[url]http://imgur.com/1LkXZs4[/url]

[url]http://49.media.tumblr.com/47daade7574cc36f15e86637b904e042/tumblr_nqi4b6rmAt1t95h1uo1_400.gif[/url]

[url]http://i.imgur.com/s9PlQkz.gif[/url]

We saw this sign in DeWitt this weekend.

The Google map view [URL="https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2941836,-91.3243655,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1siIDwd_69lDE_uJNNIUBCZA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656"]shows an older price[/URL].

:mike:

Something is wrong there... all the cars are on the wrong side of the road... :wink:

[url]https://vimeo.com/76684408[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;426778][URL]http://49.media.tumblr.com/47daade7574cc36f15e86637b904e042/tumblr_nqi4b6rmAt1t95h1uo1_400.gif[/URL]

[URL]http://i.imgur.com/s9PlQkz.gif[/URL][/QUOTE]
The first is painful to watch. The second is hilarious.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;427335][URL]https://vimeo.com/76684408[/URL][/QUOTE]
Pretty slick!

[YOUTUBE]P2fXTf2hcoA[/YOUTUBE]

LOL! I didn't get it at first. It sounded like a semi or firetruck.

Ukrainian man, 23, poses as US high school student for four years
 

[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35662211"]A Ukrainian man has been arrested[/URL] after he was found to be posing as a high school student in the US state of Pennsylvania for four years.

[QUOTE]Artur Samarin, 23, enrolled at Harrisburg High under the name "Asher Potts" after his visa expired in 2012.

Police say he now faces charges of theft, identity theft and tampering with public records.

Mr Samarin, who was pretending to be 18, was said to be an active member of the school community.
[/QUOTE]
This is pretty good WTF material, as well.

[url]http://xkcd.com/1040/large/[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;427489][URL]http://xkcd.com/1040/large/[/URL][/QUOTE]
This is a great visualization aid.

We saw a historical marker today but so far we haven't been able to find out much about it.

We also saw our first E-85 fuel pump.

:mike:

I suppose it relate to this
[URL]http://msgw.org/tishomingo/ChiefTishomingoChickasawWarriorandChieftain.pdf[/URL]
[quote="pdf"][FONT=serif]Tishomingo, a renowned warrior and chieftain of [/FONT][FONT=serif]the Chickasaws, lived in what is now the [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]Bethany Community, in the northwestern part of Lee County, but at the time of Tishomingo's [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]residence was a part of Pontotoc County. He[/FONT][FONT=serif]re Tishomingo owned two sections of land. These [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]lands are described in an old record book in th[/FONT][FONT=serif]e Chancery Clerk's office at Pontotoc as "Sections [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]13 and 24, township 7, range 5, east of the basis meridian, Pontotoc County." These lands were [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]allotted Tishomingo under the Treaty of Pontotoc, [/FONT][FONT=serif]in 1832. Section 78 of the same treaty also [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]made the further provision for Tishomingo: [/FONT][FONT=serif]“The Chickasaws feel grateful to their old ch[/FONT][FONT=serif]iefs
for their long and faithful services in attending [/FONT][FONT=serif]to the business of the Nation. They believe it a [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]dutty to keep them from want in their declining [/FONT][FONT=serif]age. With these feelings, they have looked upon[/FONT]
[FONT=serif]their old and beloved chief Tishomingo, who is [/FONT][FONT=serif]now grown old, and is poor and is not able to [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]live in that comfort which his valuable life and [/FONT][FONT=serif]great merit deserve. It is therefore determined[/FONT]
[FONT=serif] to give him out of national funds one hundred [/FONT][FONT=serif]dollars [sic] a year during the balance of his life,
and the Nation requests him to receive it as a [/FONT][FONT=serif]token of their feelings for him, on account of his
long and valuable services." [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]
Cushman, the historian of the Chickasaws, says of Tishomingo: [/FONT][FONT=serif]"He was a wise counselor and
brave warrior among [/FONT][FONT=serif]the Chickasaws, which is about all that has [/FONT][FONT=serif]escaped oblivion; little has
been preserved of his life [/FONT][FONT=serif]by tradition or otherwise. He was the acting [/FONT][FONT=serif]Tishu Miko of
[B]Ishtehotopah[/B] (the king) at the time of the removal of his people to the west. He [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]died in 1839, a year before his royal master. He was appointed during life as one of the chief [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]counselors of Tshtehotopah, and when he advised [/FONT][FONT=serif]the king, upon any mooted question, so great [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]was his influence over the other counselors, as [/FONT][FONT=serif]Governor Harris stated, that they at once [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]unanimously acquiesced in his propos[/FONT][FONT=serif]ition, but invariably with the [/FONT][FONT=serif]reiterated exclamation, “That's [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]just what I thought!” "That's just what I t[/FONT][FONT=serif]hought!" While the king said little, he generally [/FONT]
acquiesced to Tishomingo's suggestion
[/quote]

Santorini Eruption Radiocarbon Dated to 1627-1600 B.C.
 

