Friday Ephemera
Scenes. || Cornering of note. || It’s all kicking off down at the pet shop. || Fair point. || Her animal sculptures are smaller than yours. || Because you would and you know it. || She’s a big girl. || At last, bugs with tiny cameras. || The dad-power to embarrass. || Pecking order detected. || Today’s words are Portland attorney. || Tokyo, 1913. || On the A-12 Archangel. || How to make a neat square of water. || How to make iced tea. Also, hardened water blocks. || Build your own imaginary Medieval city. (h/t, Things) || This just in. (h/t, Holborn) || They cope surprisingly well, all things considered. (h/t, Damian) || Our betters hold forth. (h/t, Darleen) || And finally, a beatboxing Buddhist churns out chill loops.
A thing I learnt yesterday was that this happened.
Incidentally, regarding the making of ice cubes, your host recommends these. Easy to pop and they have a lid, so they can be stacked without sticking or spillage.
A brave ten-year-old in trying circumstances.
I’m not crying. You’re crying.
’ Easy to pop and they have a lid..’
And the advantage of looking like you’re tending ice bees!
regarding the making of ice cubes, your host recommends these…
Something about geometric nomenclature.
I am picking my way through aspects of coding, and providing the commentary on same.
A comment to coworkers is of recurringly needing to find the rabbits, and figure out how to make a hat, so that in the text I can pop one out of the other—Yes, since you ask, pulling a hat out of a rabbit is an interesting procedure.
I have moved on to a new topic in the commentary . . . . and find that the new topic—Inline functions in C—pretty much consists of, at most, two cockroaches collected into a paper cup.
The topic exists and thus will get comment.
However.
Ice Trays for Baby Food, Cocktail, Whiskey
Will Whiskey freeze?
Will Whiskey freeze?
A project for the weekend.
Various opinions based on proof, but consensus forms around -17F or so. That’s -27C if you happen to be in a laboratory. But if you’re in a laboratory, please refrain from drinking. We have enough problems as it is.
A brave ten-year-old in trying circumstances.
Holy cr*p. My faith in humanity went up a bit.
Holy cr*p.
It’s quite tense, yes.
My faith in humanity went up a bit.
That doesn’t often happen round these parts. Savour the experience.
Don’t know who I got this from but when I reposted it on FB a year ago, I had no idea how prophetic it was. Got a “memories” reminder about it today. Absolutely nails it…
Word.
An offer it’s hard to turn down…
http://twitter.com/Rolo_Tamasi/status/1287021040552550401
An offer it’s hard to turn down…
Watch yourselves, gents. I think the females are in heat.
Savour the experience.
Get the hankies ready. Responses.
Get the hankies ready.
I did enjoy the double-take and wonky smile when kiddo, complete with Spider-Man outfit, realises he’s been invited, by Spider-Man, to come on set and watch the filming of the next Spider-Man film.
[ Slides box of man-size tissues along bar. ]
@ Julia M
Wholetime Firefighter Taster Days
Nothing if not kinky
Will Whiskey freeze?
Eventually but it is a neat way of distilling and upping the proof. Water freezes first, leaving the alcohol as liquid.
Ahem
I like NCIS, Gibbs for the fact, amid all the current politically correct leftist crap the show has never wavered from its respect for military personnel. Bad apples of course but the theme is to uphold the institution of Military Service as a noble, honourable and altruistic choice.
I nearly fell off my chair when Gibbs impassively said the aforementioned line.
Misreading the math, again. Funny how the “mistakes” all seem to go in one direction.
Misreading the math, again. Funny how the “mistakes” all seem to go in one direction.
At the bottom of the article, The New Yorker did issue a correction. Well, more like a clarification:
An earlier version of this piece misrepresented the number of Americans between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four who were treated as a result of police-inflicted injuries in emergency rooms.
Unspoken: She had 66 percent, when the actual figure was .2 percent.
Also rather surprised nobody has mentioned Ab Fab. Recognized Lumley’s voice instantly.
Unspoken: She had 66 percent, when the actual figure was .2 percent.
It’s worthy of the Guardian’s Polly Toynbee, whose ability to mangle figures by several orders of magnitude resulted in a whole book.
Also rather surprised nobody has mentioned Ab Fab.
An autumnal evening. Sapphire and Steel materialise in Holland Park…
Get the hankies ready.
What are the odds of that kid ever having trouble finding a date when he gets older?
Or of his sister growing up to have low standards in men?
A comment to coworkers is of recurringly needing to find the rabbits, and figure out how to make a hat, so that in the text I can pop one out of the other—Yes, since you ask, pulling a hat out of a rabbit is an interesting procedure.
I have moved on to a new topic in the commentary . . . . and find that the new topic—Inline functions in C—pretty much consists of, at most, two cockroaches collected into a paper cup.
The topic exists and thus will get comment.
Do you ever use words to communicate to other people? Or are you being poetic here and not using such drivel in your code reviews?
Do you ever use words to communicate to other people?
Always, actually.
As you’re rather aware.
—Granting, yes, there are the situations with the occasional gestures.
And of this instance, my non coding coworkers had no problems understanding exactly what I was running into and were quite sympathetic.
—Here, have some of that whiskey being discussed, and see if you can feel better.
Don’t know if I’ll ever cook fried rice again. Feel too intimidated…. 😉
https://mobile.twitter.com/benjameslucas/status/1285805348683575297?s=20
Oh dear.
TimT:’ Don’t know if I’ll ever cook fried rice again. ’
Yeah, he’s not wrong though, is he?
I mean, if you’re going to mangle rice that badly, why not just pop an Uncle Ben’s in the microwave? Guaranteed it’d be better than the slop she ended up with.
Yeah, he’s not wrong though, is he? I mean, if you’re going to mangle rice that badly, why not just pop an Uncle Ben’s in the microwave?
But she only needs to learn a few things to start making good fried rice–although his insistence on MSG is a bit…dogmatic.
”Don’t know if I’ll ever cook fried rice again.
I looked him up. His real name is Nigel Ng, he’s a Malaysian comedian based in the UK. He’s since done a ‘how to cook rice’ video with the BBC chef in question!
And of this instance, my non coding coworkers had no problems understanding exactly what I was running into and were quite sympathetic.
And what did your coding coworkers think about that text? Or, as I suggested, were you using different language for them?
I would have rather harsh words with you if you said similar things in any code review that I’ve been on. Especially if there were any non-native English speakers involved in said code review.
As for the Three Gorges Dam, I traveled through that area in the latter half of 1998, prior to the dam being complete. It was pretty much the last time you could see the things that are now underwater.
As it so happens, there was massive flooding along the Yangtze when we were there; it isn’t insane to desire controlling that river to minimize flooding.
However, there are millions of people downstream of that dam who would be swept away if the dam failed. As a former US Army officer, I can think of several ways to make that dam fail.
I’m sure that Hal has read Cain’s Land by Robert Frezza. (TBH, I believe he may have quoted from that book in a post or two of his.) Those aliens had multiple dams, unlike the Chinese.
And what did your coding coworkers think about that text?
For some engineers, English is a Second Language. 🙁
One mark of character, though, is to always strive to communicate as clearly as possible to the entire audience and not demand that they decipher strange grammatical constructions and odd allusions.
there was massive flooding along the Yangtze when we were there; it isn’t insane to desire controlling that river to minimize flooding.
As I recall, the Yangtze has, for this reason, been called the River of Tears for many centuries. Can anybody confirm or elaborate? My reading was decades ago.
“An autumnal evening. Sapphire and Steel materialise in Holland Park…”
To find Mrs Peel and Purdy attempting to bridle a magnificent horse.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/steed?s=t