Too cold, and too crowded at (Times $\times$ Times)=$Times^2$

 

[WWGD]

I would say the direct translation in both my other languages (Swedish and Spanish).

Try having your entire city covered in a non-negligible layer of snow for two or three months a year and report back ...

True, looks fine in post cards, not so great with 2F winds hitting you in the face . First it falls looks nice. After a few hours: " When will someone get the #$%@ out of here"?

 

[Orodruin]

True, looks fine in post cards, not so great with 2F winds hitting you in the face . First it falls looks nice. After a few hours: " When will someone get the #$%@ out of here"?

When I was a PhD student there was an unexpected early and very heavy snowfall. At five another PhD student said "I am going home before this becomes worse". An hour and a half later he came back and pointed out at the highway, which you could see from the department and where the queues were staggering, "my car is over there".

 

[WWGD]

Continuing on this snow topic, I usually fool myself pretty well into believing Winters are even cool, welcome. Until there are two weeks of it left and then I say, let's get this #$% Winter over with!

 

[WWGD]

" If you cannot see the content of this post then click _here_ ". But the link "click_here_" usually does not work either. Should we go on: If "click_here link does not work..."

 

[fresh_42]

Continuing on this snow topic, I usually fool myself pretty well into believing Winters are even cool, welcome. Until there are two weeks of it left and then I say, let's get this #$% Winter over with!

Rent a groundhog!

 

[WWGD]

Not as much fun as it may first seem

Rent a groundhog!

Groundhog is just the messenger, though.

 

[WWGD]

@Psinter :
It gets so cold here in Winter, we use refrigerators to _Warm things up_ !

 

[Psinter]

@Psinter :
It gets so cold here in Winter, we use refrigerators to _Warm things up_ !

That's hilarious.

I recently saw today in the news that the cold is starting affect the south of the US. Many people ending in ER . The area I'm visiting went below 30F today. I saw again little bits of snow ❄ falling . Although it wasn't much.

 

[Psinter]

For the cold: https://imgur.com/gallery/OLYW6vN

I wonder who the artist is.

 

[fresh_42]

What is the sine of angle SAM?

@Chestermiller I had to make this lame joke, sorry, and I did it here in order not to derail the other thread:

Those typos! But what should the sign of uncle Sam be?

 

[WWGD]

@Chestermiller I had to make this lame joke, sorry, and I did it here in order not to derail the other thread:

Those typos! But what should the sign of uncle Sam be?

Angle(Uncle) Sam is how you pronounce when you have a gold (cold).

 

[WWGD]

I thought I had a brilliant idea to send myself reminders of different sorts to myself by phone. Then I realized... I don't have an internal search engine...nor the ability to delete eventually-useless data. Wonder if Root Explorer can take care of it, or if I may have to upload phone data to PC and then use PC search. EDIT: Part of issue is I don't know where the self-messages end up " living" Are they in my phone memory or in a Phone company server?

 

[Psinter]

I thought I had a brilliant idea to send myself reminders of different sorts to myself by phone. Then I realized... I don't have an internal search engine...nor the ability to delete eventually-useless data. Wonder if Root Explorer can take care of it, or if I may have to upload phone data to PC and then use PC search. EDIT: Part of issue is I don't know where the self-messages end up " living" Are they in my phone memory or in a Phone company server?

I don't know if they are stored by the service provider (most likely yes in a huge database that clients have no access to), but for certain they are in the phone. They are in a sqlite database with .db extension. You need root to access the file with an explorer. Perhaps an Sqlite Viewer will let you view the sms/mms database. The viewer must have root access though to read it directly.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Where-are-mms-messages-saved-on-android
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I was thinking, why do people call each other names? Really, why?

I have heard girls calling their boys: "Daddy." And boys calling their girls "Babe." I have also heard women calling their husbands: "Honey."

Woman: Hey, honey.
Man: What is it, my agave syrup?


I can't imagine a man calling his wife: "My cotton candy." or if you want to get nerdy: "My dIssacharide."

I shouldn't have thought of this. Now a bunch of funny names came to my mind. "My sugar beet. My diabeetus." The name "sweetbums" I think I have heard too.

 

[WWGD]

I don't know if they are stored by the service provider (most likely yes in a huge database that clients have no access to), but for certain they are in the phone. They are in a sqlite database with .db extension. You need root to access the file with an explorer. Perhaps an Sqlite Viewer will let you view the sms/mms database. The viewer must have root access though to read it directly.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Where-are-mms-messages-saved-on-android
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I was thinking, why do people call each other names? Really, why?

I have heard girls calling their boys: "Daddy." And boys calling their girls "Babe." I have also heard women calling their husbands: "Honey."

Woman: Hey, honey.
Man: What is it, my agave syrup?


I can't imagine a man calling his wife: "My cotton candy." or if you want to get nerdy: "My dIssacharide."

I shouldn't have thought of this. Now a bunch of funny names came to my mind. "My sugar beet. My diabeetus." The name "sweetbums" I think I have heard too.

How about : my crack cocaine, my Rat poison, my raw sewage? ( In a good way, of course).

