Topic: POINTLESS THREAD III: ESCAPE FROM RAPTOR MOUNTAIN AGAIN (Read 917392 times)

Orbert · « **Reply #950 on:** 13 Mar 2012, 10:04 »

Yeah, that's how I read it. He can't bring himself to smack Spider-man with the stick. He loves Spider-man.

Also, I see that it's from Parenting.Failblog.Org. I don't know. If you've raised a kid who is so compassionate that he won't "hurt" a Spider-man pinata, that's not necessarily a failure.

Mr. Doctor · « **Reply #951 on:** 13 Mar 2012, 13:21 »

Yeah, to me that's a win right there...

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #952 on:** 14 Mar 2012, 06:43 »

Akima · « **Reply #953 on:** 14 Mar 2012, 18:04 »

Carl-E · « **Reply #954 on:** 14 Mar 2012, 20:40 »

Happy pi day! (3/14).

I know, a bit late for everyone other than US folk...

Also for eurodating, where it's 14/3, and so you have no pi day...

One of our grad students posted this on facebook. Clearly, he has too much time on his hands, and too much beard on his face...

Akima · « **Reply #955 on:** 14 Mar 2012, 21:34 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 14 Mar 2012, 20:40

Happy pi day! (3/14).

I read this at 15:33 - Close but no cigar.

Carl-E · « **Reply #956 on:** 15 Mar 2012, 07:14 »

I kow, I know. But I was working on my car all day, and couldn'tr even get close to my computer until after 10 PM.

So, how about them ides of March?

lepetitfromage · « **Reply #957 on:** 15 Mar 2012, 07:26 »

I'm a day late, but I had to share.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #958 on:** 15 Mar 2012, 16:03 »

Yayniall · « **Reply #959 on:** 15 Mar 2012, 16:21 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 14 Mar 2012, 20:40

Happy pi day! (3/14).

I know, a bit late for everyone other than US folk...

Also for eurodating, where it's 14/3, and so you have no pi day...

We have 22/7 for pi approximation day, which is actually closer to pi than 3.14.

Sorflakne · « **Reply #960 on:** 16 Mar 2012, 21:32 »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qwU1LQZA5g&feature=player_embedded

If you hit 6 6 6 8 5 6 8 5 6 3 3 2 5 6 8 5 6 8 5 6 while it's playing, it almost sounds like the Imperial March.

This comment was hilarious:

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I switched to porn when my mom came because it was easier to explain than this.

DrPhibes · « **Reply #961 on:** 18 Mar 2012, 10:40 »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5EYIJmixPw

Barmymoo · « **Reply #962 on:** 20 Mar 2012, 17:06 »

Not sure if this link will work but my favourite song possibly ever :

http://soundcloud.com/canyoudigit1/john-innes

Sorflakne · « **Reply #963 on:** 20 Mar 2012, 19:31 »

Where were these teachers when I was a kid??

Though my jr high English teacher came pretty close...

Carl-E · « **Reply #964 on:** 20 Mar 2012, 22:13 »

I'll never forget Sophie, the grad student who led my Calculus recitations, and the only way you could get this horny 18 year old to a 7:30 AM class on time...

Orbert · « **Reply #965 on:** 21 Mar 2012, 07:51 »

"Those who did not mind Miss Roth giving lessons to their sons and daughters pointed out however that as long as Roth is a good teacher, nobody cares what she does in her spare time."

This is the only thing that matters.

pwhodges · « **Reply #966 on:** 21 Mar 2012, 10:18 »

Quote from: tuathal on 21 Mar 2012, 10:04

Well, unless her other hobbies were molesting children, yes.

I don't know if you are aware of a UK's CRB checking system - which checks people's criminal records before they are allowed to work with children. I recently came across a case where a teacher with forty years experience, which didn't require her to have a check, retired, but was not legally able to return to the same school as a volunteer until she had filled in the forms (and paid £45) for a check. There's nothing like consistency! Oh, and checks are not transferable - if you work part-time at several places, you need several identical checks.

LTK · « **Reply #967 on:** 21 Mar 2012, 10:41 »

Quote from: tuathal on 21 Mar 2012, 10:04

Well, unless her other hobbies were molesting children, yes.

Not necessarily, given that women are far less likely to be branded as pedophiles for the same behavior.

Carl-E · « **Reply #968 on:** 21 Mar 2012, 11:55 »

I don't need one to teach at this public university, but I do to teach at any community college (???)

schimmy · « **Reply #969 on:** 21 Mar 2012, 15:47 »

I just found out that Alan Turing committed suicide. Even though this happened a long time before I was born, I feel pretty sad about that.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #970 on:** 21 Mar 2012, 15:52 »

Yeah, after being persecuted for being gay, chemically castrated, and barred from his work because he was found guilty of homosexuality.

The fact that he was an incredible genius and shaped the face of the world with his work? Irrelevant!

pwhodges · « **Reply #971 on:** 21 Mar 2012, 16:00 »

Not to mention that he had materially helped win the war to save the country that did that to him. He was shamelessly hounded to his death, no two ways about it.

Incidentally, there is an excellent biography of Turing, Alan Turing, The Enigma, written by Andrew Hodges, an Oxford don (who is, however, not a relative of mine, and I've never had occasion to meet him). The book is very detailed, and has an extended discussion of whether his death really was suicide or not (without being able to come to a categorical conclusion).

Sorflakne · « **Reply #972 on:** 21 Mar 2012, 16:54 »

Akima · « **Reply #973 on:** 23 Mar 2012, 02:38 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 21 Mar 2012, 16:00

Incidentally, there is an excellent biography of Turing, Alan Turing, The Enigma, written by Andrew Hodges, an Oxford don (who is, however, not a relative of mine, and I've never had occasion to meet him).

