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[WWGD]

You wouldn't believe what I saw today in a supermarket. I was standing in the queue at self-checkout and a woman was standing in front of me on her phone with two items in her other hand. There was a staff member guiding customers in the queue to empty self-checkouts. He got to this woman and she carried on talking on her phone and gave her two items to him. He looked a bit puzzled and scanned them for her. Then he said, "It's £3,74", pointing to the LED display.

She carried on chatting on her phone, grabbed a handful of change out of her pocket and left her hand out for the guy to pick the £3.74 out of.

Really? o_0

£3,74 seems like a good prize for an LED display :).

I had a story somewhat similar to yours about your work. I met this lady in a coffee shop I hang out in and we became friends and talk from time to time. Just there, so no chance for any thing else. Recently she told me she was going to travel and asked that I keep her luggage for her, a very small one at that. Now, she had also been telling me her computer, phone, etc. were being hacked by a Blackhat hacker, which was, well, questionable for many reasons. I tried to avoid her since. I worry she may claim I lost or damage something of hers. So yesterday, failing to avoid her, I tried to arrange to ask her if I she could send me a text certifying that she was leaving the luggage with me, together with a phone pic of it. She was not able to, since her phone was not working for some reason or another. Now she is upset with me, it seems. I saw her just today and she told me she had found someone else to hold the luggage for her. I mumbled something about how I was sorry, to which she replied :" Whatever". Maybe I am too cautious. I mean, she could have drugs, stolen property there, may be deranged and accuse me of stealing the property, etc. I mean, I have only known her for a few months and just through casual conversations at that.

 

[WWGD]

The actual programming for SAS, at least at a basic level, seemed workable. The nightmare seems to just be about importing and accessing data files -- within someone else's hard drive, it seems, and using a VM.

 

[WWGD]

Here's another randomized thought...

You clean your teeth on the same room you poop.

My obsession has been with making sure my toothbrush is clean. How do you do that? Just rinse it in the fawcett, after it has been in contact with (billions of?) bacteria in your mouth.

 

[WWGD]

New disgusting public habit in grocery stores: to cool down, people pass their hands through places with ice in them, slide their hands through the ice cubes to cool themselves/ their hands down and don't bother to throw out the cubes they handle in the process.

 

[Borek]

Yesterday made 420 km just to shot some aerial views of the place. Fond childhood memories.

 

[WWGD]

I can't believe how inflexible I was in refusing to use a string with letters and digits 0-1 as a " Number".
I was asked many times for the order 'Number' and I could not find any such, but the string instead.
I gave in and entered DX3R-345A , etc. as a number. I am pretty sure I will, from now on, be excluded
from many Mathematics-related organizations. Hope they don't cancel my SA!

 

[Ibix]

I gave in and entered DX3R-345A , etc. as a number. I am pretty sure I will, from now on, be excluded
from many Mathematics-related organizations.

If you interpret the dash as a minus sign it could be a number in base 34 or higher?

 

[WWGD]

If you interpret the dash as a minus sign it could be a number in base 34 or higher?

Possibly. Is this an indirect way for you to ask if you can join me in the Autistic club?

 

[WWGD]

Sorry if I was acting autistic-like, just joking about becoming so detached from the way most see and understand daily life. And I don't have the excuse of living in the ivory tower either :).

 

[fresh_42]

I like the current weeks. Whenever I want to know how late at night it is (roughly), I look out the window and watch where Mars is. Pretty good clock.

 

[WWGD]

I like the current weeks. Whenever I want to know how late at night it is (roughly), I look out the window and watch where Mars is. Pretty good clock.

They have clocks in Mars now? They'll ruin Mars with all the advertising. At least the (Mars) choco bars would make sense.

 

[fresh_42]

They have clocks in Mars now? They'll ruin Mars with all the advertising. At least the (Mars) choco bars would make sense.

Far too late. The Schottish already ruined it long ago:

This is hot oil, and the cover is some fluid pastry.

 

[CWatters]

While on food... How to stop spaghetti breaking in three...

Popular Mechanics: Solved: The Spaghetti Physics Problem That Stumped Richard Feynman.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a22749827/spaghetti-physics-richard-feynman/

 

[WWGD]

Far too late. The Schottish already ruined it long ago:
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This is hot oil, and the cover is some fluid pastry.

