The We Are All Prime Numbers Complaint Thread

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  • Skiriki said:

    Yeah No Place LIKE Home

    No Place Like 127.0.0.1

    LOL

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:

    ..I'm all for duo octocore.

    If you put that in a Macintosh does that make it an apple core?

     

      And now for something completely different...  I'm in a rare celebratory mood.  I'm celebrating having a car that again has its brakes fixed and otherwise repaired so that it is capable of a 3000 mile journey.  I'm celebrating that gas prices are really quite low for a while.  I'm celebrating that even after fixing the car I still have enough money for the 1200 mile trip to Florida.  I'm celebrating that my health issues seem to be under control for the moment.  I'm celebrating that the weather is cooperating.  I'm celebrating that I found a hotel and attraction ticket price deal that matches my desires.  So "I'm going to Disney World".   Yea!  smileysmileysmiley

      Well, not actually "Disney World", but "Universal Studios".  Four nights in a decent hotel just outside the grounds of "Universal Studios" & "Islands of Adventure" parks.  Three day 2-park passport admission, free transportation to the park, 1 hour early pre-public admission to the park.  Harry Potter Diagon Alley, here I come. smiley  And perhaps if I can sell my kidney in a back alley somewhere I'll get to go Disney too. surprise 

     

      Disney World is great fun the first few times you go, but I've seen it so much over the last four decades that it doesn't excite me much anymore.  However, the Universal Studios parks are still a hoot.  I don't fit in the rollercoaster seats anymore but I love the "old people" rides and just wandering*, getting a beer at a street vendor, having breakfast at "Green Eggs & Ham", having lunch or dinner in Margaretaville, or Bubba Gumps, or the Hard Rock Cafe, taking in the latest 3D IMAX movie or recent blockbuster at the cineplex, or just sitting on a bench under the shade of a dinosaur.  And "4D" rides like "Minions" are great fun too.

    *Note:  My "wandering" these days consists of renting a "Personal Transport Vehicle" (tiny single person golf cart) as soon as I get into the park, and driving around the park at perhaps 1.2x walking speed.  This gives me the opportunity to beep my horn at any knot of people blocking my way and I can use my cane as an intimidation weapon.  When I get to my destinations I park the PTV in appropriate spaces and hobble pitifully into line.  If I have to be old, I'm going to enjoy it damn it!

     

     

    traveling in style.

     

    i need to get a handicap card so i can get the bus discount

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    labor day and no bbq sauce.

     


    Seasonal Dragon (Summer)! Glory Drake (Day)! Falconiform Wyvern! It seems allergic to something, and every time it sneezes sparks shoot     from its nose and mouth.! Red Dragon!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited September 2015

    http://www.daz3d.com/utahraptordr   couldn't not  lol  crocodilia in fastgrab

     

    crocodilia would fit in my dino folder, they modern day dinosaur, i heard Steve Erwin say that

    on the beach , wanna be there 

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,363
    MistyMist said:

    how dark is the dark side of the moon?  does idl brighten it up?

    keith moon

    ahchoo  wuh oh snuffls

    Well, if you look at the moon when it's not a full moon, you can see how dark it is.  There is no single dark side of the moon, just as there is no single dark side of the Earth.  And even the area in darkness can be a little light, sometimes.  Have you evern noticed Earthshine?  It's cool.  I think it's more noticable on the west coast when it's to the west a bit and gets the reflection off the Pacific, but I see it here on the east coast as well.  I guess Earthshine is what you would call indirect lighting.   wink

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    too much light pollution round here, can't really tell.  would be nice to see the milkyway

     

    handsome critter 

  • DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:

    how dark is the dark side of the moon?  does idl brighten it up?

    keith moon

    ahchoo  wuh oh snuffls

    Well, if you look at the moon when it's not a full moon, you can see how dark it is.  There is no single dark side of the moon, just as there is no single dark side of the Earth.  And even the area in darkness can be a little light, sometimes.  Have you evern noticed Earthshine?  It's cool.  I think it's more noticable on the west coast when it's to the west a bit and gets the reflection off the Pacific, but I see it here on the east coast as well.  I guess Earthshine is what you would call indirect lighting.   wink

    Dana

    There is, however, a far side of the moon - and that will be darker when it is away from the sun since it never gets Earthshine (or not since the moon's rotation and orbit became tidally locked, at least).

