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Fresh Open Thread - [Niedermeyers Dead Horse]
I'm going blind from watching this over and over and...
How they sharpen pencils in a factory.. pic.twitter.com/OYO7vCjMaL
— SciencePorn (@SciencePorn) August 27, 2015I almost broke my brain with a backwards bicycle for the sake of Science. I would appreciate it if you... http://t.co/idQ1YHAahd
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 29, 2015 04:21 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at August 29, 2015 04:21 PM (2XMpf)
Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at August 29, 2015 04:22 PM (gCeSe)
4th?
Posted by: GBruno at August 29, 2015 04:22 PM (u49WF)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 29, 2015 04:22 PM (rwI+c)
My Grandfather always used his pocketknife.
Posted by: GBruno at August 29, 2015 04:23 PM (u49WF)
Posted by: Constable Charles d'Albret at August 29, 2015 04:25 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Boom! at August 29, 2015 04:25 PM (z6X+C)
Posted by: Joe Biden at August 29, 2015 04:26 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 29, 2015 04:27 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 29, 2015 04:27 PM (HalrA)
Life is good. ..even if eating all this is a bitch.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 29, 2015 04:28 PM (w/hjf)
Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 04:29 PM (PfVjp)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2015 04:30 PM (nSbUf)
Life is good. ..even if eating all this is a bitch.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 29, 2015 04:28 PM (w/hjf)
Sounds like good eats right there. Happy early birthday, and congrats to your parents!
Posted by: Insomniac at August 29, 2015 04:31 PM (mx5oN)
Note that the pencil is lowered onto the abrasive drum at the feed side, and lifted from the drum at the end. Also, note the pattern on the drum where there is a transition from grinding wood to grinding graphite.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 04:32 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 29, 2015 04:32 PM (mx5oN)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 04:32 PM (LUgeY)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 29, 2015 04:33 PM (kdS6q)
The video of the crash n' burn would melt YouTube's servers from the billion-plus hits in the first ten minutes.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 29, 2015 04:33 PM (McRlu)
Posted by: Skip
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Where are they when we need them? The Buzzion zombie is becoming aggressive.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 04:33 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 04:33 PM (nAv2M)
I don't get this, or if I'm getting it, it's so trivially true that I would be embarrassed to say it. But I don't think I get it in regards to the bike riding. I bet I could do the same thing if I asked you to pass a football, while wearing glasses that reversed right and left.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 29, 2015 04:33 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2015 04:34 PM (nSbUf)
Life is good. ..even if eating all this is a bitch.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA
...........................
So, when I get to the second stop sign, was that a left or a right?
Posted by: Chi at August 29, 2015 04:35 PM (ENe42)
Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 04:35 PM (0qASP)
TSA porn-sniffing dogs.
Yeah, baby.
Posted by: Joe Biden at August 29, 2015 04:36 PM (u5gzz)
I did. I thought the crowd was 10k or so, but the local media put it higher. I guess I'm not that familiar with the way Trump speaks and I was mostly going wtf? on his stream of consciousness. The crowd seemed appreciative though.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 29, 2015 04:36 PM (rwI+c)
Now, I'm not encouraging anyone to execute a mechanic.
*scans sky for banhammer*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 29, 2015 04:36 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner
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Grind it down.
Slice off the nuts.
Suture the skin where it stood.
Posted by: Cait Jenner at August 29, 2015 04:37 PM (P6Jv8)
They sharpen pencils at the factory, now?
I don't think I've ever bought a box of pre-sharpened pencils. Or even seen one.
Yeah, yeah - lawn. Remove yourself.
Posted by: Chi at August 29, 2015 04:38 PM (ENe42)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 29, 2015 04:38 PM (rwI+c)
Having used mechanical pencils for so long, I don't remember buying pencils that came pre-sharpened.
Posted by: GBruno at August 29, 2015 04:38 PM (u49WF)
Posted by: Lex at August 29, 2015 04:39 PM (FBjP7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 04:39 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: The Great _______ Snark at August 29, 2015 04:39 PM (5VnCS)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 29, 2015 04:39 PM (u5gzz)
I cant seem to get any news on the deputy shooting in houston
they had a guy in custody for questioning but they said the manhunt is continuing
which means the shooter didnt work alone?
whats going on?
Posted by: ThunderB at August 29, 2015 04:40 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: The Great _______ Snark at August 29, 2015 04:40 PM (5VnCS)
Posted by: Chi at August 29, 2015 04:41 PM (ENe42)
Judge Sessions is very well liked here. It's his home turf. He ran unopposed last time. That's how popular he is. Getting the Senator's endorsement would be huge here.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 29, 2015 04:41 PM (rwI+c)
Check your monitor it may be crooked.
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 04:41 PM (nAv2M)
Posted by: GBruno at August 29, 2015 04:42 PM (u49WF)
I say it every day on the trail, and I mean it: I need you. I need your prayers. I need your support.
Earlier this month I needed your feedback. Today, I need you to make a contribution ahead of our August End of Month Deadline: Jeb2016. com/dont nate/
Serious you guys there's only 4 days left until our Monday deadline, and we need to raise $200,000 to hit our monthly goal.
Unless you step up with a gift of $100, $50, or $25 right now, we might not hit our mark.
Posted by: mallfly at August 29, 2015 04:42 PM (qSIlh)
Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 04:42 PM (sdi6R)
Huge, classy and luxurious.
Posted by: Donald Trump at August 29, 2015 04:42 PM (8ZskC)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/qarzgtj
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 04:42 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: mallfly at August 29, 2015 04:43 PM (qSIlh)
***
He isn't claiming the bike is the cause of the fact, just that the bike made him aware of it.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 29, 2015 04:43 PM (PMlgt)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 29, 2015 04:43 PM (8ZskC)
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If you let them silence you, the terrorists will have won.
Posted by: Cait Jenner at August 29, 2015 04:44 PM (P6Jv8)
I still think the video of that Arabic guy getting blasted by the goat is infinitely watchable.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 04:45 PM (39g3+)
Check your monitor it may be crooked.
