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[GarandMarine]

Cats and dogs were in all reality varying types of working animal for the most part. The dog being the most obvious as a herding animal in most places, and as a security or hunting animal in others. Many herding dogs also filled the security function. (See GSDs), cats meanwhile were a home aid, serving to handle vermin in all their many forms. (Your cat doesn't kill spiders JUST because it can, that's centuries of telling cats murdering spiders is good) but why were cats gods in Egypt? When a house cat was your first and last line of defense against plague bearing vermin you'd worship them too.

[jwhouk]

Of course, no one else made the connection between the plague and mice until much later.

[Carl-E]

Yes, but the mice ate the grain that kept you through the winter.  Cats were your saviour from pests, if not pestilence. 

[Jace]

Today (tomorrow) I am wearing the most anti-american shirt I own, coincidentally it isn't terribly anti-american, but it certainly isn't a pro-america stance.

Happy 9-11, never remember, always forget

[Carl-E]

50 to 100 years from now, people will "celebrate" in oddly inappropriate ways. 

Picnics, 9-11 sales, parades...

[Is it cold in here?]

Am I the only person who thinks the Qdoba logo looks like a hammer and sickle?

[LTK]

Why are our most common pets carnivores?

Plant-eaters would be cheaper to feed and safer to have around.

Carnivores don't make for good eatin'.

[BeoPuppy]

50 to 100 years from now, people will "celebrate" in oddly inappropriate ways. 

Picnics, 9-11 sales, parades...

Just read about a golf course offering a deal for 9/11 of a 9 holes round for $9.11. 18 holes for $19.11.

[GarandMarine]

Classy.

[cesium133]

Today (tomorrow) I am wearing the most anti-american shirt I own, coincidentally it isn't terribly anti-american, but it certainly isn't a pro-america stance.

Happy 9-11, never remember, always forget

When I logged onto Facebook this morning, the first thing I saw was an image someone posted that said "We will never forget." I had no clue what it was referring to, until I realized that I had forgotten...

[Grognard]

Would like to point out this: Despite being attacked on our own soil, and losing more lives than were lost at Pearl Harbor; in the past 12 years we've managed to not Nuke anyone.
And I distinctly remember hearing calls for Nuclear Response after 9-11.

perhaps we're more peaceable than what we're given credit for.

[Is it cold in here?]

Chlorine bleach is a failure. Oxygen bleach works.

Despite all the chlorine bleach people have tried over the years, chlorine is still green.

[cesium133]

Ehh... chlorine gas is green. Chlorine bleach (sodium hypochlorite) is not chlorine gas any more than table salt is chlorine gas.

[jwhouk]

$500+ for glasses???? 

[Pilchard123]

Ehh... chlorine gas is green. Chlorine bleach (sodium hypochlorite) is not chlorine gas any more than table salt is chlorine gas.

I think it may have been a joke. Hair bleach bleaches hair, so chlorine bleach should bleach chlorine. But chlorine gas is still green, so the bleach didn't work.

[Grognard]

I've been on here 24 hours and 1 minute????

I don't know if I should be Happy or Depressed by this?

[ackblom12]

...I don't wanna talk about my logged time.

[Pilchard123]

I have 23 days, 11 hours and 1 minute. Wasn't there a thread about this somewhere around?

[lepetitfromage]

20 days, 17 hours and 38 minutes. Not too shabby for being here almost 3 years. Also.....Holy crap. 3 years.

[Is it cold in here?]

Ehh... chlorine gas is green. Chlorine bleach (sodium hypochlorite) is not chlorine gas any more than table salt is chlorine gas.

I think it may have been a joke. Hair bleach bleaches hair, so chlorine bleach should bleach chlorine. But chlorine gas is still green, so the bleach didn't work.

Exactly.

[Kugai]

Total time logged in: 37 days, 11 hours and 4 minutes.

Not bad since I've only been on the Forum since 2006.

[ankhtahr]

I think I spend too much time here:

Total time logged in: 22 days, 18 hours and 31 minutes.

I joined this February.

[cesium133]

Total time logged in: 57 days, 22 hours and 31 minutes.

I may have a problem.

[celticgeek]

Logged in:  231 days, 13 hours, 26 minutes. 

But I have been a member for just over 7 years. 

[Barmymoo]

I've been here since January 2007, and I have 60 days, 20 hours and 58 minutes logged in. Good grief Stephen that's a lot of hours.

