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Date: Sun Jan 15 20:34:20 2023
User: mrbuck
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Wait, is this the beginning of the 700 Club? mrbuck
User: mrbuck
Message:
Wait, is this the beginning of the 700 Club? mrbuck
Date: Sun Jan 15 21:43:52 2023
User: BuzzClik
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Genetic engineering gone wrong. Seems possible.
User: BuzzClik
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Genetic engineering gone wrong. Seems possible.
Date: Mon Jan 16 23:24:42 2023
User: BuzzClik
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None so far this month. Generally about 30 times per year. Not a church goer.
User: BuzzClik
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None so far this month. Generally about 30 times per year. Not a church goer.
Date: Tue Jan 17 02:40:35 2023
User: Klepp
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Maybe I'm the odd one, but I really don't get people who solely play the standard game..."ay yay yay" as my departed Grandma Klepp would say...I'd say: the waters are comfortable for wading, FreeCellers shouldn't fear, in the least...
User: Klepp
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Maybe I'm the odd one, but I really don't get people who solely play the standard game..."ay yay yay" as my departed Grandma Klepp would say...I'd say: the waters are comfortable for wading, FreeCellers shouldn't fear, in the least...
Date: Tue Jan 17 10:37:59 2023
User: mrbuck
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I've worn a tie more times than I can remember. It started in Catholic School, then Mass every Sunday, then so many jobs required it. Now it's only worn to go to my daughter's choral recitals, weddings, funerals, and other sad times. mrbuck I hardly ever wear socks.
User: mrbuck
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I've worn a tie more times than I can remember. It started in Catholic School, then Mass every Sunday, then so many jobs required it. Now it's only worn to go to my daughter's choral recitals, weddings, funerals, and other sad times. mrbuck I hardly ever wear socks.
Date: Tue Jan 17 13:23:27 2023
User: outskirts
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I was required to wear a tie as part of our uniforms during concert season and I tied my own windsor knots.
User: outskirts
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I was required to wear a tie as part of our uniforms during concert season and I tied my own windsor knots.
Date: Tue Jan 17 13:43:19 2023
User: redberet
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I hate neck ties; I wouldn't wear one to my own hanging.
User: redberet
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I hate neck ties; I wouldn't wear one to my own hanging.
Date: Wed Jan 18 23:15:00 2023
User: TNmountainman
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Solid boots, but man they look heavy. Are you not going to show the ties to go with them?
User: TNmountainman
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Solid boots, but man they look heavy. Are you not going to show the ties to go with them?
Date: Wed Jan 18 23:56:24 2023
User: TNmountainman
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LOL! I knew it! Left it ambiguous just for that reason!!
User: TNmountainman
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LOL! I knew it! Left it ambiguous just for that reason!!
Date: Thu Jan 19 02:57:49 2023
User: TNmountainman
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And they could never get any hydrogen bonds even remotely close to some reasonable fraction of a cubit. Oh...........had they only known about orbital hybridization back then.........⚛🏗
User: TNmountainman
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And they could never get any hydrogen bonds even remotely close to some reasonable fraction of a cubit. Oh...........had they only known about orbital hybridization back then.........⚛🏗
Date: Thu Jan 19 15:58:17 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Well.................................I'd actually been wondering when 'it' would happen again, and 'it' finally did. Twice in the past, most recently maybe 5-8 years ago, I lost games because I thought I was playing a different variant than I actually was - and lost those games, of course. I think in both cases I thought I was playing a x0 game when in fact I was playing a x1 game. So I just did it again - except this time even worse. I lost the same 10x1 game TWICE before realizing it was one of those. I normally don't replay lost games, but thought I had played this (supposed 10x0) one very carefully, and had concluded it was unwinnable. And, being shocked it had been won nearly 50% of the time, had to see how I could have been so wrong about it. Middle of the *third* time through, the light bulb💡 popped on. Couldn't easily find the other thread where I had reported this lack of cognition, so it's here. Sigh...
