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glatt 10-15-2015 08:16 PM

I'm the same.

classicman 10-16-2015 08:34 AM

I read pretty quick, but my retention is awful. My memory as a whole has gotten really sketchy the last 5 or so years. I blame it on the weeeeeeeed man.

Gravdigr 10-19-2015 02:34 PM

Top 10 Funny Celebrity Reproductive Organ Stories

I don't know about top 10, and none are particularly funny. Well, the first Penn Jillette story is kinda humorous.

Gravdigr 10-22-2015 04:54 PM

The Lonely Death of George Bell

What happens when you die alone in New York City. It's a long, very interesting, somewhat sad read.

xoxoxoBruce 10-22-2015 05:21 PM

That that was good, maybe a little prophetic for many people. I sent that to a couple people the other day, who bounced it back with a 'take heed'. It makes a good case for not keeping a carnivorous pet. :haha:

Pamela 10-23-2015 03:35 AM

I foresee my own eventual passing in that. I have few friends, none close.
No one would notice I died until I stink either. Happens to truckers sometimes. We die alone, in our little boxes and usually the first to notice is our dispatchers who wonder why we haven't delivered whatever to wherever. Sometimes it takes days to locate us. It's a big country, lots of truck stops and parking spots and a rig is so small in that.

I won't leave behind much. A few dollars in the bank, a few meager possessions, bills. I have a sister I do not talk to, a few elderly relatives I do, a handful of online friends who will likely not ever know of my demise unless they notice and do a determined search. I do not use social media other than the Cellar.
I worry that I will be labeled under the wrong name and gender, despite name changes and a will, which specifies that I be cremated and my remains sent, long with the remains of a friend I keep out of sentimentality, to a mutual friend in Canada, that we all be joined after our respective deaths.

My life won't take up much of an obit. My friend, Rita, who died three years ago, got one sentence, using her male name because her family didn't accept her name and gender change. I hope I get more than that. Maybe a paragraph. Proper grammar please! :D

But in the end, barring a lottery win, a cleanout service will go through my junk, cherry pick a few things, trash the rest and that will be that.

No fanfare, no funeral, no notice. I'll just be gone one day. I often say that no one is truly dead until they are forgotten. Some, like Ben Franklin, will never be forgotten. Others, like Mr. Bell, are forgotten quickly.

How will YOU be remembered?

Griff 10-23-2015 06:32 AM

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C...:UB_Basel_Maps


Sometimes the internet shows a hint of promise, digitizing ancient maps for instance.

fargon 10-23-2015 06:34 AM

I love maps. Thanks Griff.

Griff 10-23-2015 06:35 AM

:)

Lamplighter 10-23-2015 07:42 AM

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Great catch, Griff. That is a neat collection.

It amazes me that the map of Peru (1500-1599) is so accurate.
Here is Google's Map for comparison...

glatt 10-23-2015 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 942897)
The Lonely Death of George Bell

What happens when you die alone in New York City. It's a long, very interesting, somewhat sad read.

That's one way to die alone. Another path is that you wind up in an assisted living facility and die there. Then you won't be alone and they will know who you are and what your story is.

Lamplighter 10-23-2015 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Pamela (Post 942931)
...I often say that no one is truly dead until they are forgotten. ...

My belief too.

As long as there is The Cellar, Pamela and all other Dwellars will be not be "truly dead".

(That gives UT quite a heavy responsibility !)

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glatt 10-23-2015 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Lamplighter (Post 942952)
My belief too.

As long as there is The Cellar, Pamela and all other Dwellars will be not be "truly dead".

(That gives UT quite a heavy responsibility !)

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Internet Archive

Gravdigr 10-23-2015 02:00 PM

Hah, word!

xoxoxoBruce 10-26-2015 02:48 AM

50 old photographs of Oregon Ferries.

Lamplighter 10-26-2015 09:31 AM

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Thank you, Bruce. I had not seen those before.

Many are now deceased. The Boones Ferry was replaced by the I-5 bridge a mile to the east.
But the Canby Ferry is still in year-around operation, and is a very important crossing, costing $4 / car

The Willamette river runs from the south (e.g., Salem) up north thru PDX into the Columbia River.
This part of the Willamette Valley developed on both sides of the river.
And without the Canby Ferry, it's a long, long, road trip to get from the East side of the Willamette to I-5.

glatt 10-26-2015 10:33 AM

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I keep meaning to take a trip on White's Ferry across the Potomac. Maybe 45 minutes from here. It's not really on the way to anything, but it would be a fun experience. For the kids too. I feel like I've been on a river ferry before, but can't picture where that would have been.
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classicman 10-26-2015 03:47 PM

Sounds like a cool thing to do... about 3 hours from me though. Kind of a long ride for that. Wonder if there are any closer to me.

