Random Thought Thread

[Deleted User]

I'm considering a job in Billings, Montana... on the one hand, it pays more than what I am making right now, or at least the same without massive amounts of overtime.

On the other hand, it's even more remote than the irrigated desert I live in now.

But you what? I bet it's green in the summer! And it's not too far from Yellowstone National Park.

Struggling to see a downside

 

[lunatic59]

Struggling to see a downside

Montana in winter ...

 

[Deleted User]

Montana in winter ...

Wow that's bleak. Can't even have fun by skiing.

 

[zuben el genub]

Wow that's bleak. Can't even have fun by skiing.

You are sitting on the largest caldera in the US. If that sucker blows, most of the country will go with it.

 

[Dngrsone]

So, we're watching Fury Road ("It's FuriOHsa, not FurioSAH" my daughter says, nerd family FTW), and one of the bosses gets blinded during the firefight. Guy totally can't see anything and yet he's managing to put machine-gun fire nearly on target.

Kinda reminded me of an old joke comparing Stevie Wonder with Imperial Stormtroopers...

 

[no one]

I don't know Dngrsone, that sounds like superstition to me.

 

[Dngrsone]

Haha! Well, he was the Master Blaster, and every shot he made was signed, sealed & delivered...

 

[no one]

Well, he was livin' for the city.

 

[psionandy]

“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
― Philip K. Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982)

 

[mikedt]

Why is "Devin" such a popular English name in Jinan? That's five Devins so far. I never met or saw anyone in the UK or US, or anywhere else in China who was called Devin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_(name)

 

[Deleted User]

Why is "Devin" such a popular English name in Jinan? That's five Devins so far. I never met or saw anyone in the UK or US, or anywhere else in China who was called Devin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_(name)

Maybe as it's of Irish origin, it will be more commonly used in Ireland. I never met anyone in the UK with that name.

 

[mikedt]

Maybe as it's of Irish origin, it will be more commonly used in Ireland. I never met anyone in the UK with that name.

From the Wiki I gathered it was Irish. It's usual for language students to give themselves an English language name, which are also used when conducting international business. It's just in Jinan, Shandong Province, I know five Devins, Devin Zhang, Devin Ping, Devin Zhou, Devin Li, and Devin Tan. Non of them know each other, and this is over a period of 7 years.

BTW on the list of famous Devins in the Wiki, four of them are NFL players, and three are NBA. And I never met a single Devin until coming to Jinan.

 

[psionandy]

Closest I've ever come to meeting a Devin was

http://knight-rider.wikia.com/wiki/Devon_Miles

 

[Bg260]

Oops.

 

[Deleted User]

Oops.
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That'll keep you busy for a while. (and just how many forums are you watching?!)

 

[Bg260]

(and just how many forums are you watching?!)

All of them

 

[Kaat72]

Weekend!

 

[Bg260]

 

[mrex]

rum

 

[Dngrsone]

Molasses

 

[Bg260]

Grog?

 

[no one]

Have we merged threads?

 

[mikedt]

Saturday

 

[Bg260]

ran·dom
ˈrandəm/
adjective
adjective: random

1. 1.
   made, done, happening, or chosen without method or conscious decision.
   "a random sample of 100 households"
   synonyms: unsystematic, unmethodical, arbitrary, unplanned, undirected, casual, indiscriminate, nonspecific, haphazard, stray, erratic; More
   
   antonyms: systematic
   • STATISTICS
     governed by or involving equal chances for each item.
   • (of masonry) with stones of irregular size and shape.
2. 2.
   informal
   odd, unusual, or unexpected.
   "I find it impossible to not laugh at such a random guy"

 

[mikedt]

Time for Teletubbies