This kind of neat!
There was a discussion the other day over what type of person you are. Do you let clutter build and then do a big clean day? Or do you clean as you go. I used to be the former, but now that it’s just me, I try and keep things tidy, because I know what happens when I don’t.
Links?
This is a neat idea, I just wish the article told us what the “astounding” results were.
“You know what would be neat? If we tried living off the grid.”
“Your tears will not stop this political persecution.”
There are fapping furries all over the country right now, thinking “this is so neat!”.
“We think this is not so neat.”
Just another neat corporate retreat.
Okay, that’s about as much “neat” as I can take in one day. I hope you all have a neat Labor Day weekend!
wut
It’s nicer than saying they died of stupidity.
My gf is a bit of a messy.
#nevertidy
The left can only get so hard.
Well, they were never gonna go soft on him, that’s for sure.
“You know what would be neat? If we tried living off the grid.”
And same as a paleontologist, they saw two mummified corpses and came up with a whole story based on conjecture.
Doesn’t mean they are wrong, but how about any story that supports this…
I’m assuming every Chinese company demands the same?
Winnie the pooh wouldn’t have it any other way.
Band in China
This has bothered me: [Insert place name here]’s EV plant…
I can’t see E–V without thinking of me. It doesn’t happen with ‘everyone’ or ‘even’ or whatever. But just EV is obviously (to me) about me. Frumpy, I shall forever be.
He’s one of the good guys! We is he getting beat on?
Migrant arrested 6 times for 14 crimes in first two months in NYC
Um… he walked across the border and was given a free ride to NYC where free room and board awaited him? And a work permit, if Kathy gets her way. Fresh targets!
I will withhold my sympathy until I find out who Bradac voted for. That he was baffled by the attack has me wanting to put my money on that guy…oh…..what is his name? Oh yeah, Mr. Anyonebuttrump.
LOL, watching the Washington-Boise State game and there’s a big PAC-12 logo at the 50-yard line. UW is winning 42-19 with 8 minutes left.
Obligatory: Cal is beating North Texas 48-21 midway through the third quarter.
I was watching Buffalo get pounded by Wisconsin. At least they got something on the board.
Dunno what is the hot game to watch now, so it’s probably an evening of Columbo here.
I’d be watching the U.S. Open except Spectrum removed ESPN (et al.) from my box.
Yeah, I, knowing more than a few people who work directly in this whole mess, wouldn’t be too sure that PAC12 logo being there was an accident.
Whole lotta angry people about that.
Stole this from John Ziegler, but the PAC-12 scoops joining the B1G shows just how much they believe in the “Global Warming” carbon footprint BS. Just think about all the cross country trips between all the sports they have.
I was hoping Boise would at least beat the spread, but damn. Washington may make it to the final four.
The conference of chumps.
Fuck Larry Scott.
I don’t know where folk are!
Hello, y’all.
Falling down the stairs was fun last night. I was conscious for all of that one. But, and dammit I’m a goofy cat, I recovered fairly quickly. I’m worse off than I was, but nothing of the bone was affected. Sucks a bit, but I enjoy that I do heal quickly. It’s probably not great for me.
I do have to work tomorrow. They had me work on the floor, mostly bagging shit and being nice to folk. I got several customers’ compliments. I shouldn’t be standing around with the potential of lots of twisting. Walking in a straight line is relatively fine. Twisting for customer, money, bags, lots of hippy movement that don’t end in (some) great music and free love with chicks I wanna bang, with drugs I want more of.
That should be interesting. I’m running out of pain meds and haven’t been able to get in contact w my doc to get him to authorize a refill. The War on Drugs is such a abomination again.
Most likely, I shouldn’t be working tomorrow. I won’t not do it. I’ll certainly show. They may have me leave. They probably should have on Friday.
I probably should find an Amazon WFH gig. Hrm.
I think best friend (and hopefully Potential Future Lady) is right that it’s not healthy/good for me to be working in any capacity on my feet.