 

[Psinter]

How about : my crack cocaine, my Rat poison, my raw sewage? ( In a good way, of course).

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So... If you have a bachelor in physics... are you a phyisician?

Trust me, I'm a physician. Just look at my degree in physics.

 

[Orodruin]

If you have a bachelor in physics... are you a phyisician?

No. Not even on your way to becoming one ... unless you also have graduated from med school.

A person doing physics is a physicist.

 

[fresh_42]

No. Not even on your way to becoming one ... unless you also have graduated from med school.

A person doing physics is a physicist.

But sometimes, it's a bit more difficult. My math professor told me the following phone call by his mother.
Mother calling the doctor: "Mr. ..., can you come over? I need a shot against my heavy migraine episode."
Doctor: "Why don't you ask your son? I've heard he's a doctor, too."

 

[Psinter]

A person doing physics is a physicist.

Yup.

I was messing around .

Doctor: "Why don't you ask your son? I've heard he's a doctor, too."

That must have been epic.

"Dangit, Jim, I'm an astronomer, not a doctor! I mean, I am a doctor, but not that kind of doctor. I have a doctorate — it's not the same thing! You can't help people with a doctorate, you just SIT there and you're USELESS!"

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm an expert in the laws of physical science.

 

[BillTre]

Normally, in the US when you say your a doctor, people think you are talking about being a medical doctor.
However, when I spent a year post-doc'ing in the UK (in the 1990's) I meant several (non-academic) people (in the Newcastle area) who told me they thought PhD's were "real" doctors.

Maybe they were just being nice, but I liked it.

 

[WWGD]

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So... If you have a bachelor in physics... are you a phyisician?

Trust me, I'm a physician. Just look at my degree in physics.

?? Don't see how conclusion follows from my post.

 

[fresh_42]

Normally, in the US when you say your a doctor, people think you are talking about being a medical doctor.
However, when I spent a year post-doc'ing in the UK (in the 1990's) I meant several (non-academic) people (in the Newcastle area) who told me they thought PhD's were "real" doctors.

Maybe they were just being nice, but I liked it.

We don't say or use PhD here, so the title is Dr. ..., in this case it has been Dr. rer. nat. and professors are Prof. Dr. ...

 

[WWGD]

We don't say or use PhD here, so the title is Dr. ..., in this case it has been Dr. rer. nat. and professors are Prof. Dr. ...

And Euro profs. are the healthiest ones, spending many years at the Gymnasium...(?!?)

 

[WWGD]

I frankly cannot understand the reason for all the dark coffeeshops without change of decor for Winter. Isn't it dark-and- dreary-enough outside to go inside of/into into a .. dark-and-dreary coffeeshop? ...Redrum...Redrum...

 

[WWGD]

They are trying to do everything to lower traffic deaths/accidents, _except_ for a very simple measure that would work: making sidewalks at right angles ( angels?) to each other, so that cars are forced to slow down when turning.

 

[WWGD]

Some of the power soups (Pho) full of meat, etc. , steaming, seems ready-made for a cold Winter; I don't see how it can be popular in countries ( SE Asia) without cold Winters, maybe without Winters at all.

 

[Ibix]

Maybe they were just being nice, but I liked it.

As I understand it, a lot of MDs have had some exposure to research work. Generally, they hate it. Fair enough - if they wanted to be scientists they'd have signed up for a science program. They just want to do the job, and have little interest in rewriting its rulebook. But medicine has come an enormous long way in the last century or so, and medics seem to me to be very aware that this progress is entirely due to research work. Which they hate and find difficult, so they look on those of us who enjoy it as some kind of higher level of intellect.

The counterpoint, of course, is that without an army of medics actually practicing medicine there's no point to any medical research. And I couldn't do a medic's job. So it's a synergy, not a competition.

 

[Psinter]

Holly snap! A recent event got me thinking: How much energy does lightning carries?

I was slepping, minding my own business, when suddenly... boom! I heard a loud whipping noise followed by grumbles and growl noises heard in thunderstorms. Like the sounds in this video. It woke the hell out of me . My heart was racing. I was like , and then like . In the end was like (I'm scared).

Seriously, it was really loud. Like a whip hitting the ground with extreme power. Overkill. The initial sound was exactly like in this video, but many times louder and then followed by the noises in the linked video above.

 

[jim hardy]

But medicine has come an enormous long way in the last century or so, and medics seem to me to be very aware that this progress is entirely due to research work.

I have to think Surgery is driven from the other end of the chain - clever practitioners figuring out a better way.
My most recent heart stents went in through my wrist not my femoral artery, what a wonderful improvement in technique.

The counterpoint, of course, is that without an army of medics actually practicing medicine there's no point to any medical research. And I couldn't do a medic's job. So it's a synergy, not a competition.

Exactly. Knowledge flows both ways.

What's going on in cancer research is amazing, though.
http://www.cancernetwork.com/
Those TV commercials you see for Ibrance ? The stuff seems to be working for Fair Anne.
Doc M was interested enough to be aware of it before it was approved. We're among Pfizer's first customers for the stuff so surely her results are fed back to the research database.

