Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[OmCheeto]

Tomorrow will be a very rare PI day.

And that makes 4.

My hippie dippie friends had a complete meltdown on Facebook yesterday. Finger pointing, shouting, and general meanness, which you don't usually see from the group. So today I noticed that it's the Ides of March(back stabber day). I also noticed that Friday was the 13th(bad luck day). A few days ago, someone mentioned that Mars was in retrograde(11 weeks of; everything you start, will end in failure).

And of course, Pi day, made everyone, irrational.

My recommendation is, that we should all stay in bed yesterday, with the covers over our heads.

ps. The entire thread got deleted. It was that nasty.

 

[edward]

My dog recently caught on to what W...A...L...K means. F...O...O...D will be next. I will have to start using a code word or start spelling those Pavlovian words backwards.

 

[Borg]

My dog recently caught on to what W...A...L...K means. F...O...O...D will be next. I will have to start using a code word or start spelling those Pavlovian words backwards.

Just start calling them B...A...T...H... and V...E...T...

 

[zoobyshoe]

Waking Dead is getting interesting.

 

[Bacle2]

I was literally one of just two people at the movie theater tonight ( the 2nd person did not come with me). I felt like saying to him/her "you're in my seat", but I didn't know how it would be received.

 

[Bacle2]

that's off entirely by the order of 10^-4. Though any March 14 would be a Pi day, but that's too easy :<

But 3.1416 is a better approximation to 3.1415927... than 3.1415. Maybe the better thing about 3.1415 is that it can be extended into a better approximation.

 

[Psinter]

I was literally one of just two people at the movie theater tonight ( the 2nd person did not come with me). I felt like saying to him/her "you're in my seat", but I didn't know how it would be received.

That would have been epic awesome! I would have gone for it 100%. Once a group of guys, I don't know how, managed to enter into the movies a cauldron (large cooking pot) with hot rice and another with fried chicken. Plus two 2 liters of Coca-Cola. When the movie began the began serving to their friends around and you could see the steam from the rice rising. It was epic to no avail. Nobody told them anything. I suppose they had colleagues working there.

Why do Mentors rarely ever post here at Random Thoughts?

Join in Mentors. Randomize yourselves. Edit: Throw me some random funny story.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Spinach

 

[thankz]

looks like they beat me to it

 

[wukunlin]

Took me almost a year to find a job and it look less than a week to make me feel like finding another one.
It's not like the job is bad or anything but I just don't feel for it :(

I guess the good thing is at least I have decent income while I can do some soul searching

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Took me almost a year to find a job and it look less than a week to make me feel like finding another one.
It's not like the job is bad or anything but I just don't feel for it :(

I guess the good thing is at least I have decent income while I can do some soul searching

It happens all the time to me too. I hate job changes, because it's always a lot like I have to take the whole college's first year again after I almost finish the last one, which is very frustrating.
I accept to do the job to save some $ for rainy days, even if I already know well it's not the right one for me.

 

[audire]

"Business" science, is there anything more despicable?

 

[Silicon Waffle]

"Business" science, is there anything more despicable?

Why despicable ? Where did you get the source that said or implied so about business science ?

 

[audire]

Personal experience, or in salesman lingo "corporate shenanigans".

Sorry for the crass sarcasm.. it's early and I have two back to back job interviews.

 

[audire]

looks like they beat me to it

out of aesthetics how would this improve sound quality?

source: coming from an audiophile

 

[Enclose]

Just wrote half an essay in the 'existential crisis' thread only to discover it was closed before I could post :(

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Just wrote half an essay in the 'existential crisis' thread only to discover it was closed before I could post :(

Yes, PF owners don't allow it here, it takes time and mind to argue again and again for and against an idea.. You may want to head into facebook groups for similar discussions.

 

[Enclose]

Yes, PF owners don't allow it here, it takes time and mind to argue again and again for and against an idea.. You may want to head into facebook groups for similar discussions.

I can imagine people get sick of the topic yes, since it never leads to a conclusion anyway. Also I've never had a facebook account, but I don't think I'm missing much without it :D

 

[zoobyshoe]

Took me almost a year to find a job and it look less than a week to make me feel like finding another one.
It's not like the job is bad or anything but I just don't feel for it :(

I guess the good thing is at least I have decent income while I can do some soul searching

What's the job?

Working is a strange situation. People pay you to do what they need done the way they want it done. Regardless, people still hope for a job doing what they want to do the way they want to do it.

 

[zoobyshoe]

White glue. You can buy a gallon(128oz) of it for about $20. Dollar Tree has a deal now, 2 four oz bottles for a dollar. So, eight ounces for a dollar. Take the $20 you would have spent on a gallon(128oz) and you can get 160 oz at Dollar Tree.

But then there's this issue of container waste: you can never get all the glue out of a glue bottle. A whole bunch of smaller containers has more interior surface area than one large container, creating more container waste. Still, you have 32 whole extra ounces to work with. Hmm.

