I let one of my grand kids build a PC from parts I bought. Some 15 or 20 years ago. He was stoked! Installed the OS, drivers, apps
I dunno what’s so satisfying about building a PC… It’s like growing weed.Ah. I know. Either way, you get exactly what you want.
WAY over my head…!
It seems in Switzerland investigations are still a thing; can’t say the same for the EU and the leader of the Commission.
I am shocked.
larry fink should be chairman so this corruption never happens again
its obvious why.
it takes a long time, much longer than the age of the universe
the real question is why does this radiation destroy conservation of information - a BIG no-no in quantum physics
this radiation actually completely contradicted physics and led to the black hole information paradox and leonard susskinds holographic principle where the black hole behaves almost like a 2d object and is projected into the 3 dimensions
weird stuff.
oh yea i like to fall asleep to physics podcasts
I’d never heard that before.
Well, well, well. Why would he resign if these allegations were false? We already knew the guy was crooked. I bet there’s even more.
I went back to the boat house to do more cleanup and I found out who the owner is!!! Now I just need to figure out how I’m going to contact them without it being super awkward. Like “hey yeah, so your vacation home that was vandalized, I cleaned up all the glass and trash and sealed up the windows.” 
Juat let them know you walk past their place from time to time- and noticed someone broke in and vandalized the property. Also let them know how beautiful you think it is and felt the need to lend a hand to make the property secure.
They’ll appreciate it I’m sure!! Keep us posted
good job suspect #1
The first time I visited it, it was only 3 years ago. I found the door locked and just walked away. I peaked in the window and It was pristine inside, there was an internet router blinking, everything was neat and tidy. It looked like the owner would return any minute. The 3rd time I went to visit I found graffiti written in sharpie and the door was broken into… and me being me, and a photographer, I poked my head in to check on it and admire it. The whole time I respected it as if I was family. I followed the checklist on the fridge and locked everything back up. It stayed that way for over a year, I came back and checked, still locked. Then I came back to check it just a week ago, it was completely destroyed.
Im really curious to speak with the owner. Would it be weird to go straight to him in person or should I try calling phone numbers?
I found this little guy buried underneath broken glass on the window sill. I didn’t want to leave it there, I figured someone would just walk in and take it. I want to hand it back to the owner in person.
FUCK. I just realized I left my box cutter there. If the douchebags come back no doubt they’ll start cutting things up. Omfg. I have to go back for a box cutter. Fml.
I suppose it’s not so bad, it’s near my other favorite hiking trail. Still kinda a pain in the ass. My presence there for 3 days in a row might spook some of those nosey teenagers off too.
I got in touch with the owner!! She is still very upset. We talked on the phone and I’m going to be checking on the property periodically, and I’m going to install a security camera for her. She feels very unsafe going because there’s some dangerous people who lurk around that area.
She said there’s meth heads known to frequent that area. When I was cleaning up the house, I did find some burnt tin foil. I figured it was either a crackhead or a meth head.
I just ordered a security camera that works on 4G, I know that I have connection with my phone when I’m there so hopefully it works.
It’s been said many a time, that the universe is expanding. My belly is expanding, but there’s something on the other side. Sounds to me like there’s a “wall” of some sort. Must be something on the other side of that wall, to expand into.
Near the bottom of this article I found this. It’s actually something I’ve long thought of. What was the “cause” of the big bang? Was there a cause?
My wife is a Deacon at her church. I’m at the total opposite. NO one in our families will debate with me. Can we have a civilized debate? It might make someone smile today.
I love a good debate but im not religious so i dunno where we would disagree
as for the cause of the big bang, theories i’ve heard - criminally simplified
membranes of other universes colliding, possibly in higher/lower dimensions
energy that essentially is boiling and once in a while a bubble can hit a threshold and like an atom bomb releases a ton of repulsive energy.
clyclical universe where it will eventually contract and repeat - poetic but boring
my favourite - einsteins math says white holes are possible which is the opposite of a black hole. maybe we are on the other side?
Already over my head! 
For my 16th birthday I ran away from my egg donor. (thus school) There’s abuse, and then there’s Mommie Dearest! No more wire hangers! Then there’s a broken nose, a popped ear drum… I once got beat with a skinny belt on my bare ass because I left little red stripes on the blanket on my bed from the beating I got 10 minutes prior.
Not looking for sympathy! My boys respect me. I learned.
Having said that, Gene Roddenberry musta met my pa. Spock did a perfect imitation of him. “Your emotions are interfering with your logic. Your logic should interfere with your emotions.” I shit you not! “You are most, illogical.” Man could do calculus in his head. Was working at a factory in my late teens. 'Twas a 3M fabricator. (IRS. Occupation? Fabricator.)
We had rolls of various types of foam that we laminated 3M adhesives onto. I don’t remember. Late 50’s? I recall one made the whole factory smell like an X-girlfriends, uh, wimp?
We had all these partially used rolls of adhesive, foams and what-not. VALUABLE! But if we needed X number of square feet, and that roll was 2’ short, you had to break out a whole new roll of foam and adhesive. You had to waste time, rolling out a partial roll to see if it would cover the job. Time = money!
