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Been re-watching the Star Trek: Voyager series.
Season 4, episode 10, is titled, "Random Thoughts"
Season 4, episode 10, is titled, "Random Thoughts"
collinsmark said:Been re-watching the Star Trek: Voyager series.
Season 4, episode 10, is titled, "Random Thoughts"
The related verb is to google, which has several meanings.
Oh yea. I agree. I have his vinyl also.zoobyshoe said:Miller wrote some great, classic stuff. Still, I go with Benny Goodman as the master of the big band sound.
I encountered it used that way back in the 1970's. I first heard the word "google" in a play by British playwright, Harold Pinter called "No Man's Land," which was written in 1974. It is used in a short speech full of cricket terms (none of which I, as an American, understood), by a character called Spooner, who is described as being in his sixties. Spooner's cricket days would have been in the 1930's. Maybe the term was already archaic when Pinter wrote the play.AlephZero said:Hmm... I've never heard the verb or the past participle used in the context of cricket, and I've been playing and watching it since I was a kid. I don't see any references for those assertions on the wikipedia page.
I guessed it might have been used (possibly humorously) in the era of Jeeves and Wooster, which seems fairly consistent with the Spooner.zoobyshoe said:Spooner's cricket days would have been in the 1930's. Maybe the term was already archaic when Pinter wrote the play.
Then why aren't we headed for Titan and its vast hydrocarbon lakes on the surface?martix said:Random thought #986
What if the scientific community collectively conspired on a report saying there are vast reserves of oil on Mars. We would there in a year flat! :)
This makes sense. I can imagine someone inventing the verb "to google," meaning 'to effect a googly' in cricket, to be funny. It is definitely the sort of thing Spooner would do.AlephZero said:I guessed it might have been used (possibly humorously) in the era of Jeeves and Wooster, which seems fairly consistent with the Spooner.
zoobyshoe said:This makes sense. I can imagine someone inventing the verb "to google," meaning 'to effect a googly' in cricket, to be funny. It is definitely the sort of thing Spooner would do.
Still have to wonder about whomever wrote the Wiki article, though.
I thought it was named after Brother Hieronymous O'Google, the famous medieval scribe and researcher.edward said:I always thought Google was named after Barney Google.
zoobyshoe said:You have one chance to count the number of times the letter F appears in the following sentence:
“Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years.”
lisab said:Once.
AnTiFreeze3 said:Good catch.
micromass said:Yep, you just got owned.
Carol Sansa said:I know the disease could kill me, but I feel like its way more active and more in touch with humans than any [BLEEP!] member of Congress
zoobyshoe said:No, it's not about case sensitivity, if that's what you're thinking. Six would have been correct. The puzzle's about the fact people usually become blind to the F in "of" because it's pronounced as "V".
micromass said:Yep, you just got owned.
OmCheeto said:I'm kinda at the moment. My kitchen has not been this clean and uncluttered since I bought my house 25 years ago.
Though, the weather forecast for tomorrow says that we will break our high temperature record set back in 1965. It's supposed to be 109°F tomorrow.
I may be by the end of the day.
109°F in Oregon is equivalent to about 600°F on the Texas temperature scale.
We missed the predicted target by a whole 10°F. It was only 99°F today. I was ready for the worst though. I turned my AC on this morning about 9 am. 500 watts! Kept the house at a comfortable 75°F. My bedroom is an ice box though.lisab said:Whoa, you guys down there topped us by a good 10 degrees! Hang on though - we're on the downside. Gwad how I miss the rain!
I haven't been woken up by it in at least a week. But this morning, at around 6:30 am, she came a knockin'... Subsequently, I've noticed no back pain. Might be the beer though. (hic!)So...is heat good for sciatica?
B. Elliott said:The humidity in the southeast is ridiculous right now.
lisab said:...Gwad how I miss the rain!
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zoobyshoe said:Shark week.
The fact that all free-float observers agree on the wristwatch time τ earns it
the label invariant. Invariant means that all observers calculate the same
value, independent of reference frame. In relativity every invariant quantity
is a diamond, to be treasured.
BobG said:In the course of the committee's investigations, it had been discovered,
to everyone's dismay, that the Law of Averages had never been incorporated
into the body of federal jurisprudence, and though the upholders
of States' Rights rebelled violently, the oversight was at once corrected,
both by Constitutional amendment and by a law...
(The Law, Robert M. Coates)
So, what is the Law of Averages? Is the crime being average or not being average?BobG said:In the course of the committee's investigations, it had been discovered,
to everyone's dismay, that the Law of Averages had never been incorporated
into the body of federal jurisprudence, and though the upholders
of States' Rights rebelled violently, the oversight was at once corrected,
both by Constitutional amendment and by a law...
(The Law, Robert M. Coates)