The collected works of Oskar45 - Page 8

theinonen wrote:
Holy Bible is the last book I would take anywhere with me.

When finally get away from useless things like religion, then why take it with you then?

TOTALLY agree with you!

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fu wrote:
just five is always a hard choice, it's summer and i'm working crazy hours. mix a drink for us mister oskar :)

-Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu (In search of lost time)
-Kafka, Amerika / Der Verschollene (Amerika or The man who disappeared)
-Mayakovsky, A Cloud in Trousers (together with Lissitzky's art for mayakovsky's work)
-Camus, Le premier homme (The first man)
-Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The man without qualities)

Depressed, finally he addressed our late-night visitor. "Sir Fu, obviously you indulge only in the lightest of literature. Methinks, even a small dose of pynchonomancy might cure you!", Holmes muttered, and reached out for his needle...

Actually, if you're into Proust - you might enjoy Pickover's delightfully weird "Sex, Drugs, Einstein, & Elves" [2005] :-)

As for drinks - how about a double Hendrick's + Fevertree, cooled not by (ice) cubes but by (frozen) supereggs?

BTW - come to think of it, I take the liberty to replace "The magic garden explained" by Bucky's "Synergetics, Vol. 1"...

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Has anyone on here ever seen that movie? If so, what is your verdict?

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vishnu wrote:
Yah I've seen it, it's good! John Agar is legendary for the slight amount of work he did in this genre (mostly his 57 year Hollywood career was in straight/serious roles) but if you like him in this you also want to see "Zontar: The Thing from Venus," "Curse of the Swamp Creature," and "Women of the Prehistoric Planet." Happy viewing! :lol:
Funny - just came across again the following dedication:
Pickover, A Beginner's Guide to Immortality wrote:
This book is also dedicated to the cast and filmmakers of The Brain from Planet Arous. Readers are urged to purchase this movie and to watch it while reading this book and contemplating pop culture.
Actually, I do have 30+ of his books - all of them are absolutely mind-stretching. Check them out...

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vishnu wrote: And now they're making Sharknado 2! :shock:
Although I've read somewhere that Sharknado is the worst movie ever - when it warrants a sequel, apparently it's not. Seems people like such stuff - forget blockbusters, trash is in. Oh boy...
Why are you always invited to weddings - but never to divorces? :mrgreen:
i pi = ln(-1)

is well known. Replacing (-1) by (i^2) and dividing by i, I get

pi = ln(i^2)/i

I really can't phantom how the right side of the last equation can evaluate to pi. What am I doing wrongly here?

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jan-jaap wrote:
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=468510
Thanks - that cleared it up.

Actually, seems I'd started this thread quite prematurely - blame it on the default iPhone calculator (which doesn't handle complex stuff). Too late I remembered my HP-15C (30+ years old) - everything would have worked out nicely in the first place ;-)

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hamei wrote:
Considering that I have about fifty years experience living in the United States and twenty in China for comparison (some concurrent, I admit)...?
Wow! Seems like you're our most aged member, indeed. In any case, some of your usually rambling posts make more sense now ;-)

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fu wrote:
head off to mother afrikah.
Kigali? Kampala? Lilongwe? Maputo? Gaborone? Jo'Burg? Nairobi? Stone Town? In all my years in Africa [admitted, only in East-/Southern Africa], I never found any place worth of even considering moving there permanently. Sure, Stone Town is lovely - but that's it.

I rather agree with your choice of NYC. Once upon a time, I'd lived there for a year [when at the NYU], and roaming late in night book-/record stores was heaven for me. Besides, back then you could get, from the RCA building, a shot of the Empire State Building and the Twin Towers all lit up - rather rare nowadays...

BTW, if you ever want to retire one day - I know of a cozy little village, called Vienna. Where else in the world could you order at 3:00 am "A Eitrige, an Buckl, a Kloans"? Probably not where hamei lives, and not in Kabul either... :-)

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ClassicHasClass wrote:
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The entire ruling class of the United States is looking for Mr Goodbar


But Hershey's chocolate is disgusting . I hate that butyric acid aftertaste .
And how about Starbucks? They probably never tasted Illy.

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geo wrote:
Oskar45 wrote:
a cozy little village, called Vienna.
geez one of my dream.. but how can i afford a place to resign there i heard the houses there is very expensive
Well, Vienna isn't exactly cheap - for a 100 square meter apartment you'd need to shell out about €1500.00/month for rent, depending on the neighbourhood... ;-)

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hamei wrote:
What shabby, silly, amusing people those Americans are ...
Thanks to whomever, those Chinese balance it off nicely :P

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hamei wrote:
Attachment:
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I fail to see in which ways the supplied picture serves to contribute positively to the present thread. Pray, enlighten me :-)

