b1-66er: "New Research Links Sleeping in on Weekends to Lower Heart Disease Risk."
As if you need an excuse.
b1-67er: That is the best news I've heard in a long time.
30.8.24
27.8.24
Smördåshbord
The Accomplice: <pic>
Screenshot from Facebook this morning. A combination of partons, b1-67er?!? Bonsai on the dashboard of a restored Ford?
b1-67er: I could see some lowland tropical picture plants doing really well there.
26.8.24
Entering the NV Probing Ground
The Accomplice: I'm going to be naked up and at my computer in a bit. I'm trying for Nevada test site tour tickets in February (or January)
b1-66er: Do you have to be naked to buy tickets?
TA: Hahaha. Damn autocorrect. Masked up
b1: Okay.
I honestly had no idea what you meant.
TA: I can see why not!!!
(now I am stuck with Naked and Famous lyrics cycling through my head)
Hemorrhagic Disc
b1-66er: https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/25/24228184/martin-shkreli-wu-tang-clan-shaolin-lawsuit-surrender-album
Jelly Tite: This is so sad
b1: The only difference between Asperger's and Pure Evil is intent.
JT: Yep
25.8.24
23.8.24
Win by contract
Special K: "Danny Jansen will become the first player to play for both teams in one MLB game when the Red Sox resume a game against his old team, the Blue Jays, on Monday.
The game was suspended when he was hitting, so he will catch against his own pinch-hitter"
b1-66er: THAT IS SO GREAT!
K: Yes. Maybe the best thing ever.
b1: And it puts that guy in an interesting psychological situation...
He can't win.
But he also can't lose.
K: True.
b1: It's the Purgatory of Baseball.
K: Deep.
20.8.24
SO close to a pinwheel
b1-66er: Think of it more like a fountain that a rocket. (Video's on top. Description is good.)
b1-67er: When I'm watching that I'm thinking all the time, Is this the worst of it, or is it going to get even worse?"
D4rw1n: 8/10 firework. I prefer rockets over fountains. But points for mass, danger, and large pretty vortices of fire
66: See? I've gotta agree with that. Those're "Carr Court Sensibilities."
Country lockdown UNTIL YOU ALL TAKE YOUR SEATS
b1-66er: Headline- Flights cancelled in Japan after scissors go missing
Lede- Thirty six flights were cancelled and 201 delayed at a Japanese airport on the weekend after a pair of scissors went missing in a store near the boarding gates.
b1-67er: File that under
Abundance of Caution
I guess.
D4rw1n: Hey if running with scissors is bad then flying must be stopped at all costs
We all need a little Humanity Soup
b1-66er: "Nature does not care about your safety and will kill you especially if are not properly prepared."
D4rw1n: Okay if dying is a spiritual experience, you can definitely get that.
Mountain biking yesterday I went over a particularly scary drop and I involuntarily yelled "oh my god," quickly followed by my internal monologue saying "oh shit. I don't have one of those. I might be fucked."
b1-67er: Perhaps "oh any available god!" Would be more suitable.
Advising people to hike by themselves without food in the wilderness is dumb. A buddy system where you check in when you get back is also dumb. No cell phone is probably irrelevant, there's probably no service out there anyway.
D4: Would be funny if the only god is some kind of spaghetti monster. Okay I guess you'll have to do.
Or if there really are all manner of gods and they go "Fuck - emergency call. Thor it's your turn. Ganesh got the last one and Dionysus is out sick. Again"
67: Dyonysus does party a little too hard
I have a theological solution for you D4. It seems that both saint Odan and Saint Augustine are considered patron saints of Aetheists. And the Catholics do pray to saints, asking them to advocate on their behalf to God. So you may have a path to salvation after all.
66: What a great play•
D4: The concept of a patron saint of atheists breaks my brain
But I guess if Catholics are praying to them for my salvation, my work here is done
That is even better than another, slightly more straightforward approach first outlined by the philosopher Blaise Pascal: Pascal's Wager. It essentially says that atheists should accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior ... just in case. It's considered an attractive wager because as an atheist it costs you nothing to say it. But if you are wrong about being an atheist, the payoff is infinitely good.
I reject it because it's not intellectually honest
66: Patron Saint of Atheists is the joker in the Catholic card deck.
No over card trumping the play.
67: But praying to saint Augustin as an atheist really requires no duplicity. It can be a I don't really believe this, but I'm in real trouble, so just in case kind of prayer.
There is an interesting question here. I think most Christians have moments, maybe big ones, of doubting their faith. And I think most atheists have moments of doubting the nonexistence of God. That suggests those Venn diagrams overlap. So at what point is the doubting Christian an atheist, and at what point is the doubting atheist actually religious?
66: THAT'S a good question.
There's NO DOUBT they're all part of humanity.
This is the equivalent of calling 911 from the inner city.
Probably won't work. In desperation, it costs nothing to try.
67: We can think of the Saint Augustin prayer as the "Hail Mary" move.
Wrapped in flannel
b1-66er: "An Olympic rings tattoo is a rite of passage. If a Paralympian gets one, they'll be disqualified"
Special K: Why?
b1: I don't know. I didn't read the article.
<2 minutes pass>
K: "Body advertising is not allowed in any way whatsoever and that includes the Olympic rings. The athlete did not wear a cover and was therefore disqualified," an IPC spokesperson said in a statement at the time.
b1: What's the K's take?
K: Dumb.
b1: And so it is written...
... And so it shall be told.
K: So sharp I cut my jammies.
b1: That's not a penis reference, is it?
K: It's not.
18.8.24
... AND it reeks of cola!
b1-66er: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd7y3nm09lo#webview=1
b1-67er: I love the picture of the guy in the Tyroleon hat dumping boxes of hand grenades overboard. That's a picture that says a thousand words about Swiss neutrality.
