Random thought thread!

VSys114 · 2011-01-31T23:08:57.000Z

Fraiser wore his headphones backwards for ten years.

/I own those headphones and the cord goes in the left earcup.

Omniscia · 2011-02-01T07:17:33.000Z

Plus, there’s a little bit of blue on the headband, which usually indicates left channel, versus red for the right, doesn’t it?

John_Many_Jars · 2011-02-01T10:12:38.000Z

Director must have wanted the wire in the shot.

VSys114 · 2011-02-01T10:21:39.000Z

Omniscia:

Plus, there’s a little bit of blue on the headband, which usually indicates left channel, versus red for the right, doesn’t it?

Exactly. I think it was because Frasier is always looking at his producer Ross, to his left in the control booth. The cord would be in the way of his acting.

Raife · 2011-02-01T13:37:41.000Z

Just broke a whiskey tumbler, now I only have three. Some sort of sadfaced emoticon goes here.

Ed_Solomon · 2011-02-01T14:43:09.000Z

Raife:

Just broke a whiskey tumbler, now I only have three. Some sort of sadfaced emoticon goes here.

Starting a little early, aren’t we?

Speak_With_Bread · 2011-02-01T16:01:15.000Z

I have been in class for an hour and a half. I have three and a half hours to go. And what have I gotten out of this period? Winning a game of Solium Infernum and updating the useless Cisco client on my computer. :P <yawn>

Raife · 2011-02-01T16:27:32.000Z

Ed Solomon:

Starting a little early, aren’t we?

Wait, what do you mean by “starting”?

VSys114 · 2011-02-01T19:52:21.000Z

What do you mean by “you fRking confict.”?

Omniscia · 2011-02-02T06:00:08.000Z

Who the frack is playing Haddaway at 9:00 AM?

Or at any time in the 21st century, for that matter…

balut · 2011-02-02T08:09:12.000Z

John_Many_Jars · 2011-02-02T09:41:40.000Z

I love my earphones carrying case. It keeps my earphones clean and safe.

Sarkus · 2011-02-02T13:08:52.000Z

I tend to listen to national sports radio programs during the day but I hate them during Superbowl week. Why? Because all they are is an endless parade of NFL guests giving their take on the matchup and they almost always are there to promote some product they are affiliated with as well.

Drastic · 2011-02-02T13:45:42.000Z

I understand that sometimes deployments are urgent, but it doesn’t actually save time in the long run to not actually install your code on the server before those allegedly-urgent first runs. Surprisingly, it actually results in things going slower in the only slightly longer haul!

tiohn · 2011-02-02T17:35:49.000Z

Wheel hop sucks.

VSys114 · 2011-02-03T09:58:55.000Z

Just got this watch

kerzain · 2011-02-03T10:14:41.000Z

As a gift?

VSys114 · 2011-02-03T10:24:06.000Z

No for myself. I always know exactly what I want. ;)

AaronSofaer · 2011-02-03T11:08:36.000Z

This class is taught by a genius. He is explaining how state diagrams work. Even he can’t make it particularly interesting. But he can talk about how it’s fun when things are so simple, because when it gets more complex, we can prove that we can’t prove certain things about the system!

Which is entertaining. Professor Kosaraju is good times.

Miramon · 2011-02-03T12:38:07.000Z

Omniscia:

Plus, there’s a little bit of blue on the headband, which usually indicates left channel, versus red for the right, doesn’t it?

But who cares which side is which? So the guitars are a bit to the left and the drums are a bit to the right? Or vice versa? Or the car seems to be moving left-right instead of right-left?

It turns out to be very hard to define left and right in an objective way, so if you want to communicate the concepts to some random alien civilization at some unknown far-off destination, you have to descend to the depths of particle physics to make it clear which is which.