Random thoughts thread

[maneo]

Did any of you turds see the eclipse this morning?

Yes.
Only found out about it this morning, so I had to figure out a safe way to "view" it.

Initially made a pinhole for viewing, then used one side of the binoculars to project a larger image.

http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/box- ... ector.html

Looked at it periodically until the maximum coverage at 8:23.
Interesting to see the crescent sun.
Checked it a few times after that, then watched images of the full eclipse online from Indonesia.

[the lynx]

You know when someone asks you what the capital of say Canada is and you reply 'Montreal', or the US 'New York, duh!', or Australia 'Easy, Sydney!', New Zealand 'Auckland', Switzerland 'Geneva [sigh]'.

All the above at some point in life can be a given and later it's a surprise to progressively find that all of them are incorrect.
But this morning I had the pleasure of being bamboozled to the 2nd level! As enny fool knowz Geneva isn't the capital of Switzerland... that's easy, I know this one... it's Zurich!, ah ah ah, see got you there - ha!

Except it's neither Geneva nor Zurich!!

I'm late to this party. Anyway if you think this is bad, people tried telling me that the capital of Africa is South Africa (because that's where the victory from apartheid comes from).

So wrong in so many levels...

[JR8]

Re: Eclipses, eating and bathing...

Do you lot live in mud huts too and worship the moon or summink?

[JR8]

'The first person to see a sunset was probably like well this ain't good !'

[rajagainstthemachine]

I'm off fb for many days now, strangely I don't miss it all.. Not clicking on click bait anymore, that means this forum gets more of my attention now.

[rajagainstthemachine]

5 ospf routers walk into a bar, who gets to drive? The designated router.

An arp packet walked into MacDonalds and asked for a big mac.

[ecureilx]

5 ospf routers walk into a bar, who gets to drive? The designated router.

An arp packet walked into MacDonalds and asked for a big mac.

Who Switched the car ?




PS, Now I know why your colleagues are getting annoyed

[rajagainstthemachine]

not colleagues lah! friends! and no they aren't annoyed with this

[rajagainstthemachine]

NP - Hooverphonic. fck haven't done a thing all day.

[JR8]

Time for a caption competition?

[JR8]

An admiring and amusing comment seen elsewhere today, regarding a hot female champion poker player:

<i>...and of course she frequents high stake licenced card game establishments.
Liquor in the front. Poker in the rear.</i>

[rajagainstthemachine]

Time for a caption competition?

women are like bulls, never know when something pisses them off.

[rajagainstthemachine]

trying to decide what music system i should get, my lovely trusty denon broke down irreparably, and i can't decide if i want a plain old cd player micro hi fi system or i want another one like my denon with all bells and whistles, a toss up between Bose wave soundtouch IV ( 825 SGD) versus a Sony CMtx5cd (385)

[Strong Eagle]

trying to decide what music system i should get, my lovely trusty denon broke down irreparably, and i can't decide if i want a plain old cd player micro hi fi system or i want another one like my denon with all bells and whistles, a toss up between Bose wave soundtouch IV ( 825 SGD) versus a Sony CMtx5cd (385)

If you are looking at all in one micro systems, check the total harmonic distortion... I looked at one .20 percent I thought it said... until I looked closely... it was 20 percent at full power... a lot of the micros sound like crap at volume and are crap.

There is a reason you never find Bose speaker products inside the audio room at stores... they wouldn't sell any.

I'd go with the separate AV receiver and if space is an issue, a Pro Cinema speaker system... I really like mine. http://www.definitivetech.com/products/ ... f-systems/

I've got the 600 series with 800 front speakers... you will find these in audio rooms.

[PNGMK]

There's some really interesting hi-fi fusions going on at the moment.