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[Van Buren Supernova]

I love this girl.

A girl wears a hotdog costume for 'Princess Day' because she likes it.

[Arcadia]

That is totally awesome. Let's recruit her now before normalcy strikes! And her parents, too.

[Shadow Dweller]

expandedconsciousness.com/2016/05/25/5-signs-of-a-scary-strong-personality/

Who agrees with the 'small talk' point?

Edited June 13, 2016 by Carol the Dabbler
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[Carol the Dabbler]

expandedconsciousness.com/2016/05/25/5-signs-of-a-scary-strong-personality/

 

Who agrees with the 'small talk' point?

 

The author makes some intriguing points, but I'm not sure I agree with many of them.  He's by-lined as "Seth M." -- so no way of knowing what his credentials are (though people with credentials don't always know as much as they think they do!).  I am, however, wondering if I might be one of the people he's talking about.  I seem to intimidate people without even trying, which annoys me, because I don't like coming across that way.

 

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On a completely different topic, just ran across this on Twitter (posted by a BBC employee who was working at Setlock today):

 

Best T-shirt at the @springsteen concert: 60-something wearing "I might be old, but at least I've seen all the good bands"

 

:D

[J.P.]

Reetu is a photographer working for BBC, she also posted that was a press junket on Sunday afternoon. We can expect more pictures.

[Bluebell]

 

 

On a completely different topic, just ran across this on Twitter (posted by a BBC employee who was working at Setlock today):

 

Best T-shirt at the @springsteen concert: 60-something wearing "I might be old, but at least I've seen all the good bands"

 

:D

 

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

expandedconsciousness.com/2016/05/25/5-signs-of-a-scary-strong-personality/

Who agrees with the 'small talk' point?

Took me forever to click on links.

 

I actually agree with the first four, I hate excuses, especially excuses that they thought clever enough but not, used to justify lack of capability but still attempt to get away with it instead of just fixing their incompetency, lousy excuses that I can come up with better ones atraightaway and it's so apparent that they are lying through their teeth. And most of those, come from supposedly highly educated and experienced people, who at the end of the day, proven that they are only good at talking, to people who are dumb enough to fall for those over and again. Most of these people are consultants, who know almost nothing about actual works and make their living talking crap. Geez, sorry, I just had too much satisfaction grilling those but not enough when I saw them succeeding with defenseless victims.

 

While I agree with the first four, maybe not the fifth. I don't treat insecurity as opportunity, I despise mine and want to bury it unsuccessfully most of the time.

 

But are those strong personality? I thought they are just common sense. :D

[Arcadia]

Because this is just too seemingly insignificant or bizarre to keep to myself ....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3639600/Worker-finds-2-000-year-old-22lb-hunk-butter-buried-deep-Irish-bog-yes-edible.html

 

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I like how the article said the butter was edible but  the person saying it said it was not advisable to do so.  Personally, ignoring allergies to dairy, I would not eat butter that old.  Modern butter usually has an expiration date on it.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Interesting that the butter weighs 22 pounds -- 10 kilos. Kinda reminds me of the precisely-one-pint of blood spilt in Ian Monkford's car. Not saying I think the butter is a hoax. But the weight is mildly suspicious.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Good catch. Is 22lbs a common measurement? 10kg definitely is.

 

I'm not sure whether the country it is found using lbs or kg.

 

I read before, but not sure how true, that margarine never spoils, but butter should be able to. So if this is true, we should start burying butter for future consumption when apocalypse comes, yes? I suppose cardboard, waste metal or your friend tastes better with butter.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Is 22lbs a common measurement? 10kg definitely is.

 

I'm not sure whether the country it is found using lbs or kg.

The butter was apparently found in Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK -- meaning roughly that metric is supposedly the official system, but people still think in Imperial.  However, the article quotes museum scientists, and scientists just about everywhere (even the US) think in metric.

 

No, 22-pound packages tend to occur only when either the item was packaged in a metric country or else it's primarily intended for sale in a metric country (i.e., it's really a 10-kilo package).  Things like bags of flour here (and I would assume anywhere else that allows labeling in pounds) tend to weigh either 20 or 25 pounds.

