Random thought thread!

Raife · 2011-09-17T04:07:51.000Z

You don’t really have to worry unless you, you know, voluntarily bathe with live eels.

Or you are Rimbo, but in that case your non-spouse probably already implanted small GPS-equipped explosives in your testicles, so the eels are kind of a secondary concern.

John_Many_Jars · 2011-09-17T08:10:01.000Z

newbrof:

What if all people would make all their decissions totally random everytime.

Would it make a big difference to society or to the private life? We justify all our decissions, because we are all so smart. But what if all this justification is just that, a justification of random decissions?

Note: Should take some dice with me everytime… edit: are decissions quantifiable? Is it even possible to make a random decission in a non-digital possibility space?

amazon.com

The Dice Man

Classic novel of the 70s, back in print. The cult classic that can still change your life…Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart―and in ...

3.8 out of 5 stars, ISBN: 978-0879518646, The Overlook Press, May 1, 1998, $12.76

Dave_Perkins · 2011-09-17T08:13:22.000Z

You’d have to start by randomly deciding if the rest of your decisions would be random. CHICKEN AND EGG.

Dave_Perkins · 2011-09-17T09:19:05.000Z

Just want to publicly say thanks to Chris Nahr, who translated a bit of a letter by Descartes for me a few pages ago, for going on to (privately) translate almost all of the rest of the letter for me. His translation skills eclipse those of Google translate.

Thanks, Chris!

Mightynute · 2011-09-17T12:26:09.000Z

Have spent the morning timing walks from my new (as of Nov 1) apartment to various downtown locations.

1:30 to the jazz club down Scamps’ Alley (I kid you not, this is a real place$

5:15 to a nice coffeeshop with the cutesy barista I’ve ever run into.

12:30 to the gourmet grocery, but only 7:00 to the City Market for local-grown produce.

Also only seven minutes to the best burger in the city, which is right next to the City Market, which I am having now. Nom.

jerri_blank · 2011-09-17T20:03:44.000Z

Why is it impossible to find no-sugar-added frozen yogurt in a grocery store, like, to bring home and, like, keep in my freezer?

RichVR · 2011-09-17T20:14:24.000Z

Why are there so few female Asian little people?

jerri_blank · 2011-09-17T20:19:50.000Z

RichVR:

Why are there so few female Asian little people?

Striking out on Craigslist, eh?

kerzain · 2011-09-17T20:25:06.000Z

jerri blank:

Why is it impossible to find no-sugar-added frozen yogurt in a grocery store, like, to bring home and, like, keep in my freezer?

Try Menchie’s in Lenox Village. It’s surrounded by super markets, so just think of it as the freezer section being out in the parking lot.

They sell sugar-free stuff stuff like:
blueberry
boysenberry
chocolate
french vanilla
raspberry
strawberry
strawberry banana

kerzain · 2011-09-17T20:25:54.000Z

RichVR:

Why are there so few female Asian little people?

You mean littler people?

robsam · 2011-09-17T20:45:08.000Z

jerri blank:

Why is it impossible to find no-sugar-added frozen yogurt in a grocery store, like, to bring home and, like, keep in my freezer?

How is this even a problem?? Is yogurt somehow better if you add the sugar yourself after freezing it?

ZekeDMS · 2011-09-17T20:48:38.000Z

jerri blank:

Why is it impossible to find no-sugar-added frozen yogurt in a grocery store, like, to bring home and, like, keep in my freezer?

I believe they just call that “yogurt.” Get a nice big jug of Mountain High or Brown Cow, freeze it. Frozen yogurt has been full of extra sugar for years since TCBY discovered most people consider it too sour otherwise. I don’t think it was until Pinkberry came along that people began to reconsider the options.

jerri_blank · 2011-09-17T20:56:04.000Z

The no-sugar-added stuff is at least sweet. If I were to just freeze some yogurt, I’d sweeten it first. I might just try that.

Courteous_D · 2011-09-19T11:14:41.000Z

Instead of “hamstring injury” I am now hearing “hamstering injury” – a highly public series of which being the last thing the NFL needs, I imagine.

John_Many_Jars · 2011-09-19T11:39:11.000Z

RichVR:

Why are there so few female Asian little people?

They all have modeling jobs at Sanrio.

Mrenda · 2011-09-19T11:44:22.000Z

RichVR:

Why are there so few female Asian little people?

What? Aren’t most Asian women quite small?

Or do you mean that their recent adoption of more red meat (especially beef) in their diet as well as drinking more milk has meant they’re growing bigger now? And the diminutive Asian woman is no longer the standard assumption?

Kirian · 2011-09-19T11:58:12.000Z

Buceph:

What? Aren’t most Asian women quite small?

Or do you mean that their recent adoption of more red meat (especially beef) in their diet as well as drinking more milk has meant they’re growing bigger now? And the diminutive Asian woman is no longer the standard assumption?

Dwarves, dude.

I don’t think we use the term little people over here for those with the various forms of dwarfism.

Thoro · 2011-09-20T06:20:48.000Z

Dave Perkins:

His translation skills eclipse those of Google translate.

If that’s not damning by faint praise, I don’t know what is.

Thoro · 2011-09-20T06:22:57.000Z

Kirian:

Dwarves, dude.

Dwarfs.

“Dwarves” is Tolkien’s invention, and should be used for his race of stout, hirsute creatures fond of drink and industry.

Mightynute · 2011-09-20T06:24:34.000Z