Random thought thread!

The_Bitter_Cynic · 2011-08-03T14:32:49.000Z

Mightynute:

This is the Random Thoughts Thread, not the Completely Wrong Thoughts Thread.

What’s wrong about finding one character from Married with Children… more entertaining than the other?

Been watching MWC on Netflix and Steve is just more enteretaining.

And now Al’s at the ladies’ underwear store and they sure do have nice ladies in drawers on this show.

Robert_Sharp · 2011-08-03T17:13:19.000Z

So, I just finished having spaghetti by myself (my wife is out of town). We made it before she left, using turkey sausage. It was very tasty, all three times I had it. However, this time I come back to my computer and see that there is a ground turkey recall for Salmonella. No big deal. Which states? Ohio is among four being hit hardest. OK…great. Can’t seem to find which specific products, but I sure am glad that my wife likes to slightly burn the sausage we put in our sauce. Plus, the fact that this is my third time eating this, so I feel pretty safe. Still, slightly disturbing moment.

Sarkus · 2011-08-03T22:14:56.000Z

Robert Sharp:

So, I just finished having spaghetti by myself (my wife is out of town). We made it before she left, using turkey sausage. It was very tasty, all three times I had it. However, this time I come back to my computer and see that there is a ground turkey recall for Salmonella. No big deal. Which states? Ohio is among four being hit hardest. OK…great. Can’t seem to find which specific products, but I sure am glad that my wife likes to slightly burn the sausage we put in our sauce. Plus, the fact that this is my third time eating this, so I feel pretty safe. Still, slightly disturbing moment.

I wouldn’t worry.

But then again, I ate some yogurt that is a month past its date the other day. It was notably thinner then it should have been, but otherwise seemed fine. It didn’t make me sick.

hong · 2011-08-04T01:14:03.000Z

hong · 2011-08-04T06:16:13.000Z

I’ve given 5 things a rating of 10 on IMDB:

Planescape: Torment
Dr. Strangelove
Spirited Away
The Princess Bride
Casablanca

Strange, Mass Effect is not one of these.

Nixxter · 2011-08-04T06:28:22.000Z

I’m with you Hong, and Tom - on this Mass Effect thing.

Also, where is the safe zone and what is the frequency Kenneth?

Meghan_Bowyer · 2011-08-04T17:32:06.000Z

I want to get a glass of wine, but the cat is asleep on my lap. Curse his adorableness!

Omniscia · 2011-08-04T17:43:36.000Z

Rocking out with the keytar would be so much better if I had a cape.

Cormac · 2011-08-05T04:17:34.000Z

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(Microsoft has 1.6% stake in Facebook)

Scrax · 2011-08-05T06:24:39.000Z

My first time playing a Nurgle team! He’s got 3 mercs to shore up his battered team, I’ve still got one as I save up for a Kroxigor instead of buying a skink.

I win the toss and elect to kick, lining up shallow since I’m not terribly worried about him zipping down the pitch. Fans immediately stun Mechagodzilla with a rock, and we’re off! He cages up on the side, and manages a short pass from his backfield ballRotter to his sole beastman. His Beast’s tentacles prevent Battra from escaping, then KOs him. He continues targeting my skinks, KOing my merc next, which leaves no one with any dodging or high MV covering the other side of the pitch. He hands off to a rotter and lumbers down the sideline, making two GFI rolls to get out of range of my remaining skinks.

Sigh I’ll never understand rugby.

John_Many_Jars · 2011-08-05T08:22:36.000Z

If you rolled an infinite number of infinite-sided dice an infinite number of times, you wouldn’t know how often numbers were repeated, because you’d never finish examining the results of the first roll. Plus you would really have to go to the bathroom and that’s distracting.

jason · 2011-08-05T09:10:30.000Z

Would an infinite-sided die have infinitesimally small sides or would it be infinitely large? If the former, it would preclude reading, and if the latter, how would you roll it?

TheTrunkDr · 2011-08-05T09:42:16.000Z

jason:

Would an infinite-sided die have infinitesimally small sides or would it be infinitely large? If the former, it would preclude reading, and if the latter, how would you roll it?

it would be a sphere.

Dave_Perkins · 2011-08-05T09:46:01.000Z

Not necessarily. What if the side with N pips on it (for N = 1, 2, 3, …) had a surface area of 1/N^2 square inches? Then the die would have finite surface area (of pi^2 divided by 6), and not be a sphere.

TheTrunkDr · 2011-08-05T09:57:51.000Z

Dave Perkins:

Not necessarily. What if the side with N pips on it (for N = 1, 2, 3, …) had a surface area of 1/N^2 square inches? Then the die would have finite surface area (of pi^2 divided by 6), and not be a sphere.

Nor would the sides be of equal size. A feature of a die is that all outcomes have the same probability. Also you’d end up with sides smaller than an atom, or even sub atomic particles.

Dave_Perkins · 2011-08-05T10:11:44.000Z

I imagine that there are dice with unequal sides that nevertheless give equal probabilities. And if not, and we invent one, then omg publish!

Staff_Sergeant · 2011-08-05T17:28:37.000Z

You’d need to add masses to each of the sides to give them weights such that the probabilities would become equal. Since the mass would scale inversely with the surface area, the die now has infinite mass.

Strato · 2011-08-05T19:27:09.000Z

Mind is now blown from post 4770 onwards. There are no more thoughts, random or not floating through my head.

I think I need to lay down.

hong · 2011-08-05T23:26:48.000Z

In a job interview, if you’re asked what kind of work you like, and you say that you want to do cool stuff and solve tough problems and have noone look over your shoulder, and they say that actually it’s not like that, that’s probably a bad sign.

hong · 2011-08-06T04:22:07.000Z

Damn, I seem to have lost the remotes for the TV and AV receiver.

How am I going to play Mass Effect 2 now?