Subject: random posts
Date: Mon Apr 3 05:50:14 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Not too difficult to find (sorry astronomical mates Down Under, too boreal)...observed distant enough of urban noise (spurious white light) its deep, ruby red coloring is darn glorious to behold...obviously emitting much deep, deep red frequencies (~650 nm), along with stuff too infrared for human eyes...interesting to contemplate if other high mammals (Ursae) also appreciate its color, some Hz unseen by us...
Link: Mu Cephei (Herschel's Garnet Star)
Date: Mon Apr 3 07:39:14 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:How very weird that you would post those comments about frequencies/color. Just mere hours ago I contemplated for a while on how it came to be that humans, as well as other species for that matter, evolved to distinguish the frequencies we do. Seems like I heard an explanation long ago, but don't remember it. Perhaps uv was anti-selected because of easier damage causation? But why not further into the infrared? Some species do, to an extent. The rods and cones are just marvelous things, and not as straightforward as one might expect.
Wouldn't it be cool (pun sorta intended) to know what other frequencies 'look' like? We can only 'see' a tiny, tiny fraction of the whole electromagnetic spectrum - so why the particular slice we do? Probably at least partly due to (some of) the vibrational frequencies in some compounds - creating color - thus warning us away from some dangerous alkaloids, etc., etc., etc. Just a guess without much thought....
Date: Mon Apr 3 08:55:03 2023
User: Klepp
Message:I remember how much I loved the astral colors looking skyward when I lived (sort of) out in the country...the reds of Herschel's star, Antares, Betelgeuse...the winking on and off The Ghoul (Algol)...the Seven Sisters...and of course, the beautiful blues of Fomalhaut and Rigel...
Date: Tue Apr 4 06:43:42 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Regarding electromagnetic sensitivity: seems it'd be natural for apex predators to evolve possession of strong infrared sight, therefore advanced hunting skills (particularly nighttime)...
Date: Wed Apr 5 07:56:34 2023
User: mrbuck
Message:"My mother never breast fed me as a child. She said she liked me as a friend."
Rodney Dangerfield
(I have stolen that line many times)
Date: Wed Apr 5 08:35:43 2023
User: Klepp
Message:This is how well I played when I was a robot; now I'm merely mortal, taking logarithmically longer to solve even undifficult deals.
Link: FreeCell 1m 00s Record
Date: Wed Apr 5 12:52:30 2023
User: redberet
Message:Buttered popcorn is my favorite Jelly Belly. There is unfortunately also licorice and sizzling cinnamon. Classic example of high and lows. Any combination thereof may have cause for consternation.
Date: Wed Apr 5 13:25:15 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Saw the jelly belly ad today. All I could think was they are touching all the jelly bellies.
Date: Wed Apr 5 13:50:56 2023
User: redberet
Message:There are 59 flavors in the Costco jar. It is a fallacy that jelly bellies can eaten one by one for very long or end up the way of Van Halens brown m&m's. I go through these phases. Right now, I'm sensing a Rocky Road sometime in the near future.
Date: Wed Apr 5 19:24:55 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Southerners squirt ketchup all over their fries. They also mix their eggs and grits all together, then squirt ketchup all over them.
Date: Wed Apr 5 20:00:44 2023
User: firenze
Message:I like ketchup on boiled cabbage and yellow mustard on fried egg sandwiches (Wonder Bread untoasted).
Date: Thu Apr 6 07:25:40 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Split two hot dogs lengthwise and make a wonder bread® sandwich with mayo mmm
Date: Thu Apr 6 08:03:42 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Then there's swamp cabbage.
No, that's not poke salad.
Date: Thu Apr 6 09:48:53 2023
User: redberet
Message:It's a good thing you can't delete a memory. How any one can take offense to his memory is beyond me.
Date: Thu Apr 6 10:27:04 2023
User: outskirts
Message:They automatically delete anything political. I once put an original quote on the quote thread. It contained the p word and the r word. It got deleted.
The quote -- if you want free money for the asking, go into p___ or r___
Date: Thu Apr 6 10:35:51 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:It never even *occurred* to me that that speech could be considered p_____, but I guess one *could* take it like that. But seems to me that's way more just history at this point in time. That was 55 years ago! Glad I got to hear it before it got yanked.
And while I'm 'at it'..........what in the world was offensive about my quote from the "Jack and Diane" song by John Cougar Mellencamp?
Date: Thu Apr 6 10:45:41 2023
User: outskirts
Message:I have some large palms that will eventually topple over and then I could have a swamp cabbage party, with catfish.
Date: Thu Apr 6 10:58:58 2023
User: redberet
Message:He was a good man and I'm glad I got to see him up close. The energy was there, seeing grown-ups acting like a bunch of Beatles fans. I still see him as he left the park in a convertible driving slowly down 2nd street shaking hands with the crowd. They have a memorial at the park where he spoke.
Date: Thu Apr 6 11:06:30 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:You're speaking of the painter, Raphael, right? He was born in this day in 1493 and died on April 6, 1520. (I'm not sure about the convertible thing, but you didn't give us much to go on.)
Date: Thu Apr 6 12:38:07 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:I guess that Dion clip from the Smothers Brothers link will need to be axed, too.....
