Random thought thread!

kerzain · 2011-10-04T16:45:17.000Z

Yea, he had a lot of fears and phobias.

Cthulhoid_Sock_Puppe · 2011-10-05T22:12:52.000Z

Does anyone here know anything about violin strings? And specifically, how long ago a Japanese silk E string might have been made? A friend discovered an old violin in her great-grandma’s house and we’re trying to date the contents of the case. Thank you! :)

Cthulhoid_Sock_Puppe · 2011-10-05T22:13:19.000Z

(I’d start a new thread, but my post count’s not high enough.)

Creole_Ned · 2011-10-05T23:14:52.000Z

I can’t help you with violin strings. I only wish I had problems that interesting to solve.

I do have a random thought, though: why do I always use way too much shaving cream?

Let’s say this is how much shaving cream I need to shave my face effectively:

This is how much shaving cream I will dispense (yes, I use cream from a can, I’m a heathen):

I know I’ll use too much and yet I do it, anyway. It’s weird and wasteful, yet I can’t stop doing it.

kerzain · 2011-10-05T23:18:02.000Z

Maybe it’s a fetish, either that or you have giant-face dysmorphia.

Cthulhoid_Sock_Puppe · 2011-10-05T23:33:54.000Z

No worries, Ned. The actual answer is apparently “fuck if I know.” The violin has a date inside, though, so we’re good. 1929. :)

Cthulhoid_Sock_Puppe · 2011-10-06T01:08:12.000Z

Also, can someone start a thread discussing mice and exterminators? They live in our walls and their convenient exit is apparently behind my bedroom dresser. I’m phobic as hell and literally cannot leave the room if I don’t know where it is. One of my housemates had to stand guard outside the mouse’s exit so I could go make dinner.

Caught one tonight, then had a SECOND scritching and startling me awake at three-thirty in the goddamned morning. I give up and have moved to the basement, but this won’t work long-term. What do I look for in an exterminator/what else can I (read: my housemates) be doing besides laying the standard snappy traps? Glue traps gross all of us out, humane traps aren’t really what we’re concerned with, and cats are a no-no as three out of five residents (me included) are highly allergic. HELP!

kerzain · 2011-10-06T01:44:20.000Z

Moving to the basement to get away from the mice. Awesome strategy.

Depending on the size of their little mousey-hole, try expanding foam to seal it up. Then just set traps.

Don’t ever use glue traps, or you will go to hell.

Mr_PeaCH · 2011-10-06T07:17:30.000Z

CSP -

When you do start a thread, please make it as much fun as this one.

Basically, wait for TimElhajj to give you advice; then do the opposite.

Mightynute · 2011-10-06T07:42:33.000Z

The one positive thing about people who send emails like they’re a thirteen year old texting their friends - at least I know who I’ll never have to compete with for a job.

The second positive thing is that it lets us identify who exactly will be living in tents and tilling the fields when the new world order comes.

deccan · 2011-10-06T07:52:13.000Z

RichVR:

What if, in the Star Trek universe, the transporter didn’t work quite the way they thought. Since it essentially tore a person apart atom by atom, what if it hurt? What if it was the most agonizing pain imaginable? Since the person is first scanned, he or she wouldn’t remember the pain. Yet every time someone transported they were subject to the suffering of the damned.

I recommend you read a short story by Greg Egan, Transition Dreams. :)

http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook876.htm

Cthulhoid_Sock_Puppe · 2011-10-06T11:06:53.000Z

kerzain:

Moving to the basement to get away from the mice. Awesome strategy.

To be fair, we’ve only ever seen them on the second floor of the house, and once on the ground floor in the kitchen. The house next door is no longer abandoned as of a month or two ago, so all the mice that used to be over there are moving around. <grumble>

I’ll look into the expanding foam idea. Thank you!

John_Many_Jars · 2011-10-06T12:00:41.000Z

Expanding foam? STEEL WOOL.

RichVR · 2011-10-06T12:23:23.000Z

Indeed. Mice are very much like rats. They can ultimately chew through just about anything. Expanding foam won’t even slow them down.

kerzain · 2011-10-06T12:38:50.000Z

Except when it does.

belgerog · 2011-10-06T16:26:07.000Z

Wasn’t sure where to post this, so here you go: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=447692

Edit: Never mind, beaten by this thread.

walTer · 2011-10-06T16:44:31.000Z

I love Frys. I needed a new HDMI cable now…so no monoprice for me. Went to Frys. Looked up and saw a 6 foot Monster HDMI cable for 79.99. I giggled. Looked down, and saw a 3 pack of I assume Frys brand cables for 9.99.

I bought them.

Cable works perfectly.

I have 2 extras.

CLWheeljack · 2011-10-07T10:15:05.000Z

How is possible that BoobTube.com is NOT a porn site?

walTer · 2011-10-07T14:59:18.000Z

Why would you put a NASCAR sticker on your BMW motorcycle?

kerzain · 2011-10-07T15:00:52.000Z

It was either that or my ICP sticker.