  • MistyMist said:

    too much light pollution round here, can't really tell.  would be nice to see the milkyway

    ...

    Look In a 7/11, right next to the Snickers and Mars Bars.

     

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited September 2015

    New track up - composed for a lovely, sweet lady I've known online a while.. she goes by OrangeCake, and she is very cool..

    I present to you.. "Dark Of The Moon":

    https://soundcloud.com/synthetic_aurality/dark-of-the-moon

     

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    the lunatic on grass  :)

     

    plaint - heated frozen pizza stuck to tinfoil 

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    MistyMist said:

    the lunatic on grass  :)

     

    plaint - heated frozen pizza stuck to tinfoil 

    You need non stick tinfoil   http://www.bacofoil.co.uk/product/non-stick-kitchen-foil/

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    the lunatic on grass  :)

     

    plaint - heated frozen pizza stuck to tinfoil 

    You need non stick tinfoil   http://www.bacofoil.co.uk/product/non-stick-kitchen-foil/

     

    i never seen non stick foil - awestruck

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    was just reading cotton socks are the worst for diabetics.  is recommending coolmax material, foxtrot pricey socks >.<

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,096

    Hey LG, congratulations on assembling all the components for your trip!  If you have a spare pancreas, they usually command a higher price than a kidney... Unless it's a celebrity kidney. Those usually go for at least twice as much as a regular one. I found half of one of Eric Estrada's kidneys in an old vase in a thrift store and I sold it for $500... The guy who bought it said he'd have given me 2k for the whole kidney. I used to have a complete set spleens from the cast of "Little Rascals", but I sold it for vintage canned pudding in 86'.... I wonder what they would be worth today.

    Anyway, have a great trip, stay out of the sun, only seek shade under herbivorous dinosaurs and make judicious use of the "cane of intimidation"

    Have fun!

  • I want to go to sleep but I have not checked out yet.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,363
    DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:

    how dark is the dark side of the moon?  does idl brighten it up?

    keith moon

    ahchoo  wuh oh snuffls

    Well, if you look at the moon when it's not a full moon, you can see how dark it is.  There is no single dark side of the moon, just as there is no single dark side of the Earth.  And even the area in darkness can be a little light, sometimes.  Have you evern noticed Earthshine?  It's cool.  I think it's more noticable on the west coast when it's to the west a bit and gets the reflection off the Pacific, but I see it here on the east coast as well.  I guess Earthshine is what you would call indirect lighting.   wink

    Dana

    There is, however, a far side of the moon - and that will be darker when it is away from the sun since it never gets Earthshine (or not since the moon's rotation and orbit became tidally locked, at least).

    Yes.  I never understood why people called it the dark side of the Moon.  The far side of the Moon is what it really is.  it's a lot more pock-marked than the side we can see from here...it's taken a lot of hits to protect us.  Instead of lucky stars, we should be thanking the Moon!  Eventually, Earthlings will get a better look at the Moon, because they expect its orbit to start drawing inward eventually.  The tidal locking was the first step.  Now it's slowing down.  We do get to see a little more than half of it, though, due to the wobble in it's rotation.  I saw a string of time lapse photos that were made into a video, and it was very interesting.

     

    Dana

  • MistyMist said:

    too much light pollution round here, can't really tell.  would be nice to see the milkyway

    ...

    Look In a 7/11, right next to the Snickers and Mars Bars.

     

    Do you actually still have Mars bars? Around here they got renamed Snicker's Almond years ago and we still (rarely) have a customer looking for Mars and refusing to believe it's the same thing. i chedked the UPCs when the change happened. They are identical which under Federal law is supposed to mean the ingredients didn't change at all.

