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Re: What's on your mind now?
Reply #5300 on: July 12, 2014, 09:09:13 PM
That was the only keyboard face makeup I could find.


*Bob knows foundation is some kind of makup.*
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Reply #5301 on: July 12, 2014, 09:15:43 PM
I actually thought I saw the m1469 the other day.  Live in person, walking across the street. 

Not her though.  I was thinking it would be funny to say and keep walking along.
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Re: What's on your mind now?
Reply #5302 on: July 13, 2014, 05:05:40 PM
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Reply #5303 on: July 13, 2014, 10:48:02 PM
Cannibalism?

And what's "Chunk Style"? The next thing after gangham?
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Re: What's on your mind now?
Reply #5304 on: July 13, 2014, 11:50:27 PM
I am a piano teacher. And all day i listen Rachmaninoff music, I was just wondering, How Rachmaninoff make such a beautiful music, harmony within composition??!!

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Re: What's on your mind now?
Reply #5307 on: July 14, 2014, 01:09:09 AM
That was unexpected.  Is that an older-style flatscreen?








*Bob noticed the price tag on the second viewing.*  She can't return that now.



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Re: What's on your mind now?
Reply #5308 on: July 14, 2014, 01:25:10 AM
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving"  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Reply #5309 on: July 14, 2014, 01:39:02 AM
You probably missed the moonwalking bear in the gif though.  Even if you view it again... You'll still miss the moonwalking bear. 

Everyone's wondering what model flatscreen tv that is.
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Reply #5310 on: July 14, 2014, 01:41:06 AM
You probably missed the moonwalking bear in the gif though.  Even if you view it again... You'll still miss the moonwalking bear.

I thought it was a video?
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Re: What's on your mind now?
Reply #5311 on: July 14, 2014, 02:23:36 AM
For your mind...



That's an odd way to say thank you.

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Reply #5312 on: July 14, 2014, 02:54:48 AM
That's an odd way to say thank you.

But not an odd way to say something else.  ::)
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Reply #5313 on: July 14, 2014, 03:09:44 AM





I thought it was a video?






But I'm not buying it. :P
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Reply #5314 on: July 14, 2014, 09:37:26 AM
But not an odd way to say something else.  ::)

Dammit, you win.


Dammit I got the eye rolls too. Hate you j.

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Reply #5315 on: July 14, 2014, 09:39:29 AM
Quote from: Bob link=topic=7833.msg600954#msg600954 date=

*Bob......second viewing.*  



;)

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Reply #5316 on: July 14, 2014, 11:03:54 PM
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left" -- Oscar Levant

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Re: What's on your mind now?
Reply #5317 on: July 15, 2014, 12:55:31 AM


The peach basket 'tis a fillin'.

*sells peach grove*
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Re: What's on your mind now?
Reply #5318 on: July 15, 2014, 03:27:06 AM
Why people can't accept no as a response when they offer me food.  A lady offered me x-food today.  I said I didn't want any.  She was getting ready to argue with me, like she would have forced me to take some food.  "But I made these myself!" she says.  Bob, thinking, "So what?  I don't want any."   I told her there was a family health issue and she backed off.  Thinking about it now... If I hadn't said that?  Then what?  She would have forced me to take some food? 
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Reply #5319 on: July 15, 2014, 03:29:38 AM
Why people can't accept no as a response when they offer me food. 

It's rather unpatriotic of you. I thought eating was America's national pastime.
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Reply #5320 on: July 15, 2014, 03:41:03 AM
That's actually part of it.  I don't want extra calories.  Or diabetes 20+ years from now.

This would have been inappropriate but I did think, "What?  You want me to take one, thank you, and then throw it out later?"  That probably would have been fine.  I get sick of the social norm garbage like that.  I have actually done that before.  Then it's wasting food and I feel guilty about it.  But I never wanted it in the first place.
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Reply #5321 on: July 15, 2014, 05:27:50 AM
That's actually part of it.  I don't want extra calories.  Or diabetes 20+ years from now.

