The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better Complaint Thread
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...well not as big a drop off in emails as I hoped this morning, but still significant as the total was finally under three digits by a fair amount. Mostly "thank you's" and congratulatory ones with very little "begging" for contributions.
Looking forward to 16 - 18 moths of relative calm before it all begins again.
I have a few old relatives left but none of them have moths.
chickadee? tee hee
Non-complaint: I just received my copy of "Cycles of Time" by Roger Penrose. Looking forward to getting familiar with it. I was led to this book by viewing a 2-hour lecture on YouTube in which he talks about his ideas of the cyclic nature of the Universe. The lecture is not terribly non-understandable by the layman but does take a bit of careful listening.
The book on the otherhand delves more into the mathematics 
but still has some pretty pictures. 
I'm gushing over this book because in all my years of amateur philosophising and cosmological ponderings, I had arrived at my own mental model of the way that the universe might behave at the end and beginning of time. Yes, I've read books and watched lots of NOVA videos about heat death, and big crunches and big bangs and string theory and extra dimensions* and multiverses*** and such but I still felt that somehow all those brilliant people were missing the mark somehow. Then I discovered Roger Penrose who seems to be the absent minded genius sitting alone in the corner scribbling on the wall shrugging his shoulders at the other guys and saying "yeah, they might be right, but what about this idea?..." And surprise, surprise, his idea almost exactly matches mine** except that he has the mathematics and physics expertise to explain the fiddly bits.
It's no use me trying to explain, when he does such a good job of it in the YouTube lecture (you have to listen to the whole thing unless you're familiar with the basic concepts he describes in the beginning). But basically my idea was that at the end of the universe when all matter has expanded and evaporated to energy and no mass exists and everything that's left is massless particles zooming around in unimaginable vastness at the speed of light, then time ceases to exist. There cannot be time without mass, without events, and without interactions. Correspondingly, distance ceases to exist because massless particles travelling at the speed of light are unaware of distance or time. At this point (as Penrose puts it) "the Universe forgets how big it is", scale factors become irrelevant, space ceases to exist. Yet all the energy of the system still exists and transformed into a new Universe reborn as a new big bang resulting again in the creation of another cycle of spacetime. The conundrum is, how does one describe the entropy of the system at that point? Is it maximum or minimum? I'll let Dr. Penrose explain his description and solution of this paradox if you're interested.
YouTube lecture: "Aeons Before the Big Bang" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YYWUIxGdl4
Book: "Cycles of Time" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307265900/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Who is Sir Roger Penrose?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose
PS: An interesting note about Roger Penrose... He was a friend of M.C. Escher and inspired him to draw his weird paintings.
* "Any sufficiently complicated problem can be solved by throwing enough dimensions at it. But it doesn't mean it's the only solution." -- LeatherGryphon
** Which doesn't make him right but it certainly makes me feel good that I'm thinking in the same direction as someone of his stature.
*** Personally I tend to think that the idea of Multiverse is overcomplication. It's like adding epicycles to support the theory of the Earth at the center of the solar system sort of worked but was totally wrong.
I cannot seem to log into my computer. It says just a moment. Wonder what is up?
...possibly a Windows update in progress?
Another of my philosophical mutterings: "Any sufficiently irritating problem can be temporarily resolved by putting enough distance or layers of bureaucracy between you and it".
corollary: "Adding layers of software subroutines around an algorithmic error only makes the problem look smaller because you're farther away".
lucyyyy i'se hohhhhme
caught up on all the threads i following already.
forum slows with the holidays comin?
should clean but, not really in the mood for real life right naos
Never put anything off until tommorow that you can put off forever.
There seems to be superficial and artificial hyper focus on cleaning the room, but no genuine focus on my well being.
No school is allowed here, no homework is allowed. No food in room. (But fish food is fine.) no water in room. (But aquarium is okay to have water.). The only permissible thing to do is to clean room. No playing with Daz figures is allowed because computer time is frowned at because only cleaning is the thing to do. Nothing but cleaning, but the issue is not that I am told to clean, but that I am told that cleaning is the only thing to do.
you ever have a co-worker that is a chronic foul mood?
i'm not about to do extra work because something needs to get done, like a foul mood means i'm not going to ask him to do something work relatd.
as a matter of fact, i will naggg. either work or quit!!
I need to get a detailed report of my paypal funds of what went where in November 2018, but I keep getting logged off of paypal. I need this info to see why my account is in negative.
I can deal with a co-worker always in a foul mood, but what I cannot deal with is someone who lives in the same house always in a foul mood and nothing is their fault but someone else's.
mebbe they worried about bed bugs?
cleaning can be an uplifting experience,
the right music and cleaning outfit.
not a french maid costume, tho that can be fun too.
honestly i think guys look better in the french maid costume. tee hee
i prefer the slumming look, kerchief on the hair, etc.
tell them to buy you a vacuum with a hepa filter, and swiffers for dusting. luv swiffers
mann i'm tempted to hop an Amtrak train and come help you clean.
You in a Carolina?
I'd have to bring my rollator walker.
guess i should find out what kind of handicap stuff amtrak provides.
last time i amtrak got to the trains via escalator. can't escalator with my putputt. walker won't fit in coach seating.
mannn if i didnt need the money and the health insurance, i'd be so outta this dayjob.
well , amtrak trip from Penn station to Raleigh thanksgiving weekend is 400 r/t. + taxi to the station and LIRR into Penn.
...sounds like more like a gulag than a home.
My gulag is a great place. It Is the staff who turned into into a gulag.
Two complaints; I am missing a package. My new computer mouse. And also I was told my job called my house with a complaint that was totally opposite from what they told. Problems with that info. I never gave them my house number nor the name of where I live. They have my address on file, but not my home number. Why would they say it is okay and encouraged to use a cup they provided then go through a lot of hassle to find my group home number to call them and tell the exact opposite info. I asked who called them and they had no name to give me.
i do not imagine my job going through all the hassle to call my group home when they could tell me in person. They told me not to offer senior discounts to seniors without them asking first. This is too confusing.
afraid of snow days coming. is gonna be tougher with a walker. how will the bus pick me, is narrow as it is, they have to 3point turn, is dead end street. they wont have room. the world is coming to an end. dogs and cats living together
so tired. reading visual basix code >.<
looking to ping several routers,
save the replies to a fle,
flag the fails
...already getting snow showers in Stevens Point WI. Lows in the teens and highs in the 20s. Glad I no longer live there.
Sunny here but pretty chilly here as well, barely made it above 50. One location in the West Hills (elevation about 1,400') was in the upper 30s this afternoon.
...having it get dark so early tends to make me tired.
Curious...does anyone here know of a beard and mustache that can be made to look like Billy Gibbons' beard? I've seen some that are too sparse, and some that are too full-faced. I just wonder if any of the fuller ones have morphs that change it to look like his.
Dana
I have a ball of hair I cleaned out of the vacuum filter... I suppose with a little hot glue and trimming it could be sculpted to look like that.
I could probably make a full body wig for Chewbacca with all the hair I have here... I always dump the house vacuum cleaner bin/filter in my shop's floor sweepings bin...
I use that bin in case I accidentally sweep up or suck up some important hardware... It's mostly wood/plastic/metal/concrete particles so there is nothing nasty except for dead crickets and spiders to sort through if I need to pick through it... I dump the house vacuum in there too in case an earring or toe goes missing...
The bin takes about two month to fill up enough before I toss the bag in the trash.
Three human females shed a lot.
I am unable to grow a beard.