Old songs are the best.
What’s been on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? A topic to discuss? It’s Thursday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
Archive of entries posted on 30th August 2018
Link of the Day: I Can’t Imagine a Downside to This, But I’ve Also Been Told I’m Imaginationally Challenged
[High Praise! to The Babylon Bee]
[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]
Math Nerd Fun!
[Making sense of irrational numbers – Ganesh Pai] (Viewer #585,562)
Oddly, I never really thought about why they’re called “rational” numbers before. That makes a lot of sense.
Not saying I never knew this, but I’ve been out of high school for a couple years now, and memories fade.
Anyway, I love the simple but elegant proof in this one.
Straight Line of the Day: Weird. Now Authorized for Use As a Service Animal…
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
Weird… now authorized for use as a service animal…
Icebreaker: If a Movie Were Made of Your Life, What Genre Would It Be and Who Would Play You?
Previously: “The 25 most popular icebreaker questions based on four years of data”
Currently: The Only List of Icebreaker Questions You’ll Ever Need (Not all of which will be used, since some are either/or questions, which are boring.)
Your mission: answer the question in the comments with a good story.
If you don’t have a good story, you are encouraged to make one up.
If a movie were made of your life what genre would it be, who would play you?
Probably a RomCom, so that we can just montage the decades between girls. And I think we can tap Ryan Reynolds for this, since he’s a tall, thin-faced guy with a beard and a receding hairline