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[WWGD]

Do you want to swap? Your Russian women and I can offer a daily bible verse, several American politicians of both parties and Christian singles. O.k. I can explain the politicians, but the data miners did a terrible job on the other thing! And before I forget: the Smithsonian regularly addresses me with "Betty, we want you back!"

I thought "Christian singles" was for single people with first name Christian (always thought this oddly overspecialized for a singles site.). This name may create a lot of awkward situations, like my reply when someone asked: " Are you Christian" ( No, No)? And you have similar with name "Jesus" , ( "Not when I have taken my meds" ) etc.

 

[WWGD]

Do you want to swap? Your Russian women and I can offer a daily bible verse, several American politicians of both parties and Christian singles. O.k. I can explain the politicians, but the data miners did a terrible job on the other thing! And before I forget: the Smithsonian regularly addresses me with "Betty, we want you back!"

No, I was not referring so much to the "product" ( singles matching) , but the pitch: Russian women desperate... It doesn't seem like a good business technique to try to hood you up with women who are desperate, it seems like their product is not very high quality..

 

[WWGD]

Seems like lack of imagination with names: Andrew Andrews, William Williams. How about Dostoievsky naming his kid Warren? Warren Peace?

 

[fresh_42]

Warren Peace?

Last time you named something to make peace. it went terribly wrong!

 

[WWGD]

Last time you named something to make peace. it went terribly wrong!

How about a cooking recipe then? A recipe for peas: " Warren Peas " .

 

[fresh_42]

How about a cooking recipe then? A recipe for peas: " Warren Peas " .

Agga, agga!

 

[WWGD]

Agga, agga!

He kind of looks like your picture. Related? Fresh_42_Ramsey?

 

[fresh_42]

He kind of looks like your picture. Related? Fresh_42_Ramsey?

I have never tried, but I'm pretty sure I won't like haggis, except of the preliminaries of course! And I'm more than skeptical to try this.

 

[WWGD]

I have never tried, but I'm pretty sure I won't like haggis, except of the preliminaries of course! And I'm more than skeptical to try this.

Appearance isomorphisms do not necessarily preserve taste preferences.

 

[fresh_42]

Appearance isomorphisms do not necessarily preserve taste preferences.

What? Not enough that it is already hard to get the curve in a debate with a topologist, you now also load the categorial gun? But you're right, they might preserve the temper

 

[WWGD]

What? Not enough that it is already hard to get the curve in a debate with a topologist, you now also load the categorial gun? But you're right, they might preserve the temper

Maybe not quite a topologist; my nickname is Jakob Altrade, maybe Jack O'boltrades. But, yes, I used to be into the 4D stuff, embeddings, etc.

 

[WWGD]

Maybe someone would like to play the game: " Science Fiction or Algebra ( or both)" for terms; algebra seems to have a lot of terms that sort of sound like superheroes.:
Centralizer
Phaser
...

 

[fresh_42]

Maybe someone would like to play the game: " Science Fiction or Algebra ( or both)" for terms; algebra seems to have a lot of terms that sort of sound like superheroes.:
Centralizer
Phaser
...

Algebra is completely full of them. I like the potent family: nil, idem and uni, and their cousin nilradical. Radical sounds like a political agenda. But zero divisors and integral domains, that have nothing to do with integrals are also funny, not to mention

Only mathematicians can call a group of $$808,017,424,794,512,875,886,459,904,961,710,757,005,754,368,000,000,000$$ elements simple.

However, the topologists' T-party is nice, too, the more as it's not clear where the "T" comes from (in an English context).

 

[WWGD]

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However, the topologists' T-party is nice, too, the more as it's not clear where the "T" comes from (in an English context).

Sarah Palin ?( Sorry, I ran out of puns ).

 

[WWGD]

Maybe someone would like to play the game: " Science Fiction or Algebra ( or both)" for terms; algebra seems to have a lot of terms that sort of sound like superheroes.:
Centralizer
Phaser
...

How about other terms: Made up or Real " Plumbing Manifolds" (MAde up/Real) , " Surgery on Manifolds" ( Made up/Real) ,..." Gardening on Manifolds" (??).

 

[BillTre]

I have several plumbing manifolds (several valves on a pipe).

 

[WWGD]

I have several plumbing manifolds (several valves on a pipe).

It is an actual topic; you essentially remove some parts and put them back in in ways that change some of the structural properties. EDIT: But, yes, it gets kind of tiring to do online searches.

