Useless Conversation

[Paelos]

I'm completely fucking sick of 9/11. It destroyed fucking air travel forever and has allowed our government to become an awful robot driven by pure FUD. I *hope,* as a nation, we collectively forget. Fuck.

I feel the same way, but it's a really unpopular opinion to say out loud. I want to move on as a society.

[Merusk]

You have both been reported. DHS will be along to speak with you upon the next occurrence.

[Nebu]

Jesus says to stop hating America.



(I agree with you guys about 911, by the way)

[Fraeg]

Got the call,  workers comp surgery approved,  torn rotator cuff operation next tues. 

Recovery time estimate...  6 months. :(

Goodbye yoga, biking, snowboarding,  the cooler aspects of my work, etc.  I realize though that this is one of those things where there will never be a "good time" for it to happen.  Bleah

[schild]

Yoga?

-_-

[Ironwood]

http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/13-years-after-911-and-im-best-shape-my-life-983

I wish I had the courage to share that far and wide.

[Fraeg]

Yoga?

-_-

I am 42, and have a job that has me at a computer ~50% of the time, hell yes I do yoga

[Cheddar]

Flew back from New Mexico (ABQ) today and it was surprisingly pleasant.

If anything we were more confused over lack of anal cavity searches.  Seemed all of us in line  were confused.

Shoes on?  Tablets can stay in bag?  We can smile?  Wut wut...

But, thinking back to a trip I took to Newark a few months ago... it does seem changes are filtering down.  I even recall a guard in Norfolk mentioning they were the new and nicer TSA at some point.

[Yoru]

I'm completely fucking sick of 9/11. It destroyed fucking air travel forever and has allowed our government to become an awful robot driven by pure FUD. I *hope,* as a nation, we collectively forget. Fuck.

God yes, I dread every time I have to pass through a US airport. I try to fly via France and London when I'm heading over to Canada now, because connecting in America is lolztastic, even as a citizen.

[Yegolev]

Thanks, Obama.

[Yegolev]

This is the most boring meeting ever.  Somebody post something funny.

[Ironwood]

How about the powerpoint from the meeting you're in.

I'd Laugh.
 

[Yegolev]

Well, the company hosting the meeting was not able to get the gotomeeting part working, so I had to dial in using a phone number like a caveman.  Then the collabserv.com link that they subbed (about 10-15 minutes into it) asked for a password and I got a "just listen to the audio".

This is followed by about an hour or so of discussion of things that have no real bearing on my responsibility.

[Ironwood]

If you're only on audio, just mute it and make stupid faces while you practice your banjo.

[Yegolev]

That's why I'm on F13, but I want someone else to make the faces.

I'm done.  1.5 hours left but what can one man do?

[pxib]

Interesting, but nowhere else to post it:

In 2011, Dr. Pawan Sinha, a professor of vision and computational neuroscience at M.I.T., published his answer to an almost-four-hundred-year-old philosophical problem. The philosopher William Molyneux, whose wife was blind, had proposed a thought experiment in the seventeenth century about a person, blind from birth, who could tell apart a cube and a sphere by touch: If his vision were restored and he was presented with the same cube and sphere, would he be able to tell which was which by sight alone? The philosophical camps on Molyneux’s question divided roughly through the centuries into those who believe that certain qualities, such as the roundness of spheres, are innate and shared among the senses (the Yeses), and those who insist that, to understand roundness, the eyes must have already seen roundness (the Nos). The longevity of many other philosophical thought experiments—Schrödinger’s cats, twin Earths, what it’s like to be a bat—relies on their impermeability, but, after the discovery in the early eighteenth century that a simple cataract surgery could lift the curtain of blindness for some, Molyneux’s thought experiment became, simply, an experiment.

Since 2003, Sinha, through a non-profit that he founded called Project Prakash, has organized and supervised sight-restoration surgeries for more than two hundred blind children from some of the poorest regions in India. The surgeries were given to any child who medically qualified, a subset of whom had been blind since birth with cataracts. After sight had been restored, Sinha posed Molyneux’s question.

[Rendakor]

Why would you post the link but not the answer?

[Ironwood]

Can't be bothered making a film thread for it, but I know we have parents here.

Avoid The Boxtrolls.  It's fucking awful.

[Merusk]

It looked as such. Thanks for the warning.

[calapine]

Birthday today.

I am afraid of getting old. 

[Lantyssa]

Happy birthday!  And remember, you'll always be younger than some of us.

[calapine]

Happy birthday! 

Thank you! 

And remember, you'll always be younger than some of us.

Uh...Thank you, I guess? 

[schild]

Happy Birthday.

Also, boxing is fucking awful. Mike Tyson set the bar too high 20 years ago. These dudes are fucking sissies.

[schild]

Yea, I have no clue why Mayweather makes any money. What a boring fucking entertainer. Because let's face it, boxing is supposed to be entertainment. He's an actual clown.

[Evildrider]

Birthday today.

I am afraid of getting old. 

Happy Birthday!

[Evildrider]

Yea, I have no clue why Mayweather makes any money. What a boring fucking entertainer. Because let's face it, boxing is supposed to be entertainment. He's an actual clown.

There was a time when boxing was fun to watch?

[RhyssaFireheart]

Birthday today.

I am afraid of getting old. 

Happy Hatching Day!

[schild]

Yea, I have no clue why Mayweather makes any money. What a boring fucking entertainer. Because let's face it, boxing is supposed to be entertainment. He's an actual clown.

There was a time when boxing was fun to watch?

You fucking joking?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-478QGV9pc

Despite being fucknuts crazy, watching Iron Mike fight was completely without parallel in any other sport. Though watching Kershaw pitch comes pretty close.

[Cyrrex]

Yea, I have no clue why Mayweather makes any money. What a boring fucking entertainer. Because let's face it, boxing is supposed to be entertainment. He's an actual clown.

There was a time when boxing was fun to watch?

You fucking joking?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-478QGV9pc

Despite being fucknuts crazy, watching Iron Mike fight was completely without parallel in any other sport. Though watching Kershaw pitch comes pretty close.

Yup.

[Miasma]

The only Tyson fights I actually got to watch with my friends back then were over in less than a minute, so that kinda sucked.

[calapine]

Yea, I have no clue why Mayweather makes any money. What a boring fucking entertainer. Because let's face it, boxing is supposed to be entertainment. He's an actual clown.

There was a time when boxing was fun to watch?

You fucking joking?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-478QGV9pc

Despite being fucknuts crazy, watching Iron Mike fight was completely without parallel in any other sport.

I really never watched boxing. How did the Muhammed Ali fights measure up to this?

[Strazos]

Not that I'm a boxing guy, but I always thought that while Tyson was more explosive, Ali was much more agile and had some incredible hand speed.

If WUA was still here, I'm sure he could say more.

[schild]

Tyson hit about ten times harder than Ali and punched just as fast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51090bGcoR8

One of my friends described him as a perpetual motion machine. That's a pretty god description. At Ali and Tyson's peak, I'm pretty confident Tyson could put Ali through the floor of the mat in 15 seconds.

[calapine]

Oh, you seem to be right... From the training video found this:

Mike Tyson Vs. Sammy Scaff HD

The entire fight was over by minute 2. He looks so..dense compared to his opponent. And also quite menacing for a 19 year old "teenager".

[schild]

Tyson could duck and weave as good as any of the best, Ali included. But his uppercut and left hook would come out of nowhere like a freight train and crush your fucking skull in.

For all of his craziness, the guy is probably the best at his sport than anyone else was at their sport. The closest physically conditioned *famous* person I can think of is Bruce Lee. But Lee never peaked. :(

Edit: You can *feel* his punches while watching him. Shit is intense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z9mbQk58B0 (The Mark Young fight is omg - and jesus, the Etienne one, I'd never seen that angle)