Random randomness

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Dec 02, 2021 5:48 pm

I remember 1961. What a fun year.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Dec 02, 2021 6:27 pm

I'd have to ask my sister.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:28 am

Anonymous Bosch wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:53 pm
Unagi wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 3:14 pm I just noticed today's date when I wrote it down. It's a rather large (supposedly very lucky) palindrome...

12022021

kinda cool
Only if you insist upon the rather illogical date and time notation used in the U.S., which differs from those used in nearly all other countries:

Uh... No actually, it's not "only" if I insist upon the rather illogical notation used in my country.

It's also a palindrome if you use the IT friendly 20211202

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:29 am

LordMortis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 3:42 pm Only I write dates so they auto sort. Today is 20211202 unless I have to express to someone else. I'm not an engineer or anything but since keeping date iterations of anything it has made much more sense to track time like a counter.

Ok, but that is also a palindrome.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:40 am

Isn't a palindrome an airport in Alaska?

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:51 am

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:40 am Isn't a palindrome an airport in Alaska?

I believe it's a rollerskating rink in Cincinnati.

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:52 am

Unagi wrote:I just noticed today's date when I wrote it down. It's a rather large (supposedly very lucky) palindrome...

12022021

kinda cool

If it's typed in digital/LCD numbers (like an alarm clock), it also read the same if you turned it upside down.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:17 am

disarm wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:52 am
Unagi wrote:I just noticed today's date when I wrote it down. It's a rather large (supposedly very lucky) palindrome...

12022021

kinda cool
If it's typed in digital/LCD numbers (like an alarm clock), it also read the same if you turned it upside down.

Right, like this:

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 5:38 pm but hey! there's this

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 11:41 am

Unagi wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:51 am
dbt1949 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:40 am Isn't a palindrome an airport in Alaska?
I believe it's a rollerskating rink in Cincinnati.

They have a Palin there too?

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 1:21 pm

Oops. No. That was me failin to get the joke.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 3:03 pm

Wednesday I was driving my car when all the water/fluid drained out of and it died. Just got it towed to the repair place. I have a pickup and I started to drive it to the repair place and the power steering went out. My stepson said the belt had slipped off because the water pump is leaking water.
Good thing I had just gotten groceries today.
Merry Xmas!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 3:22 pm

maybe combine them into one working vehicle.

My 'brakes' idiot light is on. Im ignoring it. Maybe it will go away before my brakes do.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 4:27 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 3:03 pm Wednesday I was driving my car when all the water/fluid drained out of and it died. Just got it towed to the repair place. I have a pickup and I started to drive it to the repair place and the power steering went out. My stepson said the belt had slipped off because the water pump is leaking water.
Good thing I had just gotten groceries today.
Merry Xmas!

I had a timing belt go out on a Ford Fiesta on the way home on Xmas. That was when I learned they used rubber belts instead of chains. Car wasn't worth cost of repair.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 5:47 pm

Years ago I had that happen to me. Except I got leather belt instead of rubber.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 7:06 pm

I dont know how Taco Bell keeps getting along with their sauces. The MILD and HOT are basically colored water. I asked them today for their hottest sauces and they gave me some called FIRE and some Diablo. ...To my taste buds FIRE should be their mild and Diablo their medium...if that. It has a little heat and some flavor.

From left to right Id say...

Brown water
Brown water from a ditch in a valley near where peppers are raised
Brown water from a ditch in a valley near where peppers are raised that someone sneezed in that ate a pepper from that valley
Brown water from a ditch in a valley near where peppers are raised that someone sneezed in that ate a pepper from that valley and dropped a pepper somewhere in that ditch. A small pepper.

Madmarcus · Post by **Madmarcus** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:04 pm

LordMortis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 11:09 am I miss being social with a beer, but don't miss not having the beer itself.

Late to the conversation but oddly I'm the reverse. I enjoy a beer with friends but I also find I enjoy the taste of beer with food. With Covid we weren't going out so we made meals at home just a tad fancier by buying more craft beer. Once I'm back in the states I'm going to look into some of the non-alcoholic beers or try my hand at brewing some.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:53 am

The inventor of Tickle Me Elmo was a Unabomber suspect

Thats kinda unreal. They shared so many coincidences that the FBI talked to him on the phone every 2 weeks for years and even interviewed him over and over.

Until Kaczynski's arrest in 1996, Johnson-Williams talked to the FBI frequently— both in-person and, about once ever two weeks, over the phone.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:41 pm

Achievement unlocked: I made calzones, and they were delicious. This is important because of the lack of any good restaurant calzone in my vicinity. I look forward to perfecting this recipe.

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:06 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:41 pm Achievement unlocked: I made calzones, and they were delicious. This is important because of the lack of any good restaurant calzone in my vicinity. I look forward to perfecting this recipe.