Article is [URL="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/santorini/minoan_eruption/1613bc_olive-tree-date.html"]here[/URL]. Not at all new news, but I was previously unaware of the details.
[QUOTE] by Walter L. Friedrich, Bernd Kromer, Michael Friedrich, Jan Heinemeier, Tom Pfeiffer, and Sahra Talamo
[B]Science[/B], 28 April 2006: 548 [URL="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;312/5773/548"]Abstract[/URL] [URL="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;312/5773/548"]Full Text[/URL] [URL="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/sci;312/5773/548"]PDF[/URL] [URL="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;312/5773/548/DC1"]Supporting Online Material[/URL]

This article published the results of our recent study to provide the most precise absolute date for great Plinian "Minoan" eruption on Santorini about 4000 years ago available so far, to 1613 +-7 years BC. It made the cover of Science in 2006, but the story behind starts 4000 years ago, or on a personal scale, in late 2002. The following is a short, mostly personal addendum to the story, from the point of view of the finder of the olive branch (Tom Pfeiffer).[/QUOTE]

:mike:

I had a teacher whose married name was 'Hockersmith'.

[QUOTE=kladner;427977]I had a teacher whose married name was 'Hockersmith'.[/QUOTE][url]http://i.imgur.com/y5xt0BQ.gif[/url]

:mike:

:mike:

:mike:

So, Americans also have empty PET bottles and mounds of rubbish along their streets... Now you killed my dreams... :razz:
edit, No, wait, is that a WV Beetle behind? :w00t:

:mike:

Nice! Perhaps it is worth having a thread specifically for noteworthy memorial plaques from around the world.

[url]https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jc0slv8aBLE/VtCC5pMSJOI/AAAAAAAAvbs/Iaasmal_VnU/s1600/keiWDhl.gif[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;428357][URL]https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jc0slv8aBLE/VtCC5pMSJOI/AAAAAAAAvbs/Iaasmal_VnU/s1600/keiWDhl.gif[/URL][/QUOTE]
Wow! Lots of energy in that spinning thing.

Newborn babies AREN'T beautiful
 

Just got my first picture of my baby niece, and I'm glad to have a new baby niece, I'll love her to death. But...as a newborn...she ain't pretty. Truth is a pretty newborn is like a hen's tooth, they're pretty damn rare.

When I was born, I wasn't pretty, either. If you told Rush Limbaugh that Hillary Clinton would make a good president while Mr. Clinton was still president, you'd basically get the visual of what I looked like as a newborn, except quite a bit uglier.

Newborns tend to look like aliens or old men. Sometimes they look like that, plus really red, which I guess is a bonus. We all coo over them and say how beautiful they are and how they're God's little miracle(that last part is true, btw) but secretly, we're thinking,"Damn, I'll be glad when that kid grows up and I stop thinking his touch will heal my paper cut." (ET movie reference).

Am I the only one who thinks this?

[QUOTE=jasong;428494]Just got my first picture of my baby niece, and I'm glad to have a new baby niece, I'll love her to death. But...as a newborn...she ain't pretty. Truth is a pretty newborn is like a hen's tooth, they're pretty damn rare.

When I was born, I wasn't pretty, either. If you told Rush Limbaugh that Hillary Clinton would make a good president while Mr. Clinton was still president, you'd basically get the visual of what I looked like as a newborn, except quite a bit uglier.

Newborns tend to look like aliens or old men. Sometimes they look like that, plus really red, which I guess is a bonus. We all coo over them and say how beautiful they are and how they're God's little miracle(that last part is true, btw) but secretly, we're thinking,"Damn, I'll be glad when that kid grows up and I stop thinking his touch will heal my paper cut." (ET movie reference).

Am I the only one who thinks this?[/QUOTE]Far from it.


Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

I used to...
 

...think all babies are cute until I saw my Niece a few yeas ago.