This would have been inappropriate but I did think, "What?  You want me to take one, thank you, and then throw it out later?"  That probably would have been fine.  I get sick of the social norm garbage like that.  I have actually done that before.  Then it's wasting food and I feel guilty about it.  But I never wanted it in the first place.

I usually do not refuse food, but whenever I want to, I can always blame my allergies :)

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Reply #5322 on: July 16, 2014, 12:56:58 AM
Superman 3, the 1983 movie.  Decades later...

Not once have a I ever seen a missile on a truck travelling down any highway or interstate.  Not once.   (esp. one all prepped up to fire, requiring only an arming code)



I therefore conclude that was completely made up for that movie.   8) :o ::)


I does make me wonder how much stuff is being moved around out there I'm not aware of.  There's a lot out there.  They're not going to make it that obvious, but they would have to move things at some point.  I would think.
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Reply #5323 on: July 16, 2014, 05:26:14 PM
I used to know someone who worked in bomb transportation/disposal. He said weapons were often transported along public roads. I believe the same goes for nuclear waste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Nuclear_Material_Transport_Operations#Nuclear_weapon_transport_by_road
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Reply #5324 on: July 16, 2014, 07:53:24 PM
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Reply #5325 on: July 17, 2014, 02:34:05 AM
I used to know someone who worked in bomb transportation/disposal. He said weapons were often transported along public roads. I believe the same goes for nuclear waste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Nuclear_Material_Transport_Operations#Nuclear_weapon_transport_by_road

Interesting.  The Superman movies from that time are kind of stupid simple, but that's part of the charm too I think. 

I have seen groups of green military vehicles now and then.  But that was more around the time of the Gulf War (or whatever they called it).
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Reply #5326 on: July 18, 2014, 03:23:49 AM
My music showed up.  Used music though, but it was pretty cheap.  It's got someone's name written in.  Otherwise it's completely clean.  I wonder though, based off the old-fashioned sounding name.... Why's the music available?  I'm thinking the person probably died.  So I've got a dead person's piece of music.

And the other thought was, how much music do people have in a collection that they never, ever, ever play?  This score I got is completely clean.  Basically new, except for the name written on it.  And them am I doing that?  Collecting things but never, ever, ever actually using it or doing anything at all with it.
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Reply #5327 on: July 18, 2014, 03:29:26 AM

And the other thought was, how much music do people have in a collection that they never, ever, ever play? 

In my case a lot! But I have the illusions that I will be playing from all of them one day...after I am retired. But if I end up dead before that, someone can get a lot of used but very clean scores...  8)

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Reply #5328 on: July 21, 2014, 04:35:23 AM
Black holes.  Suppose to swallow everything, right?  Then why do they expel gas/energy/whatever too at some point?  Why doesn't that stuff get pulled back in?  Fine, explode, but then shouldn't that jetted out stuff get pulled back in?
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Reply #5329 on: July 21, 2014, 04:43:04 AM
Black holes.  Suppose to swallow everything, right?  Then why do they expel gas/energy/whatever too at some point?  Why doesn't that stuff get pulled back in?  Fine, explode, but then shouldn't that jetted out stuff get pulled back in?

The black hole expels nothing, however the stuff falling in forms an accretion disc outside the event horizon, where the friction creates a lot of energy, not all of which is captured by the black hole. That energy is given out as, inter alia, light.
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Reply #5330 on: July 21, 2014, 04:47:58 AM
Black holes.  Suppose to swallow everything, right?  Then why do they expel gas/energy/whatever too at some point?  Why doesn't that stuff get pulled back in?  Fine, explode, but then shouldn't that jetted out stuff get pulled back in?

It seems black holes may not agree to our conventional theories after all:

https://www.nature.com/news/stephen-hawking-there-are-no-black-holes-1.14583

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Reply #5331 on: July 21, 2014, 05:05:06 AM
It seems black holes may not agree to our conventional theories after all:

Even if Hawking is right, how would they tell us?
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Reply #5332 on: July 21, 2014, 05:30:42 AM
Even if Hawking is right, how would they tell us?

Because the information is escaping the hole, we just need to listen...