Better than working on your knees.
/ducking
…I’d get paid more…
*Brow furrows in thought…*
Per his comment above about EV, could be worse. His initials could be B.J.
*Jumps back into dark alley
Honey!
You are not up to that. Resume proofreading. Don’t disappoint everyone. Do something you can manage.
Fer cryin in a cup.
I do really admire your resolute spirit, E.
The (somehow perfect for what it’s trying to be) Chumbawamba song Tubthumping (“I get knocked down/I get up again/Ya never gonna keep me down”… for the entire fucking song) oddly mirrors my injurly-prone life.
I am far too good at getting up after getting knocked down. I am not sure that is a long-term positive trait to inherently possess.
But I can’t help myself.
It doesn’t matter if you fall n times so long as you get up n+1 times.
Today is one more day closer to victory.
How can you get up that (n+1)th time if you haven’t fallen?
This is the time not to be pedantic.
You don’t need to get up if you haven’t fallen. In honor of your pedantry, I present the following math paradox:
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Oskar Perron (7 May 1880 – 22 February 1975) was a German mathematician.
He was a professor at the University of Heidelberg from 1914 to 1922 and at the University of Munich from 1922 to 1951. He made numerous contributions to differential equations and partial differential equations, including the Perron method to solve the Dirichlet problem for elliptic partial differential equations. He wrote an encyclopedic book on continued fractions Die Lehre von den Kettenbrüchen. He introduced Perron’s paradox to illustrate the danger of assuming that the solution of an optimization problem exists:
Let N be the largest positive integer. If N > 1, then N^2 > N, contradicting the definition of N. Hence N = 1.
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I don’t know if you expressed it correctly, but that is patent BS.
For a positive integer N + 1 is always going to be greater than N. For any positive integer >1, N^2 is always going to be > N.
Doesn’t even have to be integers. For any positive number N + 1 > N. N^2 is always going to be greater than N.
The point of the paradox is to show the problem of assuming an optimum always exists. It’s no different than assuming there is a largest positive integer.
In linear programming, you draw lines to create a solution space and test the objective function at the corners. What happens if your constraints are curves instead of lines and there are no corners, just intersections? Or what if you have a 3D surface with peaks and valleys? What if there are 2 or more equally valid objective functions? How do you decide which to use?
Psh. Never fallen? *Guffaw!*
That’s like people who’ve never broken a bone. We look down on those individuals as sub-human re: injury and pain. Not to be trusted.
I’m sure they are fine people.
Color me never having broken a bone.
You’re legit good people.
So is my brother. (Too much so. He is seemingly perfect. I know this isn’t true. However…it seems it. He got all the GOOD parts from Dad’s Asperger’s, whereas I got all the bad. Family joke/truth/reality.)
^^He’s only broken one measly little toe. We were at a gymnastics gym tumbling. He did a double back but went too far. His toe clipped the mat and landed on his back. Pooow wittwle baaaby. *Arms cross, head down with the-height-of-frumpy frump face*
(He was a perfect older brother to have in my family. Six years is the perfect distance. We were never in the same school. He is shockingly good at seemingly everything he tries, and he does so much. Not really a question of what he DOESN’T do. Bastard is damn good at everything.
I AM taller, 5’8″ if I round. So there.)
*Resumes FrumpyMcFrump-face*
It only takes 1 fall
Hang in there. Something good might happen when you least expect it.
The War on Drugs is such a abomination again.
Left the ER Thursday morning with a scrip for 10(!) Vicodin to deal with kidney stone. That seems to be standard issue, anything more gets the doc on a watch list. And if I run out (just took the fifth) I won’t be able to get a refill, so I’ll just run around like Mr. Mike being stabbed in the eye with an ice pick on an old SNL skit.
War on drugs: 52 years and counting, victory is right around the corner.
LOL I remember getting a bottle of 30 for a wisdom tooth.
