Wait, why would they drench a plant in herbicide just before harvesting? You use the herbicide to kill off the weeds while the plant is growing, to reduce competition for resources. I can't think of a reason you'd need to really, really kill new weeds just before collecting the food from plants that are already fully grown and ripened.
I know a lot of people like that one, but it left me disappointed. It seemed more inspirational than practical, and while there were a few good insights, I also felt like there were a few suggestions that seemed kind of risky. It's been a while, so the details are fuzzy now, but it's not high on my list.
I read Surely You're Joking as a high-school junior, and loved it so much I decided to major in physics. I spent most of my college years feeling like I was continually failing to live up to Feynman's example, but not knowing how to get more out of it, because when it comes down to it, few people are as dynamic as that guy. So, you may have missed out on a better college experience, but you might have also just missed out on four years of feeling guilty and inadequate.
What I really wish I'd read more of earlier are financial books. How to handle money, how to budget, how to eliminate debt or be much more careful about using it than the average American is, how to invest, how to plan for retirement, all of those things.
I'm not really attached to these, but they're examples of a few reference points that made a difference to me in terms of how I thought about my finances:
* a Dave Ramsey book (they're all kind of redundant) - for budgeting, saving, and month-to-month financial management * The Millionaire Next Door - some framework for understanding what habits contribute to wealth, and which ones don't * The Four Pillars of Investing - a lot of history and basic investing environment * The Intelligent Investor - a more detailed perspective on investing and history
Nice. Selfish Gene would be on my list. I'll be sure to check out Naked Ape.
In that sciencey/origins set I'd add: * Before the Dawn (using genetic information to trace human development and migration) * Song of the Dodo (about extinction) * Guns, Germs, and Steel (about geography influencing civilization's development) * any of the Leaky or Johanssen books about Lucy, Lucy's child, etc. - as much fun for the bickering between the camps as for the developing understanding of early human/pre-human evolution
Aw, that's a shame. It's a really funny series. Now, there's not much I'd take seriously in there (other than maybe a little glee in occasionally being subversive), but I've read it repeatedly without it ruining my life.
Curious. I'm not out to start a fight here, but recently I was reading a web site called Meaningness ( https://meaningness.com/ ) that introduced me to Eckhart Tolle by vigorously arguing with him ( https://meaningness.com/metabl... ). That's about as much as I know about the guy, though, but it discouraged me from pursuing his writings.
According to this chart, it does indeed take 3 drinks to hit.08, unless you weigh under 140 pounds, which I don't consider "quite large". You'd have to be under 110 lbs for 2 drinks to do it, and if you're over 160 lbs (I'd call that average, still not "quite large"), it takes 4 or more. That's all at once, without food.
I want to find a way to say "drinking increases creativity" in a way that doesn't sound so unilateral.
I'm not really sure it helps much with creativity, at least in my case, but there's something there. For me, I almost want to say it just facilitates my willingness to sit in one place and work on the thing I've been meaning to work on, whether it's something creative or some kind of drudgery/chore. I don't know that it makes a lot of sense, because promoting focus isn't something I'd attribute to alcohol.
I looked up movie times on Google. It had a sidebar with a metacritic score that seemed low. I followed that and saw actual reviews, which were also (in the aggregate) pretty bad. Are all of those equally at fault?
This is for Pirates 5, by the way. Part of the reason I looked is because Pirates 4 was already really disappointing compared to the first three, and Depp has been in a death spiral for years. That and the appearance of yet more dead/undead pirates (how many different ways is that even possible) in the previews had me seriously worried. If all of that hadn't already been hanging over the movie, I wouldn't have bothered to second-guess my impulse to just go down and watch it.
I'll still see it, by the way, just put it off until it's on Redbox.
For sure. I've written code in order to solve word puzzles, or to create them. Realizing I could apply programming to a dictionary file was an eye-opening experience for me.
Every field promotes itself on the fun and joy of it.
I had a college prof say, "Physics is like sex. Sure, there are practical results sometimes, but that's not why we do it." I think that's proof enough that for any thing, there's someone who finds it fun.
The one glimmer of hope I see here is, if reboots are so common, one of these days they're going to reboot the Transformers series, and then I can watch a Transformers movie not directed by Michael Bay. That means there's a chance (small, I admit) that the plot will actually make sense and I'll finally be able to follow one of the action sequences.
As in, the plural requires an S. I counted at least two instances of "banana" used as the plural. What else about this report is half-assed and slapdash?
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Wait, why would they drench a plant in herbicide just before harvesting? You use the herbicide to kill off the weeds while the plant is growing, to reduce competition for resources. I can't think of a reason you'd need to really, really kill new weeds just before collecting the food from plants that are already fully grown and ripened.
Is posting the obligatory like doing the needful?
I know a lot of people like that one, but it left me disappointed. It seemed more inspirational than practical, and while there were a few good insights, I also felt like there were a few suggestions that seemed kind of risky. It's been a while, so the details are fuzzy now, but it's not high on my list.
