Random thought of the day
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
What's wrong with Bavaria?
They speak something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike German. BMWs (and BMW drivers).
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
The human body, often put forward as an example of bilateral symmetry, is only symmetrical at all on the outside. Inside, things are crammed in every which way.
(Even external symmetry is a simplification, what with skin blemishes, hair whorls, etc.)
Whatever they told you about kidneys, you're supposed to have two.
@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Makes sense. UI designers only work on visible parts, they don't care if the inside is a complete mess.
I have new kidneys! I don't like the colour.
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@Watson of your kidneys?
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Watson of your kidneys?
Well it's a bit hunting lodge, old-money dark wood, heavy draperies. Doesn't fit well with a modern design scheme, and the Pantone COTY already took the accent color slot.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
Whatever they told you about kidneys, you're supposed to have two.
Especially with some scrambled egg too.
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@Gribnit someone doesn’t watch Doctor Who.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit someone doesn’t watch Doctor Who.
Where?
When?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit someone doesn’t watch Doctor Who.
Where?
When?
Who?!
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit someone doesn’t watch Doctor Who.
Where?
When?
Who?!
You broke the sequence!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit someone doesn’t watch Doctor Who.
Where?
When?
Who?!
You broke the sequence!
What?
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit someone doesn’t watch Doctor Who.
Where?
When?
Who?!
You broke the sequence!
What?
And why!
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@Tsaukpaetra fair, but it's no Shark Boy and Lava Girl
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit someone doesn’t watch Doctor Who.
Where?
When?
Who?!
First base.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit someone doesn’t watch Doctor Who.
Where?
When?
Who?!
First base.
That's what I'm asking you.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
Hang on, do owl's eyes rotate in their head so that they're always the right way up (does that makes sense?), or do their eyelids close in diagonal? Or is it just a video artefact?
(inb4: )
The first one would be really
aweowlsome.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
Hang on, do owl's eyes rotate in their head so that they're always the right way up (does that makes sense?), or do their eyelids close in diagonal?
Fine. You've nerd-sniped me. Here's the result of 30 seconds research:
Owls's eyes don't rotate at all in their eye sockets. This includes rotating up and down or side to side. They rotate their whole heads instead. So that's a "no".
But they have a third translucent eye lid which closes diagonally. So that's a sort-of "yes".
In any case, no eye lids close like depicted above.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
Hang on, do owl's eyes rotate in their head so that they're always the right way up (does that makes sense?), or do their eyelids close in diagonal? Or is it just a video artefact?
(inb4: )
The first one would be really
aweowlsome.Eyelids generally do not move with the eye.
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
Eyelids generally do not move with the eye.
Well they could have in this case!11!!
But yeah, good point.
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
In any case, no eye lids close like depicted above.
That's a bit disappointing, though not really surprising. Also, I had heard about this third eyelid in the past, but I had totally forgotten about it.
Thanks anyway.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
Also, I had heard about this third eyelid in the past
I knew amphibians had it, and in the back of my mind I knew from experience sleepy cats had too, but I had no idea about owls.
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Media companies shouldn't be able to claim a ${COMPANY} Original for a dramatization of somebody's novel.
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RTotD: the US declared their independence with the help of an army that the king they were fighting claimed to control.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@remi said in Random thought of the day:
Also, I had heard about this third eyelid in the past
I knew amphibians had it, and in the back of my mind I knew from experience sleepy cats had too, but I had no idea about owls.
Humans have a vestigial third eyelid though.
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@Carnage said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@remi said in Random thought of the day:
Also, I had heard about this third eyelid in the past
I knew amphibians had it, and in the back of my mind I knew from experience sleepy cats had too, but I had no idea about owls.
Humans have a vestigial third eyelid though.
That's supposed to be vestigial? Shit, no wonder people shudder when I blink.
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@Carnage said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@remi said in Random thought of the day:
Also, I had heard about this third eyelid in the past
I knew amphibians had it, and in the back of my mind I knew from experience sleepy cats had too, but I had no idea about owls.
Humans have a vestigial third eyelid though.
So do Vulcans, which spared Spock from permanent blindness once.
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Whatever became of the jargon words inst, ult and prox, once prevalent in business letters to identify which month a numeric ordinal date refers to? (Usage example: in a letter dated June 15th, the phrase "the 7th inst" means a document or transaction dated June 7th, where "the 7th ult" would be May 7th and "the 7th prox" July 7th.)
