tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post3425390839524791327..comments2024-03-28T14:38:18.612-05:00Comments on Althouse: "When I’m alone late at night on a deserted road, I like to walk on the double yellow lines. One time I decided to stop and lie down..."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-24420295300924456132019-07-20T22:41:38.714-05:002019-07-20T22:41:38.714-05:00Remember that kid that liked to surf trains?
I th...Remember that kid that liked to surf trains?<br /><br />I thought he was doing it for no reason, but the post says he was an Instagramer.<br /><br /><a href="https://althouse.blogspot.com/2016/10/early-wednesday-morning-man-tragically.html" rel="nofollow">Link</a>Lem the artificially intelligent https://www.blogger.com/profile/03569712564034666751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-39650677464098781232019-07-20T22:14:49.099-05:002019-07-20T22:14:49.099-05:00I thought Webb was the real deal and was a big fan...I thought Webb was the real deal and was a big fan of the man. I thought he was badly treated in the episode several mentioned.<br /><br />But then, about 10-15 years ago he gave his aid a gym bag to take to the Senate office. In the bag was a pistol. Probably legal for Webb, there was some uncertainty. Not legal for the aide.<br /><br />The aide got picked and spent almost 48 hours in jail while Webb dithered trying to figure out how to get the aide off the hook while not getting his own ass in a crack.<br /><br />Yeah. Real deal? Bullshit. A real deal would not have let someone else sit in the pokey for his screwup.<br /><br />Webb is a skunk. <br /><br />John Henry John henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13529920006532904660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38107950411440345612019-07-20T19:42:48.725-05:002019-07-20T19:42:48.725-05:00I walk and pray at 04:30 most mornings. Many times...I walk and pray at 04:30 most mornings. Many times I walk up the double yellow line. Even stand in a large but vacant intersection. Every one in a while I take a picture and send it to a buddy of mine. I never thought of it is an existential experience. Certainly not worthy of an article and frankly a bunch of tediously self inspective nattering. caplight45https://www.blogger.com/profile/05812859612469770448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-80150875383921863112019-07-20T18:20:55.167-05:002019-07-20T18:20:55.167-05:00So reptilian aliens don't rule the Earth?
Of ...<i>So reptilian aliens don't rule the Earth?</i><br /><br />Of course we do.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11691315256618262530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84376785698424583512019-07-20T18:19:00.427-05:002019-07-20T18:19:00.427-05:00As kids, we would tie rubber bands together, and s...As kids, we would tie rubber bands together, and stretch them across the street. If we set the band properly, then it would roll up over the top of the car. It would then catch the radio antenna on the fender, and TWANG!<br /><br />Needless to say the driver stopped immediately. We scored pay dirt when the the driver’s groceries hit the front windshield.....eggs were always on the top of the grocery bag.madAsHellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01149940549262340795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67639016006133366532019-07-20T18:14:30.677-05:002019-07-20T18:14:30.677-05:00There were so many reasons. I wanted to see the ni...<i>There were so many reasons. I wanted to see the night sky from the perspective of the road; I wanted to be in this secret spot that always got passed by and never occupied...”</i><br /><br />This is another case where an intelligent person mistook a rationalization for a ratiocination.tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83511543041108458562019-07-20T18:06:37.241-05:002019-07-20T18:06:37.241-05:00ALP. I'm half-convinced we're protected by...ALP. I'm half-convinced we're protected by some treaty among intelligent species who have to stay many many parsecs away from Sol 3. But there's always some joker in the deck, and who knows what pranks they may be up to?<br /><br />One of my apartments was about 50 yds from one of America's mainlines, the same line that figured in my university's motto (Nilote Ascendare Impedimenta!); once you get used to it--a week maybe--you don't notice it: while awake, we played loud music, when asleep, we were probably passed out.<br /><br />Narr<br />Ah, youthNarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14043247682000851606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-35558201364023078102019-07-20T17:50:14.048-05:002019-07-20T17:50:14.048-05:00I now have a name for my practice of signing my na...I now have a name for my practice of signing my name "Gul Dukat" when a legal name isn't required. I also like to put "Ferengi" under any "Race" designation.<br /><br />As for reptilians on earth...the older I get the more I think Homo sapiens is the result of a breeding program gone wrong by some alien race millions of years ago. Explains quite a bit.ALPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17902185031359525209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-57095163307918481842019-07-20T17:43:32.036-05:002019-07-20T17:43:32.036-05:00Our first apt was a tiny one bedroom second story ...Our first apt was a tiny one bedroom second story apartment in Albany near Cal. We were so excited to have our own place that we didn't notice the RR tracks twenty feet behind the building, a short spur that once served the Kaiser Shipyards and was used occasionally by the Navy.<br /><br />A few nights later all hell broke lose as a train chugged by with the engine light at our bedroom window height sweeping from left to right. As we leaped out of bed onto a shuddering floor the engineer hit the horn.<br /><br />I can't claim that we ever slept through it, but we got accustomed to the clamor and it became one of our Four Yorkshiremen/dining out stories.<br /><br />Mmmmm...<a href="https://youtu.be/J9rgh8MCpe8" rel="nofollow">Pie.