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Occasional Reader
8/5/2020 7:06:49 AM
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Testing
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vxbush
8/5/2020 7:07:38 AM
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In #1 Occasional Reader said: Testing Did you pass?
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lucius septimius
8/5/2020 7:11:39 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 2: Depends on how much roughage he consumed.
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lucius septimius
8/5/2020 7:12:56 AM
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So today's big task is to re-do a bunch of data entry that I did yesterday that somehow got screed up. I added a column, but somewhere way down the column it got split. Still not sure how that happened.
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vxbush
8/5/2020 7:17:16 AM
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In #4 lucius septimius said: So today's big task is to re-do a bunch of data entry that I did yesterday that somehow got screed up. I added a column, but somewhere way down the column it got split. Still not sure how that happened. Oh, how frustrating that is, right?
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JCM
8/5/2020 7:31:18 AM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 4: To err is human... to really foul things up takes a computer.
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Occasional Reader
8/5/2020 7:35:44 AM
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So Kosh, buzz asked me to pass along that he was having trouble earlier connecting to the site and posting. Just FYI, thanks.
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lucius septimius
8/5/2020 7:42:58 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 5: Rather, but it did lead me to find a computation error buried deep in the data. Now I have to figure out how to explain away several curious anomalies.
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Occasional Reader
8/5/2020 7:45:40 AM
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In #8 lucius septimius said: Now I have to figure out how to explain away several curious anomalies. Michael Mann? Is that you?
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lucius septimius
8/5/2020 7:52:37 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 9: I remember my quant professor regularly used the phrase "now massage your data." I'm running three price series. One is the quotation given every year on the exact same day; the second is the quote for the fourth quarter. Both of these series have gaps. The complete series ... that's the problem. Sometimes the quotes are for the third quarter, sometimes the fourth, and now and again the second quarter.
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lucius septimius
8/5/2020 8:07:40 AM
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In #11 Occasional Reader said: His positronic relays might like that. Well he was fully functional.
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Occasional Reader
8/5/2020 8:33:25 AM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 12:
And ST:TNG episodes almost always had happy endings...
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lucius septimius
8/5/2020 8:49:12 AM
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Yay! Two months' worth of data collection confirms my theory! Now, of course, is the time to stop gathering data just in case.
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Occasional Reader
8/5/2020 9:13:24 AM
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So I might as well bore you all with yet another dream retelling.
I've perhaps mentioned before the good-condition DeLorean that is semi-permanently parked at an Exxon station down the avenue from me. In my dream from early this morning, first I see that DeLorean being towed away, which makes me feel somewhat sad.
Next thing I know, I'm in the DeLorean, in the back seat, and it's being driven by Burt Reynolds. There's another 70s/80s movie star type in the front passenger seat (I'm not sure who), and another one in the seat next to me (again, not sure who). I understand we're on our way to some sort of movie awards ceremony, and that I played some supporting role in the movie being awarded. We stop to pick up yet another cast member, and I realize whoever it is will have to sit on my lap, making me rather concerned as to who that might be. To my delight it's... Loni Anderson! And off we go to the awards show. As we're arriving, I realize that I've gone back in time to the late 1970s (hey, time travel, DeLorean... get it?). I then come up with a fantastic idea of how I'm going to take advantage of this to get super-rich; I'm going to "invent"... Uber. See, like four decades before anyone else does! Only then I realized, damn, first I'll have to invent smartphones, not to mention modern cellular data networks.
And then, IRL, Little OR woke up me (at 5:06 am) to complain that I had promised I'd sit in his room until he fell asleep and I'd broken that promise (since apparently he was under the impression that it was still about 10 pm). Fortunately, I got him back to bed with no problems, and then myself; but no more dreams of Loni Anderson.
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doppelganglander
8/5/2020 9:36:40 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 15: Perhaps the meaning of the dream is that you're actually 13 years old.
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lucius septimius
8/5/2020 10:07:39 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 16: That clip brings up an aspect of Biden that the Dems really want to keep under wraps: his tendency to be an abusive jerk. All the way back in 1988 he had a reputation for being thin-skinned and if challenged would become nasty and belligerent. In a debate with Trump he would come off as out of control -- Drumpfhitler is an expert at pushing people's buttons -- while Trump would look calm. Of course the faithful would complain he was being taunted, but that big 13% of the undecided voters might conclude (correctly) the Biden is as much of a jerk as Trump, maybe even more so.
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Occasional Reader
8/5/2020 10:07:51 AM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 18: it’s a fixer-upper, that’s for sure.
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JCM
8/5/2020 11:01:03 AM
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Just heard about this on Rush...
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Protesters sue Seattle, claim they need ‘expensive’ protective gear to safely protest SEATTLE — A lawsuit filed Monday against the city of Seattle argues protesters’ constitutional rights have been violated by the police department’s “indiscriminate” use of chemical and less-lethal crowd control tactics, which have forced demonstrators to buy “expensive” protective gear in order to safely bring their message against police brutality to the streets. “Because the Seattle Police Department has acted above and outside the law in dispensing its unbridled force, and the City has failed to prevent same, the government effect is to establish a de facto protest tax,” the lawyers wrote. “Individual protesters subjected to SPD’s unabated and indiscriminate violence now must purchase cost-prohibitive gear to withstand munitions – even when peacefully protesting – as a condition to exercising their right to free speech and peaceable assembly.” |
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vxbush
8/5/2020 11:40:45 AM
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In #21 JCM said: Protesters sue Seattle, claim they need ‘expensive’ protective gear to safely protest Wow. Hubris has no limit, it seems.
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Occasional Reader
8/5/2020 12:38:40 PM
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Reply to JCM in 21:
Reimburse Warlord Chaz for his body armor costs! For racial justice!
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Occasional Reader
8/5/2020 12:39:54 PM
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In #23 Occasional Reader said: Reimburse Warlord Chaz Raz
Uh oh, was that a racist typo?
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Occasional Reader
8/5/2020 12:57:25 PM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 19:
And after watching that video clip, let’s pause for a moment
and contemplate what would happen if Donald Trump were to sarcastically
ask a black journalist, “are you a junkie?”.
Hmm….
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vxbush
8/5/2020 2:12:18 PM
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In #25 Occasional Reader said: And after watching that video clip, let’s pause for a moment and contemplate what would happen if Donald Trump were to sarcastically ask a black journalist, “are you a junkie?”. Hey, Trump is BREATHING, and that alone makes him unfit to be president! (The Dems have gotten this bad, pretty much.)
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Kosh's Shadow
8/5/2020 3:44:01 PM
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In #21 JCM said: SEATTLE — A lawsuit filed Monday against the city of Seattle argues protesters’ constitutional rights have been violated by the police department’s “indiscriminate” use of chemical and less-lethal crowd control tactics, OK, then bring out the more lethal tactics
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Kosh's Shadow
8/5/2020 3:48:24 PM
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In #7 Occasional Reader said: So Kosh, buzz asked me to pass along that he was having trouble earlier connecting to the site and posting. Just FYI, thanks. He emailed me, but I am cautious about connecting at work. Site seems fine, but it does occasionally have glitches.
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lucius septimius
8/5/2020 4:03:46 PM
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In #27 Kosh's Shadow said: OK, then bring out the more lethal tactics Napalm comes to mind.
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Kosh's Shadow
8/5/2020 4:16:15 PM
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In #29 lucius septimius said: Napalm comes to mind. That could also cause fires and damage innocent buildings. Unless they burnt them down already. Neutron bomb - gets the people, leaves the buildings for innocent civilians to return to. But it doesn't have the smell of victory.
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