Today I Learned
The movie studios wanted OJ Simpson for the role of the
Terminator, but James Cameron felt he would not be believable as a cold-blooded killer.
Today I learned that the last time the Cubs won the World Series was during the Ottoman Empire.
The name "Napoleon Dynamite" was first coined by Elvis Costello, as a pseudonym, in 1982.
snails can't hear anything
2 new word forms from a show about Egypt
Desertification
Pharaonic
We heard about desertification in geography until we desertifaecated through boredom.
But we were never properly taught the actual geography of the British Isles.
I suppose I have to add to the learning of the thread. Today I learned how a book ordered three weeks ago can be completely inappropriate by the time it arrives from America.
Terracotta Cooking will have to be sold along with my newly acquired terracotta pot.
Why? I mean, granted, that style of cooking is for larger meals, but cooking in bulk and freezing portions is a great way to save money when you're cooking for yourself.
I suspect storage space issues ...
According to a
New York Times article, you are twice as likely to have a fatal crash if you are driving under the influence of marijuana than you would be if sober. And you are 20 times as likely to have a fatal crash if you are driving drunk than you would be if sober. So smoking pot and driving isn't terribly safe, but it's far far safer than drinking and driving.
According to the article, being under the influence of marijuana is if you have any detectable amount of THC in your bloodstream, and drunk driving is having 0.08 blood alcohol.
and pot can remain in your blood stream for 30 days or more. I call bullshit on that twice as likely statistic.
Still, it is clear that marijuana use causes deficits that affect driving ability, Dr. Huestis said. She noted that several researchers, working independently of one another, have come up with the same estimate: a twofold increase in the risk of an accident if there is any measurable amount of THC in the bloodstream.
The estimate is based on review papers that considered the results of many individual studies. The results were often contradictory — some of the papers showed no increase in risk, or even a decrease — but the twofold estimate is widely accepted
apparently, you just need to practice:
seems to depend heavily on whether the driver is accustomed to being stoned.
Soooo...........We learned.....what?
if you're going to smoke pot, you need to do it every day.
Soooo...........We learned.....what?
That scientists are trying to actually quantify this stuff, which is good, since the lawyers and politicians come next, and you want them setting policy based on actual data and not folklore.
Soooo...........We learned.....what?
get stoned a lot it takes practice
if you're going to smoke pot, you need to do it every day.
get stoned a lot it takes practice
Ok, if you guys say so...:blunt::rasta::joint::fumette::bong:
Today I learned about tiny
Palmerston Island in the Pacific.
I would
almost leave America to visit. If it wasn't for the flying. And the nine days in a boat from Tahiti. And the lack of damn near everything I enjoy. By that, I mean weed.
That was delightful, thanks grav.
Bob is the mayor of Palmerston and lives at one end of the main street. It is a strip of sand no more than 100 meters long and is home to just half a dozen buildings. “This is the main road, no bus stops here, no buses to wait for in Palmerston,” says Bob with a hearty chuckle
Good thing they have tires.
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Wonder if they leave the door locked on that hut over night. Those tires in the background look interesting.
I pulled it up in Google Earth and the farthest you could drive on the island without doubling back on yourself is about half a mile. It looks like it's all sand, and forested, so an ATV would be the best vehicle if you are unable to walk half a mile. I see no reason for those tires. Sometimes old tires are used as bumpers on a boat to keep them rubbing against a pier or dock, but it looks like they have no pier or dock, and those tires look new. It's just a little interesting seeing them stacked up there.
When tires fall off the ship and wash up on your beach, you can't just throw them back. You have to stack them real nice - they may come in handy some day ... and ... well ... they were FREE!
According to the CDC, tomorrow (Feb. 22, 2014) is World Encephalitis Day.
Now you have a reason to get out of bed on Saturday morning.
That scientists are trying to actually quantify this stuff, which is good, since the lawyers and politicians come next, and you want them setting policy based on actual data and not folklore.
35ish years ago U of Michigan did a study showing that commuters drove better after 1 drink, than stone sober. That makes sense in that they chilled out a little. Of course from drinks two on, things went to hell in a hurry.
But anyway, this report was quickly forgotten in the made rush to lower the legal BAC to a ridiculous level because a couple of people can't handle any alcohol. The politicians cave to the million busybody howling, facts be damned. If the stats were reported honestly they would most likely find those people can't even drive sober. But we all have to put up with rules for the lowest denominator, certainly not the common one.
That scientists are trying to actually quantify this stuff...
One way is through
driving simulation.
I have been a study subject there in the past. Currently they are recruiting for people to "drive" under the influence of THC, Adderall, or Xanex. For that one, you have to be a previous marijuana user to fill the THC slots. Here is a
2013 brochure that describes some of the medically related research they have been doing recently. Has some nice pics too.
But when it gets to the legislature...
Back, back I say!
You are scientists, you have no power here.
Now be gone, you're in the way of the lobbyists.
But when it gets to the legislature...
Back, back I say!
You are scientists, you have no power here.
Now be gone, you're in the way of the lobbyists.
Way to harsh my mellow, man. :(
But am I wrong? I don't think so.
Over here there is a zero alcohol/ driving lobby, but the general reason given is that too many people don't understand how much is too much. Tell people they can't drink AT ALL and and it's all much simpler. You drink, you drive, you've chosen to break the law.
I doubt it will get anywhere in this country though. We don't have a religious Right or a moral majority. Many many people drink and the Government earns £££s from it, thank you very much.
PS hello very quietly Labs.
Today I learnt that you can burn things to charcoal in a microwave. In fact there were very nearly flames.
I've done that. With a jacket spud.
I set sweet potato crisps alight. Or was it aubergine?
All I know is they ignited in the time it took me to cross my little kitchen in Leicester.
That was under the grill though.
Today I learned that stern, tough guys aren't always quite so tough. Keep in mind, this is a 70 yo, high-school math teacher, Vietnam War veteran, no children, never married:
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Today I learnt that you can burn things to charcoal in a microwave. In fact there were very nearly flames.
Yes, I've set things into flames in the microwave before. :thepain: You know what else can burn things to charcoal? A toaster oven...well, a convection oven. Yups. I was baking a tray of taco shells and had forgotten about it. Became charcoal....black, crisp piles that emitted such black smoke that the entire inside of of the oven was covered a thick black layer of it. I was lucky that I didn't burn my place down. :greenface
I love babies.
I used to volunteer at children's hospital, and I spelled parents too, but not with infants. Man, that looks like a prime assignment.
Today I learned that a "lightly loaded" Boeing 777 is quicker than a lot of 'sports' cars.
0-60 mph in less than 6 seconds!
FYI - A 777-200 (the lightest (!) version) weighs 297,000 lbs - empty.
Today I learned that I am politically impartial.
It was budget day and I slept through most of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech and that of the leader of Her Majesty's loyal opposition.
Are you sure you haven't just learned not to get excited about shit you can't do anything about?
Are you sure you haven't just learned not to get excited about shit you can't do anything about?
You know Bruce, you might just have a point there.:thumb::thumb::thumb:
Today I learned that if you eat Swiss cheese then drink orange juice the resulting taste is reminiscent of vomit :(
Kinda like cinnamon rolls and beer.:greenface
NEVER eat anything sweet with beer. EVER.
How to solve a x^2 + b x + c = 0 for x.
And not to invest in the Beer Ice Cream float truck.
Ew, what a horrible thought
(do I need to clarify that refers to the ruined beer and not the math?)
Actualy dark beer and dark chocolate to gather are GOOD !!
Actualy dark beer and dark chocolate to gather are GOOD !!
I was at Red Robin the other day, and my sister asked for a beer float. The guy said you mean root beer float? She said no, she wants a beer float. Nope, we don't have that. I looked at the drinks menu later and found out they have beer
shake. It's beer with ice cream, shake style. I don't care for beer itself that much so the idea is rather appealing to me. I will try that the next time I go there. :D
I was given some chocolates filled with guinness stout.
They were good.
NEVER eat anything sweet with beer. EVER.
WRONG! Smokey Bones Hot Bag O' Donuts and draft beer are really yummy together. Really yummy. I tried it on the advice of a friend, and then the bartender at the Bones, during my Homer Simpson years (i.e. right after my divorce.)
It's unreal how well they go together. See?:
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Sugar and salt coated Beer Nuts.
Beer nuts are a dollar fifty and deer nuts are under a buck.
:)
Carol told that joke on The Walking Dead. ;)
It's an oldie, but a goodie.
And pirate corn is a buck an ear
you guys are making me feel nauseous.
Last night I learned that sloths only poop once a week.
I read that sloth thing this morning. Maybe you posted it.
You'd only poop once a week if you had to climb all the way to the ground, unless it was raining, to do it.
:)
Carol told that joke on The Walking Dead. ;)
It's an oldie, but a goodie.
I watched that this week!
Today I learned that eel young are called grigs.
Oh yeah? Well, did you know that a group of accountants is called a 'balance'?
/geico commercial
I think my son is a sloth. He consistently blocks the toilet drain with poops the size of a red bull can.
WTF? dude. I asked him how often he poops and he said a couple of times a week.
Gonna sneak some Senna into his cornflakes...
Tell the little dude that there is no shame in it and teach him to use the plunger.
[COLOR="Gray"]from personal experience[/COLOR]
Yeah. We had a "mystery" clogger for a while. Nobody would admit it was them. Except I knew it was my daughter, because a parent can read their kids easily. So next time there was a brick in there, I showed them both how to unclog a toilet. That let her save face because her brother was in there too. And they both learned a life skill. Hasn't been a problem since.
BTW, I think plungers are gross. I prefer a bucket of water poured in from shoulder height. It's cleaner. I taught them both methods. Besides, if you plug up a friend's toilet, they might not have a plunger in there, but they probably have a water tight trash can you can fill from the tub spout.
They know. Buckets of water don't work, nor do plungers. They need to be broken up...
I finally got them to stop leaving catcher's mitts in there. baby steps.
Ugh..
Yeah, plungers *are* gross, but your preferred alternative sounds like a far riskier proposition. Putting More water into an already partly, maybe mostly full bowl with a finite capacity sounds dangerous. Sure, it's *possible* to drown a fire with gasoline, but I don't want to try it.
The toilet in our house can only take.... small bites, shall we say. Flush early and often. I don't ration the toilet paper, but the toilet does. And when it does, it is almost always during some point in the drain part of the flush cycle, leaving some material and some quantity of water in the bowl. Then the recharge/refill part of the cycle continues, refilling the bowl.
To me, moving that mess down the road with the minimum fuss, overflow, and nasty splashing (how the hell do you keep the splashing down?!) means using the plunger, carefully. The plunger can be, and is, cleaned afterward.
The worst case is when that early and often plan is begun not early enough and the second flush only lights the fuse of the bomb your sitting on. Detecting the detonation by the soaking of the scrotum in a big bowl full of filth is one of the worst surprises *ever*.
There's no time to find and fill a bucking fucket.
I understand your skepticism, but the bucket of water really works.
I understand your skepticism, but the bucket of water often works.
Depends on the bowl, properly executed plumbing, and ninja turtle population.
What if you poop twice a week?
A healthy digestive system should be pooping more often than that; ideally one formed movement per day. But it's not the worst health problem you could have...
and nasty splashing (how the hell do you keep the splashing down?!)
We use a plunger with a snout.
Like this one:
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Try not to be too vigorous w/the plunging.
Gentle, like a lover.
What if you poop twice a week?
You're full of shit. :haha:
Bored much? Do a Google image search for sexy plunger.
The results are...interesting.
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What if you poop twice a week?
You're full of shit. :haha:
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We use a plunger with a snout.
Those are extremely effective at clearing a clog, but more than once, I've had the log get pulled up inside the snout where it didn't want to come back out again. Then I found myself banging it against the inside of the bowl, trying to fling the shit out. I didn't like that.
The whole situation isn't very good, no matter how you look at it.
As long as they are going to limit us to a 1.6 gallon flush, they should mount the tanks up by the ceiling again, like they used to in the olden days. Then the flush would have some force behind it.
They still make them, they even make tanks that hide up in the wall, but that won't help if the bowl exit is not shaped properly.
You never see that blue shit in the water anymore. Was that just a fad? Is it still a thing in some parts of the country?
Then I found myself banging it against the inside of the bowl, trying to fling the shit out.
I'm picturing a lacrosse-type action.:lol2:
You never see that blue shit in the water anymore. Was that just a fad? Is it still a thing in some parts of the country?
It clashes with the décor and turns the dog blue. :haha:
They still make it but my BIL, the plumber, says it's the worst thing for the rubber and plastic parts in the tank. (flapper, gaskets, etc)
You're full of shit. :haha:
You're damn right I am!
You never see that blue shit in the water anymore. Was that just a fad? Is it still a thing in some parts of the country?
They still make it but my BIL, the plumber, says it's the worst thing for the rubber and plastic parts in the tank. (flapper, gaskets, etc)
Yeah, I went looking for something similar when we had a perpetual mold problem in my stepkids' toilet tank (since it goes for 2 weeks at time without getting flushed,) and the internet and later a plumber assured me that the stuff would dissolve the internal workings of a toilet within 1-2 years.
Today I learned that Jupiter has sixty moons! When I went to fact check that DeGrasse fellow's claim, Wikipedia says sixty-seven! Regardless, Wow!
I wonder how big a satellite has to be, to be considered a moon.
detectable. there are billions of moons in our own solar system, since the definition of moon is natural object orbiting a planet. the rings of saturn are comprised of many, many, many "moons". Since you aksed.
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
♪ ♫G.I. Joe!♪ ♫
On safari the other day, I saw this example of what they (around here) call barn art. It's usually a loft door, sometimes the main doors, or the side of the barn.
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And, today, I learned about the Ninth Infantry Division,
"The Old Reliables".
I found out that it was the Japanese who invented the fortune cookie. :D
No shit, really?:eek:
Yeah. The Chinese in China don't even know what fortune cookie is. It was the Japanese who brought it into the U.S., and if you go to this one city in Japan (I forgot where), you can find similar like fortune cookies, but with their own flavoring, like seaweed, etc. During the WWII when the Japanese were put into camps, the Chinese saw the opportunity and hijacked the idea and made it their own. :lol:
Don't sift homemade Tony's without a dust mask!
Today I learned about this bridge in Zanesville, Ohio:
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It's called the Y Bridge (can ya figger out why?) The story said Ripley's Believe It or Not refers to it as the only bridge in the world that you can cross and still be on the same side of the river.
Cool. Thank you for sharing that.
Ripley's Believe It or Not refers to it as the only bridge in the world that you can cross and still be on the same side of the river.
Not so, you'll cross one river or another.
Not if the smaller one's a stream or a creek.
Yeah. The Chinese in China don't even know what fortune cookie is. It was the Japanese who brought it into the U.S., and if you go to this one city in Japan (I forgot where), you can find similar like fortune cookies, but with their own flavoring, like seaweed, etc. During the WWII when the Japanese were put into camps, the Chinese saw the opportunity and hijacked the idea and made it their own. :lol:
I have heard rumor that fortune cookies are sold as American novelty food.
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, by Jennifer 8. Lee, is worth a read if you're interested in where fortune cookies, General Tso's Chicken, and other "Chinese" food staples came from.
Do not handle hot pepper pods for seeds, then take a leak. Without washing hands. Not all bad. First time I've felt heat down there in a long time. :bolt:
Buster, my old man (72) got such a kick out of that last sentence.
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I'd tell ya where I came across this info, but, I'm drawing a total blank.
Do not handle hot pepper pods for seeds, then take a leak. Without washing hands. Not all bad. First time I've felt heat down there in a long time. :bolt:
Also, contact lenses.
I've learned to just always use rubber gloves.
Every time you take a leak? That's overkill!
Oxytocin. Holy shit. Do we even have any control over what we do?
Saw this MIT student video on FB this morning.
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This hormone controls so much of our behavior. It has a lot of female physical stuff it does around childbirth, but the interesting thing is the emotional trust, bonding, and generosity it causes in both men and women. And the hormone is produced when we witness others bonding or we are among friends or are physically touched. It totally manipulates our behavior, for example, it's probably responsible for us being monogamous. It increases our generosity and ability to interact with others. It even aids in wound healing by reducing inflammation. So having someone emotionally supporting you as you heal really does make a difference.
It's even a dessert topping and a floor polish.
How have I never heard of this hormone before?
Oxycontin is the antidote. ;)
Minifobette took prescription oxytocin for about three years. Made a massive difference for her in both sociability and speech.
Today I learned that if you go to a pretty involved kid's CPSE meeting clean-shaven and prepared, people around the table will start asking you to apply for positions that are not posted yet so they can staff the room the kid needs...
