They tried this on Monster Garage. It's just a big motorized wheel you sit inside; for a bus, I suppose it would have to be ferris-wheel sized. The guy raced it down the street, spun out and crashed awfully into a tree. Good times.
It was really that hard to just skip the post when you saw it was about LASIK, eh?
I'm interested in corneal reshaping or possibly corrective surgery, and I'm sure I'm not alone. While the thread is primarily about reshaping, I think the post about something so closely related was not particularly out of place, and I appreciated the detailed description.
So if the list has every song plus the request list, it's the full list with some songs included two or more times on a personalized basis (going by number of times they were requested by that user)?
Actually the most recent place I've heard it (a year or so ago) is in the music between commercials for the G. Gordon Liddy radio talk show, though I'm a bit loathe to acknowledge that:-/ But no one I've spoken to there knows what it is either, even though they play it regularly.
In my weak defense, it sounds much much better in the non-MIDI version.
yeah but in the absence of any enforced speed limit, I'm picturing myself revving up to 90mph, losing traction on the ice, going into a spin and slamming through the guardrail into the freezing ocean:-( *cries, scary*
I have been doing that for years too (finding music by googling the lyrics) and didn't think I was particularly clever for it:-/ But it's no help for songs without lyrics, while the AT&T service should be.
And is there a proggie to identify MIDI songs (can't use the MP3 fingerprint proggies on those)? Or if anyone can identify this song, can you please tell me what it is? I know I've heard it in the past in several contexts, but I don't know what it is, the filename ("big.mid") is useless, and random strangers haven't been able to identify it for me:(
Q. What is the difference between a chess player and a couple on a blind date? A. The chess player mates then chats...... Regards, (courtesy of Graham Moore)
Pray he does not extend his courtesy any further.. (at least I am)
Right, not bad, but Waterproof? I very rarely come across more water than that which comes out of my lap, and even then I don't put anything electric under it! Who, exactly, is the target audience? Or is just one of those "Cool" things?
that is one of the most awesome things I've seen in a long time.. 300mph+, 0-60 in 2.5 seconds.. "the front fender serves as the gas tank", heheh, I love it:)
I am very suspicious that your comment is knee-jerk based on thinking of people who annoy you, and not actually going to be very helpful.. how many geeks, who whine about women not wanting them, would you want if they _just_ stopped whining about that? I think that this is rarely, if ever, the primary factor that drives women away--more likely it's just one that you mentioned because it annoys you.. not because you thought it through and decided it's actually the primary factor that made you feel a lack of attraction to any guys. (Aggravated by them, sure--but deciding "I would really be attracted to them if it weren't for the whining", I think is extremely rare.)
It surely gets on my nerves when girls whine about how ugly and unlikeable they are, just as it gets on your nerves when guys whine about being undesirable because they're geeks. However I can think of very few women (off the top of my head, only one) where this is actually her worst feature, and where other than the insecurity and whining, she isn't that bad (she's bright and very cute, for what those are worth). Most women I know who whine like that, have many other unattractive features which would continue to drive men away in the absence of their whining. Yeah, I'd feel less irritated if they stopped, so it'd make ME happier, but it wouldn't honestly do a hell of a lot for their chances of finding a mate. And from years of observation of insecure people and how they're responded to by others around them, I suspect it's similar with the guys you're thinking of. They aren't wrong in saying that women don't like them because they're a geek--you just get aggravated by the whining, like almost everyone does, and want them to shut up.
So yeah, if you whine about that kind of stuff, stop whining for the sake of everyone else's nerves.. or at least find a limited forum to restrict it to (e.g. geek communities), rather than broadcasting it without constraints to the entire world. But if anyone tells you the whining is the main reason you're not getting dates.. in my experience (where I saw people saying this to other people, so could be at least somewhat objective about interpreting it), they're usually telling you a line of BS because they're aggravated by the whining and just want you to shut up.
And being a geek, specifically, turns off a LOT of women, all the more so if you have traits of Asperger's, which are common in geeks and more or less defined as difficulty in communicating and relating to people on emotional levels. As far as I've seen from girls, throughout adolesence and into college age, geekisms turn off the majority of women, unless you have a glowing personality to make up for it, although there is a significant minority of women who don't mind so much, which I think grows quickly (the size of that minority) as women age through their 20s and beyond.
Well, no, it's flat-out not awful. But in this context, as something nominated for a major award, it strongly inclines me toward avoiding this year's writings.
If cost efficiency was the defining goal behind everything, we'd all be eating no-name brand macaroni and Ramen for food, riding bikes to the office, and wearing sweats and t-shirts...
