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[OCR]

Almost 11:30 pm and just started a pump-down.

You're joking !?....

 

[dlgoff]

You're joking !?....

Nope. I wish I were.
But after taking care of a vacuum leak and restarting the pump-down, good vacuum.

 

[OCR]

But after taking care of a vacuum leak and restarting the
pump-down, good vacuum.

...However...

You're joking !?....

Nope. I wish I were.

I guess I just misunderstood then.

Yup... I guess it's back to my day job...

 

[DennisN]

Amazing:
The Amazing Dinosaur Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada (National Geographic)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-discovery/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/magazine/rights-exempt/2017/06/Nodosaur/nodosaur-fossils-man-lab-archaeology.adapt.676.1.jpg

 

[OCR]

Look at the water fall on the right, now look to the left side of, and a bit more, the same water fall...
Besides me... does anyone "see" a face in the rock wall ? ... lol

Put the little + sign on the left edge of the falls, about ½ of the way up, and left click to zoom... the picture is here .

 

[dkotschessaa]

I guess I just misunderstood then.

Ha. I think I started a lot of confusion!

The person at work I referred to was real. But yes, the joke is so subtle it's almost not a joke.

 

[DennisN]

 

[OmCheeto]

I've decided that I have a quantum roof.
I've been experimenting with fixing a 15 year old leak over the last two days, and determined that water, like those silly quantum thingys, might be taking multiple paths.
I guess I should have invested in "classical" shingles.

 

[fresh_42]

I've decided that I have a quantum roof.
I've been experimenting with fixing a 15 year old leak over the last two days, and determined that water, like those silly quantum thingys, might be taking multiple paths.
I guess I should have invested in "classical" shingles.

If you have some more time than these ridiculous $15$ years, you could wait for stalactites. Of course a source of lime nearby would help a lot, maybe shingles made of lime. These rains are notoriously low on lime. At least this method could get you the satisfaction that you will have subdued those evil quantum thingys by good all classical physics!

 

[OmCheeto]

If you have some more time than these ridiculous $15$ years, you could wait for stalactites. Of course a source of lime nearby would help a lot, maybe shingles made of lime. These rains are notoriously low on lime. At least this method could get you the satisfaction that you will have subdued those evil quantum thingys by good all classical physics!

I have Meyers lemons growing. Will they be an adequate replacement for "lime"?
Though, I don't think they'll be ripe for another 3 months.
Trying to get this fixed before the monsoons come.
It's been 15 years since we haven't had monsoons here.

Ok. "Monsoon" might be an exaggeration. We get year long "Drizzlesoons" here.
But they make it dreadfully difficult to diagnose quantum roofs.

 

[Borek]

 

[Borek]

When you try to shot landing on a windy night, but you get an unexpected guest (well, not that unexpected, Perseids peak is just days away) - a meteor.

 

[WWGD]

It seems the number of people called " Bruce" has declined to a chronic low. This is the only conclusion I can draw from the name of the company " Bruce , Inc. Emergency Supply" , and the fact that I have not run into anyone named Bruce for a while.

 

[Ibix]

It seems the number of people called " Bruce" has declined to a chronic low.

Perhaps they were all nihilist philosophers?

 

[fresh_42]

Maybe all Bruces died hard ...

 

[WWGD]

Maybe all Bruces died hard ...

Interesting, re the movie Live Free or Die Hard, prisoners in the state of New Hampshire produce license plates that read: "Live Free or Die" , which is the state motto. And, BTW, since every state has a motto, no one is ever stranded; they can always borrow the motto to get back home.

 

[fresh_42]

Just saw a documentation which explained Sgt. Pepper, song by song in a terms of music science. Very interesting and a pity that we so often just consume music and fail to see the many hidden details. It's almost as if people would use mathematics as a big toolbox and don't give a **** about the mathematical principles ... - oops!

 

[WWGD]

Data * overload may be a factor

Just saw a documentation which explained Sgt. Pepper, song by song in a terms of music science. Very interesting and a pity that we so often just consume music and fail to see the many hidden details. It's almost as if people would use mathematics as a big toolbox and don't give a **** about the mathematical principles ... - oops!

Data* overload may be a factor. Too much going on, must oversimplify/automate in order to function..

* Data, and not information

 

[WWGD]

Weird: I am using a new PC , almost identical to my other one and I do not see the new post red-sign alerts in my PF tab, like I do in my other PC. EDIT: I suspect it may have to see with the fact that I was ( unknowingly) using Explorer instead of Chrome/Mozilla , which I ( and I believe some 99%+ of people nowadays) used in the other PC.

