Random Thoughts X: Impromptu Interpretations
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amadeus
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Ways in which I am like Dracula
- male
- antipathy towards wooden stakes
- obsessive counting of things
- enjoys daylight more than nighttime
- affinity for garlic
- can be seen in a mirror
The above post has been brought to you by the number 3. 
amadeus
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The Count is based on part of vampire folklore where I believe they have to stop to count something—I think it was seeds.The above post has been brought to you by the number 3.
Anyway, my follow-up to that is: what if you got like a Rain Man vampire, and you throw the seeds down in front of him and he just goes “61, 61, 61. 183.” and then starts after you again?
That wouldn’t be good!
amadeus
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I feel bad for anyone that graduated with an economics degree in the Soviet Union in the late 1980's. Imagine how useless that would be!
Spoiler Comrade Economist, what is demand curve? :
Hygro
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You should have seen the crisis US economics was in in the 1980s.
"Deficit spending causes people to choose to save exactly their share of the deficit in order to pay by future taxes and thereby drives no economic activity"
When the older economists would laugh and ask these young PhDs if they actually believed people were literally choosing to save money based on current deficits to save taxes, they would say "yes".
They saw an accounting identity and thought it was an economic behavior that literally no one does.
amadeus
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I've realized that this thread, it is various iterations, might be the only place on the internet where "like" means pretty much the opposite.
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Happy 20 year anniversary to the new year's eve of 2000 when I slept from 7:30pm to noon the next day. 
20 years ago tonight, I was in the hospital, and ended up staying for 5 weeks. Not how I'd planned to celebrate the turn of the century.
amadeus
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I was watching Sale of the Century yesterday, hosted by your Canadian Jim Perry.
He hosted quite a few Canadian game shows. The one I preferred was Headline Hunters.
Speaking of game shows and Canadian hosts, the week of January 4-8 is the last week you can see original-run Jeopardy! hosted by Alex Trebek. These are the last ones he did before he died.
Zkribbler
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You're thinking of almost two years ago, when I spent two weeks in the hospital. Maddy wasn't born until 2007, so she really didn't have anything to say about my earlier hospital stay.I remember Maddie giving you a good talking to when you finally got home.
My other cats did, though. I had four at the time: Maggie, Lightning, Tomtat, and Gussy. Lightning was very sensitive about people leaving and never coming back, as she experienced that with four of her siblings, two of her kittens, my oldest cat, Cassandra (had cancer and I had to have her put down), one of the dogs (also cancer), and my grandmother. Lightning also outlived her mother (Maggie) and remaining kitten (Tomtat). My dad would spend long periods of time away, but at least he came back.
I, on the other hand, up to that point had spent 3 days away at the longest, when my friend and I went to Spokane for Labor Day weekend in 1987. Lightning wasn't as upset about that, given that she had just had her own kittens (we kept Tomtat).
Lightning was used to me always being around, and when I ended up in the hospital and didn't come back for such a long time, she thought I'd died as well. When I did come back, I remember calling up the stairs to the cats, Lightning came down a few steps, stopped and stared at me like she'd seen a ghost, and ran back up. She wouldn't come near me for hours, as she wasn't sure I was actually really there and would really stay. But she finally did come up to me, and stuck like glue for quite some time.
Lightning and Maddy were very similar in size and temperament - very affectionate cats. Lightning was a black and white tuxedo cat, and so far is the longest-lived of all my cats. She died June 26, 2004, just before 10 pm, right by my feet (age 17.5). It was hard to watch her die; I knew it was coming, just not when, and I'm grateful that she chose to stay close by, and not run off somewhere like many other cats do.
After Lightning died, I was down to one cat, Gussy. The following spring I adopted Chloe, and two years after that, I adopted Maddy. Gussy died in November that same year.
But yeah, Lightning liked to keep track of all her family members, whether they were cats, dogs, or humans, and Maddy is the same way. Both of them were/are upset when I'm gone too long. Maddy's gotten to the point now that she doesn't panic every time I go to check the mail, but she still occasionally meets me at the door and scolds me for leaving, and there are times when I haven't gone anywhere but she gets upset and starts fussing rather loudly. I just call out to her to reinforce that I'm here and available for cuddling, and she settles down.
amadeus
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If the French had landed in South Africa first, they could have called it Crepe Town. 
So it seems Carlsen is dead. He did recently have a bad run and now got eliminated from the tournament.
That said, chess isn't creative; maybe if someone actually likes chess a lot they won't get tired from using the same (of rather massive volume by now, though) theory, to solve problems which won't lead to anything more important.
That said, chess isn't creative; maybe if someone actually likes chess a lot they won't get tired from using the same (of rather massive volume by now, though) theory, to solve problems which won't lead to anything more important.
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amadeus
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Ivory soap? Not made from real ivory.
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