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There is a slight 'illusion' at work there. First, as the wood is ground away, the pencils appear to be shortening, then, as the tip is brought to actual point, the overall length is slightly shortened.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 04:45 PM (9mTYi)
Heh. "dont nate."
I plan on doing that several times. Sorry, Yeb.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 04:46 PM (LUgeY)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at August 29, 2015 04:46 PM (ucDmr)
"It is time for the silent majority in this country to support law enforcement. There are a few bad apples in every profession. That does not mean there should be open warfare on law enforcement. The vast majority of officers are there to do the right thing, are there because they care about their community and want to make it a safer place," Anderson said. "What happened last night is an assault on the very fabric of society. It is not anything that we can tolerate. It is time to come forward and support law enforcement and condemn this atrocious act. We need to bring this killer to justice."
they charged the guy they already had in custody
press conference at 4:30. this sounds like BLM related to me
Posted by: ThunderB at August 29, 2015 04:46 PM (zOTsN)
/tinfoil hat
Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 04:46 PM (PfVjp)
And still I get nothing. Riding a bike is neither knowledge nor understanding. It's practice and muscle memory.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 29, 2015 04:46 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 04:46 PM (39g3+)
"Our system of justice absolutely requires law enforcement to be present to protect our community. So at any point when the rhetoric ramps up to the point where calculated, cold-blooded assassinations of police officers happen, this rhetoric has gotten out of control," Hickman said. "We've heard black lives matter, all lives matter -- well cops' lives matter, too, so why don't we just drop the qualifier and just say lives matter and take that to the bank."
Posted by: ThunderB at August 29, 2015 04:46 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Cicero
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Not at a living wage.
Dammit. We'll have to use machines.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 04:47 PM (9mTYi)
Get a load of this guy:
David Frum davidfrum
Think of the Trump candidacy as the shock therapy the GOP needs to jolt it away from the Ayn Rand fantasies of past 2 cycles.
Yep, the GOP is being run by Randian Libertarian absolutists. Sounds about right.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 29, 2015 04:47 PM (kdS6q)
Right, then first on the right.
Thanks all. Been a great day with family and the kids. Even got to the gym before all of it.
So Megyn might go MSN. I guess her work here is done.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 29, 2015 04:47 PM (9jeGC)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 29, 2015 04:48 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 29, 2015 04:48 PM (zOTsN)
by: mallfly
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Heh, I remember that. Most people think Eraserhead is the baby, but it's the man.
That whole movie was like an 80 minute commercial. to make people pro-abortion.
Posted by: Cait Jenner at August 29, 2015 04:48 PM (P6Jv8)
http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=WP777LNX
Discliamer-Yes, I think there are some very fine people who are Atheists. Some of them post on this board. They probably aren't attending Atheist mega churches and aren't the militant variety, which I think are the ones who might attend an Atheist church,. That is in addition to the my belief that you can't have a "church" without a belief in God, so the term seems a misnomer I guess they like fellowship with other people and engaging in social service projects.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2015 04:48 PM (OSs/l)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 04:49 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Beth M at August 29, 2015 04:50 PM (kiy9d)
You steer bikes and motorcycles by tilting them and balance by steering the front wheel back underneath yourself. It's why it's so tough to ride along the edge, you run out of room to steer right so you can tilt left.
Posted by: DaveA at August 29, 2015 04:50 PM (DL2i+)
So the service is what, a Toastmasters meeting?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 29, 2015 04:50 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Morgan at August 29, 2015 04:50 PM (zt+N6)
The whole point is that your brain has been hardwired.
The bike isn't the problem, your brain is.
Posted by: Chi at August 29, 2015 04:51 PM (ENe42)
I'm not going into whether it was good or bad here.
My grievance here is that it contains a lot of subtitles (as many of the scenes are between Russians), and the subtitles were written by a complete idiot with absolutely no understanding of what a comma does. I mean, these subtitles are HORRENDOUS.
Seems to me there was a time when you had to have an education if you were going for a job in a professional copy-editing position.
I get a feeling of dread that this is where we are going, due to the whining of idiots and their "super-duper brilliant comeback" of calling people "grammar Nazis." (Oh, no! Excuse me! They call us "gramer nazi's!")
Look, if I said that Mars has 3 moons and you corrected me, could I call you a "science Nazi"? If I said that pi is 3.24 and you corrected me, could I call you a "math Nazi"?
No.
Well, grammar has right and wrong, just like science and math do.
And now look at what you've wrought: I go to movie and the subtitles look like they were typed by an angry atheist form an Infowars comment section!
Posted by: RKae at August 29, 2015 04:51 PM (zpRqk)
away, the pencils appear to be shortening, then, as the tip is brought
to actual point, the overall length is slightly shortened.>>>
The pencils are trapped between 2 conveyors that spin them running at a right but slightly down angle to the sandpaper belt. So yes they shorten as material is removed.
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 04:51 PM (nAv2M)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 29, 2015 04:51 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 29, 2015 04:51 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Y. Smirnoff at August 29, 2015 04:51 PM (8CdUx)
Link? Hadn't heard of that one. Sounds entertaining.
Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 04:53 PM (PfVjp)
So then you've never seen the video where Hitler discovers that he's been banned from xBox Live.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 29, 2015 04:54 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 04:54 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: BignJames at August 29, 2015 04:54 PM (HtUkt)
Think of the Trump candidacy as the shock therapy the GOP needs to jolt it away from the Ayn Rand fantasies of past 2 cycles.
-
Get a defibrillator stat! The GOP is in critical condition!
Posted by: The Great _______ Snark at August 29, 2015 04:54 PM (d8qld)
so weird to see his brain click
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at August 29, 2015 04:55 PM (0O7c5)
You steer bikes and motorcycles by tilting them and balance by steering the front wheel back underneath yourself. It's why it's so tough to ride along the edge, you run out of room to steer right so you can tilt left.
Posted by: DaveA at August 29, 2015 04:50 PM (DL2i+)
Thing is, that his kid who had only been riding bike for 3 years had learned how to do it in two weeks. So that was kind of interesting hearing that part.
