Enforcer84 Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings But-but-but he's part of the 1%! Well he's the 1% of the 1% who give a lick about anything else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmadanNaBriona Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Well he's the 1% of the 1% who give a lick about anything else In a world gone mad, where organized crime has become synonymous with big business, the genius who spends his fortune building rocket ships and electric cars is a role model, not a super-villain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings My thumb has had an itch since Saturday that just won't go away. I've scratched my thumb so often' date=' it's bruised.[/quote'] Itches aren't always where you feel them. Nerves are funny that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Well he's the 1% of the 1% who give a lick about anything else Now that he has his, he's *finally* giving a like about someone else? In a world gone mad' date=' where organized crime has become synonymous with big business, the genius who spends his fortune building rocket ships and electric cars is a role model, not a super-villain.[/quote'] Why is no one crying out for the unfair means which he must have used to amass this fortune? It could only have been though oppressive means that cheated others out of their hard-fought earnings! And now that he's set for life, his throwing small treats to the masses makes it all okay? :tisk: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Now that he has his, he's *finally* giving a like about someone else? Why is no one crying out for the unfair means which he must have used to amass this fortune? It could only have been though oppressive means that cheated others out of their hard-fought earnings! And now that he's set for life, his throwing small treats to the masses makes it all okay? :tisk: Nah, he's a guy who decided there were needs for the world - and then went about addressing them amassing a fortune in doing so. And then he put his fortune to use advancing the causes he believes in - space exploration (planetary colonization to be exact) but also trying to conserve our planet - Tesla Roadsters. He's a new age hippie with business acumen; he built his fortune providing a service (not gambling on derivatives) using technicians and engineers not necessarily outsourcing his manufacturing to third world countries - though to be fair, I don't know who makes his autoparts or rocket parts so I may have painted an overly romantic view of the guy. I don't hate all of the 1%; but I could easily show you a majority of them I find rather offensive on some level or another. Probably could do that with the other 99% too. I have higher expectations of humanity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Itches aren't always where you feel them. Nerves are funny that way. I've been trying to figure out the source, without much luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings I've been trying to figure out the source' date=' without much luck.[/quote'] Try the inside left side of your arm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings School administrators talk in sad sad words' date=' it's like corporate speak.[/quote'] It IS corporate speak. jg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Thanks. I think it may have done the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Thanks. I think it may have done the trick. If you scratch at one part of your body, you may be able to feel a sort of tingling where the nerve goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings If you scratch at one part of your body' date=' you may be able to feel a sort of tingling where the nerve goes.[/quote'] Poor man's acupuncture. JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Poor man's acupuncture. JG ...Last I heard, acupuncture does not do a thing about itches, so I'm not seeing the connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings It was humor, Narf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings It was humor' date=' Narf.[/quote'] Ah, ok. Went straight over my head and still does, unless it's some sort of comparison between poking someone with a needle and scratching. In which case, I still don't get it. *Shrug* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings ...Last I heard' date=' acupuncture does not do a thing about itches, so I'm not seeing the connection.[/quote'] Well, in the sense that apparently unrelated areas of the body are connected via the network of nerves. JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings If you scratch at one part of your body' date=' you may be able to feel a sort of tingling where the nerve goes.[/quote'] I must be odd -- all my nerves go to my brain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings I must be odd -- all my nerves go to my brain. In the meantime they take detours; parts of your body share nerves. This is why, for example, eating ice cream can give you a headache (or so I've heard). If that happens, just warm of the roof of your mouth with your tongue. (I found that out myself). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Your tongue is usually cold too when you're eating ice cream once the headache starts. You just have to stop eating for a minute or two, then eat slower to prevent its return. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Your tongue is usually cold too when you're eating ice cream once the headache starts. You just have to stop eating for a minute or two' date=' then eat slower to prevent its return.[/quote'] The tongue warms up faster and doesn't get as cold. All those blood vessels and being basically a muscle with taste buds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings So my team of Palestinians did not get the tech device from the underground bunker but Captain Yellow did gey Colonel White and the President to safety. Board game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Board game? The Salute show in London celebrating its 40th year. Game 1 I got into has 6 teams of mercenaries, terrorists and government special ops trying to get some tech out of a bunker. Problem is the tech marker could also be a Weeping Angel (Dr Who). One group woke one up and managed to put a satchel charge around its neck and were almost ok. Then they failed a blink test and it tore through that team. One of my guys found one in a room so I locked the character in there with it. He got out. Managed to kill members of the Russian team and several of the Islamic terrorists although one did for one of my guys with an explosive vest. Game 2 is a motorway and the spectrum agents (Scarlet, Blue, Yellow and Green) are trying to get Colonel White and the World President to the airport. Problem is the Mysterons are trying to stop them. And each turn one of the Spectrum agents becomes the Mysteron. This means they get to turn a random vehicle into a Mysteron vessel and try to stop the Spectrum security vehicle getting to the airport. Basically you have 4 sections of road and it will roll if your vehicle gets off before the president's vehicle does. Oh and the Spectrum vehicles have guns to shoot the bad guys while the NMysterons also have a helicoptor to shoot at people. It was fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings The Salute show in London celebrating its 40th year. Game 1 I got into has 6 teams of mercenaries, terrorists and government special ops trying to get some tech out of a bunker. Problem is the tech marker could also be a Weeping Angel (Dr Who). One group woke one up and managed to put a satchel charge around its neck and were almost ok. Then they failed a blink test and it tore through that team. One of my guys found one in a room so I locked the character in there with it. He got out. Managed to kill members of the Russian team and several of the Islamic terrorists although one did for one of my guys with an explosive vest. Game 2 is a motorway and the spectrum agents (Scarlet, Blue, Yellow and Green) are trying to get Colonel White and the World President to the airport. Problem is the Mysterons are trying to stop them. And each turn one of the Spectrum agents becomes the Mysteron. This means they get to turn a random vehicle into a Mysteron vessel and try to stop the Spectrum security vehicle getting to the airport. Basically you have 4 sections of road and it will roll if your vehicle gets off before the president's vehicle does. Oh and the Spectrum vehicles have guns to shoot the bad guys while the NMysterons also have a helicoptor to shoot at people. It was fun. Sounds fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings I watched one of the students in my mechanics class in the help room get told how to do a problem by another physics faculty member. At the end of the explanation' date=' the student said, "I have no idea how you just got that." I felt both anxious and relieved. Annoyed, because it is my class in which she's failed to learn that stuff; relieved, because the other instructor went through the same free-body-diagram-and-force-equations song and dance as I would have and she still didn't get it. So my colleague, in this instance, has the same response ... and effectiveness ... to the student problems as I have. Cold comfort, perhaps, but you take what you can get.[/quote'] You can't fix stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings No argument, but at times one is haunted by the fear that you left something important out, or that for some reason you start speaking in Fzrgtprtz instead of English at the start of every lecture. That would be reinforced if the other guys said what you did (or what you thought you did) and suddenly the students got it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Learning something quickly takes talent. Stupidity is not a lack of talent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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