</a>BJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04447134335568803085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67705615939191081122019-07-20T17:18:17.453-05:002019-07-20T17:18:17.453-05:00For the literature lovers, the huge unstoppable ru...For the literature lovers, the huge unstoppable run away steam engines became a trope for man’s weakness and a suicide tool in Dickens era writers. Until big airplanes came along, the great Railway Engines were the types of terrible gods.traditionalguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382148890891751329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-32808772008432242782019-07-20T16:40:58.006-05:002019-07-20T16:40:58.006-05:00Morgenbesser’s pie story was created to illustrate...Morgenbesser’s pie story was created to illustrate the type of choice that is ruled out of expected-utility-maximization theory by the Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives axiom. Math made easy for people who eat in diners, like me.Not Surehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05096675818484839284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83129300932345412392019-07-20T16:39:24.294-05:002019-07-20T16:39:24.294-05:00Reptilian aliens ruling the earth?!
Hogwash on sti...Reptilian aliens ruling the earth?!<br />Hogwash on stilts!<br /><br />We all know its crab people from deep underground.<br /><br />Unruliness implies one is breaking a rule, but if you use the word "whimsical" you catch most of the behavior being described without judging it.mikeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17875483485290838207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-77377265853069691442019-07-20T16:05:00.003-05:002019-07-20T16:05:00.003-05:00The train noise here is not that bad,
When we liv...<i>The train noise here is not that bad,</i><br /><br />When we lived at the beach, 40 years ago, the trains would shake the house. We were 200 feet up on a cliff above the tracks but it felt like it was right outside. We got used to it. Some friends, who lived right on the beach, had the trains pass 50 feet behind them. Doesn't hurt the prices of the houses though.Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38573156858227487332019-07-20T16:02:50.413-05:002019-07-20T16:02:50.413-05:00DBQ @7/20/19, 11:49 AM:
The measurement problem, ...DBQ @7/20/19, 11:49 AM:<br /><br />The measurement problem, writ large.<br /><br />Our knowledge of what's going on will always be imperfect, alas. Heisenberg quantified this.Maillard Reactionaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07330041554892804405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-73711093141618788742019-07-20T15:52:28.520-05:002019-07-20T15:52:28.520-05:00Definitely don’t want to mess with trains. Driving...Definitely don’t want to mess with trains. Driving back from town, drove alongside a train filled with containers. Maybe 100 cars, about half double stacked, which means about 150 containers. Three engines up front, and I think two pushing. Not maybe as bad as the coal trains going west. And since the containers were headed probably to Seattle, some may be empty. Still about 30 miles west of here, a full grown grizzly boar tried to take on one of those trains. Not much left of him. Apparently though they had to clean the lead engine a bit. <br /><br />My partner sleeps lightly after a couple hours, so I have to be careful about the noise I make after midnight, esp given how quiet it mostly is late at night. Except for the trains. We are about 1/4 miles away from the tracks here, so, it is more a rumble - except the one heading the other direction just now, braking a bit for town. In any case, she is so used to the noise that the trains are the one thing that doesn’t wake her up at night, and I use that to cover the noises I make late at night. <br /><br />The train noise here is not that bad, but the house on the farm that her ex has a little west of us here used to belong to the railroad, and is only about 50 feet off the tracks. That is where she really got used to the train noise. You have to cross the tracks to get into the farm proper (the portion on the other side is leased from the railroad), and it was always a bit scary for them with the boys. The girls were fine, but not maybe the boys. They had two, those two could bring up a friend each, and then there were also cousins, so there usually a half dozen boys living there for much of the summer, all roughly the same age. The girls usually stuck around the house. But the gang of boys could be anywhere. The farm is a half a section, and they didn’t always stay within its boundaries. The only thing that maybe saved them was that his oldest son was a fuddy duddy, who could be depended on to report major transgressions or safety issues. One of the standing safety rules was that any guests playing on the tracks were on the next plane back to 110 degree Phoenix. And their two had been taken out about the age when they started running wild, and shown what happened to a cow that tangled with a train. Bruce Haydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10815293023158025662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-68072968765987546842019-07-20T15:50:51.830-05:002019-07-20T15:50:51.830-05:00For some time, I never could understand how people...<i>For some time, I never could understand how people got hit by trains.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD89wPiicCg" rel="nofollow">Understanding happens.</a>Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-251384477330709962019-07-20T15:23:13.764-05:002019-07-20T15:23:13.764-05:00Fine!! You made me do it. I went and bought rhuba...Fine!! You made me do it. I went and bought rhubarb at the store. After we finish the apricot crisp I made a few days ago.....Rhubarb Custard Pie!Dust Bunny Queenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15115422951538885247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-88595319697388786522019-07-20T15:21:51.253-05:002019-07-20T15:21:51.253-05:00pious agnostic said...
