Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

In summary, Danger has a small crush on Swedish TV, and thinks that the russians are bad arses. He also mentions that taking a math class at 8:00 isdestructive.
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WWGD said:
So I am trying to decide where my homes will be : St Tropez ? Lausanne?
Why do you want to climb hills each time you go somewhere?
However there are two good reasons pro the banks of Lake Geneva: Tina Turner and Shania Twain.
 
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WWGD said:
Lottery jackpot (Powerball) around here has reached $800 million. What do I do with all that ( or the estimated actual $529.8 million one actually nets)?

I hope no one wins for a few times, to see it get to more than a billion. Imagine, a price of
$1,000,000,000 (after taxes; though this assumes a single winner)?

Update, Jackpot up to $900 million.
 
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WWGD said:
Update, Jackpot up to $900 million.
I want to be a lottery winner. :nb)
 
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When I see people wearing sweat pants in mid-winter, I conclude humanity, or at least this country has won , or is ahead in the fight for survival -- fashion and comfort can be put ahead of keeping warm.
 
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Silicon Waffle said:
I want to be a lottery winner. :nb)
I don't know where you are, but you may be able to buy tickets online if you are not in a participating state.
 
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fresh_42 said:
Why do you want to climb hills each time you go somewhere?
However there are two good reasons pro the banks of Lake Geneva: Tina Turner and Shania Twain.

Shania Twain: She don't impress me much*. But I did not know about St Tropez being a place with high elevation. How about NYC, Madrid and Vienna?

* Getting back at her over her pretentious 90's song.
 
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WWGD said:
Update, Jackpot up to $900 million.

wow - i could really fix up my old truck
 
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I've never been to NYC. But I'm sure it's a city which I'd like. At least it's flat. Madrid has some beautiful museums worth visiting. And I dream of once driving there. It's like NYC traffic with less rules. Vienna is very special, and expensive. Ok, that shouldn't be a problem anymore. It wouldn't be my choice. IMO Lausanne actually has been a perfect choice. If there weren't these hills in the middle of it ...
To catch your pass: Shania probably composed her song Up! after a shopping tour in Lausanne ;-)
 
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jim hardy said:
wow - i could really fix up my old truck

No problem, but give me some time to send a lawyer to collect the winnings and I will send you a PF check.

EDIT: What the heck, I will buy you a new truck after I win.
 
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fresh_42 said:
I've never been to NYC. But I'm sure it's a city which I'd like. At least it's flat. Madrid has some beautiful museums worth visiting. And I dream of once driving there. It's like NYC traffic with less rules.

There are many good things about the city. Still, fewer rules than Madrid would basically imply almost no rules whatsoever. If you want to drive here, get ready to deal with droves of people in every corner, jay walking , etc. Not a driver's paradise.
 
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WWGD said:
That would imply no rules whatsoever.
There is one rule: live and let live. I.e. on a three lane road there will be at least four used lanes and to turn around a corner you'll have to use every single inch you could find to force your way. Funny. It's Kant's categorical imperative made reality.
 
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WWGD said:
EDIT: What the heck, I will buy you a new truck after I win.

Thanks ! this will do nicely...

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jim hardy said:
wow - i could really fix up my old truck
You could buy an entire factory. :oldtongue:
 
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This is a new one: a lady texting for some twenty minutes while breast- feeding in the park.
 
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You wasted 20 minutes of your life observing that?
 
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nuuskur said:
You wasted 20 minutes of your life observing that?
Wasted? 20 minutes of imagination, jealousy and sitting in a park? (Ok, I'm a little shameful for me and my fellow males but only a little. )
 
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nuuskur said:
You wasted 20 minutes of your life observing that?
Sort of, I observed it on and off. Hoping I would be next in line ;).
 
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Anybody watching football?
 
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fresh_42 said:
Anybody watching football?
You mean the Super Cup?
 
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WWGD said:
You mean the Super Cup?
No I meant the wild card matches.
 
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All representatives are still assisting other callers. Please continue to hold for the next available representative.
 
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Some Bach piece in the interval, I think it's a movement from one of the Brandenburgs, transcribed for guitar. It's very scratchy. I'm on the third time through.
 
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Elvis' birth anniversary (1/8/35) seems to have gone by with little notice.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
All representatives are still assisting other callers. Please continue to hold for the next available representative.
Seems they could save both the public and themselves time, hassle and money if they would allow you to leave your phone together with good times to call you back -- with some guarantee to not put you on a marketing call list.
 
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WWGD said:
Seems they could save both the public and themselves time, hassle and money if they would allow you to leave your phone together with good times to call you back -- with some guarantee to not put you on a marketing call list.
The Ca DMV does that. This is my cable company I'm trying to talk to at the moment. They issued a new device for digital TV. I hooked it up, but I am only getting one channel, USA. The TV refuses to even try to display another channel by any means of channel changing.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
The Ca DMV does that. This is my cable company I'm trying to talk to at the moment. They issued a new device for digital TV. I hooked it up, but I am only getting one channel, USA. The TV refuses to even try to display another channel by any means of channel changing.
Seems it would take a good amount of computing power for someone on the other side of the phone line to understand your layout and give instructions. I have seen very few people do that well.
 
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WWGD said:
Seems it would take a good amount of computing power for someone on the other side of the phone line to understand your layout and give instructions. I have seen very few people do that well.
Well, someone finally answered. The problem was that, to do anything, you have to aim the remote at the new digital box rather than at the TV.
 
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WWGD said:
Elvis' birth anniversary (1/8/35) seems to have gone by with little notice.
I noticed. My sister is mad about him. (And I once named a server Aaron!))
 
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So far, the ordeal was worth it. Everything's HD now, and I get about 20 more channels.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
So far, the ordeal was worth it. Everything's HD now, and I get about 20 more channels.

I am still trying to figure out how best to find something I enjoy with a 200+ line up. Maybe I should use ideas of the Secretary Problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem to choose the best thing to watch.
 
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WWGD said:
I am still trying to figure out how best to find something I enjoy with a 200+ line up. Maybe I should use ideas of the Secretary Problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem to choose the best thing to watch.
Sounds like a perfect strategy to watch the last five minutes of many shows and movies.

(My record is at danger: I want the Steelers to win and they are 15-0 in the lead (3rd).)
 
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fresh_42 said:
Sounds like a perfect strategy to watch the last five minutes of many shows and movies.

But there is a feature in most cable that you can know the programming ahead of time, together with a description ( but maybe good old Tivo ( if it is still around) may be a better alternative). But there is the issue that this will interrupt the last 5-10 minutes while searching. Unless you start your prep many hours ahead -- I don't have that amount of time nor dedication to this.
 
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WWGD said:
But there is a feature in most cable that you can know the programming ahead of time
I've got something like this. And I can mark programs I want to watch so the receiver automatically switches channels. That sometimes results in pure stress when overlapping occurs ...
 
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WWGD said:
I am still trying to figure out how best to find something I enjoy with a 200+ line up. Maybe I should use ideas of the Secretary Problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem to choose the best thing to watch.
I only have 96 choices, but so many of them are so invariably of no interest that choosing is usually a matter of determining the best of 3.
 
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There are several chunks of time today that I can't account for.
 

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