Random Thought of the Day

[Bongitybongbong]

Or how about a dream where Stan is a farmer planting himself.

Whoa, trippy.

That's creative, very good imagination...or something.

[subterranean]

Or how about a dream where Stan is a farmer planting himself.

Whoa, trippy.


Now Stan is a commodity, planted and sold in the market..hmmm
To keep it fresh and hygenic, I recommend that it's wrapped in plastic bag.

[Scheherazade]

Just come across this...

:- ) turns 20, Creator Yet to Earn a Dime

It was 20 years ago today that Scott Fahlman taught the Net ‘how to smile’. The IBM researcher has devoted his professional life to artificial intelligence, the practice of teaching computers how to think like humans.

Mr Fahlman is known for his work with neural networks – computer techniques designed to mimic the human brain – and helping to develop Common Lisp, a computer language that uses symbols instead of numbers, but perhaps is best known for a flash of inspiration that helped to define the Internet culture, in all of its ungrammatical glory.

On September 19, 1982 Mr Fahlman typed :-) in an online message. The “smiley face” has since become a staple of online communication, allowing 12-year-old girls and corporate lawyers alike to punctuate their messages with a quick symbol that says, “hey, I’m only joking”.

Mr Fahlman’s innovation has since inspired countless other symbols or what are known as ‘emoticons’ like ;-) to signify a wink or :-o to show surprise. “ I’ve certainly spent ten times as much time talking with people about it as I did coming up with it in the first place,” Mr Fahlman said from his Pittsburg home. “Hopefully my actual research career will add up to more in the long run.”

In the early ‘80s, computer networks were rarely found outside university science departments and secretive government facilities. But even then discussions on primitive online ‘bulletin boards’ could quickly turn nasty when touchy users misinterpreted remarks meant to be taken lightly.

After a particularly tangled joke about mercury contamination in an elevator, users of a Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board proposed a variety of markers for humorous comments, including *, %, &, (#) and ---/ Fahlman suggested :-) along with a warning to “read it sideways”. Before long, other bulletin board users were placing the smiley face in their messages. The practice spread as Internet users found the symbol useful as a rough approximation of a twinkle in the eye.

Predictably the smiley face encountered a few frowns as the online population exploded. “Humans have managed to communicate with the written word for thousands of years without strewing crudely fashioned ideograms across their parchments. It is as if the written word were a cutting edge technology without useful precedents,” groused Neal Stephenson in the New Republic 1993.

Mr Fahlman stands by his creation. “If Shakespeare were tossing off a quick note complaining about the lack of employee parking near the Globe Theatre he might have employed the same kind of sloppy prose that the rest of us do,” Mr Fahlman writes on his website.

Yahoo!, Microsoft, and America Online all incorporate emoticons into their instant messaging systems, while telecom firms, jewelry makers, and online retailers have filed trademark applications for products and slogans that incorporate Mr Fahlman’s smiley face.

But Mr Fahlman has never seen a dime from his creation.

[Stanislaw]

Now Stan is a commodity, planted and sold in the market..hmmm
To keep it fresh and hygenic, I recommend that it's wrapped in plastic bag.

*cough* *cough* an interesting idea, so people would harvest the stan plant, except health food gurus...who would only eat the stan sprout?

You guys are extremly odd when your imagination gets running :D

btw, cool article Scheherazade

[subterranean]

Just come across this...


But Mr Fahlman has never seen a dime from his creation.

Well maybe Mr. Fahlman was not "smarter" enough to register his invention as a pantented product before he told everyone about it.


And Stan, you gave us the idea. So the problem is on you ;).

[den]

There are some short video clips on this site of the tsunami.

http://www.asiantsunamivideos.com/videos/

:(

[subterranean]

Yes Den, it's horrible.. My country is one of the countries with the biggest casualties.
And I watched everyday on tv. Damn the press and media, they play the same stuffs over and over. Wish they'd present something more "constructive" to viewers rather than mountains of corpse :(

[Isagel]

I´m so sorry Sub. I thought about you and was so glad and relieved to see you online.

In sweden they show these pictures from tourist cameras, or videos all the time, with horrible tasteless headlines, and pictures of crying children. I wish they could leave them alone.

[subterranean]

Thank you Isagel :).

[Stanislaw]

I didn't realize you lived in that area, wow, that is really scary. I hope you and your family are not affected by these disasters!

And I do wish the media would let this rest, it is important that aid be arranged, but it is a great diservice to these wounded and deceased peoples to constantly advertise them. It is very disrespectfull, and tastless, that media is using this disaster to spread propoganda, and make a bundle of mullah.

[Shea]

Though our hurricanes weren't nearly as devestating, I was getting really sick about hearing of all the destruction. But it was even worse when some of the local polititians used it in their political ads later. My heart goes out to all those hit by the tsunami.

[Bongitybongbong]

And I do wish the media would let this rest, it is important that aid be arranged, but it is a great diservice to these wounded and deceased peoples to constantly advertise them. It is very disrespectfull, and tastless, that media is using this disaster to spread propoganda, and make a bundle of mullah.

That's to true, and I agree. :nod:

[subterranean]

I didn't realize you lived in that area, wow, that is really scary. I hope you and your family are not affected by these disasters!


Thank you Stan. I don't live in the Sumatra Island (where the quake took place), but I have some families there and so glad they're ok. Me my self reside in Java. What worries me the most is the future of many children who lost their parents/families and left alone in this world with no one . My country is not that rich to be able to support these kids so their future are at risk :(.