  • DanaTA said:
    DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:

    how dark is the dark side of the moon?  does idl brighten it up?

    keith moon

    ahchoo  wuh oh snuffls

    Well, if you look at the moon when it's not a full moon, you can see how dark it is.  There is no single dark side of the moon, just as there is no single dark side of the Earth.  And even the area in darkness can be a little light, sometimes.  Have you evern noticed Earthshine?  It's cool.  I think it's more noticable on the west coast when it's to the west a bit and gets the reflection off the Pacific, but I see it here on the east coast as well.  I guess Earthshine is what you would call indirect lighting.   wink

    Dana

    There is, however, a far side of the moon - and that will be darker when it is away from the sun since it never gets Earthshine (or not since the moon's rotation and orbit became tidally locked, at least).

    Yes.  I never understood why people called it the dark side of the Moon.  The far side of the Moon is what it really is.  it's a lot more pock-marked than the side we can see from here...it's taken a lot of hits to protect us.  Instead of lucky stars, we should be thanking the Moon!  Eventually, Earthlings will get a better look at the Moon, because they expect its orbit to start drawing inward eventually.  The tidal locking was the first step.  Now it's slowing down.  We do get to see a little more than half of it, though, due to the wobble in it's rotation.  I saw a string of time lapse photos that were made into a video, and it was very interesting.

     

    Dana

    Interesting note: Some scientists now believe that the moon is is actually a chunck of the Earth's crust material that got knocked loose by an asteroid strike back when the whole planet was still a ball of liquid and semi-liquid stuff and hadn't cooled enough to form a crust yet. In order to falsify that theory they'll have to develope the tech to drill to the Moon's core and see what it is.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,229
    edited September 2015
    McGyver said:

    Hey LG, congratulations on assembling all the components for your trip!  If you have a spare pancreas, they usually command a higher price than a kidney... Unless it's a celebrity kidney. Those usually go for at least twice as much as a regular one. I found half of one of Eric Estrada's kidneys in an old vase in a thrift store and I sold it for $500... The guy who bought it said he'd have given me 2k for the whole kidney. I used to have a complete set spleens from the cast of "Little Rascals", but I sold it for vintage canned pudding in 86'.... I wonder what they would be worth today.

    Anyway, have a great trip, stay out of the sun, only seek shade under herbivorous dinosaurs and make judicious use of the "cane of intimidation"

    Have fun!

    Unfortunately I've already sold my spare pancreas.  Or at least I think I must have.  I took inventory today and I only have one.  crying

     

    Half the fun of the trip is the drive.  Big old (12 year old) Buick LeSabre let loose on the Interstate.  It's like driving a cloud.  It gets 31 miles per gallon on the open road.  Thanks to Google I've planned out my gas stops to buy in the cheapest states I can find.  I should be able to do the trip down in two 11 or 12 hour drives (7AM to 6PM, can't see to drive at night).  Stopping once in Wytheville, Virginia the first night and then in Orlando for the next four nights.  Then on to three consecutive nights at various relatives homes in three other south Florida cities.  I've got the whole thing budgeted out.  I splurge a bit in Orlando but the rest of the trip is quite frugal.  The website I used for hotel and tickets was http://www.universalorlandovacations.com/  I purchased the Four nights (fourth night is free) in the Wingate by Wyndham hotel, and the 3-day, 2-park, Universal Studios admission for only $520 which breaks down to about $75/night for the hotel and $72/day for the 2-park admission which is quite a savings.  But timing is everything.  Prices are low for about two weeks after Labor Day because kids go back to school, but then on September18th, Universal starts their Halloween nights extravaganza and the hotels and parks up their prices again for a while.  I'll miss the Halloween madness this year but I've seen it before, and I honestly don't think I could survive the hoopla, and late hours anymore.  But is is quite a party!

    My "Microsoft Streets & Trips" application gives the total milage as 2756 miles and the estimated gas cost as $206.  I could fly (if I'm not choosy about time, stops, or airports) for that price, but I'd still have to pay for driving to Erie, Buffalo or Cleveland and 9 days of parking my car, renting a car for 7 days in Florida and 600 miles of gas in Florida.  And besides, did I mention that I no longer fit in airplane seats very well either?  But I love driving big old luxury cars on the Interstate, classical music playing, bags of chips on the seat, paper maps, breakfast & lunch breaks, decent dinner at a reasonable motel.  I love that experience.  I may not get to do it many more times.

