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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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I'm thinking we need a 'low bar boasting' thread. You know, so folks can feel good about themselves regardless of the poor choices they've made in their lives.
e.g.
I'll have you know, I not only attended high school but actually GRADUATED.

The house I live in not only has indoor plumbing, but actually has a bathroom....on BOTH FLOORS
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Looking at my keyboard, I'm trying to imagine what the most difficult letter to write is. Maybe a W? It has a lot of strokes just like an M, but somehow an M seems easier. K is always a difficult letter for me to write - regardless of whether it's upper or lowercase, my Ks are always sloppy.
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I can write W's with EASE. Hell, I can even write a legible K when put to it.
 
Wannaplan? said:
I noticed we were low on food, so I went to the supermarket and did some shopping.
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yeah, well, I not only obtained all the food we needed recently at the store...but did so by myself. That's right. No help whatsoever. Nada.
 
Can you do anything by yourself even before your spouse telling let alone nagging you ?
 
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JNA said:
Can you do anything by yourself even before your spouse telling let alone nagging you ?
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Through a contextualization, a comparative analysis and finally a hermeneutic approach, it is the aim of this post to attempt a broader explanation of the experimental logic emerging within contemporary popular culture. To whit, the status of a message board post as an open window on the concatenation between past, present and future, on the one hand, and the reader’s freedom to travel through all the moments in time laid out in the panoply of the browser window, as it is constituted as a milestone in innovative communicative techniques by use of specific cultural signifiers to draw out the tension that has been implicit since the origin of what is understood to be the nuclear family.
 
jumbach said:
For that matter, why do power settings other than “high” and “defrost” even exist on microwaves? (Or blenders)
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The microwave maker would say they offer no less than the best along with the highest.
 
Wannaplan? said:
Through a contextualization, a comparative analysis and finally a hermeneutic approach, it is the aim of this post to attempt a broader explanation of the experimental logic emerging within contemporary popular culture. To whit, the status of a message board post as an open window on the concatenation between past, present and future, on the one hand, and the reader’s freedom to travel through all the moments in time laid out in the panoply of the browser window, as it is constituted as a milestone in innovative communicative techniques by use of specific cultural signifiers to draw out the tension that has been implicit since the origin of what is understood to be the nuclear family.
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Nailed it!
 
Weird random thought I woke up with:

I live in Storey County, by far the smallest (geographically) in the state of Nevada. But we divide ourselves up into Southern, Northern, and VC informally for discussions of neighborhood events. (Probably because all the population is around the edges and the middle is nothing but landfill, mining, and mountains.) These are not rooted in law, but just by common agreeement of where the borders of the neighborhoods are. (We have three Commissioners, all elected at large.)

But it got me to thinking: Why do dinky countRIes (like Monaco, Lietchenstein, and St. Kitts, et. al.) also divide themselves up into administrative regions? In the case of St. Kitts, for example, is there anything that would happen on one side of the island that would not effect the other parishes?

By the way, the parish names of St. Kitts include their capitals automatically (e.g. St Mary Cayon, capital is Cayon). Must make it easy for kids to learn them in school. Maybe we should do that: "Utah Salt Lake City," "Massachusetts Boston, etc.)

Another fun fact about St. Kitts and Nevis: I was able to cross "cross-country train trip" off my bucket list there several years ago. I always wanted to do one--I realized my bucket list never said which country. The smallest independent country in the western hemisphere counts.

JIim
 
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SlaveToTheGrind said:
As pointed out on various social media platforms, does anybody use the 7 on your microwave keypad when cooking/heating? Next time I use, I'll have put in 1:27 instead of 1:30, or similar.
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btrage said:
If someone actually uses the 7 they're a sociopath.
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I'm the sociopath that uses the 7 button. My pot pie takes 7 1/2 minutes.
 
Wannaplan? said:
Through a contextualization, a comparative analysis and finally a hermeneutic approach, it is the aim of this post to attempt a broader explanation of the experimental logic emerging within contemporary popular culture. To whit, the status of a message board post as an open window on the concatenation between past, present and future, on the one hand, and the reader’s freedom to travel through all the moments in time laid out in the panoply of the browser window, as it is constituted as a milestone in innovative communicative techniques by use of specific cultural signifiers to draw out the tension that has been implicit since the origin of what is understood to be the nuclear family.
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I've actually seem reports written close to this. It makes my brain explode.

Jim
 
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Wannaplan? said:
Through a contextualization, a comparative analysis and finally a hermeneutic approach, it is the aim of this post to attempt a broader explanation of the experimental logic emerging within contemporary popular culture. To whit, the status of a message board post as an open window on the concatenation between past, present and future, on the one hand, and the reader’s freedom to travel through all the moments in time laid out in the panoply of the browser window, as it is constituted as a milestone in innovative communicative techniques by use of specific cultural signifiers to draw out the tension that has been implicit since the origin of what is understood to be the nuclear family.
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This is AI-generated, right? If not, I'm genuinely impressed.
 
I tend to hit randomish numbers when setting microwave times. For instance, why heat something for 2 minutes when one could do so with 1:56 or 2:09?
 
