Is it time for Random Thoughts - Part 4?

[nuuskur]

When it rains we hate it. When it's drought, we want it to rain... hypocrisy? :D

 

[TumblingDice]

When it rains we hate it. When it's drought, we want it to rain... hypocrisy? :D

Not at all. Variety is the spice of life! :)

 

[OmCheeto]

Why did no one inform me that NASA had developed warp drive?

NASA's Maven was clocking more than 16,000 million kph when it hit the brakes for the so-called orbital insertion, a half-hour process.

(ref)

per wiki: The speed of light is ≈ 1,080 million kph.

hmmmm...

 

[DataGG]

I have such a hard decision to make!

I need to decide if I'll be using loose leaf (and add it to a binder later on), or just use a good old notepad.. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

 

[Enigman]

Binder.

 

[DataGG]

Binder.

Why?

 

[Enigman]

 

[dkotschessaa]

Math grad school is just like they said. I feel really stupid.

At least there's the tutoring center, which made me feel smart, answering all those pre-calc questions.

Until they started doing trig.

I feel really stupid.

 

[Evo]

when are we getting the shoutbox?

No idea.

 

[WWGD]

Well, I was just asking as a joke, but a dollar for a symmetric user number... hm.

Nah, for a dollar I'd demand it be symmetric and prime.

...I wonder how many symmetric primes there are.

See

http://oeis.org/A002385

My lazy guess that there were none was easily disproved.

 

[collinsmark]

Palindrome post count! :) (1991 presently)

[Hmm. GD posts might count in the post counts now. Hmm.]

 

[Borek]

I need 23 for that.

[Hmm. GD posts might count in the post counts now. Hmm.]

No, they still don't.

 

[nuuskur]

I am 23 :D

 

[zoobyshoe]

Palindrome post count! :) (1991 presently)

[Hmm. GD posts might count in the post counts now. Hmm.]

I have noticed that no one seems to have any post count anymore. Now we have a "message" count. I pondered that for a while and couldn't figure it out. Is the word "post" somehow politically incorrect now? When we "posted", did postmen go postal? Did they feel "dumb as a post?" I scour my conscience for whom we might have been offending. There had to have been a reason for the change. I can't see it, though.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Anyway, I fell asleep yesterday afternoon and dreamt a really, really huge boa constrictor was curled up behind some bushes. These cats I feed were trying to drive it away, and a second later, it's head emerged from the bushes with a cat in it's mouth. I laid down and started pounding on it's head with my fist trying to make it let go of the cat, but my arm seemed to have hardly any strength, and it's head was very tough. It went back into the bushes with the cat and I was afraid the kitty was a gonner. I tried to stand up but it turned into a paralysis dream. I couldn't get anybody parts to move. I was paralyzed on the ground with a huge snake less than three feet away. I tried so hard to call for help, and it seemed I had actually succeeded in making some noise, but no one heard me. I was sure the snake was going to come back out, swallow one of my legs and bite it off. I willed and willed myself to move. Finally, there was a kind of simultaneous realization I was dreaming and the return of my ability to move, and I woke up.

I read something somewhere that laid the cause of sleep paralysis to lack of potassium. So, when ever I get dreams like this I go get some bananas.

 

[Borek]

So, when ever I get dreams like this I go get some bananas.

Which just makes you more radioactive. TANSTAAFL

 

[JorisL]

Ugh I made a terrible mistake. Started my code, didn't implement a progress bar (or similar).
So now I'm sitting here with a code running at least 10 hours already and no clue when it's done...

On the upside, coffee's still warm and catvideos are plenty ^_^

 

[TumblingDice]

Why do some people use the phrase "I could care less" to mean they don't care at all? Obviously I personally _could_ care less, or I would not be commenting on it.

I always thought it is "I couldn't care less"?

"I couldn't care less" is correct.

Stumbled across this a moment ago and remembered, "inquisitive minds want to know could care less!":
http://blog.dictionary.com/could-care-less/

 

[nuuskur]

I could actually care more, but I am too hellbent on trying to act tough, so I couldn't care less!

 

[Medicol]

My friends and I had had a very good conversation until I brought up a list of essential expenses during the coming excursion. I think they could have cared less and disagreed more. I actually can't care less about this myself but I air it up here to get any corrections from any of you. Please...

 

[TumblingDice]

I think they could have cared less and disagreed more.

So they actually cared more and disagreed less. (thoughtful apathy)

I actually can't care less about this myself

So you could care more. (probably improbable)

but I air it up here to get any corrections from any of you. Please...