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PymbleSoftware wrote: Why is it that Oskar45 can not read a book or see a movie without approval? authorization? something else from the great unwashed collection of channers..?
R.
Thanks, Sir R.. But you got it wrong. I asked for comments re this movie, not for unsolicited ad hominem advice - nor for approval or authorization. And, contrary to your insinuation, I surely don't consider Nekochaners an unwashed collection of channers at all. LOL.
Why are you always invited to weddings - but never to divorces? :mrgreen:
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Too well known. Lame :(
If man would have been created out of the rib of a woman - how different would the world be?
Any one on here remembers that little machine, or peruses it still today? For me, the most fascinating feature is that you can run DOS 5.0 applications on it. I have TI Scheme, IBM APL2, Nial, Epsilon and Otter, among others on it. Of course, it's not a speed demon - but for smaller applications, it performs quite nicely on the road...A lot of fun!
About 40% of Americans deny evolution. Sad.
bluecode wrote: Real pizza shops have stacks of Bari pizza ovens, frizbee-shaped aluminum pans of dough, a counter, two or three Italians who can't speak much English spinning pies in the sky, and a hand-operated Expresso machine. And maybe a stove for cooking meatballs and pasta and sauces, but this is always "in the back" so nobody can see what went into to Mama's recipes. Anything more than that isn't a pizza shop ;)
Actually, there's more to pizza than you might dream of. Check out Clifford Pickover, "Calculus and Pizza", fire up your Mathematica and start playing :-) For additional fun, try George Legendre, "Pasta by Design"...
Curious: the first recorded successful pregnancy brought forth a murderer...
vishnu wrote: [...]we're not going to sell it to you but if you want it that bad you can find it in the wild...! :shock:
Did you really ever find that upgrade in the wild?
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josehill wrote: ad nauseum
ad nause a m :-)
Curious: the first recorded successful pregnancy brought forth a murderer...
:?:
About 40% of Americans deny evolution. Sad.
foetz wrote: it's this time again. hope you have a good time wherever you are :-)
While I'd a very bad year myself - all the best to all of you nevertheless...
Why are you always invited to weddings - but never to divorces? :mrgreen:
smj wrote: And surprisingly I haven't lost interest in Nekochan/SGI/IRIX ye--
A bit OT. As long as you have running some of them boxes around, Nekochan will continue to be your primary source for sure :-)
Why are you always invited to weddings - but never to divorces? :mrgreen:
hamei wrote: The only people in China who use UPS are the idiot foreigners who "know" that UPS is stupendous.
And what do sane people in China use instead?
Why are you always invited to weddings - but never to divorces? :mrgreen:
hamei wrote:
Oskar45 wrote: And what do sane people in China use instead?

The girl-baby drowning commie post office, aka China Post.

Had no idea that China Post operates *internationally*...
Why are you always invited to weddings - but never to divorces? :mrgreen:
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...any tears?
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer.
jwp wrote: No problems here. Microsoft should drop support more often.
Ever since I'd conquered that silly phase of dabbling in Windows 3.x programming, I began to abhor more and more everything MS (although the organization I'd worked for utilized almost exclusively Windows in various flavors for servers & desktops). Alas - shame on me - my laptops all run XP still.
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer.
Influenced by one of my school-teachers, I originally wanted to study zoology. Alas, when I talked to some professors at the university about that idea, they all said "Great, interesting, but you'll not have much opportunities. Pity you." So, I went off and got my Ph.D. somewhere else [never mind what it was]. During the years afterwards I nevertheless moved more and more into IT anyhow and finally ended up as SenSysAdmin of one of the most influentially international organisations in the World [for 25+ years]. But I still occasionally really regret not to have taken up zoology - it would have been so much more exciting!

Anyway, what about your own careers?
duck wrote: [...]but I can type pretty fast.
Wow, could you type a Perl script as fast too?
shyouko wrote: Genius, as printed on my business card.

But they hire too many idiots, so I'm quitting.

So you're indeed job-less?
shyouko wrote:
Oskar45 wrote:
shyouko wrote: Genius, as printed on my business card.

But they hire too many idiots, so I'm quitting.

So you're indeed job-less?

Nope, quitting but yet.
Hired to become a System Engineer for some Solaris clouds and GPU clusters.
So you're just another idiot? Don't worry...you'll get over it :-)
jimmer wrote: Couldn't Oskar45 and Hamei throw digi-mud at other:)
:)
About 40% of Americans deny evolution. Sad.
AI is an illusion.
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zahal wrote:
Oskar45 wrote: AI is an illusion.


So is human intelligence.

Right you are. But then again, "intelligence" is a too diffuse concept anyhow :mrgreen:
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hamei wrote: [...] when you are stuck sitting in a bus station with 11,000 smelly peasants :D
Maybe a little washing once in a while might help them ;)
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer.
ClassicHasClass wrote: I have awesome personality disorder.
A daily spoon-full of Dijon mustard might indeed help you to get up to normal again... :lol:
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer.
hamei wrote: The new definition of hell is, to have something to type but stuck on an iBad or a "smart"phone.
You're not obliged to peruse these - surely, even in China, there's lot of alternative junk to choose from :D

hamei wrote: Mmm. Well, if you are one of those people who get insulted when a sanitation engineer is called a janitor or a marketing specialist a whore, then I guess you could consider it vitriolic. In my day we called a spade, "spade".

LOL.
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer.
hamei wrote: And many of them appear to be mammals.
Subway mammals. Aren't you a bit too old to lay them all? Look, there's a pond. Shuffle over and study your mirror-image closely. If you're still satisfied - you certainly fit into the current thread perfectly :mrgreen:
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer.
hamei wrote: So do you have to run with those cheetahs, bwana sahib
Would if I could . Hakuna matata :(
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer.
japes wrote: I got 4, beat that :|

Got 2.
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer.