Well you haven't seen Avatar, for one.

That is what they call a natural fact.

:biglaugha Beat me to it.

You know, not seeing Titanic hasn't kept me from knowing that the dude stood on the front of the boat and said "I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD!" so I'm not too afraid of falling out of the critical cultural knowledge loop just because I didn't see what it would look like if Pocahontas was blue.

But Flint, it's in **~*~*~3~*~D~*~*~**!!!

The only thing I've seen on live TV in the last 18 years is the superbowl and the olympics. I've seen a handful of other shows on DVD. I never suffered because I missed a popular culture reference.

I've seen grass growing in the woods. But I have never seen a lawn in the woods :P

Why do linen closets smell like linen closets?

cuz of all the linen

No, it's the closet part.

Have you ever seen linen in a closet? No. You haven't.

i might have

We have linen in our closet.

We have linen in our belly buttons.

that's lint.



Lanolin? like Sheeps wool?.....well..maybe next time don't wear a bra.

People say that must just be what cotton smells like. But if that is the case, why does a drawer or closet full of t-shirts, socks, or underwear not smell like a linen closet? Given the same detergent and no other variables in the environment, if you put a bunch of sheets and pillow cases in a closet, it instantly smells like a linen closet. What is that smell? It is distinct and unmistakable.

Naked ghosts looking for clothes.

Operation Repo seems staged/fake... is it?

Hello again.

Perhaps Spexxvet will hold forth here, but all helpful answers are welcome.

I am coming to terms with the onset of presbyopia. My vision has been excellent all my life, and remains good, but I can definitely see more clearly with reading glasses (for reading tasks--computer work, driving, walking around--no problem). Even the reading isn't a problem, but the smaller text, or the display on my blackberry is far sharper with my reading glasses.

I bought a few pairs at the drugstore, and I like them. I followed the instructions on the display to guide me to the right magnification and the number I settled on was +1.25.

Here is my question.

There is a very definite sweet spot for focus, 14 inches. I measured it. I'm sure I looked silly holding the ruler against my forehead and sliding my phone along it. My question, my problem is this. When I'm holding a book, or the paper, or the phone at a comfortable distance for the rest of my body, I assure you it isn't 14 inches from the bridge of my nose.

What can I do to get that maximum sharpness of focus which I like to happen farther away, say, 22 to 24 inches, the distance I like to hold my reading material from my face? I have tried the reading glasses with higher magnifications, this made the text bigger, but only at the same distance. It's all big enough, just not sharp enough at my desired distance.

TIA

I have the exact same problem. I need a little extra sharpness at arm's length. I don't want the book I'm reading to fall and slap me in the face when I finally manage to fall asleep. I need that joker out there away from my face!

Let us know if you find a cheap solution.

D=40/f, where D= dioptric power (your +1.25) and f= focal length in inches. Each .25 represents about 2 inches, when you are totally unable to accommodate. It looks as though you have some ability to accommodate, so your best bet would be to go to the store with your Blackberry and hold it at a comfortable length, then try different powers until you are comfortable. It may that you need more like a +0.75 or +0.50, but you'll be hard pressed to find less than a +1.00 in a store.

Ironing?

Your problem is called middle age. You're screwed. welcome to the glasses/contacts group.

hahaha.... yeah... I knew that.

Spexxvet:

Thank you, sir. That is very helpful, and I will put your suggestion into play. It is helpful to know the math, and it helps me to know in which direction I should be moving.

I will report my results when I have some to report. :thumbsup:

:3_eyes: Go see an eye doc. Go soon while you still can get an appointment. :rolleyes:

Stuff I don't know, Episode #12,559: regex

Perhaps Pie will swoop in here and save the day, or anyone else whose brain is bigger and prettier than mine...

I have a long text file that contains what are essentially footers/page numbers. I hate them. I've processed the ever living f*ck out of this file, and I can't find a way to say: Please replace all instances of ###<CRLF> with nothing. That is the "page" number which runs from one to three digits, followed by a carriage return. I just want to take them out. Of course the file is full of other numeric data I must conserve. However, there are no lines that have only numbers on them except these ones I want removed.

I have a text editor that can search for extended characters, so the \r\n is working... (I think)... but I don't know how to say one or two or three digits followed by a CR should be replaced with nothing(deleted).

I have tried failed.

Please help.

Try:

Didn't work.

Would you please explain what you've written? For example, I *think* your numeric string section is looking for leading zeroes for page numbers. I don't have any of those. They run just like a book, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13...100 101 102....etc.

I was using unix's regex (I tested using sed).

The ^ is to denote the beginning of the line.
the " *" is to include spaces. If you have tabs as well, you'd need [xy]*, where x is a space and y is a tab.
The [01-9]* catches zero or more digits. I had the leading zero because I wasn't sure whether zero was actually first in ASCII, so I included it separately from the range. It is first, so [0-9]* would work. To make sure you don't get blank lines, it probably should be [1-9][0-9]*. The first brackets are one digit, and the second are zero or more additional digits.
Then another " *" for trailing spaces.
And a \$ for the end of the line. The $ is the symbol, but I need to escape it with the backslash so it doesn't get parsed by my command line.

An updated version could be:
If the syntax is different in your app, the pattern is:

more stuff I don't know, regarding prefixes.

flammable and inflammable. What? Also, privation and deprivation? Why aren't these pairs opposites?

Because English is a lying, thieving, whoring language?

:D

yes, well, you're right, of course. I already knew that. the privation/deprivation pair is new to my awareness.

