Okay guys, gals, and whatevers. It’s your turn. You pick the topic. Or topics. What’s on your mind? What do you want to discuss? Got a link you want to share? This is the time and place.
It’s Wednesday Night Open Thread. The floor is yours.
Okay guys, gals, and whatevers. It’s your turn. You pick the topic. Or topics. What’s on your mind? What do you want to discuss? Got a link you want to share? This is the time and place.
It’s Wednesday Night Open Thread. The floor is yours.
I have the floor? Great! Whew! Now fetch me a glass of water.
It ain’t over ’till the fat man falls down.
Ord Wingate was a helluva warrior in WWII, but I notice few parents name their kids Ord nowdays.
Debauchery is bad, but “bauchery” doesn’t sound much better.
Does anyone ever raise a hue without a cry?
Anyone who adds “hashtag” to any statement, aloud in conversation, deserves to suffer severe, drastic repercussions.
Orde Wingate is revered in Israel. I wouldn’t be surprised if some kids there are named for him.
Eep. Typo.
Not many baby “McGeorge”s running around, either.
Have you guys watched Legion? Great show.
Watched the first couple of episodes. Interesting.
Does anyone have kith but not kin?
Is beta carotene ready for release yet? Are the trials over?
If the International Space Station comes to an end, I want to write its orbituary.
If they bring back an alien they will study its E.T.ology.
I would have thought there was nothing between good and best, if I didn’t know better.
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Among the Things I’ve Learned From Movies:
* Shouting “Hey! Come back here!” at a purse snatcher who is running away works a statistically negligible number of times. Don’t even bother.
* If you see people casually having a conversation while eating Chinese food out of little cartons, they are (a) dedicated, (b) friends (or soon-to-be friends), and (3) heroes.
Is beta carotene ready for release yet? Are the trials over?
It’s moving into the master-beta phase.
Okay, someone else’s turn at writing a piece for “IMAO For Nerds.” As an IMAO reader, I’d like to see it be a regular column with volunteer articles from all the extra-nerdy IMAO Nerds. (Maybe we’re no longer ‘Ronin’ – but Nerds now? – just speculating.) Personally, I love nerdy humor with helpful information in it, particularly if it can be twisted
in political or cultural directions.It helps if you’re a nerd yourself. Just forward it to Basil ’cause Harvey’s gone to New Hampshire to build a sod house and live off the grid with Miss Anony and Frank is too busy with his babies and quantum computing for the secret government. Plus, Basil’s almost as big a nerd as anyone out there and he loves nerdy stuff like MST3K and HTML and running web sites and computers and stuff, I think. I hope. Um. Oh, oh…
P.S.: Thanks to all for making me chuckle on that IMAO For Nerds thread. I hope you enjoyed the topic. Thanks to Basil for being willing to post it over Harvey’s
deadmissing body! ~JimmyThe nerdiest and most informative thing I’ve read in a long time was this discussion thread on the subject of the Oroville dam failure and current attempts at repair (and CYA by government):
Emergency: California’s Oroville Dam Spillway Near Failure, Evacuations Ordered
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3524221/posts
The discussion starts just after the emergency in February, and continues through today.
There are over 3,100 comments.
You can jump in anywhere, but I warn you, it’s addictive. (It’s also graphic-heavy with lots of photos, diagrams, and occasional video clip, so it’s not really smartphone-friendly.)
Entertaining and enlightening even for non-engineers like me, because there are a bunch of people asking intelligent questions about the dam failure and repair, and a few highly knowledgeable experts giving answers in easily-understood terms. You’ll learn more about dam construction and engineering than you ever thought possible, with a real-world example.
These Nerds are a threat to our way of life. ~ Ogre