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[WWGD]

There is a market for pizza with pineapples here. You can even buy them frozen. I suspect that this has to do with WWII, and a German tv cook in the 50's or 60's, and his invention to make people dream in the years after war:

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That's a pineapple sandwich with cheese, not pineapple pizza!

 

[fresh_42]

That's a pineapple sandwich with cheese, not pineapple pizza!

Sure, but it made ham + pineapple + melted cheese famous. It was such a 60's/70's thing. So the step to a pizza with the same ingredients wasn't new and fell in a prepared market.

 

[Jarvis323]

Swedes also like banana curry pizza right? And Italians like hot dog and french fries pizza, which is why I don't take the pineapple hatred seriously.

One of my favorites is bbq sauce, chicken, bacon pineapple.

My best food invention during the pandemic was bacon wrapped shrimp on grilled pepper jack cheese with sourdough fried in lots of butter, and then dipped in peanut butter. I bet that could be a good pizza recipe as well.

 

[WWGD]

Germans also like banana curry pizza right? And Italians like hot dog and french fries pizza, which is why I don't take the pineapple hatred seriously.

One of my favorites is bbq sauce, chicken, bacon pineapple.

My best food invention during the pandemic was bacon wrapped shrimp on grilled pepper jack cheese with sourdough fried in lots of butter, and then dipped in peanut butter. I bet that could be a good pizza recipe as well.

Hey, open up your food car and put it to a test. I have a few ideas myself. Maybe some day.

 

[Jarvis323]

At a local farmers market, some nice people had a sign offering small bag of lettuce to people for free if they have food insecurity. I couldn't stop thinking about the impracticality of lettuce as a gift to starving people. It almost seems cruel.

 

[fresh_42]

Swedes also like banana curry pizza right? And Italians like hot dog and french fries pizza, which is why I don't take the pineapple hatred seriously.

One of my favorites is bbq sauce, chicken, bacon pineapple.

My best food invention during the pandemic was bacon wrapped shrimp on grilled pepper jack cheese with sourdough fried in lots of butter, and then dipped in peanut butter. I bet that could be a good pizza recipe as well.

You must be or are of British ancestry. Italians love their food, and these weird things you talk about are definitely nothing any serious Italian would even call food. And I doubt the curry pizza, too, although I'm not sure about the Swedes.

 

[Jarvis323]

You must be or are of British ancestry. Italians love their food, and these weird things you talk about are definitely nothing any serious Italian would even call food. And I doubt the curry pizza, too, although I'm not sure about the Swedes.

I've watch a bit of these people's youtube channel. I agree, actually no matter what the style, Dominos pizza, while better than just lettuce, is not real food.

 

[hmmm27]

And I doubt the curry pizza, too, although I'm not sure about the Swedes.

I've made curried spaghetti and meatballs... nothing to write home about, unfortunately.

Fun fact : Italian children are the only kids in the world to utter the phrase "Aww, pizza, agaaain ?"... and then they want to know why you're laughing at them.

 

[DaveE]

I've watch a bit of these people's youtube channel. I agree, actually no matter what the style, Dominos pizza, while better than just lettuce, is not real food.

Nope. Not better than lettuce. More calories? yes. better? nope.

 

[WWGD]

Nope. Not better than lettuce. More calories? yes. better? nope.

I accidentally ate part of the box and it tasted better than the pizza itself.

 

[Keith_McClary]

impracticality of lettuce as a gift to starving people

They are probably spending their money on cheap calories.

 

[Jarvis323]

They are probably spending their money on cheap calories.

True. I realize it is s nice gift. But I'm not about to start a fight famine with lettuce action group or anything.

 

[WWGD]

True. I realize it is s nice gift. But I'm not about to start a fight famine with lettuce action group or anything.

And they will likely not have refrigerators to keep it fresh, edible.

 

[WWGD]

Maybe one of these concentrated nutrient powders to be used with water instead.

 

[WWGD]

There is this singer Dio who's real name us Ronnie James Padavano, but changed it to 'Dio', which means God in Italian. Seems Ronnie James does not have major issues of self-esteem.

 

[WWGD]

More on Tutoring. They don't pay me enough:
Prove the sum of 2 Irrationals is not necessarily Irrational.
Me: Hint: 0 is not Irrational.
After an hour:
What does that mean?
Well, if a+b=0, what is the relation between a,b?
1 day after wards:
Can you just solve it for me?

 

[Keith_McClary]

They don't pay me enough

Who gets to figure out how much is owed?

 

[WWGD]

Who gets to figure out how much is owed?

Preagreed upon baby-sitting, er, tutoring fees. Edit: Sorry for being snippy.

