Random Thoughts XI: Listen to the Whispers
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True. But that one is very specific. I was thinking of a thread for various types of puzzles.
What sort of puzzles? I take it you don't want something the staff will just shuffle off to Other Games, right?
Hm. I once proposed an avatar contest like we do over at TrekBBS. Actually, it's my turn to host two there - one general and one Doctor Who-themed. That proposal went over like a lead balloon here.
I'm also engaged in a game of Star Trek Hangman over there.
And if my entry in the current Voyager Caption Contest there doesn't win some sort of recognition from the host, I'm going to be annoyed. I'm the only one who managed to string all the screenshots together into a coherent story.
Once I started paying attention to the 'guess the map' game here, I realized it's educational, and there actually was one that I knew right away (but someone had already guessed it).
I watched the Vanishing (this is a general thought, just inspired by something in the movie, so here)
It always impresses me how much (most?) people age in little time. The danish actor who plays one of the enemies in this film, was also in the 1864 war series, four years prior to this. He doesn't look the same at all.
King Leonidas (who is awesome in this film, by the way) got plumber obviously, but I am not sure if his face did change that much (maybe it did).
Sometimes I joke that I seem to stay the same (more or less). Maybe it's not that unreal, compared to most others, however...
That said, it's not like I look as I did at 18 either. But that wasn't just four years ago...
It always impresses me how much (most?) people age in little time. The danish actor who plays one of the enemies in this film, was also in the 1864 war series, four years prior to this. He doesn't look the same at all.
King Leonidas (who is awesome in this film, by the way) got plumber obviously, but I am not sure if his face did change that much (maybe it did).
Sometimes I joke that I seem to stay the same (more or less). Maybe it's not that unreal, compared to most others, however...
That said, it's not like I look as I did at 18 either. But that wasn't just four years ago...
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
Given there are so many memes about Chad, incorporating (without all of the viewers being aware of this) the actual form of the african country over Car, maybe some SJWs should campaign for money given to the country of Chad proportional to the use of the memes. Cultural appropriation etc.
Fast-forward another 20 years and he looks ancient and his voice is creaky. I would no longer pay to hear him read the phone book.Patrick Stewart in the early 80's
Patrick Stewart 20 years later
But if you want to be facetious, of course Captain Picard looks exactly like Gurney Halleck... since Gurney Halleck had access to spice, which prolongs life (not unheard of for people in the Imperium at that time to live to between 200-300 years, according to the Dune Encyclopedia).
If you want to see Patrick Stewart in a production where he has hair, watch I, Claudius (1976). Sejanus had hair, though I don't think that was actually Stewart's own hair.
I believe he lost all his hair by the age of 18 and was most embarrassed by that as a teenager.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
The protests were organised by supporters associations, which are often quite active in protesting what they see as incompetence, corruption or anti-fan behaviour on the part of team owners. It just usually doesn't break through to mainstream awareness unless it happens to occurring locally.
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The good thing about the Goedel-Escher-Bach book is that it provides (its own) links between Goedel and Church-Turing. Which anyway one would need to build for himself if they were learning the subject, so now they are given an isomorphism to what they have to come up with themselves.
The bad thing is, as usual, that a 800-pages book is difficult to re-read a few times within a small time period, and the author seems mostly interested in a specific post Goedel/Turing application: attempts at artificial (procedural) intelligence. I am not, so did treat small parts (by which I mean batches of 50 pages) as annoying. But I am almost 5/8 into the book now.
The bad thing is, as usual, that a 800-pages book is difficult to re-read a few times within a small time period, and the author seems mostly interested in a specific post Goedel/Turing application: attempts at artificial (procedural) intelligence. I am not, so did treat small parts (by which I mean batches of 50 pages) as annoying. But I am almost 5/8 into the book now.
Things which I couldn't distinguish as a kid:
- Nepal and Neapel (German for Naples)
Things which I still can't distinguish:
- Haiti and Tahiti
As a kid also:
- Hawaii
Never had a problem with:
- NASA and NSA
- ISS and ISIS
They should throw in some more unique characters in these names.
- Nepal and Neapel (German for Naples)
Things which I still can't distinguish:
- Haiti and Tahiti
As a kid also:
- Hawaii
Never had a problem with:
- NASA and NSA
- ISS and ISIS
They should throw in some more unique characters in these names.
Things I could not distinguish as a kid (at a time when the POTUS came from one of these, I still do not know which):
- Arkansas and Arrakis
As an infant I had to form a procedural memory of which month comes first (June or July), instead of storing that as a complete information. So I stored the following:
-It is the opposite to the alphabetical order.
So each time I have to first recall that (in the opposite) n comes before l, so June before July.
Of course, with years, there came other routes to the same, such as recalling that the US national holiday is in the middle month of summer (and July the 4rth being declarative info in memory).
-It is the opposite to the alphabetical order.
So each time I have to first recall that (in the opposite) n comes before l, so June before July.
Of course, with years, there came other routes to the same, such as recalling that the US national holiday is in the middle month of summer (and July the 4rth being declarative info in memory).
I actually stored all that declaratively.- Status
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