[den]

sub, I didn't realise you lived so close to that area, glad you're ok!

Canada is opening the doors to fast-tracking adoption procedures for orphaned children. Not the ideal situation for them, too bad their parents aren't there for them still. :(

I just hope all the *millions* of dollars that have been collected actually gets put to good use and directly goes to those most in need, not to pay for all the politricks and bureaucracy involved in administrating it.

[subterranean]

sub, I didn't realise you lived so close to that area, glad you're ok!

Canada is opening the doors to fast-tracking adoption procedures for orphaned children. Not the ideal situation for them, too bad their parents aren't there for them still. :(

I just hope all the *millions* of dollars that have been collected actually gets put to good use and directly goes to those most in need, not to pay for all the politricks and bureaucracy involved in administrating it.

Thanks Den, the adoption thing is a good way to save the children's futures, but you're right that there's nothing better than living with your own family.

The corruption issue is one of the hottest issues which arise regarding the distribution and the use of funds which are collected locally and internationally. I just hope that the involved parties would always have the sanity and heart in managing those funds.

[Bongitybongbong]

Thanks Den, the adoption thing is a good way to save the children's futures, but you're right that there's nothing better than living with your own family.

No I'd have to disagree on the Sub, but that's because my story is a little different. My genetic mom had me when she was young, so I understand that the parents can't take care of their children a all, but being put up to save yourself sucks ***.

[subterranean]

Sorry to hear that Bong.

[Scheherazade]

12 steps from here to my bed.

[Bongitybongbong]

Sorry to hear that Bong.
I prefer it because if she didn't want me, I don't want her.

[den]

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that Bong! :(


I prefer it because if she didn't want me, I don't want her.

[Bongitybongbong]

Why be sorry when I came out a lot better than I eould anywhere else?

[Stanislaw]

Well, it seems to be a bad situation, but if in the end, it worked out the best for you, I hope you are in a good situation.

So many children get stuck in bad situations in alberta, its not fair at all.

[Bongitybongbong]

You're asking me if I'm in a good situation...the best that could have happened for me. :) I wish I could do something about the children in Alberta, but...... I can't.:bawling: I truly wish I could do something for them.

[Stanislaw]

I know it is a real shame, there is an epidemic, which is really sad for a so cald first world nation.

[Bongitybongbong]

Wow....that's horrible.It really is.

[subterranean]

The cloud outside is so dark, and then rain is pouring lightly.

At the same thime I feel so sleepy. Can someone get me a cup of tea?

[Bongitybongbong]

I don't want to, but I will *goes and gets tea for his highness*.

[subterranean]

Well thank you Bong, now I feel kinda special.

[Bongitybongbong]

The 2000th. post of yours...wow, and you are Special.

[subterranean]

Well thanks again :blush: and yea my 2000th post :bawling: Oh, I need a life..

[Bongitybongbong]

No you don't...I don't need one all the time.

[subterranean]

Oh you're so right..Here's another 100 bucks.

[Bongitybongbong]

That's 200 bucks wasted.

[subterranean]

Well a richy little me got nothing to worry ;)

[Bongitybongbong]

Okay that's good.

[subterranean]

Don't you need to sleep?

[Bongitybongbong]

Who me, sleep is overrated. I'll be the owl if it's all good.

[Stanislaw]

I sleep on average of 6 hours per day!

[Bongitybongbong]

Mine's 5-6 hours.

[subterranean]

Me 4-5..hah, so shut up you 2 :D

[Bongitybongbong]

You're the one who asked me if I needed sleep.

[subterranean]

Well I thought you belong to the common people ;)

[Bongitybongbong]

I'm not sure if I do or not.

[Stanislaw]

Yeah, what is the common average of hours needed these days??

[Taliesin]

Ahh, We love our user title. It is in estonian so probably noone understands it, but We cannot say what it says, or it would be false.


Anybody want to hazard a guess? There are already two clues in this post about it.

[Jay]

lol, looking the words up in an online dictionary counts? lol, getting a VERY rough idea
*edit* lol, might want to try a different dictionary, it's either the language or all the words in Estonian have dozens of meanings in English

[papayahed]

Ahh, We love our user title. It is in estonian so probably noone understands it, but We cannot say what it says, or it would be false.


Anybody want to hazard a guess? There are already two clues in this post about it.

is it "nobody knows what our user title is"?

[Taliesin]

You cheated!
Now I have to change it.

[subterranean]

Am I hallucinating or the above was using the word "I"?

[Bongitybongbong]

As I said the most dominant personality spoke just as themself.

[papayahed]

You cheated!


Did not.

s10cr

[Stanislaw]

ah the powers of multiple personality schizophrenia...how it lurks in us all.

[Scheherazade]

speak for yourself! :p

[Bongitybongbong]

He speaking for us.

[Jester]

did you know that a century and a half ago the US elections were comprised of the candidates accusing their opponents of incest and sleeping with barnyard animals... in fact it became normal and almost obligatory to accuse your opponent of sleeping with barnyrad animals and in the 1848 Gold Rush in Sacremento two of the people who make it big where Stanford and Huntington by... selling shovels!!!

[Bongitybongbong]

Last night I played a tough basketball game. It was incredible fun.