Ah, yes, I just remembered I need to buy a plunger :).

 

[Psinter]

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Yesterday made 420 km just to shot some aerial views of the place. Fond childhood memories.

I like that.

Looks like a good place to live.

 

[Borek]

I like that.

Looks like a good place to live.

Depends on what one likes. Rural, with every positive and negative effect you can think of. Plus, while every village on the picture has electricity, there is no electricity in the house on the right (very long story), which makes living there a bit difficult (for us, lazy twenty first centurers).

 

[fresh_42]

Depends on what one likes. Rural, with every positive and negative effect you can think of. Plus, while every village on the picture has electricity, there is no electricity in the house on the right (very long story), which makes living there a bit difficult (for us, lazy twenty first centurers).

Good place to go if a big CME will occur!

 

[WWGD]

Depends on what one likes. Rural, with every positive and negative effect you can think of. Plus, while every village on the picture has electricity, there is no electricity in the house on the right (very long story), which makes living there a bit difficult (for us, lazy twenty first centurers).

Yes, it seems like nowadays too many people want to have it both ways --rural peace and isolation with all modern comforts -- and end up running into the fact that this is not feasible in many if not most places. They'll move to rural places, start demanding internet access, cable, etc. and finding out that they have to do an extense amount of work, effort, to have access to it ( or even electricity itself, as in Borek's case).

 

[WWGD]

Good place to go if a big CME will occur!

The SAA is against CME.

 

[fresh_42]

The SAA is against CME.

I've heard the sun will be punished with tariffs if it comes to one.

 

[WWGD]

I've heard the sun will be punished with tariffs if it comes to one.

Society Against Abbreviations?

 

[fresh_42]

Single Action Army

 

[WWGD]

Single Action Army

CME:=??

 

[fresh_42]

CME:=??

Common Malware Enumeration

If a big CME isn't malware I don't know what else should be one. Btw. I first had an interesting typo "maleware". Hm, pore ...

 

[Psinter]

A little bit now and a little bit 10 years later.

 

[WWGD]

Interesting side discussion the other day: Do weird people seem weird to other weird people?

 

[BillTre]

My guess:
Only if they are weird in different ways, weird in the same way would seem normal to the co-weird.

Its like mental relativity: weird is determined by the difference between the observer and the observedee.

 

[WWGD]

How about this type: Have you seen Harry Potter? No , he is a fictional character. EDIT: This is an actual answer I heard recently.

 

[WWGD]

But the original point came about a story on TV about a group of comedians including Andy Kaufman. Someone saw the comedians and thought they were all insane from their act. He said ( of all except Andy Kaufman) : They look crazy but after their act, you sit with them, have a few beers and you realize it's all an act. With Andy Kaufman, you talk with him after his act and he seems even crazier than on stage.

 

[WWGD]

Wonder if those who selected names for generations painted themselves to a corner (approx) : X (1965-1981) , Y( 1982 -2002) Z, (2002-now) . What do you use for the one after Z?

 

[Ibix]

Wonder if those who selected names for generations painted themselves to a corner (approx) : X (1965-1981) , Y( 1982 -2002) Z, (2002-now) . What do you use for the one after Z?

$\aleph$?

 

[WWGD]

$\aleph$?

Careful, you're entering the dark side of us Math people.

 

[Ibix]

Careful, you're entering the dark side of us Math people.

Don't $\beth$ on it.

 

[WWGD]

Don't $\beth$ on it.

You're Punny today.( Ran out of transfinite puns)

 

[fresh_42]

( Ran out of transfinite puns)

Wrong. It has to be "ג a break!" (The English website had no underlying link.)

 

[WWGD]

Wrong. It has to be ג a break!

Yes, but when do you use ג unless you are a professional set theorists. Alephs, Beths, yes, but beyond that? Too obscure ( unlike most of what I post, right?).

 

[fresh_42]

Yes, but when do you use ג unless you are a professional set theorists. Alephs, Beths, yes, but beyond that? Too obscure ( unlike most of what I post, right?).

Gee, what's $\gamma$?

 

[WWGD]

Wrong. It has to be "ג a break!" (The English website had no underlying link.)

Gee, what's $\gamma$?

See how there are no good cardinalities after Beth?

 

[fresh_42]

I always wondered why nobody plundered the Cyrillic alphabet, at least those which are different like ж щ и л я ч ?

