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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: The Dream Journal« on: July 02, 2014, 11:02:11 AM »It started with me getting on a plane. With a bicycle. But the airplane had bike racks inside! Well I don't know about you, but I also find this disturbingly erotic. 102
Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: 2014 Book Thread« on: July 01, 2014, 08:47:57 AM »
That's one heck of a coincidence, as there was a discussion of The Sword of Shannara and other Terry Brooks works on MetaFilter yesterday. http://www.metafilter.com/140344/The-Thomas-Kinkade-of-high-fantasy
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Political Opinions / Re: Saving Capitalism« on: June 27, 2014, 03:40:12 PM »
I really liked that article. I hope the fuckheads listen to him.
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Flamer's Corner / Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.« on: June 26, 2014, 04:21:55 PM »
Known as Carl's Jr. west of the Rockies?
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Anarchy / Re: Future Seek Links« on: June 24, 2014, 04:38:12 PM »Quote from: TFA Because of their size, smartphone cameras currently don’t have aperture mechanisms. "There is no technology today that can realize an iris aperture for smartphone cameras," said Tobias Deutschmann, physicist at the Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern in Germany and lead-author of the study. Um. That's gotta be a translation error. That said, the glass sounds really cool. 106
Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: Band Names« on: June 21, 2014, 04:37:55 PM »
That's great! I didn't know.
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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: Band Names« on: June 21, 2014, 09:39:14 AM »
PanerA
"Vulgar Display of Powdered Sugar" "The Great Southern Biscuitkill" "Croissants from Hell" "Far Beyond Donuts" 108
Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: Band Names« on: June 20, 2014, 01:47:40 PM »
Veering back off topic, Costa Rica has a player in the World Cup of round football named Yeltsin Tejeda.
GREAT BORIS YELTSIN! And further, the Watts Cycle Shop owner brothers are named Stalin and Zhukov Medina. Что ебать, Hispanic parents? Have you run out of your own names? Is there a particular reason you like Russian ones? It's because of Ché, isn't it. 110
Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: Band Names« on: June 20, 2014, 01:42:06 PM »Veering dangerously back on-topic: Why? So is there a way to get nested quotes without hand-crafting them? Yes? 111
Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: What are you listening to?« on: June 16, 2014, 10:05:14 PM »
one, two, three let's jam; one two three let's jam *boontz boontz boontz boontz*
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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: What are you listening to?« on: June 16, 2014, 12:06:58 PM »
Shuffle just brought up an old mix by DJ White Rabbit called FAILSAFE that Cat got me to download back in the day and it stuck in my playlist.
\m/ \m/ 114
Anarchy / Re: Selfie of the Day« on: June 16, 2014, 11:59:17 AM »Ooh. What's in that? Apples I picked off the tree in the back yahd *preens* 116
Anarchy / Re: Selfie of the Day« on: June 11, 2014, 03:56:08 PM »
What bunch of fruiting figure skaters run this site that can't give us the sweet lovin'?
(derp selfie 2006) 117
Anarchy / Re: Selfie of the Day« on: June 11, 2014, 09:29:36 AM »
I take it the sweet lovin' isn't enabled here?
 In other news, Sorry Miss Lee, but I am going to kill that fucking mockingbird 118
Anarchy / Re: Selfie of the Day« on: June 10, 2014, 09:35:51 AM » Channelling my dad with this expression - though his mug would have been filled with scotch 121
Anarchy / Re: A Boring Life« on: June 03, 2014, 06:05:31 PM »
Oh so that's how Nowledge got his handle.
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Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap / Re: Help!« on: June 03, 2014, 12:27:04 PM »
Oh, has thetool been ported to 64-bit systems? Niiiice.
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Anarchy / Re: Future Seek Links« on: June 03, 2014, 12:26:17 PM »Whoa, W.T.F.? How the hell is he doing that? Germanium detector gamma spectrometer - these deelies I htink http://www.canberra.com/products/detectors/germanium-detectors.asp - also, like, three days of measurement per sample. 124
Anarchy / Re: A Boring Life« on: June 03, 2014, 12:21:18 PM »
I ride my bike on city streets, resulting in 2-3 near-death experiences per week.
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Anarchy / Re: Future Seek Links« on: June 02, 2014, 04:23:44 PM »
How Radioactive Is Our Ocean?
My colleague Ken Buesseler is probably the world's leading expert on natural and anthropogenic radioactivity in the ocean. So naturally he got inundated with requests from the public to find out how much Fukushima radiation is in their water. Which he'd be totally into, but because there are no conceivable health risks in the US from this he can't get any funding from US funding agencies to study it. So, he's got a crowdfunded effort going, you can get together with some folks, pick a site, raise some $, Ken will send you a kit to sample the water, and Ken's tech Spike will analyze it and you'll see how much cesium-134 (Fukushima) and cesium-137 (atmospheric nuclear testing '40s to '70s) are in the water. It's pretty cool. But the coolest thing about this is the astonishing sensitivity of the equipment. He can measure radiation as low as 1 Bq per cubic meter - 1 Bq is one radioactive decay per second. So basically he's catching and counting individual gamma rays, quantifying their energy (so you know which isotopes they come from) and adding them up. That's ... that's amazing. It's like you've got Maxwell's Demon as your lab tech. This website sucks in many ways (oh my god so much Flash ... so much shitty Flash), but it's full of useful info about radiation in the ocean, which you can use to startle your enemies and embarrass your friends. |