Nice! (Assuming you want one of these positions?)
I'm not sure. I really like what I'm doing now and my current administrator is very hands-off. A district job is mo money and they do have kids that need my skill set but I'd be jumping into a bit of an unknown administratively and it is a troubled district so who knows what kinds of shake-ups are coming... so bottom line, I don't know. I need to find out what the retirement implications would be as well.
Heads, you're part of an earnest attempt at improving the district system.
Tails, you're the sacrificial lamb to protect cronies when the shit hits the fan.
It sounded before like you don't have much job security where you are now.
Mo money is nice.
Will the district let you wear a cape? :cool:
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And after that, I saw this next one in the 'Related Videos':
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Heads, you're part of an earnest attempt at improving the district system. [COLOR="Blue"]Could be. They have a long way to go against the tide. It looks like the top down Common Core approach stands in opposition to the education of children, especially urban kids who start out behind. [/COLOR]
Tails, you're the sacrificial lamb to protect cronies when the shit hits the fan. [COLOR="Blue"]Last hired first fired.[/COLOR]
It sounded before like you don't have much job security where you are now. [COLOR="Blue"]I smell a strike in the district's future as well. Right now, I'm part of the only highly functional classroom team in the department, so I have more security than most. Our "business model is sketchy though.[/COLOR]
Mo money is nice. [COLOR="Blue"]Not being bothered by administrators is nice as well. Right now I have that but it could change.[/COLOR]
Will the district let you wear a cape? [COLOR="Blue"]You're thinking of the English Department.[/COLOR]:cool:
Today I learned that beavers teeth are strengthened with iron, and I wondered how. So Keryx found this:
http://learnsomethingneweachday.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/beaver-teeth-are-coated-with-iron/Today I learned that the jackalope is
not a mythical creature.
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Fantastically Wrong: The Disturbing Reality That Spawned the Mythical Jackalope
I
know!:eek:
That picture of the bunny infected with the shopes papilloma virus reminds me of
the guy in India with the weird growth on his hands.
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And then reading through that thread of the guy with the hands, I see Kitsune made the same connection.
Both are caused by a papilloma virus. One is shopes papilloma and the other is human papilloma. And there's a vaccine for the human kind.
I learned how many Energizer batteries the Energizer Bunny took to run.
Guess. (highlight below)
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Today I learned more about the audience of Make magazine.
I believe HM is a reader.
Indeed.
Grant Imahara, of Mythbusters fame, had an article about various robots he designed. The Energizer Bunny was one, and for PR and truth in advertising purposes it had to actually run on consumer-grade batteries, which aren't ideal for the power needs of robots.
Today I learned of grid waves.
I saw this pic over at
BendBox with the filename 'grid waves off French coast'. Actually this pic shows what Wikipedia calls a cross swell, or
Cross Sea, at Ile De Re.
It's weird, whatever it is:
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Today I learned that Denzel Washington has a movie coming out in September...'The Equalizer'. Remember the tv show from the eighties, starring Edward Woodward? This is a remake of that. I loved the tv show. I really like Denzel Washington.
The trailer looks good. It looks real good.
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Sorry for the Russian movie review girl at the end, it's the best version of the trailer I could find.
mmmmmmYeah... that does look good. "...I'll make an exception." Yikes.
Denzel Washington is a very, very talented, handsome actor. I really enjoy his films.
Yeah, I likes me some Denzel.
His cousin Ukee does the CBS news here in Philly.
Today I learned that the good old wooden baseball bat has become irrationally expensive. Apparently, cheap wooden bats cost about $80 a pop. Inexplicably, (not really) people are choosing Maple over Ash (previously common) or Hickory (what the Babe used) because you get a bit more oomph for your swing with maple and that's what Barry Bonds used.
Maple tends to fail abruptly and violently, where Ash tends to flake and get shitty. Hickory is just heavy, but is still the best material for overall performance duralbility (in my opinion as a wood worker) After all, that's what the Babe used and look how long it took to break his record, He had to hit uphill, in the snow, in the dark, and there were wolves!
So there is a dude not far from me who makes bats and sells them for $150 a pop and up.
Not a bad way to earn some $. On further research, it turns out he makes them in his parent's basement. I'm guessing he may still live at home, that goes a long way to cutting your overhead down.
hmm
*eyes lathe sitting in the corner*
I learned how many Energizer batteries the Energizer Bunny took to run.
Guess. (highlight below)
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should have been 42
Yeah, Grant really dropped the ball on that one. Two extra batteries couldn't have affected runtime THAT much.
Today I learned that the good old wooden baseball bat has become irrationally expensive. Apparently, cheap wooden bats cost about $80 a pop. Inexplicably, (not really) people are choosing Maple over Ash (previously common) or Hickory (what the Babe used) because you get a bit more oomph for your swing with maple and that's what Barry Bonds used.
Maple tends to fail abruptly and violently, where Ash tends to flake and get shitty. Hickory is just heavy, but is still the best material for overall performance duralbility (in my opinion as a wood worker) After all, that's what the Babe used and look how long it took to break his record, He had to hit uphill, in the snow, in the dark, and there were wolves!
So there is a dude not far from me who makes bats and sells them for $150 a pop and up.
Not a bad way to earn some $. On further research, it turns out he makes them in his parent's basement. I'm guessing he may still live at home, that goes a long way to cutting your overhead down.
Bat snob.
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Just sayin'.
If you have a programmable lathe,... Get cutting, I guess
the day before yesterday I learned that a woman invented Kevlar. Sadly, I learned from her Obit.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27951043TIL my fave comedian, Robin Williams, went to Detroit Cuntry Day School, a place we frequently drive past (and mock) on our way to Swim meets and water polo games in Birmingham MI
(because there and no flaming cuntriside around there unless you count the wife murders......)
I lolled in my quiet office... had to explain to two people why
I learned four things today:
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then I learned about the
manchineel tree...
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Bat snob.
From WallyWorld:
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Just sayin'.
That seems a better price to me. I picked up a vintage Louisville Slugger at a thrift store for 7 bucks, the growth rings were tight. About 20 per inch. I'd be surprised if any modern bat was made from wood that good.
I'll look at wally world next time I'm in hell and see how a $30 bat compares. The $80 maple bat looked like shit to me.
Today I learned that
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Today I learned about
Ulithi Atoll, during WWII.
At one time, the largest naval facility in the world.
Some 'splaining, and good pics at the link.
In March 1945, 15 battleships, 29 carriers, 23 cruisers, 106 destroyers, and a train of oilers and supply ships sailed from "a Pacific base." What was this base? The mightiest force of naval Power ever assembled must have required a tremendous supporting establishment. Ulithi, the biggest and most active naval base in the world was indeed tremendous but it was unknown. Few civilians had heard of it at all. By the time security released the name, the remarkable base of Ulithi was a ghost. The war had moved on to the Japanese homeland, and the press was not printing ancient history about Ulithi.
Today I learned about the
Duke Axial Engine, from
Duke Engines, down New Zealand way.
It's pretty wild.
The engine is so smooth, they start it, run it, rev it, and turn it off, all with a coin standing on edge on top of the engine, per video at the link....:notworthy
They've run it as high as 14:1 compression ratio on 91 octane gasoline. That would usually require
a lot more octane.
I think those boys might be onto something.
They've been around for about 20 years. No matter how good it is, without funding it will languish. True, the car makers and major builders of motors for boats, planes and farm equipment, have a big investment in tooling and their parts supply chain.
Car builders have made several shots to make big strides in the power to weight category. Mazda had developed a new generation Rotary that had reliable seals, ran smoothly with great power, unfortunately the emissions and mileage didn't cut it.
unfortunately the emissions and mileage didn't cut it.
I had wondered what happened to the Mazda rotary engine.
Yesterday I learned Brits say SatNav rather than GPS
We tend to use 'Satnav' in respect of the moving map and voice instructions unit used in cars.
For other applications, such as handheld units, air and sea navigation etc, we'd use 'GPS'.
I dunno. I think of the map on my phone as satnav.
Today I learned who Capt. Jack Harkness is. I watched "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances". Niiiice!
Today I learned some new English words.
Today I learned who Capt. Jack Harkness is. I watched "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances". Niiiice!
He's a lot of fun.
He gets a bit darker in the spinoff 'Torchwood'.
Today I learned that a lot of people were drinking sewage contaminated water back in the 70s in Crater Lake National Park.
My parents are there right now, and their posts on Facebook brought back memories of me getting sick shortly after visiting the park in 1975 at age 8. I was the only one in the family to drink from the water fountain at the visitor center on our short visit, and my parents saw a sign shortly after that that the water there was bad. I got violently ill, which sucks when you are camping, and my parents took me to a methadone clinic to get checked out, where we were told I had the flu. I have memories of hanging out in a tent for a few days and just being miserable while my brothers and sisters played in a
lake.
Anyway, I wanted to see if there was any official record to this family lore, and is there ever. A Google search brings up a lot: Apparently raw sewage was contaminating the spring that was the water source for the national park. Manholes were overflowing below the visitor center and human turds were on the ground just uphill from the spring. Around 100,000 people were exposed to the contaminated water that summer. After weeks of mismanaging the problem and turf wars between various government agencies, they closed the park only a few days after our visit to try to fix the water problem. There were around 1,000 reported cases of people getting sick from drinking the sewage, and a handful of people actually contracted hepatitis. There was a lot of legal wrangling with settlements being paid out to people who got sick and the federal government settled with a lodge owner to compensate him for the settlements he had to pay out.
I guess the lesson is don't get your drinking water from a source downhill from your sewer.
No, the lesson is you should have listened to Ben Franklin. Beer good, water bad. :haha:
Today I learned they're flushing the water mains around town...when I tried to take a shower.:neutral:
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You can get a free one right there. :haha:
That's happened to me before. Annoying.
Not actually today, but last night...
I learned that the official, proper way to retire (i.e. dispose of) an old American flag is by burning. But you've got to, like, burn it nicely, not while screaming "Death to America."
There's an app for that.
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Today, I learned, is Nat'l Buy Ammo Day.
So - the 19th of November is : World Toilet Day, National Buy Ammo Day and International Men's Day.
International Men's Day.
I missed out on that. What was I supposed to get?
An international man. Yours didn't come in the mail?
He got one. It was a secret though.
A Secret Asian Man
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Today I learned that if you're a man who gets Ebola, and you manage to defeat the disease, and the doctors clear you to rejoin society, don't go having celebratory sex right away. Apparently the virus hangs out in your junk longer than anywhere else, and you're packing live virus down there for months.
An international man. Yours didn't come in the mail?
Paging Sheldon
Today I learned that if you're a man who gets Ebola, and you manage to defeat the disease, and the doctors clear you to rejoin society, don't go having celebratory sex right away. Apparently the virus hangs out in your junk longer than anywhere else, and you're packing live virus down there for months.
We know this now about men, and for all we know it could be the same for women. We're still learning about Ebola, so probably holding off on the celebratory sex is good advice.
I'm learning all sorts of stuff as I've been developing protocols to protect our medical center's Ebola care team.
We know this now about men, and for all we know it could be the same for women. We're still learning about Ebola, so probably holding off on the celebratory sex is good advice.
I'm learning all sorts of stuff as I've been developing protocols to protect our medical center's Ebola care team.
You rock! Thanks for working on Ebola. It is a scary thing for us who don't understand the medical implications. So far, it seems we have a handle on it. I hope that handle holds. Can you give us honest advice in case it gets out of hand?
I'd be more concerned about the plague outbreak on the island nation of Madagascar.
Today I learned that my life is about to change dramatically. For the better I hope.
Today I learned that my life is about to change dramatically. For the better I hope.
Whats happening?
For me, "dramatically" has always been ominous. :eyebrow:
Maybe she's going to start making really big cakes and popping out of them at parties!
Today I learned that my life is about to change dramatically.
Whats happening?
Fortune cookie.
:p:
I'd be more concerned about the plague outbreak on the island nation of Madagascar.
Worry closer to home, the
plague is back!
Thanks. I am hoping for positive outcomes.
I tried the chili pepper flavored Ramen noodles yesterday. A friend told me they were really good, but, to start off with just half the seasoning packet, which I did. It is by far the most flavorful I've tried yet.
I told you that, so I could tell you this:
Today I learned that the rest of that seasoning packet made for some of the best scrambled eggs I've ever eaten.
It wakes up the tongue, that's for sure.
Nothing like a little MSG to start the day.
Today I [Strike]learned[/Strike] rerealized how little I mean to the people that mean something to me.
I really don't know why they mean anything to me.
Damn, Grav - sounds like a verybad day. *hug*
Today (just now) I learned about
The Elephant's Foot.
Today (just now) I learned about The Elephant's Foot.
Today, I learned there's been another nuclear power plant problem in the Ukraine
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/03/us-ukraine-crisis-power-minister-idUSKCN0JH12M20141203Anything that happens at a Nuke will be blown out of proportion by the press until they get to the point where they start intimating a cover-up prevents us from finding out the truth.
In Boston, over the last couple days, a man was admitted to Mass General with a fever and as a precaution was put in isolation as a precaution. Stop the presses!! EBOLA!! Man sick!! Ebola!! In isolation!! EBOLA!!.
So Mass General releases a statement after a day or two, saying the guy has Malaria. But the fucking TV news still have EBOLA!! as every other word out of their yaps. After all, we can't let the truth stand in the way of a good story.:rolleyes:
Anything that happens at a Nuke will be blown out of proportion
...and into smithereens as well. :)
I learned that
Ryan Leaf, the OTHER QB drafted right after Peyton Manning was just released from jail. He had apparently broken into people's houses to steal their pain pills.
pretty fucking crazy
I learned that Oz's Tin Man has a name - Nick Chopper
I learned that Ryan Leaf, the OTHER QB drafted right after Peyton Manning was just released from jail. He had apparently broken into people's houses to steal their pain pills.
pretty fucking crazy
I suspect by the time someone has earned the chance to even be considered for the NFL draft, they've accumulated a slew of hurt. If they make the cut, along with trainer's help, they can afford to control the pain. If they have to go work for a living it's a problem, because pain control is expensive and addictive.
Today I learned that, despite looking ridiculous, smushing several spoonfuls of ice cream against your nasal passages will, in fact, ease the unbelievably intense burning sensation if you absentmindedly rub your nose while cutting up a poblano pepper.
It still fucking burns, but at least I'm not crying anymore.
Should have stuck to the mint pesto. :comfort:
Oh I did! The poblano was just being chopped and frozen for later in the week. The mint pesto came out pretty good, although Minifobette thought it "smelled like skunk." I don't think she's ever smelled a skunk.
Got one in the neighborhood, for the last few days.
Smell it at night when I come home.
I learned I was wrong.
I've been adamant I saw Genesis with Peter Gabriel at the Walnut Street Theater in 1972.
Well I talked to someone who I know was there because his group shared.... uh, sat with our group.
He says it was scheduled/advertised for the Walnut, but the tight butts in Philly whined this would draw hippies, beatniks, and ne'er-do-wells to their posh neighborhood.
So Midnight Sun scrambled to move the show to the Tower Theater.
From the
Tower's Wiki entry
The Tower introduced America to David Bowie and The Spiders from Mars in 1972 as well as the then-unknown Genesis with Peter Gabriel that same year; Genesis played a midnight concert with a $4 admission price.
Was that the one?
Yeah. That would be fun.
I've seen a few unknown bands, but they stayed unknown. So I can't brag.
We had a huge advantage living close to the Tower Theater. It was sometimes called the Fillmore East because it was a must play for the groups on the verge of breaking into the bigtime. I saw so many acts there who were playing to crowds of 20,000 up, the next time they were in town. Saw a few like the Moody Blues, and Jethro Tull, playing the Tower after their arena days were over.
As a matter of fact Yusuf Islam(Cat Stevens) played there last week on his attempted comeback tour.
... that this date and time isn't going to happen again till the next century:
12/13/14 :15:16;17
I missed it. I'll have to catch the next one.
That can't happen in Britain :P
That can't happen in Britain :P
Although 11/12/13 14.15.16 did.
I'm surprised I was wide awake enough to work that out!
That's me done for the rest of the day, I suspect. :eyebrow:
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Hey look, it's Opie Cunningham!
Today I
[re]learned about an animal I'd
become unaware of...
The
fossa.
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From the first link:
1. Their scientific name means “hidden anus.”
Looks like the kind of critter you'd find out in a cold rain, bring home to a warm dry hearth, then it rips your throat out while you sleep. You know, like a cat. :p:
I know this is a strange post, but today I learned how far a continent can move in 16.6 million years !
After our family moved to Oregon in 1975, I did a bit of reading about Oregon’s geology.
