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The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
-60F actual temperature is very different from -60F "windchill".
The huge difference is that "wind chill" temperatures apply only to unclothed water jugs.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a14283/the-ridiculous-history-of-wind-chill/
For clothed people, any relief from wind, eg, the lee side of a building, the much higher actual temperature is what we experience.
And the effect upon machinery is strictly the actual temperature.
So -60F in still conditions is far more dangerous than a higher temp in a breeze.

Yup, I know, but it is dangerous at temps like -60, not to be taken lightly or poo poo-ed...this is why I said go out in your Hawaiian shirt and tell me how not real it is
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I might as well rant about my sister while I'm at it. I was advising her that with this one book she got, such things tend to include Jewish mysticism but completely and totally **** it up and have nothing right, but "oh well." She actually believes that some horny ancient aliens knocked up a hairy ape and out we - modern homo sapiens sapiens - came. She believes I have the same values as my parents, even though I'm absolutely nothing like my parents in terms of values and morality. And she acts like her life is hard, even though her constantly being broke is nothing more than her pissing away money and her kids poor behaviors reflects directly upon her being a bad parent. Yes, I know her dad was murdered on Christmas morning in 1979/1980, but my brother's kid is a hard working, wonderful, kind, gentle, and thoughtful person. I'm proud to call him my nephew. My sister's kids, OTOH, her oldest, I couldn't get her to even turn my key in my car so I could check my fuel pump, I've not heard from her oldest son in years, her middle son is very lazy, and her youngest is just a straight up ill-behaved *******.
And probably the worst thing is I'm sounding more and more, with each passing day, like an anti-theist because my sister gets on my every last nerve with her incessant preaching to me, but she herself knows so very little about any given religious topic yet she tells me that I need to read more, even though I constantly throw out names, concepts, and even religions that she is totally unaware of, and she talks about morality, decency, honesty, and all that crap but her actions make her a total ****ing hypocrite!
I think I may work on remaking Thugnicent's rap song "Eff Grandad" into a death metal song "Eff Sis." If nothing else, it'll give me a few moments of my own personal private inside jokes and laughter.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
In my own areas, I'm even skilled enough to spot that your point here is worded incorrectly, as forensics is dealing with criminal investigations. Even with professional stuff, I see so many **** poor editing jobs that I wonder where these jobs are at and how to get them, because I know, objectively and for a fact, I can do better. My plan was to offer my services to the myriad of churches around here, because I know for a fact that they don't edit their stuff or even bother to make it look like someone who has a firm grasp of the English language wrote them, but nope, they're all perfectly content in looking they are dumb****s who can't even pass a fifth grade English test.
Actually, I misused (I think only slightly) for a different reason.
The crime aspect is when used as an adjective.
I used the noun which is about argumentation.
I was thinking more of evaluation of experiences for the purpose of finding problems.

You don't strike me as the criminal type.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Yup, I know, but it is dangerous at temps like -60, not to be taken lightly or poo poo-ed...this is why I said go out in your Hawaiian shirt and tell me how not real it is
I cannot comply....not enuf wind or low enuf temps here.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I'm watching a program that is showing me how to build an atlas rocket
Feeding the old stereotype, eh?
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Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I told my sister to hook me up some people to do tarot readings and reiki for. I'm really going to be playing up the "dark side," emphasis that I have powers because I was "born dead," (something that's actually not too far from truth), and I think I'll spend a bit of money to get some occult jewelry to "complete the look." Too bad I lost the back of my skull ear cuff.
And then people will pay me $50 dollars to tell me stuff, then for me to do some hocus-pocus stuff, draw some cards, and draw heavily on my background in the social sciences and philosophy to give a "story" to the cards. Or I could get to be really lazy and make $50 bucks just to hold my hands out and really do nothing.
 

Draka

Wonder Woman
I told my sister to hook me up some people to do tarot readings and reiki for. I'm really going to be playing up the "dark side," emphasis that I have powers because I was "born dead," (something that's actually not too far from truth), and I think I'll spend a bit of money to get some occult jewelry to "complete the look." Too bad I lost the back of my skull ear cuff.
And then people will pay me $50 dollars to tell me stuff, then for me to do some hocus-pocus stuff, draw some cards, and draw heavily on my background in the social sciences and philosophy to give a "story" to the cards. Or I could get to be really lazy and make $50 bucks just to hold my hands out and really do nothing.
Um, I've actually thought about the possibility of opening up a bookstore/tarot room for a while. I do tarot readings and am extraordinarily good at them. I don't get people to tell me crap before throwing the cards, am able to point out things about their private lives that they confirm are either happening or had suspicions about(specifics like cheating, certain financial troubles, family issues), and give predictions I've had people come back later and confirm to me had happened. I have never charged for a reading, though have had several people tell me I am so accurate that I should and that they would pay. Rather saddens me a bit to know there are those out there charging for bluffing it when I charge nothing for honestly doing it. :(
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Rather saddens me a bit to know there are those out there charging for bluffing it when I charge nothing for honestly doing it. :(
I don't really want to do it, but I'm getting desperate. There will be an act, a show, a front, but it's inevitably going to be "therapy with cards" as the "therapy" is more my background, and even when I believed it was less about the cards and more about advice.
And, yes, I feel like a dirty ****** doing this. But, at the same time, it is a source of income that I can't be arrested for.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I had some eggs, toast, and orange juice for lunch. It gave me a few minutes of feeling good and distraction from all the noise and chaos.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I don't know why, but for some reason I just got a four-pack of Red Bull in the mail??? The package says "Claim Fulfillment." Which also has me puzzled because I haven't drank Red Bull since I was in high school, so I have no idea what this claim is.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I watched the new Terminator. It was good, but I tried to like it, but just couldn't because it felt too much like they hacked up the other ones and put the pieces together to make this one. And the huge plot twist just does not work, at all, from any angle you try to look at it. It did amaze me though, seeing things in the 80's to now, the span of my short life, and how technology has exploded, yet again, in the blink of an eye. I still remember rotary phones and cords stretched out to their limits, or the occasional extra long cord. I remember a tech-geek friend and I were joking how awesome it would be to have a printer that could print anything, and now we pretty much have them.
 
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