Seconded. It is indeed an excellent book, with a near-perfect match between biographer and subject.

Shafting scientists who helped you win your wars seems to be a bit of a habit. Qian Xuesen (usually given as Hsue-Shen Tsien or H.S. Tsien in English language sources) is another example, though unlike the tragic Alan Turing, Qian lived to a ripe old age.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #974 on:** 23 Mar 2012, 10:09 »

If you click his nose, you win.

schimmy · « **Reply #975 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 10:54 »

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #976 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 15:25 »

smack that isaiah · « **Reply #977 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 17:20 »

Jimor · « **Reply #978 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 17:44 »

Which is why one fellow tested out using a chicken as a steady cam.

LTK · « **Reply #979 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 09:13 »

56 * (47/9) * (38/9) = 1234.765432098765

Arithmetic, everybody!

Jimor · « **Reply #980 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 15:21 »

I've been trawling through a local news station's youtube page because they have local bands on their morning show every week and they post the clips there, but this is not that. It's a guest spider on the remote camera lens during a weather forecast.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #981 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 16:19 »

Reminds me of this guy.

pwhodges · « **Reply #982 on:** 27 Mar 2012, 01:29 »

Two-year-old jiving to Elvis

Mr. Doctor · « **Reply #983 on:** 27 Mar 2012, 02:25 »

Local man is a hero thanks to his knowledge of Pulp Fiction

Awesome.

pwhodges · « **Reply #984 on:** 28 Mar 2012, 03:10 »

More at http://wtfqrcodes.com/

Skewbrow · « **Reply #985 on:** 28 Mar 2012, 06:07 »

To think that some people had the gall to rename these particular Reed-Solomon codes to QRcodes. I know, I know, Wikipedia calls them that way. But the people who really know - the researchers of the theory of error-correcting codes reserve the term QR-code for "Quadratic residue codes" - a beautiful number theoretic concept from the golden age of coding theory.

</math_nerd>

When I get a round tuit, I should probably write a disambiguation note to Wikipedia as well as correct the numerous errors in related articles. Naah, prolly not worth my time. Anyone trusting Wikipedia deserves what they get.

</finite_field_rant>

Orbert · « **Reply #986 on:** 28 Mar 2012, 09:57 »

Well, at least I know what they're called now, even if it's not really the "right" name for them. All I know is that they suddenly started appearing on everything and seem to have replaced UPC codes, but sometimes I'm supposed to scan them. Since I have a dumb phone, this does me no good, and I have no idea what's supposed to happen if I scanned them.

schimmy · « **Reply #987 on:** 28 Mar 2012, 11:02 »

In my experience, they tend to be pretty redundant. They never seem to contain any more information that could've been written in the same space. Plus, given the fact that most people won't / can't scan them, they tend to be accompanied by the same information, written in plain text.
That's not to say that they don't have their uses, but they seem to be used mostly in inconvenient or pointless ways.

pwhodges · « **Reply #988 on:** 28 Mar 2012, 12:07 »

I print out a QR code boarding pass, and the guy at the gate scans it; in fact, I can display it on my iPhone, and the reader can take that too, to be really green.

LTK · « **Reply #989 on:** 28 Mar 2012, 12:29 »

That works just as well with old-fashioned barcodes. They're used for printable train tickets. Though admittedly it won't be much use when displayed on an LCD screen.

I once saw a guy on the train who was wearing a white jacket with giant QR codes (or RS codes, learned something today) printed all over it.

Also, for a while the university cafeteria had coffee cups with codes printed on them. It apparently didn't occur to them that the print gets curved on a cylindrical cup, making the code really hard to scan.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #990 on:** 28 Mar 2012, 12:39 »

I'm sure it can. And in a way I'm glad to see a new application for the RS-codes. The underlying math is old hat, though. The same error-correcting codes have been used to recover from the scratches on CDs. It was just so annoying to see questions about QR codes on a math forum, and then see that the questioner meant something totally different with the term (still within my expertise, no problem there). I was further aggravated that the proponents of quick response codes had replaced some of the well established standard coding theoretical terminology with some very confusing substitutes. For example, in coding theory a codeword refers to an entire encoded block. Here they mean a single byte, which is more commonly referred to as a symbol (something like a single letter of a word). I was relieved to see that the other coding theorists on the forum were similarly annoyed.

Sorry, all. Somebody calling this "QRcode" just rubs me the wrong way for reasons that would take too long to explain.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #991 on:** 28 Mar 2012, 14:01 »

Sorflakne · « **Reply #992 on:** 28 Mar 2012, 20:18 »

Fans of Touhou might like this.

Stryc9Fuego · « **Reply #993 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 05:32 »

@Skewbrow: It's cool, everyone has a "GRR!" button.

DrPhibes · « **Reply #994 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 06:26 »

BANJOOOOOOOOOO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXcRI0BdioE&feature=related

I like this lol im not even american what am i doing?

smack that isaiah · « **Reply #995 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 08:40 »

Simon Pegg likes to torture his twitter followers

Zingoleb · « **Reply #996 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 15:00 »

Britney Spears' Biggest Fan

(or: never sleep again)

Carl-E · « **Reply #997 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 15:16 »

Quote from: DrPhibes on 29 Mar 2012, 06:26

BANJOOOOOOOOOO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXcRI0BdioE&feature=related

I like this lol im not even american what am i doing?

Earl scruggs, who invented the three-finger picking that kid displays (and wrote the tune he's playing) died yesterday at 88.

Thanks, Earl. You always made me smile!

ackblom12 · « **Reply #998 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 16:08 »

Zingoleb · « **Reply #999 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 19:39 »

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