today i learnt how to read and learnt that this thread can teach me nothing.

now thats a paradox!

I seriously doubt you ever heard of triplet states before. Otherwise, you must have read about it. You don't even know what a paradox is.

lame

With your new found skills, read some E. B. White, take an asprin, and send email to /dev/null in the morning.

Dr. RS

PS: This is as funny as Alanis's Ironic song that had no understanding of the word.

When you play clarinet the bulk of the instrument's weight is supported by the right thumb and surrounding muscles.

What I learned is that it's a bad idea for me to play a 2 1/2 hour rehearsal and then come home and play Tetris. Owwwwwwwwwww my thumb!

:eyebrow:

triplet states? isnt that more of a bio chem thing?

i know what a paradox is, for example: in maths a set A is in A iff A is not in A. (i can sound smart too)

another more topical paradox would be how you became "Dr." RS.

Look at me!! Im Dr RS! everyone else is LAME! :right:

if you have some opinion then explain it rather than trying to make yourself sound smarter by quoting some term that sounds technical followed by some guy that wrote childrens stories in an attempt to make me look stupid.

Erm...there's a bit more to White than <cite>Charlotte's Web</cite>. <cite>The Elements of Style</cite>, for example.

Not that I'm attempting to make you look stupid.

I suspect that by "triplet states" perhaps was meant ternary logic

today i learnt about ternary logic ;)

No, yes & damifino. :o

It's not widely known that ternary logic actually has its roots in the expression "Killing two birds with one stone".

The birds in question were in fact arctic terns (<cite>Sterna paradisaea</cite>), and, like virtual particles, are always found in pairs, mostly because one good tern deserves another. Having a stone left over with both birds already dispatched left an extra stone that could be used for parity-based error correction, or other expressions of doubt, such as theatrical criticism ("Let he who is without sin stone the cast first"). The thoroughness represented by this redundancy yielded another catchphrase: "Leaving no tern unstoned".

I learned that when fencing foil a straight lunge at the right time can be a devastating attack, especially when performed by an 11 year old girl on the fragile ego of a 12 year old boy. Yes, I am proud of my kid.

Lesson two from the Maestro. Intellectualize what is working for you. What exactly was it you did? Why did it work? Under what conditions will it work again. Gut instincts are cool but to get to the next level you've got to act consciously. It seems to me that is a life lesson more than a fencing lesson.

You are the one who called everyone else here lame. I just called you lame.

The "trplet states" merely refers to the glow-in-the-dark discussion. I just seriously doubt this thread can teach any one of us nothing.

If you read a few posts back on this thread, you will see that some thought there was radioactive material in glow-in-the-dark products.

Instead of shooting from the hip, I looked up phosphorescence in Wikipedia. There I learned of triplet states and how it leads to photon energy storage. I posted a quote and a link.

i think by the whole "today i leant how to read" part, that the rest of what i said was also a joke, not a funny hahah joke but a light hearted comment anyway. not to be taken seriously and continued into a discussion about how much can be learnt from this thread.

Today, I learned that I still enjoy delivering pizzas.

OK, well I'm sorry I T'ed off on you. It sounded insulting to everyone. Sorry I was such a bitch. Here, have a guiness on me.....

:guinness: :guinness:

I learned the joys of New Rock boots today.

I learned that I should go to the Little Bar more often...Bud Light longnecks are only $1.50.

:beer:

I've been collecting broken crayon pieces to remelt into home-made swirly crayons for my Daisy troop's craft this week. I started prepping them this morning by peeling the paper off the cheap ones, and feebly attempting to off the Crayolas. Today I learned why they are more expensive than the other brands. It's the top secret super glue they to keep their labels on...dayam.

Funny, i was going to search/for a "what I learned today" thread because today I learned that there are convocations before graduations, and i learned what one is. And also that they cause traffic jams, but not quite as big as the graduation traffic jams.

and a convocation is?

Technically, any group of people formally assembled for a purpose. Commonly used in Universities to describe the student body and it's interaction with the faculty but limited to that.

Ahh. Why thankyou.

Have you tried using a vegetable peeler on those labels?

Dude. I can't peel carrots without needing a bandaid. My fingers quiver at the thought of 'peeling' teeny tiny skinny little crayons that way :)

I just ran the tip of a paring knife down the length (amazing I have any fingerprints left from that) then opened up the label that way. I honestly think that the labels of some of the crayons just got 'glued' on by being in kid's hot little hands...and god knows what else was on them. LOL. I should be good and vaccinated from pretty much anything right now.

They do make thicker crayons, if your quivering fingers would be more comfortable with them.