Back then, geologists were argueing about the origins of two main flows of lava
in eastern Oregon at the Idaho border (now the Snake River).
Lately, I’ve been reading “ In Search of Ancient Oregon ” by Helen Morris Bishop,
and learned that back in 2002, Peter Hooper of Washington State University showed
that the “hot spot” of Yellowstone National Park actually originated with the formation
of Steens Mountain in south-east Oregon.
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And the North American continent has moved westward while the hot spot stayed in place.
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The answer is about 550 miles… thanks to Google Maps !
I wonder if that means the Atlantic Rift has widened by that same amount during the same time period, or is Europe moving west also?
How long did that move take?
lamplighter said 16.6 million years.
Today I learned that the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is not connected to a sewage system. They use trucks to collect all the sewage each day and truck it across town to a treatment facility.
They are doing it old school.
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Ok, not really like that.
The truth is more shocking. Dubai has no real sewage system, so trucks haul it all to a treatment facility and wait in a very long line for hours and hours and hours to drop the kids off at the pool.
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Wow. I guess that's what happens when the private money explodes and no one invests in infrastructure for everyone...
Maybe they shouldn't have built on the shifting sands.
Man! what a load of shit.
That looks like a job for The Shit-men!
Today, I learned about
Times Beach, Missouri.
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Way to go, Russell Martin Bliss, you fool. This is why we can't have nice things. And why the EPA is keeps looking for the next thing on the list to ban.
Today I learned that there is a theory that William Shakespeare was involved in the production of the King James Version of The Bible and left a "signature". iThe translation started when he was 46, and apparently the 46th word from the beginning of psalm 46 is "Shake" and the 46th word from the end of psalm 46 is "Spear"
It was a random factoid spouted by a character in a book I am reading, so I googled it.
Is Dan Brown a hero to you?
Today I learned that if FIOS TV is out, I can't even watch recorded shows on my DVR.
What crap. It really wrecks the normal expectation of what a DVR should deliver.
I wonder what Verizon is monitoring when you employ the DVR. You're not getting commercials, right? Maybe it's like the Kindle where you have a local copy of the work, but only a revocable license to watch, listen, read it.
No, it's recording them locally. It's just that if the box can't connect to the server, you can't even get to the DVR menu. It just has an error message, and doesn't respond to the remote.
Today I learned about
The Cornfield Bomber.
Cool. Embarrassing maybe for the pilot...
Well, he just stepped out to pee and it slipped out of park. :o
I wish commercial jets would do that.
Today I learned about
Zion curtains.
ETA: And then, I read up on the
Alcohol Laws of Utah. Interesting read.
Today I learned about Zion curtains.
Quelle deception ! :eyebrow:
I was expecting something at least related to underwear. ;)
I can see where you might make that mistake...Especially in one of my posts.
:D
Today, Tuesday, August 25th, is the US National Park Service's 99th birthday. All National Parks had free admission today. Only 20 minutes left here, but you western time zones might get in a quickie. :haha:
Today I learned about the
Kalinin K-7.
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Liver, fava beans, and red wine are three things that interact with a class of drugs known as MAOIs, early antidepressants that were sometimes used for personality disorders. If you eat those things and are on a MAOI it can kill you.
So the famous line from Silence of the Lambs,
"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."
...could have signaled that the patient was off his meds.
any six-digit number with the pattern abcabc is divisible by 13
Be sure and tell beest and the student, might come in handy saving time. ;)
So that's what 'Netflix and Chill' means. I thought it actually meant ...chill out in front of the tv.
Apparently it's millenial speak for 'wanna come over and get funky on the sofa?'
Damn whippersnappers, ruining the king's English, they are, no respect for tradition that's been good enough for weeks :crone:
It's just the modern version of "going to the drive-in." Yeah, you're watching the movie, but everyone knows you really wanna just make out.
Apparently there are now Netflix and Chill condoms.
Not today, but, yesterday, I learned that the actress Lillian Gish lived to 100, never married, had no children, and left her entire estate, worth several million bucks, to actress Helen Hayes, who died 18 days later.
You cannot fill the coffee maker with water twice.:litebulb:
Not today, but, yesterday, I learned that the actress Lillian Gish lived to 100, never married, had no children, and left her entire estate, worth several million bucks, to actress Helen Hayes, who died 18 days later.
Lillian Gish is Scots slang for having a pee as in" I'm just away for a Lillian Gish "(pish)
:D
be-bop, that whole rhyming slang thing is lost on me. Things that rhyme often have completely different meanings, so how in hell do you guys figure out what the other is saying, until the term becomes common usage? :confused:
Some of the rhyming slang is topical and some lost in the mists of time :D
Here's some other well used phrases
I haven't gat a Scooby, shortened from I haven't got a Scooby Do, meaning clue.
I'm Hank Marvin. (Shadows guitar player) meaning I'm starving.
You're having a Giraffe mate. meaning you're having a laugh..
The problem understanding is when the phrases get shortened, if you didn't know the original phrase it can be baffling
We septic tanks just don't have a clue.
be-bop, that whole rhyming slang thing is lost on me.
Things that rhyme often have completely different meanings,
so how in hell do you guys figure out what the other is saying,
until the term becomes common usage? :confused:
This helped me understand what is going on with Cockney rhyming slang...
I'm Hank Marvin. (Shadows guitar player) meaning I'm starving.
We used have a convenience store near our interstate exit called Starvin' Marvin's.
There was also a character on South Park, an Ethiopian child, named Starvin' Marvin.
We septic tanks just don't have a clue.
i give up. translate it?
Septic tank = Yank
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/septic_tank
I didn't even do it right, it should have been "We septics just don't have a clue." The advanced form just
suggests the rhyme so you really have to know what's going on.
Also, this is one way the Brits are better than us (and I do believe that they are), they can subtly insult you and you didn't even know it happened.
ah, I had Yank... i couldnt rhyme anything with septic
I read once that the original cockney rhyming slang terms also created a visual link to the item.
e.g.
Apples & Pears: Stairs -the barrow boys used to stack up the oranges and apples (much like they do in produce sections and "fancy" stores today) and they looked like stairs
Dog&Bone = phone -the old free-standing dial phones with the recever in a cradle on the top looked like a dog ?????....
...... There wasn't any TV to watch in those days ;)
Also, this is one way the Brits are better than us (and I do believe that they are), they can subtly insult you and you didn't even know it happened.
Obfuscation is better? I don't think so, more advanced civilizations would strive for clearer communication. How else would the empire's minions know their duties. No wonder the Hessians failed. :p:
If you want to put down the yanks to your countrymen without the yanks knowing,... I'm telling ya, those people are better at their language than we are. Be careful around them.
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Today I learned that sugar is not soluble in water - AT ALL.
This is making my limoncello recipe changes very difficult to address.
You just have to heat it a tiny bit, it'll dissolve right away.
Maybe you should boil it classic? That will kill bacteria too.
Today I learned I'm an online jackass.
I also learned that the current value of the dollar is even worse than I thought.
We're all idiots online, at least some of the time. Haha
Nay nay, not me. I'm an asshole, dickhead, bastard, etc, etc, online. I save idiot for real life. :p:
Haha...I'd like to see that.
I haven't gat a Scooby, shortened from I haven't got a Scooby Do, meaning clue.
I'm Hank Marvin. (Shadows guitar player) meaning I'm starving.
You're having a Giraffe mate. meaning you're having a laugh..
The Hank Marvin one was used recently in an advert for some food or other.
*checks youtube*
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From Lamp's wiki link:
In some examples the meaning is further obscured by adding a second iteration of rhyme and truncation to the original rhymed phrase. For example, the word "Aris" is often used to indicate the buttocks. This is the result of a double rhyme, starting with the original rough synonym "arse", which is rhymed with "bottle and glass", leading to "bottle". "Bottle" was then rhymed with "Aristotle" and truncated to "Aris".[2]
I think that is possibly my favourite example.
I also think the use of scooby, for clue is a great example that shows how dynamic this form of slang is - it isn't all from the days of cockney barrow boys, this stuff just sticks.
Over the weekend I learned that Lil' Griff's roommate thinks we're hippies. At least we're not dirty hippies...
Hahahahahaha. Get a fucking haircut, hippy!
Ha! I can see that. I mean, you live on a commune and do your own stuff.
One.. uh, two of the hippies who matured without selling out, rare as hen's teeth. :notworthy
Today I learned that a cobbler does not build new shoes. A cobbler repairs old shoes, and/or builds shoes out of old leather. The person who makes new shoes out of new leather is called a cordwainer.
Oh so that's what a cordwainer does. I see it listed sometimes as an occupation in enlistment records and for some reason have never googled it. I knew it involved working with leather - because of references in trials to thefts of leather from cordwainers - but didn't know it was a shoemaker (mostly I think they just referred to them as shoemakers in the court records, because I've only seen cordwainer a handful of times).
I knew a cobbler only repaired shoes, but I've never heard of a cordwainer. thanks. (now coming to a scrabble game near you... one day.)
Are archaic words allowed in Scrabble?
Today I learned that sugar is not soluble in water - AT ALL.
Totally screwed that up - lol See how upset I am. - Take two:
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oday I learned that sugar is not soluble in ALCOHOL - AT ALL.
This is making my limoncello recipe changes very difficult to address.
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I have been making limoncello from an old recipe for some time now. I am trying to make it clearer (less opague is that correct?)
Now what do I do? Methinks I will further decrease the sugar.
What do you all think - Does it being cloudy alter your opinion of it at all?
I've actually inquired with a local distillery and ... who knows.
I'd love to get some feedback
Over the weekend I learned that Lil' Griff's roommate thinks we're hippies.
Were you doubting that at some point?
hmmm... Now you're making me wonder.
Classic, any limoncello I have ever had has been cloudy. I don't think people care do they? It's about the flavour.
See, that's my point. Most of them are sickeningly sweet and cloudy like there's cream in it or something. I made a batch a couple weeks ago and it came out clear. I'm not really sure why. I THINK I did everything the same... Now I want to replicate that as it was clearly my best batch!
You cannot fill the coffee maker with water twice.:litebulb:
Not true, you can fill the coffee maker with water twice, thrice, and more, but the pot will only hold the first one. :facepalm:
Well I don't know much about it, but my friends make it by mixing sugar, vodka and lemons. It's a bit cloudy, but not too much really. Clearer than most store bought I've seen.
Totally screwed that up - lol See how upset I am. - Take two:
Today I learned that sugar is not soluble in ALCOHOL - AT ALL.
This is making my limoncello recipe changes very difficult to address.
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I have been making limoncello from an old recipe for some time now. I am trying to make it clearer (less opague is that correct?)
Now what do I do? Methinks I will further decrease the sugar.
What do you all think - Does it being cloudy alter your opinion of it at all?
I've actually inquired with a local distillery and ... who knows.
I'd love to get some feedback
The word you're looking for is
limpid.
What about liquifying the sugar before you mix? If you heat sugar, as if you're making toffee, and bring it to the boil but stop the heat before it starts to change colour, then let it cool, that might work. You only need a tiny bit of water to get it started.
The word you're looking for is limpid.
translucent ;)
What about liquifying the sugar before you mix? If you heat sugar, as if you're making toffee, and bring it to the boil but stop the heat before it starts to change colour, then let it cool, that might work. You only need a tiny bit of water to get it started.
Correct - sort of.
That would allow me to dissolve MORE sugar in the same amount of water. However that won't change its solubility in the grain alcohol (190 proof, 95%) Also, when I cool the limoncello this will make it MORE cloudy, not less.
Use Sweet and Low.
I learned the
WW II Underwater Demolition Teams (Frogmen), wore, "trunks with an inflatable belt, canvas shoes and a mask, he said. No neoprene or oxygen tanks for these underwater soldiers of the Pacific. Even the fins didn’t come until later"
No fins. :eek:
Now there is an interesting alternative ... Damn you Bruce, that would mean starting all over with the recipe.
Then you end up with twice as much. Is that bad?
I think Splenda would taste better.
Hmm ... I am still mulling that over.
I would NOT end up with twice as much, I'd just have less sugar in it. I'm not altering the quantity of the liquids.
You have a batch you're not happy with, so you start over with a different method and end up with another batch. Now you have two batches, twice as much.
Everyone knows James Bond drinks Vodka Martinis, shaken not stirred.
Today I learned, In, "On Her Majesty’s Secret Service",(11th book), Bond drinks: Pouilly-Fuissé white wine, Taittinger champagne, Mouton Rothschild ’53 claret, calvados, Krug champagne, 3 bourbon & waters, 4 vodka & tonics, 2 double brandy & ginger ales, 2 whisky & sodas, 3 double vodka martinis, 2double bourbons on the rocks, at least 1 neat whisky, a flask of Enzian schnapps, Marsala wine, the better part of a bottle of fiery Algerian wine, 2 more Scotch whiskies, half a pint of I.W. Harper bourbon, a Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whisky & water, on the rocks, a bottle of Riquewihr wine, 4 steins of Franziskaner beer, and a double Steinhäger gin.
In the whole book series, Bond drinks 19 Vodka Martinis, but 37 bourbons, 21 Scotches and 35 sakes.
So that's what 'Netflix and Chill' means. I thought it actually meant ...chill out in front of the tv.
It doesn't?? :eek:
Apparently it's millenial speak for 'wanna come over and get funky on the sofa?'
Yeah, that phrase has been around for a while, now.
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Do try to keep up.
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Everyone knows James Bond drinks Vodka Martinis, shaken not stirred.
Today I learned, In, "On Her Majesty’s Secret Service",(11th book), Bond drinks: Pouilly-Fuissé white wine, Taittinger champagne, Mouton Rothschild ’53 claret, calvados, Krug champagne, 3 bourbon & waters, 4 vodka & tonics, 2 double brandy & ginger ales, 2 whisky & sodas, 3 double vodka martinis, 2double bourbons on the rocks, at least 1 neat whisky, a flask of Enzian schnapps, Marsala wine, the better part of a bottle of fiery Algerian wine, 2 more Scotch whiskies, half a pint of I.W. Harper bourbon, a Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whisky & water, on the rocks, a bottle of Riquewihr wine, 4 steins of Franziskaner beer, and a double Steinhäger gin.
In the whole book series, Bond drinks 19 Vodka Martinis, but 37 bourbons, 21 Scotches and 35 sakes.
That's interesting.
XOB - You need to come by and give the latest batch a test drive.
Its pretty damn good, if I do say so myself.
Latest batch of Netflix and chill?
Today I learned about the
pink fairy armadillo.
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Recipe?
Sent by thought transference
Sunny side up.
Put it on a bun.
Looks a little like an armoured, fur-lined condom, no?
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Trade SIDs for Leprosy? :eek6:
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Today, I learned that the standards of discourse here in the Cellar are quite remarkable.
It's OK to "blame the victim" for being abused, so long as the abuser is not "intolerably annoying"
I don't quite know what "intolerably annoying" really means.
At least the following mode of trolling does not meet that standard.
a) pick a target
b) goad with ad hominem insults
c) gloat by self-aggrandizement
d) deny fallibility
Repeat, ad nauseum
So, I've decided to leave.
For the most part, I've enjoyed my stay here.
But I will enjoy dealing with the Donald Trump's of the world elsewhere.
Take care.
He wanted me to ban Sexobon, and I explained via pm that while I consider Sexobon to be a shit stirrer I don't think it's right for me to ban him.
Well, damn, Lamp! If that's how ya feel, that's how ya feel, I guess...
Stay thirsty, my friend.
:(
Today I learned (not for the first time) that rather than call someone out for behavior he disapproves of, Lamp will instead whine that no one else has called out that person, and then flounce off (again, not for the first time.)
The Cellar is primarily self-policing, just like real social interactions. What you're doing here is nothing less than shirking your responsibility as a member of the community.
Very obviously, "intolerably annoying" is annoying to the community, not annoying to any one member of the community. Otherwise we'd all be gone.
~
So, go find people who think exactly like you. Then you can politically whack off to your heart's content, and always be correct, without having to deal with disagreement or any challenges to your point of view. JUST REMEMBER THAT THIS IS HOW POLITICS MAKES YOU STUPID
Lamp will return. I keep returning.
I don't think its helpful to make someone feel bad for feeling bad enough to say they're leaving. I think we read into the surface, and only feel for and prop up the imploring and beseeching folks. Maybe even the likes of lamp could use a little encouragement and a reiteration that they, too, are a valuable member of the community.
We're all humans, you know. :(
I don't think its helpful to make someone feel bad for feeling bad enough to say they're leaving. I think we read into the surface, and only feel for and prop up the imploring and beseeching folks. Maybe even the likes of lamp could use a little encouragement and a reiteration that they, too, are a valuable member of the community.