User: TNmountainman
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Well.................................I'd actually been wondering when 'it' would happen again, and 'it' finally did. Twice in the past, most recently maybe 5-8 years ago, I lost games because I thought I was playing a different variant than I actually was - and lost those games, of course. I think in both cases I thought I was playing a x0 game when in fact I was playing a x1 game. So I just did it again - except this time even worse. I lost the same 10x1 game TWICE before realizing it was one of those. I normally don't replay lost games, but thought I had played this (supposed 10x0) one very carefully, and had concluded it was unwinnable. And, being shocked it had been won nearly 50% of the time, had to see how I could have been so wrong about it. Middle of the *third* time through, the light bulb💡 popped on. Couldn't easily find the other thread where I had reported this lack of cognition, so it's here. Sigh...
Date: Fri Jan 20 17:16:00 2023
User: TNmountainman
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Thoughtful discussion of demographic trends, mostly U.S.-centric. [Not at all intended to be political, Denny.]
Link: Demographic trends
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Thoughtful discussion of demographic trends, mostly U.S.-centric. [Not at all intended to be political, Denny.]
Link: Demographic trends
Date: Fri Jan 20 20:04:01 2023
User: mrbuck
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Just an FYI: “Every citizen of the United States who is over the age of twenty-one years and has resided in New Mexico twelve months, in the county ninety days, and in the precinct in which he the person offers to vote thirty days, next preceding the election, except idiots, insane persons and person convicted of a felonious or infamous crime unless restored to political rights, shall be qualified to vote at all elections for public officers. The legislature may enact laws providing for absentee voting by qualified electors. All school elections shall be held at different times from other partisan elections.” mrbuck
User: mrbuck
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Just an FYI: “Every citizen of the United States who is over the age of twenty-one years and has resided in New Mexico twelve months, in the county ninety days, and in the precinct in which he the person offers to vote thirty days, next preceding the election, except idiots, insane persons and person convicted of a felonious or infamous crime unless restored to political rights, shall be qualified to vote at all elections for public officers. The legislature may enact laws providing for absentee voting by qualified electors. All school elections shall be held at different times from other partisan elections.” mrbuck
Date: Sat Jan 21 03:39:21 2023
User: Klepp
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Solitaire Grand Harvest? Bah, I suppose children and their intellectual peers need more bells and whistles to keep fragile, attenuated attention spans buzzing...
User: Klepp
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Solitaire Grand Harvest? Bah, I suppose children and their intellectual peers need more bells and whistles to keep fragile, attenuated attention spans buzzing...
Date: Tue Jan 24 01:29:18 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Many here are old enough to remember some of this deep drilling. Project Mohole was fodder for "My Weekly Reader" for a couple of years, at least. A lot of this is pretty much common knowledge, but not all of it. I was particularly taken by the new-to-me factoid that a Dutch artist (Lotte Geevan) lowered a microphone down the big hole in Germany, and heard scary 'Earth sounds' (~2/3 way down in the article). So I'll follow up this post with another one which is a recording she made.
Link: How low can we go?
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Many here are old enough to remember some of this deep drilling. Project Mohole was fodder for "My Weekly Reader" for a couple of years, at least. A lot of this is pretty much common knowledge, but not all of it. I was particularly taken by the new-to-me factoid that a Dutch artist (Lotte Geevan) lowered a microphone down the big hole in Germany, and heard scary 'Earth sounds' (~2/3 way down in the article). So I'll follow up this post with another one which is a recording she made.
Link: How low can we go?
Date: Tue Jan 24 01:43:00 2023
User: TNmountainman
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If just the outer parts of our itsy-bitsy planet can groan like that...........imagine the center. Or imagine the center of Jupiter. Or of Alpha Centauri. Etc. We all are cognizant, I think, on some level, of the incomprehensible scope, power, weird physics, etc. of the universe. But I don't think any of us understands *how* far off we are from being able to grasp the scales of those things. (Might need to turn your speakers up to hear the low frequencies well.)
