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[zoobyshoe]

Or even simpler than that: it moves → it moves slowly enough to easily be caught → no plant → no poisonous plant → hmmm, delicious. I assume people hadn't much of a choice at the time we first ate it.

Thing is, if you have the example of an otter then it makes sense that people would try crabs even when they're not starving and have no choice.

 

[WWGD]

Thing is, if you have the example of an otter then it makes sense that people would try crabs even when they're not starving and have no choice.

I don't like that example, give me an otter one.

 

[BillTre]

Birds eat a lot of crabs also.

 

[dkotschessaa]

That makes sense. Even I would assume that if an otter can eat something there's a high likelihood a human could too.

If otter eats it, I otter be able to.

 

[dkotschessaa]

I don't like that example, give me an otter one.

Bah, you beat me to it.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Bah, you beat me to it.

Don't get crabby about it.

 

[Ibix]

Interesting maths: a train ticket from my home town to the place I need to visit next week, going via London, is £120. A ticket from my home town to London is £30. A ticket from London (same station) to my destination is £40. Conclusion: £30+£40=£120.

With arithmetic like that, it's no wonder the trains never run to time.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Still waiting to find out how I did on my topology qualifier. Took it last saturday.

pace pace pace pace pace pace pace

 

[Ibix]

pace pace pace pace pace pace pace

Stop it! You're going to wear a hole in the forum.

Which will change its genus.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Stop it! You're going to wear a hole in the forum.

Which will change its genus.

It's what now?

(just kidding)

-Dave K

 

[Ibix]

It's what now?

You had me going for a moment - I wasn't sure I was using the term correctly. Let’s just say I probably wouldn't pass the qualifier...

 

[zoobyshoe]

I found this to be odd:

If you watch CSI you should recognize the name Paul Guilfoyle as one of the minor, but recurring characters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Guilfoyle

But, as I was looking at the blurb for an old movie showing on Turner Classic Movies, I saw the same actor credited as a major character in a film made in 1944.

Turns out the 1944 Paul Guilfoyle is a completely different and unrelated person who died in 1961:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Guilfoyle_(actor,_born_1902)

It is such an unusual name the odds must be stacked against two separate, unrelated people with that name becoming successful at the same profession. Additionally, you'd think the more recent would have adopted a stage name to avoid any confusion with the earlier. On the other hand, maybe neither was/is famous enough for this to be a problem worth addressing.

In a completely separate coincidence, the 1944 film I was reading about is called Dark Shadows, but its plot has nothing whatever to do with the vampire story of the later soap opera and film with the same title. In the 1944 film: "A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a homicidal killer."

 

[jim hardy]

It is such an unusual name the odds must be stacked against two separate, unrelated people with that name becoming successful at the same profession.

Hmmm Until just now i'd assumed Helen Hunt was a pseudonym lifted from the Hollywood hairstylist whose name you see in so many 1940's movie credits.

But i guess both are real names.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hunt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hunt_(hair_stylist)

 

[zoobyshoe]

Hmmm Until just now i'd assumed Helen Hunt was a pseudonym lifted from the Hollywood hairstylist whose name you see in so many 1940's movie credits.

But i guess both are real names.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hunt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hunt_(hair_stylist)

I don't think I've ever noticed the hairstylist in any movie credits. (I do pay attention to the makeup artist in the case of monster movies. Jack Pierce did many of the classic 1930's monsters we still remember: Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Wolfman.)

Regardless, I did kind of assume "Helen Hunt" was a stage name. It seems a bit too 'simple + memorable' to not have been designed that way.

But the thing with Paul Guilfoyle is that both were/are actors, they were unrelated, and the latter did not name himself after the former.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Current temp at the South Pole: - 86℉.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Josh Gates never finds the buried treasure, but he always finds one of the pirates' belt buckles.

 

[dkotschessaa]

You had me going for a moment - I wasn't sure I was using the term correctly. Let’s just say I probably wouldn't pass the qualifier...

Turns out I didn't. Argh!