[Stanislaw]

Yesterday was wacked for me, it rained and then froze solid! but I did have some good fun. I watched startrek, which leads to me random thought:

wouldn't it be cool, if there was a starwars / startrek (TNG) cross over, due to and interdimensional rift???

That would be sweet! :banana:

[Scheherazade]

It is good to know that you are spending your time so productively, Stan! :p

[Stanislaw]

:blush: heh heh I suppose we could have been studyin' chemistry, but it was much more entertaining to be watchin' StarTrek the Next Generation!

:D

[Shea]

When we were going through my grandpa's "workshop" (he was a terrible packrat) we found an old black and white TV and the only thing that I can remember watching on it was a marathon of the original Star Trek series.

[papayahed]

Yesterday was wacked for me, it rained and then froze solid! but I did have some good fun. I watched startrek, which leads to me random thought:

wouldn't it be cool, if there was a starwars / startrek (TNG) cross over, due to and interdimensional rift???

That would be sweet! :banana:

:nod: OMG, that's brilliant. :banana: :banana: :banana:

[Taliesin]

We really must say that we love Krafinna de Kraax's (which means Countess de Caw) poetry.
Cannot resist to put it here and translate.

We just sososo much love it.

So here's an example:

Öelda mida mõtlen
mõtlen mida tunda
tunda mida ihkan
ihkan mida öelda
sulle koledale ilusale
loomale ja mehele
lapsele raugale hundile
pole vaja öelda
pole vaja mõelda

iga mu mõtteraas söestub
leekideks lahvatab
kaob suitsu

jääd vaid sina


Say what to think
think what to feel
feel what to desire
desire what to say
to you ugly beautiful
animal and man
child old man wolf
no need to say
no need to think

every thought burns
flashes afire
disappears in smoke

only you remain

Damn! We're a lousy translator.

[Bongitybongbong]

The star trek/ star wars thing would be awesome :D

[Stanislaw]

The special effects would be pretty sweet too, could ye imagine how a phaser shot deflected by a lightsaber would look!!!

[Bongitybongbong]

Nice ( I am such a geek)

[amuse]

i love my new alarm clock!! (on my calculator.) :)

[imthefoolonthehill]

do you have one of those ti-89 titaniums?

[amuse]

no, an HP 48G, but will google to check out the one you just mentioned.

it was given to me by a friend, but without the instructions. i've had to spend quite some time just familiarizing myself with it (even simple addition is tricky), and it took a while to figure out that the "stupid" :blush: machine's method of working, which i'd been discounting, is the only way that it doeswork... some of it's rather a bear, but also lots of fun.

[imthefoolonthehill]

yeah, graphing calculators can have a learning curve sometimes... but once you figure one out, it is heaven...

i love my calculator... her name is estella, yeah, just like Pip's estella... she's my *creepy Golem voice* prreeeecious

[amuse]

:D! cool! i love that you name'd her -

oof must sleep.

[imthefoolonthehill]

i'll let my friend add, multiply,...etc etc.. and even differentiate with her, if they treat her right... but integration's off limits, folks...she only does that for ME...

(joking...of course)

[papayahed]

ahhh, reminds me of my calculator in college. I named her "big momma". She past away last year.

I would love to get a new one, but sadly no one asks me to differentiate or integrate any more.

[Stanislaw]

Ahh, I be havin a "calcy 86" my old calc, from highschool, what good days we shared together. (tis actually a Ti-86, but I named her, and got a custom case design for her two, she now be havin a punisher makeover)

[Taliesin]

We have got two calculators. One is a real calculator. The other one we got when we went on an olympiade in Finland in the ninth grade. It seems like a normal calculator, but some things of it are real freaky. You can get at least seven types of errors there (SYNTAX ERROR, DIVIDE BY 0 ERROR, DATA ERROR, DOMAIN ERROR, OP ERROR, OVERFLOW ERROR , INTEGRATE ERROR) There is also no factorial. Haven't found out either how to change radians to degrees and vice versa. There was a small writing on the top of the calculator which read "Texas instruments" So We didn't call it a call it a calculator for it wasn't one; we called it a Texas Instrument.

Unfortunately We lost the calculator and have now only the Texas instrument

[Stanislaw]

ahh but texas instruments, are the best in the world!!

[Jester]

isn't it unfair how some people have all the luck in the world? my dad, poker player... was the big winner a couple a' nights ago and then played again last night, last hand, he was even playing seven card stud (some up some down cards) and high low (hig, normal poker and the lowest hand possible splits the pot) and he had two wild to begin, had the lowest possible hand ever showing, an ace and on the final card had two more wilds... so total, the best and worst possible hand... one the whole pot of course which was huge...

only thing is, now the poeple he play with might not let him play with him again...
wish i had his luck in poker, I'd be rich,

[amuse]

i really like Mario's song "Let Me Love You" (http://www.lyricstop.com/l/letmeloveyou-mario.html) but it's been running through my head for so long that today i started "hearing" instead of "fist full of diamonds" "fish for the diamonds." :eek:
and this isn't a sense of someone fishing for diamonds, but rather a picture of the little aquatic guys!

[Bongitybongbong]

I've got calculator but I don't have a name for im yet...I've got it, Jay.

[subterranean]

LOL...Jay

I wanted to give my fish the name Piggy, coz it eats alot like a pig..but my dearest told me to give it the name "Nemo''..So unspecial I know...

[imthefoolonthehill]

Texas Instruments ARE the best in the world...

that's what TI in TI-89 stand for.

