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[WWGD]

For what it is worth...For years I thought people were saying Hairy Krishnas. But most shave their heads!? Time to sleep...

I didn't make the connection between the two refs.

 

[nuuskur]

Courtesy of axiomatic set theory:
If it swims and quacks like a duck then it is a set.

 

[fresh_42]

Courtesy of axiomatic set theory:
If it swims and quacks like a duck then it is a set.

Do you allow me to copy this and make a science joke out of it? I have an idea for an illustration.

 

[nuuskur]

Do you allow me to copy this and make a science joke out of it? I have an idea for an illustration.

Go ahead! I doubt it's an original idea, I mean that's what set theory says: if it exists, then it's a set.

I found the English version of the idea I was using. We have a similar saying.

 

[collinsmark]

Courtesy of axiomatic set theory:
If it swims and quacks like a duck then it is a set.

That might fit on a nerdy T-shirt. (I pretty much exclusively wear nerdy T-shirts these days.) Hmm.

 

[skyshrimp]

That feel...

When you make a thread about something not serious in 'off topic' and it gets moved to a serious subforum, only to be ridiculed and locked, when it was made in jest for the lols (hence being posted in off topic).

 

[newbiegirl]

I wonder what would make someone park in the opposite direction of traffic, granted it was a residential street but the car would still be on the same side as their house if parked properly

 

[WWGD]

Bought some roller blades, rat poison and a chicken sandwich. Interesting combinations you can find in large chain stores.

 

[fresh_42]

Bought some roller blades, rat poison and a chicken sandwich. Interesting combinations you can find in large chain stores.

Rat poison is too easily detectable.

 

[WWGD]

Rat poison is too easily detectable.

Yes, no wonder cashier only handed me two things. I suspect they merged it with the chicka...(argh).

 

[strangerep]

Yes, no wonder cashier only handed me two things. I suspect they merged [the rat poison] with the chicka...(argh).

Heh, don't worry too much. If the rat poison is warfarin-based it's "only" going to make your blood less likely to clot. So if you're not a footballer, nor an MMA thug, etc, you might not even notice it.

 

[Bystander]

This "instant" there are six members listed as present but the forum stats show eleven as "on board;" there are that many members afraid to show their faces?

 

[Klystron]

This "instant" there are six members listed as present but the forum stats show eleven as "on board;" there are that many members afraid to show their faces?

I doubt 'afraid' is the operative term. Reluctant?
Or they set a profile/privacy switch without deep thought.
Or₂ visitors are included? {the tiny icon is counting 1,2,3...}

 

[Bystander]

profile/privacy switch

"Prolly," nine of eighteen, at one point last night; my eyes get confused counting more than three rows of listed identities, so I'll never know if its mods hiding/lurking in ambush, therefore an ~ constant, or a fixed proportion of the PF population.

 

[Bystander]

nine of eighteen,

Twenty-six of thirty-eight.

Edit: Twenty-seven of forty-two.

 

[skyshrimp]

Oh god... I've changed jobs and tomorrow is my last day. I think some have planned a leaving do thing near the end of my shift.

Do not want. I know there's a card. Not sure if cake.

 

[Klystron]

Oh god... I've changed jobs and tomorrow is my last day. I think some have planned a leaving do thing near the end of my shift.

Do not want. I know there's a card. Not sure if cake.

Consider it a preview of your funeral service; unwilling guest of honor and all.

 

[Ibix]

Do not want. I know there's a card. Not sure if cake.

How strongly do you feel that? Most bosses where I am would listen if I said I really didn't want a leaving do. Depends on culture where you work, of course.

 

[OmCheeto]

The other day I was following along with the course of a PF HW problem, when I decided to try something new, as distances involved varied by 5 orders of magnitude, from shortest to longest, and doodling a map where you could see all the lengths and lines and angles and distances seemed out of the question.

Drawing maps logarithmically, does not seem to work.

The thread had to do with eclipses, and I was trying to work out some angle for the edge of the penumbra to touch the earth.