We're all humans, you know. :(
Well said, Inf.
I think we could all use more empathy and attempt to listen to and understand one another.
You're assuming derision doesn't stem from completely understanding.
Today I learned about the pink fairy armadillo.
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It would be awesome to see a
blue dragon riding one of these. With reins and all....
now there's a turducken-type recipe in the making
I miss Zengum.
Who doesn't? And HLJ...and and...
Thanks dana. :)
Hey, I know I can be a real bitch. Those here who say I have value, in spite of said bitchiness (and clod is one of those people, thank you) help me realize that this place is like family in some ways. And I like lamp. I like sexobutt-head. Tomorrow I might hate them both. ;)
I had a good day with my family. I hope you all did too. For those who aren't celebrating the merkin thanksgiving day, my wish for you is the same.
Tomorrow, I will return you to the regularly scheduled crazy infi show. Or not. :blush:
Re: Lamp. He's a stubborn man whom I disagree with politically. Aside from that I think we have a lot in common. I ignore many of his partisan posts for that reason.
Sad that another long timer is no longer here. Sad that he also took the route he took. Going behind another dwellars back and asking Mgmt to Ban another because you can't refute his responses is weak as shit. Pull up your pants and defend yourself, man. Srsly - If he was successful, would XOB have been next? They got into it a bit lately too.
Today I learned that being "fine" is no longer good enough for me.
I want more. I deserve more.
Oh, and on a lighter note - EVERYONE should serve turkey on Thanksgiving (barring deathly allergies) Chicken casserole doesn't cut it. WTF people?
Chicken casserole? Unacceptable.
Today I learned about a whole new brand of crazy. I got to work at 5am, so I didn't see the people who had started to line up outside the store at 5:45. No Black Friday electronic bargains..... but the release of a once-a-year limited edition Goose Island Beer. First I knew was when we opened at 7am and hordes hurtled through the store. all gone 30 minutes later, and apparently we had the biggest allocation in the area. I was working in the beer area a bit today and all day shifty looking guys sidled in: "psst ....got any of that...." Nutters.
I deserve more.
Well, here's what
I deserve:
[LIST]
[*]I deserve to be able to walk without balance issues.
[*]I deserve "normal hand function".
[*]I deserve to be able to get a
proper shower.
[*]I deserve "normal" reflexes, especially for driving.
[*]I deserve to be able to work for a living (at a job I actually like).
[*]I deserve my metabolism back.
[*]I deserve to be able to talk at a normal speed.
[/LIST]
In short, I deserve to
be normal (via a non-surgical, single treatment "cure" for Cerebral Palsy, such as an injection of stem cells directly into my cerebellum,
theoretically causing motor cell re-generation).
In other words, you deserve to be "fine". :(
In other words, you deserve to be "fine". :(
No. I deserve to be average fully abled individual.
Your sadface emoticon is unappreciated.
The word deserve is right up there with the word should in my book.
A=A
No. I deserve to be average fully abled individual.
Your sadface emoticon is unappreciated.
I think UT was being sincere, Zath. Classic was saying "fine" wasn't good enough for him anymore, and UT was noting that being fine would be a step up for you. He is sad at your circumstances.
If he was successful, would XOB have been next?
Bruce has seniority. And, I think, tenure.
;)
No, all Cellar members are created equal, just some of us are more obnoxious. :p:
Your sadface emoticon is misunderstood.
The word deserve is right up there with the word should in my book.
A=A
Well said, Sir Jim of the Lumbery Helm. :)
I think UT was being sincere, Zath. Classic was saying "fine" wasn't good enough for him anymore, and UT was noting that being fine would be a step up for you. He is sad at your circumstances.
Fine is a subjective term. Also, I guess UT's feelings are understandable. As long as his "sadness" does not turn to pity, I'm "fine" with it.
...just some of us are more obnoxious. :p:
Like Beestie, for modifying what I posted. BAN HIM/HER/IT! :rolleyes:
Whoa, my post referred to the one immediately before it, the one about me, and has nothing to do with your interpretations of people responding to yours. Leave me the fuck out of your drama.
Like Beestie, for modifying what I posted. BAN HIM/HER/IT! :rolleyes:
Easy there, just trying to add some clarity.
This was a very good thread until it was derailed with whining and the resulting chemical reactions. Most people were trying to be nice, even if they failed. Let's see if we can learn to just let it go from here and make a team effort to rescue this thread. Please?
Classicman learned to love himself a little bit more than he did. Which is good. We should probably all try to do that.
I learned people can be very weird about beer. We probably shouldn't all do that (be very weird about beer)
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Today -----just right now, in fact, especially to try and rescue this thread, I went off and learned three new things. I hope you find at least one of them interesting:
Oranges do not actually turn orange unless they are exposed to cold weather, which causes the chlorophyll to move away from the skin. Sometimes oranges grown in hot climates are treated with ethylene gas to break down the chlorophyll and turn the oranges orange to make consumers happy.
There is only one word in the English dictionary containing a double y ("yy"): Sayyid
Peanut M&Ms were created by Forrest Mars -who was allergic to peanuts.
The orange thing is cool.
Whoa, my post referred to the one immediately before it, the one about me, and has nothing to do with your interpretations of people responding to yours. Leave me the fuck out of your drama.
:violin:
This was a very good thread until it was derailed with whining and the resulting chemical reactions. Most people were trying to be nice, even if they failed. Let's see if we can learn to just let it go from here and make a team effort to rescue this thread. Please?
Agreed. My bad for starting this whole mess.
Let's get back on topic.
Classicman learned to love himself a little bit more than he did. Which is good. We should probably all try to do that.
I'll have you know I love myself quite frequently. :blush:
Today -----just right now, in fact, especially to try and rescue this thread, I went off and learned three new things. I hope you find at least one of them interesting:
Oranges do not actually turn orange unless they are exposed to cold weather, which causes the chlorophyll to move away from the skin. Sometimes oranges grown in hot climates are treated with ethylene gas to break down the chlorophyll and turn the oranges orange to make consumers happy.
There is only one word in the English dictionary containing a double y ("yy"): Sayyid
Peanut M&Ms were created by Forrest Mars -who was allergic to peanuts.
They all are.
The title, "food scientist" makes me think, keep an eye on this guy, he may be dangerous. :lol:
Recently, I learned about
Elm Farm Ollie. Despite the name "Ollie", she was a cow. She wasn't just any old cow, either. Ollie was the first cow to fly. In an airplane. On February 18, 1930. I believe it was a Tuesday. She was also the first cow to be milked in flight. Elsworth W. Bunce was the first man to milk a flying cow. One has to wonder if there has even been a second man to milk a flying cow.
One also has to wonder...
"Why?".
Because red bull wasn't available?
I ask myself much the same with respect to that epic bovine.
My theory is it was a scientific experiment to see if a cow could jump over the moon; but, they wanted to give it a better chance by taking it up in an airplane and milking it to lighten its load before launching it.
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That chinking cups during a toast was originally to ensure a little liquid was exchanged so no-one poisoned the drink of another
That chameleons' color changing is based on their temperament rather than their surrounding
That Cuttlefish and Octopussies can change texture as well as color to blend into their surroundings.
I haven't fact-checked any of these, but they came from reliable sources during after-dinner conversation tonight :)
All true. Saw it on the Internet
That chinking cups during a toast was originally to ensure a little liquid was exchanged so no-one poisoned the drink of another
This I didn't know. If asked I'd have posited it was the noise which was important, to ward off evil spirits. Now I can be all superior and refuse to toast saying wearily, "It's okay, I don't actually think you're trying to poison me." :p:
That chameleons' color changing is based on their temperament rather than their surrounding
This however I did know. It's actually an annoying piece of knowledge as so many advertisers/ greeting card manufacturers/ comedians do not seem aware of it. But perhaps that's just because I'm such a pedant, and it doesn't bother other people who know this.
You mean this joke is not scientifically accurate?!
I put a chameleon on a red dildo...
...He blushed.
I just learned there's a place called Hebe in PA
Up near the state prison... uh, a state prison.
Yesterday, 12-20, was the day the very first website was born, only 25 years ago. :eek:
Today is not Monday! Way I'm going, I'll be able to hide my own easter eggs this year.
That the signed Pratchet Discworld book I got Beest once sells for $150 on ebay. We could be riiiiiiiich! :lol:
People tell me when I give a book as a gift I'm supposed to write a little blurb inside. Fuck that, what if they want to sell it and my scribbles knocked half the value off? They'd be pissed at me. Here, I got you this first edition Gutenberg Bible, let me just scribble a little note in here first. :rolleyes:
That the signed Pratchet Discworld book I got Beest once sells for $150 on ebay. We could be riiiiiiiich! :lol:
Cool, I downloaded Discworld 3 to my i phone for sleeping bag reading, I wonder what that's worth? ;)
Today is not Monday! Way I'm going, I'll be able to hide my own easter eggs this year.
you already did!
Not being a skier and never having lived where there's feets and feets of snowpack, I'd never heard of
tree wells, nor how dangerous they are.
we have regular seasonal PSAs and news-you-can-use segments on tree wells every year.
I've seen the story poles to measure the depth of the snow around Mt Rainier, they're taller than a damn telephone pole. :eek3:
When I got back into skiing I was surprised that glade skiing, skiing through the trees, has become an approved activity. They used to rip our tickets for that.
Today I learned about the
tanuki, or,
Japanese Raccoon Dog, a close relative of the dog.
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This Twitterer has one in their home. (And lots of interesting photos, not just of [strike]tanukis[/strike] tanukae[/strike] [strike]tanukum[/strike] Japanese Raccoon Dogs.)
Today I learned about the
Omni Processor.
It takes human waste and produces electricity, clean drinking water (that passes FDA WHO standards), and money.
How The Omni Processor Works <---Good infographic. Better/quicker than the Wiki link above.
Do not poke around in da cellar while ya have corn bread in the oven.
Nah, that smell is burned cornbread.
:-(
Today I learned there is a growing conspiracy theory around vote fraud in the Clinton campaign.
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Nah, that smell is burned cornbread.
:-(
Burned cornbread bad.
Today I learned there is a growing conspiracy theory around vote fraud in the Clinton campaign.
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Gotta love her handle "Sane Progressive." I have no idea about her allegations, but she goes right past passionate and into nuts territory pretty quickly.
I wonder why the Sanders campaign hasn't gotten back to her. ;)
Today I learned about the
Bahrain World Trade Center. It's the second-tallest building in Bahrain, and the first skyscraper in the world to include wind turbines in the structure of the building.
The towers are shaped like sails and were wind-tunnel designed so that wind coming from as much as a 45 degree angle (to the face of the building and blades) is caught by the building and funneled so that it remains straight-on to the turbine blades.
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Those turbines were brought online on this date in 2008.
I just learned there's a place called Hebe in PA
Today I learned there's a place in NY called Hector Falls at the bottom of the Finger Lakes and it's beautiful. There's a National Forest Campsite nearby called Bluepabbery Patch because it's right next to a ...... The town of Hector is just a little north of there........ we're going and..... it's three hours due north of Hebe, PA. Haven't found a town called Thor yet, tho'
Pete and I cycled all over that area in our young hip days. Turns out those names are a remnant of the Revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_New_York_Military_TractHaven't found a town called Thor yet, tho'
Ask, and ye shall receive...
Thor, Iowa
Also:
Thor (places)There are 2 towns in West Virginia Called Spencer and Ripley. Connected by the same road.
And the town of Gay between.
"Bout tahm fuh a good ol' fashion feudin', I reckon."
And the town of Gay between.
"Butt stahl."
:lol2:[size=1]Sorry, the liquor's starting to take hold.[/size]:)
Haggis
Sent by thought transference
thanks!
Ask, and ye shall receive...
Thor, Iowa
Also:
Thor (places)
There are 2 towns in West Virginia Called Spencer and Ripley. Connected by the same road.
And the town of Gay between.
I notice Harmony is a little distant..... ;)
I notice Harmony is a little distant..... ;)
But Looneyville aint far
But Looneyville aint far
True for me, where ever I go. . .
I notice Harmony is a little distant..... ;)
But Looneyville aint far
Amma let ya finish, but Elizabeth had the BEST TOWN EVER!
Just don't go sticking your Peewee in Burning Springs...:worried:
I would think that's a Given, though you know Ravenswood.
Today (last night, actually) I learned about
P-factor.
Today I learned why they're called the
Dry Tortugas.
No fresh water.
Wiki quote:
The islands get their name from their distinctive characteristics: Turtles, because Ponce de León, a Spanish explorer, saw several big sea turtles on the island. Soon afterward, the word "Dry" was added to the name, to indicate to mariners the islands' lack of springs.
No springs? Must be a rough ride.
I think the song "
Relax" (
lyrics), by Frankie Goes To Hollywood might just be about giving head, or getting head, or something.
Or am I completely off base? Is my Slip showing?
Today I learned that this thing --> ÷ is called an
obelus.
I also learned that this thing --> ¶ is called a
pilcrow.
Because
Nat'l Punctuation Day.
I learned that tie-dying is just one type of
ShiboriToday I learned that the individual "balls" on raspberries and blackberries are called drupelets
And yet they are not drupaceous fruits (aka stonefruit), those being comprised instead of one single drupe.
so true ......but drupaceous is infinitely less useful in Scrabble and WWF ;)
Today I learned about the
knockout mouse.
It's not what you think. It's not what
I thought, anyway.
If God had wanted us to knock out the genes of mice to fuck with them on the genetic level, he would have given us the intelligence to eventually develop the techniques to do that.
Today, I learned what this is (the ring of bricks, they're all over San Fran):
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And, if you read
this, you'll know what it is, too.;)
not at all what I expected
I was thinking it had to do with the cables running in the roads for the cable cars, but this is much cooler. It's knowledge that will be handy in the zombie apocalypse.
I thought maybe it marked where one of those things that turned streetcars around used to be.
But, I couldn't figure why they'd be marked that way.
Plus, do streetcars have to turn around? They just stop and then go the other way don't they?
No, they have a turntable at the ends of each line. The car is turned by human power.
Yeah, I read that. It's not if, but when, so have a plan.
Minnesota teenager Ethan Manuell didn’t expect to make a major medical breakthrough when he was asked to make a science fair project. As he told USA Today, his main concern was getting a good grade. After receiving the assignment from his eighth grade science teacher, Mrs. Omland, Manuell started tinkering. Using materials he had at home—including old battery-operated toy bugs and the batteries from his hearing aid—he discovered a way to extend the lifespan of zinc hearing aid batteries by 85 percent.
Some hearing aid battery packages instruct users to remove the plastic tab on the back of the battery and let it sit for one minute. Manuell further tested this suggestion, allowing the tab-less batteries to sit for various amounts of time before testing their longevity in his vibrating toy bugs. He found that five minutes was the golden length of time needed to achieve maximum results.
The information is shared in doctor’s offices today. By using Manuell’s trick, hearing aid wearers can save an average of $70 a year on batteries.
link
Now I have to figure out what to piss away that $140 savings on.;)
A slow woman at this point, or I'd never catch her. :crone:
This is a handy bit of knowledge...
This memorable opening theme ran every Saturday morning from 1986-1991.
The vocal bit kicks in at 1:03... after a really nice interlude written by DEVO's Mark Mothersbaugh.
Now, who's the SINGER of that vocal?
[YOUTUBE]BKcYGOIJhqo[/YOUTUBE]
Well it's Cyndi Lauper.
I Did Not Know That but it's one of those things where, once you know it.... oh sure! Hell it's so obvious!
I also had no idea, but Of Course it's Cyndi.
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Wasn't the singer the voice of chairy as well?
IMDB says Chairry was "Alison Mork" who has a bunch of other IMDB credits.
any ideas why I can only see a big black square, nothing clickable?
No, it's still working for me. Here's the YouTube link if you want to try that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=BKcYGOIJhqoany ideas why I can only see a big black square, nothing clickable?
Try using Desktop site as opposed to mobile site.
:lol: I'm an old crone, I don't do none of that mobile app shit.... but thanks. I thought it was just the new computer the first time, but I'm back on the old one now (where I've never had problems with this sort of stuff before) and still nothing. However, while I wasn't playing with old computer, stupid windows updated to an even stupider version which I had also thought was just new computer, so I'mm'a blame that.
Try using Desktop site as opposed to mobile site.
No, it's still working for me. Here's the YouTube link if you want to try that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=BKcYGOIJhqo
thanks, that worked. How times have changed, that so much time could be wasted on an opening theme! Did kids really have that long an attention span to wait through all of that when they'd seen it a zillion times before? must've been a good show!
I can see the UT's embedded video in Chrome but not in IE. I can see it in chrome and IE at sexo's link.
