Subject: random posts
Date: Tue Jan 31 12:28:00 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Thanks for the link, TN...makes me wonder about forms of (universal) life other than Our own carbon-based.
Date: Fri Feb 3 12:29:25 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Hopefully if it blows up, it'll merely get harmless pink or blue powder all over the place (baby in question possessing *Y* chromosome, or no).
Date: Sat Feb 4 13:36:25 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Wisconsin winters can be no joke...but seriously, I think kids these days are softer than I recall being...10 degrees, in pajamas? Body heat can keep a healthy kid alive for at least an hour, sure...
I suppose, though, if one is not at all inured...
Link: Teen girl wearing pajamas freezes after carwreck
Date: Sat Feb 4 22:19:53 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:Her error was in leaving the car. With wind-chill factor of 4 degrees, she wasn't going to get far, but a quarter of a mile seems a pretty short distance.
Date: Mon Feb 6 12:16:50 2023
User: Klepp
Message:OK, Physics/Geology dudes, give it to me within three decimal places:
How many ergs released by the recent 7.8 quake in Turkey/Syria?
Date: Mon Feb 6 12:23:21 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:Oh good golly - thou asketh much!!
Not to mention, do you want to include all the aftershocks, which together are FAR more than just the initial jolt?
Date: Mon Feb 6 12:49:23 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:You want three decimals in ERGS???? Considering this was quake *roughly* released 10^16 Joules and that an erg is 10^-7 J, a rough estimate in ergs would be 100000000000000000000000. As TN said, you're asking for a lot of significant figures.
Date: Mon Feb 6 13:00:11 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:The area, roughly of the Arabian plate, which I think is the one that moved, is 5,000,000 square km. That'll get us started. How 'deep' that plate is, is impossible to know, as I'm sure it varies. We could make some guesstimates, I suppose. The quake was how deep? 18 km, I think. The movement was along *at least* 300 km, apparently. Did the whole plate move all at once? (No.) I'll step back and let others take another step or three..... Or I guess I'll just accept the joules given by BuzzClik. I'm sure *somebody* knew what they were doing to reach that. No need to reinvent the wheel - altho sometimes that's fun, too.
Date: Mon Feb 6 13:44:23 2023
User: Klepp
Message:I'm merely asking for number of ergs in like, scientific notation...i.e. 1X10^exp. ergs...gimme the exponent within three...
Is the number in the thirties, forties, fifties...or even higher?
Date: Mon Feb 6 13:58:37 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:Continental crust is ~2.7g/cm^3. (With nothing to go on, I was guessing 3!) So we could come up with a VERY rough calculation for the mass of the Arabian plate, if anyone wants to cipher it out.
Date: Mon Feb 6 14:22:24 2023
User: Klepp
Message:I suppose since trillion trillion trillion is 36 decimal places, it's somewhere south of 40, but certainly north of 25...
I can't do better off the top of my head...
Date: Mon Feb 6 15:32:32 2023
User: Klepp
Message:How many Americans are legitimately drug-free...no prescriptions, no daily multivitamins, no occasional pain-relieving pills...less than three percent, I suspect (mostly babies, monks, the like...
Date: Mon Feb 6 15:39:49 2023
User: Klepp
Message:I suppose one would first need define "drug" vis-à-vis "not drug"--pure H2O is no drug I contend, beyond that, the call becomes difficult, dicey, sometimes impossible...
Date: Tue Feb 7 15:47:30 2023
User: Klepp
Message:I suspect those Memphis Police Officers snorted cocaine before committing their regrettable deed.
Date: Fri Feb 10 12:42:37 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Whoa, Pam Grier was damn hot as a voodoo priestess--within or without her brassiere.
Date: Mon Feb 13 18:09:46 2023
User: Klepp
Message:I'm of course too old now, but back in the day I mulled: "Hmmm, I'm currently unemployed...maybe I can head out west to the Valley where most of the nation's pornographic material is filmed? Decent cash, and, I'm pretty confident I possess the requirements."
I settled upon the stage name "JOHNSON ROCKWELL"--maybe it's still available...
Date: Fri Feb 17 16:34:27 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Damn, Stella Stevens dead now, too...wowza that weekend in Cabo with her and Raquel was fuggin fab...can't recall precisely, summer '71, maybe '72...chubby, pill-poppin' Elvis cheating on Priscilla there, too--can't blame him, broad was too bitchy (herself back then cheating with recuperating J.C.).
Date: Sat Feb 18 17:18:44 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:Remember Norm Crosby? The Master of the Malapropism. With a straight face (deadpan), he would inject words into sentences where they didn't belong, and people thought it was funny. It wouldn't have been funny if people thought he didn't know better.
I was never under the impression that his humor was sophisticated or subtle. My parents despised him, but not because they were too stupid to get the joke. Words were they livelihood, and the novelty of slaughtering the language wore off quickly.
Date: Sun Feb 19 06:34:45 2023
User: ix
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Date: Sun Feb 19 06:41:18 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Last night I saw the domino's crispy loaded tots commercial about 20 times in one hour. It was a tater blitz.
Date: Sun Feb 19 06:54:27 2023
User: outskirts
Message:ix I can't remember when or why I quit cinnamon altoids.
Just this week someone offered me a puffy orange lifesaver (individually wrapped) and now I'm frantic to find them!
I went looking and they were out, so I got some puffy red bird peppermints instead.
Date: Sun Feb 19 07:10:18 2023
User: ix
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Date: Sun Feb 19 07:34:31 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Wow. I just finished off my red bird peppermints.
Date: Sun Feb 19 08:17:52 2023
User: outskirts
Message:You know how little surprises in your dvds are called easter eggs?
