What's on your mind now?

[outin]

Hm.  Say something fell on it or it got hit by a car, just a tap but that killed it. 

So it's actually edible.

Would you eat it?

Probably if well prepared.

I wouldn't eat my cats though because I only like to eat meat from animals with wings or fins...unless there's nothing else to eat, then I would even eat you

[iancollett6]

Whats on my mind is.....Quantum Mechanics. The double slit experiment and Delayed Quantum Erasure. This is truly mind bending.
 How do people who study this full time keep a grip on every day life?

[outin]

Whats on my mind is.....Quantum Mechanics. The double slit experiment and Delayed Quantum Erasure. This is truly mind bending.
 How do people who study this full time keep a grip on every day life?

Why should they, every day life is quite insignificant after all

[Bob]

I'm wondering if there's a key combination for a heart. Like if I wanted to put "I heart Chooka" as my profile signature.

Googling sounds like a lot of work for this project.

[j_menz]

I'm wondering if there's a key combination for a heart. Like if I wanted to put "I heart Chooka" as my profile signature.

<3

Googling sounds like a lot of work for this project.

Worn out from jogging and cycling? 

[Bob]

Blurring of word meanings....

Epic does not mean cool or awesome.

Hack does not mean method. 


It's annoying.  

[Bob]

Interesting thought from the past....

Is it "cheating" in some way if you just memorize everything for a test?

If you knew what notes/info you needed for a test, something that would be helpful to have with you during an exam, how much different is it to memorize that info and mentally take it with you into a test?  Or even memorize it and spit it back out first thing before even taking the test?  Instead of walking in with a cheat sheet, you temporarily hold it in your head and then spit it out right away.

It's completely legit.  But how far away from cheating is that?

[iancollett6]

Blurring of word meanings....

Epic does not mean cool or awesome.

Hack does not mean method.  


It's annoying.  

 Like the overuse of certain buzz words, "proactive" and "absolutely" come to mind.

[goldentone]

Do it, England;
For like the hectic in my blood he rages.

[Bob]

Amusing.

[Bob]

You never hear drug dealers who make a big deals say something like, "I'm going to save some of this money for retirement."

Not that I'm around any drug dealers to hear that. 

[Bob]

Soccer kind of reminds me of quidditch.

[Bob]

I was thinking 'what if I had done x instead of music?'  That type of thinking.  Except that's about as far as it gets.  I noticed my brain grinds to halt right away when I think that.  'I should done x... and then... '  And then my brain just says no.

[j_menz]

'I should done x... and then... ' 

If "X" is grammar, I vote in it's favour. 

[fleetfingers]

its favor

[j_menz]

its favor

Not anywhere civilised, it's not. 

[fleetfingers]

It's not its? Or it's not favor? Favour? I favor favor.

[j_menz]

It's not its?

It's not its.

Or it's not favor? Favour? I favor favor.

In the US you favor "favor", but in the English speaking world we favour "favour".

[fleetfingers]

It's not its.

Pretty sure it's its. 

In the US you favor "favor", but in the English speaking world we favour "favour".

Fair enough.

[thalbergmad]

Not anywhere civilised, it's not. 

Speaketh the Australian.

Thal

[goldentone]

Welcome back Lostinidle!

[Bob]

I saw a TED talk, but didn't copy the URL....

Like the Schrodinger cat being in two states, the presenter said everything is in two places.  If you remove everything but the material, it vibrates and is in two places at once.   

Even us.

[Bob]

Wondering how different parts of the world managed to split off with F or C for temp, imperial vs. metric for measurement.

I suppose that makes more sense than someone deciding it and everyone just following along with that.

[outin]

Wondering how different parts of the world managed to split off with F or C for temp, imperial vs. metric for measurement.

How? Because of the ...... Americans of course! They just cannot admit being wrong 

[Bob]

Haha....  Morbid energy solution at least in the US.

We need energy, more efficient cars, etc., right?

How much energy does body fat contain?  (And that's recent energy too, straight from food, not buried in the ground for millions of years.)

It probably wouldn't make people actually healthy, but it could be put some of that fat to work.  Kind of like the Matrix except people would be very aware of it. 

[j_menz]

Wondering how different parts of the world managed to split off with F or C for temp, imperial vs. metric for measurement.

I suppose that makes more sense than someone deciding it and everyone just following along with that.

Actually, there were a variety of systems, and there was international agreement to standardise on metric back in the 1960s, with implementation due in the 70s. Even the US agreed. They, however, as is sometimes their want, never managed to get around to it.

The rest of the world did, though.  There aren't really "different parts of the word" operating different systems, there's the world and the US.

[Bob]

TED talk on using the voice for speaking.

https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_how_to_speak_so_that_people_want_to_listen

[Bob]

Style changes.   And what it means to be a piece of music.

Someone can't get their youtube link to work...  

[outin]

Actually, there were a variety of systems, and there was international agreement to standardise on metric back in the 1960s, with implementation due in the 70s. Even the US agreed. They, however, as is sometimes their want, never managed to get around to it.