 

[fresh_42]

Weird: I am using a new PC , almost identical to my other one and I do not see the new post red-sign alerts in my PF tab, like I do in my other PC. EDIT: I suspect it may have to see with the fact that I was ( unknowingly) using Explorer instead of Chrome/Mozilla , which I ( and I believe some 99%+ of people nowadays) used in the other PC.

Dude, you must login! And what is an Explorer?

 

[WWGD]

Dude, you must login! And what is an Explorer?

I am logged in. I do see the red mark, but only when I am in the PF tab ( now that I am using Chrome, I also see it when I am using other tab). Explorer is just another major mistake by minisoft.

 

[fresh_42]

My new favorite quote:

Thinking outside the box only works well when you first understand what's IN the box.

 

[OmCheeto]

My new favorite quote:
phinds said: ↑
Thinking outside the box only works well when you first understand what's IN the box.

I fell in love with this "outside of the box" comment, the moment I saw it:

Integral; "You cannot think outside of the box if you have no idea where the box is."​

Being somewhat polite, I don't recall ever using a variation I came up with one day; "Seriously? You don't even have a box to think out of."

I like to think of myself as an "out of the box" thinker, linking seemingly disparate ideas from a room full of boxes.
Unfortunately, most of them are nearly empty.

 

[Borek]

Best model I can think of is a box full of air, put in a vacuum. Many people have no idea that when they say "I am thinking out of the box" they are actually drawing their ideas from the vacuum (and not even from a thin air).

 

[Ibix]

My favourite metaphor for doing science is doing a jigsaw, but we don't have the box and we're not 100% certain we've got all the pieces at the moment. All the time, people find pieces or find ways to make pieces fit together. And every so often someone has some great insight, like "you know, those two mountains are pretty much the same - do you think it's actually a mountain reflected in a lake?" And then there's a flurry of activity, flipping pieces upside down and trying to see if they fit that way up, and looking for other bits that might pair up as reflections.

And then along comes someone who's read about a jigsaw once saying "maybe it's a cat!" And then they look all hurt with our dogmatic insistence that this big grey thing with the trees and the snow is probably a mountain.

 

[OmCheeto]

My favourite metaphor for doing science is doing a jigsaw, but we don't have the box and we're not 100% certain we've got all the pieces at the moment. All the time, people find pieces or find ways to make pieces fit together. And every so often someone has some great insight, like "you know, those two mountains are pretty much the same - do you think it's actually a mountain reflected in a lake?" And then there's a flurry of activity, flipping pieces upside down and trying to see if they fit that way up, and looking for other bits that might pair up as reflections.

And then along comes someone who's read about a jigsaw once saying "maybe it's a cat!" And then they look all hurt with our dogmatic insistence that this big grey thing with the trees and the snow is probably a mountain.

O.M.G...

Someone get @Greg Bernhardt on the line. I want that on my next PF t-shirt:

"Maybe, it's a cat!"

 

[Ibix]

I want that on my next PF t-shirt:

"Maybe, it's a cat!"

Underneath a picture of a mountain, natch.

 

[OmCheeto]

Underneath a picture of a mountain, natch.

We need a "rofl" with tears shooting out our eyes emoticon!

That is so funny, I'm crying.

 

[WWGD]

My friends from India. One barely ever has any money: Lokash. The other one does not like to share: Selfeesh. EDIT: My name probably means something weird in other languages. Maybe non-Westerners are classier in not bringing it up, or , unlike me, have something actually funny to say..

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I went out to my little back lawn with my reclining garden chair last night to look for Perseids. I'd not cut the grass for a while (we are trying to encourage wildlife) and I accidentally trod (fortunately not too heavily) on something raised and scrunchy-sounding. On fetching my torch I found it was a hedgehog, visibly breathing but curled up. I went back indoors for a few minutes and when I came out again it had gone (but I saw a few nice Perseids).
After some repairs last winter, our back fence is now mostly continuous around the garden (apart from very small gaps) with the only large gap being under the gate on the concrete path around the side towards the road (where there is a bright street lamp), and I couldn't think of any obvious hiding places within our garden, so I was curious to know where it had gone. This morning I had an idea and looked under our small wheelbarrow, which we keep upside down near our shed (after two baby birds drowned in it when it was the right way up). I was surprised to see a large pile of leaves in the shape of the wheelbarrow, with a hedgehog in the middle. I immediately put the wheelbarrow down again, hoping I hadn't disturbed the hedgehog.
But now I hate the responsibility of knowing that there is a hedgehog there. What if I want to use the wheelbarrow - I guess I can't now there's a hedgehog living in it? It's probably living on the slugs growing in our unmown grass, so do I have to continue letting the grass grow? Did we accidentally trap it within the back garden when we last had our fence repaired, or is there still some hidden place where it can get in and out, or is it brave enough to go out via the path to the road?