Date: Sun Feb 19 12:45:30 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Their advertising was good because when ix said sheer energy I knew exactly what it was and visions of legs and eggs were conjured up. Picture this: the 70s, Florida in the summer 4 girlfriends rushing to the church to get one of them married. No a/c it was an old Valiant. Full length gowns. Hungover. Bride stops at Winn Dixie to pick up panty hose in eggs. Two of us putting them on in the car. Why did we think we needed that???
I mean, the best man never found his shoes so he wore his leather sandals.
PS this post has nothing to do with the last post.
Link: https://youtu.be/ceefllmrEu4
Date: Sun Feb 19 13:11:44 2023
User: mrbuck
Message:If I've done well dieting during the day I reward myself with a small bar of dark chocolate with bits of chili pepper in it from Aldi's.
mrbuck
Date: Sun Feb 19 19:21:00 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Requiescat in pace...
...Richard Belzer...
Date: Sun Feb 19 19:36:24 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Don Lemon can at times show his chuckleheadedness, as I suppose we all can..but of course, his is INTERNATIONALLY BROADCAST...(never'll live it down)...
Date: Sun Feb 19 21:03:23 2023
User: firenze
Message:I couldn't believe Poppy let him get away with that.
Date: Mon Feb 20 01:27:26 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Darren Aonofsky is so beyond genius, I wish I understood his work better than I do.
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Link: https://www.pisymbol.net/
Date: Mon Feb 20 20:03:06 2023
User: ix
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Date: Tue Feb 21 01:14:35 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:That's pretty cool. Reminds me muchly of the cave paintings from Lascaux.
Wonder if they had lumber stores in France at that time?
Link: Lascaux cave painting
Date: Tue Feb 21 02:51:37 2023
User: ix
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Date: Wed Feb 22 15:16:35 2023
User: Klepp
Message:I think I've had this ploy fruitlessly foisted upon me in the past (genders (comically) interchanged, of course).
.snicker.snicker.scoff.scoff
Is the above an accurate rendering of mocking response to said charlatanism (me personally not schooled in e-comm colloquialisms)?
Link: New word!
Date: Wed Feb 22 17:45:04 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Does Lori Lightfoot possess the Y chromosome? Just an inclination (though it looks rather obvious)...
Sorta looks like a skinny Wayne Williams...
Date: Fri Feb 24 23:34:20 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:Not recommended to be a criminal, or suspected criminal, in El Salvador.
[And yes, "mansplaining" has been around for several years.]
Link: new mega-prison in El Salvador
Date: Fri Feb 24 23:42:35 2023
User: Klepp
Message:American jails may need to become similar coming decades, unless the lawful taxpaying public are ready to pony up to provide (at least moderately) humane conditions--all to keep our streets safe (of course).
Date: Sat Feb 25 04:34:35 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:I watched that episode. Very cool. She's also a descendant of a Revolutionary War soldier - as that article about the show also reveals. IMO, "Finding Your Roots" is one of the very best shows on television.
Not sure what your acronym stands for. Hopefully not what it often does.
Date: Sun Feb 26 10:45:24 2023
User: outskirts
Message:
Your silence indicates your approval.
Shame on all of you.
Date: Sun Feb 26 14:52:36 2023
User: redberet
Message:I don't get the genealogy deal. Finding out that I have a link to the missing link isn't going to make me a better person. Riding on the coattails of someone notable is really sad. I guess making one's own mark requires too much effort for some.
Date: Sun Feb 26 15:08:36 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:Just my opinion.........altho as someone who until the last 20-25 years or so wasn't that much into genealogy..........I think the two most important questions we can ask, as humans (other than the obvious religious ones, which are related to these, actually, but will go unsaid) are:
Where did we come from?
Where are we going?
The "come from" part goes WAAAY back to the origin of species, the various "out-of-Africa" scenarios, the whole Neanderthal/Denisovan/unknown mystery hominid stuff. To me, that, and the subsequent movements of populations around the globe is just endlessly fascinating. The stuff DNA has given us lately is mind-boggling.
The "going" part is why I'm so interested in cosmology. (Which of course is inextricably linked to the very, very, very distant past, too.) And naturally, the possibilities of multiple universes that seem to arise out of quantum mechanics are part of that.
Those questions encompass, with their sub-threads, the very essence of being human, and the how/why we exist.
Date: Sun Feb 26 15:20:33 2023
User: redberet
Message:I remember this episode of the Outer Limits, where this man goes into a machine that turned him into a man of the future. His cranium was about twice the size it is now. Given how AI is widely available, I don't think that's gonna happen. Your words ring true, clues to our future lie in our past. Scientifically speaking.
Date: Sun Feb 26 19:37:55 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:I read some of the more horrible parts of the Reichstag Speech to my cat. He simply sat there, unmoved. I assume by his silence that he is a Nazi.
Date: Sun Feb 26 19:54:06 2023
User: ix
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Date: Sun Feb 26 20:15:40 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Going to the library tomorrow to retrieve the six Seuss books I requested: those deemed "offensive" by our Smart New Cultured People demographic...
To wit:
1. "And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street"
2. "If I ran the zoo"
3. "McElligot's pool"
4. "On beyond zebra"
5. "Scrambled eggs super"
6. "The cat's quizzer"
Oh what fun I shall have when perusing,
Laughing at those their standards abusing:
"Inappropriate for millennials--don't you see don't you see?"
Sarcastic return: "Pray Master, teach me..."
Date: Sun Feb 26 20:39:57 2023
User: redberet
Message:I forgot the part where the future man ends up reverting back to a cave man momentarily before he dies.
I never tried reading to my dogs, I talk to them, and I've learned how to read tail wagging.
Date: Sun Feb 26 20:57:21 2023
User: ix
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Date: Sun Feb 26 21:19:06 2023
User: ix
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Date: Tue Feb 28 19:02:26 2023
User: ix
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