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,229
    edited September 2015
    Amalthea said:
    DanaTA said:
    DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:

    how dark is the dark side of the moon?  does idl brighten it up?

    keith moon

    ahchoo  wuh oh snuffls

    Well, if you look at the moon when it's not a full moon, you can see how dark it is.  There is no single dark side of the moon, just as there is no single dark side of the Earth.  And even the area in darkness can be a little light, sometimes.  Have you evern noticed Earthshine?  It's cool.  I think it's more noticable on the west coast when it's to the west a bit and gets the reflection off the Pacific, but I see it here on the east coast as well.  I guess Earthshine is what you would call indirect lighting.   wink

    Dana

    There is, however, a far side of the moon - and that will be darker when it is away from the sun since it never gets Earthshine (or not since the moon's rotation and orbit became tidally locked, at least).

    Yes.  I never understood why people called it the dark side of the Moon.  The far side of the Moon is what it really is.  it's a lot more pock-marked than the side we can see from here...it's taken a lot of hits to protect us.  Instead of lucky stars, we should be thanking the Moon!  Eventually, Earthlings will get a better look at the Moon, because they expect its orbit to start drawing inward eventually.  The tidal locking was the first step.  Now it's slowing down.  We do get to see a little more than half of it, though, due to the wobble in it's rotation.  I saw a string of time lapse photos that were made into a video, and it was very interesting.

     

    Dana

    Interesting note: Some scientists now believe that the moon is is actually a chunck of the Earth's crust material that got knocked loose by an asteroid strike back when the whole planet was still a ball of liquid and semi-liquid stuff and hadn't cooled enough to form a crust yet. In order to falsify that theory they'll have to develope the tech to drill to the Moon's core and see what it is.

    But they have a good idea what it isn't.  It isn't iron and nickel because the whole moon doesn't appear to be dense enough for it to have a sizeable core of iron & nickel.  It appears to be just the right density to be made of lighter rocks like the Earth's crust.  There will be some iron and nickel but that would most likely be from the smaller planetoid that slammed into the Earth.  Although a lot of that iron and nickel probably fell onto and sunk into the Earth by virtue of it being the largest attractor after the collision.  And the very fact that we have as much iron in the crust of the Earth as we do is probably because of subsequent meteor bombardments after the Earth had significantly crusted over because if the Earth was still in a completely molten state, the iron and nickel would have sunk toward the center.

    The huge deposit of nickel being mined in northern Canada is a good example because it is believed to be the remnant of a single giant nickel rich meteor that fell during the "Late Heavy Bombardment".

     

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,363
    edited September 2015
    Amalthea said:
    DanaTA said:
    DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:

    how dark is the dark side of the moon?  does idl brighten it up?

    keith moon

    ahchoo  wuh oh snuffls

    Well, if you look at the moon when it's not a full moon, you can see how dark it is.  There is no single dark side of the moon, just as there is no single dark side of the Earth.  And even the area in darkness can be a little light, sometimes.  Have you evern noticed Earthshine?  It's cool.  I think it's more noticable on the west coast when it's to the west a bit and gets the reflection off the Pacific, but I see it here on the east coast as well.  I guess Earthshine is what you would call indirect lighting.   wink

    Dana

    There is, however, a far side of the moon - and that will be darker when it is away from the sun since it never gets Earthshine (or not since the moon's rotation and orbit became tidally locked, at least).

    Yes.  I never understood why people called it the dark side of the Moon.  The far side of the Moon is what it really is.  it's a lot more pock-marked than the side we can see from here...it's taken a lot of hits to protect us.  Instead of lucky stars, we should be thanking the Moon!  Eventually, Earthlings will get a better look at the Moon, because they expect its orbit to start drawing inward eventually.  The tidal locking was the first step.  Now it's slowing down.  We do get to see a little more than half of it, though, due to the wobble in it's rotation.  I saw a string of time lapse photos that were made into a video, and it was very interesting.