My beautiful Estella.

[Jester]

hmmmmmmmmmm i agree with best calculators but you seem way to attached to yours

[Taliesin]

I disagree. My other calcy was much easier to use and it had the factorial button.
Maybe the TI is supposed to be the best, but it is almost impossible to understand. Plus, the buttons are so big and clumsy.

0,02 EEK

[Snukes]

I didn't make it to calculous. Barely made it out of Advanced Algebra. Why?

I spent most of my class time figuring out how to program games into Guido the Mega Calculator of Doom. (TI-80, which was SO cool then...) When Guido finally died (of abuse and neglect from his proper function, I'd imagine), I replaced him with an 85, but I couldn't figure out how to program it, so that one died of neglect too. Didn't even get a name.

Ah, Guido... may you rest in peace!

[Bongitybongbong]

I'm changing my calculator's name to...The Heart Break Kid

[Jester]

hmmm.... a friend of mine drew this heart on some pieces of tape and gave it to me, i taped in on the cover of my TI-83 and put my name on the back of it aswell so what name should it have????

kinda sad though, that freind won't talk to me now!

[Bongitybongbong]

Why won't your friend talk to ya?

[Bongitybongbong]

I just got this really random idea: doesn't "bright-eyed and bushy-tailed" mean a squirrel on crack?

[Jester]

not sure..... to both..... thats an odd phrase i always thought it meant wide awake and jumpy or paranoid... anyway

[Bongitybongbong]

Well I'm really weird today sorry.

[amuse]

stir crazy/cabin fever? ;)

[Bongitybongbong]

Just natural weirdness.

[subterranean]

I'm changing my calculator's name to...The Heart Break Kid


Now, why would anyone call his calcy like that...Unless..

[imthefoolonthehill]

taliesin... once you understand how to use a TI-89, its really great... there is a factor button, a factorial button, derivitives, integrals, 3d graphing, parametrics... easy base changes... (a fun prank)

summations products limits... and tons of stuff i have no idea how to use

Estella's smarter than me, but that's how i like them.

[amuse]

***the eagles won!!!!!!!!!:) :) (god, they're cute)*** and thankfully for one of my aunties, so did the patriots. :D

[Bongitybongbong]

***the eagles won!!!!!!!!!:) :) (god, they're cute)*** and thankfully for one of my aunties, so did the patriots. :D

Hazaa!!!!!

[imthefoolonthehill]

the only football i track is Greenbay... just so that if they lose i can bug a friend about it.

[Bongitybongbong]

the only football i track is Greenbay... just so that if they lose i can bug a friend about it.
That sounds like something I would do.

[papayahed]

come on people, if a thread is closed it should be for a good reason like fighting, name calling, tears... not because it's not needed anymore, what a let down.

The next thought that came to mind: I really need to get out more.

[Stanislaw]

ahh as long as I be terrorizing this place, i'll not be letting a good forum go un HiJaCkEd...er, go to waste. :D

[Bongitybongbong]

ahh as long as I be terrorizing this place, i'll not be letting a good forum go un HiJaCkEd...er, go to waste. :D
That's great Stan, but wouldn't it be better to terrorize other forums instead of one you like?

[Stanislaw]

That's great Stan, but wouldn't it be better to terrorize other forums instead of one you like?

alas, I be one step ahead of ye, that already be me occupation! ie, clock hill forums...hahahahahahaha...still not banned though, which is really odd I have been a real J :D ck :D ss there!

[Bongitybongbong]

But you've never been banned so... :D :D

[Stanislaw]

is the apprentice attempting to surpass the master???

[Bongitybongbong]

No Master Stanislaw but I've been banned.

[Stanislaw]

ahhh a wise and loyal padawan indeed! :D

[Bongitybongbong]

Next time I get banned it will be in your name, Master. :cool:

[Stanislaw]

ahhh a nobel and wise aprentice, just don't let it be from here, :nod:

heh, heh, I also 'borrowed your picture, I should change it back, but I must returneth home first.

[Bongitybongbong]

Why'd I get banned here?and keep the pic.

[Jester]

Hmmm.... banning and padawans and masters.... too many masters.... too many... I'm reading Uncle Tom's Cabin right now, and in the intro it said that Abraham Lincoln told Harriet Beacher Stowe, "So you're the woman who caused this war?"

[amuse]

we had to read runaway slave notices today from the virginia gazette. were invited to take them home but would have to open a "your nightmares" thread. :blech:

[baddad]

Your nightmare thread: ohhhh......baby!!!!.........raw explication of one's life....

Expand upon fears......inexplicable senses of dread overwhelming life......fear as the driving force of success.......

Can one imagine a life that has no escape, no sage, no safe place to hide, nothing equated with the premise of the right to freedom, self determination, no overlord telling you that your life has any value other than that assigned by those that own you???

[Bongitybongbong]

Thought: Do you play basketball?

[Jay]

Occassionally

[Bongitybongbong]

Awesome...

[Jester]

suck at it, hate it unless playing with my dad, hate playing with my brother, he's ambidexterous, and the star player of our high school (they expected me to be the best girl player, yeah right!)

[subterranean]

Back in high school when you played basketball, other students would consider you as cool people and gals would adore you...geez..:rolleyes:

[papayahed]

I played in grade school, until I realized it was silly to run up and down the court. If I stayed put, everybody would comeback eventually.... I thought it was ingenious of me, coach didn't really care for that stategy.