Kids love the repetitive lead in to the show because it's familiar and they can sing along.
UT's embedded video plays in Chrome but not IE. Sexo's link plays in both.
Kids love a repetitive intro because it's familiar and they can sing along.
that was kids of yesteryear.... today's kids like repetition and singalong too, but only for 30 seconds, then it needs to move on. boom boom boom. like their games.
Today I learned that Ben Sasse is a really thoughtful dude whose conservatism seems to be based in preserving the good but is caring enough to look at modern problems with fresh eyes. I remember Republicans like this...
Today I learned NOT to chase the black with white stripes.
- Bongo the stinky boxer
....I bet he didn't learn, though.....
My buddy's dog jumped up one night when we were sitting around the fire, and growled, then took off into the night. About three or four minutes later, in the field across the road, we heard her bark twice, mean-like, then she yelped.
A few minutes later we smelled the skunk that had sprayed her, and then she came up. Reeking.
Buddy hollered "Ginger! No! Get away!" before she got very close to us. That dog literally tucked her tail between her legs and went to the barn, while looking over her shoulder at us.
She stank for a month.
Today I learned NOT to chase the black with white stripes.
- Bongo the stinky boxer
Tomato juice/sauce bath.
Then wash off the tomato juice/sauce.;)
I know about that. Junior got a skunk cornered under the porch once.
Now, just try that when you live in a semi and haven't laid eyes on a tub in a month of Sundays.
I know that works, and my dad buried my clothes. :o
The waitress brought the bill on a mini-clipboard and the total was $39.xx so I put three $20 under the clip and she came back and took it away. I assumed she would realize it was a tip.
We were engrossed is conversation when the waitress is suddenly standing there with the mini-clipboard with money on it. I waved her off but noticed the top of the money was a $1.
I questioned my companion why would she change the $20 and was informed that is standard procedure to bring back change, even an obvious overpayment, in smaller bills in hopes of getting a tip.
It was one of those forehead slapping moments. Evidently everybody in the fucking world was aware of this protocol except me. :smack:
I think there are many people who would do exactly what you did, but with the intention of leaving a $6 tip, and they want change back from the $20. Actually, I know one guy who would find a way to convince himself that a $5 tip is generous.
Yes, that's what I learned yesterday. Seems everybody knew the system but me. I suppose if she hadn't brought it back without me explicitly telling her not to she could be accused of theft or at least been hassled. My dining companion couldn't understand why I always over tip, unless they earned a lesser amount. Then one day a guy at her business gave her a $35 tip for a repair on a long leather duster that was particularly difficult. Her customers never tip. She said that $35 wasn't going to change her budget but made her warm and fuzzy for two days. That's exactly the point.
One may put a
popsicle in a glass of champagne to celebrate Memorial Day.
2000 people tweeted she shouldn't fuck around on Memorial day while they BBQ, get drunk, while having lust in their hearts for the neighbor. They want her to show more support for the armed forces.
Hello... Memorial day is not about support for the armed forces. It's not about thanking vets for their service. It's about honoring those that had their lives taken from them by stupid governments quarreling. WW II in defense of the nation... WW I, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc, not so much. :rattat: [/rant]
Today I learned about
Pearl Hart, a
female outlaw of the semi-Old West. She committed one of the last documented stagecoach robberies in America.
In learning about Ms. Hart, I also learned the words
demimonde, and demimondaine.
Today I learned that Brits use a [post=990055]brand name[/post] as a generic term for PA system. I looked up its history in
Wikipedia.
:lol: never even occurred to me it was a Brand Name -but I don't use it. I've forgotten if I ever used to. I think I just said "loud speakers" ...but I know what it means and wouldn't bat an eyelid if I heard it used
I've encountered 'tannoy' before. I stumbled over it, and had to learn what one was.
Today I learned about the
toilet plume, a small feather used to stimu---hahahahaha:lol2:, nah, that ain't what it is, I couldn't even post that with a straight face.:p:
I knew about it, I just didn't know it had a name.
Jinx called them poop molecules.
Right there on ya teethbrush!!
Today I learned about the co-pilot that kept telling the passenger
"It's going to be okay."Today I learned about the co-pilot that kept telling the passenger "It's going to be okay."
Kool.
He spent a month creating that story, one of his very best. :thumb::thumb:
Today I learned that if you click this little paper clip,
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it opens a page with nothing but the attachments from that thread.
Hovering over it tells you how many attachments are in that thread.
This could change how I view the Cellar.
Holly Fook, I just learned something.
Ya gotta be careful around here. They'll learn ya something when ya ain't looking.
Today I Learned about the
Cessna 188 Pacific Rescue, which occurred on Dec 22, 1978.
The Cessna 188 is a single seat "agricultural aircraft". It's a crop duster. And this one was being delivered (flown) to Australia from the U.S.
The pilot became lost over the Pacific ocean due to a malfunctioning Automatic Direction Finder. When he arrived in the vicinity of Norfolk Island, the island wasn't there.
Random note: Wikipedia gives the range of a Cessna 188 as
370 miles.
The only aircraft anywhere near the area was Air New Zealand Flight 103. When the pilot of the DC-10 learned of the predicament, he knew that if they (the crew) didn't do something to help the pilot of the Cessna he would almost certainly die.
How they helped the guy is a short, interesting read.
I saw the movie of the week they made of this story.
Wow, those guys really knew what they were doing. I wonder if today's pilots could figure that out?
Of the country’s nearly 18 million undergraduates, more than 40 percent go to community college, and of those, only 62 percent can afford to go to college full-time. By contrast, a mere 0.4 percent of students in the United States attend one of the Ivies.
The typical student is not the one burnishing a fancy résumé with numerous unpaid internships. It’s just the opposite: Over half of all undergraduates live at home to make their degrees more affordable, and a shocking 40 percent of students work at least 30 hours a week. About 25 percent work full-time and go to school full-time.
The typical college student is also not fresh out of high school. A quarter of undergraduates are older than 25, and about the same number are single parents.
We do have a lot of Hollywood ideas about college. Somehow we think people from the Wharton School or Yale have the life experience to run our country...
Yup.
We've done much the same thing.
Look at the resume of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer - architect and key drivin force of the austerity strategy still playing out, devastating whole sectors of the economy and big chunks of the population as it goes -
Osborne was educated at independent schools: Norland Place School, Colet Court and St Paul's School.[9] In 1990 he was awarded a demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford,[3] where in 1993 he received a 2:1 bachelor's degree in Modern History.[6][10] Whilst there, he was a member of the Bullingdon Club.[11] He also attended Davidson College in North Carolina for a semester, as a Dean Rusk Scholar.[12]
In 1993, Osborne intended to pursue a career in journalism. He was shortlisted for, but failed to gain a place on, The Times' trainee scheme; he also applied to The Economist, where he was interviewed and rejected by Gideon Rachman.[13] In the end, he had to settle for freelance work on the Peterborough diary column of The Daily Telegraph.[14] One of his Oxford friends, journalist George Bridges, alerted Osborne some time later to a research vacancy at Conservative Central Office.[14]
Early political career
Osborne joined the Conservative Research Department in 1994, and became head of its Political Section. One of his first roles was to go to Blackpool and observe the October 1994 Labour Party Conference.[15]
Between 1995 and 1997 he worked as a special adviser to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Douglas Hogg (during the BSE crisis), and in the Political Office at 10 Downing Street. Osborne worked on Prime Minister John Major's campaign team in 1997, in the run-up to the Tories' heavy election defeat that year.[16] After the election, he again considered journalism, approaching The Times to be a leader writer, though nothing came of it.
Between 1997 and 2001 he worked for William Hague, Major's successor as Conservative Party leader, as a speechwriter and political secretary. He helped to prepare Hague for the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions,[16] often playing the role of Prime Minister Tony Blair. Under the subsequent leaderships of Michael Howard and David Cameron, he remained on the Prime Minister's Questions team.
A second rate academic and (at the time) failed journalist whose entire working history prior to becoming Chancellor was as a political assistant/advisor and being a member of parliament. I think he also did a little internship at daddy's company.
He set in place the 1% cap on public sector pay - that is still in place and means nurses, for instance have effectively taken a 15% reduction in wages in real terms over the last 7 years. Told the nation to tighten our collective belts - and thought it would be a great idea for our economy if everybody tightened their belts so much that they had no room left for spending.
Cameron wasn't much more connected to the 'real world', as they say.
and you could pretty much see them getting hard when they stood there all statesmanlike delivering speeches about how they had to be brave enough to make the difficult decisions.
Pretty sure it wasn't always like this. I seem to recall a time when conservative leaders were people who'd had successful business and industry careers, or, if from a more academic background, had a serious grounding in economic theory.
Labour haven't been much better on that score in recent years (though Corbyn is certainly a different case).
Today I learned that the last time the Cubs won the World Series was during the Ottoman Empire.
Not anymore. :)
Not so sure Pete, looks like the Ottomans may be back. :lol:
Today I learned the Pats defense is a couple steps slow.
I'll have to check sources but, today I learned that 42% of Harvard's incoming Freshmen are legacy. Affirmative action for the down trodden rich white people.
What if 42% of applicants were legacy?
The English commoner John Rolfe of Jamestown in Virginia took as his bride an Algonquin princess named Matoaka, whom we call Pocahontas. The literary critic Christopher Hodgkins reports that King James I was ‘at first perturbed when he learned of the marriage’. But this was not out of fear of miscegenation: James’s reluctance, Hodgkins explained, was because ‘Rolfe, a commoner, had without his sovereign’s permission wed the daughter of a foreign prince.’ King James was not worried about the pollution of Rolfe’s line; he was worried about the pollution of Matoaka’s…
Today I learned that some F-18 fighter jets have a false canopy painted on the bottom of the plane to confuse the enemy.
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There was an investigation by the New York Academy of Medicine into marijuana, signed in ink by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1945. It was the first American study to declare that the drug wasn’t addictive or dangerous.
TIL that
hyraxes are incapable of regurgitation.
Dey don't be urrpin'.
TIL that hyraxes are small, thickset, herbivorous mammals. :)
TIL that some horses can grow a mustache.
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Moar
Living, as I do, in Kentucky, I've seen a horse or two...Never seen one with a mustache.
More common in certain breeds such than others, it can occur to any horse that carries the right gene, male or female.
I've never seen one in person either. I think that "any horse that carries the right gene" statement is bullshit. What is the likelihood of that gene traveling to distant breeds and continents? :rolleyes:
I think you're supposed to eat the ones with that gene. /Anthony Bordain
You know Malcolm and Angus Young of AC/DC fame, right?
Well, they have an older brother,
George, who just died (on Oct 22nd). This guy had a songwriting/producing partnership with Harry Vanda (
Vanda & Young produced several of AC/DC's albums).
Well, I told ya that to tell this:
Today I learned Malcolm's and Angus' older brother George (along w/Harry Vanda) wrote this song:
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:eek:I was sorta stunned. George was also in a band called The Easybeats. They wrote and recorded
Friday On My Mind, which has been recorded by, well,
damn near everybody.
:eek:
Good catch sir
i did not know that
you couldn't have knocked me over any further than if you'd told me that a pre-fame Bruce Springsteen spent time in a philly diner with newly-famous Billy Joel... and a pre-fame
Barry Manilow.
(but it did happen. this account of the tale leaves out important DJ Ed Sciaky, who later recalled that Manilow predicted he'd be the most famous of the bunch. He was arguably wrong, but not far wrong.)Today I learned that people in prison can still
do good things for society.
crazy lookin guy at top of story isn't either person named in story, exactly like every other mugshot in story.
still, kill your baby daughter, you deserve to die.
Honda Fits are Impossible to break into.
And very very stupid.
:(
Hmmmm
Mods - cleanup on aisle 3
Today I learned how to adjust the timekeeping rate on our cuckoo clock. UNSURPRISINGLY, the mechanism is simplicity itself. To make the clock run faster, slide the decorative weight on the pendulum shaft upward. Sliding it lower makes it tick more slowly.
*Of course!*
meee meee I knew that! grew up with a cuckoo clock at my grandparents house. only thing I have from my childhood , now an antique -they got it on vacation in the black forest not working currently, but it will again....
also ...don't swing on the weights
Honda Fits are Impossible to break into.
And very very stupid.
:(
fortunately, on this occasion, someone got up this morning and went to walk home, and found hat the key had not in fact fallen inside the car which then auto-locked... but had fallen through a hole in the pocket of their coat and was stuck in the lining, despite us checking for that last night (before the breakdown service spent over an hour in the snow trying to open the door.....)
Does it cuckoo twelve times at midnight?
also ...don't swing on the weights
I fell in love with the cuckoo clock in my aunt's bungalow - after she moved to Spain, she came back for a visit and brought me a smaller version that looked very like hers.
I can attest to not swinging the weights.
Does it cuckoo twelve times at midnight?
Yes.
Today I learned the NFL will take points off the board to protect the Patriots.
Does it wake you up?
And that was a BS call. They changed the outcome of the game with that call.
No because we don't wind that f*cker! :) Pete can't sleep with it going.
No because we don't wind that f*cker!
:thumb:
I don't even like clocks that tick and tock.
Today I learned the NFL will take points off the board to protect the Patriots.
And that was a BS call.
My best friend is a Patriots man. He damn near wept with joy.
Today I learned that the band
Golden Earring took their name from an instrumental by British band The Hunters, "
Golden Earrings".
Watching the PA Farm Show Fleece to Shawl competition in which is teams take fleece and card, spin, and weave it into a shawl in a set time limit, I didn't care for the winner. Now they judge on uniform dimensions, knots, and the three spinners of each team a producing the same size yarn, etc. But I didn't like the looks of the winner. The crowd vindicated my taste at the auction.
#1 brought $675
#2 brought $900
#3 brought $900
#4 brought $750
#5 the asshole announcer was taking over the auctioneer.
#6 brought $725
Today I learned, again, that some days, it just isn't worth betting out of bed.
"Good Morning, World! And isn't it a lovely morning?"
"Fuck you! You get nothing but shit today!" [SIZE="4"]Slap![/SIZE]
FukkitI'mdrinking. I just needed an excuse, anyway.
"Fuck you, Day.":flipbird:
"Yebbut, fuck you first.":jig:
Aaaand I'm sizzlin'.
Yebbut, I wanted a bottle!
I now know this day is a conspiracy.
The ƒucking liquor store is closed.
[size=4][COLOR="Red"]The ƒucking liquor store is closed.[/COLOR][/size]
Why is the ƒucking liquor store closed?!
No! I don't like the other liquor store, and I don't like the shithead that owns it, either. So, it looks like Ima drive to the next damn town or Ima be dry today.
Aaaaaaand I'm sizzlin'.
Although it's becoming comical as to just how wrong today can go. I guess we'll see. Not much choice, is there?
:driving:
If I go to the Aston Burger King and order a chicken sandwich, fish sandwich, fries, and onion rings it's $14.88. But at the Brookhaven Burger King a couple miles away the same order is $3 cheaper. :confused:
Today I Learned about the
1976 Chowchilla Kidnapping, in which 26 school children and their bus driver were kidnapped from Chowchilla, CA, and held in a quarry in an underground moving van after being driven around in two vans for 11 hours. After several hours, the bus driver and several of the children escaped and found a quarry security guard, who called police.
Most interesting to me, was the observed impact of the event on the children:
A study found that the kidnapped children suffered from panic attacks, nightmares involving kidnappings and death, and personality changes. Many developed fears of such things as "cars, the dark, the wind, the kitchen, mice, dogs and hippies,"[18] and one shot a Japanese tourist with a BB gun when the tourist's car broke down in front of his home.[19] Many of the children continued to report symptoms of trauma at least 25 years after the kidnapping, including substance abuse and depression, and a number have been imprisoned for "doing something controlling to somebody else."
:3_eyes:
If I go to the Aston Burger King and order a chicken sandwich, fish sandwich, fries, and onion rings it's $14.88. But at the Brookhaven Burger King a couple miles away the same order is $3 cheaper. :confused:
I got a Bacon King at the Spring City Burger King today. It was over $8! Just the one sammich!
I was desperate, but still.
(When looking for rentals, our rule in Brookhaven is, we are not going to live anywhere south of the Giant.)
That doesn't leave very much. You do realize Edgemont runs NW to SE.
There are some fine neighborhoods back there. It's just hard to know where to stop. The transition to hood is really ambiguous on that road.
(Also my commute gets worse as home moves too far south)
Just above Giant is Dutton Mill Rd and then Middletown Twp, but the line slants so there are a couple streets on the other side of Edgemont. There are a lot of nice hoods southwest of Giant over to Creek Road, as far south as Brookhaven Road.