She's using broken, useless stubs and scraps. Got any, Steve?

Hang 'em up and melt the crayon out.

It's quite possible... not sure if I can put my hands on any though.

well here -apparently- it means the non-denimonational religious assembly before graduatiion/commencement

At my high school it was the opening ceremony of the school year. (Faculty procession, robed, with guest speaker, exhortation from the administration to study hard, learn, make the school look good, etc.)

When I was in music school at the university, it was a weekly recital where three or more students would each play a piece. It was a good place to play in front of a crowd when you didn't have enough, or weren't ready for, a solo recital.

So, today I learned more about what I learned yesterday :D

thanks all :)

Today I learned that final papers should never be put off till the night before they are due.

I feel like I'm learning this one over and over and over again. :headshake

Talk to Dana, she'll show you the way. ;)

In the last few weeks, I have learned the rules of hockey and how to operatethe clock and scoreboard so you can get the best seat in the house. 7-3 today, plenty of action, much fun.

Today I've learned that there is an easy way to sum up three philosophies of living:

Socrates: To Thine Own Self Be True.

Epicurus: Live Simply So Others May Simply Live.

Seneca: Be Prepared Coz Shit Happens; or, Resistance Is Futile.

I learned that it is a bitch to clean your pool in the spring if you don't cover and winterize it in the fall. My bad. My burden.
On the flip side, tho, I'm almost done. This is one case where chemicals are our friend.

With pools chemicals are always our friend. Until it comes to the billing time.

I learned that it is very likely that insulin and zinc are both crucial for the operation of tiny meat-spectroscopes in our noses that allow us to instantly identify smellable molecules!

how fast do fingernails grow?

Today I learned I am one of very few people I know excited by the Vaselines coming to portland. Or, even actually, aware the Vaselines ever existed. This could also go into the "what is annoying me today" sub. btw.

I would have gone if they were here yesterday!

I learnt Neorealists are stupid.

Well, I didn't really learn it, so much as find yet another piece of evidence to confirm it. Academic pissing matches, yay!

This evening I am learning that

Country music + bourbon == a *very* potent admixture, practically hypergolic.

Handle with extreme caution, especially when mixed in the presence of solitude.

You have been warned.

Today I learned that if you overcook honey battered chicken, it tastes like chicken-flavored charcoal briquettes.

I learned that it is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

I learned that a company named Digital River has 40,000 OTHER companies under its umbrella (ella, ella, ella) making it nearly impossible to trace one measly transaction.

again, to whomever stole my debit card number and used it: If I catch you I shall drown you in a shallow pool of goblin-piss, under the broken-down American elm tree in the old graveyard up the road from me. Don't think I haven't given this some thought, fukker.

Sounds like ACORN.
That and may the fleas from a 1000 camels infest your armpits!

That and I hope every hair on their ass turns into a fishook!

Shit, man!

Today I learned that if you buy the super-cheap wafflemaker on sale for a paltry $8, you'd better believe that thing's going to break after just two months of use.

Except I don't think I really learned it; it is a mistake I will no doubt make again in the future.

I learned that if you get clever and realize your printer prints backwards, Quickbooks is cleverer and realizez it too and reverses the numbers of the paychecks. which means the MF expects you to acurately count out how many you need. You know what? it's easier just to correct the check numbers after the fact :lol:

I learned that there are way more women than I was aware of that think you want to marry them just because you asked them to dance and share a drink. And even more women are totally convinced that all you REALLY want is to fuck.

In my experience, when I've just assumed a guy is asking me to dance and share a drink, it's turned out what he really wanted was a fuck.

Yeah but dancing and drinking is part of the selection process. In the end, all I want to fuck is ONE of them. At a time.

I learned that computers are never good enough (fast enough, have enough RAM, etc.) for whatever game you currently wish to play on them.

Well, I already knew this, but I was reminded yesterday. :(

My son wishes to play World of Warcraft. I agreed that if he did decently on his 4th quarter report card, I would buy it and let him earn the monthly fees. We'll see how THAT works. But the family computer doesn't like it and I can't get the auto uploader to work, so I stayed up till friggin' 4:30 last night (this morning?) trying to manually download and install the umptyzillion patches it requires. Still not done. :(

I am slowly learning I may need more sleep to keep going.

Today I learned to stay away from Sears and Target. TArget had an add for XXs shorts and the lady told me that was size 42.

Today I learned that if i ignore Max for long enough when he starts 'talking' to himself in his cot too early, he'll go back to sleep, or at least be quiet.

Tha'ts great Ali, ahhh, the good ole days.

I just wish he'd sleep through the night. he did on Sat night, but so far no repeat.