Looked exactly like a Troll Doll; red hair and all.

However, 3 years later she is actually a cute kid.....who would've though

[QUOTE=petrw1;428504]...think all babies are cute until I saw my Niece a few yeas ago.

Looked exactly like a Troll Doll; red hair and all.

However, 3 years later she is actually a cute kid.....who would've though[/QUOTE]
Yeah, they tend to grow out of it. I'm specifically talking about newborns. Toddlers and babies do tend to be cute.

I believe the term newborn is based on the fact that they can't crawl, so it's basically the first few months of life.

[QUOTE=kladner;428360]Wow! Lots of energy in that spinning thing.[/QUOTE]
The kid in the yellow shirt almost got himself hurled into a metal something or other. Looks like a handrail.

Newborns go through a phase where they look like Winston Churchill.

they aren't supposed to be ...

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;428547]Newborns go through a phase where they look like Winston Churchill.[/QUOTE]

I sometimes have a dream where I'm in a "foursome" with Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and Nancy Reagan.

Guess who's on top?

[QUOTE=chalsall;428555]Guess who's on top?[/QUOTE]Nope. Hu's on First.

[QUOTE=jasong;428512]The kid in the yellow shirt almost got himself hurled into a metal something or other. Looks like a handrail.[/QUOTE]
Yeah. He had a rough landing as it was.

Very rough videography, but amazing terrain. This is a 4x4 trek up Mt Pinatubo, Philippines. The vehicles appear to be sort of 4WD dune buggies. It is worth skipping over some stretches. The narrative is tedious. Worth a look if any of the elements interest you.
[YOUTUBE]LVVwlh7LnHE[/YOUTUBE]

h/t Yonatan Zunger [url]https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger/posts/i5aRYqiaNai[/url]
Pouring Molten salt into Water - Explosion!
[YOUTUBE]PDRWQUUUCF0[/YOUTUBE]

[url]http://i.imgur.com/8CxZEnm.gif[/url]

[url]http://i.imgur.com/65OYILL.gif[/url]

[url]http://i.imgur.com/UTXsQGd.gif[/url]

For years we have been looking for the best terminal monospace "programming" font and we think we have found a winner.

You will have to zoom in to see the detail.

:mike:

Have programmers forgotten about the pinging ability?
 

I don't understand it.

I have about 4 different Kindle accounts I can send my bought content to when I buy stuff on my computer, but the only way I can differentiate them is to compare content. And, now I discover that I can share content on my tablet with other devices, but all I get is device names with no description.

Why, WHY...don't we have the ability to ping devices to know what's what? Just a simple messaging ability, nothing fancy. Maybe just a number, start at the top of the unknown device list and go 1, 2,3,4, bambambam down the list so I can go around the house and see what's what, then maybe a weird letter combination so I know it's not a coincidence with someone else doing the same thing.

I don't want tiles on my desktop or watches that can call in a new order for toilet paper, I want what I already have access to to actually work well with other stuff. It doesn't have to talk to me or give me the ability to turn it on and off from across the room, I just want it to be convenient in a way that's invisible.

Am I old, is that the problem? My dad only wants a phone to make phone calls, my mom is adamant about me not enabling the Internet capability on the living room tv, and I just my Kindle to tell me which Amazon account it's connected to.

You can name your Kindle and it appears on the top row. Would that help?

:mike:

I suppose asking why the OP has multiple Kindle accounts would be pointless, since the whole point of the thread is attention-seeking. JasonG, forum new-thread-whoring practitioner extraordinaire.

Our Kindle account is actually owned by the feral teenager that resides with us. We figure he will outlive us so it makes more sense to buy the "books" under his account and then share them with our Kindle. (Fortunately that is a supported option!)

The whole issue of digital media "ownership" is weird. Ideally we would own a real library of books that could be sold or given away. But, we accept the weirdness because it is just so darn convenient to have hundreds of books in a device that you can read/search/whatever any time.

As for starting lots of threads, that does not bother us, but we can understand it might bother others. We have toyed with the idea of a sub-forum dedicated to individual threads "owned" by members to just ramble in. We kinda do that now ourself in the (oddly named) "ho-pourri" thread. Do any of you think that would be a cool idea?