The rest of the world did, though.  There aren't really "different parts of the word" operating different systems, there's the world and the US.

Don't the British and some of their followers also still use some arcahic measures?

[j_menz]

Don't the British and some of their followers also still use some arcahic measures?

None of their "followers", but the Brits still think it's part of a EU conspiracy, so although they've officially converted, in practice a lot of old usage, and even labeling, remains.

[outin]

None of their "followers", but the Brits still think it's part of a EU conspiracy, so although they've officially converted, in practice a lot of old usage, and even labeling, remains.

Smart people, aren't they?

[Bob]

Next serious recital or concert....

I want to hear this (maybe without vocals) while they move chairs around and reset the stage....

[Bob]

Don't ask why.  Just laugh.

[senanserat]

Don't ask why.  Just laugh.

Girl, Ghost, Girl, Girl, Bacon. In that order.

We're of course correct.

[Bob]

Girl, Ghost, Girl, Girl, Bacon. In that order.

Haha.  I was too focused on the pig to notice the red head. 


I'm wondering... What if j_menz were a fake account I made... but in the future?  Sometimes he's posting what I would have posted.  And I'd be fooling even myself now.  Plausible denial.  Quite devious.  *Bob ponders why he would bother using some sort of time travel method to post in an online forum from 2014.*

[j_menz]

I'm wondering... What if j_menz were a fake account I made... but in the future?  Sometimes he's posting what I would have posted.

Hmm.. time to book in for that therapy methinks. 

[mjames]

Jmenz is so witty


Also I know you guys don't care about football but the brazilians got spanked Germany.

Y

[j_menz]

Also I know you guys don't care about football

Wrong. It's one way you can tell Bob from me.

Though Bob may have developed an interest in it in the future and that is reflected in his time travelling future self.

I need a lie down!

[Bob]

Hmm.. time to book in for that therapy methinks. 

That's exactly what I might say....  Even got the smiley.

[Bob]

Whoa... Mind blown.  I just bought some music... based off j_menz (and others) comments on here.  But if that's me from the future, then I just bought those edition j_menz was talking about in a post from a while ago.     It's a circle in time. 

The answer of course is that I always bought these books.  j_menz just happened to contribute comments.  Otherwise he wouldn't have had the books in the first place.

Unless... I acquire the books some other way in my future and that's what j_menz has.  However, now I've purchased the books.  I didn't do that in the original time line, so j_menz's comments must have influenced me to purchase.  But he'll have the copies I purchased now.  That could screw up the time line for when I/he comes across the original copies he had.  Which means in this case, I/he end up with two copies of the edition.

*Bob considers scarring himself and then checking if j_menz has posted in the past about scars...*     Now that I've thought of it though *and* posted this idea... I/he would be smart enough *not* to post anything about scars.  So that might prove it, whether I scarred myself or not now.

[Bob]

Hmm.. time to book in for that therapy methinks. 

Hmm...  I hm, so that's consistent.  I'd be lazy with ellipses.   I might use methinks too. But I would definitely capitalize the t.  Unless I was in a extreme hurry.  Or really lazy.  Or really tired. 


time to book in for that therapy methinks
Most important words... Might be a coded message...
time book therapy
time therapy
So maybe j_menz is some sort of therapy from myself in the future.  Perhaps I had a mental breakdown at some point in my not-to-distant future.  Methinks.

[mjames]

Methinks you watch too many scifis

[j_menz]

But he'll have the copies I purchased now. 

I'm glad I paid. My copies just appeared on my doorstep.

[Bob]

Oh, those would mine then.  You should give those to me. 

Although if that's in the future, they took forever to ship.  Unless j_menz is my future self about a week out.  Seems like a lot of effort to only go back a week or so though.

[goldentone]

[Bob]

If j_menz is my future self, then I could just ask him for the answers to my current questions, assuming I had figured out the answers by that/his time.

Except if he gives me the answers, that would mess up the timeline.... I wouldn't have to think up the answer on my own....  I was thinking he wouldn't have the answers then in the future to give me, and that would be the grandfather paradox. Except if he gave me answers now, I'd have those answers in the future too and just give them back to myself only to have them again.  Like a perpetual idea existing that way.

[j_menz]

If j_menz is my future self, then I could just ask him for the answers to my current questions, assuming I had figured out the answers by that/his time.

Except if he gives me the answers, that would mess up the timeline.... I wouldn't have to think up the answer on my own....  I was thinking he wouldn't have the answers then in the future to give me, and that would be the grandfather paradox. Except if he gave me answers now, I'd have those answers in the future too and just give them back to myself only to have them again.  Like a perpetual idea existing that way.

You're overestimating our memory. It avoids the paradox.

[Bob]

Dang.... I was not expecting that answer... which is only more proof that something happens to my mind in the future.

*Bob begins worrying whether that's alcoholism, a degenerative brain disease, some sort of malfunction in a life extending human technological upgrade, or something else...*

[Bob]

Pianistic foundation.  I was going to post this under m1469's thread, but that's in the Performance area...

[m1469]

But ... Why?  Why does he do this?

*runs away*