[Bongitybongbong]

I played in grade school, until I realized it was silly to run up and down the court. If I stayed put, everybody would comeback eventually.... I thought it was ingenious of me, coach didn't really care for that stategy.
I like that idea alot it is ingenious.

[shortysweetp]

i cant even watch basketball on tv makes me dizzy :) i used to play when i was in grade school before i stopped growing and everyone else continued growing. (i'm 4'11)

[kilted exile]

I actually have a qualification in Basketball, despite the fact I am extremely bad at it. (I also got a module in trampolining - I know it's pretty pathetic)

[Scheherazade]

A qualification?? Like 'This is to certify that Kilted Exile is allowed to play basketball'??

[papayahed]

Is it signed by Dr. J? *snort* hehehehe

[kilted exile]

It was called a Scotvec Module, not sure if they still exist or not (Scottish education system changed recently) I took a bunch of Phys. Ed modules in various sports to avoid having to take Wood/Metalwork. Basically I got to participate in & referee games between different schools.

[Bongitybongbong]

It was called a Scotvec Module, not sure if they still exist or not (Scottish education system changed recently) I took a bunch of Phys. Ed modules in various sports to avoid having to take Wood/Metalwork. Basically I got to participate in & referee games between different schools.
That's pretty cool.

[papayahed]

How did people find jobs before monster.com???

[papayahed]

And why oh why, if your sending a resume do they also need a cover letter??? It says the same thing. Cover letters should be banned from existence. And don't even get me started on salary histories.....

[shortysweetp]

oh yeah dont get me started on that. i've been doing my cover letter and resume all day for class.

[Stanislaw]

what about e-portfolios??? :brow:

[papayahed]

what about e-portfolios??? :brow:

huh?

s10cr

[Bongitybongbong]

Random thought: My friend said that Canada's army was five kids. I know that's not true but it's weird.

[Jester]

you mean that there are only five kids in the entire canadian army??? reminds me of dhaka, Bangladesh has only two air jets, in the entire air force, that is the entire air force and every once in a while, about once or twice a month they would fly them in circles over the city, probably to get people to think they have more!

[Jack_Aubrey]

Random Thought: Goodbye Blue Monday.

[Bongitybongbong]

you mean that there are only five kids in the entire canadian army???
No my friend means the five kids are the Canadian army.

[baddad]

NOt true, not true!! No kids in the army here!! Here in Canada we have gutted our military over the last few decades. WE actually removed guns from a museum to Desert Storm in 1991......But we don't like to fight. We are Peacemakers. We like beer, any and all extreme sports, liberalism in our social contract, free medicine for the masses, oh, and yeah, from England we just purchased a submarine that doesn't float....

[papayahed]

and I think all 5 kids patrol along the canadian/detroit border

[imthefoolonthehill]

y1=|x| y2=.08x^2+k

a. find k if the parabola is tangent to the graph of y1.

b. find the surface area.

alright alright, so maybe its not so random.

[papayahed]

y1=|x| y2=.08x^2+k

a. find k if the parabola is tangent to the graph of y1.

b. find the surface area.

alright alright, so maybe its not so random.

so is that y squared or just y2?

[imthefoolonthehill]

just y2... y^2 is y squared

[papayahed]

but isn't y1 a parabola also?

[imthefoolonthehill]

no, its v shaped, rather than U shaped

[papayahed]

ok give me a minute, I'm not as sharp as I used to be.

[Taliesin]

Is it true that k=25/32? It seems a bit like it were.

But what is a surface area?
Mathematical terms in english - that's a pain in the er..arm.

[Bongitybongbong]

Do you think this line from Holier Than Thou has some meaning to be a good person,"Judge not, lest thee be judged yourself"?

[Stanislaw]

Random Thought: Goodbye Blue Monday.

:D thats rich!


Random thought: My friend said that Canada's army was five kids. I know that's not true but it's weird.

Canada has one of the best armies in the world; we go on alot of peacekeeping missions, we have the best marksmen in the world; and our soldiers do not go around shooting eachother!!!

we are just underfunded. :mad:

[amuse]

so there i was, my blood sugar so low i couldn't walk and had to sit on someone's stoop - my darling friend meanwhile bought me a nice, sugary Coca-Cola - as i tried to explain to the bank that my card was lost.
moral: never go into stores while said blood sugar is low (unless of course you must, as i did), because you might find out that someone has taken advantage of your disorientation - apparently my card slipped out of my hand when i was deciding between jelly beans and peppermints, and some stranger used it for $200 in the very same store. needless to say i couldn't find my card to pay for my jellies.

& damn cashiers for not checking id - i've a fairly unusual name!

[imthefoolonthehill]

if anyone cares, i just took a hit on the problem...left it blank.

[Jester]

random thought: ..... random thought, i am perfectly calculated at all times... only other people say im random! hmphf...

[Stanislaw]

so there i was, my blood sugar so low i couldn't walk and had to sit on someone's stoop - my darling friend meanwhile bought me a nice, sugary Coca-Cola - as i tried to explain to the bank that my card was lost.
moral: never go into stores while said blood sugar is low (unless of course you must, as i did), because you might find out that someone has taken advantage of your disorientation - apparently my card slipped out of my hand when i was deciding between jelly beans and peppermints, and some stranger used it for $200 in the very same store. needless to say i couldn't find my card to pay for my jellies.