[Kugai]

Should we send him to Counseling?

[ankhtahr]

Is somebody's name Steve and I don't know it? Or am I Steve, because of my avatar?

According to Wolfram Alpha I spent exactly 11.15% off all my time since I joined, on the forums. Kinda scary.

9% for you, Celticgeek.

Oh, and 10.2% for Cesium

[celticgeek]

I found my total time on this forum slightly scary, too.

[bainidhe_dub]

32 days, 8 hours, 11 minutes - out of 8 years, 6 months, 2 days - 1% of my time since joining.
I actually feel much better about that than I expected.

[mtmerrick]

13 days, 18 hours and 21 minutes.

and i registered march of this year

[Blue Kitty]

158 days, 19 hours and 29 minutes after 8 years

[Carl-E]

60 days, 12 hours and 18 minutes.


So far. 

Been in since 13 Aug 2009. 

Just under 6 posts a day. 

[Papersatan]

I don't mean to be rude to the dedicated HCI people in my program, but learning the mathematical equations for optimal button size has just passed ideal temp/relative humidity for paper storage as the most boring ass shit I have learned in grad school. 

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ID = log2(A / W + 1)

(A is distance from the start position W is width of button)

MT = a + b × ID

(MT is movement time)

[pwhodges]

The forum software times you in 15-minute units, so frequent brief visits are considerably exaggerated.  This also affects the count of numbers on line - which is in effect aggregated over fifteen minutes.  Forums vary in this setting, usually between five minutes and fifteen; I think I increased it from a lower number, but I don't recall why.

[pwhodges]

I don't mean to be rude to the dedicated HCI people in my program, but learning the mathematical equations for optimal button size has just passed ideal temp/relative humidity for paper storage as the most boring ass shit I have learned in grad school. 

(click to show/hide)

ID = log2(A / W + 1)

(A is distance from the start position W is width of button)

MT = a + b × ID

(MT is movement time)

There is nothing that is uninteresting*; you just haven't adjusted your mind-set yet (I had lectures at university on mixing concrete).



* This isn't actually true, but I like to pretend it is because sometimes it helps.

[Loki]

http://m.xkcd.com/863/

[Akima]

The forum software times you in 15-minute units, so frequent brief visits are considerably exaggerated.

I hope this is the reason for my eighty days in the forum since 3rd June 2009. I only recently exceeded two posts per day, so I suppose it is either that, or I make too many long posts, and spend a lot of time composing them.

[ChaoSera]

Total time logged in: 12 days, 17 hours and 24 minutes.

But probably at least half of that is time I just had the forum open in a tab and was doing something else. I also tend to not close my browser when starting a game, so there's a lot of gaming hours in there.

[jwhouk]

Meh. 60 days, 1 hours and 49 minutes.

[ankhtahr]

Random thought:

damn, our espresso machine makes shitty espresso. Good thing I only rarely drink coffee.

(It's just a shitty Tassimo, so I can't change the coffee or anything. It's barely being used anyway)

[Carl-E]

Sounds like a lonely appliance getting back at you for neglect. 

[ankhtahr]

Well, some of the stuff it makes is alright, and at least it is fast. So stuff like a Latte macchiato tastes okay, but trying to drink the espresso pure, well, is not too good.

I guess when I move out I will either go to coffee shops from time to time (which is tempting as they can use lactose free milk as well), or buy a real espresso machine, which can't do much, but can do good espresso.

[Welu]

A bit late but I just passed 2000 posts and I've been here two and half years.

[Barmymoo]

Is somebody's name Steve and I don't know it? Or am I Steve, because of my avatar?

A combination of the two - I meant Ackblom, whose name is Stephen, but I was looking at your avatar as I wrote it and had a brain fart about spelling.

[LeeC]

sometimes I see familiar strangers in the city or around town and worry I'm in a "Truman Show" situation....

not in a serious paranoia kind of way but it does cross my mind, then I start wondering for fun.

[ankhtahr]

ok, that explains it.

[Valdís]

It's a good thing I don't have OCD.

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[ankhtahr]

I don't have OCD, but this picture makes me feel uncomfortable.

[Barmymoo]

For a while I was living in two places and I had sets of pills in both. My anti-baby pills are labelled by the days of the week and boy did it bother me when I had to either take them on the wrong days or take them out of order. Now I am back to just one pack and it is much more relaxed.

[pwhodges]

This has just reminded me to email my GP for my next three months drugs.