Logarithmically, the moon is about half way to the sun from the earth.
But, measured from the sun...
Let's just say, that I'll not be trying this maths trick again.

ps. It did give me a giggle, when I ran across one possible explanation of how one of Frank Zappa's kids got their name:

 

[OmCheeto]

That maths problem did prompt me to finally work out whether or not god used logarithmic time.

As far as I can tell, she did.

 

[BillTre]

@OmCheeto, I like your "Ohm tries to interpret what "god" says happened" in your table.

In my opinion, this is a basic limitation of any ancient text's interpretation of modern concepts.
The guys back then, upon receiving God's explanation of the universe, did not have the conceptual framework in which they could have understood it (no chemistry, no physics (other than common knowledge, no biology).
Any knowledge they received could not have been understood.
Or if it was not properly communicated.

No comment on today's knowledge levels.

 

[OmCheeto]

I was just amazed that given only 2 time points*, that each 'god' day seemed to correspond so well to some actual Earth era/event.

-----
*
big bang, day 1, 13.8 billion years
mankind shows up, day 6, 2 million years

ps. I like to think that there might have been something to that old Star Trek episode: Distant Origin
Those Hadrosaurs came back 3000 years ago, told us what happened, and we've been arguing about it ever since.

 

[newbiegirl]

Oh god... I've changed jobs and tomorrow is my last day. I think some have planned a leaving do thing near the end of my shift.

Do not want. I know there's a card. Not sure if cake.

good luck skyshrimp farewell parties can be awkward like a 2-week notice, but cake is always good

 

[WWGD]

A: " I didn't catch your name"
B: " I didn't throw it"

 

[WWGD]

Anyone who forgets about benefits of moderated sites , notice/remember the types of questions allowed in unmoderated sites:

"So, is it true all the novels ever written appear in the expansion of infinite numbers like pie ($\pi$)"?

 

[WWGD]

My social grace. Someone tells me "See you later" and I reply: "You too!".

 

[fresh_42]

Time to tune in: RSA vs. NZ.

 

[nuuskur]

I am doubting elementary stuff like
$$Y = Y_0\oplus Y_1 \Rightarrow Y/Y_0 \cong Y_1$$
Not feeling well today

 

[fresh_42]

Well, it would be wrong for $Y=Y_0+Y_1$.

3:17 at 36'
13:23 (final)

 

[WWGD]

Read this somewhere:
My sister is pregnant , but I don't know if it is a boy or girl, so I don't know if I am going to be an aunt or an uncle...

 

[WWGD]

I am doubting elementary stuff like
$$Y = Y_0\oplus Y_1 \Rightarrow Y/Y_0 \cong Y_1$$
Not feeling well today

Iirc, it has to see with the associated SES splitting.

 

[nuuskur]

For every sensible question I will have asked a hundred stupid ones.

 

[WWGD]

This guy still walking around in Sandals, shorts and t-shirt. I told him: " Let it go, man, Summer is over. I was sad too. " But there is hope with global warming, not(with)standing Greta (Nor Hansel, I guess).

 

[fresh_42]

Tv is not always bad. Just watched, i.e. listened to a lecture by a Harvard anthropologist about the decline of various civilizations (Maya, Easter Islands, a certain conflict in the medieval Japan, etc.). It was very interesting and completely up to date. He closed with the statement that he is cautiously optimistic, because nowadays we have several communication networks which allow us to learn from catastrophes elsewhere and elsewhen.

I was stunned as they said at the end that it was from 2005. I would like to ask him whether he is still optimistic.

 

[WWGD]

Tv is not always bad. Just watched, i.e. listened to a lecture by a Harvard anthropologist about the decline of various civilizations (Maya, Easter Islands, a certain conflict in the medieval Japan, etc.). It was very interesting and completely up to date. He closed with the statement that he is cautiously optimistic, because nowadays we have several communication networks which allow us to learn from catastrophes elsewhere and elsewhen.

I was stunned as they said at the end that it was from 2005. I would like to ask him whether he is still optimistic.

Sad thing is channels like nat geo, discovery, which intended to provide serious programs ended up jumping the shark because,it seems, people today only want entertainment and not having to do any serious thinking.