SMP Life is Being Drunk -Random Content thread

[lastcardcharlie]

Or learning to swim, for example. "Physiological learning" - is there a correct term for that? The thing is, before it was difficult, impossible even, and then you can do it for a few seconds, and then a bit longer, and then some moment arrives when it becomes forever easy, or effortless even.

[jb9]

Muscle memory. Useful stuff.

[Splendour]

Excellent read.

The Truth Wears Off
Is there something wrong with the scientific method?

by Jonah Lehrer, The New Yorker


Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...#ixzz1xuSCwoc7

[zumby]

Originally Posted by Splendour

Is there something wrong with the scientific method?

by Jonah Lehrer, The New Yorker

"No, there isn't" clarifies Jonah Lehrer in his followup article, after anti-science numpties seize on his article to validate their own agendas

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...decline-effect

[BrianTheMick2]

Originally Posted by jb9

Muscle memory. Useful stuff.

My muscles have extremely poor memories.

Or memory.

They don't look back on life and have regrets or anything.

They do exhibit muscle memory though.

[Doctor Zeus]

I was thinking about the most ridiculous, arbitrary forms of scale out there.
Kinsey scale strikes me as pretty high up there (not saying I disagree with the findings, just the method.)
Same with the scoville scale, and any of the personality test ones.
Any one know of any less scientific ones?

[BrianTheMick2]

My new office:

[BrianTheMick2]

Originally Posted by Doctor Zeus

I was thinking about the most ridiculous, arbitrary forms of scale out there.
Kinsey scale strikes me as pretty high up there (not saying I disagree with the findings, just the method.)
Same with the scoville scale, and any of the personality test ones.
Any one know of any less scientific ones?

The celcius scale is pretty bad.

[Hector Cerif]

Terror alert scale?

[plaaynde]

5. Beard-Seconds


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You take the average length that a beard grows in a single second. Light-year = fast moving thing over long time period. Beard-second = slow moving thing over short time period. Haha, very funny, bearded physics guys. In case you care, it’s 5 nanometers.

(http://www.popcrunch.com/14-weird-me...ts-and-scales/)

[jb9]

Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2

My new office:

Needs a drink with an umbrella in it next to laptop. Just fyi...

[BrianTheMick2]

Originally Posted by jb9

Needs a drink with an umbrella in it next to laptop. Just fyi...

I'm not one for foo-foo drinks, but will take this under consideration. I will resist for as long as I am able, which might not be long, considering my surroundings.

Using my midwestern know-how, I did build what I thought was a very sturdy and impenetrable beer can fort (to fortify the small wall that lets any passers-by know "this is my desk, not yours") on and around the desk, but it really didn't look right (as you implied with umbrella drinks) and my fiancee dismantled it while I was napping next to the pool which proved it quite penetrable.

I have notices certain difficulties with my new locale. Namely, when you ask about internet service or TV or phone, they just laugh. I actually had an AT&T salesperson say "I don't want to sell you any services because you will just come back here and yell at me." She/he (it is, on occasion, hard to make such fine distinctions here) added "don't tell my boss I said that, because I will get fired."

[lastcardcharlie]

You need some motivational posters to brighten the place up, Brian.

[BrianTheMick2]

Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

You need some motivational posters to brighten the place up, Brian.

Taken under advisement, but I really don't have anywhere I'd be willing to block the view of. Maybe I could attach them to the ground, but that seems a rather silly place to place posters.

I am wondering what true happiness is*, and will probably just enjoy the view and enjoy that I get to do what I do and they give me money to do it.

*as opposed to the fake happiness that is implied.

[river_tilt]

A man takes the lift up to his flat on the 11th floor. He normally takes the lift to 6th floor, and walks the rest of the way. (The lift works well, and is capable of going to the 11th floor.)

After entering his flat, he shoots himself. He dies soon after. However, if he had looked under his doormat before going into the house, he wouldn't have shot himself.

What's under the doormat?

Spoiler:

....

Spoiler:

He's a dwarf

Spoiler:

It's raining, so he uses his umbrella to press button 11, which he normally can't reach.

Spoiler:

He's the smallest dwarf in the world

Spoiler:

His rival broke in, and lowered all his furniture by sandpapering it.

Spoiler:

There is sawdust under the mat.