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[dlgoff]

Best playoff game ever.

One of the best games I've ever seen.

 

[fresh_42]

Best playoff game ever.

If none of the other teams will improve tremendously, then we've seen the Superbowl winner tonight. Although KC will have to work on its defense. There have been at least three passes into or near the end zone I remember from the last quarter alone where the receiver was completely uncovered.

 

[BillTre]

These were probably the best two teams in the playoffs.
Too bad it wasn't the SB.

 

[fresh_42]

These were probably the best two teams in the playoffs.
Too bad it wasn't the SB.

It was a battle of QB with little defensive disturbances.

 

[dlgoff]

If none of the other teams will improve tremendously, then we've seen the Superbowl winner tonight.

 

[WWGD]

I realized I have been using the expression ' like a Jekyll and Hyde..' without ever knowing which one is the good one.

 

[Ibix]

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The doc is the outwardly pleasant man and Mr Hyde is his hidden (Hyde/hide) dark side.

 

[fresh_42]

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The doc is the outwardly pleasant man and Mr Hyde is his hidden (Hyde/hide) dark side.

And the rumors that he is buried at Hyde Park Corner have to be considered fake news.

 

[fresh_42]

"The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools"
— Agatha Christie

 

[ergospherical]

A nice little snippet from a physicist delivering a talk earlier: "research physics is figuring out how to live on the knife edge between triviality and intractability".

 

[WWGD]

In the East, people practice martial arts like Tai Chi. In the West it's all Judo Christian practices.

 

[Borg]

I took my first Covid test today and should get the results in 3 days. Based on the symptoms that I've had this week, I think that it was a regular cold. But it's best to check.

 

[WWGD]

I took my first Covid test today and should get the results in 3 days. Based on the symptoms that I've had this week, I think that it was a regular cold. But it's best to check.

My results were confusing: " You are NOT the father" ? ;).

 

[fresh_42]

My results were confusing: " You are NOT the father" ? ;).

It's only important that it is "negative" these days.

 

[WWGD]

It's only important that it is "negative" these days.

A negative DNA test is something to hope for.

 

[BillTre]

A negative DNA test is something to hope for.

Everyone needs their DNA!

 

[WWGD]

Gah! Chose sausages made of pork and chicken again unknowingly. Will be eating rubber-like sausages for a while.

 

[fresh_42]

Gah! Chose sausages made of pork and chicken again unknowingly. Will be eating rubber-like sausages for a while.

You have to buy your sausages here:

 

[WWGD]

You have to buy your sausages here:

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Or maybe at the store " The Best of the Wurst". Which should open at this intersection. Edit: Is that a Photoshop or are they real names?

 

[fresh_42]

Or maybe at the store " The Best of the Wurst". Which should open at this intersection. Edit: Is that a Photoshop or are they real names?

I have no idea. It was among the signs I posted in Lame Jokes, where I think e.g. "Parking here will be fine" was photoshopped, the accident with the car probably not.

 

[ergospherical]

Got to play with a Michelson interferometer.

 

[Ibix]

Got to play with a Michelson interferometer.

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The Cavendish doesn't have lifts. The Blackett Lab does. In the latter, the Michelson interferometer was best used for detecting when the lift was in motion.

 

[ergospherical]

The Cavendish doesn't have lifts. The Blackett Lab does. In the latter, the Michelson interferometer was best used for detecting when the lift was in motion.

I noticed this was the only piece of kit in the whole room bolted to the floor, so I'd venture to guess that the pattern would rapidly (and randomly) expand and collapse as the lift vibrated the apparatus? [university funds put to good use. ]

 

[Ibix]

The pattern disappeared entirely, actually, but probably because your 'rapid' is a slight understatement and we just couldn't see the changes happening.

Properly isolated optical kit is bolted to very heavy tables which stand on pneumatic supports that isolate them from vibration in the floor. But the one in the student lab was not well isolated and in a lab adjacent to the lift shaft - probably so research kit wasn't there, honestly.

Pro tip: aluminium beer kegs with partially inflated motorcycle inner tubes on top do almost as good a job of isolating your optical table from the floor as bought gear, and are a few grand cheaper. And you can drink the beer.

 

[ergospherical]

Pro tip: aluminium beer kegs with partially inflated motorcycle inner tubes on top do almost as good a job of isolating your optical table from the floor as bought gear, and are a few grand cheaper.

Yeah, I'm sure that explanation'll totally convince my demonstrator.

 

[WWGD]

I have no idea. It was among the signs I posted in Lame Jokes, where I think e.g. "Parking here will be fine" was photoshopped, the accident with the car probably not.

I saw a similarly -confusing one: " Fine for littering".

 

[Keith_McClary]

Is that a Photoshop or are they real names?

See the sixth photo here.

 

[Ibix]

See the sixth photo here.

Good find. It doesn't seem to be an actual street sign - it's a hot dog vending cart.

Google Maps does find a Hot Dog Street in Fayetteville, North Carolina, but it doesn't cross a Sausages Avenue. The nearest match is a Sausage Lane in South Carolina.

 

[Borg]

Then there's these streets in Texas:
Whichway, Thisway, Thatway and Anyway

 

[ergospherical]

It’s funny watching certain people at the gym. A guy just came in fully kitted-out with protein-shakes et al, did about 15 lat pull-downs, then spent another 15 minutes on his phone, then did about another 5 lat pull-downs, drank the shake and left.