Used 1 for the pain. What happened with the other 29 is WHY THIS MUST STOP.
Me too.
Sorry.
As far as neat houses go, the wife and I are both clutter people and periodically clean things up. She does, oddly enough, get a bit clausterphobic when it goes on too long, but she will get out of town for a few days in a super unclutter environment (read AirB&B) and will be fine for a long time after that. Me? I hate being in too tidy environments, they don’t feel livable. I always hated going to my mothers for that reason. A place for everything, and everything in its place. Crippling.
In China, I worked with a fella who really bought into the 6s scheme of organization. He had masked off locations on his desk for his calculator and his coffee cup. To fuck with him, I would move those things outside their marked off locations.
…PONick seems like a nice guy…
Let me guess- he liked his meat lean?
So these cops paid and not the taxpayers, right?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/delaware-man-police-blocked-warning-speed-trap-wins-50k-judgment-rcna103118
If only.
GlibZoom tonight?
Be there in a few minutes
I started writing a math book yesterday. It’s already past 7,000 words. I’m hoping to publish a cheap alternative to traditional math textbooks for homeschoolers, remedial students, and adult learners.
Anyway, this caught my eye and made me sigh with weary resignation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/transgender-cia/520050/
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Jenny Hall is not my real name. Jenny was our pet dachshund, and Virginia Hall was a one-legged OSS hero who ran spies under the nose of the Nazis. Overlooked by male colleagues, the Gestapo called her “the Limping Lady…the most dangerous of Allied spies.” I relish the idea that I’m ISIS’s nightmare: trans, gay, Jewish, CIA, and worst of all, female.
***
He’s a legend in his own mind…
The story reeks of propaganda meant to placate a delusional ruling elite.
Is it even possible to be trans and gay and female?
And functional/sane.
Like I said, having worked in the IC, this story seems far-fetched to say the least.
FWIW, I have a former colleague who is a MtF tranny. She is a lesbian. She was also good at her job.
I had a college roommate who went tranny. Shrug – knock yourself out. But you are not a woman – and in that time and place, I doubt he would have claimed as much.
It’s the insane levels of propaganda from “allies” that is causing so much trouble now. Joe Fucking Biden is telling bio-girl athletes to fuck off.
Me too, but no idea what her sexuality was. Also very good at her job. I miss working with her.
Virginia Hall was decorated with the 2d highest medal for valor- the Distinguished Service Cross. The citation is along the hall of heroes in the Special Warfare Center main academic building. Special Forces Soldiers certainly know of her.
Derpy, This calculus primer certainly helped me grok the calculus.
https://archive.org/details/profemcsquaredsc00howa/mode/2up
Maybe some of the concepts can help you with your project.
This link is to the expanded version. I had the original.
I clean whenever I’m going to have company…so never.
I’m too lazy to be messy: picking something up the second time to do whatever (throw it away, file it) should be done the first time you touch it, stepping over things that aren’t where they below, looking for things that aren’t where they belong, going to the ER for stitches after tripping over the thing that wasn’t where it belongs…
who has all that extra energy and time
two huge energy savers: stop buying shit you don’t need and don’t have time for; start throwing shit away, pretty much everything you haven’t used in the last year, two at the most
I can’t believe the amount of crap I have in the attic. Since retirement I have a law: Every time I go into the attic I have to bring down something to be thrown away. Piece by piece it went up there and piece by piece it will come down.
I love it
perfection is a bad idea that haunts some people when just one little piece of progress every day/cycle is a great way to dig out of some problems
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THESE WORDS!
I had a dozen or so moving bins full of shit I haven’t touched in the 12 years since I moved here.
I am moving again in two weeks. Tossed all of it, plus a bunch more unboxed stuff that I don’t touch. I am a bit of a minimalist, I think.
I am clutter blind, and I believe dust is a natural protective coating for furniture.
It usually takes the very occasional prospect of guests to shame me into cleaning – unless it’s just my sisters. I know how they are (just as bad as I am. OK – they’re worse) so I don’t feel obliged to bother.