Link: Journey to the center of the earth 🌎: first baby steps
User: TNmountainman
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If just the outer parts of our itsy-bitsy planet can groan like that...........imagine the center. Or imagine the center of Jupiter. Or of Alpha Centauri. Etc. We all are cognizant, I think, on some level, of the incomprehensible scope, power, weird physics, etc. of the universe. But I don't think any of us understands *how* far off we are from being able to grasp the scales of those things. (Might need to turn your speakers up to hear the low frequencies well.)
Link: Journey to the center of the earth 🌎: first baby steps
Date: Tue Jan 24 11:47:20 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
While it seems that the average American is a tad crazier than the (worldwide) average, the average West Coast inhabitant seems crazier than even that--recently, at least. Mass hysteria is a real condition...more people see more people going nuts, with the internet of course being an unreal accelerant...
Link: Mass psychogenic illness
User: Klepp
Message:
While it seems that the average American is a tad crazier than the (worldwide) average, the average West Coast inhabitant seems crazier than even that--recently, at least. Mass hysteria is a real condition...more people see more people going nuts, with the internet of course being an unreal accelerant...
Link: Mass psychogenic illness
Date: Tue Jan 24 11:53:34 2023
User: redberet
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That's because of all the earthquakes here. We're always worried about falling into the ocean. That's versus the sky falling in other parts of the country.
User: redberet
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That's because of all the earthquakes here. We're always worried about falling into the ocean. That's versus the sky falling in other parts of the country.
Date: Tue Jan 24 12:44:56 2023
User: Klepp
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I personally feel safer not owning a firearm...sadly, less than half of America imitates my behavior, that behavior being antipodean a demographic ~3% of the populous well well-armed, paranoid, socially struggling, all the while possessing itchy itchy trigger fingers...oof...
User: Klepp
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I personally feel safer not owning a firearm...sadly, less than half of America imitates my behavior, that behavior being antipodean a demographic ~3% of the populous well well-armed, paranoid, socially struggling, all the while possessing itchy itchy trigger fingers...oof...
Date: Tue Jan 24 13:04:24 2023
User: outskirts
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Well when you can't go anywhere without fear of being shot or catching an airborne virus that might kill you, I reckon it's normal to go a little crazy. Good thing I've practiced for this.
User: outskirts
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Well when you can't go anywhere without fear of being shot or catching an airborne virus that might kill you, I reckon it's normal to go a little crazy. Good thing I've practiced for this.
Date: Tue Jan 24 14:00:29 2023
User: redberet
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The only time shooting a firearm did me any good was when I qualified expert on the M-16. It saved me a 10 mile forced march back to the barracks. Relaxing on my bunk, while the rest of the platoon came in sweating like hogs. It was great. It's been 43 years since my hands have touched one and I don't miss one single cleaning.
User: redberet
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The only time shooting a firearm did me any good was when I qualified expert on the M-16. It saved me a 10 mile forced march back to the barracks. Relaxing on my bunk, while the rest of the platoon came in sweating like hogs. It was great. It's been 43 years since my hands have touched one and I don't miss one single cleaning.
Date: Wed Jan 25 01:51:57 2023
User: Klepp
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I was unaware until present that Kellen Winslow II was such an awful awful pervert.
User: Klepp
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I was unaware until present that Kellen Winslow II was such an awful awful pervert.
Date: Wed Jan 25 06:40:07 2023
User: Klepp
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I had a pet rock as a kid...fabulous little (~150cm^3) hunk of mottled granite (composition unremembered)...boy-oh-boy I wish I could find him...hopefully he's still alive.
User: Klepp
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I had a pet rock as a kid...fabulous little (~150cm^3) hunk of mottled granite (composition unremembered)...boy-oh-boy I wish I could find him...hopefully he's still alive.