Date: Thu Apr 6 12:40:24 2023
User: outskirts
Message:That's axing for it
Date: Thu Apr 6 13:35:57 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:I'm fully accepting (it's unfortunate, but I get it) of the "no P&R" rule, but the 'line' must be considerably different from where I was thinking it was. Perhaps some elucidation/clarification would be helpful and appropriate here. I *am* axing for that. Respectfully.
Date: Thu Apr 6 15:05:38 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:I am not sure that the "resident deleter" is on the same page with the selector of the daily quotes: the daily quotes are riddled with political comments, all intended to be humorous and in line with outskirts's p____ and r____ comment.
Please don't get the idea that I am criticizing whoever is in charge of tidying up the discussion board. I prefer the present system that sometimes results in a bit of headscratching about a deletion compared to the old system where certain posters were able to write horrible things that were never taken down.
Date: Thu Apr 6 15:34:56 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Couldn't care less what they do. This isn't kindergarten, or real life, where we say what we want.
Date: Thu Apr 6 16:20:29 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:>>Date: Thu Apr 6 13:35:57 2023
>>User: TNmountainman
>>Message: "Perhaps some elucidation/clarification would be helpful and appropriate here. I *am* axing for that. Respectfully."
Ditto that.
We can save the board superintendent the trouble of deleting posts by never posting them in the first place.
Date: Thu Apr 6 16:39:28 2023
User: redberet
Message:A mod's job is difficult, but there is also room for reason. Honoring a man who I feel lost his life for this country, who also happened to be a politician should not be cause for automatic deletion. It's a part of history, not a talking point.
Date: Thu Apr 6 17:20:43 2023
User: firenze
Message:Perhaps a date. Politics before 1776 and Religion before 0.
Date: Thu Apr 6 17:30:26 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:Those Greeks *did* have a lot to say about both...
Date: Thu Apr 6 23:22:28 2023
User: ix
Message:
Date: Fri Apr 7 05:29:18 2023
User: Klepp
Message:I like primes, solely.
Link: 71 (number)
Date: Fri Apr 7 05:49:58 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Qualify for ≥1 of these, not quite sure (old days better, sure)...
Link: High IQ Societies
Date: Sat Apr 8 09:30:39 2023
User: outskirts
Message:.
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Date: Mon Apr 10 09:23:06 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Even as a newly pubescent teen, I found solely grey pubic hair provocative, preferably unshorn...(swingin' library ladies of a certain age being ripe for Klepp's young enjoyment).
Link: At 64, Andie MacDowell Claps Back at Gray Hair
Date: Mon Apr 10 11:15:41 2023
User: Klepp
Message:If the border can't be controlled, what numb nuts think that firearms can be controlled?
Date: Mon Apr 10 12:57:32 2023
User: MikeC
Message: And unless the gun is FULLY AUTOMATIC it is NOT an assault weapon .
Date: Mon Apr 10 13:43:56 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:Actually, assault weapons are capable of being fully automatic. If we're going full on semantic, assault rifles are "selective fire."
The woefully uninformed often use "assault rifle" to describe any weapons with high capacity magazines that have been used to slaughter schoolchildren.
Date: Mon Apr 10 14:25:22 2023
User: redberet
Message:For quite a while there was semi-automatic and three round burst mode with the M16. You have to be an idiot to use full auto if you're shooting at dispersed targets.
Date: Mon Apr 10 16:18:31 2023
User: outskirts
Message:
If the border can't be controlled, what numb nuts think that firearms can be controlled?
Ask any country that doesn't have mass killings every day.
Date: Mon Apr 10 17:39:08 2023
User: redberet
Message:The military controls individual weapons, government and otherwise through something called an armorer or else you'd have 18yr. old pizza faces walking around the barracks loaded for bear.
Date: Tue Apr 11 04:37:47 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:Asheville used to have this truly wonderful FREE music festival, Belle Chere. But when the economy went sour some 10-12 years or so ago, they quit funding it out of necessity, altho that depends on who one asks. Many of the considerable number of downtown merchants didn't like the enormous crowds, and that may have been more of the reason, truth be told. Anyway..........................one night after the music concluded, I was walking down this side street on the way back to my car, with virtually no one else around. And here from the other direction comes Andi. We passed slowly, giving each other a smile, she realizing I recognized her, but I wasn't about to intrude on her space, altho I suspect I could have briefly. That was maybe 2000-ish(?) (or maybe late '90s?). She still lived there then, near the Biltmore, before she moved out to LA. Needless to say, she had a great smile and was quite attractive. Even tho it was nighttime, the street was well-lit. Her hair was not grey.
Date: Tue Apr 11 08:43:34 2023
User: outskirts
Message:When I posted the last post I posted, in answer to klepp's question, I had not yet heard about yesterday's mass killing in a Louisville KY bank.
Date: Tue Apr 11 10:09:52 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:TN --
Awesome story. I have a few stories like that, where I was standing next to or near some sort of celebrity. You get to that moment of "Should I say something?" Like you, I always indicate my recognition by a nod or something, and then let it go.
My latest was standing in line for the men's room next to Jay Wright, current CBS color commentator and former 'Nova coach (two-time national champ). He caught me admiring his CBS jacket, which made me laugh.
Date: Tue Apr 11 11:59:36 2023
User: redberet
Message:Patriotism isn't what it used to be. Now all one has to do is wear a flag.
edit: exception made for Uncle Sam.
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