Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[nuuskur]

Breaking News: Research shows that there is no significant difference between regular stamps and Batman stamps - Get your issue of the release wholly 70% off dial 1-800 ...

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I just formatted my drive inadvertently. All my documents are gone!

 

[WWGD]

I just formatted my drive inadvertently. All my documents are gone!

Do you have a backup?

 

[WWGD]

I was watching a documentary of the band Queen and it is pretty admirable to note the complete lack of pettiness between the members. They never had a serious separation, if any, and after more than 20 years playing together, now being disbanded, the members all show respect, affection and admiration for each other. There is the sad/dark side of this , of some feeling suicidal after Fred Mercury died.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Do you have a backup?

Yes I always have a backup of last week's data but my newly added documents of this week are all lost.

 

[WWGD]

Yes I always have a backup of last week's data but my newly added documents of this week are all lost.

Hope they were not too important or difficult to obtain.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Thanks WWGD, everything I put down is still on my mind. I'm rewriting them all now.

 

[nuuskur]

Well, you are fortunate - I usually write things down so I would not have to remember them :D

 

[Borek]

25k

 

[Borg]

25k

 

[WWGD]

Mr. "Common sense is not so common", Phil McGraw put out a diet book despite not being an MD --he has a PHD in Psychology.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I didn't buy any Batman stamps today. Sweating and trembling, temperature 101F. But, I'll beat this addiction.

 

[zoobyshoe]

We almost lost Indiana Jones:

A small plane piloted by Harrison Ford crash landed at a Los Angeles golf course at approximately 2:24 p.m. this afternoon, according to reports. The extent of Ford's injuries is unclear, though Ford was taken to a nearby hospital.

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/news/a33513/harrison-ford-plane-crash/

 

[Ibix]

He seems to be accident prone lately. Didn't he get hit by a garage door on the Star Wars set some time last year?

 

[Enigman]

Started another story and after writing the first bloody line I can safely say this is going to suck.

 

[OCR]

We almost lost Indiana Jones:

A small plane piloted by Harrison Ford crash landed at a Los Angeles golf course at approximately 2:24 p.m. this afternoon, according to reports. The extent of Ford's injuries is unclear, though Ford was taken to a nearby hospital.

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/news/a33513/harrison-ford-plane-crash/

Full flaps, dammit! That's a golf course!

Lol...

 

[Borek]

Looks like he is (mostly) OK.

Did he made a hole in one?

 

[nuuskur]

Started another story and after writing the first bloody line I can safely say this is going to suck.

Artists very often hate their own work, I've noticed. Others might like it a lot :D

 

[waternohitter]

I'm surprised that a lot of people are willing to listen to songs in an unknown language as long as they like the feel of it. I thought I was one of a few.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I'm surprised that a lot of people are willing to listen to songs in an unknown language as long as they like the feel of it. I thought I was one of a few.

They may have their own ways to learn about things. I enjoy all melodies regardless of what languages the song lyrics were written in.
Have a nice weekend!

 

[Borg]

As a programmer, I have two main phrases that I hate to hear.

• That will look good on my resume. Usually spoken by someone who's about to overdesign a section of code in order to pad their resume.
• That will never happen or the customer will never want that. Usually gets applied to a core feature that will impact everything when they do want it the other way.

End minor rant...

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Good catch !

 

[zoobyshoe]

Looks like he is (mostly) OK.

Well, it came out he broke his pelvis and ankle, and had many cuts. I think he'll be out of commission for a while.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...e-pelvis-ankle-bones-report-article-1.2139614

 

[Enigman]

http://www.windows93.net/

 

[Astronuc]

"The world wants peace." - Hiccup, in How to Train Your Dragon 2.

Makes wonder why people follow the likes of Putin or al-Baghdadi, or any of a host of other demented individuals.

 

[Ibix]

Because they want peace on their own terms and are frightened of what peace on some stranger's, some foreigner's, terms might mean.

 

[WWGD]

It always feels uncomfortable when a song is playing and there is a male nearby singing to it, with a low, effeminate voice.

 

[zoobyshoe]

It always feels uncomfortable when a song is playing and there is a male nearby singing to it, with a low, effeminate voice.

Guys should sing loud and manly. Like a lumberjack:

 

[jim hardy]

Makes wonder why people follow the likes of Putin or al-Baghdadi, or any of a host of other demented individuals.

I know I'm a broken record on this,

but Eric Hoffer wrote the seminal book on psychology of mass movements.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/true-believer-eric-hoffer/1100616914?ean=9780060505912

Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer

The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements is a 1951 social psychology book by American writer Eric Hoffer that discusses the psychological causes of fanaticism.

The book analyzes and attempts to explain the motives of the various types of personalities that give rise to mass movements; why and how mass movements start, progress and end; and the similarities between them, whether religious, political, radical or reactionary. Hoffer argues that even when their stated goals or values differ mass movements are interchangeable, that adherents will often flip from one movement to another, and that the motivations for mass movements are interchangeable. Thus, religious, nationalist and social movements, whether radical or reactionary, tend to attract the same type of followers, behave in the same way and use the same tactics and rhetorical tools. As examples, the book often refers to Communism, Fascism, National Socialism, Christianity, Protestantism, and Islam.

The first and best-known of Hoffer's books, The True Believer has been published in 23 editions between 1951 and 2002.

and it's apparent that our respective propaganda apparati are well versed in it.

 

[WWGD]

The intro music to the show Magnum P.I ( reruns in TVL ) is so exciting that it makes the show boring by comparison/expectation. It just sets one (at least me) to expect something so extraordinary that no show (nor anything I can think of ) can live up to it:



Like when someone tells you a movie is going to be so amazing, so amazing...

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I would love PF to be a place with good things to learn and share.
I don't want it to become a hospital.

 

[nuuskur]

I would love PF to be a place with good things to learn and share.
I don't want it to become a hospital.

Time for your enema

 

[zoobyshoe]

The intro music to the show Magnum P.I ( reruns in TVL ) is so exciting that it makes the show boring by comparison/expectation. It just sets one (at least me) to expect something so extraordinary that no show (nor anything I can think of ) can live up to it:

The intro is not really all that exiting. The show was often boring, though. Too many long conversations between Magnum and the butler. Anyway, I'd rather see Selleck in a western. Something about him fits with that era better than modern roles.

 

[WWGD]

The intro is not really all that exiting. The show was often boring, though. Too many long conversations between Magnum and the butler. Anyway, I'd rather see Selleck in a western. Something about him fits with that era better than modern roles.

And the british butler was, meaning the actor, actually born in Texas.

 

[zoobyshoe]

And the british butler was, meaning the actor, actually born in Texas.

No wonder he went to Hollywood. He doesn't strike me as someone who'd thrive in Texas.