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#1
Christmas music isn't always bad. Just 99% of the modern stuff is shit.
Like "Remember O Thou Man," about why you should be glad of Jesus, because you're going to hell, you asshole.

Remember Adam's fall,
O thou Man, O thou Man,
Remember Adam's fall
   From Heaven to Hell.
Remember Adam's fall,
How we were condemned all
To Hell perpetual,
   There for to dwell.

Or "Gloucestershire Wassail," a song about drinking to.. well, everything the carolers can get drunk to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q-yxeow7Xw

Proper Christmas music, yes?
#2
Bring and Brag / Re: Impossible bottles
April 15, 2012, 03:37:06 AM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on April 13, 2012, 02:11:19 AM
Tie it loose, stuff it in, pull up so it hangs on the shoulders at the neck of the bottle, pull it tight?

Not even close.
Note that the rope pretty much entirely fills the neck of the bottle. 15.9mm rope in an 18mm neck. The knot is 4 rope thicknesses at the thickest point. So it would need a 60mm wide neck to do that.

Steps:
Get bottle of whiskey.
Drink whiskey.
Scrape label off with razor blade.
Remove residue with acetone.
Cut rope to appropriate length.
Heat-seal ends to prevent unraveling.
Put one end inside bottle.
Tie figure-8 knot inside bottle.
Tie turk's head knot around neck with the other end.
Take photograph.
#3
Bring and Brag / Impossible bottles
April 13, 2012, 12:27:01 AM
So I saw some of Harry Eng's amazing bottled knots. His goal was to make people think. That tends to be one of our goals.

So I tied a knot in a bottle.


The neck of the bottle is 18mm in diameter, the rope is 15.88mm (5/8 in) solid braid polypropylene from home depot (way too soft for this sort of work). The bottle is a Knappogue Castle whiskey bottle, with the whiskey safely drunk and the label removed.

Sadly, my phone's camera has no manual focus and can't focus on the figure-8 stopper knot behind the glass. I'll try to get a better picture soon.

The apparent impossibility of the knot in the bottle causes people to think. Then I tell them I don't have any long-handled tweezers, pliers, or forceps, and that of course the bottle has not been damaged or cut.
#4
Picking other random books:

It is never wrong to take a look at either the debian-security-announce mailing list, where advisories and fixes to released packages are announced by the Debian security team, or at debian-security@lists.debian.org, where you can participate in discussions about things related to Debian security.

:horrormirth:

I don't know that I want advisories and fixes related to my package announced by the Debian security team...
#5
Techmology and Scientism / Re: Python lessons
January 28, 2012, 06:33:30 AM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on January 28, 2012, 05:57:13 AM
also, just checked out the 'regular expressions' google lesson incorporating the 're' module along with re.search() and re.findall()....

OMFG...what i could DO with this...

Some people, upon being confronted with a problem, think "I'll use regular expressions!" Now they have two problems.
#6
Techmology and Scientism / Re: Mirror Universe?
January 28, 2012, 06:31:35 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 28, 2012, 12:39:53 AM
dark matter, if it exists, is really really far away

Dark matter, if it exists, would also be around earth, though probably more towards the core. Anywhere gravity could cause it to clump up, and since it would have to be weakly interacting it would pass through the earth to the center.
#7
2x_1 + x_2 = 6
-x_1 - x_2 = -2
3x_1 + 4x_2 = 4
3x_1 + 5x_2 = 2

Apparently, my sex life is linear algebra.
#8
Techmology and Scientism / Re: Mirror Universe?
January 24, 2012, 07:34:48 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on January 21, 2012, 03:51:04 AM
Quote from: Iptuous on January 21, 2012, 03:48:59 AM
Quote from: Xaz on January 20, 2012, 12:16:46 PM
Aren't maps orientated the way they are because the first people who were drawing them were the Europeans and everyone likes being on top?

No.
the world is simply run by engineers, and we use the right hand rule...
get my vector?

Some kind of Gangsign?

Yeah, the CrossProduct gang. Very dangerous, they've been at war with the DotProducts for years.
#9
Forcing teenagers to read Death of A Salesman would be the best thing about being a high-school English teacher.
#10
QuoteThis lecture was unique, dramatic, paradigm-shifting, and unexpected. It is difficult to imagine that a similar scenario could ever take place again.

I think the article's author has some difficulty with the meaning of the phrase "paradigm-shifting".
#11
Discordian Recipes / Scalloped Turnips
January 13, 2012, 05:38:20 AM
Just made this, from http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/scalloped_turnips/
Quote
Scalloped Turnips Recipe
Ingredients
4 Tbsp butter
1/2 cup thinly sliced onions
4 cups peeled, sliced turnips
2 Tbsp flour
1 teaspoon salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1 cup milk
1/2 cup cream
Method

1 Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter a 1-quart casserole. Melt 1 Tbsp butter and lightly sauté onions until just wilted.

2 Layer a third of the sliced turnips in the casserole dish; top with a third of the onion; sprinkle with 2 teaspoons of flour, 1/3 teaspoon of salt, and one grind of pepper; pat with dollops from 1 tablespoon of butter. Repeat this layering twice.

3 Mix milk and cream together and pour over the turnips. Cover and bake in a 350°F oven for 30 minutes, then remove cover and bake for another 30-45 minutes, or until tender and bubbly.

Yield: Serves 4.

Definitely a good recipe.
#12
My father is Irish/Italian. My mother is Eastern-European Jewish (mostly Polish, some Russian, Lithuanian, Romanian, etc, etc.) with some known Mongolian-only traits in the gene pool on that side of the family, though no direct known ancestor. My skin is pinkish-beige in most areas, save for the occasional little brown spot. My hair is light brown. I'd say "American mutt" is pretty accurate for me physically.

Culturally I primarily identify as Irish. Boxtys are great. Whiskey is great. I play bagpipes.

As for racist jokes, well, I'm a honky chink kike mick wop russkie yankee pollack! I've always found it interesting that the racist term for a pollack is "pollack".
#13


Celestia is a bitch.
#14
I know a guy who used to keep bees. Keeping africanized bees (killer bees) is illegal, but they produce more honey and many beekeepers feel the threat is overblown. So some beekepers started keeping africanized hybrids, and reporting the colonies as destroyed. Colony collapse disorder is at least partly just beekeepers lying.
#15
Apparently End of Ponies may be even better. It's only half done ATM though. I've not read any of it.

Given the popularity of the meme (it's been the top meme on knowyourmeme.com for months...) we can almost certainly subvert it. One Sentence Meme Bombs: Pony edition.