Posted on 04/02/2012 12:33:56 PM PDT by trailhkr1
That is *very* good to hear! (Not the humidity, the good times you and The Bride are having.)
If you’re anywhere near Pepsicola maybe you can drop in on catpuppy and say Hi!
We sure miss him!
If a person was not familiar with the FReep language, he might find this a pretty strange sentence.
Le sigh. I have to take some kids to the pool and then go to Walmart.
Just keep the Pings coming, or straight to the Mods I go.
;)
Thank you so much. I love FR and wish I had found it years ago. I also really enjoy dropping in on the UT. Such, er, interesting people hang out here! One never knows what to expect, and I like that unpredictability.
(Waves to everyone)
Stop that.
When you start expecting unpredictability, that's when everything begins to go horribly wrong.
Isn’t that how the teleFRAG came about?
“It’ll probably do something truly horrible.” said Jessica Dobbins as she applied power to the main control.
“Uh oh.” came a chorus from behind her.
“Why ‘uh oh’?” she asked.
“*Cough* Because, everytime you say something like that, bizarre things happen.” offered Matthew Soames as he pulled his goggles down over his eyes.
“Teleporting one gram oxygen to the farside of the moon, monitor those screens please.” Jessica pushed the button on her console and waited.
“Uh. Was it supposed to create a new crater on the far side fo the moon?” Matthew Soames asked as he pulled his goggles down and looked sideways at a rather stunned Jessica.
“It’s.. it’s not my fault!”
I have no ownership at all of the teleFRAG.
All I want is predictable weather, and a million days of it to enjoy.
I do submit that the Administrator did indeed say that the test was cautiously allowed to proceed only so long as important things aren’t mutated, destroyed, or otherwise disrupted by the test.
That he sat in his office drafting what would later become the Hab and had a strange sensation of “hairs standing up” on his neck at the very moment of the test was merely a coincidence.
I think the teleFRAG is one of the great inventions of the modern future, and I don’t want predictable weather. If weather were predictable, you’d never have the weather causing a change of plans when you didn’t like the original plans anyway.
Southern church lady: “Oh, look, it’s raining! And I was so looking forward to helping at the car wash to raise money for your missions team, too!”
I have lived in MO, IL, SO DAK, VA and TX and been in AR long enough to know that the only way I would go back is if I were too old to care for myself, and even then, I would have to be in A/C 24/7.
The only draws for the place are my son and grandson.
Happy versary! I didn’t get you anything.
What does unexpected have to do with unpredictability?
The UT hasn’t been here all that long. It reached the end of the Internet on New Year’s Eve, 2004. Since then, of course, we’ve been here in one form or another, for bettor or for verse.
We are very happy you have decided to join us! We hate being apart! ;o]
PS: Our dew point right now is -1, the humidity is 2%. :o])
'The Parameters of Predictability' sounds like a treatise on randomness. But certainly it applies to weather science.
Consider what happens, for example, when you unscrew a hurricane. The resultant eddies and migrant vagaries go wandering all over the place in happy happenstance, ("happens dance").
Predictable, it is not. But it is also not violent in the way that hurricanes are.
Then also, one has the tsunami of requisitions to deal with. One man's weather request is another man's disaster. The goal of weather control is not actual predictability, but a generalized push to make weather a little more like climate.
Nobody argues about climate.
Oh, wait ...
OK, now I’m REALLY going to bed!!!
Good night!
Not a problem. I still have cake left over from a recent birthday bash. :)
With ice cream and coffee, you have a re-celebration.
Reminds me, I need to get on the phone about the cake for Bill's Eagle Scout reception. There was a wonderful cake at church recently, for a family with Baptisms and First Communions, and I know the baker's name but not her phone number! Time to push my Spanish competence to its pathetic limits and get Bill's cake ordered.
29 de Julio, 29 de Julio ...
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