 

[WWGD]

Hey Keith, whatever happened to the Montreal Expos team? Why aren't there any more baseball teams from Canada in MLB? EDIT: I thought you were Canadian and would know about it.

 

[WWGD]

Ouch. Some amateur Mathematician asked me to assign him an " Interesting Problem". I just
made one up and asked him to prove that there are infinitely many Fibonnaci primes. I just read
its still an open problem. And I don't have his contact, so I don't know howto tell him.

 

[Keith_McClary]

Montreal Expos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Nationals

 

[WWGD]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Nationals

Thanks. I thought you were our designated Canadian.

 

[Astronuc]

Do one's homework before investing!

The IPO of crypto exchange Coinbase on Wednesday has captivated fans of digital currency and investors as they speculate on the potential for a $100 billion valuation on the company.

But

"I think it's [Coinbase] worth closer to $5 billion or $10 billion as opposed to $100 billion," New Constructs CEO David Trainer tells Yahoo Finance.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coin...ion-not-100-billion-strategist-155726412.html
Besides the discrepancy in valuation, why is this a big deal.

Well, Coinbase is one of many companies incubated by IdeaLabs (and Bill Gross).
https://www.idealab.com/ (look under Our Companies), or
https://www.idealab.com/all_companies.php

Some have been very successful, others not so much.

I knew one of the VPs at eSolar (since left the company and now retired). They had a large project for concentrated solar power, Sierra SunTower. It didn't perform as expected and has been shutdown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESolar#Sierra_SunTower

A critic - http://guntherportfolio.com/2013/04...f-concentrating-solar-power-underperformance/

It's interesting that IdeaLabs (with Prime Movers Lab) has been supporting another solar power company, Heliogen, which would seem to be using similar, if not the same, technology.
https://heliogen.com/
https://www.primemoverslab.com/portfolio/

Both IdeaLabs and PrimeMovers Lab are supporting interesting companies.

 

[WWGD]

Not made up. This lady Jennifer Weir from Mad Tv married a guy with ladt name Dasz. They set up a company " Weir-Dasz Productions".

 

[Borg]

That seems strange.

 

[WWGD]

That seems strange.

Weir(d as ) anything I've heard.

 

[WWGD]

If my brother's daughter is called Denisse, should his upcoming son be called Denefew?*

*Denisse : The niece,
Denefew: The Nephew.

 

[fresh_42]

I'm rarely proud of my country or any other. Too many things that do not go well - anywhere. But today was one of these rare moments as I checked the law that prioritizes SARS2-Covid-19 vaccinations. They really tried to adjust the list to vulnerability and besides the oldest, there were e.g. people with trisomy or BMI above 40 in the top-level group.

 

[WWGD]

I'm rarely proud of my country or any other. Too many things that do not go well - anywhere. But today was one of these rare moments as I checked the law that prioritizes SARS2-Covid-19 vaccinations. They really tried to adjust the list to vulnerability and besides the oldest, there were e.g. people with trisomy or BMI above 40 in the top-level group.

Well, average person today lives much better by most standards than at any point in time: Life expectancy, Education, Fewer wars, less violence. Still a lot to do , but maybe a self-pat in the back would not be such a bad idea.

 

[WWGD]

Is there a reasonable way of changing the color of the cursor so that it contrasts with the screen colors; maybe dynamically? I mean, how much time have I spent looking for the cursor each session?

 

[Keith_McClary]

changing the color of the cursor

There are browser extensions and Windows (or other OS) apps that can change the color and shape.

 

[WWGD]

There are browser extensions and Windows (or other OS) apps that can change the color and shape.

Thank you. Dynamically, i.e., depending on the setup of the page being browsed? Edit: Meaning, e.g., a cursor will be colored black for a page with a white background and viceversa?

 

[hmmm27]

Reverse-colour arrow is one of the standard cursors : did they remove it for Win 10 ? ControlPanel>Mouse>Pointer.

There's also an option that if you type <Ctrl> on your keyboard a circle temporarily appears around the cursor. ControlPanel>Mouse>PointerOptions.

 

[WWGD]

Was it intentional that one of the membets of the Star Trek cast ( Tng, I think) looks like Mad's Alfred E Neumann?

 

[fresh_42]

I like the new world. My MS email account thinks I'm Swedish after years taking me for Spanish, my AOL account thinks I'm a republican living in Iowa, FB thinks I'm an American abroad, and probably has denounced me already at the IRS, and only Google leaves me alone. Isn't that funny? Google? They only try to figure out which music I like most, desperately and in vain. If you can't convince them, confuse them.