Zathris 10-26-2015 11:59 PM

Ya'll might find the following site useful:

It's basically just an index of 29 different financial calculators.

Gravdigr 10-28-2015 01:26 PM

Congrats, Philly!! You made the list again. You came in 54th. But your redheaded stepchild, Chester, PA came in 2nd. KY didn't even make the list.

"What list?", you ask?

Well, The 100 Most Dangerous Cities In America, of course.

xoxoxoBruce 10-28-2015 02:01 PM

Wow, Oakland has knocked East St Louis off the top five. At least Camden and Chester are representing. ;)

glatt 10-28-2015 02:43 PM

Virginia is not on the list. :sniff:

xoxoxoBruce 10-29-2015 10:22 PM

I have Lapham's Quarterly bookmarked, but often forget about it, and I'm always happy to rediscover it. I'd describe it as a high rent readers digest, with lots of interesting stuff.
For instance where did "tar & feather" come from.
Quote:

Richard, by the grace of God king of England, and duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and count of Anjou, to all his subjects who are about to go by sea to Jerusalem, greeting.

Know that we, by the common counsel of upright men, have made the laws here given.
Whoever slays a man on shipboard shall be bound to the dead man and thrown into the sea. But if he shall slay him on land, he shall be bound to the dead man and buried in the earth.
If any one, moreover, shall be convicted through lawful witnesses of having drawn a knife to strike another, or of having struck him so as to draw blood, he shall lose his hand.
But if he shall strike him with his fist without drawing blood, he shall be dipped three times in the sea.
But if any one shall taunt or insult a comrade or charge him with hatred of God, as many times as he shall have insulted him so many ounces of silver shall he pay.

A robber convicted of theft, shall be shorn like a hired fighter, and boiling tar shall be poured over his head, and feathers from a cushion shall be shaken out over his head so that he may be publicly known—and at the first land where the ships put in, he shall be cast on shore.

Under my own witness at Chinon.

xoxoxoBruce 11-02-2015 11:14 PM

The British Library has made available over a million images, which are copyright free and downloadable. The images are from books in the library's collections, some hundreds of years old. Arranged in albums for easier searching.

fargon 11-03-2015 06:21 AM

Good find Bruce, when I have the rest of my life I'll sit down and go thru that.

Gravdigr 11-03-2015 04:03 PM

:lol2:

Gravdigr 11-08-2015 04:26 PM

The Man Who Has Made A Cameo In Almost Every James Bond Film For Over Fifty Years

glatt 11-08-2015 06:49 PM

So apparently this guy made the most AMAZING new winter coat, and I won't believe what it's made of. Should I click the link?

xoxoxoBruce 11-08-2015 08:58 PM

Watchu talkin bout, Willis?

fargon 11-09-2015 04:33 AM

Where is the link?

glatt 11-09-2015 08:38 AM

Oh. I didn't include a link. My post was more of a commentary on the prevalence of click bait stories on the internet. This particular one was on FB. If the coat is so freaking amazing, just put in the headline what it's made of. Fuck them. I don't care what the coat is made of. If it's that great, I'll find out eventually through other channels. I didn't click the link and I don't know what the coat is made of.

If we boycott click bait stories, they will go away.

And if you are dying of curiosity, then use google to search for the topic, and then they won't know that their click bait headline drove your traffic there.

glatt 11-09-2015 11:47 AM

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This time, I'll include a link.

Here is a cool collection of images of residential skyscrapers in Hong Kong. This photographer has a very good eye. His trademark appears to be centering his camera in a courtyard and aiming the camera straight up, but I also thought this particular image was a nice one.


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Clodfobble 11-09-2015 11:58 AM

I like the brave soul with no bars over the door. I bet he's a gangster or something, everyone already knows not to fuck with him.

xoxoxoBruce 11-09-2015 01:11 PM

'cause he's the burglar. :haha:

Gravdigr 11-09-2015 02:15 PM

LuckyGunner has conducted a fairly exhaustive ballistics test on 117 self-defense handgun loads in .380ACP, .45ACP, .40S&W, and 9mm (with more in the works), looking at penetration, amount of expansion, and muzzle velocity.