 

[WWGD]

I have several plumbing manifolds (several valves on a pipe).

There is so much knowledge ( as well as garbage ) generated daily no win age of big data that it is difficult to filter the stuff you're looking for from the barrage of stuff coming at you. Like trying to drink water out of a fire hose.

 

[OCR]

...water out of a fire hose.

How can you get water out of a fire hose... ?? .

 

[WWGD]

How can you get water out of a fire hose... ?? .

I meant the water hose used to put off fires.

 

[Evo]

Ok, had an engine DUMMY light come on, no problems with the car, looked at the car book, it said "could be serious or not serious", could just be the gas cap, bad gas, coolant flush, or broken thermostat. So had a diagnostic run, "oh, the thermostat is broken", the worst possible scenario! Took it in, paid $400, but the mechanic told me, "well, we replaced the thermostat, but the light was still on, so then we flushed the coolant and the light went out". WHAT? So there was nothing wrong with the thermostat? It just needed a coolant flush that it was due for? Of course when I started screaming, the manager came over and assured me the thermostat needed replacing and the mechanic just got it wrong.

UH HUH.

When they asked me what problems i was having I told them "NONE". If the thermostat was broken, I would have expected to have overheating, which they agreed. I was having no overheating. JERKS!

 

[BillTre]

Ask for your old thermostat. (In some states they are supposed to ask you if you want the old part.)
You might be able to check it out to see if it busted. (Have any friends who are mechanics?)

 

[OCR]

Ok, had an engine DUMMY light come on...

Worked as designed, didn't it ? . .

There's a very simple fix for that light issue...
Put a piece or two of black electrical tape over the little window the bulb resides behind... it's always worked for me... .

... it's always worked for me...

Lol... then again, you remember the old saying... " It takes one to know one " ? .

 

[Borg]

@Evo I have made it a habit to reset the warning light when it comes on before taking it to a mechanic. Very often they are just service reminders and don't indicate any actual problem with the car. I only take it in if the light keeps coming back on.

 

[OCR]

How can you get water out of a fire hose... ?? .

I meant the water hose used to put off fires.

Aah heck, I thought you'd say something like...

" First, you need to unhook it from the fire hydrant... "

Indeed, I'm crestfallen... .

 

[Asymptotic]

When they asked me what problems i was having I told them "NONE". If the thermostat was broken, I would have expected to have overheating, which they agreed. I was having no overheating. JERKS!

JERKS! is at least partially correct, because they ought to have known a thermostat can fail open as well as closed. Failed closed is easy to diagnose - overheated engine, and if not addressed promptly, a good chance for a blown head gasket or cracked engine block. A failed open thermostat is more subtle - water flow is continuous even when the engine is cold, and (except for frigid winter days when the secondary sign of "freezing your butt off" becomes apparent) the downsides of increased engine wear and efficiency loss are equally as subtle.

I wonder whether they checked coolant level before replacing the thermostat? If it gets so low that the radiator core isn't fully immersed, the engine runs marginally hotter than it ought to, and as fluid level creeps ever lower eventually gets hot enough to trigger a coolant over-temperature warning. This may or may not be annunciated as such; auto manufacturers may bring this out to the dash as a stylized red thermometer, or bunch it along with everything else the 'check engine' light denotes.

 

[Asymptotic]

I meant the water hose used to put off fires.

Just standing there with a stern look and hose at the ready is off-putting enough for most fires.

 

[BillTre]

@Evo we used to have (earlier this year) an old car that had a lot of problems as well as pseudo-problems.
A friend who is quite the mechanic told us to get a engine code reader which could be plugged into the car to read the diagnostic codes.

@Evo I have made it a habit to reset the warning light when it comes on before taking it to a mechanic.

It can also be used to reset the codes since a lot of them seem to be trivial.

It is a small electronics box on a cable and cost (I believe) >$20 at a Harbor Freight store.
It was quite handy for that car.

 

[skyshrimp]

I had a weird craving today for salty French fries and squirty cream.

Tasted great.

 

[OmCheeto]

I had a weird craving today for salty French fries and squirty cream.

Tasted great.

"squirty cream"?
google google google
Ah ha! Whipped cream in a can.

I shall henceforth start calling cheese[?] in a can, "squirty cheese".
I crave it once a year.
Much to the chagrin of my friends, who I only see that one time of the year, as they assume I eat squirty cheese every day, which I do not.