Mildly interesting

OK, everyone check out George's link, and see if you can catch a dollar bill.
I could. Every time.
And I think anyone that plays piano reasonably well, can do the same.
That's my hypothesis. Eye/hand coordination is developed to be much faster for pianists.

I used to piss off our cat because I could smack his paw faster than he could try to dig his claws into me. It always started out as a game, but he would get mad after losing over and over. He'd finally hiss, and run away, with me giggling like a little kid. Everyone now needs to go find their cat. If you don't have a cat, just walk down the street calling "kitty-kitty." Cats may be slower so that everyone can play that game and win. Not sure.

Horace

I couldn't catch the dollar but when it was increased to 20, I caught it every time. As they say, every man has his price.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@Rainman said in Mildly interesting:

I used to piss off our cat because I could smack his paw faster than he could try to dig his claws into me.

Def the post of the day.

taiwan_girl

Thought this was "mildly interesting"

-QUOTE-
When the Great Plague of London ravaged through the British city beginning in 1665, Issac Newton was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge. As described in Gale Christianson's Isaac Newton, a few months after acquiring his undergraduate degree in the spring of that year, the 23-year-old retreated to his family farm of Woolsthorpe Manor, some 60 miles northwest of Cambridge. Along with being located a safe distance from the carriers of the horrific disease that was wiping out the population of the city, Woolsthorpe provided the sort of quiet, serene environment that allowed a mind like Newton's to journey, uninterrupted, to the farthest reaches of the imagination. This period is now known as annus mirabilis – the "year of wonders."
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Newton quarantined during pandemic

So, good things can happen during a "stay at home" 555555

jon-nyc

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

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Wow. That's pretty cool.

jon-nyc

How couples meet. 1940-2020

taiwan_girl

@jon-nyc Interesting graph. I would not have expect the "college" meeting to decrease so much after the last 15 years or so.

jon-nyc

It’s all zero sum. Those online meetings had to come from somewhere.

taiwan_girl

@jon-nyc Good point, but I guess I would have expected the "meeting in bar/restaurant" to have decreased also. Not sure why that is so much more popular now than in 1980 or 1990.

The New Coffee Room

Mildly interesting