This deserves a better reply than I can afford right now, but simple refutation: corn and peanuts are sources of human-usable calories. If you eat them in any quantity--lets say, going by an accepted nutritional table and a food scale, several hundred kcals worth--and then poop later, you will (if you have not pureed them prior to ingestion, and most likely even if you have) find undigested corn and peanuts in your poop (use a strainer and a hose for convenience) equivalent to a significant portion of those still usable calories which were simply discarded, unused, because they are not easily digested by humans during the limited time they passed thru the various stages of your GI tract (but they are human-digestable, unlike, say, plant fiber/cellulose, which would pass through undigested regardless of the time it spent in any part[s] of your GI tract). Corn and peanuts are among the most visibly convenient ways to show this, but it applies to many foods; the foods it least applies to are refined and/or simple carbs of various sorts, which are digested and either metabolized or added to fat stores with tremendous speed and efficiency.
If the misused second law of thermodynamics as applied to food were in fact relevant in the way you suggest, the excretion of undigested food would locally corrupt the structure of the universe as it is currently understood, a singularity would emerge (a black hole?) and you and your surroundings would collapse into your own rectum. Weight gain is not simply a function of energy "going in", as in being consumed, but also of the processes via which your GI system is able to convert food into a storable form at a rate which outpaces your ongoing use of calories for varied metabolic processes.. in a sense the idea you're trying to convey is correct (the idea that people who try all kinds of dietary modifications other than cutting caloric intake to lose weight are misguided), but suggesting that the energy conservation principle of the 2nd law can be directly applied to food ingestion and caloric expenditure/storage (as anything more than a very, very rough rule of thumb) is very misleading.
Yes, I'll take the karma hit for a post that is off-topic from the original subject; I think there is a valid point to be made about where dark humor may not be completely appropriate, and I believe it strongly enough to not post as an AC as I first intended.
The majority of international opinion asserts that Israel's current actions seem to be reaching across the line from defense into some degree of unjust persecution, and without saying that the following comparison itself is accurate, a significant and growing minority of observers have compared the most recent Israeli actions to Nazi treatment of German Jews in the immediate pre-war period, with organized military killing of civilians in their homes (other than the organizations specifically responsible for the the suicide bombings, ie. who provide the explosives). A joke based on the bodies shown massacred in early WW2, 60 years ago, made while the events were taking place, would be considered today to have been in very bad taste -- and, more to the point of this discussion, decidely unfunny -- by anyone who has the advantage of knowing that it was, in fact, as bad as the worst rumors suggested. I do appreciate dark humor in many situations, but this is not one in which I believe the attempted joke helps anyone to cope, except for people who do have enough doubt about the justice here to be bothered by their conscience, and would prefer to laugh it off. US citizens support Israel's military through massive aid derived from their income tax; it's appropriate to have real concern when you're partially responsible for something as open to doubt as the actions going on now.
Compared to most people I know, I don't "pretend" to know which versions of events being reported are accurate--I certainly think there is potentially as much reason supporting Israel's actions as condemning them--but I do care enough to not make jokes like this at the expense of people being killed in what may turn out to be war crimes, as some have alleged, or about any terrorism (I haven't heard a single WTC joke yet). I would certainly not feel comfortable joking about the technically superb carnage in a scene of the hotel suicide bombing from late last month.
I think the joke was simply rash, not intentionally offensive (although I felt extremely uncomfortable about the 'joke' after reading the photo's caption--in fact it's the first time I've felt actually sickened by anything to do with the events going on in the mideast); I was satisfied with the "-1 Decidedly Unfunny" pseudo-mod someone left, but as long as others are going to post that such humor is always appropriate and can't be criticized, I must explain why I disagree. I understand some people honestly don't care; I respect their right to speech, but hope that some consideration is given to using that right thoughtfully. When I was younger, I had a friend who would have fun re-enacting the misfiring pistol execution scene from Schindler's List; I thought he was funny as hell and didn't understand why other people, who didn't have any personal involvement with those events, could be so upset by his joking. I do now; it's part of growing up to realize that your tacit acceptance of situations like this can often play a huge role in their perpetuation.
As sharp as the sarcasm was in that post, I'm glad someone finally changed the +mod on it from "Insightful" to "Funny". I mean, come on, the pox?
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So when you had a user who needed help and was completely naive about computer use, you're pissed that he was paying close attention and followed your instructions precisely, instead of doing "pretty much" what you told him to and carelessly modifying your directions based on his untrained intuition?