If I go to the Aston Burger King and order a chicken sandwich, fish sandwich, fries, and onion rings it's $14.88. But at the Brookhaven Burger King a couple miles away the same order is $3 cheaper. :confused:
If you ever worked at a Burger King you would not eat their food. I doubt that you would work there, but you might know someone that does and you could ask them.
If their kitchen practices turn you off you couldn't have lived with my first wife.
I was the same way about working at Sonic. Didn't eat from a Sonic for over a year after I got fired.
Worse than school lunches?
Doesn't working in pretty much any restaurant in the USA make you want to cook from scratch at home forever? Even where I work we have doubleplusgood people working in the kitchen prepping the food, but we have counter staff who are too stupid to understand hygiene rules or just don't give a shit. :/
Back in the Old Country, I worked in Fish n Chip shops when I was a student and we all were ON IT, even when we thought no-one was looking. But if you fucked up and go the place in trouble with the health inspector, you would never get a job in food service again. Here, no-one will give a reference for fear of getting sued, so if you get fired for serving a customer a home-grown poop patty in place of the burger they ordered, no-one else is going to know and you can walk straight into the next place....
Today I learned about squat [strike]cobbler[/strike] lobster. I learned about
squat lobster.
Today I learned about squat [strike]cobbler[/strike] lobster. I learned about squat lobster.
Hey! So did I! ;)
Today I learned you actually need to give permission for Forbes to include you on their "richest people" lists. None of the Rothschild family, for example, have ever appeared. So many of the richest people exclude themselves that the lists are almost meaningless, more like a "Who's Who" of the top 1,000 people desperate to be famous for being rich.
Did not know that.
Wow, that really devalues the whole notion.
I've always declined. Seems gauche.:right:
Eh, some attention whores, some figure it's sorta public knowledge anyway, and some don't give a rats ass.
I decline because my lawyer, Michael Cohen, told me to stop paying taxes.
Did he offer to pay the taxes for you?
I've always declined. Seems gauche.:right:
*snort*
how very adroit of you^
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*snort*
how very adroit of you^
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Pshaw, nothing so sinister.
Pshaw, nothing so sinister.
Well it's nice to have the financial dexterity to be able to say no....
(if anyone follows links to this thread, they're going to be totally wrecked)
....I'll get my coat....
before you go!
internet high five!
(either hand)
;)
Thunderboy and I are the punwarrers of the family. I get to be the person who has to supervise him over 50 hours of driving practice. It gets pretty painful. My legacy.
Today I learned...
that drains and sewers are actually really interesting.
- that is all.
;)
Thunderboy and I are the punwarrers of the family. I get to be the person who has to supervise him over 50 hours of driving practice. It gets pretty painful. My legacy.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLA5vbDFuuOyj9DJoJ6LArpURyuE30R2PTIL about the Brennan B2.
[YOUTUBE]ydhX71I1dhM[/YOUTUBE]
[cough,gag,$putter,choke]JumpinCatfi$h tho$e thing$ are expen$ive!!!![/cough,gag,$putter,choke]
:bolt:
Think of the pissed off people who bought the B1. ;)
Today I learned:
From 1992 to 1994, Bonilla was the highest-paid player in the league, earning more than $6 million per year. Since 2011, Bonilla has been paid approximately $1.19 million by the New York Mets each year. The 25 payments come every July 1, which some fans refer to "Bobby Bonilla Day". This was part of a deal made when the Mets released Bonilla before the 2000 season while still owing him $5.9 million for the final year of his contract. The deal expires in 2035, at which point Bonilla will have been paid $29.8 million for a season in which he did not even play for the Mets.
~Wiki
Translation:
Bobby Bonilla hasn't played for the Mets since 1999, and will receive almost $30,000,000 for a single season, that he never even played.
Base-uh-bowl has been beddy beddy good to him.
Also learned today:
Have contract negotiations coming up?
Get Bobby Bonilla'$ lawyer$.
Also learned today:
Have contract negotiations coming up?
Get Bobby Bonilla'$ lawyer$.
If he's not Scotty Boras, he ain't shit.
Has he snagged anyone 30 mil for a single season that they didn't play?[/rhetoricalpoke]
Boras will fer damn sure show you the money, though. Ya don't get that big if ya ain't that good.
Today I learned about
The Ring of Silvianus
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(through a Did You Know about
The Vyne estate on Wiki's front page), and that it may have been Tolkien's inspiration for
The One Ring.
Ya reckon ol Silvianus' friends in school called him 'Anus for short?
What choice would they have?
TIL about
Chief, the US Army's last living operational cavalry horse. He died in 1968 at 36. He was buried with full military honors, in an upright position, in Ft. Riley Kansas, at the base of the statue 'Old Trooper' (shown below).
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I also learned that when actress Tilly Keeper auditioned for the role of 'Louise Mitchell' on East Enders, she thought she was trying out for a different part.
In learning
that, I learned that Tilly's father's name is Peter.
Peter Keeper.
[SIZE="1"]Snicker.[/SIZE]
I guess the surname of Holder might have been worse.:yelsick:
Today I learned about the
passionflower. Also called the blue passionflower, blue crown, flower of five wounds, "the Japanese call it the clock plant, due to it having 12 petals, a central stamen and stigmas resembling a time pieces's winding mechanism, and curly green tendrils resembling wound springs."
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:devil:
What a pretty flower! Looks like it was designed on MS Paint.
What a pretty flower!
Ain't it, though?
I can't tell ya how long I looked at it.
Today (literally, just a minute or two ago) I learned about the
Devil's Hole pupfish, the world's rarest fish. No wonder. It's only found in a hole in (ok,
near) Death Valley, one of the hottest, driest places on Earth.
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Nearly the entire natural range of the species is visible in this photo.
~from the link
Whats that built down there on the side of the lake?
Water level gauges. There is massive agricultural activity nearby and there have been numerous lawsuits and regulations regarding how much water the agriculture (in freakin Death Valley of all places) can pump out of the underground aquifer. So the National Park Service measures the water level so they know when the agriculture is pumping more water than they are supposed to be.
Don't get me starting with the fools in the desert Southwest pumping the water out of the ground faster than it can be replenished. Me, me, me, and screw the future generations.
It balances out, they pump out the water, the land subsides, the water is still the same distance down... until it runs out. :rolleyes:
A couple days ago I learned that the Hopi traveled all the way up to the Canadian Rockies and left some pictographs.
Cool, I wonder how they know it was Hopi and not their cousins in the north.
I'm going to start digging on that because the Hopi identification is recent. Unfortunately, people seem unable to keep their hands off the pictographs because they are in a reasonably easy canyon to access. I assume earlier photos are more revealing.
99.9999% of visitors can be respectful and leave no trace, but it only takes one idiot in a million to ruin it for everyone forever.
How many places have you revisited that the entrance is blocked so you can only peer in? Like in Cades Cove, NC as a child I climbed the ladders into the lofts of the log cabins. Its easy to tell the names of the cretins who visited as they left their identification carved in the wood.[emoji22]
TIL that the current world water speed record (317.60 (or.58) mph, by Ken Warby, in Oz) is 40 years old, and that the last two challengers both died attempting to break it.
In fact, it's forty years old today.Yikes! I'd have never guessed this one was holding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pr4T5ClWEwThat's a fairly small boat, how'd he get those yuge balls in there?
I learnt on Wednesday at a work course that one litre of solvent can contaminate one hundred million litres of water.
Wait a minute, water is a solvent! :eek:
Wait a minute, water is a solvent! :eek:
Yes true, but I think they were talking about inorganic solvents, which are hazardous to health.
I learnt on Wednesday at a work course that one litre of solvent can contaminate one hundred million litres of water.
One drop will contaminate the same amount of water.
Just not to the same extent.;)
One drop will contaminate the same amount of water.
Just not to the same extent.;)
Well I don't know. One drop in a hundred million litres might not be detectable. There may be no solvent molecules in some samples. But I'm certainly no expert on the subject.
Ya don't need to be an expert to get there.
TIL that the
cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) is named after
William Clark, of Lewis & Clark fame.
As are the primrose
Clarkia, and
Clark's Nutcracker.
TIL that the cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) is named after William Clark, of Lewis & Clark fame.
As are the primrose Clarkia, and Clark's Nutcracker.
Similarly, there is also a Lewisia plant.
Lewisia is a plant genus, named for explorer Meriwether Lewis, who encountered the species in 1806. The native habitat of Lewisia species is north facing cliffs in western North America. Local Native Americans ate the roots, which have also been used to treat sore throats. --Wiki
All my life, I've wondered how nut growers got the nutmeat out of a walnut in one piece. Last week, I learned how it's done.
I discovered the answer when I stole a bunch of walnuts from a pet sitting client's front yard (which was covered with nuts from two ginormous trees).
Seems that fresh walnut meats are kind of rubbery. Cracking the outer shell in several places makes it easy to remove the nut in one piece. The hardest thing is removing the membrane from the center of the nut, but because they're rubbery, you can slightly pry apart the nutmeat to get the membrane out without breaking the nut in half.
Mystery solved! :cool:
But walnuts are covered in that thick green husk that stains your fingers. How did you get through that?
As soon as they leave the tree the husk starts drying and will soon crack. Then it's easy to peel off like a tangerine. Black Walnuts, on the other hand, turn into a gooey mess.
TIL that, in the Cellar, ya can't start a multi-quote with a post by a person on your ignore list.
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TIL that, in the Cellar, ya can't start a multi-quote with a post by a person on your ignore list.
Today I learned that there's an ignore option. :)
...and then I disappeared.
But walnuts are covered in that thick green husk that stains your fingers. How did you get through that?
What Bruce said. :)
...and then I disappeared.
Not at all Mr G!
That if you have a latex allergy, you might not want to eat avocados. I can't remember if I've ever actually tried an avocado. I feel like they taste dirty, but maybe I just made that up. I'm sure I must have tried one, I'm usually game for any fruit. I never want to eat one (again), I can't really say why.... but now at least I have a good excuse. I KNOW everyone else loves them. They just don't look like something edible to me, despite their amazing nutritional values :/
I know, source is WebMD..... but I was looking for nutritional value so it seemed ok for that....
https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/all-about-avocados
Because it was webMD I googled some more and I also learned it's the only fruit we eat from the Laurel family - although we cook with bay leaves and use cinnamon bark and flavor things with sassafras which are also all Laurel spawn. I only knew about the Bay and sassafras -the latter of which I learned in the last few weeks from my friend when we found some out walking. (FTR, I dislike cinnamon flavor immensely, more evidence needed on sassafras -been a long time since I tried it but I didn't like it then, but I cook with bay all the time)
here's one site about that tree family tree:
http://www.actforlibraries.org/sassafras-cinnamon-avocado-and-bay-the-laurel-family/
and now I just went on to learn it's fairly likely my mild allergy to raw apples is related and possible my severe allergy to all things capsicum could be related. ....but I have't experienced reactions to any of the other things listed, so it could be a load of bollocks/coincidence too :) I don't really like bananas, though.... (but lurve kiwis. Pologirl once had a bad reaction to Kiwis though and has never touched them since....
http://latexallergyresources.org/cross-reactive-food
::selectiveevidencerocks;)::
Not cool. Apple skins are one of Lil' Griff's enemies.
Wait, so do you have a latex allergy?
Crazy that your body/taste buds already told you that you hate things from that family before you learned you might be allergic.
I haven't learnt anything today yet, but it's only 2pm here so there's still hope for me.
Wait, so do you have a latex allergy?
Crazy that your body/taste buds already told you that you hate things from that family before you learned you might be allergic.
Yes. Hives out the hoohaa. Literally, as it was actually diagnosed after an examination as I was in labor with my oldest. :eek: Prior to that I always just thought I was allergic to washing up.
That there is a chasma and a mesa on mars named after Hebe (my daughter's name)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebes_ChasmaTIL what a chasma is.
I know a girl like that.
We're planning a field trip. Anyone have a personal in with old Elon?
There's another one that don't really need no last name. Not a lot of Elons running around. Not in these hyere parts, nohow.
Leon Czolgosz
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died on this date in 1901. He rode the lightning in ol Sparky for the assassination of POTUS Wm. McKinley just 45 days earlier. 1800 volts chased the rabbit through ol Leon 3 times.
Today I Learned the he was apparently fathered by Daniel Day-Lewis:
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TIL that the
polecat is more closely related to the dog than the cat.
Today I learned that the manatee,
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and the rock hyrax
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That there is a chasma and a mesa on mars named after Hebe (my daughter's name)
That proves your daughter was abducted by aliens.
In a few days, it will be reported on Fox and Friends. Then we will know it is true.
Being lonely is not only bad for your health, it’s in fact significantly worse than drinking or not exercising. Loneliness emerged as a risk factor for early death with an impact as significant as smoking and three times more significant than obesity.
Social isolation is the best-established, most robust social or psychological risk factor for disease out there. Nothing can compare.
When your brain sends a message that you are lonely, the immune cells hear danger! and turn off some of your antiviral defenses: You don’t need those now, after all, since viruses spread among people.
Loneliness is also universal. It can equally affect both introverts and extroverts, says Cacioppo, and the only difference between them is the number of close relationships required to feel connected (one for introverts versus three for extroverts).
FromI wonder how they controlled for "loneliness the emotion" vs "nobody is there to call 911".
Or, "nobody there to coax you into going to the doctor when symptoms first appear".
TIL that
Quonset huts are called that because the first ones were manufactured at
Quonset Point, near Davisville, R.I.
'Quonset' is an Algonquin word for 'small, long place'.
TIL that, as a writer, Lionel Richie achieved a No. 1 song a year from 1978 - 1986. And that he co-wrote We Are The World.
I made friends in my department at work today when out of frustration I googled how to convert all caps text into lower case text. We spend a lot of time copying large chunks of text from a goverment website where it's in all caps, and then editing bits and peices of it. It looks like shit in all caps, so we want to convert it to lower case to look nice for the clients.
Anyway, you just select the text and hit shift-F3. And you can keep doing it to toggle back and forth.
It sounds dumb but it's a nice trick when you need it.
I made friends in my department at work today when out of frustration I googled how to convert all caps text into lower case text. We spend a lot of time copying large chunks of text from a goverment website where it's in all caps, and then editing bits and peices of it. It looks like shit in all caps, so we want to convert it to lower case to look nice for the clients.
Anyway, you just select the text and hit shift-F3. And you can keep doing it to toggle back and forth.
It sounds dumb but it's a nice trick when you need it.
Are you working in Word? There's a button you can select to convert text to all upper or lower case, sentence case, initial caps, etc.
https://imgur.com/9i2obHUYep that does the same thing. Except I seem to always be under the wrong tab and that button isn't visible until I click around to get to the correct tab.
Yep that does the same thing. Except I seem to always be under the wrong tab and that button isn't visible until I click around to get to the correct tab.
Yep, you have to click on the
Home tab to get to the font stuff. :)
Canada, you is fucked up, man. WTF you be selling milk
in a bag for?!
Milk.
In a bag.
It's in a bag.
It's in a fucking bag.
Ima go to the sto.
Bring back a bag o' milk.
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The only time I wanna see milk in a bag is when I'm looking at a cow.
Or Hustler magazine.
we have milk in a bag here at Kwik Trip.
I do not drink milk fast enough to leave it in an open pitcher once I've opened the bag.
And I'm not into the excess packaging required for small bags, though I guess some research could be done into what goes into a half-gallon waxed cardboard container compared to 8 one-cup bags. The bags may well win out.
It would have to be a pretty heavy plastic bag because of the handing, a baggie won't cut it.
split milk is a pita! gets all stinky right quick
They have special holders for the bags. I visited my brother in Ottawa for Xmas last year and got to try these milk bags out.
To be honest, I prefer a plastic jug or cardboard carton.
This world is a strange and beautiful thing.
Strange, but, beautiful.
In descending preference:
Glass
Carton
Plastic
Baggie
Seriously, if it isn't glass you can taste it in the milk.
Could be same reason that coffee only tastes the best in a porcelain cup?
Milk. Kentucky Headhunters. My haid works like this sometimes:
[YOUTUBE]U0T6tnypUjQ[/YOUTUBE]
Stay til the break.:D
In descending preference:
Glass
Carton
Plastic
Baggie
Yuh left teat off the list for a reason?
Yuh left teat off the list for a reason?
Milk. Kentucky Headhunters. My haid works like this sometimes:
[YOUTUBE]U0T6tnypUjQ[/YOUTUBE]
Stay til the break.:D
I haz that CD in a box somewhere.
Yuh left teat off the list for a reason?
I knew my memory was going.
Poop molecules from flushing give us a regular low dose to keep our immune system polished and ready to fight a major immersion during some kinkier aspects of our sex lives.
