Is it time for Random Thoughts - Part 4?

In summary: No, I'm not going to finish that.Some guy tried to sell me eh.. recreational tools today while I was getting groceries.I guess setting up a trashy website was too costly for him, so he just sold them in the frozen foods section at walmart.
  • #876
dkotschessaa said:
Can you tell me a random fact about Nebraska? I think it is the most mysterious state, and I know nothing about it.

It's a rectangle, I think.
 
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  • #878
jim hardy said:
Loren Eisely's birthplace.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0394701577/?tag=pfamazon01-20

Well, I didn't know who that was before I ready your post. But that certainly qualifies as a fact.

lisab said:
It's a rectangle, I think.

ne_2.gif
 
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  • #879
dkotschessaa said:
ne_2.gif

Looks like a rectangle to me.

This black shape is a little bit confusing, it tricks you into thinking the image is not rectangular.
 
  • #880
Borek said:
Looks like a rectangle to me.

This black shape is a little bit confusing, it tricks you into thinking the image is not rectangular.

:smile:

For some reason, it reminds me of:

self_description.png

(from http://xkcd.com/688/)
 
  • #881
Borek said:
Looks like a rectangle to me.
The map is not the territory.
 
  • #882
AlephZero said:
The map is not the territory.

Unless you live on a map.
 
  • #883
Borek said:
Yes, many variants, many names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Börek

It is one of the things I just HAVE to eat each time I go to Croatia.

And a Fart afterwards? Maybe you bring farts with you?
 
  • #884
If you don't believe in Gosh, you run the risk of being darned to heck. (Another David King quote)
 
  • #886
dkotschessaa said:
My wife posted on Facebook that I was like a cross between Einstein, superman, and Wolverine.

Well technically, it was me posting from her phone. But she didn't delete it afterwards!

I was going to comment that by your picture I think your wife described you well and then I read the second sentence. HILarious. Nice of her not to delete it too lol
 
  • #887
My neighbor across the street, tutors high school students out of her home. I had to explain to one of them today that a sewer is not a trash can after he grabbed some empty food containers from his car, ran to the drain in front of my house and tossed them in. :rolleyes:
 
  • #888
dkotschessaa said:
My wife posted on Facebook that I was like a cross between Einstein, superman, and Wolverine.

Well technically, it was me posting from her phone. But she didn't delete it afterwards!

I've always considered myself to be a cross between Einstein, and Red Green.

Pure genius, but it mostly involves duct tape.

:redface:
 
  • #889
For the first time in a long time I actually hate my job. Glad it will be over soon when I start my TAship. It is a good reminder why I went back to school in the first place.
 
  • #890
OmCheeto said:
I've always considered myself to be a cross between Einstein, and Red Green.

Pure genius, but it mostly involves duct tape.

:redface:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhSqvycZZ0c

Duct tape comes in fluorescent colors now if you want your creations to become more visible.:devil:

http://www.tapebrothers.com/Fluorescent-Duct-Tape-s/240.htm
 
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  • #891
I got caught at the hot food bar, "maximizing" ( my euphemism) : I was cutting of the meat from the bone to avoid paying for the weight of the bones that (unless I get desperately hungry) I won't be eating. If they offer pieces of orange, etc. without the peel, why not all meat without bones?
 
  • #892
edward said:
Duct tape comes in fluorescent colors now if you want to your creations to become more visible.:devil:

http://www.tapebrothers.com/Fluorescent-Duct-Tape-s/240.htm
Only an "Old Person" would consider fluorescent tape for projects. Count me in. :approve:
 
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  • #893
edward said:
Duct tape comes in fluorescent colors now if you want to your creations to become more visible.:devil:

http://www.tapebrothers.com/Fluorescent-Duct-Tape-s/240.htm

The quote
The fluorescent Duct Tape is great for conspicuity marking (hunters use the fluorescent orange during deer season).
has lost me. Do you use fluorescent tape to mark targets on the side of the deer or something? :confused: I thought the basic strategy of deer huntng was to be inconspicuous.
 
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  • #894
AlephZero said:
The quote

has lost me. Do you use fluorescent tape to mark targets on the side of the deer or something? :confused: I thought the basic strategy of deer huntng was to be inconspicuous.
The issue is being marked as non-deer to other moronic hunters that shoot at anything that moves.
 
  • #895
Evo said:
The issue is being marked as non-deer to other moronic hunters that shoot at anything that moves.