"More like an propose... pious agnostic said...<br /><br />"More like an proposed experiment to test a hypothesis. Repeat enough times to get a statistically meaningful result. Refine the experiment."<br /><br />Exactly. The inductive fallacy. Jupiterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13008508862847561845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-39438057879569385632019-07-20T15:17:50.427-05:002019-07-20T15:17:50.427-05:00@John Henry...Jim Webb is the real deal and he cer...@John Henry...Jim Webb is the real deal and he certainly proved himself in the USMC in Vietnam Nam. But my family has always said Scots Irish. And we are Donaldsons. This year the Braves got them one named Josh to play third base . Watching him in action is like watching the Scots Irish of the Clan Donald. He is totally focused on winning.traditionalguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382148890891751329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-33708817618728979512019-07-20T15:01:25.178-05:002019-07-20T15:01:25.178-05:00Before we got too big, my friends and I were exper...Before we got too big, my friends and I were expert users of the neighborhood storm-drain system. We could get from one place to another entirely underground, distances sometimes of 1/4 mile or more between exits. Sometimes it would start raining.<br /><br />At about 15, one brisk fall Saturday, my friend Bobby (of the school office) and I parkoured our way to the top of the elementary school--dumpster-washhouse/kitchen roof--cafeteria--ladder to the top. All in daylight (we weren't suicidal) and we were down and passing the football when the fuzz showed up. We suggested that the perps went thataway, and they believed us. (Blessed with a mature and honest look, I were.)<br /><br />Later we got involved in Molotov-cocktail design and testing, which could only be done by climbing out the window about 2am and sneaking down to the big culvert under the expressway. Then we had to sneak back 1/2 mile or so to his house through deserted streets and climb back in. (My father was dead; Bobby's was very much alive so he risked a lot.)<br /><br />As the stage crew in h.s., my friends and I found that the catwalks afforded access to spaces useful for non-approved activities. You just had to be very careful to get there; I fractured a wrist clowning around.<br /><br />These sound light enough, but hell, my older brother ended up with a choice of probation or the army for shoplifting!<br /><br />Narr<br />To his credit, he took the oathNarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14043247682000851606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-54704654595446171112019-07-20T14:59:17.001-05:002019-07-20T14:59:17.001-05:00Jupiter said...
The inductive fallacy.
7/20/19, ...<i>Jupiter said...<br /><br />The inductive fallacy.<br /><br />7/20/19, 2:34 PM</i><br /><br />More like an proposed experiment to test a hypothesis. Repeat enough times to get a statistically meaningful result. Refine the experiment.<br /><br />Etc.pious agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09043616958654007026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-31470412108302358932019-07-20T14:34:21.885-05:002019-07-20T14:34:21.885-05:00pious agnostic said...
"Before I try the &quo... pious agnostic said...<br />"Before I try the "lie under the train" experiment, I think I'll try it with a watermelon first and see if it's ok."<br /><br />The inductive fallacy.Jupiterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13008508862847561845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-58937894779254502662019-07-20T14:17:56.259-05:002019-07-20T14:17:56.259-05:00Yes that is it, re Webb.Yes that is it, re Webb.buwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-14573249773059236942019-07-20T14:13:47.633-05:002019-07-20T14:13:47.633-05:00Before I try the "lie under the train" e...Before I try the "lie under the train" experiment, I think I'll try it with a watermelon first and see if it's ok.pious agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09043616958654007026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-39582990248044336292019-07-20T14:12:12.993-05:002019-07-20T14:12:12.993-05:00I recall the case of Webb.
I don't. Is this ...<i>I recall the case of Webb.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/28/naval-academy-grads-say-jim-webb-doesnt-deserve-alumni-award/" rel="nofollow"> I don't. Is this it ?</a><br /><br /><i>Webb is undeserving, they say, because he wrote an essay criticizing the admission of women to the service academies for Washingtonian Magazine in 1979.</i><br /><br />I wonder if the female midshipmen are as bad at honor code and behavior as the West Point cadets are ?Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.com