:mike:

Invest in a label maker.:wombatman:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;428832]As for starting lots of threads, that does not bother us, but we can understand it might bother others. We have toyed with the idea of a sub-forum dedicated to individual threads "owned" by members to just ramble in. We kinda do that now ourself in the (oddly named) "ho-pourri" thread. Do any of you think that would be a cool idea?[/QUOTE]

I suggest collecting these kinds of short "a reader sounds off" threads in ho-pourri might be a good idea ... and think how it would boost your much-watched post count of that thread!

[QUOTE=jasong;428824]Am I old, is that the problem?[/QUOTE]
No! 25 years ago, what software went into computers was decided by engineers because the speed and space were so restricted. Today, there is so much room that what software goes into devices is decided by competing commercial interests.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;428820]For years we have been looking for the best terminal monospace "programming" font and we think we have found a winner.

You will have to zoom in to see the detail.

:mike:[/QUOTE]

I really like [url=https://github.com/chrissimpkins/Hack]Hack[/url] because it works well at small pixel sizes.

[QUOTE=chalsall;428555]I sometimes have a dream where I'm in a "foursome" with Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and Nancy Reagan.

Guess who's on top?[/QUOTE]

Don't know who's on top, but there's at least a 50-50 chance that someone is thinking of England.

[QUOTE=jasong;428494]Just got my first picture of my baby niece, and I'm glad to have a new baby niece, I'll love her to death. But...as a newborn...she ain't pretty. Truth is a pretty newborn is like a hen's tooth, they're pretty damn rare.

When I was born, I wasn't pretty, either. If you told Rush Limbaugh that Hillary Clinton would make a good president while Mr. Clinton was still president, you'd basically get the visual of what I looked like as a newborn, except quite a bit uglier.

Newborns tend to look like aliens or old men. Sometimes they look like that, plus really red, which I guess is a bonus. We all coo over them and say how beautiful they are and how they're God's little miracle(that last part is true, btw) but secretly, we're thinking,"Damn, I'll be glad when that kid grows up and I stop thinking his touch will heal my paper cut." (ET movie reference).

Am I the only one who thinks this?[/QUOTE]

Well, let's just figure that short of being a deep-sea diver, the pressure exerted upon a baby during birth is likely the highest pressure that person will experience in their entire lifetime. There is a good reason for babies' bones (especially their skulls) initially being soft and pliable. You're not going to look (or feel) beautiful after [I]that[/I] kind of trip.

There are so many facets of the entire development and birth process that must go just right, that it is nothing short of a miracle that things work out with such astonishing regularity in both the human and animal kingdoms.

[url]https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStakesSpaceX[/url]

I used my super duper integer calculator to check
the factorization of my post count.

I can confirm that both agreed on at least one number. :smile: :davar55:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;428828]You can name your Kindle and it appears on the top row. Would that help?

:mike:[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I should've thought before I posted. I need to check my timestamp on my original post, I feel like an idiot now.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;428831]I suppose asking why the OP has multiple Kindle accounts would be pointless, since the whole point of the thread is attention-seeking. JasonG, forum new-thread-whoring practitioner extraordinaire.[/QUOTE]
I have multiple accounts, because I only recently figured out I can look up my Kindle's name in the Kindle account itself.

Paranoia does weird things to the brain, especially when it's your go to emotion.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;428832]Our Kindle account is actually owned by the feral teenager that resides with us. We figure he will outlive us so it makes more sense to buy the "books" under his account and then share them with our Kindle. (Fortunately that is a supported option!)

The whole issue of digital media "ownership" is weird. Ideally we would own a real library of books that could be sold or given away. But, we accept the weirdness because it is just so darn convenient to have hundreds of books in a device that you can read/search/whatever any time.

As for starting lots of threads, that does not bother us, but we can understand it might bother others. We have toyed with the idea of a sub-forum dedicated to individual threads "owned" by members to just ramble in. We kinda do that now ourself in the (oddly named) "ho-pourri" thread. Do any of you think that would be a cool idea?

:mike:[/QUOTE]
Sounds like a variation of Twitter. But also a fun idea.

:mike:

[url]http://imgur.com/PTM81Xh[/url]

Not only cats are terrified of cucumbers:
[URL="http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/15/4-year-old-boy-recommended-for-counter-t"]4-Year-Old Boy Recommended for Counter-Terrorism Program After Saying 'Cooker Bomb' Instead of 'Cucumber'[/URL]
[QUOTE]In their defense, it wasn't just the way the boy garbled the name of the salad staple. [I]He had also drawn a stick figure of a man cutting that vegetable with a giant knife[/I].[/QUOTE]

:mike:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;429268]:mike:[/QUOTE]

Dang, where are those taken from? Best as I can tell, the middle one is only 200 km from me! (And substantially closer to me than to you!)