Called pa, explained the situation and he said something about, measure the circumference of this, subtract the thickness of the core divided by the thickness, times, yo mama and her kids…
Within inches! NO foam or adhesive is perfectly consistent over a few hundred feet. Off the top of his head! I got as far as algebra, but I don’t recall anything about calculus. Could have been stoned, I suppose. Loved me some Hashish.
Now let’s see what I remember from my man, Carl Sagan, and other shit I’ve read. “Other universes colliding.” Nope. Never understood. More than one universe? Can’t wrap my mind around it. A universe with a different set of physics? Newton never got hit by an apple, but some bird above did? I’m naive and simple, I admit, but the universe I know is all encompassing. Where 'ya gonna put another universe?
I know, I know, a multiverse. I’m about as far from a physicist as Betty White was a brunette. I’m just not feeling it. Now, assuming the possibilities exist, each universe (probably) began with a bang. What caused the bang(s)?
Sounds like a Schrodinger cat experiment - paradox. Only after Galileo improved the telescope enough to observe the heavens, could we know of it’s existence. Did it, or did it not exist before he observed it? And opened an amazing can of worms.
Hmmm. That was probably a dumb statement! We can also thank Tales Miletus for “causing” Galileo to improve the telescope in the first place.
We can be reasonably sure the universe is 13.8 billion years old, because we know the speed of light and we can see only 13.8 billion years of light. But the universe is still expanding? Into what? My belly’s still expanding, but I know into what. The buttons on my stove that turn the gas on, making the house smell odd. I’ve LONG wondered: Is there a wall? Must be “something” on the other side.
That leads me to:
It’s not that funny car we call the sun running out of nitro and going super nova that’s going to kill us, it’s that other universe we’re going to run into regardless of it’s dimension when our universe expands a little too far. YEP! That’ll “cause” another big bang!
Rather than question each theory at a time, let’s just say there had to be a cause. What caused an energy in the fist place? What caused it to be be in a state of “boiling” wherein a “bubble” can hit a “threshold”?
What would cause a universe to collapse and explode again. Obviously the very nature of a universe, but what caused it in the first place? Boring, or redundant? Bahahaha!
Uh oh… I feel like being me with Einsteins math. If a black hole can “suck” light in, does a white hole send it back? I have holes in my tighty whities, but what I see on the other side is pretty dark. And that term can be used loosely.
In my not-so-humble-opinion, any theory must have a cause. The only logical conclusion for me, must be something omnipotent. But I don’t believe that!
My mother was Catholic. (Only devout when it served a purpose). My dad, brother and I are atheists. My sisters chose the middle ground and are Christian Reformed. We all were encouraged to come to our own conclusions.
When I was 13 and felt a little wisdom, I began going to several denominations of churches. My favorite are the Baptists. The universe is 6,000 years old. But when yesterday passed, it’s not 6,000 years, and a day. And they’ve been saying that for over 4,000 years. According to that logic, Jesus could never have existed. Strike 1! If different churches interpret the same passage of the Bible, differently, leading to so many denominations, I think that’s philosophy. Strike 2.
My favorite, and where I begin anyone that challenges my position:
In his mercy, the Lord “put a mark on Cain, so that no one would kill him at sight,” (Genesis 4:15). Cain was exiled to Nod, the land east of Eden, where he later started his own family.
WITH WHOM? What, only the religious came from Eve, and the rest came from apes? I came from an ape, but then I saw the light, and now I came from the loins of Adams and Eve? Did my deceased ancestral apes suddenly never exist, then? Okay, I don’t recall the whole story, I know they had a lot of children.
I’ma stop now. I like a good debate, but I feel I’m mocking those that I DO respect, regardless of their beliefs.
Speaking of Carl Sagan. If you haven’t already, read his book, Contact!
It was made into a movie starring some hot chick I’m sure you old timer’s never heard of named Jody Foster. Shares my birthday. Just 19 years too late to stalk her. Movie was awesome, right up until the end. Carl was a director and died of cancer before it ended and the ending changed dramatically. It was a good ending, but nothing like the book. Ass holes.
Basically, she was big into SETI. Got a message from somewhere around Vega. Instructions to make a time machine. It was built and she went on the ride of a life through a worm hole to talk with an “alien” in the form of her dad. She asked something about, is there more? Where else can we go? Something like that. Her “dad” said, “Small steps Emily, small steps”, like he did when she was 8 years old on a short wave radio looking for her dead mother.
Carl was a known agnostic. The movie ended with… Shit, don’t recall the name. I’ll use the term tribunal. A panel was questioning Jody about her experience with time travel through the worm hole, that (almost) no one believed. She was atheist.
She was asked if they should believe her based on faith. Ironic, should you see the movie. The book ended with another message after her travel. The message, revealed as a circle formed by ones and zeros when pi is expressed in base-11, suggests a purposeful creation of the universe and a potential connection to a higher power.
Now that’s a HELL of a lot more profound! How dare ANY one fuck with the integrity of a story from such a powerful imagination and a man of his intellect!!!
Book was some 450 pages. We were camping in the Finger Lakes region of N.Y. Beautiful area! Coming from a long line of nerds, (later I turned geek) I could explore, or spend 2 days, reading. NO regrets!