It's all perfectly clear as mud to me!

 

[nuuskur]

That's a more complicated logic problem :D Candidate for math weekly

 

[Astronuc]

New York exports garbage, but at a cost of $300 million/yr.

https://screen.yahoo.com/new-york-times/where-does-trash-160134215.html

 

[Evo]

I've been up all night, for some unknown reason, at 1am, my dog decided it would be a good idea to jump on my bed over the night stand, knocking everything on it onto the floor and landing on my face. Everything went flying, the candle, the lamp, my jewelry, meds, my full glass of iced tea. Luckily the candle was one of those flameless ones, so no fire or melted wax. He had the entire bed to jump on. No obstacles. He chose to jump over the nightstand. He's barely a foot tall at the top of his head. I have a very high bed and that is a very high stand. I can't believe he made it.

 

[Borek]

I can't believe he made it.

He wasn't sure and had to try. I can understand.

 

[Enigman]

Time steals all.

 

[Evo]

He wasn't sure and had to try. I can understand.

I was sleeping. :L He had better not try it again. I cannot imagine what would have made him do such a thing. Wait, it's not possible, there is a large box next to the night stand, it's over 2 feet long, that dog would have had to have jumped a distance of almost five feet to get to the bed. oo) WTH? OMG, I just measured the distance, five feet 10 inches distance at a height of at least 2 feet 6 inches. Even running, I don't think he's capable. So perhaps he jumped twice from the front, the first time he must've fallen onto the stand and knocked things off, then quickly jumped up on the bed onto my face and woke me up.

 

[OmCheeto]

New York exports garbage, but at a cost of $300 million/yr.

https://screen.yahoo.com/new-york-times/where-does-trash-160134215.html

Awesome video. :)

But, NYC has a population of ≈8,000,000 people.
By my calculations, that's only $36 per year.
I pay $25 per month over here in my left coast commie city.
If they were as inefficient as we are, the cost would be ≈$2.5 billion a year.

Wait.

What is the average an average NYC'er pays for garbage service?

hmm...

 

[Evo]

Why didn't anyone tell me it was Saturday?

 

[Astronuc]

Science is not done in a vacuum - err, well, maybe some of it is. :D

 

[Nikitin]

I've been up all night, for some unknown reason, at 1am, my dog decided it would be a good idea to jump on my bed over the night stand, knocking everything on it onto the floor and landing on my face. Everything went flying, the candle, the lamp, my jewelry, meds, my full glass of iced tea. Luckily the candle was one of those flameless ones, so no fire or melted wax. He had the entire bed to jump on. No obstacles. He chose to jump over the nightstand. He's barely a foot tall at the top of his head. I have a very high bed and that is a very high stand. I can't believe he made it.

Ooh he just wanted to make some fun! At least you have a nice story to tell now.

I have noticed that no one seems to have any post count anymore. Now we have a "message" count. I pondered that for a while and couldn't figure it out. Is the word "post" somehow politically incorrect now? When we "posted", did postmen go postal? Did they feel "dumb as a post?" I scour my conscience for whom we might have been offending. There had to have been a reason for the change. I can't see it, though.

Making a "post" suggests you are making an effort, which is not fitting as this is a social media site. Blurting out a "message", however, fits much better in. I say good show. Down with the old, in with the new!

Next, I suggest we limit replies to 200 characters to discourage needless TL;DR complexities.

 

[Astronuc]

There ARE good people in this world.

http://www.upworthy.com/their-son-w...se-when-this-happened-right-before-their-eyes

 

[WWGD]

New York exports garbage, but at a cost of $300 million/yr.

https://screen.yahoo.com/new-york-times/where-does-trash-160134215.html

Some of that trash used to go to a landfill in Staten Island, the Fresh Kills (interesting to have the qualifier 'fresh' in the name of a landfill), but not anymore; apparently someone powerful asked to have it closed down.

 

[edward]

Some of that trash used to go to a landfill in Staten Island, the Fresh Kills (interesting to have the qualifier 'fresh' in the name of a landfill), but not anymore; apparently someone powerful asked to have it closed down.

This reminds me of the great garbage barge fiasco of the mid 1980's

http://www.nytimes.com/video/booming/100000002206073/voyage-of-the-mobro-4000.html

 

[dkotschessaa]

First time grading papers (for a calculus class). I must say it is a curious activity.

-Dave K