It sounds like you had an unusually attentive user. Certainly one of you needed a wake-up shock, but it wasn't him.
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They tried this on Monster Garage. It's just a big motorized wheel you sit inside; for a bus, I suppose it would have to be ferris-wheel sized. The guy raced it down the street, spun out and crashed awfully into a tree. Good times.
It was really that hard to just skip the post when you saw it was about LASIK, eh? I'm interested in corneal reshaping or possibly corrective surgery, and I'm sure I'm not alone. While the thread is primarily about reshaping, I think the post about something so closely related was not particularly out of place, and I appreciated the detailed description.
ditto.. excellent post, recommending it highly to my friends.
So if the list has every song plus the request list, it's the full list with some songs included two or more times on a personalized basis (going by number of times they were requested by that user)?
(Just making sure I understand)
Got any links to cortex-boy? I'd like to read about that..
someone mod parent up? that's a fascinating question
Actually the most recent place I've heard it (a year or so ago) is in the music between commercials for the G. Gordon Liddy radio talk show, though I'm a bit loathe to acknowledge that :-/ But no one I've spoken to there knows what it is either, even though they play it regularly.
In my weak defense, it sounds much much better in the non-MIDI version.
yeah but in the absence of any enforced speed limit, I'm picturing myself revving up to 90mph, losing traction on the ice, going into a spin and slamming through the guardrail into the freezing ocean :-( *cries, scary*
I have been doing that for years too (finding music by googling the lyrics) and didn't think I was particularly clever for it :-/ But it's no help for songs without lyrics, while the AT&T service should be.
:(
And is there a proggie to identify MIDI songs (can't use the MP3 fingerprint proggies on those)? Or if anyone can identify this song, can you please tell me what it is? I know I've heard it in the past in several contexts, but I don't know what it is, the filename ("big.mid") is useless, and random strangers haven't been able to identify it for me
It's the reading (especially the same book[s]three times over, other than the bible) that isn't mainstream, you trolling nitwit.
Well I've got two heavy-duty feet that have stood me in good stead for 30 years which I'd like to give the two of you a swift kick with.
/unemployed, cranky and irritated at your flimsy rationales for name-dropping about your new cars
Yes, I have long noticed this, and lord fuck-a-duck does it ever piss me off. >:(
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Q. What is the difference between a chess player and a couple on a blind date?
A. The chess player mates then chats......
Regards,
(courtesy of Graham Moore)
Pray he does not extend his courtesy any further..
(at least I am)
Right, not bad, but Waterproof? I very rarely come across more water than that which comes out of my lap, and even then I don't put anything electric under it! Who, exactly, is the target audience? Or is just one of those "Cool" things?
Did anyone else read it that way at first glance?
Got a link? I couldn't find reference to anything like that on the 5-series section of BMW's site..
that is one of the most awesome things I've seen in a long time.. 300mph+, 0-60 in 2.5 seconds.. "the front fender serves as the gas tank", heheh, I love it :)
I am very suspicious that your comment is knee-jerk based on thinking of people who annoy you, and not actually going to be very helpful.. how many geeks, who whine about women not wanting them, would you want if they _just_ stopped whining about that? I think that this is rarely, if ever, the primary factor that drives women away--more likely it's just one that you mentioned because it annoys you.. not because you thought it through and decided it's actually the primary factor that made you feel a lack of attraction to any guys. (Aggravated by them, sure--but deciding "I would really be attracted to them if it weren't for the whining", I think is extremely rare.)
It surely gets on my nerves when girls whine about how ugly and unlikeable they are, just as it gets on your nerves when guys whine about being undesirable because they're geeks. However I can think of very few women (off the top of my head, only one) where this is actually her worst feature, and where other than the insecurity and whining, she isn't that bad (she's bright and very cute, for what those are worth). Most women I know who whine like that, have many other unattractive features which would continue to drive men away in the absence of their whining. Yeah, I'd feel less irritated if they stopped, so it'd make ME happier, but it wouldn't honestly do a hell of a lot for their chances of finding a mate. And from years of observation of insecure people and how they're responded to by others around them, I suspect it's similar with the guys you're thinking of. They aren't wrong in saying that women don't like them because they're a geek--you just get aggravated by the whining, like almost everyone does, and want them to shut up.
So yeah, if you whine about that kind of stuff, stop whining for the sake of everyone else's nerves.. or at least find a limited forum to restrict it to (e.g. geek communities), rather than broadcasting it without constraints to the entire world. But if anyone tells you the whining is the main reason you're not getting dates.. in my experience (where I saw people saying this to other people, so could be at least somewhat objective about interpreting it), they're usually telling you a line of BS because they're aggravated by the whining and just want you to shut up.