 

[WWGD]

I always wondered why nobody plundered the Cyrillic alphabet, at least those which are different like ж щ и л я ч ?

Maybe because it is what English letters look like when you are seriously drunk.

 

[fresh_42]

Maybe because it is what English letters look like when you are seriously drunk.

Yes, sounds reasonable, but there is a misfit of about 600 years:

The world's first written mention of the drink and of the word "vodka" was in 1405 from Akta Grodzkie recorder of deeds, in the court documents from the Palatinate of Sandomierz in Poland and it went on to become a popular drink there.

Saints Cyril and Methodius (826–869, 815–885; Greek: Κύριλλος καὶ Μεθόδιος; Old Church Slavonic: Кѷриллъ и Меѳодїи[more]) were two brothers who were Byzantine Christian theologians and Christian missionaries. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they received the title "Apostles to the Slavs".

Maybe Cyrillic is the reason why ... I think I'm on to something ...

 

[WWGD]

Yes, sounds reasonable, but there is a misfit of about 600 years:

The world's first written mention of the drink and of the word "vodka" was in 1405 from Akta Grodzkie recorder of deeds, in the court documents from the Palatinate of Sandomierz in Poland and it went on to become a popular drink there.

Saints Cyril and Methodius (826–869, 815–885; Greek: Κύριλλος καὶ Μεθόδιος; Old Church Slavonic: Кѷриллъ и Меѳодїи[more]) were two brothers who were Byzantine Christian theologians and Christian missionaries. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they received the title "Apostles to the Slavs".

Maybe Cyrillic is the reason why ... I think I'm on to something ...

Still, don't most other Slavs use "Western" ( can't think of a better name) alphabet ?

 

[fresh_42]

Still, don't most other Slavs use "Western" ( can't think of a better name) alphabet ?

We call it Latin. "Most" measured in? Number of countries: not sure, as Yugoslavia has split into so many of them; number of people: probably not; area: definitely not. But to be honest, the alphabet isn't the problem. The real problem is the high number of different (t)sh-letters.

 

[skyshrimp]

I wonder why the sea isn't made primarily of hydrogen fluoride as fluoride is more negative than oxygen.

 

[Psinter]

Did you know it may be possible to see in your house at night with all lights off?

Not sure if I already said it before, but I once had an accident and got dilating eye drops applied at the doctor. I could walk in the house at night with all lights off. You could totally see in the darkness. But it was weird when you looked yourself in the mirror because the eye just looked like a black hole with just a slim border. It was as if the iris had hidden. It looked like this when you looked yourself in the mirror, but of course, smaller:

So yes. Humans might be able to see in their house at night with all lights off and without a flashlight.

 

[Ibix]

Ran out of transfinite puns

I don't know about transfinite puns, but I recall seeing a proof that the set of jokes has cardinality at least $\aleph_0$. It's on the Lame Jokes thread somewhere.

You know this one: "Did you know that there are 10 types of people in the world? Those who understand binary and those who don't." Someone offered an alternative punchline: "Those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those who thought this was going to be a joke about binary", to which another poster responded that this seems to be the skeleton of an inductive proof that there are jokes of this form for all bases - thus providing a set of jokes with cardinality $\aleph_0$.

 

[nuuskur]

I only recently found out that cats actually have a poor eyesight. I always thought they had some nigh 20/20 vision.

 

[WWGD]

My monkey was born of the year of the Dog. How do I do his chart?

 

[WWGD]

I don't know about transfinite puns, but I recall seeing a proof that the set of jokes has cardinality at least $\aleph_0$. It's on the Lame Jokes thread somewhere.

You know this one: "Did you know that there are 10 types of people in the world? Those who understand binary and those who don't." Someone offered an alternative punchline: "Those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those who thought this was going to be a joke about binary", to which another poster responded that this seems to be the skeleton of an inductive proof that there are jokes of this form for all bases - thus providing a set of jokes with cardinality $\aleph_0$.

I guess I got ways to go to check; I did my base-500 joke at the bus stop the other day. If people stop running away from me, I may be able to get to 1000, or maybe even higher!

 

[WWGD]

I only recently found out that cats actually have a poor eyesight. I always thought they had some nigh 20/20 vision.

They put extra eyes in the streets at night for a reason!