True datOriginally Posted by Dreadnaught
Why must our photos become politicized. I just want to see pretty/funny things.
An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spiders webs. People in the area had never seen this phenomenon before, but they also reported that there were less mosquitos than they would have expected, given the amount of standing water that was left. Not being bitten by mosquitoes was one small blessing for people that had lost everything in the floods.
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I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
(Though honestly I am in the tiny part that isn't covered by rain in this picture, and we had a dry day todayStill, the weather totally sucks this summer until now. http://www.buienradar.nl/buienradar-3-uur-vooruit.aspx
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
"Welcome to ..."
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And the jetstream being too far south, which has been giving you and us all this shitty rainy weather for the past couple of months, is due to move back to it's more usual place next week. Summer WILL finally arrive.
Multiple rainfall related records in the UK have been broken because of this. More rain than we've had since records began. Flooding is rife across the country.
Not as much of a problem for us as it is for you though ...
We're not flooding anywhere as far as I know, guess we have a better landscape/flood protection for that.Or just less rain, of course. I noticed that the forecast says little to no rain starting friday, yay!
And I know it's welcome to, I didn't make it.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
Then why blame Obama for unemployment if the government can't create jobs.
Obviously the government does create jobs both directly and indirectly.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
You silly Europeans... there's been no rain over the last month! First storm was yesterday!
Corrected.
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
We picked up this fuzzball last Monday.
Still need a name for it.
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
Aww, kitty <3
Name suggestions (dead scientists): Möbius, Fourier, Laplace, Oppie (short for Oppenheimer), Fresnel, Maxwell, Bethe, Landau, Riemann, Pascal, Curie, Rutherford, Heisenberg, Dirac, Pauli, Yukawa, Coulomb, Laue, Euler, Compton, Planck, Huygens, Young, Leibniz, Gödel, Erdös, Fermi, Bose, Ulam, Cantor, Galois, Schwarzschild, Lebesgue
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Funny that. I already opted for Oppie. I have become a cat. The destroyer of sleep and furniture. The girlfriend was less enthousiastic.
We also considered Bose since there's a lot of rumble-purring coming from such a little cat. Just doesn't work as a name for a cat.
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
We once had a cat called Curie.
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
80s American TV Stars!
Stringfellow Hawk, Columbo, Mr T, The Face, Kit, Magnum, Captain Caveman, Penelope Pitstop, Willis, Hannibal, MacGyver, Cagney, Lacey, Alf, Cosby, Jetson, Lansberry, Duke, Doogie Howser, Fraggle, Quincy, Roseanne, Remington Steele (great name!), She-Ra, Shogun, Jean-Luc Picard, Riker
I'm sad to say we'll go with either one of two less creative names. Either Rembo or Smokie.
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
Rembo & Rembo fan?
Looks like Jack Nicholson
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Very muchRembo & Rembo fan?
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
Excellent!
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
You know, I just watched the part of that speech this refereed to.
You really are a partisan hack. This is just sad.
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
Can you do a TL;DW for those of us who don't want to waste precious time in our lives, but still want to be angry at something stupid?
. . .
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Spoiler:
The future of the human race, people
Thankfully for both of us, I'm already not on US soil!
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
I had a cat named Frisbee...We once had a cat called Curie.
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Such is Life...
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