Subject: random posts
Server time: Sun Sep 20 12:18
Date: Fri Mar 24 14:01:27 2023
User: outskirts
Message:I think it does address Red's comment completely. Maybe he can splain since it was he who wrote it. Or Firenze can or anyone else because I'm not equipped, apparently.
Date: Fri Mar 24 14:03:31 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:Well darn. I was hoping to be womansplained.
Date: Fri Mar 24 14:13:00 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Excuse me in advance if I just ignore your feeble attempts in the future. Someone who keeps up with current events would just think red's comment was funny, like I did.
Oh yeah, it happened in Florida but made national news.
Date: Fri Mar 24 14:19:10 2023
User: redberet
Message:They could've wrapped him in a sarong. Old Mike must have been a real pervert.
Date: Fri Mar 24 14:22:56 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:Ok, so I'm going with it (your initial comment) was intended sarcasm or facetiousness? I mean.....here in "random posts", anything goes (so to speak, pun again intended), but I'm still missing the point, I guess. Oh well........
Date: Fri Mar 24 15:31:50 2023
User: redberet
Message:A Florida principal was fired for because some parents objected to their kids viewing David. My comment was directed towards Florida. A random post is what it was. I'm at a loss understanding how you feel it was directed toward you.
Date: Fri Mar 24 15:35:25 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Red, that's what da Vinci said
Date: Fri Mar 24 15:37:03 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Oh damn yet another cross post. My comment was in response to red's previous one about Mike being a perv.
Date: Fri Mar 24 15:40:52 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:I didn't at all feel that it was directed towards me - but not knowing the backstory (it may have been news in *some* national publications, but not in the several I normally peruse until this afternoon), I just didn't understand it. It seemed so "random" as to be out of nowhere. No harm; no foul. โ
Date: Fri Mar 24 15:41:06 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Okay I reread red's comment and I don't see how anyone ever could interpret it as anything other than something said in jest!!!! Seriously!!!???!!!!
Date: Fri Mar 24 15:46:52 2023
User: outskirts
Message:I should have seen the shit show coming after my very first post which was a cross post after his. Aggravating as
Date: Fri Mar 24 15:50:49 2023
User: outskirts
Message:"Backstory" or not, it was a funny comment, Red ๐
Date: Fri Mar 24 15:54:23 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:There was a (fairly) recent post (not from redberet) in this thread, quickly deleted, that made me wonder. Point being..............as we all know..........sometimes it's difficult, if not impossible, to tell with nothing else to go on.
Still disappointed I didn't get to experience womansplaining. Maybe some other time.........๐ค
Date: Fri Mar 24 16:10:03 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:I think that is EXACTLY what you got, TN.
As for redberetโs comment, I had no idea what he was talking about. I was wondering if he or someone else was quibbling about whether Michelangelo was a Renaissance artist.
Date: Fri Mar 24 16:17:56 2023
User: outskirts
Message:
If you have to explain it, they still won't get it ๐
Date: Fri Mar 24 16:33:27 2023
User: Kumquat-of-Conciliation
Message:Sooooo..........................
outskirts 'splaining womansplaining: "If you have to explain it, they still won't get it"
Date: Fri Mar 24 18:08:14 2023
User: outskirts
Message:^^^TN/kumquat mansplaining outskirts, as if he had a clue
Date: Fri Mar 24 18:56:00 2023
User: redberet
Message:Even though it may seem like I was questioning David's manhood as worthy of being immortalized, I was not. Honestly, truth is stranger than fiction. I just keep thinking that this whole narrative about rights is leading to the total deprivation of rights. I'd hate to live in a society where finger pointing and snitching on your neighbor is the norm.
Date: Fri Mar 24 20:10:11 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Womansplaining: If you don't know I'm not telling you
Date: Fri Mar 24 22:10:10 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:Fully agree, redberet. Except these kids need to GET. OFF. MY. LAWN. ๐ค
Date: Sat Mar 25 11:54:55 2023
User: outskirts
Message:12 years tobacco free. A strong desire and lots of prayer is what did it for me, and it was like a miracle. Cold turkey and never wanted another one! And when you see lists of ways to quit, do you ever see the prayer method!? I haven't! I'm just saying! This is not a religious post so please don't remove it!