Date: Thu Jan 26 05:12:03 2023
User: Klepp
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I'm sort of turned on by Sabrina Singh's enormous schnozz...then again, I'm not terribly normal (no excuses).
User: Klepp
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I'm sort of turned on by Sabrina Singh's enormous schnozz...then again, I'm not terribly normal (no excuses).
Date: Thu Jan 26 05:53:28 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
Something tells me Stevie Wonder (possibly) read Voltaire's "Micromegas" shortly before writing his tune "Saturn" (cut from "Songs in the Key of Life")...maybe not though, IDK...
Link: Micromégas
User: Klepp
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Something tells me Stevie Wonder (possibly) read Voltaire's "Micromegas" shortly before writing his tune "Saturn" (cut from "Songs in the Key of Life")...maybe not though, IDK...
Link: Micromégas
Date: Thu Jan 26 06:30:54 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
It's amazing people vacay in Trinidad & Tobago, just a short boat ride from this obvious obvious zoo... What a great plus for MLB, Acuña!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Link: Ronald Acuña Jr. announces retirement from baseball in Venezuel
User: Klepp
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It's amazing people vacay in Trinidad & Tobago, just a short boat ride from this obvious obvious zoo... What a great plus for MLB, Acuña!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Link: Ronald Acuña Jr. announces retirement from baseball in Venezuel
Date: Thu Jan 26 07:15:58 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
She was fabulous in "Eye of the Devil"...alongside Niven, Kerr, Pleasance, Hemmings...great cast--dark, moody, Neo-gothic cinema...
Link: Sharon Tate would have turned 80
User: Klepp
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She was fabulous in "Eye of the Devil"...alongside Niven, Kerr, Pleasance, Hemmings...great cast--dark, moody, Neo-gothic cinema...
Link: Sharon Tate would have turned 80
Date: Fri Jan 27 13:20:09 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
The ATF must officially categorize "Antifa" and any corollary offshoots as domestic terrorist organizations...do not be surprised in the coming hours and days when they cause utter mayhem, particularly in Memphis and Atlanta, but likely elsewhere as well. The Riots of 2023, starting at sundown...
User: Klepp
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The ATF must officially categorize "Antifa" and any corollary offshoots as domestic terrorist organizations...do not be surprised in the coming hours and days when they cause utter mayhem, particularly in Memphis and Atlanta, but likely elsewhere as well. The Riots of 2023, starting at sundown...
Date: Fri Jan 27 15:25:49 2023
User: mrbuck
Message:
I hadn't realized that Little Jimmy Dickens recorded this Loudon Wainwright III classic. mrbuck
Link: Can you feel it in your olfactory?
User: mrbuck
Message:
I hadn't realized that Little Jimmy Dickens recorded this Loudon Wainwright III classic. mrbuck
Link: Can you feel it in your olfactory?
Date: Fri Jan 27 18:31:28 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:
Perhaps the most interesting cover of that song was by Ciska Peters & Ronnie Tober and titled, "Een witte eend op het midden van de weg."
Link: Ciska Peters & Ronnie Tober, "Een witte eend"
User: BuzzClik
Message:
Perhaps the most interesting cover of that song was by Ciska Peters & Ronnie Tober and titled, "Een witte eend op het midden van de weg."
Link: Ciska Peters & Ronnie Tober, "Een witte eend"
Date: Mon Jan 30 02:18:18 2023
User: TNmountainman
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Boy, your Dutch (I think?) is better than mine. That rendition should also be included in the "really different covers" thread.
User: TNmountainman
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Boy, your Dutch (I think?) is better than mine. That rendition should also be included in the "really different covers" thread.
Date: Mon Jan 30 10:27:29 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
Massive amount of data to construct such...spread the knowledge, for all to enjoy. (Personal wallpaper...(that's how much I love it.))