 

[thankz]

thankz said: ↑
looks like they beat me to it
Click to expand...
out of aesthetics how would this improve sound quality?

source: coming from an audiophileI wouldn't buy it for it's sound but its much cooler than having say Newtons cradle on your desk.

 

[wukunlin]

What's the job?

Working is a strange situation. People pay you to do what they need done the way they want it done. Regardless, people still hope for a job doing what they want to do the way they want to do it.

It's a mixture of QA, QC, and sales of luminaires. I'm starting to suspect that I am still not over the cultural shock from working overseas.

 

[Enclose]

3D printing just went up a notch!

 

[zoobyshoe]

It's a mixture of QA, QC, and sales of luminaires.

I have no idea what any of this means. What are QA's, QC's, and "luminaires?"

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I have no idea what any of this means. What are QA's, QC's, and "luminaires?"

I guess they are about electrical light product quality testing and assurance.
His company might not separate QA and QC so he has to do both as a tester (QC) and quality checker (QA), and at the same time he is a salesman of his company products: "luminaires".

 

[nuuskur]

say, what..?

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Can we just ignore it as if we knew nothing ?
[edit]"it"

 

[Psinter]

Can we just ignore as if we knew nothing ?

Yes we can! Rantantantan!

 

[Silicon Waffle]

But true, I miss PF a lot once in every 2-3 days.

 

[Psinter]

There's a forum which no longer exists which I miss. There was this funny guy who kept getting banned and kept coming back . Time after time he got banned, and then was allowed to come back because everybody liked him. At one point the mods got tired and left the Banned label on even thought he wasn't. Some people are just too emphatic and sympathetic and you get attached to them.

 

[audire]

Starting a new job today! server/waiter for a carbbean cuisine (semi-upscale midtown dining) that was transported to atlanta from NYC. I think it's a good thing most jobs value people from STEM related jobs but being a "people person" helps as well

 

[Ibix]

I'm watching a film produced by a company called Timeless Films, whose logo is... a clock. Shouldn't it be the absence of a clock?

 

[audire]

I'm watching a film produced by a company called Timeless Films, whose logo is... a clock. Shouldn't it be the absence of a clock?

Maybe the hourglass logo was already taken.

 

[Ibix]

Maybe the hourglass logo was already taken.

An empty hourglass would make sense.

 

[nuuskur]

does the clock have hands on it?

 

[Ibix]

The animated version even has the hands sweeping around.

 

[Ibix]

...although on closer examination, I see that they stop at about 6.30 o'clock (big hand pointing upwards, little hand somewhere between 6 and 7), so maybe that's the point.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I'm watching a film produced by a company called Timeless Films, whose logo is... a clock. Shouldn't it be the absence of a clock?

Yes, it should.

 

[Ibix]

Glad we're agreed. I'll draft an email letting them know.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Glad we're agreed. I'll draft an email letting them know.

then if i were them, i would keep silent. you deserve it

 

[rootone]

Random thoughts eh?, I didn't find this until now, but I'll give it a go.
;
;
What if my random thoughts are not in fact random, but predictable, given that I have sufficient data and I know how to do the math?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Glad we're agreed. I'll draft an email letting them know.

Very good. And I'm going to require a two page essay from them explaining the meaning and use of the suffix '-less.' They clearly need a refresher.

 

[wukunlin]

I guess they are about electrical light product quality testing and assurance.
His company might not separate QA and QC so he has to do both as a tester (QC) and quality checker (QA), and at the same time he is a salesman of his company products: "luminaires".

You're spot on.

For those that are unfamiliar with the term, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminaire

 

[Uollises]

You're spot on.

For those that are unfamiliar with the term, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminaire

Nice to read about every day things, which you are used to. It seems that even these things are not so simple

 

[wukunlin]

What I've learned with my limited experience at work:
even the simplest things can be made infinitely complex by bizarre customer requests and apathetic suppliers.

 

[JorisL]

Literally 15 minutes into harry potter and the deathly hallows part 1 I already find too much 'fun' details' from the book missing.

*Sigh*

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Maybe I read what you write because I am worried you may be ruining my farms.
Yesterday my mom just embroidered me a scarlet letter H and I would want to sew it into my T-Shirt to tell people "I am a homophobia".

 

[Enigman]

Literally 15 minutes into harry potter and the deathly hallows part 1 I already find too much 'fun' details' from the book missing.

*Sigh*

One of the reasons I didn't watch part 2.

 

[Evo]

Maybe I read what you write because I am worried you may be ruining my farms.
Yesterday my mom just embroidered me a scarlet letter H and I would want to sew it into my T-Shirt to tell people "I am a homophobia".

What? Maybe it's a language thing. What do farms and being opposed to gay people have in common?

 

[Silicon Waffle]

What? Maybe it's a language thing. What do farms and being opposed to gay people have in common?

I met a cowboy who is a homophobia and just couldn't get his behaviors off my mind.