And being a geek, specifically, turns off a LOT of women, all the more so if you have traits of Asperger's, which are common in geeks and more or less defined as difficulty in communicating and relating to people on emotional levels. As far as I've seen from girls, throughout adolesence and into college age, geekisms turn off the majority of women, unless you have a glowing personality to make up for it, although there is a significant minority of women who don't mind so much, which I think grows quickly (the size of that minority) as women age through their 20s and beyond.
I could almost swear this was the subject of a Far Side cartoon..
awesome :D wish I still had mod points today
It is really, really bad.
Well, no, it's flat-out not awful. But in this context, as something nominated for a major award, it strongly inclines me toward avoiding this year's writings.
*blush* so what are you implying?
If the misused second law of thermodynamics as applied to food were in fact relevant in the way you suggest, the excretion of undigested food would locally corrupt the structure of the universe as it is currently understood, a singularity would emerge (a black hole?) and you and your surroundings would collapse into your own rectum. Weight gain is not simply a function of energy "going in", as in being consumed, but also of the processes via which your GI system is able to convert food into a storable form at a rate which outpaces your ongoing use of calories for varied metabolic processes.. in a sense the idea you're trying to convey is correct (the idea that people who try all kinds of dietary modifications other than cutting caloric intake to lose weight are misguided), but suggesting that the energy conservation principle of the 2nd law can be directly applied to food ingestion and caloric expenditure/storage (as anything more than a very, very rough rule of thumb) is very misleading.
Yes, I'll take the karma hit for a post that is off-topic from the original subject; I think there is a valid point to be made about where dark humor may not be completely appropriate, and I believe it strongly enough to not post as an AC as I first intended.
The majority of international opinion asserts that Israel's current actions seem to be reaching across the line from defense into some degree of unjust persecution, and without saying that the following comparison itself is accurate, a significant and growing minority of observers have compared the most recent Israeli actions to Nazi treatment of German Jews in the immediate pre-war period, with organized military killing of civilians in their homes (other than the organizations specifically responsible for the the suicide bombings, ie. who provide the explosives). A joke based on the bodies shown massacred in early WW2, 60 years ago, made while the events were taking place, would be considered today to have been in very bad taste -- and, more to the point of this discussion, decidely unfunny -- by anyone who has the advantage of knowing that it was, in fact, as bad as the worst rumors suggested. I do appreciate dark humor in many situations, but this is not one in which I believe the attempted joke helps anyone to cope, except for people who do have enough doubt about the justice here to be bothered by their conscience, and would prefer to laugh it off. US citizens support Israel's military through massive aid derived from their income tax; it's appropriate to have real concern when you're partially responsible for something as open to doubt as the actions going on now.
Compared to most people I know, I don't "pretend" to know which versions of events being reported are accurate--I certainly think there is potentially as much reason supporting Israel's actions as condemning them--but I do care enough to not make jokes like this at the expense of people being killed in what may turn out to be war crimes, as some have alleged, or about any terrorism (I haven't heard a single WTC joke yet). I would certainly not feel comfortable joking about the technically superb carnage in a scene of the hotel suicide bombing from late last month.
I think the joke was simply rash, not intentionally offensive (although I felt extremely uncomfortable about the 'joke' after reading the photo's caption--in fact it's the first time I've felt actually sickened by anything to do with the events going on in the mideast); I was satisfied with the "-1 Decidedly Unfunny" pseudo-mod someone left, but as long as others are going to post that such humor is always appropriate and can't be criticized, I must explain why I disagree. I understand some people honestly don't care; I respect their right to speech, but hope that some consideration is given to using that right thoughtfully. When I was younger, I had a friend who would have fun re-enacting the misfiring pistol execution scene from Schindler's List; I thought he was funny as hell and didn't understand why other people, who didn't have any personal involvement with those events, could be so upset by his joking. I do now; it's part of growing up to realize that your tacit acceptance of situations like this can often play a huge role in their perpetuation.
As sharp as the sarcasm was in that post, I'm glad someone finally changed the +mod on it from "Insightful" to "Funny". I mean, come on, the pox?
So when you had a user who needed help and was completely naive about computer use, you're pissed that he was paying close attention and followed your instructions precisely, instead of doing "pretty much" what you told him to and carelessly modifying your directions based on his untrained intuition?
It sounds like you had an unusually attentive user. Certainly one of you needed a wake-up shock, but it wasn't him.