Link: Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
User: Klepp
Message:
Massive amount of data to construct such...spread the knowledge, for all to enjoy. (Personal wallpaper...(that's how much I love it.))
Link: Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
Date: Mon Jan 30 13:17:50 2023
User: outskirts
Message:
I don't kill spiders in the house. I let them stay until they get in my way, then I put them out. They eat the other bugs. It's a rare occurrence that I use insecticide. But I've been known to wrestle palmetto bugs into the toilet. They will rearrange the furniture when you're not looking. I don't want to poison them because a visiting bat or skink might eat them.
User: outskirts
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I don't kill spiders in the house. I let them stay until they get in my way, then I put them out. They eat the other bugs. It's a rare occurrence that I use insecticide. But I've been known to wrestle palmetto bugs into the toilet. They will rearrange the furniture when you're not looking. I don't want to poison them because a visiting bat or skink might eat them.
Date: Mon Jan 30 17:20:10 2023
User: TNmountainman
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While I certainly sympathize with that bent.................I had a good friend who was sort of a handyman, jack-of-all-trades guy who died from a brown recluse bite. Waited too late to go to the hospital.
User: TNmountainman
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While I certainly sympathize with that bent.................I had a good friend who was sort of a handyman, jack-of-all-trades guy who died from a brown recluse bite. Waited too late to go to the hospital.
Date: Mon Jan 30 17:31:33 2023
User: BuzzClik
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As I have stated before, spiders come into my home to die.
User: BuzzClik
Message:
As I have stated before, spiders come into my home to die.
Date: Mon Jan 30 17:48:49 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:
@ Klepp............. That "evolution diagram" always makes me think of the various theories of a "fine-tuned universe". The degree of fine-tuning (a wide array of various physical constants) required for the universe to merely exist in remotely near its current form - not to mention 'life' - is astonishing. Which of course leads to thinking about both the anthropic view of our current universe, and then of course multiverses. Mind-bending stuff. [edit: see link for a pretty decent overview, for those not hep.]
Link: discussion of what "a fine-tuned universe" means
User: TNmountainman
Message:
@ Klepp............. That "evolution diagram" always makes me think of the various theories of a "fine-tuned universe". The degree of fine-tuning (a wide array of various physical constants) required for the universe to merely exist in remotely near its current form - not to mention 'life' - is astonishing. Which of course leads to thinking about both the anthropic view of our current universe, and then of course multiverses. Mind-bending stuff. [edit: see link for a pretty decent overview, for those not hep.]
Link: discussion of what "a fine-tuned universe" means
Date: Mon Jan 30 17:49:15 2023
User: outskirts
Message:
Also have had rattlesnakes, baby ones, lol. And a huge moccasin. I've had snakes live in the attic. I've had snakes tap on the windows. Snakes have come in the house. I'm not a squeamish girly girl.
User: outskirts
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Also have had rattlesnakes, baby ones, lol. And a huge moccasin. I've had snakes live in the attic. I've had snakes tap on the windows. Snakes have come in the house. I'm not a squeamish girly girl.
Date: Mon Jan 30 18:53:08 2023
User: Cooperman
Message:
You don't need to wrestle palmetto bugs. Sweep them into a wok and fry in olive oil, add caramelised sugar and soy sauce and enjoy the nutritious crunchiness of a high protein meal.
User: Cooperman
Message:
You don't need to wrestle palmetto bugs. Sweep them into a wok and fry in olive oil, add caramelised sugar and soy sauce and enjoy the nutritious crunchiness of a high protein meal.
Date: Tue Jan 31 06:49:47 2023
User: outskirts
Message:
When all you've got is a mandolin, a bass fiddle and a mouth harp. And you're stuck in the snow.
Link: https://youtu.be/jkYWsjJ7W7E
User: outskirts
Message:
When all you've got is a mandolin, a bass fiddle and a mouth harp. And you're stuck in the snow.
Link: https://youtu.be/jkYWsjJ7W7E
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