These terms would not likely be used in personal letters ("My dearest darling, I shall return to your embrace on the 28th prox"?), in writing intended for greater permanence such as novels or textbooks, and certainly never in speech. It also seems they are inadmissible in Scrabble.
Nor were they ever used to similarly clarify which week a day falls in (note the many confused discussions on whether, on a Tuesday, "next Friday" means the one just three days away or the one a week hence).
And of course they did not make the transition to business communication occurring in e-mail or text messages.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Whatever became of the jargon words inst, ult and prox
I don't know about prox, but insults are pretty much alive and well
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@da-Doctah I have never heard of those words, but am reminded of the Dutch word 'jongstleden', which qualifies a partial date (usually an ordinal day and month, like
15 maart
, though wiktionary's example is a weekday) as the most recent occurrence of that date.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Whatever became of the jargon words inst, ult and prox, once prevalent in business letters to identify which month a numeric ordinal date refers to?
In modern usage, you'd be far more likely to see "this", "last", or "next", which are what instant, ultimate, and proximate mean. Note that like the common English words, the abbreviated Latin-derived terms can also be used to specify weeks or years, e.g., "Tuesday inst".
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
Note that like the common English words, the abbreviated Latin-derived terms can also be used to specify weeks or years, e.g., "Tuesday inst".
If you want to sound pretentious. I've never heard that anywhere except this thread. And if anyone pulled that on me, I'd go . And I'm no stranger to using $1 words where $0.05 words would do (it's rather my modus operandi). But some things are just a bridge too far.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
But some things are just a fridge too far.
Buy the ticket, take the ride. These terms need parlanced and you know it. You feel it. Look into you heart, you know it to be true.
Also recommended, obscure latinate abbreviations,
q.q.
,m.m.
,d.g.
and such, and wherever possible using iff vs if iff applicable.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
I've never heard that anywhere except this thread.
Perhaps I should have said "could also be used"; whether it's referring to weeks, months, or years, it's thoroughly archaic.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
Random thought of the day... no-- wait, it's gone.
That was the same as yesterday's!
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@Benjamin-Hall "Instant", at least, is also used in the sense of "this" or "current" in formal legalese. For example, a motion in a lawsuit might refer to the "instant matter", meaning whatever matter (lawsuit) the motion is being filed in regard to.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
I've never heard that anywhere except this thread.
Perhaps I should have said "could also be used"; whether it's referring to weeks, months, or years, it's thoroughly archaic.
There are two problems using "last", "this" and "next" with days of the week.
(1) If today is Tuesday, is "next Friday" the one three days hence, or the one ten days from now?
(2) Even if you agree that "next Friday" means "the Friday that falls within 'next week'", you still have the different cultural norms that begin and end the week on different days
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Compassion is no reason to stop firing.
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Representing a set of 4-uples over a 2-dimensional checkerboard as a 3-dimensional projection of the relations of disjoint 2-uple views per square color.
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@Gribnit Pawn to king's bishop three, queen's level.
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I guess nobody had the forethought to specify “coherent” thought for this thread.
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@topspin If it's coherent, is it really random?
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@Applied-Mediocrity well, it can still be noise in either case.
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Cybernetics is vexed in inverse proportion to the strength of the illusion of control - this outcome is parallel in both programming and government.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
Cybernetics is vexed in inverse proportion to the strength of the illusion of control - this outcome is parallel in both programming and government.
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@da-Doctah for 1/2 Q I'll tell you whether I meant that.
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If ${BIG_MOBILE} Pay is “pay by bonk”, does that make paying by RFID card “pay by pretentious hover”?
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@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
If ${BIG_MOBILE} Pay is “pay by bonk”, does that make paying by RFID card “pay by pretentious hover”?
Dunno, that'd also apply to pay-by-smell.
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@Carnage said in Random thought of the day:
Possibly. The pendulum is swinging back from "let the silly programmers do whatever!" to "Lets micromanage the living bejeezus out of all the programming!" so much of the discussions and complaints seem to be about all the dumb processes instead of all the dumb code. And instead of discussions about how to solve problems, there are discussions about how to organize.
In my opinion and experience, that is.
That matches my opinion and experience. I average about 12 hours of meetings a week I have to go to.