That's a really hard, hard problem to solve.
16.8.24
Gettin' worked up
b1-66er: https://youtu.be/2gWudPtN6z4?si=3hrm3wg7PozSVl5U
b1-67er: Heating the pool thar way is generally the right idea sort of. It's tough to use heat that's at say 180F (probably about as hot as you want server chips to run), because the delta T relatively low. So you have to move a lot of water. And pumping costs energy. What you really want is relatively high temperature heat so that a small amount of pumping energy moves a lot of heat. There are some practical thresholds. Regular buna-N seals will get you to about 200F. CHEAP. Slightly more expensive viton seals will get you to about 450 F. Still very practical. Temperatures above that get trickier, it's expensive to get sealing materials that will survive. But there are solutions. Then there are the solar concentrator guys that are using molten salt as their fluid at around 1000F. They are out of their goddamm minds if you ask me.
They call me, "Bellow Yellow"
Smokey: I've owned this thing for 32 years now.
Left it rotting in my mom's garage for the last 10 years.
Got it all fixed and drivable now.
But want to drive it for a few days before I decide to sell it.
b1-66er: You should.
S: I have someone interested so may just send it on it's way
b1: Where'd you advertise?
S: I didn't. A friend I was talking to knew someone who has been looking for a TR-6 for years
The problem with them (other than the fact that they are unreliable garbage cars) is when you buy one, you don't know how bad it is.
This one is close to perfect mechanically. Not bad otherwise but not perfect.
So for a 1974 triumph, on a scale of 1 to 10. This is a 4. And Triumphs top out at 5.
They are pretty. But it is like a 4 wheeled motorcycle.
You can smell the oil leaking as you drive.
It is part of its charm.
b1: Me: Right. Like a girlfriend who has a lot of polish and curves in all the right places...
... But smokes.
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Dox gotta eat!
b1-66er: "Artificial intelligence software now can read — instantly — chest X-rays for indications of TB or other conditions as accurately as radiologists can."
DENT: Ya. Doctors need to be worried about job security and should vote for a guaranteed minimum wage. $500k/year should do it. 👍
15.8.24
Turn of a phrase
b1-66er: My brother's life just got better...
... This version kinda bridges space rock and acid rock.
D4rw1n: That is so 1979...
...Or should I say that 1979 was so Ric Ocasek.
Just IMAGINE what's left...
Former Flyer: I was this many years old before I learned that peacocks actually fly.
14.8.24
"Help me, Wolfman Jack, you're my only hope!"
b1-66er: Remarkably good live rendition.
(I remember when this originally aired. I was at a friend's house.)
b1-67er: You have that right. Her vocals are so good I was watching close to see if it was prerecorded. But it wasn't. Really good. And Luke Skywalker on lead guitar.
When two tribes go to store
b1-66er: Russia Moves Some Troops From Ukraine to Fight Incursion, Kyiv and U.S. Say
That has broad feelings of a Frankie Goes to Hollywood Frankie say... headline.
b1-67er: PUTIN SAY RELAX
66: That would be a great shirt.
How many sides does "bad" have?
The Accomplice: OMFG!
D4rw1n: Combines two things I don't need: a snow globe, and a Casa Bonita snow globe
13.8.24
No Strings Attached
Special K: North Korean TV intercepted.
b1-66er: That qualifies as "legitimately strange."
(My favorite part was the puppet show.)
b1-67er: I notice the Korean newscaster and the puppets both look a little Kim Jung Un.
11.8.24
What's your aim?
b1-66er: https://youtu.be/SDhTeRpWc6k?si=qGGI4pzjtir-sfQk
b1-67er: Really tall seems to make the most sense where the land is really expensive. Land is cheap in Oklahoma, so I'm not sure it makes sense. I wouldn't build the tallest building in the US. You might as well paint a target on the side of it, since that's what you are building.
10.8.24
The Bacon Powdered Sugar Madison
Suttonhoo: Greetings from the Wisconsin State Fair
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9.8.24
In a dream state, the end is rear
b1-66er:
11:15 second sleep
(Today's Break Fast Day, although I have not yet eaten...
Had electrolytes for the first time in several days yesterday [I'm certain they do something encourage/enable/help me remember dreams.])
On with the show...
I'd been reading in a chair just inside the entrance of a grocery store. Not unlike the ones at a video poker machine in a casino.
I'm not in LV. The climate's wrong. Probably Denver.
Apparently I had fallen asleep(?) when you called.)
I apologized for being asleep and in a store, telling a joke about it that fell flat.
I couldn't hear you very well and switched from ear to speaker...
...a young teenage girl had just come in and leaned in a bit to say something snide in the conversatio we were having.
"Here you can talk to him. It's my pal, Smokey. He's used to lifeforms of your kind..."
She sneers at me and mumbles a dismissive line.
I say, "Isn't it amazing how your phone grocery store interactions with people are just like your real life?"
It starts raining hard enough that the drops coming are under the pedestrian overhang.
You say something I only can ½ hear. It's something like, "You know, I'm WORKING..."
"Well you know I was SLEEPING... And YOU called ME."
Phone call drops.
[EOD]
I wake up thinking, 'oh geez. Now I've got to call him back.' But my phone's not in my hand. I'm not even in a grocery store.
Oh geez.
I'm in bed.
•••
Smokey: So weird. I had the exact same dream except you weren't in a grocery store but a store that sold tack for horses and were wearing a bear suit and waxing on and on about how much you like carrots. I said I wasn't much for root vegetables which appeared to offended you and you screamed "If I had a boiled egg right now, I'd jam it in your face hole!" It was at this point I realized we would be friends for life. Except that that makes no sense at all since I don't like boiled eggs.
Ok, so maybe the dream has some subtle differences.
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