@lufins-dad said in My TV reco....: Peppa Pig +1

@klaus said in Puzzle time: Geometry: Here's a solution that doesn't involve any angles. Radius of upper circle is a and of lower circle is b and of the outer circle r. [image: 1612553719437-57550d93-1bc7-4811-8fe9-72c8b580c5bd-image.png] The segment marked with "b-a" has length b-a by the intersecting chords theorem. Now, by Pythagoras, (2a)^+(2b)^2=(2r)^2, or a^2+b^2=r^2. The sum of the areas of the semi-circles is 1/2 pi a^2 + 1/2 pi b^2, or pi/2 (a^2+b^2). Substituting in the equation from above, we get that the combined area is pi/2 r^2. Since r^2*pi = 1, we get that the area is 1/2. Yeap, that's the solution that requires Thales theorem for you to establish that the "hypothenuse" has to cut through the middle of the circle and thus has the length 2r. Without this you would not be able to relate "r" to "a" and 'b".

Hmm ... right when I was reading only the headline, I thought they would weight the garbage collected from each address, or just track the presence/absence of garbage containers at each address, and assess “blight” from there.

@brenda said in Just Count the Egg-Sucking COWS!: @mik said in Just Count the Egg-Sucking COWS!: @jon-nyc you cannot be serious. If that is true it borders on criminal negligence. Agreed. What the heck! That's ridiculous. Contact your legislator? What options do you have? Not a lot. The wife is immunosuppressed and no allowances have been made for that class down here. Kinda dumb, but that's the way it is...

Doesn’t quite seem to cohere. The generic women dot should be a weighted average of its subcategories, but given where the listed subcategories are on the graph, that doesn’t seem true.

Knew a lady who opened up a small refinished furniture business after she retired. She enjoyed the people as much as the furniture. Her hours were posted as M-F Catch As Catch Can.

@taiwan_girl said in Speaking of cancel culture.....: Did President Trump actually "act" or did he just play himself? In Home Alone 2 he makes a 5 second (if that long) cameo by pointing the kid in the direction of the lobby or some place in a hotel. You see him long enough to recognize him. That's it. Everyone else in the movie actually had to act.

@copper said in Manual dexterity, Hanon and craft projects: @jodi said in Manual dexterity, Hanon and craft projects: I’m going to assume you are being serious. Sadly, I am.

These kinds of articles help reduce my angst for a civilization ending meteor and actually make me look forward to it.

I linked the article on another board I frequent. This post in the discussion caught my attention... "I did an accidental experiment around 15 or 20 years ago about the impact of "attention" on business, and while the outcome was not surprising, it was highly impressive and still impresses me today. Just now, I googled "who invented the carbide inserted woodturning tool?", and got a bout one and a half million returns, none of them providing the real answer and most of them pimping sales of one brand or another. Here is a sample; www.popularwoodworking.com/tools/tool-test-axe-carbide-turning-tools/ In fact, that tool was so innovative that books were written about it and the authors never got the answer to that question right a single time, even when positive proof was offered. I could not have cared less, except in terms of how tightly they were willing to cling to the untruths they published in order to conform their stories to public expectations. It was and is a HOOT! The fact is that the very first month it was published, Woodturning design magazine contained a half page ad for carbide woodturning tools, and I had already published ads in other woodturning magazines in the classified sections but was dissatisfied with the results. Placement was random and rates were far too expensive, but as soon as Ebay became a reality, I started selling tools hand over fist. I was making a living from those sales, but I lacked one critical ingredient to turn the woodturning world on it's nose; The hunger for attention simply was not in me Long story short, I made a decent living for 8 years with those tools, even while the industry gurus swore that carbide was not a good material for wood turning, until they finally caved to the facts and endorsed them, whereupon I had a dozen competitors overnight, most of which claimed to having invented them and fully half making attempts to patent them Not a problem for me. I had other stuff I was aching to move on to already and I did. It was just an excellent illustration of how that lack of desire for attention may limit one's opportunities in life and in business. That same pattern has repeated itself over and over in my life, and I have no regrets whatsoever. I KNOW what I have done and can do. That is plenty good enough for me.... My only regrets are that so many folks need and lack that attention to keep them creating because it".

@jon-nyc said in Impeach for spreading falsehoods: Yep, that's the very same thing! So unfair!!!! LOL

Most likely, though, people want food for their new pets. Many of the ammo companies are not traded publicly, so numbers are hard to come by. Vista is publicly traded and they have the Remington brand, among others. They are at full capacity, running about 30% over 2019. Currently, they have $1B in backorders.

Hahaha that's funny. I can see the legislative point of requiring a vote for orders lasting more than 60 days.

So much material, so easy, why not?

@jon-nyc said in Parler CEO fired: It doesn’t beg that question it raises it. /pedant mode 'Pedant' is a very charitable interpretation.

@xenon said in Good quote: It’s from a midcentury director (Andrew Maysles) We need a like button.