Posted by: buzzion at August 29, 2015 04:56 PM (zt+N6)
Also, the word understanding is misused. What he should have said was reflexes. Somebody with no previous use of a bicycle or any other vehicle would likely be able to adjust more readily. They'd still be fighting their instincts based on just walking but would not have the same instincts regarding mechanical extensions of their body. Such a person would be difficult to find in a developed nation.
Posted by: Epobirs at August 29, 2015 04:56 PM (IdCqF)
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 04:57 PM (nAv2M)
My life's motto: They bleed, I drink.
Posted by: The Memory Hole at August 29, 2015 04:57 PM (5buP8)
Posted by: Skip
Team Bo Staff FTW!
Posted by: Morgan
Among the many stupidities on that show, the one that irritates me the most is the fact that no one has the 10 neurons it takes to stick a fucking knife on the end of a fucking stick and spear the fucking zombies.
Spears are the single most common weapon in the fucking history of fucking man-kind. What the fucking fuck already.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 29, 2015 04:57 PM (Ck8hC)
And if you crash with riders behind you, don't get up and try to run off the track. Stay there and let them pass you.
At least that's what I was told by my buddies.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 04:57 PM (LUgeY)
Posted by: Cahrles Jhonson at August 29, 2015 04:58 PM (2XMpf)
Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 04:58 PM (PfVjp)
The genius who brought us "Axis of Evil" when we weren't going to knock all three off and has been wronger about everything else since. The guy who can't fill Peggy Noonan's panties - or bar tab.
Posted by: DaveA at August 29, 2015 04:59 PM (DL2i+)
Alas, I am at work til 11. I really need to find something different so I can start having a life again.
Posted by: Blano at August 29, 2015 04:59 PM (FTYF8)
Wow, LDC, thanks for that.
Frum, who clearly lost his mind (effectively) some ways back, after not always being so clueless, has discovered Ayn Rand fantasy-worthy elements in the last two election cycles (assuming he means prezidential, not mid-term).
As PJ would say, WTFF?
So I guess *not* completing the distortion and destruction of rational/market finance in medical care, *not* nationalizing gigantic industrial enterprises with the Peronist twist of looting them for a few unions, *not* playing mad scientist with the monetary/banking system with zillions of digital dollars, *not* weaponizing powerful federal agencies to conduct politically-based abuse of citizens never before seen in our history, and *not* pushing to effectively crush freedom of conscience/religious liberty in direct contravention of unambiguous constitutional limits fundamental to the very creation of the country - *these* were "Ayn Rand fantasies".
Good to know.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 29, 2015 04:59 PM (QDnY+)
Wait; You're sad that your wife is a woman?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2015 04:59 PM (OSs/l)
Posted by: Epobirs at August 29, 2015 04:56 PM (IdCqF)
Uh he had his son do it. Riding bike for only 3 years. Was able to learn how to do it in two weeks. But it took him 8 months to figure it out.
Posted by: buzzion at August 29, 2015 04:59 PM (zt+N6)
Milton Friedman on the pencil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ERbC7JyCfU
Posted by: logprof, now hawking on Amazon at August 29, 2015 05:01 PM (vsbNu)
Just saw it again today, too.Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 05:02 PM (39g3+)
sad I had to type that last sentence. I have 2 daughters. My in-laws are
MIL, sister in law. That thing about the sorority house sync-up? Yeah
not so much. IOW, there's always a woman around me either riding the
cotton pony, or getting ready to. (The latter is worse.)
My life's motto: They bleed, I drink.
Posted by: The Memory Hole at August 29, 2015 04:57 PM (5buP
Have a happy Happy Week/Month/Year.
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 05:02 PM (TEpA2)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2015 05:02 PM (nSbUf)
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....rube in America at August 29, 2015 05:03 PM (+1T7c)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2015 05:03 PM (nSbUf)
Actually, unlike science grammar IS a popularity contest. Languages change over time based on how people actually speak and write them. Thus the divergence between US and UK into dialects of English. Two nations separated by a common tongue.
Posted by: Epobirs at August 29, 2015 05:04 PM (IdCqF)
Posted by: E.T. at August 29, 2015 05:04 PM (LCjVo)
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 05:04 PM (TEpA2)
so weird to see his brain click
****
That dude is so cool. Love him on Twitter.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 29, 2015 05:05 PM (PMlgt)
Posted by: Jim at August 29, 2015 05:05 PM (McRlu)
Posted by: Ambu, Lance, and Chase, LLC at August 29, 2015 05:05 PM (1CroS)
cotton pony, or getting ready to. (The latter is worse.)
They aren't all synched up yet?
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 05:06 PM (39g3+)
It got tedious and thus I didn't watch the whole thing. Psych students have been endlessly repeating that experiment for decades.
Posted by: Epobirs at August 29, 2015 05:06 PM (IdCqF)
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....rube in America at August 29, 2015 05:08 PM (+1T7c)
89 Only Darryl uses a crossbow, Machone uses a samurai sword.
Posted by: Skip
Team Bo Staff FTW!
Posted by: Morgan
Among the many stupidities on that show, the one that irritates me the most is the fact that no one has the 10 neurons it takes to stick a fucking knife on the end of a fucking stick and spear the fucking zombies.
Spears are the single most common weapon in the fucking history of fucking man-kind. What the fucking fuck already.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 29, 2015 04:57 PM (Ck8hC
Don't get me started on the dumbest show of all time.
*starts to mumble*
Posted by: Positive Waves at August 29, 2015 05:08 PM (MQEz6)
I suspect the other end of the pencils is gripped between two wide flat surfaces, one of which is a moving belt to provide the rotation and movement across the grinding surface.
Posted by: Epobirs at August 29, 2015 05:08 PM (IdCqF)
he has been arrested, which means she lied. they need to charge her too
Posted by: ThunderB at August 29, 2015 05:09 PM (zOTsN)
Actually DaveA, "Axis of Evil" was spot-on (even more than most right-wing death beasts seem to understand), even if it was an assymmetric "axis" (Iran-NK was/is quite real and substantive and dangerous, Iraq was obviously a bit more "independent").