Check it out over at Lucky Gunner.



ETA: They also have free printable targets.

xoxoxoBruce 11-09-2015 08:13 PM

Whew, lot of information there. :rollanim:

xoxoxoBruce 11-10-2015 12:03 PM

"The Disturbing Truth About How Airplanes Are Maintained Today"

Quote:

In the last decade, most of the big U.S. airlines have shifted major maintenance work to places like El Salvador, Mexico, and China, where few mechanics are F.A.A. certified and inspections have no teeth.

Gravdigr 11-10-2015 12:24 PM

What if the world lost all oxygen for 5 seconds?

I know some of that is basically correct, but is any of it just plain wrong?

xoxoxoBruce 11-10-2015 12:38 PM

Some sound pretty far out, but all the metal fusing together is wrong. Removing the oxygen for 5 seconds doesn't instantly remove the accumulated oxidation. There's also the little matter of paint, oil, and other coatings on said metal. They've taken a scientific known and stretched it to an unrecognizable fat tick, then call it a certainty, a "fact". Short on truth and long on hyperbole... commonly known as bullshit.

Happy Monkey 11-11-2015 06:50 PM

I think they're saying the element itself is removed, not just the free O2 in the air, and oxidized metal minus oxygen would be metal. And they do specify "untreated".

But I don't see how that would work in the "doubled" direction. That seems to be purely atmospheric.

xoxoxoBruce 11-11-2015 08:54 PM

If you have to add qualifiers to 'removing oxygen for 5 seconds', like oh, by the way, and 'all past effects of the oxygen', it make the statement hyperbole, alias bullshit. Any statement is true with enough modifiers, but this list is over the top. I can't address the other statements without research I don't care to invest the time in, but most sound highly suspect without a lot of qualifiers. I think most of the statements would require a lot of probablys, in-some-cases, generallys, and usuallys, to be valid.

glatt 11-12-2015 09:57 AM

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FB thought I would be interested in this story, and I am, slightly.

This is the most expensive house currently on the market in the US. $159M

The rendering looks nice enough.

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Fly to it in Google Earth and the curb appeal is somewhat lower.
What an ugly service entrance for the utilities. This neighborhood is ugly to me.
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And the private docks for your yachts are on the other side of Route A1A! You have to walk across the street to get to your yacht! I suppose if you were the kind of person who lived here, you would drive down your driveway, but then you would have to park your Rolls Royce on the side of the road.
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The inside is extravagant, if you go for that kind of thing. And I suppose it's all about the inside. Maybe they will find the right buyer.

xoxoxoBruce 11-12-2015 08:00 PM

Yeah, but there's a guy building a spec house in CA which will be done in 2017, that's 100,000 sq ft,, for half a Billion dollars.

He says most these super expensive houses are being snapped up by foreigners, to keep their money safe here, and only visit a couple weeks a year.

http://www.details.com/story/most-ex...ion-nile-niami

Clodfobble 11-13-2015 02:29 PM

Randall Monroe writes the comic xkcd.

Awhile back he wrote a book called "What If?" providing funny but accurate answers to highly theoretical and weird questions, which Minifob loved.

Now he's coming out with a new book called "Thing Explainer," which explains common scientific principles, but only using the 1000 most common words in the English language (which must be called "ten-hundred," because "thousand" isn't one of them.) To illustrate the concept and promote the book, he teamed up with a popular YouTube channel to create a sample video about becoming an astronaut, or "How to Go to Space." It's fucking hiliarious.


xoxoxoBruce 11-13-2015 05:22 PM

Oh, that's how it works. ;)

xoxoxoBruce 11-13-2015 08:32 PM

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"Speak English or GTFO", proponents are not going to like this.
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Every year, the US Census Bureau releases data on the languages spoken in American homes. Usually it groups the languages in 39 major categories. Now it has released much more detailed figures, which show that Americans speak not 39, but more than 320 distinct languages.

The bureau collected the data from 2009 to 2013 as part of the American Community Survey, which asks Americans all kinds of questions to create highly granular estimates on various demographic indicators. The new data estimate that more than 60 million Americans speak a language other than English at home.
The published list withholds 32 languages for which the government won't reveal the raw numbers, "out of concern that the number would be small enough to let anyone de-anonymize the data".