     

    Dana

    Interesting note: Some scientists now believe that the moon is is actually a chunck of the Earth's crust material that got knocked loose by an asteroid strike back when the whole planet was still a ball of liquid and semi-liquid stuff and hadn't cooled enough to form a crust yet. In order to falsify that theory they'll have to develope the tech to drill to the Moon's core and see what it is.

    That theory isn't that recent.  Maybe it's experiencing a comeback.  The theory goes that the material came from what is now the Gulf of Mexico.  However, inspecting the material brought back from the various Moon landings, there are minerals that are not plentiful on Earth that are on the Moon, which leads them to think that  whatever hit the Earth is still mostly there, that it all mixed together when it was molten.  Something large enough to throw that much material into orbit wouldn't need the Erth to have been in a molten state...it would create so much heat from the impact that the ground would turn molten at least for a while during and after the impact.  Something similar, but not exactly the same, called Liquifaction, happens during some earthquakes, too, the ground just turns liquid for a short time.  Vehicles have become stuck in the ground, it's an interesting process.  Earth, shaken...not stirred.

    http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Liquefaction+Christchurch+Earthquake+Car&FORM=IDMHDL

     

    Dana

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,363

    Well, I hope you have a fun, safe, trip when you go, LeatherGryphon!

    Dana

  • "That's not homework!"

    Best quote ever, from a Farmer's insurance advert.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Amalthea said:
    MistyMist said:

    too much light pollution round here, can't really tell.  would be nice to see the milkyway

    ...

    Look In a 7/11, right next to the Snickers and Mars Bars.

     

    Do you actually still have Mars bars? Around here they got renamed Snicker's Almond years ago and we still (rarely) have a customer looking for Mars and refusing to believe it's the same thing. i chedked the UPCs when the change happened. They are identical which under Federal law is supposed to mean the ingredients didn't change at all.

    Mars bars are totally different from Snickers.  Mars bars don't have any nuts in them for a start, not proper Mars bars. It appears that there are now two versions of Mars bars.  The proper ones which we still get over here, and American Mars  bars, which are different.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_%28chocolate_bar%29

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,119
    edited September 2015
    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    the lunatic on grass  :)

     

    plaint - heated frozen pizza stuck to tinfoil 

    You need non stick tinfoil   http://www.bacofoil.co.uk/product/non-stick-kitchen-foil/

    ...I suddenly need tinfoil, and lots of it.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-09-04/behind-the-wheel-of-croatia-s-1-000hp-electric-supercar

    I developed the Aeon "Delta Vee" concept over two decades ago.  The setup and configuration is pretty much identical.

    ...and what really gets me, it was created in Zagreb,Croatia.

     

    ...ummm Leela....could you come here please?

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    lindt balls  

  •  

     

    Chohole said:
    Amalthea said:
    MistyMist said:

    too much light pollution round here, can't really tell.  would be nice to see the milkyway

    ...

    Look In a 7/11, right next to the Snickers and Mars Bars.

     

    Do you actually still have Mars bars? Around here they got renamed Snicker's Almond years ago and we still (rarely) have a customer looking for Mars and refusing to believe it's the same thing. i chedked the UPCs when the change happened. They are identical which under Federal law is supposed to mean the ingredients didn't change at all.

    Mars bars are totally different from Snickers.  Mars bars don't have any nuts in them for a start, not proper Mars bars. It appears that there are now two versions of Mars bars.  The proper ones which we still get over here, and American Mars  bars, which are different.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_%28chocolate_bar%29

    Who would have thunk it that a candy bar could have such a disjointed history. surprise  And I guess it shows you how long it's been since I actually looked for a Mars Bar, having always perferred the Snickers bar myself.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    raisinettes again.  this time no overboards. :D

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    wish i had my glucose tester.  not sure if raisins saves on sugar.  is it true nueropathy doesn't heal itself?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    feed me seamore

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