And, tragically, about "finishing all three off" (even tho I think that's arguable as a neccessary follow-up to just namingthem to begin with), is that we actually finished off one - the most recklessly dangerous and vulnerable one - and were close to strangling another (NK). And some good progress was made at making the third, the big Kahuna (Iran) both nervous and more vulnerable. But the anti-prolif. initiative that had NK getting close to desperate was - mysteriously to this day - suddenly abandoned. And of course Iran's 378th open declaration of war on us was, yet again, ignored, and our position in Iraq very poorly exploited to punish and weaken them.
But was just thinking the other day, Dubya winning by a whisker against one of the most ridiculous candidates in modern history (Kerry), in war-time, followed by the national delusional hysteria/whine-fest over Iraq and Katrina and not getting our favorite ice cream daddy, was at least a nerf bat to the head of those who only later (like myself) recognized that the country was past the tipping point. Unserious. Which was sorta confirmed spectacularly in 2008 and since.
But I gotta go clean up the deck, call an old friend, and maybe finally detail strip that carbine (1943 Quality Hardware), if I can handle the heat in the garage.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 29, 2015 05:09 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Dave, exiled in RI at August 29, 2015 05:09 PM (sTarx)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/onsfjnd
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 05:10 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 05:10 PM (PfVjp)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 05:11 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: speedster1 at August 29, 2015 05:12 PM (1brdf)
120 I agree, the harder and more impressive the hunting tool the more legal it ought to be.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 05:11 PM (39g3+)
It will force hunters to hunt in teams.
Posted by: Positive Waves at August 29, 2015 05:12 PM (MQEz6)
Was she in the Navy?
Did she drown?
Sounds awful.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....rube in America at August 29, 2015 05:08 PM (+1T7c)
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the equivalent of the BBC.
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 05:12 PM (TEpA2)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 05:13 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: speedster1 at August 29, 2015 05:13 PM (1brdf)
Posted by: oh,k,tnx,bye at August 29, 2015 05:14 PM (q8Nh5)
Posted by: E.T. at August 29, 2015 05:14 PM (LCjVo)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 29, 2015 05:14 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 29, 2015 04:51 PM (rwI+c)
It's like throwing a baseball: it's very hard to throw accurately if you're not looking at your target. Try throwing batting practice without a target; the tendency is to look at the batter, and then naturally to throw at him, to his annoyance. Throwing past him at an imaginary target takes practice.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 05:14 PM (oKE6c)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ERbC7JyCfU
Posted by: logprof, now hawking on Amazon>>>
I have seen the dumbed down "I Pencil" cartoons. Which were enlightening. But to see Friedman's version it is much more.
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 05:16 PM (nAv2M)
I agree, the harder and more impressive the hunting tool the more legal it ought to be.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor
Then Hillarys hunting method would impress the heck out of you. Camo pantsuit and the snooch of death.
Posted by: Bruce at August 29, 2015 05:16 PM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Dave, exiled in RI at August 29, 2015 05:16 PM (sTarx)
Posted by: Cait Jenner at August 29, 2015 05:17 PM (P6Jv8)
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 05:17 PM (TEpA2)
Posted by: Dave, exiled in RI at August 29, 2015 05:18 PM (sTarx)
DaveA, this is why I avoided the 80s era HP calculators with their reverse Polish notation scheme.
I wonder, with the reverse bike if you got pushed to a stable speed you could steer it normally without using the handlebars using just your balance and weight to steer. Hands free mode, in other words.
Should operate okay in that mode with no new learning.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 29, 2015 05:19 PM (gyKtp)
Posted by: Dave, exiled in RI
That is weird. Might be a 'clean kill' law thing. Then again a spear is probably quicker than having to expend 400 arrows to down a deer.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 29, 2015 05:20 PM (Ck8hC)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 29, 2015 05:21 PM (u5gzz)
Posted by: MAx Henley at August 29, 2015 05:21 PM (LAliD)
Posted by: The Great _______ Snark at August 29, 2015 05:23 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 05:23 PM (PfVjp)
They may have been counter intuitive. But much more productive if you had to do long calculations involving lots of entrys. Which is why an HP could sell for twice what a fing TI sold for in the early 80s. Oh and TIs when used would start double entering.
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 05:24 PM (nAv2M)
That's one angry goatPosted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 05:25 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: The Great _______ Snark at August 29, 2015 05:25 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Thermadin at August 29, 2015 05:25 PM (Hxtbu)
Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 05:26 PM (PfVjp)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 05:26 PM (39g3+)
Anyone know how to add the Helgen Reborn .bsa and .esp files to Skyrim's data files? Drag-and-drop didn't work, and Bethesda hasn't answered my plea for help, so I'm at a loss.
Posted by: Empire1 at August 29, 2015 05:26 PM (qXIIh)
yes, skiing/boarding trees means you look at the gaps.....and not the trees
Posted by: Jake at August 29, 2015 05:26 PM (aMeMZ)
Just wanted to say "Thank You!" for the Yahoo Group tip in the other thread. Done done.
***
You're welcome. Nothing to it.
Good luck with the meetup
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 29, 2015 05:27 PM (PMlgt)
Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 05:27 PM (PfVjp)
Posted by: Dave, exiled in RI at August 29, 2015 05:27 PM (sTarx)
Posted by: MAx Henley at August 29, 2015 05:27 PM (LAliD)
Chicago is loosing a shit load of jobs to Mexico:
With
thousands of layoffs across the Chicago area, ranging from factory
jobs at the Mondelez plant on Chicago's Southwest Side to
white-collar jobs at Walgreens' Deerfield headquarters, this may be
remembered as the Summer of the Pink Slip in Illinois.
Locally here in upstate New York a safe manufacturing company moving to Mexico; Sentry Safe, 300 jobs...High tax states just loose jobs.
Posted by: Colin at August 29, 2015 05:28 PM (eoM8x)
Posted by: The Sharpeners Guild at August 29, 2015 05:29 PM (mwhHu)
I used one of those for abut 30 years, and when it finally gave up the ghost, I had a very hard time using a regular calculator. I'm still better than Biden, though, who just sticks it in his mouth.