If it's not some close variant of this, or it has red sauce, nope.

http://mamadskitchen.net/recipe/calzone ... aster-pie/

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sun Dec 05, 2021 2:49 am

stimpy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:06 am
Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:41 pm Achievement unlocked: I made calzones, and they were delicious. This is important because of the lack of any good restaurant calzone in my vicinity. I look forward to perfecting this recipe.
If it's not some close variant of this, or it has red sauce, nope.

http://mamadskitchen.net/recipe/calzone ... aster-pie/

Haha, you aren't even in the ballpark. This is a proper Italian calzone:

Local restaurants think that folding a pizza in half makes it a calzone. They are wrong.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:21 am

Here restaurants think that putting pizza toppings on sandwich bread makes a calzone.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:42 am

Jaymon · Post by **Jaymon** » Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:00 pm

If farts are mostly methane and other lighter than air gasses, then farting makes you weigh more.

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Sun Dec 05, 2021 3:31 pm

Jaymon wrote:If farts are mostly methane and other lighter than air gasses, then farting makes you weigh more.

Only true if you're taking in other gas at the same time that you're farting. Otherwise, the act is still a net negative on your overall mass.

The bigger question...is it easier to fart while standing on your head because the less dense gas should rise?

Jaymon · Post by **Jaymon** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 10:21 am

is a net negative in your overall mass true, but, on a scale, lighter than air gasses act like they would in a balloon. If you put a helium balloon on a scale, and gradually "fart" out the helium, it would weigh more and more on the scale until all the helium is gone.

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 10:30 am

Jaymon wrote:is a net negative in your overall mass true, but, on a scale, lighter than air gasses act like they would in a balloon. If you put a helium balloon on a scale, and gradually "fart" out the helium, it would weigh more and more on the scale until all the helium is gone.

True... highlights the important distinction between weight and mass, and you did say "weight" in your previous post.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 11:05 am

Teddy bear assimilation complete.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 11:49 am

I have been here over seventeen years and to this day I still don't understand ya'lls fascination with the octopus. Didn't understand it when "we" picked the name to begin with either.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:42 pm

Intelligent, slimy and they don't wear pants. Wait a minute...

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:43 pm

The name was available?

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 1:06 pm

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 2:52 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 11:49 am I have been here over seventeen years and to this day I still don't understand ya'lls fascination with the octopus. Didn't understand it when "we" picked the name to begin with either.

See that? That's Smoove, that is. And it's all because of his palpitating predilection for tentacle porn.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 3:03 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 11:49 am I have been here over seventeen years and to this day I still don't understand ya'lls fascination with the octopus. Didn't understand it when "we" picked the name to begin with either.

I don't think we really had a fascination with the octopus. It was just a chuckle at a Lovecraftian twist on a Simpsons quote that stuck like a pair of lime green Speedos. We could just as easily have been the Brute Squad or the Bullshit Puppies (although I'm not sure the latter was around yet...) We only really started posting octopi after they became the mascot.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 3:08 pm

maybe i was one of the exceptions then - i have been interested in cephalopods for a long time

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 3:25 pm

I didn't like Brute Squad or Speedos either.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 3:26 pm

I will say that I like being able to shorthand the forum as "OO". I don't think that "BS" would have worked as well.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 3:40 pm

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 3:46 pm

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 3:08 pm maybe i was one of the exceptions then - i have been legitimately terrified of cephalopods my entire life

Fixed, for me.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:19 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 3:03 pm
dbt1949 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 11:49 am I have been here over seventeen years and to this day I still don't understand ya'lls fascination with the octopus. Didn't understand it when "we" picked the name to begin with either.
I don't think we really had a fascination with the octopus. It was just a chuckle at a Lovecraftian twist on a Simpsons quote that stuck like a pair of lime green Speedos. We could just as easily have been the Brute Squad or the Bullshit Puppies (although I'm not sure the latter was around yet...) We only really started posting octopi after they became the mascot.

What was the quote?

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:23 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:19 pm
Blackhawk wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 3:03 pm
dbt1949 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 11:49 am I have been here over seventeen years and to this day I still don't understand ya'lls fascination with the octopus. Didn't understand it when "we" picked the name to begin with either.
I don't think we really had a fascination with the octopus. It was just a chuckle at a Lovecraftian twist on a Simpsons quote that stuck like a pair of lime green Speedos. We could just as easily have been the Brute Squad or the Bullshit Puppies (although I'm not sure the latter was around yet...) We only really started posting octopi after they became the mascot.
What was the quote?

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php ... came-from/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKx3JlTnHbc

Edit: First link is a whole-lotta info that I hadn't known. Second link is the the Simpson's episode.