[QUOTE=Dubslow;429281]Dang, where are those taken from? Best as I can tell, the middle one is only 200 km from me! (And substantially closer to me than to you!)[/QUOTE][url]https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2262094,-89.4596515,3a,75y,270h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s19pQSuYy8rvXNQibLqo4kw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664[/url]

:mike:

[url]http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/smart-living/a-supermom-created-this-400000-piece-hogwarts-castle-out-of-legos-and-we-are-speechless/ss-BBqvvlN#image=11[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;429317][url]https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2262094,-89.4596515,3a,75y,270h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s19pQSuYy8rvXNQibLqo4kw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664[/url]

:mike:[/QUOTE]

Okay, so less than halfway to me :razz:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;429317][URL]https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2262094,-89.4596515,3a,75y,270h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s19pQSuYy8rvXNQibLqo4kw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664[/URL]

:mike:[/QUOTE]
You are getting into our favorite part of Illinois. The Shawnee Nat. Forest area is South of where the glaciers stopped. This means that there are fantastic sandstone formations which escaped being ground down.

Some special places:[INDENT]Pomona Natural Bridge: [URL]https://goo.gl/maps/4nzKeo7S3Zs[/URL]
Giant City State Park: [URL="https://goo.gl/maps/CzRNxhA2ozq"]https://goo.gl/maps/CzRNxhA2ozq:tu:[/URL]
Ferne Clyffe Park: [URL]https://goo.gl/maps/XiuJe9xFt142[/URL]
Garden of the Gods: [URL]https://goo.gl/maps/J2bxiLSBMgx[/URL]
[/INDENT]Giant City Lodge is a CCC construction of local sandstone and timber. They have nice cabins and a decent restaurant. There are trails in the park which range from Accessible to Strenuous. Lots of beautiful views without hiking.

The Lodge itself is an amazing building, with many signs of its hand made origin.

Ferne Clyffe has a wonderful trail past bluffs, leading to a waterfall. The trail is totally flat: about a mile hike.

Garden of the Gods
 

Just another shot from Downstate Illinois.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;429317][url]https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2262094,-89.4596515,3a,75y,270h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s19pQSuYy8rvXNQibLqo4kw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664[/url]

:mike:[/QUOTE]
What softwares art thou employing to render that wonder of cartography?

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;429387]What softwares art thou employing to render that wonder of cartography?[/QUOTE][url]http://www.mob-rule.com/home[/url]

:mike:

[url]http://vr.christiansoes.dk/panonew/opera/opera.html[/url]

I requested an account from mob-rule.

:mike:

:mike:

[QUOTE=LaurV;425435]Hey, [B][U]I[/U][/B] found the largest prime!

[ATTACH]13839[/ATTACH]

(for the first time since it was added, and we swear that we didn't use refresh)

We are curious if anyone ever found the "2". We don't want to try refresh, that would be cheating. But we access the forum as often as possible :razz:

This just in case that "2" is really in, we have a vague, conspiracy idea, that the gerbils didn't start with those having so few digits... (we never saw a 4 or 5 digits, actually, maybe only those discovered by GIMPS were added?)[/QUOTE]
I don't know whether anyone noticed this, but I just realized that 74,207,281 is quite easy to remember: 74+207=281.

On a completely unrelated note, I ran at several high school tracks over the past two weeks or so. Some responses I got:

(from people of all age groups, including parents): "You're really fast. Do you run for the school team/What school do you go to?"
"Wow, you're quite fast. You could run for a top college in a few years if you keep training hard."
(from a ~14 year old girl, to another high school girl) "That guy looks kind of cute." "Uhhh...do you want to ask him out?" (to me, after a few minutes) "hey...ummmm...what grade are you in?"