Lamplighter 11-13-2015 09:41 PM

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With only a couple of exceptions, many states are not represented.

I guess they all speak just one common language:

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xoxoxoBruce 11-13-2015 11:46 PM

WTF, why is New England orange... and cut off?

Lamplighter 11-14-2015 08:35 AM

Maybe they ran out of yellow ?

Gravdigr 11-14-2015 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 945391)
... and cut off?

Jewish?

Gravdigr 11-16-2015 02:00 PM

10 Craziest Turkey Cooking Questions From The Butterball Hotline

Gravdigr 11-19-2015 01:28 PM

The best advice if you find yourself in a terror attack: Do not play dead

That article contains this link to the UK's National Counter-Terrorism Security Office's .pdf "Guidance Note 1/2015".

xoxoxoBruce 11-19-2015 09:10 PM

For you Brits.
Quote:

The government is apparently very keen to hear our views on the proposed NHS mandate. But you’d better be quick; you have until 23 November to comment. And if you’re wondering how you missed such an important opportunity to comment on the future of the NHS, you’re not alone. Critics say the Department of Health has deliberately kept it quiet, with little publicity and only a month for the public to comment since the launch in October.

The mandate’s important. In its own words: “The mandate to NHS England sets the government’s objectives for NHS England, as well as its budget.” It “sets direction for the NHS, and helps ensure the NHS is accountable to parliament and the public”. A fresh mandate has to be published every year “to ensure that NHS England’s objectives remain up to date”. A new mandate is due to be published following the completion of the spending review, to take effect from April 2016. There’s a consultation document that sets out how the government proposes to set the mandate to NHS England for this parliament. And it’s this document that we’re invited to respond to.

limey 11-22-2015 06:50 AM

Thank you. It's a well-kept secret!


Sent by thought transference

xoxoxoBruce 12-01-2015 02:46 AM

Terrorism in the US.
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The RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents (RDWTI) contains data on terrorist incidents worldwide from 1968 through 2009. Terrorism is defined as the deliberate creation and exploitation of fear through violence or the threat of violence in the pursuit of political change.
If you buy their definition, they list 567 incidents in the US between 1968 and 2009.
The #1 perp group with 140 or 25% of the total, is anti-Castro Cubans.
The #2 perp group with 62 or 10% of the total, is the Jewish Defense League.
link

Griff 12-01-2015 06:24 AM

I guess the various white supremacist groups are considered as separate entities? We see more of those fucks around here, rural Amerika, than disgruntled Cubans and Jews. Still the Klan alone would put up some numbers.

xoxoxoBruce 12-01-2015 01:35 PM

Yes, I read PA has more white supremacist groups than any other state, and see a lot of it in Lancaster/York/Lebanon counties. I prefaced that ranking with "If you buy their definition" because the "goal of political change" is tenuous. I don't think the supremacists want political change, just someone to feel better than. Nobody wants be on the bottom of the totem pole. Interesting though, the bottom of real totem poles was the most respected and revered position. :lol:

xoxoxoBruce 12-01-2015 09:58 PM

The coffee-machine bacteriome: biodiversity and colonisation of the wasted coffee tray leach

Quote:

Abstract


Microbial communities are ubiquitous in both natural and artificial environments. However, microbial diversity is usually reduced under strong selection pressures, such as those present in habitats rich in recalcitrant or toxic compounds displaying antimicrobial properties. Caffeine is a natural alkaloid present in coffee, tea and soft drinks with well-known antibacterial properties. Here we present the first systematic analysis of coffee machine-associated bacteria. We sampled the coffee waste reservoir of ten different Nespresso machines and conducted a dynamic monitoring of the colonization process in a new machine. Our results reveal the existence of a varied bacterial community in all the machines sampled, and a rapid colonisation process of the coffee leach. The community developed from a pioneering pool of enterobacteria and other opportunistic taxa to a mature but still highly variable microbiome rich in coffee-adapted bacteria. The bacterial communities described here, for the first time, are potential drivers of biotechnologically relevant processes including decaffeination and bioremediation.
Hah, die caffeine junkies, Bwahahahaha. :p:

lumberjim 12-02-2015 06:13 AM

The fuck does that mean

fargon 12-02-2015 06:17 AM

I think it means, that coffee rots in the garbage. Coffee grounds make excellent fertilizer.


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