Posted by: pep at August 29, 2015 05:29 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: MAx Henley at August 29, 2015 05:29 PM (LAliD)
DaveA, this is why I avoided the 80s era HP calculators with their reverse Polish notation scheme.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 29, 2015 05:19 PM (gyKtp)
Interesting: I'm exactly the opposite. I found RPN natural and intuitive, and to this day struggle with calculators that use algebraic notation. I suspect it has something to do with first learning to do calculations on a slide rule.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 05:29 PM (oKE6c)
But to stay on topic I offer this pencil shaving food link:
http://tinyurl.com/o9chnvt
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 29, 2015 05:30 PM (EWr9w)
Posted by: MAx at August 29, 2015 05:30 PM (LAliD)
manufacturing company moving to Mexico; Sentry Safe, 300 jobs...High tax
states just loose jobs.
Posted by: Colin
Unions are even more of a problem.
Posted by: pep at August 29, 2015 05:30 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 29, 2015 05:34 PM (NaeCR)
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 05:34 PM (nAv2M)
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 05:35 PM (TEpA2)
Posted by: Millenial at August 29, 2015 05:36 PM (P6Jv8)
http://tinyurl.com/o9chnvt
Posted by: olddog in mo
heh. but you know somewhere out there in the bowels of NYC or LA there a chef who is going to use 'food pencils' to draw a meal on a piece of edible rice paper.
Actually I'm kind of surprised no one has opened a 3d printed food restaurant yet.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 29, 2015 05:36 PM (Ck8hC)
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 05:36 PM (TEpA2)
Posted by: Gene Kelly at August 29, 2015 05:37 PM (l9UEg)
Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 05:38 PM (0qASP)
Posted by: Colin at August 29, 2015 05:39 PM (eoM8x)
Just back from 18 holes and knocking back a few scotch and waters at the club. It's nice to leave the rigors of Washington and not have to think about how the electorate has damaged the republican brand by siding with Trump instead of sticking with tried and proven leaders such as myself and McConnell.
Posted by: Vester Boehner, Speaker of the House at August 29, 2015 05:41 PM (OiFtZ)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 05:29 PM (oKE6c)
You probably started out with an HP as your first scientific calculator too. I started with TIs, and HPs just frustrated the hell out of me.
In the early 90s, I tried to learn that faster keyboard layout (qwerty was designed to slow typists down so the keys wouldn't jam); the problem was, you couldn't tote your reprogrammed keyboard everywhere with you.
Sooner or later, you had to meet a qwerty, and that's when the fight started...
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 29, 2015 05:41 PM (gyKtp)
kchunk. Of course, they didn't do division, which was real nice.>>>
My Father brought one of those home that they were throwing away at work. We would punch in long strings of numbers and watch it whir. It was a fucking mechanical marvel and magic to us.
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 05:42 PM (nAv2M)
I haven't experienced any vision issues from constant pencil sharpening.
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at August 29, 2015 05:42 PM (/f6Nd)
LOL. That reminds me of when mom took computer classes at GWCC, I think it was. She would bring home boxes of cards with holes punched in them. Seems here homework was to put them in the correct order to do something. My brother and I would push each other up and down the hall in the chair with wheels while she was in the lab.
Hmm, don't know why I remember that and thought I should share.
Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 05:42 PM (PfVjp)
Posted by: Beth M at August 29, 2015 05:43 PM (kiy9d)
Posted by: Moki at August 29, 2015 05:44 PM (x303I)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 05:45 PM (39g3+)
Ah, good. It was 2-2 when I left. I have to look up where in the heck "Lewisberry" is, because I've never heard of it.
Posted by: t-bird at August 29, 2015 05:46 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 05:46 PM (0qASP)
Posted by: Socratease at August 29, 2015 05:47 PM (2GbWn)
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 05:47 PM (nAv2M)
Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 05:48 PM (PfVjp)
I couldn't touch-type for beans until I found out about the Dvorak keyboard. (Thank you Computer Gods!) Now my only problem is feeling the tiny ridges on the home keys. Once I'm set, I can go great guns.
Posted by: Empire1 at August 29, 2015 05:48 PM (qXIIh)
Anyone know how to add the Helgen Reborn .bsa and .esp files to Skyrim's data files? Drag-and-drop didn't work, and Bethesda hasn't answered my plea for help, so I'm at a loss.
Posted by: Empire1 at August 29, 2015 05:26 PM (qXIIh)
There seems to be some of an explanation on its page in nexus mods.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35841/?
Posted by: buzzion at August 29, 2015 05:49 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Agitator at August 29, 2015 05:50 PM (vzk8Z)
Posted by: Empire1 at August 29, 2015 05:50 PM (qXIIh)
Posted by: Moki at August 29, 2015 05:50 PM (x303I)
Posted by: t-bird at August 29, 2015 05:46 PM (FcR7P)
York County, south of Harrisburg.
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 05:51 PM (TEpA2)
Posted by: eeew, some people stoop too low at August 29, 2015 05:51 PM (yJyW3)
Posted by: Barack Obama at August 29, 2015 05:51 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 05:52 PM (0qASP)
again since Ace's new banning policy took effect. Now I feel safe to
comment more.
Posted by: Empire1 at August 29, 2015 05:50 PM (qXIIh)
That's a banning.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 29, 2015 05:52 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 05:52 PM (39g3+)
scientific calculator too. I started with TIs, and HPs just frustrated
the hell out of me.
In the early 90s, I tried to learn that
faster keyboard layout (qwerty was designed to slow typists down so the
keys wouldn't jam); the problem was, you couldn't tote your reprogrammed
keyboard everywhere with you.
Sooner or later, you had to meet a qwerty, and that's when the fight started...
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 29, 2015 05:41 PM (gyKtp)
Yeah, I did, but as I indicated, I think the intuitive nature of it came from having used a slide rule extensively before that.