There was always the possibility and it is common for people to fail the first time. I was taking practice ones from 9 - 12 almost every Saturday. I had to "rehearse" when I had breakfast and ate and drank and whatnot (blood sugar condition so I had to be sure). 3 days before the test I got sick, and one day before the test the whole thing was moved up to 10:00 am due to a campus event. (Something they have never, ever done before) Won't say that is the reason for my failure but it sure didn't help.

back too the whiteboard for 4 months... in between work and online classes and baby..

 

[Ibix]

Sorry to hear that, Dave. Hope it goes better next time.

 

[Borg]

Ditto that. Best of luck on the next one.

 

[nuuskur]

Turns out I didn't. Argh!

There was always the possibility and it is common for people to fail the first time. I was taking practice ones from 9 - 12 almost every Saturday. I had to "rehearse" when I had breakfast and ate and drank and whatnot (blood sugar condition so I had to be sure). 3 days before the test I got sick, and one day before the test the whole thing was moved up to 10:00 am due to a campus event. (Something they have never, ever done before) Won't say that is the reason for my failure but it sure didn't help.

back too the whiteboard for 4 months... in between work and online classes and baby..

I can only imagine the disappointment :s In light of the content of some of your other work, things are still ok, no?
Best of luck next time.

Have you received any specific criticism on your test or they just said you didn't pass?

 

[dkotschessaa]

I can only imagine the disappointment :s In light of the content of some of your other work, things are still ok, no?

Yes, the financial stress is starting to come off. The next qual is 126 days off. I think that is more than enough time to fix what I need to fix.

Best of luck next time.

Thanks.

Have you received any specific criticism on your test or they just said you didn't pass?

I think feedback is forthcoming but I don't know in what form. I'm not really able to meet with professors since I am working and it will be awhile until I've earned any days off.

-Dave K

 

[WWGD]

I get why people put signs offering rewards for finding their lost dogs. What I don't get is why they include actual pictures of their dog instead of just a general description. Can most people tell apart two different dogs of the same "family", similar size, of the same color? I mean, there two black terriers of similar size. Can you tell them apart just because one has, e.g., a smaller nose, etc?

 

[WWGD]

I had a disturbing thought: I was crossing the street with a group of people close to me, in the direction in which the cars were flowing. A car approached fast( but eventually went in a different direction.) I thought at that point: well, even if the car comes this way, I have a bunch of people right next to me that would serve as a buffer . Yikes.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I get why people put signs offering rewards for finding their lost dogs. What I don't get is why they include actual pictures of their dog instead of just a general description. Can most people tell apart two different dogs of the same "family", similar size, of the same color? I mean, there two black terriers of similar size. Can you tell them apart just because one has, e.g., a smaller nose, etc?

Personally, I am not sure what a terrier looks like, so a picture definitely helps. I don't know the names of too many dog styles. I know pit bulls because I think they have alligator faces. Dalmations have spots. German shepherds have that dangerous wolfy edge. The Irish wolf hound is really big. The golden retriever is blond and friendly. That's about it. Well, the chiuhahua. However you spell it. Sometimes I've seen a certain kind of dog and wondered if it might be a rotweiller. St. Bernard, of course. That's about it. Well, the husky. Cats are easier, there's only three styles: normal, siamese, and smash-faced. Well, there's long haired and short haired and bald, I guess.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I don't trust groupers.

 

[jim hardy]

I know pit bulls because I think they have alligator faces.

With that short snout ? Piranha is more like it.

 

[zoobyshoe]

With that short snout ? Piranha is more like it.

It's the set of their eyes and the way their mouths curve up and back down at the back of the jaw.

 

[dlgoff]

This video ad popped up on Facebook just now and brought back memories of @Ivan Seeking and his Algae to the rescue thread.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Had a pop-sci documentary on while I was studying and I looked up for a moment to see... Michio Kaku figure skating. Well played sir!

 

[nuuskur]

Surface integrals are a work of evil. Flux here, flux there, flux everywhere!