Brag Moment:

The house we moved into has a pool. At one point it had a heater for it, but was since removed. The pump leaked, was loud, and was not wired correctly as the only way to shut it off was to flip the braker. Over the weekend, I installed a new pool pump and cleaned up all the weird plumbing that went with it. Last night it was awesome to sit on the back patio with a cold beer and listen to the water splash from the sprayers in the pool. It is something that I could only dream of 20 years ago.
 
Maister said:
This is AI-generated, right?
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I get a lot of David Lynch academic articles forwarded to me. I was reading one this morning about a comparative analysis between the comic Here (now a Tom Hanks movie) and Twin Peaks: The Return and the abstract was my inspiration.
 
DVD said:
I'm the sociopath that uses the 7 button. My pot pie takes 7 1/2 minutes.
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My microwave does not have a 9-key pad. I get 30 sec, plus/minus minute and 5-minute. I do have 10 different types of cooking and I don't know the difference between any of them.
 
My approach to microwaving is to usually hit the same number twice when warming something up e.g. 33, 66, 77 yes or 99 seconds. I was annoyed when I noticed our new microwave automatically adjusts the time for anything over 60 seconds to countdown from 1:xx instead of the actual number of seconds.
 
As posted on Facebook

National Park Service LEGO Vignettes is at Gettysburg National Military Park

November 19 marks the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s iconic Gettysburg Address.
Delivered at the dedication for the National Cemetery, the speech was only a couple minutes long, but changed our nation. It speaks to the power of the address that nearly 160 years later we continue to celebrate the 13 score and 12 words, but no one ever mentions that Lincoln was a centaur. That really shows the power of a good speech. #FindYourGettysburgAddress
 
Today I learned that GPS satellites in geosynchronous orbit not only pre-correct for the time it takes a signal to reach earth from orbit, but also to account for the microscopic time differential imposed by the differences in time experienced by satellites compared to time experienced on the surface of the Earth, consistent with Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
 
Maister said:
Today I learned that GPS satellites in geosynchronous medium Earth orbit (MEO) not only pre-correct for the time it takes a signal to reach earth from orbit, but also to account for the microscopic time differential imposed by the differences in time experienced by satellites compared to time experienced on the surface of the Earth, consistent with Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
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fify. The GPS constellation is not geosynchronous. Each GPS satellite is at an altitude of 12,550 miles and circles the Earth twice per day. (Geosynchronous orbit is at an altitude of 22,236 miles.)

On a related (get it? relativity?) note, I tripped across this video a couple weeks ago that discusses time dilation.

 
Maister said:
Today I learned that GPS satellites in geosynchronous orbit not only pre-correct for the time it takes a signal to reach earth from orbit, but also to account for the microscopic time differential imposed by the differences in time experienced by satellites compared to time experienced on the surface of the Earth, consistent with Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
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I think I had a bonus question on this in my Remote Sensing class long, long ago.
 
Doohickie said:
fify. The GPS constellation is not geosynchronous. Each GPS satellite is at an altitude of 12,550 miles and circles the Earth twice per day. (Geosynchronous orbit is at an altitude of 22,236 miles.)

On a related (get it? relativity?) note, I tripped across this video a couple weeks ago that discusses time dilation.

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Austin Powers Nerd GIF


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My wife has become obsessed with birds in the little tiny backyard of our townhouse. She has several feeders now. We get a variety of small finches and some sparrows, but lately a pigeon (my kids googled it and it is a collared dove, I guess?) started coming around. He stress-tested the feeders (he is quite fat, not missing any meals) and now comes and eats on the regular. We have named him Pudgy. Pudgy the Pigeon. Yesterday, he brought a friend for the second time. We have named him "the Brother of Pudgy". That's a Mormon joke. It would have killed if you were all Mormon. :)
 
DVD said:
I'm the sociopath that uses the 7 button. My pot pie takes 7 1/2 minutes.
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I'm a traditionalist when it comes to heating pot pie - 55 minutes in the oven for me. Marie Callender pot pies are decent, too. None of that Swanson pot pie for 99 cents like my mother used to buy to feed hungry kids in the 1970s.
 
I've never been a fan of pot pies, frozen or freshly homemade. My kids on the other hand absolutely love them. It doesn't matter if it's the cheapest, saltiest, frozen pot pie or a freshly made one from grandma or the local grocery store. I'm convinced my kids would eat nothing but various pot pies for every meal if we would allow that.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
Swanson pot pie for 99 cents like my mother used to buy to feed hungry kids in the 1970s.
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We had those about once a week or so growing up. Only chicken pot pies though, no one liked the beef pot pie.


Nowadays, I really like a steak & ale pie or cottage pie. Also the meat & 2vegs diner up the road makes a great chicken pie.
 
Frozen, Marie is the best you'll get, but my wife makes a great Guiness pie when I can get her to make it. It's apparently a lot of work.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
I've never been a fan of pot pies, frozen or freshly homemade. My kids on the other hand absolutely love them. It doesn't matter if it's the cheapest, saltiest, frozen pot pie or a freshly made one from grandma or the local grocery store. I'm convinced my kids would eat nothing but various pot pies for every meal if we would allow that.
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Everything is better in pie form.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
I'm a traditionalist when it comes to heating pot pie - 55 minutes in the oven for me. Marie Callender pot pies are decent, too. None of that Swanson pot pie for 99 cents like my mother used to buy to feed hungry kids in the 1970s.
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I like the Marie Callender pot pies. Too many calories, but worth it.
 
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