@mik said in Old white men need not apply:

Most people who are qualified to participate are successful people with some experience. People without experience in administration or boards or whatever usually end up being dead weight that wastes time.

Subject matter expertise, likeability and trust are what matters most.

@doctor-phibes said in A bit of jazz...:

a protege of Tatum

I'm proud of myself to have recognized his influence.

@mik I agree. Crazy!

Great story! 🙂

Larry likes that guy.

h/t @wtg

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@klaus

True. Let’s say instead “due to all the work done to explore whether Goldbach’s Conjecture is true or not, we can safely say that...”

Since Goldbach’s conjecture has been verified up to ~10^18, and we only need it to hold up to 198, that should work. 🙂

@larry said in What a way to spend Christmas:

@xenon said in What a way to spend Christmas:

@larry said in What a way to spend Christmas:

@xenon said in What a way to spend Christmas:

@copper said in What a way to spend Christmas:

Yes, of course that is the bigger problem

The man-child thing

He is a man-child

That is how he built his business, by being a man-child

That is how he became president of the United States, he is a man-child

That is all he is, a man-child

That is the problem, the man-child

So being POTUS and having money absolve you of character flaws, or mean you can’t have character flaws?

Trump is a whiny, small man. Having money doesn’t change that.

A "whiny, small man"......

Jesus.

Oh you’re right. He’s a magnanimous man who lets irrelevant slights roll off his back. He doesn’t do anything that’s beneath the office he holds.

I just think it's funny watching a whiny, small man complaining that someone else is a whiny, small man.

Well you shoulda recorded yourself typing this out, then put it on repeat. You’d have non-stop laughs.

I just watched this documentary, Knucleball, last week on Amazon Prime. Niekro plays himself in a few brief appearances.

There are not many knuckleballers left.

Everyone tries to throw it, very few actually make it. We had a catcher who used to throw knucklers back to the pitchers as a joke. It drove them crazy, it was hilarious.

https://www.amazon.com/Knuckleball-R-Dickey/dp/B08F2RJXFD/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=knuckleball&qid=1609122683&s=instant-video&sr=1-1

It’s not acceptable to me, I would remove it immediately.

@doctor-phibes said in Stuck outside in the rain:

I know it was a pretty lame dad joke, but still...

I mean ... you said you talked to your neighbor. That was a dead giveaway.

@george-k said in Merry Christmas:

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I looked at that post too quickly and thought it said Incel instead of Intel...

@george-k i too have found this season depressing and much nastier at portraying the Windsors.

That’s a lot of desert to cross and recross.

WARNING: bloody, violent catfights, not for the faint of hearts.

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That's so Germanic of you. Or maybe Russian. 😆

It's not difficult. I've raised $10K in two different grants for my alumni association in the last couple months. All of my documentation emphasized that we were a very low overhead all-volunteer charity that was in no danger of going under. They have no resources to validate these things.