I read Surely You're Joking as a high-school junior, and loved it so much I decided to major in physics. I spent most of my college years feeling like I was continually failing to live up to Feynman's example, but not knowing how to get more out of it, because when it comes down to it, few people are as dynamic as that guy. So, you may have missed out on a better college experience, but you might have also just missed out on four years of feeling guilty and inadequate.
What I really wish I'd read more of earlier are financial books. How to handle money, how to budget, how to eliminate debt or be much more careful about using it than the average American is, how to invest, how to plan for retirement, all of those things.
I'm not really attached to these, but they're examples of a few reference points that made a difference to me in terms of how I thought about my finances:
* a Dave Ramsey book (they're all kind of redundant) - for budgeting, saving, and month-to-month financial management
* The Millionaire Next Door - some framework for understanding what habits contribute to wealth, and which ones don't
* The Four Pillars of Investing - a lot of history and basic investing environment
* The Intelligent Investor - a more detailed perspective on investing and history
Nice. Selfish Gene would be on my list. I'll be sure to check out Naked Ape.
In that sciencey/origins set I'd add:
* Before the Dawn (using genetic information to trace human development and migration)
* Song of the Dodo (about extinction)
* Guns, Germs, and Steel (about geography influencing civilization's development)
* any of the Leaky or Johanssen books about Lucy, Lucy's child, etc. - as much fun for the bickering between the camps as for the developing understanding of early human/pre-human evolution
Aw, that's a shame. It's a really funny series. Now, there's not much I'd take seriously in there (other than maybe a little glee in occasionally being subversive), but I've read it repeatedly without it ruining my life.
Curious. I'm not out to start a fight here, but recently I was reading a web site called Meaningness ( https://meaningness.com/ ) that introduced me to Eckhart Tolle by vigorously arguing with him ( https://meaningness.com/metabl... ). That's about as much as I know about the guy, though, but it discouraged me from pursuing his writings.
According to this chart, it does indeed take 3 drinks to hit .08, unless you weigh under 140 pounds, which I don't consider "quite large". You'd have to be under 110 lbs for 2 drinks to do it, and if you're over 160 lbs (I'd call that average, still not "quite large"), it takes 4 or more. That's all at once, without food.
http://rageonthesamepage.uconn...
That is for men. Of course women get hit harder, and will weigh less on average. But being slashdot, I think using men is reasonable.
I want to find a way to say "drinking increases creativity" in a way that doesn't sound so unilateral.
I'm not really sure it helps much with creativity, at least in my case, but there's something there. For me, I almost want to say it just facilitates my willingness to sit in one place and work on the thing I've been meaning to work on, whether it's something creative or some kind of drudgery/chore. I don't know that it makes a lot of sense, because promoting focus isn't something I'd attribute to alcohol.
Most people would not agree with that definition.
That's funny, I left right when you said "political". :)
I looked up movie times on Google. It had a sidebar with a metacritic score that seemed low. I followed that and saw actual reviews, which were also (in the aggregate) pretty bad. Are all of those equally at fault?
This is for Pirates 5, by the way. Part of the reason I looked is because Pirates 4 was already really disappointing compared to the first three, and Depp has been in a death spiral for years. That and the appearance of yet more dead/undead pirates (how many different ways is that even possible) in the previews had me seriously worried. If all of that hadn't already been hanging over the movie, I wouldn't have bothered to second-guess my impulse to just go down and watch it.
I'll still see it, by the way, just put it off until it's on Redbox.
For sure. I've written code in order to solve word puzzles, or to create them. Realizing I could apply programming to a dictionary file was an eye-opening experience for me.
I had an economics class, but it had absolutely nothing about personal finance in it.
That's a nifty memory of the gaming session.
No computer game has really interested me since. Once you have played ADVENT you have played them all.
But seriously? "Eh, I watched the Godfather once. I figure that whole movie thing is dead to me now."
Yep. I was 33 before I bought a house, and really only started to save in the year before that. Also, even then I only had 5% down, not 20%.
Every field promotes itself on the fun and joy of it.
I had a college prof say, "Physics is like sex. Sure, there are practical results sometimes, but that's not why we do it." I think that's proof enough that for any thing, there's someone who finds it fun.
That almost exactly sums up my own experience, though I do remember movie #3 a bit.
I'm hoping to get one or two enjoyable films out of the reboot, before it gets pointless and rehashy.
The one glimmer of hope I see here is, if reboots are so common, one of these days they're going to reboot the Transformers series, and then I can watch a Transformers movie not directed by Michael Bay. That means there's a chance (small, I admit) that the plot will actually make sense and I'll finally be able to follow one of the action sequences.
That's a classic. It's been too long since I listened to the Verities and Balderdash album, I'm reminded.
Hah! Well played.
How is this redundant? I've read every comment on the page and nobody else has mentioned the weird plurals/typo issue yes.
As in, the plural requires an S. I counted at least two instances of "banana" used as the plural. What else about this report is half-assed and slapdash?
The pickier you are, the more help you need being introduced to the right people. Robot friendship matchmaking might just be right for you.