& damn cashiers for not checking id - i've a fairly unusual name!

that really sucks, I hate dishonest people! :mad:

[Jester]

did you know there is a way such that

3=4

[Bongitybongbong]

that really sucks, I hate dishonest people! :mad:
Yeah that kind of dishonesty is completely horrid.


did you know there is a way such that

3=4
How?

[imthefoolonthehill]

in jesterland.

[Bongitybongbong]

in jesterland.
Okay it's good to know 3 = 4 is wrong.

[Jester]

jester land? i have a land??? cool!

no, lets see if i can remember it my dad taught it to me
oh wait, you'll just have to wait, gotta find it out

[Bongitybongbong]

ooookkkk. *mumbles, "3=4....bull"*

[baddad]

I just noticed that this thread (after 1100+ posts) has gone from discussing whether the word "chick' was a french slang term for prostitutes (page # 1)....to the now epitomal standard of whether or not 3 equals 4.

I am so proud of us I could just burst!!!!

[baddad]

Post # 1177 of random thoughts...


!!!!won nuf gnivah era eW

[papayahed]

Post # 1177 of random thoughts...


!!!!won nuf gnivah era eW

and now bad has introduced a davinci-esque twist. I like it.

[Bongitybongbong]

I should the random thought of the day.

[amuse]

rt: why can't we see little eyelashes when they come in to replace the ones that have fallen onto our cheeks? why can we only see the fully-grown ones???

[Bongitybongbong]

*thinks about the question*I have no idea, sorry.

[Helga]

good question, I don't have a respond to that. I'll think about it...hummm...this is a hard one...I give up, somebody else should try to respond to this question...humm......I am a little curious though.....it's a good random thought of the day....

[Bongitybongbong]

This is hard. :confused: :mad:

[papayahed]

rt: why can't we see little eyelashes when they come in to replace the ones that have fallen onto our cheeks? why can we only see the fully-grown ones???

I don't know, but while I was studying my eyelashes I was struck by the sheer number of lashes that are present, especially on the top lid.

[imthefoolonthehill]

knox in box should have shot fox in sox a long, long time ago... with the cat in the hat's AK 74.

[subterranean]

Yes Ash, feels like suddenly they are just there..and we don't even notice where did they come from...


rt: why can't we see little eyelashes when they come in to replace the ones that have fallen onto our cheeks? why can we only see the fully-grown ones???

[baddad]

Uh......why can't we see hair (eyelashes) grow?..Is that the question? *ponders*......

*.........still pondering*......................*wonders how much time could or should be spent watching hair grow*........

[Stanislaw]

3.14 is actually equal to 360!!

tis true, ye can believe me!

[papayahed]

3.14 is actually equal to 360!!

tis true, ye can believe me!

I think that's 6.28 = 360

[Stanislaw]

Pi is the means for calculating the diameter of a circle, ie Pi degrees all the way around a cirlce, and 360 degrees all the way around a cirlce...so Pi=360 :D

[papayahed]

I think it's 2pi for the circumfrence of a circle

[Stanislaw]

circle geometry (http://www.math2.org/math/geometry/circles.htm)

You were correct, my apologies! :cool:


I think it's 2pi for the circumfrence of a circle

[Bongitybongbong]

I knew that but 3=4...I'm not sure that's right.

[baddad]

Pi x radius equals a cirlce. Pi itself is only a number that makes many formulas work. Pi is nothing more. A seed is not an apple.

[Scheherazade]

Apple wouldn't exist without the seed.

[subterranean]

Even baby wouldn't exist without seed

[Bongitybongbong]

RT: Have you ever thought you couldn't do something, but someone gives the confidence to do it, and you actually suceeded?

[Jester]

okay here it is, its not three equals four, but four equals five, enjoy!

assume a+b=c
now multiply both sides by 4, 4a+4b=4c
take the starting assumption and multiply both sides by five, 5a+5b=5c
Now add the two together such a way that
4a+4b+5c=5a+5b+4c
Now, subtract 9c from both sides,
4a+4b-4c=5a+5b-5c
condence this equation by
4(a+b-c) = 5(a+b-c)
and subtract each side by (a+b-c)
4=5

see four does equal five
(note: see if you can figure this out??? ;) ;) :P

[Taliesin]

You divide it with a+b-c at the end, which is not allowed for it equals with zero.

[Bongitybongbong]

okay now I feel stupid.

[papayahed]

How does that one go about the 3 guys and the hotel?

[Bongitybongbong]

rt: What music do you listen to?

[imthefoolonthehill]

lol... smart people come on.

Did anyone figure it out yet?

hint: multiplication is not undone by subtraction.

[Bongitybongbong]

I'm just random so haha.

[Jester]

hmmmmm.... everyone lost me

[Bongitybongbong]

Cool we all lost you.

[papayahed]

Why is it that when friends come and visit from another state I can never think of any place to take them? I know there's stuff to do around here, I'm at a loss. I think it's all the pressure...

[subterranean]

Yeh, then you'd feel ashame coz you think that you don't act like a good host and can't entertain your guests properly..

[papayahed]

Just like restaurants, I always say "lets go some place different" but i can never think of where. I always end up at the same place....for the margaritas.

[papayahed]

Yeh, then you'd feel ashame coz you think that you don't act like a good host and can't entertain your guests properly..

exactly, the last time my friend was here I took him on the "seedy tour": We drove around a few questionable neighborhoods, a few lame landmarks. This time I thought I would show him the "good stuff"....