The first time I clicked Griff's link, I got a Sorry That article/page doesn't exist. X'ed that page, clicked the link again, and got there w/no trouble.
Fourteen dollars will give me access to the article.
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Go figger.
For $14, someone better come to my house and read it to me.
Naked.
Ya can get the gist of the piece, though.
Today,
Christmas if ya got lost;), I learned about
Pancho Claus.
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Today I learned about
Lester Wunderman.
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Ol' Les was an ad man. A
great ad man, apparently.
He and two associates opened Wunderman, Ricotta & Kline in 1958 with no clients. They billed out $2 million in the first year. 1958 dollars.
Among the things they came up with were direct marketing (Les basically invented this, we know it as junk mail), the Columbia Record Club, the toll-free 1-800 number (?), the magazine subscription card, the postal ZIP Code system (?), and the customer rewards program.
Making me feel kinda, idk,
less.<---See what I did there?:D
Ol' Les died January 9. At 98 years of age.
No Les, no more.
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These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. ...
Well of course not, what with the government shutdown and all.
TIL Nickel Back is a thing in football, not just a band.
+5 for no soccer/football comment.:)
Today I learned:
Hahajima Island of Japan is home to a fragile snail. All right, “fragile” in the sense that it is really tiny—around 0.25 centimeters (0.1 in). A thumb can easily crush Tornatellides boeningi.
When researchers recently collected bird feces on the island, they found that it contained snail shells. Oddly, some of the snails appeared to be alive. Curious, the team fed over 100 mollusks to a captive population of the two bird species known to snack on the snails.
Remarkably, around 15 percent were expelled unharmed. One snail even gave birth shortly after being pooped out. The digestive system is not a Disney ride. The snails endure a harsh journey lasting 30 minutes to two hours. Why such a good percentage appear to suffer no ill effect is a mystery.[1]
The best theories at this point?
Small equals survival. Tinier shells might be less prone to cracks and digestive juices seeping in. Tornatellides could also seal themselves away behind a mucous film that safeguards the shell’s opening.
From
here. Yeah, Wiki, it ain't.
There’s some 63,000 licensed gun dealers, more than twice McDonald’s+Starbucks.
Burglaries of federal firearms licensees increased, from 377 in 2012, to 577 in 2017.
Between 2012 and 2017, burglars stole more than 33,000 guns from dealers.
Stolen firearms bring the highest price in CA, NJ, NY, and New England.
Only CA, CT, MN, and NJ laws require gun stores to use physical security measures. :eyebrow:
....Only CA, CT, MN, and NJ laws require gun stores to use physical security measures. :eyebrow:
That's surprising.
Maybe gun shops in states that do not require physical security measures do have them to reduce possible break ins per insurance requirements?
Most often I see walk in safes with BIG bank style doors. These places are not in those blue states.
Must be the small shops skimp on the physical security? Or maybe Walter White types overcome the vaults.
Or maybe the whole thing is a kickback scam so they can sell to people they know they aren't supposed to.
Anyone can register to become a FFL dealer, in
ten easy steps. You don't need an actual store.
That's surprising.
Maybe gun shops in states that do not require physical security measures do have them to reduce possible break ins per insurance requirements?
Yes, the Insurance companies are putting the most pressure on them.
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Big outfits don't want to take the time and trouble to lock everything up when they're closed
Anyone can register to become a FFL dealer, in ten easy steps. You don't need an actual store.
Right, my ex-roommate sold out of his house until he got a DUI and the township yanked his licence.
Anyone can register to become a FFL dealer, in ten easy steps. You don't need an actual store.
Warning hearsay:
A little backwoods gunshop across the border had a suspicious fire. They had little security and terrible book-keeping. The book-keeping issue was previously exposed by a guy walking into the shop holding the door for a guy coming out having just bought the first guys rifle which was in for repairs...
The book-keeping issue was previously exposed by a guy walking into the shop holding the door for a guy coming out having just bought the first guys rifle which was in for repairs...
That doesn't sound like a good business model.
I had a guy try to hire me to trim his neighbor's tree, which was clearly on the other side of the fence. The neighbor's fence, too.
I told him as long as the neighbor didn't mind, I didn't care who paid for it. Neighbor did
not want the tree trimmed.
I made 300 bucks across the street, though.:jig:
That doesn't sound like a good business model.
Why not? The thief got a fully refurbished weapon for the cost of some small repair, maybe under $100--plus the shop now only has the rightful owner's ID, not the thief's.
Why not? The thief got a fully refurbished weapon for the cost of some small repair, maybe under $100--plus the shop now only has the rightful owner's ID, not the thief's.
No, they should have the ID of the guy they sold it to. He wasn't picking up a repair job he was buying a used rifle... at least that's what I got from the hearsay.
The book-keeping issue was previously exposed by a guy walking into the shop holding the door for a guy coming out having just bought the first guys rifle which was in for repairs...
But then where's the bookkeeping issue? I guess he was
attempting to buy a used rifle from the store's inventory, but the salesperson got confused and accidentally sold him a rifle that was only supposed to be there for repairs?
It was a one man operation, bookkeeping error is me not accusing the owner of larceny. The fire makes people suspicious.
So, I was reading about the gila monster...
Today I Learned:
The saliva of the Gila monster contains many chemicals which can be deadly. One of these has been shown to affect memory. Several companies have been researching the abilities of this chemical to help memory loss due to various diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and ADHD. Gilatide, derived from exendin-4, has been shown to dramatically heighten memory in a study with mice. Gilatide is likely to be researched further to provide help to Alzheimer's patients.
~
WikiToday I learned the words represented by the acronym YouTube channel title
AvE
Arduino versus Evil
I've been up ten minutes, and already I've learned something. Besides that I shouldn't have gotten up to begin with. Ow.
This morning I've already learned about
The Tempestry Project. Ow.
To whet the appetite, the word tempestry is a portmanteau of the words temperature and tapestry. Ow.
Below are tempestries for Deception Pass, Washington, for the years 1950 - 2017 (left to right):
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Each day's high temp is represented by a different color, with January 1st at the bottom and December 31 at top.
Ow.
A few years are not represented in the above tempestry.
That word still sounds like 'the study of storms' to me.
Here's an interesting comparison between Utqiagvik, Alaska (on the left, L-R, 1925, 2010, 2016) and Death Valley, California (on the right L—R: 1950, 2016):
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I've been up ten minutes, and already I've learned something. Besides that I shouldn't have gotten up to begin with. Ow.
This morning I've already learned about The Tempestry Project. Ow.
To whet the appetite, the word tempestry is a portmanteau of the words temperature and tapestry. Ow.
Below are tempestries for Deception Pass, Washington, for the years 1950 - 2017 (left to right):
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Each day's high temp is represented by a different color, with January 1st at the bottom and December 31 at top.
Ow.
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I'm camping at Deception Pass next month with my BIL, A.
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Take a scarf, and lookout for drifts.
a new word. Paronomasia. I can't believe I never came across this before....
I lost one of my Nomasias on 9/11. I no longer have a paro them.
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Today I learned about
whiskey stones.
Chill the stones in your freezer, cool your drink without watering it down.
Gives new meaning to "On the rocks." :D
Today I also learned that the novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (that the movie was loosely based on) was written by Ian Fleming (I learned that watching Jay Leno's Garage on YouTube).
And that the name of the book was derived from a lewd/bawdy WWI barracks song. But I can find only mentions that there is a song, can't find the lyrics.
I did find that chitty bang bang referred to the paper pass (chit) you had to have to leave the barracks in order to visit the brothel.
We find scammers pretty quick on this site.
Move along, you won't do any business here.
Yesterday I learned that in
The Breakfast Club, Carl the janitor was the high school's "Man of the Year 1969"... a fact which is slyly revealed during the film's opening montage.
The reveal happens for two seconds at 2:48 in this opening, do forward to near the spot
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I captured the frame of it.
Muh man CARL. Man of the Year.
How to vacuum a fish tank and change the filter. I should have learned ages ago, but today I did it.
...that after about a week of investigatin', professional car mechanics are no closer to identfying what ails my car than they were from the start.
Modern cars are awesome until they break.
Competent diagnostic equipment is very expensive and so it the software for each brand/line. For a small shop it's just not feasible to buy it all.:(
Today I learned I could fell a tree even if I totally misread the lean. Turns out gravity is in charge.
That's a nice piece of timber. Felling is the easy part, catching is tough. ;)
You're supposed to be able to throw your hat out there and land the trunk on it. Takes a minute to get yer hat back.
And don't throw the hard hat out there, if you're good, it gets expensive.
Uncledigr tried it and I put a whole in his fedora.:cool: He wore that holed hat for years.
...I totally misread the lean. Turns out gravity is in charge.
I'll assume ya got lucky.:o
Felling is the easy part, catching is tough. ;)
Picking it up is an absolute bitch.:yesnod:
I'll assume ya got lucky.:o
That I did.
I hope you were wearing your brown pants.
Fortunately, it's too early in the season for white shoes.
I mean really...Who wears white before Memorial Day? Pfft.
Today I learned about the
Hells Bells. No, not Hell's, Hells. And they're not really bells, they just look like bells.
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The article is a pretty interesting read.
In 1933-34 while the Great Depression was in full swing, Chicago staged "A Century of Progress International Exposition." This was a full blown Worlds Fair registered with the Bureau International des Expositions.
Their Motto was...
"Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms"
Today I learned that not all toilet flushing mechanisms are created equal. A few days ago, I picked up a $13 replacement mechanism at the local hardware store. It leaked worse than the mechanism I was replacing. :mad:
Pro tip: pass on everything that isn't a Fluidmaster 400AH High Performance Toilet Fill Valve[/URL]. About $6.50 at Walmart.
You'll thank me later. ;)
You'll tank me later. ;)
FIFY.:D
FIFY.:D
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Well done, sir. Well done.
Pay attention to Glinda because plumbers are going to start becoming scarce in 10 years. :yesnod:
Pay attention to Glinda because plumbers are going to start becoming scarce in 10 years. :yesnod:
Dude, they're scarce right now! Why do you think I did it myself!?
Ok, not really, I've done this before. I like being able to do little fix-it jobs myself. This new flusher was really easy to install (much easier than the previous, junky, malfunctioning flusher), and when in doubt, there's always YouTube DIY videos.
But beyond all this, I'm not willing to pay $60 just to get some bozo to show up for a little home repair project I can do myself. :banghead:
$60? Would he come in the house or just tell you what to do in the driveway? :haha:
My buddy(the plumber) was at his sister's house when she had a heavily advertised outfit come and as promised in the ads he put on his disposable booties over his shoes. But while he was there he made a half dozen trips out to his truck... with the booties on.:facepalm:
$60? Would he come in the house or just tell you what to do in the driveway? :haha:
:rolleyes: That's the going rate out here - $60 minimum charge, whether they fix your plumbing problem or not. "Additional charges may apply."
My buddy(the plumber) was at his sister's house when she had a heavily advertised outfit come and as promised in the ads he put on his disposable booties over his shoes. But while he was there he made a half dozen trips out to his truck... with the booties on.:facepalm:
I guess that's better than them never putting the booties on to begin with. I had a guy out here last week to figure out why my internet connection had suddenly died. He wore his big dirty clunky boots into the house every time he came in from his truck. Turns out someone at HQ mixed up my service request order with someone else's and somehow managed to switch our phone numbers. Of COURSE my internet service suddenly disappeared - I'd been given a completely different phone number/account that didn't get internet from that provider.
Repair guy had to go back to the office THREE TIMES to get Eric the Imbecile at HQ to straighten everything out. Tracked crud in on his boots every damned time he came in the house. At least it wasn't raining.
*
smh*
Actually those booties will pick up/track in, more shit than a boot will. :haha:
I learned that fresh-water sponges exist.
The surgeon woke up early because he had to perform surgery that morning. He went to take his shower, no water. He placed an emergency call to a plumber who assured him that he would be there and have the situation rectified in plenty of time for the doc to make his surgery.
The plumber came and went to work, and was finished in 20 minutes. He presented the doc with a bill for $400.
The doc said "My God, man, I'm a doctor and even I don't make that kind of money!"
The plumber responded "Yeah, when I was a doctor, I didn't make that kind of money either."
TIL that if you're googling for a wallpaper image, and specify a size, you get a small image on the side of your screen. Click 'view image' to see the full size image, and you don't get that, you get a much smaller image. It's goddamned tiny as a matter of fact. And, no, it wasn't a tile-able image.
Why in God's name allow me to specify an exact size when that mean's absolutely nothing?
It's strange to see Google working at making themselves less relevant.
Oh, and when I went to the site to see the picture, it's bigger than I asked for.
So fuck me today, I reckon.
Today I learned about
The Pittsburgh Left.
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How I got there.Aside from not being able to understand the sweety's voice and not being able to figure out the pictures, that was a pretty good video.
When I learned to drive in LA in the '50's, that fast left turn was common. I mastered it.
I have not seen it in at least 40 years.
But it is another reason why self-driving cars are a pipedream, especially in Pittsburgh.
So I wait, even flash my lights and they don't move because they're not paying attention. :mad:
I learned that story bouncing around the net about seeing a plastic bag at the bottom of the Marianas Trench is bullshit.
But it wasn’t their achievements that had caught the world’s imagination. Instead, every headline was about the revelation that Vescovo had filmed a plastic bag at the bottom. Vescovo and the crew were livid. It wasn’t even true. Vescovo had filmed something plastic in the Java Trench – they don’t know what it was – and a press release had mixed it up with Mariana Trench. Soon the mistake echoed around the world. “That fucking plastic bag,” said Jamieson. “It wasn’t even the right trench!”
linkI learned that recent scholarship considers the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin spiriting away +- 130 children to be essentially true. It is a story of emigration rather than rats, pedophilia, plague, or magic. It seems lands in the East had been depopulated by the Mongols and young people in over-populated Germant sought a better life in Transylvania etc...
Slime mold is smart?
https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/curoious-creatures-slime-molds/
Despite having no brain or neurons and being just one giant goopy cell, these slime molds keep defying our expectations. They can solve mazes, recreate the Tokyo railway network (animation below), learn, and even anticipate events. They can make rational and irrational choices that mirror our own. Not to mention they’re visually stunning too. Slime mold is smart?
https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/curoious-creatures-slime-molds/
Despite having no brain or neurons and being just one giant goopy cell, these slime molds keep defying our expectations. They can solve mazes, recreate the Tokyo railway network (animation below), learn, and even anticipate events. They can make rational and irrational choices that mirror our own. Not to mention they’re visually stunning too.
Intelligence is organized matter.
I believe this, and all the weird--ethical?--implications.
...
Earlier, Bruce's Inflation (cosmic) thread had me thinking-- the universe was too hot for atoms to form, for 380,000 years. That's a long time-- long enough for matter, such as it was, to organize into intelligence? Could it have survived, evolved, adapted to a cooling universe, become embedded in the later, more structured matter that was to form? Or, as a rare form of intelligent matter inside the hot soup of exotic stars?
Could things like the unexplained disparity between matter and anti-matter constitute a conscious decision by the universe, or pockets of conscious agency within large chunks of the universe?
Kind of like, a huge de-centralized "slime mold" ??
...
What if intelligence is the default state of matter, and we've been grossly mis-classifying what intelligence is?
Slime mold is smarter than most people? Yeah, I'll buy that. :yesnod:
I'll have what flint's having.
What if intelligence is the default state of matter, and we've been grossly mis-classifying what intelligence is?
I'll buy it, though I tend toward the reverse perspective: it's not that the universe is as smart as we are, it's that we're as dumb as slime molds.
We've been assimilated.
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Naaaaaaaaaaaaaw.
What if intelligence is the default state of matter, and we've been grossly mis-classifying what intelligence is?
I'll buy it, though I tend toward the reverse perspective: it's not that the universe is as smart as we are, it's that we're as dumb as slime molds.
Yes, agreed. Not specified in my original post is my militant anti-anthropomorhic perspective. We are an illogical yardstick with which to measure anything against.
it may just be a matter of scale. we may be too small to see the overarching intelligence at work around us.
A-couple-of-days-ago IL ÷ is called an obelus, and TIL use ALT + 246 to type it.
I've been telling you about poop molecules for years
I thought that had been poo pooed
But hospitals use commercial toilets that flush much more violently than home toilets with a tank. They will stir up a lot more aerosols than yours, and the little yours does kicks up keeps your immune system healthy. If you don't feel your toilet is kicking up enough poop particles scrub the toilet with your toothbrush. :blush:
I clean my Bathroom and don't worry about it.
Today I learned that the word Pączki has a little squiggle on the a, and that squiggle is called an ogonek. Pronunciation of pączki is something like "poonch-key", and the ogonek (which means little tail in Polish) nasalizes the vowel sound.