Re keyboards, I extensively modify MS applications (particularly Word), which expose their objects (?) and allow you to lift the hood and change things around through use of VBA (e.g., menus, hot keys, macros linked on menus etc.)
As a consequence, my system is optimized for my way of working, but it drives other people nuts.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 05:52 PM (oKE6c)
There was a time I worked on those for a living.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 29, 2015 05:52 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: tmitsss at August 29, 2015 05:52 PM (L0IIq)
Posted by: Justin at August 29, 2015 05:53 PM (lAtHS)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 05:54 PM (oKE6c)
There is a term called Code Confusion in (what I call) pragmatic linguistics. the words get tangled up. Now I've been at it for a good long time and can switch back and forth, but there are still times when I get blocked by what the alternate term is in the other language - there are some shortcuts that English has and some that Spanish has, and they can get you haring off down the wrong path.
riding a bike is all learned and I swear is operated at the spinal level, no thinking involved. The way we juggle or dance.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2015 05:54 PM (3pRHP)
My kids look at me like I'm a relic when I mention this.
Posted by: Moki at August 29, 2015 05:54 PM (x303I)
Posted by: Yip at August 29, 2015 05:55 PM (e7T6D)
I dunno, you could try to use that Nexus loader but I could not figure out how to make it work. I just dumped the files where they belonged by hand and it works great.
And Nexus Reborn is a really, really good mod.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 05:55 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 05:56 PM (PfVjp)
Posted by: Socratease at August 29, 2015 05:56 PM (2GbWn)
Posted by: tmitsss at August 29, 2015 05:52 PM (L0IIq)
Data downloaded from a Federal office wouldn't parse in a database; turns out the brain trust was using O in place of 0 in numeric fields. Computers no likey. Took a while to figure that one out.
But Obolacare will bend the cost curve down through bringing that vaunted government efficiency to bear.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 05:56 PM (oKE6c)
A 30-year-old man has been charged with capital murder in the ambush of a sheriff's deputy while he was filling his patrol car with gas at a station in suburban Houston.
Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman identified the man as Shannon J. Miles, who is in police custody.
Hickman says Miles had a previous record including charges of resisting arrest and trespassing.
Authorities said they are not sure of the motive in what Hickman has described as a "cold-blooded assassination" of Deputy Darren Goforth.
http://goo.gl/3odnWO
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 29, 2015 05:57 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 05:47 PM (nAv2M)
It has to do with how you learn to do things, then trying to learn a new way. That is the topic, I believe.
For example, I'm under 100 and I still hated the way my kids were taught to do basic math. But I had to learn their way to help them, since 'style' mattered on their answers.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 29, 2015 05:57 PM (gyKtp)
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 05:57 PM (nAv2M)
I remember that, very old school. My mom's old manual typewrite was that way. The IMB seletric I learned on with the ball typing head had all the numbers though.
I did most of my homework with the slide rule anyway.
There are still engineers that swear by the thing. Good plan when you're in the middle of the Sahara and your batteries give out or something.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 05:58 PM (39g3+)
My kids look at me like I'm a relic when I mention this.
Posted by: Moki at August 29, 2015 05:54 PM (x303I)
---
Hrothgar is teaching his grandkids how to use a slide rule. Got to keep the arcane arts alive!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at August 29, 2015 05:58 PM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 05:56 PM (PfVjp)
Not as far as I know. It's name, of course, is a contraction of "formula translation," and it was the go-to language for science and engineering programming since before they invented dirt.
You may be thinking of COBOL, which was used in business, but I suspect FORTRAN antedated COBOL.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 05:58 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Socratease at August 29, 2015 05:58 PM (2GbWn)
Posted by: Mama Miles at August 29, 2015 05:59 PM (bgR1g)
Yep, I saw that. The problem is that I can't figure out HOW to do it! Drag-and-drop gives me that slashed circle, and putting them in my Skyrim folder does nothing.
"Install manually by placing Helgen Reborn.esp and Helgen Reborn.bsa in your games Data folder or install with Nexus Mod Manager. Generally, all users should install version 105.3."
I also can't get NMM to do anything but tell me I'm not logged in. I'm beginning to think, after months of trying, This Is Impossible!
Posted by: Empire1 at August 29, 2015 05:59 PM (qXIIh)
Posted by: Yip at August 29, 2015 05:59 PM (e7T6D)
Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 06:01 PM (PfVjp)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 06:01 PM (39g3+)
I had to relearn to use RPN but because my school and job were entry heavy I switched. If you do a couple calculations a day RPN may not be worth it but if you do 100s its like learning a new language to survive.
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 06:01 PM (nAv2M)
My kids look at me like I'm a relic when I mention this.
Posted by: Moki at August 29, 2015 05:54 PM (x303I)
I love slide rules. It's obvious how they work, and no power is needed, useful in the zombie apocalypse.
One of my grad students told me she hadn't yet calculated the result of an experiment, so I whipped out my circular pocket slide rule and handed it to her to do the calculation.
She looked at me quizzically as though I'd just handed her a rabbit's foot.
I snatched it back, and did the calculation myself. God, I felt old.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 06:02 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 06:03 PM (0qASP)
Posted by: jewells45 at August 29, 2015 06:03 PM (/IQip)
I use a HP-41 and HP-11 from college. They are older than half the engineers I work with.
Posted by: rd at August 29, 2015 06:03 PM (qidv2)
Posted by: Socratease at August 29, 2015 05:56 PM (2GbWn)
Oooh, envy!
I lost mine in the course of several trans- and inter-continental moves, but I hope someday I'll find it at the bottom of a box somewhere. I still have a couple small circular slide rules, though.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 06:04 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 06:04 PM (nAv2M)
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 06:04 PM (nAv2M)
I find Excel a bit tedious for many calculations, as I spend half my time looking up the name of the function and the requisite syntax.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 06:07 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Yip at August 29, 2015 06:07 PM (e7T6D)
I can't stand Trump, but these asswipes are enough to make me support him just for spite.
Posted by: pep at August 29, 2015 06:08 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 06:08 PM (0qASP)
FORTRAN, that's it. Wasn't there something before that?