[subterranean]

Why don't u take him/her to kareoke (sp) for some singings...I find it entertaining, even when we sing badly...no one would get hurt except ourselves :D

[papayahed]

Why don't u take him/her to kareoke (sp) for some singings...I find it entertaining, even when we sing badly...no one would get hurt except ourselves :D

and the poor people who are stuck listening... :goof:

[Dyrwen]

Wow, I really wish I could get this guy in the religious forum to give me this magical mysterious evidence he seems to believe is out there against evolution, the age of the earth, or heck, anything at all. He's good at talking like there's an opposing side to science, but he doesn't seem to have much more than words to back himself up. Meanwhile I've quoted 2-3 sources of information in every single post I've made lately.

Sigh. Some people..

[Jester]

who's this guy?

[subterranean]

One of the members here...and I'm guessins this guy is..

[Sitaram]

Don't look at me. I am pro-evolution and I find it pointless to get in debates with people who oppose the theory of evolution.

[subterranean]

I'm not lookin or pointing my finger at you, Sir Sitaram :)

[Dyrwen]

Let's just say it starts with an Adel and ends with a heid. heh

On the random thought topic though: I'm so freaking happy right now. I told someone how I feel and didn't really mind whether or not they feel it is mutual because I've never really done that before. Whee.

[Helga]

well, I'm happy for you Dyrwen, I am curious though. Was it a member of the opposite sex you were talking to?

as I am writing now it is noon here in chilly Iceland and I couldn't sleep all night. I rolled around in bed trying to find ways to fall asleep but I am still awake and I am barely holding my head. I think I'll drink a lot of coffee today and take a sleeping pill a 9 o'clock tonight....

[Dyrwen]

Yes, a member of the opposite sex it was.

That's too bad about the sleeping though, insomnia can be really troublesome at times, though I probably had the best sleep I've had in awhile last night because of the night before going well.. But hopefully you can get some good sleep tonight.

[subterranean]

Oh that is too obvious...I was guessing that name, but I don't have the heart to write it down..


Let's just say it starts with an Adel and ends with a heid. heh



On the random thought topic though: I'm so freaking happy right now. I told someone how I feel and didn't really mind whether or not they feel it is mutual because I've never really done that before. Whee.

Well new experience, no matter how bad it turn out to be in the end, always gives us the chill (IMHO).

By the way Dyrwen, I like your paintings

[amuse]

rt's:
why can't i be intelligent and studious
why was there a horse-and-buggy running down the 4-lane highway in a postcard(!) in my dream last night

[amuse]

'nother random thought - after a very cute moment when stevie wonder pretended to read the winner for songwriter of the year :)
when i was a soph in high school we were asked to bring in music for our english class - after playing it we were to write about it. i didn't grow up in a diverse neighborhood, and at the end of one of my favorite songs, the kids started mocking stevie's "love's in need of love," giggling, swaying and clapping exaggeratedly.
i've noticed a lot, starting with the 911 thing when he sang That particular song, and tonight with the tsunami relief thing at the grammies, that he's as socially conscious and wonderful as he ever was - and i remember my classmates and wonder if they appreciate his music now.

[Dyrwen]

Glad ya like em sub.

Random thought: I really wonder whether or not this person I know, that I told my feelings about them to, knows that I was talking about them, since she seems to have taken it really well. Eh, whatever, so bizzare.

[Stanislaw]

Maybe she doesn't mind, and perhaps has similar feelings for you???, just a thought. :D

[Dyrwen]

Then she's very sneaky about not telling me what she thinks or even acknowledging it happened. Then again, it isn't like I've asked, heh.

[papayahed]

aarrggghhhhhh.

[Bongitybongbong]

Why did all pirates and ninjas suddenly die off?

[Dyrwen]

They must've fought batman and he had time to prepare.

[subterranean]

Maybe she's too shy?



Then she's very sneaky about not telling me what she thinks or even acknowledging it happened. Then again, it isn't like I've asked, heh.


Random thought: Speaking about romance (bleh..i hate this word- :rage: ..), I have bad feelings inside my heart coz of what my bf wrote in his sms yesterday.

[Stanislaw]

I feel for you, I hate having an empty feeling, it seems that completeness comes only in pairs! :(

[subterranean]

In pairs? You mean single people never felt that?

[Stanislaw]

No, single people can feel "pain" but I think absence is not really noticed unless expierianced first hand.

[imthefoolonthehill]

random thought calendar: new product. find the best random thoughts on here, and have one for every day.

welfare, here i come!

[subterranean]

I don't know that some people can be very random sometimes ;)

[Bongitybongbong]

*sings* My milkshake brings all the boys to the.....

[Stanislaw]

HiJaCkEd, now hows that for resurecting a bad memory!!!!!!! :D :banana: :D

[Jester]

"memory, all alone in the moonlight..." *hack... cough cough..." HEY DON'T THROW TOMATOES AT ME, i'M WORKING HERE. DO I GO TO YOUR OFFICE AND THROW TOMATOES AT YOU!!!!!

[subterranean]

I once sent a petition about tomato pickers that got paid way below minimum requirement.