It's a PSA
Date: Sat Mar 25 15:25:07 2023
User: redberet
Message:I used the tightwad method. Soon as it hit a buck a pack mark, I quit cold. It didn't make me rich, but I haven't smoked tobacco since '87.
Date: Sat Mar 25 20:31:19 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Holy crap! I was in a liquor store checking out and I noticed smokes are up to $10 a pack!!!
Date: Sun Mar 26 00:13:01 2023
User: redberet
Message:One of the mysteries of life was that in the midst of tobacco country, where cartons could be had for 3 bucks, that starting on the about the 25th cries of "You got any smokes?" appeared with greater frequency. Something only a sh**ng eagle could cure.
Date: Sun Mar 26 02:52:56 2023
User: Klepp
Message:"Out of the 10 million deals, 7,431,962 were solvable (making for an average win rate of 74.3%)"--Wiki, from BAKER'S GAME--i.e., 8X4 FreeCell, BUT REQUIREING SAME SUIT TABLEAU BE BUILT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A game for FreeCellers ready to streeeeeeeeeeeatch their cerebral lobes...
Link: Baker's Game
Date: Sun Mar 26 05:00:29 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:Lots of info about that within a hyperlink on Denny's site. Access "Interview with Paul Alfille" from the menu on the right-hand border, and then this link is within the Alfille interview, near the top. But you may already know all this. This is just in case........
Link: All about the Baker's Game, and much more
Date: Sun Mar 26 05:08:56 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:The VERY influential Gordon Moore, who came up with "Moore's Law", and was one of the co-founders of Intel, has passed away at 94, and thus is not eligible to be in the "Alive in their 90s" thread. Many tens, or probably hundreds, of billions of dollars were spent based on Moore's Law. Impossible to overstate his influence. Remarkable prescience. "Visionary" is an understatement.
Link: Gordon Moore goes away
Date: Sun Mar 26 08:32:28 2023
User: outskirts
Message:He was alive in his 90s so he certainly is eligible for that thread.
However the last one you posted there is in his 70s apparently but you thought he belonged there?
Eyeroll
Date: Sun Mar 26 09:06:25 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:Klepp posted it. TN responded.
Date: Sun Mar 26 09:28:26 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Dumb begets dumber begets dumber.
Date: Sun Mar 26 10:36:40 2023
User: redberet
Message:Modesty first
Date: Sun Mar 26 11:08:10 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:I've always thought of David as a "briefs" kind of guy.
Date: Sun Mar 26 11:16:16 2023
User: redberet
Message:His reign was relatively brief, due to a drawer full of wives.
Date: Sun Mar 26 13:56:14 2023
User: redberet
Message:I love that guy. What you saw is what you got.
Date: Mon Mar 27 13:14:28 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Having known Tom Petty when he was a loser, that song gives me a warm feeling all over.
This is my favorite clip of Tom, and whenever he says corn I get hysterical laughter. Can't say why, not here. That would be disrespectful to his memory. It's become kind of like our secret joke. I'll never tell.
Link: Lucky
Date: Tue Mar 28 03:30:52 2023
User: ix
Message:
Date: Tue Mar 28 04:30:55 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:Well..........that FAMU thing was pretty neat. Never in my wildest dreams would I have associated FAMU with Louis Vuitton. I thought all the creators(??), models(??), whoever those youngsters were in the black t-shirts, kinda spoiled the mood and detracted from it and the end, but maybe that's just me. I also wanted to see a couple of those big red balls get rolled along the track knocking down spectators and band members, but knew that wasn't gonna happen. Actually I think they're more impressive with the whole band, on the football field, but......
Date: Wed Mar 29 04:58:00 2023
User: Klepp
Message:"Miskatonic University offers membership to it's website and systems to Students"...OBVIOUSLY, these people need an editor, perhaps it shall be I...
Link: Miskatonic University
Date: Sat Apr 1 04:26:10 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:Random post about randomness. This may help MrFixit solve the 'problem' of too many duplicate deals.
As usual, review your vacuum energy/quantum mechanics chops if you need to. And I'm sure any day now the instructions for making one's own "integrated balanced homodyne detector" - which may or may not work as a new solver - will be available on that internet thang. ;)
Click on the link "PRX Quantum" at the bottom for the original article.
Link: randomness on steroids
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
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