I am 27.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;429317][url]https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2262094,-89.4596515,3a,75y,270h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s19pQSuYy8rvXNQibLqo4kw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664[/url]

:mike:[/QUOTE][QUOTE=Uncwilly;429387]What softwares art thou employing to render that wonder of cartography?[/QUOTE][QUOTE=Xyzzy;429394][url]http://www.mob-rule.com/home[/url][/QUOTE][QUOTE=richs;429399]I requested an account from mob-rule.[/QUOTE]I have registered and entered data. I have 250 counties currently. There may be a few more from a childhood trip. I have all of one area, 2 remaining in one, 86% in another.
None of mine overlap with yours. Those who are interested can search the scoreboard for me (same username). [URL="http://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/nation/"]2017[/URL] I should double the number of counties and add several new states.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;429810]I have registered and entered data. I have 250 counties currently. There may be a few more from a childhood trip. I have all of one area, 2 remaining in one, 86% in another.
None of mine overlap with yours. Those who are interested can search the scoreboard for me (same username). [URL="http://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/nation/"]2017[/URL] I should double the number of counties and add several new states.[/QUOTE]

Hey, the point of maximum eclipse duration is nearly exactly halfway between me and Mike, to within ~10 miles. Now there's an idea!

[QUOTE=Dubslow;429812]Hey, the point of maximum eclipse duration is nearly exactly halfway between me and Mike, to within ~10 miles. Now there's an idea![/QUOTE]I would not be undisposed to meeting with forumites on my great adventure. Madpoo did a job not far from an area that I frequent, but the timing did not work out. This would not be the first time I have traveled to see an eclipse, but it would be the first total for me. I was not in a position in 1991 to visit the locations of totality (I did manage to sneak a personal day off work and get as close as I could, the next day {Friday} I came back and they told me that I would be working at a different location starting Monday.) Went to see an annular in 1994 (visited relatives and was ready to travel to other cities based upon the weather). Saw a sunrise partial in 1994, saw it rise across a large lake. Traveled with 3 family members to see a recent annular (visited Zion and Bryce at the time).

First one ever observed was from our front stoop. Projected it on to a card and traced it. Had dialed the time service on the telephone so that our times were accurate. Afterward the tracings were inked and the silhouettes were colored.
Also stayed up all night to watch this one: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1982_lunar_eclipse[/url]

Over the last two days we snagged 28 new counties.

:mike:

We knew he had other obligations and was unable to meet with us today, but since we were in the area, we dropped by to deliver some buttons.

:mike:

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:mike:

:mike:

Something I wrote elsewhere which did not belong there.


Utter irrelevance: Count <2[SUP]3[/SUP]×3[SUP]2[/SUP]×79 Posts>, as of now. However, the previous count of <11[SUP]2[/SUP]×47 Posts> had simplicity going for it. I was struck by the symmetry of 2[SUP]3[/SUP]×3[SUP]2[/SUP]. :smile:
Grrr. The superscripts got lost on the first edit.

[QUOTE=kladner;430355]Something I wrote elsewhere which did not belong there.


Utter irrelevance: Count <2[SUP]3[/SUP]×3[SUP]2[/SUP]×79 Posts>, as of now. However, the previous count of <11[SUP]2[/SUP]×47 Posts> had simplicity going for it. I was struck by the symmetry of 2[SUP]3[/SUP]×3[SUP]2[/SUP]. :smile:
Grrr. The superscripts got lost on the first edit.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/mar/27/romania-players-change-squad-numbers-for-maths-equations-before-spain-game"]Romania players change squad numbers for maths problems before Spain game[/URL]

That's a nice way to get eyes on the subject.

:mike:

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[QUOTE]Crank Files - Numberphile
Published on Mar 31, 2016
Keith Moore from the Royal Society shows Matt Parker (and Brady) a few math papers from the society archives.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://youtu.be/eAjMvpRMVDw[/url] (5:43)
[YOUTUBE]eAjMvpRMVDw[/YOUTUBE]

edit: this post is an accidental dup of a new thread: [URL="http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=21167"]cranks of history[/URL], but I like it too much to relegate to miscellaneous math anyway.

:mike:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;430836]:mike:[/QUOTE]
This is the type of thing that should dissuade Americans from voting for Trump.

I usually tend to think liberals are insane, but some forms of insanity are worse than others.

If Trump gets the Republican nomination, I guarantee I'll vote Democrat.

:mike:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;431058]:mike:[/QUOTE]
Zen and the art of the long ride.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;431058]:mike:[/QUOTE]
You just accomplished the SaddleSore 1000 challenge:
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[QUOTE=MooMoo2;431089]You just accomplished the SaddleSore 1000 challenge:
[URL]http://www.ironbutt.com/[/URL][/QUOTE]That's where we got the idea.

We didn't "certify" the ride because the cost seemed a bit high. Plus, we don't need a certificate to tell us what we already know.

:mike:

This happened before the long ride. Not bad for a little more than three months!

:mike:

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:mike:

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