Random Thoughts 7

[WWGD]

Dynamics, choices, of where to live have greatly changed because of the option of remote work. Money goes further outside of Western countries.

 

[Astronuc]

Faster than flying: the high-speed rail routes taking on the air industry
https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/faster-flying-high-speed-rail-051516948.html

I've taken the Nozomi from Tokyo to Osaka, and it was much better than flying.

I've taken TGV in France rather than fly, and in the US, I've taken the train from NY City to Washington DC and back rather than fly.

 

[WWGD]

I found an old box of face masks from the Covid days. I thought Id use them as eye covers for sleeping. Snag: I have ears. Masks were on the snug side and width of my face around /including my ears is larger than around my mouth.

 

[WWGD]

Faster than flying: the high-speed rail routes taking on the air industry
https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/faster-flying-high-speed-rail-051516948.html

I've taken the Nozomi from Tokyo to Osaka, and it was much better than flying.

I've taken TGV in France rather than fly, and in the US, I've taken the train from NY City to Washington DC and back rather than fly.

Sometimes the end/destination stations of these trains conveniently connect to local subway or light rail stations that one can take to city centers or other .

 

[Astronuc]

Sometimes the end/destination stations of these trains conveniently connect to local subway or light rail stations that one can take to city centers or other .

Yes, most of the time, the main train stations are near where I need to go, or I can take a subway or metro. To take a plane would add several hours to a trip to get to airport and wait at both airports (checking luggage or checking in before flight, and collecting luggage at the other end).

When I traveled often to Germany, I would fly into Dusseldorf, then take the train to the Hauptbahnhof. The hotel where I stayed was within walking distance from the Hauptbahnhof, either in Dusseldorf or Essen. The principal client was located in Essen, and the office was right across from the train station, the hotel was on the other side of the train station. I didn't need a car. If I did, I could rent a car nearby - also walking distance from the hotels.

 

[WWGD]

Certainly more convenient too, than driving all the way ( when feasible). There's a time and place for road trips, which can be fun, but convenience-wise high speed trains rate higher in my opinion.

 

[WWGD]

Yes, most of the time, the main train stations are near where I need to go, or I can take a subway or metro. To take a plane would add several hours to a trip to get to airport and wait at both airports (checking luggage or checking in before flight, and collecting luggage at the other end).

When I traveled often to Germany, I would fly into Dusseldorf, then take the train to the Hauptbahnhof. The hotel where I stayed was within walking distance from the Hauptbahnhof, either in Dusseldorf or Essen. The principal client was located in Essen, and the office was right across from the train station, the hotel was on the other side of the train station. I didn't need a car. If I did, I could rent a car nearby - also walking distance from the hotels.

Still, many argue such systems are only economically viable in high-density regions. In the US, it may be so in the East Coast; specially the North East, and in the San Francisco to Los Angeles strip. There was one planned in the latter that is years behind schedule, with major cost overruns. Whether it should be subsidized elsewhere is a major point of contention.

 

[Mayhem]

Got a lousy grade on a semester project. I don't imagine my other project will fare much better (grade still pending). I think my prospects of doing a Ph.d are quite low to be honest, at least if grade average is what I am judged on.

 

[WWGD]

( Don't?) Walk this way
https://www.earth.com/news/technology-identify-people-walk/

 

[pinball1970]

I found an old box of face masks from the Covid days. I thought Id use them as eye covers for sleeping. Snag: I have ears. Masks were on the snug side and width of my face around /including my ears is larger than around my mouth.

Save them for travel in congested places.

 

[WWGD]

Interesting use of language: "Several Plethoras"

 

[DrGreg]

Why you shouldn't trust a computer to generate content without human supervision:

 

[WWGD]

I bought my phone in January 2023. This is its icon for . A bit outdated.

 

[BillTre]

I see two different icons for this.
One in the post on the website on my laptop:

And another that is a bit more modern in the email from the website alerting me to the post:

!!!

 

[WWGD]

Kind of embarrassing. I, the supposed hot shot science guy, taking like 20 some minutes to figure out at what point between 3 and 4 p.m., the hours and minute hands on the clock form a straight line. Since at 3 p.m the needles form 90 degrees *, with the hours hand at 0 deg, and minutes needle runs 12 x as fast as the hours needle, we have a simple 12x-(90+ x)=180. But I got all mixed up considering radians, degrees, converting back and forth between different units.

*Seemed easier here to use degrees , rather than radians.

 

[WWGD]

Kind of bizarre when I realizee all my YT feed was from around 3 to 4 years back and so much of it turned around Covid.

 

[Borg]

Ever had an idea that felt just so fundamentally radical that you thought that there has to be a flaw that you're overlooking? I having one of those moments today. I guess that I'll have to do the hard work to prove myself wrong.