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Reply #5333 on: July 21, 2014, 05:38:58 AM
Because the information is escaping the hole, we just need to listen...

But because of quantum interference, the information is garbled. Listening is not enough.
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Reply #5334 on: July 21, 2014, 05:43:34 AM
But because of quantum interference, the information is garbled. Listening is not enough.

Maybe he can do it?



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Reply #5335 on: July 21, 2014, 05:54:22 AM
Maybe he can do it?

Or it just makes the voices in his head clearer.
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Reply #5336 on: July 21, 2014, 05:41:17 PM
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

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Reply #5337 on: July 21, 2014, 08:25:51 PM

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Reply #5338 on: July 21, 2014, 09:04:08 PM
Thinking about a new set of wheels for me bike.

I think I am beyond the weight bearing limits of my existing ones.

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Reply #5339 on: July 21, 2014, 11:36:39 PM
Thinking about a new set of wheels for me bike.

I think I am beyond the weight bearing limits of my existing ones.

Thal

Something like this, then?

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Reply #5340 on: July 22, 2014, 12:30:38 AM
Thinking about a new set of wheels for me bike.

I think I am beyond the weight bearing limits of my existing ones.

Thal

Get good shocks with stiffer wheels.
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Reply #5341 on: July 23, 2014, 04:13:23 AM
I'm impressed with myself.  Some things are finally paying off a bit.  I have more control.  I think.
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Reply #5342 on: July 24, 2014, 12:34:26 AM
Less impressed now.  Ouch, ouch, ouch.   ::)


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Reply #5343 on: July 24, 2014, 04:20:55 AM
It's getting intolerable here... Yesterday it was over 30C which is my definition for h***... not looking much better today :(

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Reply #5344 on: July 26, 2014, 07:01:44 PM
I'm wondering who's brilliant idea it was to put oil down on the asphalt on an inclined area with a turn.  That would be the spot I discovered while travelling over it for a bit on my bike.  "Hm.  Is that oil on the gr....aghh!!!...f-f-f-f-f-f-f--f!!!!" thought Bob.  I ended skidding over sideways, using the side of my body and hands like Flintstone brakes.  Fortunately there was oil on the ground so my hands and arms didn't get Swiss cheesed as much as I expected.  I wouldn't care so much now, except my shoulder hurts. Still works, but it banged on the way down.  Tomorrow I'm going to be blue and blue and probably sore from that.  *Bob think it may have looked kind of cool though, except no one was around.* 


That and I think I may have seen a Pianostreet person today.  One that was looking for.  I know I've crossed paths with some people here a few times.  This was suddenly being face to face with the person.  It did dawn on me it might be 'so and so' from here, but I didn't say anything. I'm still thinking it would be amusing to call out to them by their PS name and then keep going on my way.  That would give away my secret identity though.
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Reply #5345 on: July 26, 2014, 10:39:11 PM
I ended skidding over sideways, using the side of my body and hands like Flintstone brakes.  Fortunately there was oil on the ground so my hands and arms didn't get Swiss cheesed as much as I expected.  I wouldn't care so much now, except my shoulder hurts. Still works, but it banged on the way down.  Tomorrow I'm going to be blue and blue and probably sore from that. 

For your health, right?  ::)
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Reply #5346 on: July 26, 2014, 10:48:59 PM
I'll just avoid that place again.  There are other hills around here that don't have a giant oil slick on them.  If I approached it from the other direction it would have been obvious the way the light was hitting it.  The cut spots seem fine.  I just can't move my right arm or lift with it completely normally.  Something got bumped.  Tomorrow morning... ugh.

I had a post I was thinking about making just before that happened....
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Reply #5347 on: July 27, 2014, 06:16:01 PM
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

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Reply #5348 on: July 27, 2014, 11:00:17 PM
Also interesting...  If you want to remove hair, try sliding across oil-covered asphalt. 

I just noticed the spot where I slid are now hairless.  A few nicks and nice scratches, but otherwise hairless.


This probably wouldn't work for removing hair from any body part.
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Reply #5349 on: July 28, 2014, 01:28:51 PM
3 years old, and better rhythm than me  :'(


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