Posted by: Infidel
Not as far as I know.
Posted by: Jay Guevara
Well, assembly.
And before that, op-code I think it was called. Just a series of hex numbers that the computer could understand. The gloss of what those numbers meant was in off-computer comments for the program.
And before that, to program you moved around patch cords or -- for analog computers -- dialed in new values and pulled levers.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 29, 2015 06:09 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 06:10 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Socratease at August 29, 2015 06:11 PM (2GbWn)
x^y is (first entry)^(second entry) or the other way 'round? I assume
it's the former, but I invariably put in 2^3 to make sure.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 06:10 PM (oKE6c)
I once knew calculus, but wouldn't know how to do it now.
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 06:11 PM (TEpA2)
time looking up the name of the function and the requisite syntax.>>>
Which was my point, if calculations are a small part of your day. A TI calculator or the windows accessories one will do. If you have to do 100s you will get an HP or learn Exel language.
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 06:11 PM (nAv2M)
Yes, that's where the "not logged in" message appeared. Tried to e-mail you, but got a 404 error.
I'm empire1003 at hushmail dot com, if you'd rather reply there.
Posted by: Empire1 at August 29, 2015 06:11 PM (qXIIh)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 29, 2015 06:12 PM (NaeCR)
Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 06:12 PM (0qASP)
Posted by: rd at August 29, 2015 06:12 PM (qidv2)
Narnia fans -- at the end of the "smarter every day" video, there is a figure that looks like Reepicheep to me.
Posted by: Mindy, soon to be Emmie at August 29, 2015 06:12 PM (27veP)
Posted by: Socratease at August 29, 2015 06:11 PM (2GbWn)
Makes sense. It's just a mental tic of mine, as I suspected.
But I'm still gonna first try 2^3, just to make sure.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 06:12 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 06:13 PM (TEpA2)
Actually, hex numbers might have been a step up. In the early digital computers, it might have been straight binary.
And bring back mercury delay lines. That was such an awesome antiquated memory technology.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 29, 2015 06:13 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Lola Heatherington, Bounching Back to You at August 29, 2015 06:13 PM (VBbCO)
New all-terrain vehicle, partly made by Israeli company Plasan, wins deal to replace Humvee with 55,000 units by 2040.
Wonder if Fredo will give any to Iran and further screw Israel
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 29, 2015 06:14 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: rd at August 29, 2015 06:12 PM (qidv2)
OOOOPPPPSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Except on my HP-41 it is Y^x, doh!!!
So it is 2, enter, 3 Y^X on an HP-41.
Posted by: rd at August 29, 2015 06:15 PM (qidv2)
of your day. A TI calculator or the windows accessories one will do. If
you have to do 100s you will get an HP or learn Exel language.
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 06:11 PM (nAv2M)
That's worthwhile if you're doing the same calculation over and over with different arguments, but for doing a series of unrelated one-off ones, I find it faster just to use the Windows calculator in RPN mode.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 06:15 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 06:16 PM (nAv2M)
Posted by: Yip at August 29, 2015 06:16 PM (e7T6D)
So it is 2, enter, 3 Y^X on an HP-41.
Posted by: rd at August 29, 2015 06:15 PM (qidv2)
AH! I feel vindicated! For all these years I'd considered I was engaging in a superstitious ritual like not stepping on cracks in a sidewalk, but now I appreciate that it was perfectly rational thing to do. Thank you!
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 06:17 PM (oKE6c)
That's because you are fighting physics when you try.
And it's why bikes aren't designed that way. Or much of any other mode of transport. Although a boat comes close because it steers from the stern.
"Tha's jus ignint sir"
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 29, 2015 06:17 PM (x3GpS)
Excellent point!!
>>I can't stand Trump, but these asswipes are enough to make me support him just for spite.
THIS.
It's Palin all over again. What, do they miss being the cool kids at high school who get to decide who sits at the "cool" table and who gets pantsed at the pep rally? If you ever needed proof that the media sees themselves as the ones who must "guide" us to make the right choices, this is it. Grow up.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2015 06:17 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 06:18 PM (TEpA2)
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at August 29, 2015 06:18 PM (VBbCO)
Posted by: Long Dong Fong, Stereotypical Chinaman at August 29, 2015 06:18 PM (oVJmc)
I believe I am confusing your argument. So probably you are right and I'm just my normal state of confused.
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 06:19 PM (nAv2M)
Posted by: Long Dong Fong, Stereotypical Chinaman at August 29, 2015 06:19 PM (oVJmc)
A 30-year-old man has been charged with capital murder in the ambush of a sheriff's deputy while he was filling his patrol car with gas at a station in suburban Houston.
Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman identified the man as Shannon J. Miles, who is in police custody.
Hickman says Miles had a previous record including charges of resisting arrest and trespassing.
Authorities said they are not sure of the motive in what Hickman has described as a "cold-blooded assassination" of Deputy Darren Goforth.
http://goo.gl/3odnWO
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 29, 2015 05:57 PM (iQIUe)
Farrakhan's 10,000 are starting to out themselves. Every one of them, AND their supporters, should be strung up like the animals they are. I just don't give a shit about wide swaths of this country anymore.
Posted by: Blano at August 29, 2015 06:19 PM (heN73)
Posted by: Hecter at August 29, 2015 06:20 PM (u5gzz)
Posted by: Mindy, soon to be Emmie at August 29, 2015 06:21 PM (27veP)
Right click on the desktop and change the video settings if you have an nVidia controller card. That's probably what he did.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 29, 2015 06:21 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Mindy, soon to be Emmie at August 29, 2015 06:21 PM (27veP)
I'm sorry, I'm the same as I was.
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 06:22 PM (TEpA2)
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 06:18 PM (TEpA2)
Outstanding. Thanks
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 29, 2015 06:24 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: Lizzy
It started with Palin, but they continued the game in 2012, methodically picking off every conservative challenger to Romney until he was all that was left. Now they're trying the same tactic on Trump. They're like Belloq in Raider of the Lost Ark, saying to the base, 'Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away. ' One wants to support Trump just to wipe that smirk off their faces.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at August 29, 2015 06:26 PM (VBbCO)
People will continue to behave badly until bad behavior is disincentivized.