Sick and tired by the way you do
Good time papa gonna poison you
Sprinkle goofer dust all around your bed
Wake up one of these days, find your own self dead
She said you shouldnt say that
I said what did I say to make you mad this time baby?
She said umm...
I dont know
My oh my oh my
She said I dont know but my babys holding down

The woman I love has got devil in her jaw
Clothes shes wearing made out of the best of cloth
She can take em and wash em, put em upside a wall
She can throw em out a window, pick em up a little before the fall
Sometimes I think you got your habits on
She said you shouldnt say that
I said what did I say to piss you off this time baby?
She said umm...
I dont know, my oh my, I dont know
But my babys holding down

My momma told me, my momma sat down and cried
She said youre too young to have as many woman as you got
I looked at my mother dear, didnt even crack a smile
Said if woman dont kill me I dont mind dying
The woman I love, I want to wait for last
The woman I love, I have all class
Thought I warned you baby, a long time ago
Better watch your step or Im going to have to let you go
She said you shouldnt say that

I said baby
You know when you bend over I see every bit of christmas
And when you bend back Im looking right into the new year
She said honey, you know I gave up cigarettes for my new years resolution
But I didnt give up smoking
I said woman, you going to walk a mile for a camel
Or are you going to make like mr chesterfield and satisfy?
She said that all depends on what your packing
Regular or kingsize
Then she pulled out my jim beam, and to her surprise
It was every bit as hard as my canadian club
I said what now you got to say baby?
She said umm...

I dont know
My oh my oh my
I dont know
But my babys holding down

English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

-- H. Beam Piper

I did not know that Olympic medalists received $ prizes.--- $25K for each gold medal.
No wonder Michael Phelps took the year off after the 2008 Olympics !

How did I come upon this ?
Well, Democrat Barrack Obama and Republican Paul Ryan
BOTH DO NOT want to tax this prize money :smack:

NPR
Jacob Goldstein
8/8//12

Should We Tax Olympic Prize Money?
But of course, the Republicans DO see a major difference between
income earned via interest and dividends and income from hourly wages. :rolleyes:
.

Isn't there a section for prizes from competitions in the 1040? I know I declared my $500 tapecraft win.

I read about this the other day. The US is one of only a few nations that pay for medals. One, I think it may be the Philippines, pays close to $1million for a gold.

You should get a deduction for being an honest person.

IIRC, Russia paid one champion weight-lifter a $ prize each time he set a new world record.
So, he went about improving on his own records by just a couple of kilos each time.

Sergei Bubka did that in the pole vault too, increasing the WR cm by cm, indoor and out, his records still stand.

They should pay taxes on winnings when they are allowed deductions for training expenses.

Yeh, but that's only worth about $10.00 in real money ;)

crone/crony is some funny/fun!

Why does the speedometer on my Honda Accord go up to 150mph?

because they use the same decal for other models that do go that fast, say, the NSX.

because what is life without dreams......?

Because there are a few people out there who will be impressed by it and it will make the difference between them buying the car and not buying the car.

$

I once took a 10-year-old Acura up to 115 mph. It seems conceivable to me that a new Accord could, in ideal conditions, get up to 150 mph. But I don't know shit about cars, so I'm sure there's some definitive reason I'm wrong about that.

I've *heard* that speedos are designed so that if you had the engine at redline in the highest gear, that is how fast you would be going. You probably can't do that because of wind drag and stuff. I think my Subaru Outback goes to 220 kph (130 mph), and there's no way a 2.5 liter engine is getting a station wagon with roof rails to that. Thank god.

They used to quote, over here at least, 'mph per 1000rpm in top gear' figures for new cars. I haven't seen that for a while though. There is a calculator somewhere on the net that I used when we were building our Westfield.

Google says there are loads of them!

Try one of these for your Outback.

http://www.car-videos.net/tools/speedrpm.asp

http://ctny.audiworld.com/mark/s4/gears/gear_calc.html

Wishful Thinking.

And that sweep is more aesthetically pleasing than if it went up to 120.

Dear friends

I would like some help with some creative phrases, descriptions, reasons, fictions, etc, for "reason for leaving" a previous employer. I'm stumbling over this *mandatory* box on some job applications.

I don't like "I was fired."

Follow the lead of the politicians...

"I wanted to spend more time with my family/ferret/stamp collection/..., and my Supervisor agreed."

Tonight, I have settled on "I was laid off". Wikipedia was a great help here.

I hate stupid applications. Why is my high school information "mandatory"? Mandatory? How can it be relevant, never mind mandatory, ffs.

It's mandatory because your high school record is where the accumulated secret evaluations from every teacher since kindergarten reside. They'll know about that time you peed your pants in first grade. :blush:

new stuff I don't know.

background: My electric stove/range died. It has already been taken to the recycler ($30 to drop off). I have a new to me gas range, a KitchenAid. Back in the day when the electric dryer died for the last time, I called someone to extend the gas service from the furnace across the basement to the dryer, and had the appliance connector connected to the appliance. I anticipated that someday I would want to replace my electric range with a gas range and had a stub placed in the gas line as it was routed past the kitchen on the way to the dryer.

However, the "stub" is just a CSST/iron connector, iron tee, short iron nipple and cap, then onward downstream with another CSST/iron connector, and from there to the dryer waaaay over there. So the stub is just an iron break in the CSST (corrugated stainless steel) with a capped nipple. Nothing like this


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I don't have anything coming up through the floor in the kitchen. That's the part I don't know. Can/should I do the work myself to connect this range? I'll need to extend the gas line from the stub up through the floor, from there it's really easy.

Iron pipe? Flexible copper? I know I'll need a shutoff valve at the end in the kitchen. A little help, please.

ok, but first get help resizing that picture. i refuse to horizontal scroll, so I cant read your poast.

was using img tag, sorry.

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