[Monica]

My guinea-pig, Oscar, died today. I am very sad because of that :(

[subterranean]

Sorry to hear that. My fish, Nemo, died 2 weeks ago. I poisoned him :(

[Miss Darcy]

It's not your fault, Sub, fish do die. We had eight and, without us doing anything wrong, they died off, one by one, until there were only three or four left...:( very depressing. My guinea pigs died, too, only quite recently, which made me very sad, I've had guinea pigs for years. (I won't even add that my lovely dog Paganini had kidney disease and had to be put down, and our cat ran away - got lost - never came back - last time we were in Europe...we left her here, of course.)

Er, random thought...just back from a 10km bike-ride, very hot, very tiring, very cool! - Fun.

[subterranean]

You have pigs and dogs? DO you live in a ranch?
No Darcy, what I meant by poisining him is that I washed his fish bowl and the water filter with dishes soap and maybe I didn't really wash them so the soap still there ..

[baddad]

death by soap....a dirty way to die......

[subterranean]

Yeah...:bawling:

[Shea]

My birds are wierd. Leo just replaced the lining under the grating in their cage with fresh paper, and they're tearing the little bit they can reach into long strips that they bury into thier feathers. Now they look like they have paper tail feathers. :D

Related random thought: I went to the fair yesterday and we saw an incubator for chicken eggs. Some people were passing around a cute fluffy chick to hold, and when he got to me, he fell right to sleep! Am I boring? :p

[imthefoolonthehill]

a 39 card deck with two extras for jokers, makes for 13 haikus.

[Miss Darcy]

You have pigs and dogs? DO you live in a ranch?

You talking to me? Or...

Maybe the soap was still there, but still, you know - fish are very...hmm...strange and sensitive creatures, they die without any palatable reason. So it could have been, but maybe even could not have been....you know what I mean. But it is a sad thing in any case.

Random thought: Just about to go swimming (in our pool). It's so hot! :nod:

[Miss Darcy]

10 characte

[subterranean]

Yes I was talking to YOU ;)

Random: I'm so darn bored now............................................... .....................

Someone, please hit me on the head!!!!!

[Miss Darcy]

*Hits Sub on the head, and hard*

Sorry, just had to do that, it was your own request. :D

Um, no, we don't have many ranches in Australia, or we don't usually call them ranches, anyway. I actually live in a suburban setting...but the next street down, just about everyone has horses and the blocks are larger. Our street is on a comfortable just-over-acre status, and we only have one horse (on the street...er...well not on the street, though you could just about have a picnic on the road...well..never mind, you know what I mean)...Look at me go!

So, to be brief after all this, I don't live on a ranch, though I did call the place "Pet Farm" or something like that when I was younger. :D We have no pets at all now, which is sad but at least convenient for our prospective move to Sydney.

Do you live on a ranch? :)

Ooh, and I only have guinea pigs, not actual PIGS lol...had guinea pigs...:(

Anyway. Enough blabbing!

Miss Darcy

[imthefoolonthehill]

its times like this, its obvious....

why do the obvious things evade us the most?


can you cover yourself with a sense of revenge?

sha-sha-sha-shot a man.

[Bongitybongbong]

imthefoolonthehill: I just made a connection, you're from the potato state!Potatoes!!!! :D

[Chava]

Ever notice how looking over the top of your glasses at people
a. makes them nervous
b. makes their heads look small and alien like?

[papayahed]

Ever notice how looking over the top of your glasses at people
a. makes them nervous
b. makes their heads look small and alien like?


It makes me feel like a teacher.

[Jay]

I do that when I'm not sure if what I'm seeing is reality ;) and then decide to blame it on dirt on glasses :D

[papayahed]

hmmmm I wonder how many people on this sight (hehe punny) wear glasses?

[Bongitybongbong]

I never have and probably never will use glaases.

[subterranean]

I use soft lenses/contacts...

Am i using the rite term Camper?

[Miss Darcy]

I wear glasses, but only when necessary, i.e. while reading music or watching TV. Otherwise not, though I see a lot worse. The world is too small and too sharp in glasses. :D

[Jay]

you sure do, miss SubT :p

[subterranean]

Well I just want to avoid mis-understanding..;)

[imthefoolonthehill]

someone needs to invent glasses for pets... i'm sure some rich turd would buy it.

[Miss Darcy]

*Giggles*

Why don't you?

[subterranean]

Bugs bunny wears glasses sometimes...

[baddad]

Yes, bugs bunny wears glasses sometimes, and he himself is a rich turd (to quote Mr. Who-Shall-Remain-Named...above). On those occasions when Mr. Bunny wears glasses he is usually in disguise, posing as a rabbit of soft intellect, or posing as a librarian, an acaedemic, a man of the books. But just as often, he wears glasses and a a dress........with pouch like pockets large enough to comfortably carry some juicy, extra carrots.
But I digress......

[Scheherazade]

http://www.firebox.com/pic/p752b.jpg

[subterranean]

Say what brand is that?....The glasses I mean...I would like to have one of those...

[Scheherazade]

It is all here: (http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=752)

There is more:
http://www.firebox.com/pic/p752ex20.jpg http://www.firebox.com/pic/p752ex24.jpg http://www.firebox.com/pic/p752ex7.jpg http://www.firebox.com/pic/p752ex22.jpg

[atiguhya padma]

In 2000 the Clinton's sent 400k xmas cards. 2001 saw the Bush family send 875k cards and in 2002 1m. 2003 1.3m and last xmas 2m. That's 5.58m cards since 2000. Should I expect one in the post next December?:)

[amuse]

better you than me ;)