Edit: Found the first thing that I didn't consider already but I don't think that it's a showstopper.

 

[jack action]

The clearest sign of intellectual chemistry isn't agreeing with someone. It's enjoying your disagreements with them.

Harmony is the pleasing arrangement of different tones, voices, or instruments, not the combination of identical sounds.

Creative tension makes beautiful music.

 

[Borg]

I need to remember that the next time I'm arguing with myself.

 

[WWGD]

I thought I was blazing a trail. Then , though a basic search, I realized many had tried to repop unpopped corn. Even several times.

 

[WWGD]

Guy calls me to followup for a job I applied two years ago. " Tell us about some experience or something special about yourself". Well, guy, I've been to the desert in a horse with no name. hasn't contacted me again.

 

[WWGD]

Hmm, nothing shows affection like offering food and then saying " If you don't eat it, Ill just throw it out anyway".

 

[WWGD]

Lady has her wallet carelessly embedded in her purse. She drops it, I point it out to her. Then she puts it back in her purse in the exact same precarious way.

 

[PhDeezNutz]

All permutations of Richard Feynman are funny if you replace Feyn with Fine and Richard with Dick. Just Sayin'

 

[collinsmark]

All permutations of Richard Feynman are funny if you replace Feyn with Fine and Richard with Dick. Just Sayin'

Richard Feynman did in fact go by the name of "Dick." It was his common name used by friends, family, and colleagues.

And of course, the "Feyn" in Feynman is pronounced the same as "fine."

So, realistically, that already was the way it was.

 

[PhDeezNutz]

Richard Feynman did in fact go by the name of "Dick." It was his common name used by friends, family, and colleagues.

And of course, the "Feyn" in Feynman is pronounced the same as "fine."

So, realistically, that already was the way it was.

Fine Man Dick is funny

now that i think about it other permutations may not be.

 

[nuuskur]

sheesh, it's been 10 years!

 

[Borg]

Fine Man Dick is funny

now that i think about it other permutations may not be.

You mean like someone I knew whose parents named him Richard Edward? (Dick Ed)

 

[PhDeezNutz]

You mean like someone I knew whose parents named him Richard Edward? (Dick Ed)

That's rough man. Was his middle initial H? Oh god that would be cruel.

 

[Astronuc]

The governor, Gavin Newsom, imposed a state of emergency on Monday as officials cut power to 245 homes in the seaside community, about 25 miles (40km) south of Los Angeles, due to worsening land movement. The electricity provider in the region, Southern California Edison, shut off power to 140 homes on Sunday and another 105 on Monday, citing the risk of igniting fires.

‘Gigantic’ landslides hit California coastal town: ‘Watching their homes crumble’​

https://news.yahoo.com/news/hundreds-coastal-california-homes-lose-201532932.html

Nice view from expensive houses that are built on unstable ground. They should have known that.

Rancho Palos Verdes is now grappling with buckling streets, buildings sinking and cracking and hundreds of families forced to leave their homes, said Janice Hahn, a Los Angeles county supervisor, at a news conference on Monday.

I've seen a similar situation on Soledad Mountain in LoJolla, Ca, where a water leak in a water main soaked the ground down grade such that a portion of the mount subsided with the road and several houses.

 

[Tom.G]

Due to heavy rain the last two years, a slip plane was lubricated and the area started slowly sliding to the sea. There was enough water in the saturated ground that it seeped down to another, previously unknown, slip plane, about 600 feet deep.

With the two active slip planes, some areas were/are traveling as much as 1 foot per week.

Sounds terminal to me.

Tom

 

[Borg]

That's rough man. Was his middle initial H? Oh god that would be cruel.

Yeah, pretty rough. That was his first and middle name.

I've always liked Tom Hanks' combination of his first initial and last name - THanks. I can just imagine his email signature.

Thanks,
THanks

 

[symbolipoint]

I found an old box of face masks from the Covid days. I thought Id use them as eye covers for sleeping. Snag: I have ears. Masks were on the snug side and width of my face around /including my ears is larger than around my mouth.

COVID days are still with us.

I bought a box of paper-ish masks, 50 ea. per box, and from 3 years ago, still have most or half of them still in the box.

Cloth masks can be made, for those individuals motivated to do it. And no need for sewing machine.

 

[WWGD]

COVID days are still with us.

I bought a box of paper-ish masks, 50 ea. per box, and from 3 years ago, still have most or half of them still in the box.

Cloth masks can be made, for those individuals motivated to do it. And no need for sewing machine.

By what account is Covid still a major issue?

 

[WWGD]

Wow, pickpocketing, tourist theft still a major issue. Some have taken it onto themselves to fight them, take them on in several YT channels.