 

[WWGD]

Kim Jong Un's mom deserves a medal for endurance; his birth took around two-and-a-half years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-un

!

Or maybe those who wrote the article are not much into precision: Yes, he was born some time between 1982 and 1984. Close-enough, no need for more precision. Kim weights between 72 and 400 lbs and is between 1'5'' and 7' tall.

 

[Posty McPostface]

Back from the dead, after a corruption in the database that wiped some users.

Happy to be back!

 

[fresh_42]

The more I write in English, the more I make those standard mistakes: write the first word that comes to mind which coincides with the sound of what I want to right. That s*****. And it didn't ever happen before, e.g. at school. Are there any tricks, to avoid these kind of mistakes? I normally see them, if I read what I wrote ... Shouldn't be that difficult to reverse the order.

 

[Psinter]

Look (picture in link). If I see a girl wearing this in real life, I would kindly stop and graciously let her know that she looks awesome. I love those clothes. Definitely looks like something Erga Kenesis Di Raskreia would wear in her youth. Although eliminating the skirt part and wearing pants with long black boots like she always does. There is another character which I know would definitely look good on it, but I forgot her name. Too bad you don't see clothes like that in real life.

 

[fresh_42]

Too bad you don't see clothes like that in real life.

Oh, you do. Simply not on NY's 5th avenue.

 

[Psinter]

Oh, you do. Simply not on NY's 5th avenue.

For real?! Where?

 

[fresh_42]

For real?! Where?

Caucasus would be a good place to start.

 

[Psinter]

Caucasus would be a good place to start.

Caucasus, caucasus... Doesn't ring a bell. Let me look for it... Oho, found it!

It must be awesome there! I love those styles . I for instance have been trying to get my hands on https://vgy.me/II64T5, but on white. With gabardine woven fibre for the coat. Gabardine weave looks pretty neat, it has a kind sheen to it (not too shiny, but not too opaque either). White because it fits my style better. Psinter of the Landegre family . Just kidding. (The Landegre family looks classy on white).

 

[fresh_42]

Well, those cloths are usually still for Sundays and celebrations. But the farther you travel away from cities to small villages, the higher the chances are you'll see them.

 

[Psinter]

Well, those cloths are usually still for Sundays and celebrations. But the farther you travel away from cities to small villages, the higher the chances are you'll see them.

Goal for 2019. Visit a Caucasus* place.

 

[WWGD]

Ouch! One of my happy places closed down. I drowned my sorrows on a Wendy's Triple Bypass...er, Triple cheese.

 

[WWGD]

Well, those cloths are usually still for Sundays and celebrations. But the farther you travel away from cities to small villages, the higher the chances are you'll see them.

How about in Konigsberg ( right behind you?) , if you cross all bridges going around each exactly once?

 

[WWGD]

Goal for 2019. Visit a Caucasus* place.

And in some you may run into a real Cossack dance ( See after around 1:25 ). I can't imagine the regime needed to become good at this. It seems painful even to watch.

 

[Posty McPostface]

I always liked polishing and trying to better present or frame my questions; but, this place takes the cake.

 

[Posty McPostface]

If somebody writes a book about the science of irrational thoughts, beliefs, and behavior, I'll buy it.

 

[Psinter]

And in some you may run into a real Cossack dance ( See after around 1:25 ). I can't imagine the regime needed to become good at this. It seems painful even to watch.

No link.

 

[Psinter]

Reading about the flu shot, it honestly feels like reading about alternative medicine (effectiveness is statistical or unproven for current year, and impossible to know according to some governmental websites). Everything is a: "There are no enough studies to confirm or talk about X or Y subject.", "It's not possible to know.", "Everything is an estimate and assumptions given that certain conditions are satisfied.", etc. And when the original websites from your country's government get emotional by mentioning "Loved ones" (appealing to emotion), instead of just being scientific about it, it makes you think twice about getting it. You convince me through reason, not emotion. Perhaps they think they can convince more people if they appeal to emotion, with colorful pictures, etc., rather than using a different non emotional approach.

I'll get vaccinated for this season, but whoa I frown down upon those websites "educational" approaches.

 

[Orodruin]

You convince me through reason, not emotion.

Unfortunately, this probably makes you different from at least 95% of the general population so, yes, I think they convince more people by appealing to emotion.

 

[WWGD]

No link.

Sorry:


I did one myself. It lasted a whole ...0.5 seconds, after which I fell and gave up.

And this one too, after around 0:23. A bit over the top, but amazing leg work.:

 

[WWGD]

If somebody writes a book about the science of irrational thoughts, beliefs, and behavior, I'll buy it.

There are plenty, written mainly by Economists and Cognitive Psychologists.

 

[OmCheeto]

Unfortunately, this probably makes you different from at least 95% of the general population so, yes, I think they convince more people by appealing to emotion.

100%, if you're hungry, et al.

"When a person is hungry, angry, loney, or tired, the percentage rockets up to 100% of the time." [ref]​

Why I try to never shop on an empty stomach. Ehr mehr gerd.