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I have one with the even primes.Ibix said:Is there a pocket version that only has the even numbers?
I have one with the even primes.Ibix said:Is there a pocket version that only has the even numbers?
All of them? In one book? Wow!fresh_42 said:I have one with the even primes.
No problem:Ibix said:All of them? In one book? Wow!
Can you get one for New Age woo types with all natural numbers?
Are you upside down yourself? Would surely cancel out.Ibix said:Is there a pocket version that only has the even numbers?
I have a copy of Tolman's Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology that I like reading in public because the cover's on upside down. It's quite funny watching people trying to work out if I'm just posing with an intellectual book but am actually so dumb I haven't noticed I'm holding the book upside down, or... what?
I have one (sic) showing how all books ever written appear in the expansion of pie (π).Ibix said:All of them? In one book? Wow!
Can you get one for New Age woo types with all natural numbers?
WWGD said:Weird-enough when sitting, but when you walk with it, it seems a person moving in ways that are impossible.
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I remember a professor who told me that his night owl friend tried to change his rhythm his entire life - and failed. I remember a website which had a different clock running for night owls. I think it was minus 3 hours. And last but not least, they found out that kids at school improve their learning if they only started an hour later. I even remember a project, where they introduced an option: kids could choose whether to start early or to repeat the first class later and on another day of the week. First results have been promising.WWGD said:Interesting book "Power of When" on how people have different internal time cycles/rythms so that their energy and focus levels change based on different patterns and schedules. The early bird 9-5 lifestyle is not well suited for all, though I am not sure how society, daily life, could be retooled to better fit this difference.
Other than moving school start forward a bit, it seems difficult to change the 9-5 setup in most societies. But it's clear you can get much more done when you're rested and fresh.fresh_42 said:I remember a professor who told me that his night owl friend tried to change his rhythm his entire life - and failed. I remember a website which had a different clock running for night owls. I think it was minus 3 hours. And last but not least, they found out that kids at school improve their learning if they only started an hour later. I even remember a project, where they introduced an option: kids could choose whether to start early or to repeat the first class later and on another day of the week. First results have been promising.
My excuse? The astronomer's day is the night.
Depends on the job. I once was in a project at a big airport. What should I say, you could get lunch 24/7 and eating at 2 a.m. in a small mess lost somewhere on the airfield has a completely different - and not boring - atmosphere. People are nicer at night.WWGD said:Other than moving school start forward a bit, it seems difficult to change the 9-5 setup in most societies. But it's clear you can get much more done when you're rested and fresh.
Maybe we can even have nocturnal Baseball leagues ;).fresh_42 said:Depends on the job. I once was in a project at a big airport. What should I say, you could get lunch 24/7 and eating at 2 a.m. in a small mess lost somewhere on the airfield has a completely different - and not boring - atmosphere. People are nicer at night.
How about changing a different aspect: number of days worked per week. Would 4 be enough? Better? Different for different people? Wonder if this has been tried in a large-enough scale.fresh_42 said:Nocturnal (for me) NFL sufficies.
I think there are some companies in Scandinavia which have variations of those concepts. And a software product doesn't care when it was written and where.WWGD said:How about changing a different aspect: number of days worked per week. Would 4 be enough? Better? Different for different people? Wonder if this has been tried in a large-enough scale.
Yes, cancel Bolzano. Just Weierstraß. And no, only Rodgers hit me, or better didn't hit anything. And I don't like the 49ers.WWGD said:Hitting the Bier Garten recently?
Too bad. You're too nice; I am surely better at rationalizing my selfishness and missbehaving than you. I can offer a few excuses. "So I took his food. He's 3 years old, has his life ahead of him. Me, I am hungry"Ibix said:Ugh. Stuck on a massively delayed train that's stopping at every single station because it's the only one that's run all evening. A bunch of lads who clearly spent the delay in the pub and can't seem to converse except in a ****ing bellow, you ****ing ****s, is just what everyone needed. And I'm beginning to regret the nobility behind reasoning that if I'm still young and fit enough to get on the train before all the seats were gone I'm young and fit enough to manage standing the whole way. I turn out to be young and fit enough to do it, but not young and fit enough to do it without complaining...![]()
Rationalizing selfishness is a national sport here at the moment. I'm making an effort not to play.WWGD said:You're too nice; I am surely better at rationalizing my selfishness and missbehaving than you.
So you're a politician!WWGD said:Too bad. You're too nice; I am surely better at rationalizing my selfishness and missbehaving than you. I can offer a few excuses. "So I took his food. He's 3 years old, has his life ahead of him. Me, I am hungry"
The Hunt for Red October said:Listen, I'm a politician which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm not kissing babies I'm stealing their lollipops.
I always thought politicians are neither better nor worse than the rest of the population; most people are too easy on themselves when blaming politicians.fresh_42 said:So you're a politician!
That scene is fun. That quote is from the president, who is saying it because he knows that saying that plays to Ryan's beliefs and is therefore the best way to manipulate him. Ryan is fully aware of it, and that it's working.fresh_42 said:So you're a politician!
This is too easy, and I don't agree. The reason is: you have to pass several "tests", elections etc. to end up as a politician. This is a kind of filter, and at the end, we do not have the average person anymore. Those filters foster lies, or at least reduced truths, certain speaking skills and yes, manipulating others, too. And when did an average politician in any of our western democracies had last contact to ordinary people on workstations while actually working, and not in townhalls or dinner parties? These circumstances spoil the ideal.WWGD said:I always thought politicians are neither better nor worse than the rest of the population; most people are too easy on themselves when blaming politicians.
EDIT: And it is -7 C in Beijing.EDIT: And it is 18 F in Beijing.
Mine? I copied it from IMDB.Ibix said:Yes. Although I'm not 100% sure that quote's in the movie.
Ok, then it probably is in the film. I remember it from the book, but the film adaptation is pretty loose in some places so I wasn't sure.fresh_42 said:Mine? I copied it from IMDB.
I have seen pirated movie CDs, strangely, dated before the movies came out in the theaters.fresh_42 said:Mine? I copied it from IMDB.
Dubbed or translated?fresh_42 said:Well, I only have the German version in mind, which is why I looked up the correct translation.