 

I can think of one perfectly innocent explanation for the butter's peculiar reported weight, though.  Maybe the museum scientist described it as weighing "around 10 kilos," and the reporter translated that into pounds a bit more precisely than was warranted.

 

[Arcadia]

......  I suppose cardboard, waste metal or your friend tastes better with butter.

 

Good lord!

 

[Fantasy Lover]

I'm curious about tomorrow, it's Belgium vs Sweden. I'm wondering who will win

[Van Buren Supernova]

Er... football?

 

 

Anyway, for any of you who have resources and ability to invent something crazy, hear me out guys. I have an idea.

 

Somebody make The Extractor/Separator. Tadaaa...

 

So this is a machine that contains various parts:

- one drawer to put in specimens,

- computer to analyze and categorize charasteristic of the specimens to find match

- the extractor device

- the bins

 

So this machine is used to extract anything organic and unwanted from live being; human, animal, plant.

 

For example, one can put dog ticks into the machine, voila, the machine would calculate and match the tick property to find anything similar from the dog's body, and extract them out.

 

This should work for cancer cells, even acne, or for plant, aphid etc. If it's not extractable (as I imagine internal cells would be too complicated to get), the machine can break them down into soluable substance that can be safely eliminated through the system, something similar with gastric stone operation.

 

More specifically, this is some kind of parasit extractor by identifying them through their unique properties so that they can be differentiated and extracted/dissolved safely.

 

I think it's good idea.. and it sounds plausible, yes?

 

Or maybe I have to blame my coffee? Haven't been drinking coffee for awhile but had a big cuppa this morning...

Hey..something shinny!

[J.P.]

You sure it was coffee? Was Sherlock in your kitchen?

[Carol the Dabbler]

Your "invention" sounds plausible to me.  I've seen a metal detector that can search for any specific metal or combination of metals, based on the sample that you put into it.  So eventually, why not?

 

[Shadow Dweller]

That sounds like the transporter technology from Star Trek. Once the mechanism is in place, you only need to put new set of matching parameters to identify whatever you want then extract it into a chosen container/containment field.

[Carol the Dabbler]

See?  It's practically invented already!

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

You sure it was coffee? Was Sherlock in your kitchen?

Are you saying I am incapable of thinking good idea without him? Hmm.. hmmm??

Sst..Sherlock, get back inside. Nothing interesting here, we are talking abiut solar system.

 

Your "invention" sounds plausible to me. I've seen a metal detector that can search for any specific metal or combination of metals, based on the sample that you put into it. So eventually, why not?

Yay.. they just need more sophisticated machine.

 

But then.. things could get out of control, we could unintentionally wipe out certain kind of parasite that trigger the negative destructive chain reaction or alter cell mutation that eventually would destroy humanity or create whole new subspecies with new formidable parasite that are malleable enough to survive and then trigger another mutation and then......Raaaaaaaahhhh.....

 

Ehm.. hear me out guys... I have idea for scifi movie..

[Fantasy Lover]

Er... football?

Yes, football. WE WON! WE f***ING WON!!! HOLY SHIT!!!

[J.P.]

 

Are you saying I am incapable of thinking good idea without him? Hmm.. hmmm??

Nope. I just suspect he mixed something strange into your cuppa.

[Arcadia]

Congratulations!

[Shadow Dweller]

http://www.quickbase.intuit.com/blog/are-you-a-big-picture-thinker-or-detail-oriented

*Scratch head in confusion* Any idea why there is tendency (trend?) to interpret 'left-brained' people as detail-oriented? Speaking from personal experience, I am what was classified as being 'left-brained' yet I am clearly a (i)N(tuitive).

Edited June 23, 2016 by Arcadia
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[Arcadia]

I don't think being intuitive means you don't notice the details; you just process them in a different way than sensory people do.

 

http://web-us.com/brain/right_left_brain_characteristics.htm

 

By the way, I've finally realized the reason your links don't link (?) is because there's no http:// in front of them. For what that's worth! :P