I like a clean yard. Some rural folks are not so neat but I hate to have anything outside over night. The garages are cluttered with stuff but I even put put my truck in the garage if I’m not using it. All tools are inside except garden tools that I use every day and leave in the garden. OTOH around the computer is far, far from neat.
my theory on orderly Yankee yards is that it’s extremely painful to bust your shin on something because you didn’t know where it was before you went trudging through the snow
I am with you. If I leave tools out ot means rusty tools or patches of dead grass. I like my area clean. If I make a big mess on my garage worktable after a project I MUST clean it up within 48 hours or I will hate myself.
What, we can’t even find an American company to handle our bullshit crony capitalist grifting?
Why bother. It’s not like the American company isn’t working for Pooh either.
Watching some football. I see most of the powerhouses scheduled Creampuff U to start the season. TCU probably thought they had. tPSU is having its hands full with WV.
Tennessee had the balls to take on Virginia, 2022’s 86th best team
The major tennis tournaments operate the same way. The media darlings get token opposition until the latter stages.
It would be the no-travel conference without no-traveling.
An Amish romance novelist is taking the Christian literature world by storm, selling close to a million books while setting pulses racing in the ultra conservative community.
OK….
Amish romance has been around for decades.
I know some of what they get up to during Rumspringa.
So has Conservatives in the Mist.
As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain
I take a look at my wife and realize she’s very plain
But that’s just perfect for an Amish like me
https://youtu.be/lOfZLb33uCg?si=jo-GR36abj5WO1jT
There it is.
A friend of mine that lived in central PA told me he liked turning up the car stereo all the way when he drove past Amish if that song was playing.
Kelly McGillis says “hi.”
The life of a mediocre samurai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQY3dbUsVgE
an anti-crime ad from not-so-great Britain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQY3dbUsVgE
“I’m going to live off the grid with my mom and aunt”
*few days later*
Dead
Well, that’s just super – main blower motor in my furnace (forced air) just shit the bed.
No AC for us.
Nice and cool this evening but high 80s for the next few days.
Sorry.
Thanks, but a literal #FirstWorldProblem. We didn’t even have central air until a couple years ago. Easily fixed by throwing some money at it. Just annoying it craps-out on a Saturday of a 3-day weekend.
I can throw a First over those mountains.
https://vimeo.com/154990893
Uncle Firster
Good morning all!
Today’s selections are a bit of a mismatch, despite the relationship between the singer/songwriter of the first and the band of the second. Please forgive the early Christmas tune 😉
Greg Lake and Ian Anderson, I Believe in Father Christmas
KingCrimson, Fracture
Good morning, Beau! Thanks for the bit of choral music, however (slightly) seasonally-premature! My usual Sunday morning choral music show is being pre-empted for the holiday weekend by “A Concerto Countdown – the top 76 [because they’re SiriusXM Channel 76] concertos of all time as voted by YOU, the listeners.” Thus I was especially grateful for a bit of choir! 😊🎶
Good morning GT! Glad I could help.
But Lordy, could they pick a broader category than ‘concertos’ for finding the “best of”??
From the Brandenburg Concertos to the various violin, piano, etc., concertos, to Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra. A glorified popularity contest across a poorly defined category. Smdh. Sigh
Well, they’d already done “Top 76 Symphonies” for Memorial Day. 😄
(Except Beethoven was disqualified because he’s too popular and probably would have had most or all nine of his played.)
Vivaldi only wrote one concerto, but he wrote it 500 times.
There’s a lot to choose from.
Morning peeps! ✌🌄
This one feels right for a Sunday morning:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SnkjvECEQr4
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean! That musical selection was pleasantly-surprisingly short on screaming! 😁
😉☕
Relevant
I knew it before I clicked.
Yeah, that’s where my mind immediately went, too. Was really half-expecting a ’90s/’00s band ironic cover of same.