Except that it's not being thus disincentivized.
Over and over in these cases, we have people from the black community lying to law enforcement, and/or lying under oath on the stand in court, but they're never prosecuted for false statements to police or for perjury under oath.
Rachel Jeantel and her handwritten deposition about the Martin-Zimmerman fracas, that she couldn't even read. Dorian Johnson claiming that Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown in the back as Brown fled with his hands in the air. The family of Vonderrit Myers claiming that he hadn't had a gun in his hand, only a sammich. (A sammich that magically managed to fire several 9mm rounds into a police vehicle and the wall behind it.)
All of it lying bullshit from the get-go. None of it ever punished because of the tenderhearted refusal of the "justice system" to treat black crime as sternly as it treats crime committed by those of other ethnicities.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 29, 2015 06:26 PM (noWW6)
Punch cards for COBOL programs, 100 baud couplers, user manuals that began by telling the client how to turn on the dumb terminal, etc.
But the kicker is my earlier manuals and contract writing was hand written and given to the ladies in the typing pool. Mrs. JTB had to use short hand as part of her office duties.
Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2015 06:26 PM (FvdPb)
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at August 29, 2015 06:28 PM (VBbCO)
Posted by: Mindy, soon to be Emmie at August 29, 2015 06:21 PM (27veP)
I'm sorry, I'm the same as I was.
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 06:22 PM (TEpA2)
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Now I'm confused. I thought you were asking me to explain my comment about Reepicheep.
Posted by: Mindy, soon to be Emmie at August 29, 2015 06:28 PM (27veP)
Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 06:32 PM (0qASP)
Posted by: Mindy, soon to be Emmie at August 29, 2015 06:28 PM (27veP)
Oh dear, no. I have no clue what what means. No nic change either. Just me.
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 06:32 PM (TEpA2)
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 06:34 PM (TEpA2)
The backwards bicycle video ends by showing the website name with a little drawing that looks like the warrior mouse Reepicheep from the Chronicles of Narnia.
Posted by: Mindy, soon to be Emmie at August 29, 2015 06:35 PM (27veP)
when referring family members to this site. Right now I am
transitioning so people know what happened to "Mindy."
The backwards bicycle video ends by showing the website name with a
little drawing that looks like the warrior mouse Reepicheep from the
Chronicles of Narnia.
Posted by: Mindy, soon to be Emmie at August 29, 2015 06:35 PM (27veP)
Best wishes, and sorry I didn't recognize the reference.
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 06:36 PM (TEpA2)
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I was in school when the first affordable scientific calculators became available. The prof in one of my classes gave a bonus of 3 points on tests IF you used a slide rule.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 06:37 PM (9mTYi)
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/08/27/
front-lawn-dinosaurs-cause-stir-texas-neighborhood/32466803/
Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2015 06:37 PM (NOIQH)
I think that's happening with a lot of people. The more sneering arrogant condescending elitist crap thrown at him by rich powerful people the more likable he becomes.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 06:37 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 06:37 PM (0qASP)
I have Vernier Caliper that I like to hand to young engineers when they ask me for a caliper. Same with the old timey micrometers they have no clue how to read them.
And yes I use the digital ones myself for most work. But I keep the old ones around in case a battery fails.
Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 06:37 PM (nAv2M)
Perhaps all the talk about x and y has transported us to another dimension where communication is as confusing as an inverse function!
Posted by: Mindy, soon to be Emmie at August 29, 2015 06:38 PM (27veP)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 06:38 PM (9mTYi)
Perhaps all the talk about x and y has transported us to another
dimension where communication is as confusing as an inverse function!
Posted by: Mindy, soon to be Emmie at August 29, 2015 06:38 PM (27veP)
And add Z for NGU.
Posted by: Vendette at August 29, 2015 06:41 PM (TEpA2)
Next Morondezvous is in Sept or Oct. if you are not on the Morondezvous yahoo group, we need to fix that.
Posted by: Mindy, soon to be Emmie at August 29, 2015 06:42 PM (27veP)
Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 06:42 PM (0qASP)
Posted by: Socratease at August 29, 2015 06:43 PM (2GbWn)
Posted by: Mindy, soon to be Emmie at August 29, 2015 06:43 PM (27veP)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 29, 2015 06:44 PM (EWr9w)
Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 06:44 PM (0qASP)
Posted by: Mindy, soon to be Emmie at August 29, 2015 06:46 PM (27veP)
Posted by: MAx at August 29, 2015 06:49 PM (LAliD)
I now know how to log into NMM, find the necessary files, and put them into the data file on Skyrim. Yip has given me something I've been looking for for a very long time, and I want to express proper gratitude.
Posted by: Empire1 at August 29, 2015 06:53 PM (qXIIh)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2015 06:57 PM (3pRHP)
Heh. I never felt that way. Always had a smile on my face when using the more modern scale.
Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 07:02 PM (0qASP)
I still prefer a beam scale and analog calipers and micrometers for hand loading. They haven't let me down in thirty years. If I had to use these tools for work instead of a hobby, that would be a different matter. Like photography, I prefer film as a hobby. As a job it would be digital.
Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2015 07:16 PM (FvdPb)
Posted by: Yip at August 29, 2015 07:44 PM (e7T6D)
No, you don't measure what you're putting in the cooking, that'd defeat the intuitive cook.
Rather, you weigh the "before and after" of each ingredient, and convert the resulting difference to standard cooking weights and measures.
It's of the most value when measuring amounts of various seasonings that go into the pot, skillet or such.
If you can get Aunt Mabel to make that dish that nobody can duplicate, and can get to all the ingredients to make the "before/after" measurements, you're well on the way to preserving some valuable family recipes.
And for hand loading ammo? Gimme the manual calipers & micrometer, but I'll go with the digital scales every time. Speedy, and helps reduce human error to the bare minimum.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 29, 2015 07:56 PM (McRlu)
Posted by: daesleeper at August 29, 2015 09:47 PM (7Iwef)
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