For the uninitiated, pączkis are a Polish thing - filled heavy donuts eaten on Fat Tuesday, big in Detroit environs -centered around Hamtramck -people will commute quite some distance to get genuine Hamtramck pączkis
Damn it Monster, between the sliced turkey and the grapes is a vast wasteland of baked Sirens calling dieters to their doom. I have never browsed the section and have no trouble resisting the Siren's call. But today, there was a small table all by it's lonesome near the grapes. This scandalous table piled high with...
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It says Lemon, I couldn't tell, it was just cloying sweet.
The label say each one is 310 calories, 300 from fat.
Hard to believe there is less than 10 calories of sugar.
Only 300? Those must be paczki lite. They are nasty imo. Especially the (very popular) custard and prune varieties
I miss read the label, probably from the sugar rush, only 100 calories from fat.
You can see from the label they are lovingly crafted from only the finest pure ingredients DuPont and Monsanto can supply.
So we find a big enough banana we can build a brain for Commander Data?
Would a positronic brain be made of cisistors?
If bananas generate antimatter, we can use them for the warp drive engines.
We'd need 30,000 pounds of bananas.
and Commander Data to peel them.
Sam Keane says fifty million bananas eaten would be enough to make you radiation-sick from effects of potassium-argon decay.
Of course, other sickening mechanisms come to mind.
Apparently not everyone can do this.
Those that can contract their tensor tympani - a small muscle located above the auditory tube - are privy to a special skill: the action produces a low, thunder-like rumbling in their ears.
I'm surprised that isn't universal.
Half the time I do it on accident just closing my eyes...
I can easily do it on command, but don't like the sensation. Probably because the muscle doesn't get much use, and so tires quickly, and the sound is annoying. So basically there is no up-side.
Usually I do it involuntarily. I'm going to have to pay attention to why that is. What triggers it.
edit: Or just read the freaking article and learn why I do it involuntarily.
I can't. First weird thing my body can't do. Quite excited by that news when a friend posted it on facebook. This physical freak business gets expensive, especially with age. :D
The article mentions that people who can't do it directly can do it with a big yawn.
i can. I hear that if you can't, you're probably a faggot
You take that back or I'll smite you with my beaded bag.
Ooooh. I can do it!
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I used to have to use it to ignore people, now I have Bluetooth hearing aids.
I've been doing it my whole life.
I just didn't know what I was doing.
Left ear only; but, easy peasy that one.
I've been doing it my whole life.
I just didn't know what I was doing.
Thank you for expressing my answer perfectly.
Now I'm curious if it's genetic? can your kids, siblings and parents do it? the article doesn't mention how the population is divided, %wise. I need moaaaar facts. About this thing I can't do. It doesn't sound fun though (haha)
Can you wiggle your ears?
How do you do this? Think about it? Move some part of your face or head?
Can you wiggle your ears?
nope
but I can wiggle all of my toes independently -which apparently you shouldn't be able to- well I could until I had foot surgery -that foot is still recovering, the two toes that shouldn't be independent are "as they should be " :/ ...but I'm working on it :D
How do you do this? Think about it? Move some part of your face or head?
If you can wiggle your ears, it's those muscles. If you can't... look upward as high and hard as you can (with your eyeballs, not your head), close your eyelids, and clench your jaw repeatedly.
Nope, 40 years of hearing aids may have something to do with it.
For me, it's somewhat tied to pushing the back sides of my tongue, near the back of the teeth, slightly up and forward. Not directly tied, as I can do either without the other.
Interesting. Funny how different people have different nerve control.
I can do the rumbling ears independent of any other movement. Although it requires a little focus and I probably stop blinking and breathing as I do it. Experimenting now, I can blink, breathe, and ear rumble all at the same time, but it’s awkward.
I can wiggle one ear only, and it’s completely different muscles from the ear rumbling. YMMV
Yeah, I should say for me it's different muscles from the ears wiggling, but they tend to engage at the same time. I can wiggle my ears without the sound, but I have to concentrate really, really hard to make the noise without moving my ears.
Also, I've never tried to wiggle just one ear--I can do the right one independently, but not the left. Something to practice!
but I can wiggle all of my toes independently -which apparently you shouldn't be able to- well I could until I had foot surgery -that foot is still recovering, the two toes that shouldn't be independent are "as they should be " :/ ...but I'm working on it :D
That’s the superpower I want.
well the doc did say that the over-flexibility of my feet was what led to the injury that led to the surgery though....
...over-flexibility of my feet...
You are so weird.:3_eyes:
Can any of you twiddle your thumbs in opposite direction?
Meaning, the thumbs cross twice per rotation. Try.
I can slowly, and i have to think about it.
I can’t. They would crash into each other twice per rotation.
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Like this
That's ugly as sin. :eyebrow:
Not your thumbs, the gold leaf bowl that came up.
your cookies
i get a guitar builder after it ends
"Welding helmets. How fast is auto darken?"
At least it's not Taylor Swift coming up next.
my cookies?
YOUR cookies!
This is what I got.
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Jay Leno & Dennis Gage
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Yeah, I watch a lot of car stuff.
Today, I Learned, is
Galactic Tick Day.
TIL about how the term hackneyed came to be. I figured it was related to Hackney in London somehow, and knew of hackney horses and that London cabs are called hackney carriages/cabs...
Turns out it is related to those.... they became so commonplace (and worn?) that they term hackneyed came into use to describe that concept.
there are many sites with this info, here are two
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hac1.htm
http://www.word-detective.com/2015/10/hackneyed/
Not an amazing discovery, granted, but someone might find it interesting
I was in the Hackney business for many years, and I learned something.
I also learned what zulu time was and why it was called that.
Timestamps must be sortable
so I say at 20200322225015
Did you Google that string?
So she says at 222017QMAR20.
I still date checks I write with the shortened date only form (e.g. 22MAR20).
tut tut. someone could add 2 digits after the 20 to change the date.....
It would be rejected in that format.
BTW, the military DTG is arranged so the info therein deemed most important to military operations comes first in case that part of the message gets cut off.
"Q" is the military time zone. There are 24 time zones designated A-Z excepting "I" and "O" so as not to be confused with numbers "1" and "0" respectively.
Eastern Standard Time (EST) becomes Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) during Daylight Savings Time (DST), when monster posted, and transitions from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) -5 to GMT -4 or "R" to "Q" in military "Z" (Zulu) Time. GMT never changes to DST.
Universal Time Coordinated/Universal Coordinated Time (UTC/UCT) is the successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) a.k.a. military “Zulu” Time. The terms represent the same time zone; but, with different implications in various countries.
The Cellar displays the GMT offset at the bottom of the page.
Now I've said my ABCs. Tell me what you think of me?
On second thought, never mind. :p:
Didn't know about the Q zone.
I thank you.
about untouchable numbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchable_number
I just haven't figured out why they're special or needed a name
Ice Cream Barge WW2.
https://www.navalhistory.org/2019/07/25/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-world-war-ii-and-americas-sweet-tooth
By World War II, when other Allied countries banned ice cream, the United States held fast to the tasty symbol of their perseverance in difficult times. Arguing successfully that ice cream had morale and caloric value for overseas troops, all branches of the U.S. Military began providing the treat to soldiers in whatever form they could. In the U.S. Navy, some of the most interesting ice cream-driven projects occurred. The most well-known project is the $1 million spent on converting a concrete barge into an ice cream factory that was towed around the Pacific, delivering ice cream to ship’s that did not have the equipment to create their own. Those ships that could make ice cream were also equipped with soda fountains – a common place in the United States where ice cream was served – to provide the sailors not just with the taste, but the feel of home. As if these projects were not enough to show the U.S. Military’s dedication to the treat, some U.S. Airmen found a fascinating solution to provide dairy confections to their comrades.about untouchable numbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchable_number
I just haven't figured out why they're special or needed a name
Just from the wiki, it appears that if one could prove that there was an odd untouchable number other than five, that would disprove "a slightly stronger version of the Goldbach conjecture", which is a thing I've heard the name of before.
So there's that.
TIL What autochthonous means.
TBH, TIL autochthonous was a word.
I have weird facebook friends -he used in in a conversational post about grilling sausages.
I suspect this new knowledge is not going to do me any good in games of Scrabble and Boggle and the like, but I look forward to an opportunity to just toss it casually into a conversation.....
and no, look it up your darn self ... not like you're short on time right now....
Well, looks like confirmation of a common question. Yes, yes he does.
The long head of the triceps attaches to the scapula*.
It is commonly known that the triceps makes up 75% of upper arm mass, therefore focus on biceps training isn't the way to get "big" arms. But it changes everything when you realize that the largest and strongest component of the triceps isn't strictly an "arm" muscle-- it is activated by arm position relative to the torso.
*shoulder blade
The long head of the triceps attaches to the scapula*.
*shoulder blade
In theory, but sometimes we say hold my beer and alter ourselves. Hurts like a mutha too.
TIL What autochthonous means.
TBH, TIL autochthonous was a word.
.....
and no, look it up your darn self ... not like you're short on time right now....
For a good and edifying use of the term, read through McPhee's
Annals of the Former World where it attains some prominence in the volume
Rising From The Plain. All about Wyoming -- which is a more subtly strange place than I'd thought. There's oil here and there under Yellowstone NP...
Annals is four books, written over many years, about plate tectonic theory and about
rocks. And his writing makes the rocks
sing. It'll change your view of what you're hiking around on.
You might even start toting an Estwing geologists' pick. I've got one of those.
I have a geology teacher for a parent. I'll pass, thanks
I had a geology teacher for a favorite -- I didn't. Was about then I bought that pick. And a 10-power foldie-up magnifying glass for closer looks.
Yesterday but close enough. Stopped at Burger King on the way home and they threw a handful of napkins in the bag. Looking at them they unfold to about 13" x 8" (330mm x 203mm), and 0.0023" (0.058mm) thick... the exact same thickness as my single ply toilet paper.
They break down quite quickly in water too.
Just sayin', ya know. :cool:
Half the time I do it on accident just closing my eyes...
On accident? You're dead to me.
Or, TIL Cloddfobble is an ignorant hick.
I wondered why it took years to earn a cab drivers licence in London.
OK, big city lots of streets but years, really? Aha, I see a problem...
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Not 52 new streets, 52 streets named New. :facepalm:
On accident? You're dead to me.
Or, TIL Cloddfobble is an ignorant hick.
Good riddance, I say! You're probably one of those nightmare people who stands "on" line instead of "in" line.
About
Coffee Naps, bring together two of my favorite things. I'm 100% in.
About Coffee Naps, bring together two of my favorite things. I'm 100% in.
Me too.
Two great tastes that taste great together!
Detente, dayshmont, can't let the Ruskies win...
An Ailurophile is a cat-lover and a Cynophile is a dog-lover
A guy I know broke his jaw in a car wreck several yrs ago. It was wired shut for a long time. He went to a cookout at his brother's house, and the cooking steaks got to him so bad he went in the house and put a steak through a blender and drank it.
Pennsylvania was started by William Penn Jr but it was named for his father Admiral William Penn Sr.
Thanks Carruthers.:notworthy
Don't tell anybody but I discovered Covid-19 came from a soviet backed secret lab in Turkey, via China, financed by automobile manufacturers for the purpose of scaring people away from public transport. Shhhh. :unsure:
Trump's tremendous intellect can span time and space to perceive bits and pieces of the future. What he gleans is usually jumbled leaving him only vague premonitions. It can happen at anytime, even while tweeting. Scientists have decided that when a vaccine for Covid-19 is produced, it will be named for Trump's Covid-19 premonition and be called the Covfefe-19 vaccine.
It will be taken orally because it's really quite nice on a sugar cube.
The Disney Mary Poppins approves.
It will be taken orally because it's really quite nice on a sugar cube.
The Disney Mary Poppins approves.
No she doesn't.
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In theory, but sometimes we say hold my beer and alter ourselves. Hurts like a mutha too.
I don't know how you would separate your tricep from your scapula and *I don't wanna know* --ƒuckin ouch bro
Because of the curvature of the earth the supports for the Verrazano Bridge are two inches further apart at the top. Also Verrazzano was spelled wrong on the original contract.
Weird. I wonder if the next
simulation will be different.
God, I hope it's not worse. :facepalm:
Although a do-over would be cool because I've thought of a bunch of new ways to fuck up my life.
If this is a simulation, I got a goddamned serious bone to pick with somebody.:mad2:
TIL I'm the average weight for an American woman. which is SCARY AS FUCK, because I'm very obviously overweight. And I'm built like a Brick shithouse, so even if I wasn't a tad chubby, I should be tipping the scales on the above average side seeing as muscle is more dense than fat and I'm also average height, maybe even a hair over.
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Today I learned while working on the irrigation system in my pasture, clearing some small culverts with my weed eater (whacker, trimmer) that a careful eye needs to be kept for fresh, liquid cow pies hiding in the lush turf.
I didn't notice until I had a fragrant fountain and brown every where.
Yes indeed, they are wonderful at spreading the news. :yesnod:
TIL:
Of the 50 fastest 100 meter times ever done only 15 have been run by an athlete not banned for drugs or subject to allegations of missed or failed dug tests.
Oh, all 15 were run by Usain Bolt.
Eh. There's always time for him to get caught doping. Everybody said the same thing about how naturally great Lance Armstrong was, right up until...
To clarify, I don't personally have a problem with doping. Because the thing is, anyone truly phenomenal at a sport has a fundamentally superior chemistry anyway, it's just a chemistry that they happen to have been born with. More efficient mitochondria, larger lungs, better oxygen utilization, above-average height--it's a myth that great athletes got where they are entirely through hard work, just like it's a myth that doping athletes no longer have to do any work. They still work their butts off, and they still provide the entertainment we're paying for. There's an argument to be made for banning fundamentally unsafe chemicals, but it should have nothing to do with "fairness," IMHO. Use the science and take the chemicals, I don't give a shit.
Eh. There's always time for him to get caught doping. Everybody said the same thing about how naturally great Lance Armstrong was, right up until...
admittedly my first thought....
So of 50 he's the smart one?
I see it more like this:
Of the 50, he's the genuine badass.
TIL burrowing tarantulas keep tiny frogs as working pets.
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more info from the omniscient Wiki PTIL
more about wasps than I knew before, particularly that I like how they taste, kinda.
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TIL Hamsters don't blink. Well not with both eyes at the same time -they only wink.
So no, it doesn't fancy you, it just has dry eyes, put the poor thing down and back away.
...and don't forget to take the string off its hind foot.[/RichardGere]
TIL Aussies call bed linen "Manchester"
....because Manchester was a big cotton mill town so boxes containing such items were all marked "Manchester" -not just slang, it's an official name in department stores.
Today i learned how too bake cake...
Today i learned how too bake cake...
Now decorate it and take and post pics!
this guy is so damn smart.
Today I learned about the difference cycloversion and cyclovergence.
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worth the 12 mins.
The pencil gave me a headache.
The pencil gave me a headache.
Are you not a fan of
Magic Eye?All I saw was double and it gave me a headache. I knew about the muscles controlling the eye but never gave a thought to what they actually did. What I saw was very interesting.
Bots like taglines.
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Monogamy was created to benefit men.
Monogamy was created to benefit men.
SURPRISE (not).
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https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/24/crows-possess-higher-intelligence-long-thought-primarily-human/
Crows know what they know and can ponder the contents of their own minds...
We think we're so smart. Must be because we have language and can tell each other how dumb other animals are. We may be 'smarter', but why do we assume that all other animals are just rolling along on instinct? Like NPC characters in that video game you play....
I'm less convinced of human smarts every day. I do, however, enjoy watching crows. There is always a bit of horseplay. They tease each other constantly and there is more than little swagger in them.
I'm less convinced of human smarts every day. I do, however, enjoy watching crowds. There is always a bit of horseplay. They tease each other constantly and there is more than little swagger in them.
Ha! Maybe I need to learn to enjoy humanity as a minor creature
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TIL imPOTUS' dad's middle name was Christ. True. srsly.
Wha?
I'm seeing Christ 2020 signs here. Context is everything.
makes him the son of Christ.... :eek:
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pride,
greed,
wrath,
envy,
lust,
gluttony, and
sloth
And so on? Which sin was Maryanne? Thurston Howell=Greed, I guess. Gilligan=Sloth Gluttony? Mrs. Howell?
Need the deets!
ETA: found 'em
The Professor – Pride
Thurston Howell III - Greed
Ginger - Lust
Mary Ann - Envy (of Ginger's looks)
Mrs. Lovey Howell - Gluttony
The Skipper - Anger or wrath
Gilligan – Sloth