To expand on that in a lot of states there's law / advise (http://www.ihea.com/hunting-and-shooting/requirements/hunter-orange-requirements) to wear hi visibility clothing normally bright orange but there are other colours in a couple of the laws like chartreuse. Which has lead to companies making fluorescent orange camo like this:

blaze_ll.jpg


Which surprisingly may actually help since iirc deer are colour blind so the camo pattern will break up the silhouette which will be some shades of grey to the deer.
 
  • #896
The library is such a fun place.

I was walking to the library earlier today when I noticed a group of people gathered in a semi circle under the shade of some trees. There were some officers from the K-9 unit putting on a demonstration for the public. One of the older dogs was preforming commands with expert precision, which the crowd seemed to love. As I got closer, a young man walked past me in heavily padded gear and proceeded to stand in the middle of a field.

Apparently if you want to get into the K-9 club, you have to play the bait for the new dogs. The new dog could barely be kept on the leash as his trainer approached with him. A few seconds later, he let him off the leash and the dog rocketed towards the new guy. He choped down on the new guys elbow and started to ferociously wrestle him towards the group. The guy fought pretty hard against the German Shepard and held his ground. Eventually, the trainer had to come over because the dog wasn't obeying commands. To get the dog off, the handler had to choke him with a leather restaining collar.

The library is such a fun place.
 
  • #897
AlephZero said:
The quote

has lost me. Do you use fluorescent tape to mark targets on the side of the deer or something? :confused: I thought the basic strategy of deer huntng was to be inconspicuous.

Evo said:
The issue is being marked as non-deer to other moronic hunters that shoot at anything that moves.
Having bow hunted deer; the better camouflaged you are, the better you can hide from the moronic hunters. Just sayin'
 
  • #898
Speaking of moronic hunters I wonder what Sarah Palin is up to lately. no no no, please, it was only a joke.
 
  • #899
i rather like Sara.
 
  • #900
jim hardy said:
i rather like Sara.

Who doesn't?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iirw147LHkQ​
 
  • #901
jim hardy said:
i rather like Sara.

Oh gosh Jim, I just meant that she doesn't wear fluorescent duct tape on her clothing when she hunts. Voice in my head says: "liar liar pants on fire" Oops my alter ego caught me on that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf14VhDYvt0

This critter ran in front of her twice going in the same direction. Then it came at her head on. I just got this gut feeling that she was trying to fool someone.:devil:
 
  • #902
edward said:
Oh gosh Jim, I just meant that she doesn't wear fluorescent duct tape on her clothing when she hunts. Voice in my head says: "liar liar pants on fire" Oops my alter ego caught me on that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf14VhDYvt0

This critter ran in front of her twice going in the same direction. Then it came at her head on. I just got this gut feeling that she was trying to fool someone.:devil:

That is awesome that she can quote Ted Nugent like that.

That does take me back though, to when I was about 6 years old, living in Anchorage. We had a big family, and dad one year filled the entire garage with elk carcasses, hanging from the rafters. I would imagine most people today would be freaked out, but 6 year olds don't comprehend such things. It was good eating.

hmmm... That kind of reminds me of a book I once mentioned:

OmCheeto said:
Argh! I have somehow misplaced Pretty Shield and have started on Mowat's book. Mowat is a hoot. Even when describing how two children skinned their dad. Talk about savage innocents!

I finally found "Pretty Shield" the other day. I'm finding all sorts of treasures around my house. Mostly junk though.

My friends were over the other day and we removed, from my spare bedroom, and disassembled a Tektronix Phaser 540 in the back of my truck. Mostly because we wanted to know how a printer could weigh what I estimated to be about 100 lbs. A grand time was had by all.
 
  • #903
Duct tape, Sarah Palin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFd3HpRwEy4
 
  • #904
dlgoff said:
Duct tape, Sarah Palin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFd3HpRwEy4


Just proves there isn't really anything duct tape can't fix.
 
  • #906
We have fruits and vegetables in our house that need to be used.

Which means:

The smoothies in our house are getting really bizarre.
 
  • #907
dkotschessaa said:
We have fruits and vegetables in our house that need to be used.

Which means:

The smoothies in our house are getting really bizarre.

I foresee a swarm of new roommates in your house: Drosophila melanogaster.
 
  • #908
lisab said:
I foresee a swarm of new roommates in your house: Drosophila melanogaster.

The way it's going, we'd probably just throw them in the smoothies for protein.
 
  • #909
Should we be eating insects?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM8s1ch5TRw

Probably yes.

There are times when no amount of logic and reasoning will overcome my cultural conditioning. And I'm ok with that.
 
  • #910
dkotschessaa said:
The smoothies in our house are getting really bizarre.
I wonder how a potato and onion smoothie would taste? Yummy or mummy?
 

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