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Pablo · Never Draws a Blank

HyToFry · Drama queen

I'm not sure what Mike posted, since I'm don't want to install MSN. :-/

What's the vid of Mike? Maybe I can find it on youtube.

That being said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRhVgl3o7M4

She's a freaky bendy girl like I've never seen. She literally sits on her head. And I *do* mean that she uses her head as a chair for her rump.

Travis* · Guest

Does she do parties?

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

That first Vid was indeed pretty amazing.

What amazed me today was that a song I like (How can we hang on top a dream - Tim Hardin) turns out to be nearly 40 years old.

Pablo · Never Draws a Blank

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Is this the one?

Pablo · Never Draws a Blank

Aarondalf · the original GL stud

Morten Harket, the lead singer from A-Ha, is 47 years old this year. I just saw an interview from last year and he looks about 22. Apparently no plastic surgery. Incredible. And to top it all off he has the record for the longest held pure note, for a man.

worm · unregistered

thanks, i won't feel so bad about my inability to hit those notes in "take on me"

Samadhi · +1

Samadhi · +1

Guest* · Guest

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6304447980554417691

groza528 · No Place Like Home

Billiards, anyone?

Pablo · Never Draws a Blank

soccer/juggling, anyone?

Courk · Daedalian Member

Pool + Dominos = Surprised

Samadhi · +1

Pablo: that's a dup
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Samadhi · +1

Groza: also dup
I'd love to see a translation of the commentary
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!Chucklez! · Daedalian Member

Not exactly the same, but I heard the story of Woody Curry today. Quite amazing. This man has things figured out well. http://www.prx.org/pieces/13808

wordcross · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:11 pm Post subject: 19

what's dup mean?
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worm · unregistered

see this discussion: http://www.greylabyrinth.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=9816&highlight=dugg

wordcross · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 2:23 pm Post subject: 21

still doesn't explain what "dup" means, unless Samadhi is deliberately spelling it weird to make a point or be funny. Razz

and why would those posts be dupes? In what context?
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Samadhi · +1

They've been posted before. I was in a rude mood dude.
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wordcross · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:13 am Post subject: 23

posted here before? weird, you'd think i'd have caught them Revenge most foul!

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groza528 · No Place Like Home

A classmate's printer had the STRANGEST glitch today... It somehow Caesar-shifted every character forward by one.

Samadhi · +1

Was the printer named enigma?
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Courk · Daedalian Member

caesar shifted?

Samadhi · +1

A simple numerical shift of the alphabet. IE A = C, B = D, etc (caesar + 2) A caesar + 3 would make A = D. It's one of the earliest codes known.
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Narninian · Daedalian Member

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4&mode=related&search=

cheesy but now I want to do some RAoK

CzarJ · Hot babe

Martin Gardner lives in Norman? Shocked

How did I not know this!?

Courk · Daedalian Member

Gist of this story:

In 1836 Richard Howe built a house. He was an engineer of the Ohio & Erie Canal, which went through Akron. Now they want to move the house to a new location and restore it.

This site has an illustration of the house:

You must be thinking "Oh, how quaint. This must be a lovely building to see in downtown Akron."

Yeah. Here's what it's looked like in recent years:

I passed it today, and the front lower part's been removed (the part with the mural of a canal and the store fronts), but it still looks horrid. It's amazing how it just went downhill from what it used to look like way back when. I remember thinking before that it had to be the ugliest building I'd ever seen (this was before they built the art museum). I never even knew that building was a house. I think they definitely have their work cut out for them moving and restoring this house, it's lucky to have survived this long. I hope they make it known when they're moving it -- I'd like to see that.

Lepton* · Guest

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

Today is Thursday? That explains why nobody was at fencing yesterday. But when did the extra day come into the week... I am rather bewildered.

worm · unregistered

today, a student asked if i was married.

then she asked if i had any kids.

maybe if i'd known here more than 2 weeks, i wouldn't feel as strange about it, but i think i might have become too approachable :-/

Jack_Ian · Big Endian

Turn-on, to-day's installment from xkcd.com.
The strip was funny, but the image properties tag really tickled my funny-bone.

worm · unregistered

just imagine what they could get out of duct tape!

http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/x-rays/

Courk · Daedalian Member

That's asking for my university's proxy username and password, which never worked properly. Can you describe it?

worm · unregistered

strange...i don't have access to any of my former or current university's journals at home, but that where i accessed it. i wish i understood why you can't.

the setup is somewhat like a cassette tape where one roll rotates onto another.

the differences: both rolls are under a strong vacuum and instead of film they use something like Scotch (R) tape.

the unreeling of the adhesive tape from one roll to the other produces x-rays under vacuum. they even image a finger with the x-rays.

producing x-rays by un-peeling tape = omg, holy crap = Nature paper -- maybe a future Nobel Prize.

[edit]i tried the link and had the same trouble...i went to my original source
Carbon Based Curiosities and it worked just fine. Click on the "video" link.

Courk · Daedalian Member

Once I figured out how to turn off the proxy, the first link worked fine.

That's weird and cool. I'm not good with this kind of science, though -- what does this accomplish or lead to?

worm · unregistered

what does it accomplish? the authors make it sound like it would make getting X-rays much cheaper and more accessible in poor countries. otherwise, rhere's always the pure science of it...having a better understanding of surface interactions.

i just never thought much about peeling off a piece of tape. shocking to me that there's such energy locked up in there.

Quailman · His Postmajesty

I was just checking the satellites I can see tomorrow evening, and one of them is the Atlas Centaur 2, which was launched November 27, 1963. It's been orbiting Earth for 45 years.