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Hi, I obtained my first utility model (as I said) and I do not know what to do with it. Is there anyone who is willing to comment on the issue ? Thanks

Now that we are passed the dreaded 1st, Does anyone remember any good pranks ? I remember when I was in a student flat in college a prank played upon one other student. In the middle of the appropriate night we all got up except Jack , got dressed and busied about making breakfast noises. "Hurry up Jack, or you will be late for lectures." "Didn't you hear the new?, there is a total eclipse this morning, that's why it is dark" One by one we left for our appointed lectures and hid around the corner. Sure enough afte a couple of minutes Jack emerged and set off for the college campus about 1.5 miles away. He didn't twig till he got there alone.

I'm watching Joe Biden give a speech right now, and his face is coming over as eerily immobile. I know he's elderly, and miles better than the alternative. I'm not knocking him as a politician, but I just wondered if other people get the same feeling about his face? Has he been banging in the Botox, or having nips and tucks done? His mouth moves, and his eyes blink, but the rest of the face seems like it's fixed. Not that there's anything wrong with it. I'd go for it myself, if I had the money to waste, and it didn't hurt, and never went wrong.

Yesterday morning it was the end of 2019 and I was chilling. This morning I woke up and we're into the second quarter of 2023. I am no longer chilling. I can't attribute this to covid or lockdowns or anything else, but the last three and half years has gone by positively frighteningly quickly. I just turned 37, positively a grown ass dude, no longer youthful and entirely carefree (which I kind of felt like up until I hit this most recent age). Frightening. It feels like the last 3+ years I've spent sat about doing very little, where as prior, I would make every day count, getting qualifications, travelling, etc etc. Is it just me?

Should note it always tries to end things positively regardless of the characters or individuals involved.

I believe that body parts can be preserved in certain condition, such as if placed in ice, so that in some cases severed limbs can even be reattached. I did once hear a story about a boy who got his finger chopped off in an accident involving an axe. They were able to reattach the finger which involved the use of leeches. I would imagine that they had to put his finger in ice to preserve it while they brought it to the hospital though. I was thinking though, what about body parts in space? Let's say you lose a finger for instance in space, would the environment of outer space be able to preserve it so that it could be reattached?

What should I know before partnering up with an EoR (Employer of Record) company?

Watching last week's repair shop included a fascinating repair to a dented bugle. The repairer slid a cylindrical hardwood plug into the tube, followed by a metal weight about 15-20mm diameter by 15-20mm length. Then he shook the instrument up and down causing the weight to bounce up and down on the wooden plug, driving it through the flattened section of the air tube. This process took several hours, clearing the dents in the process. A fine example of the power of a steady small tap tap tap. As to the Repair Shop itself, I've noticed that in more recent episodes there are longer and better explanations of the whys and wherefores of what t…

A century old collection of termites in San Francisco, Ripoffornia sells for $2 Million perhaps with a garage and a yard to have one tomato plant if lucky, for whoever has dormant $200K for initial payment and a loan of $1.8M meaning $11K monthly mortgage for every month of the next 30 years of your life... plus $2000 monthly property taxes to feed a herd of dolittle seat warmers keyboard massagers, plus monthly $200 maintenance if lucky, plus $100 monthly insurance (to benefit the lender) plus $100 monthly water plus $200 monthly electricity plus whatever am forgetting just to have a roof over your family. Similar for other major cities, als…

Hi guys, recently I stumbled upon this strange video in youtube. I downloaded a 17 page handwritten pdf file from the description which is hard to read. I am not a mathematician nor a linguist and although I have read it I don't know what to think. It looks more like an incomplete exercise or speculations over the grammar of the simple sentence. But numbers and kind of their definitions were involved, which is strange for a grammar work. Here is the link:

Do fish dance?

I was reminded this morning, walking outside, that -10 F. is roughly where my nose hair freezes and crackles if I don't put on a face mask or neck gaiter and there's some breeze. We are headed to minus 20 tonight, and possibly minus 22 tomorrow, which is about as cold as I've personally experienced since Dec. 3, 1970, which was minus 29 in Lincoln, NE. We children were out that day, but since it was a week night (and school was rarely cancelled there for just cold), the parents vetoed staying up into the wee hours to have the full Shackletonian experience. The windchill tomorrow night could reach that magical number that is the same temperature in both Celsius and…

Could be much worse next time... 🙄

Having been rapped over the knuckles by the mods for referring to Brazil as "where the nuts come from", I suppose I should explain that this is a reference to a catchphrase from "Charley's Aunt". This is a late Victorian farce, subsequently made into more than one film, with a plot involving an Oxford undergraduate in drag, pretending to be an aunt returned from Brazil, "where the nuts come from". https://www.comedy.co.uk/film/charleys_big_hearted_aunt/about/

It is the experience of all my family and friends that curry, casserole and cottage pie all taste better the second time around. So my question is Is there any way to skip the first day ?

Hi, I understand there is computational research as well as completely theoretical research compared to experimental research. I was curious about what they are like. Could anyone point out some good papers? Thanks.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/asia/japan-zoo-gibbon-pregnancy-mystery-intl-hnk/index.html Japanese zookeepers believe they have solved the mystery of how a gibbon became pregnant despite living alone in her cage. Momo, a 12-year-old white-handed gibbon, shocked her keepers at the Kujukushima Zoo and Botanical Garden in Nagasaki in February 2021 when she gave birth despite having no known male companionship. Now two years later, following a DNA test on her baby, the zoo has worked out who the father is – and even has a theory about how the gibbons mated....

On another note, have any of you forum goers done an IQ test? What are your IQs? I'd be curious to know. Anybody with IQs in the 180 range, for instance?

Hi. You have a lucky face. Is this a good place in the forums to introduce myself? I am reading the Great Books of the Western World, which has a lot of important books in the history of math and science. But the strange thing is that the great books people that I've known are not really proficient in the grammar and therefore cannot talk to me much about the issues of sciences and maths. The other thing is that when I want to talk about these things from an historical perspective, the scientists and mathameticians kind of think it's a waste of time to talk about a 100 or 500 year old piece of writing. So, I'm wondering if I can communicate here? Lately I have been s…

A bit of what I do. Is to figure the impossible like freedom. This is on my c.v The spider diagram. It is the best problem solving tool I know. If you or a friend at the pc shop has a laptop with a good program. A to z and add words together every language in every history. And every problem you can think of. Even freedom. A new age First thing on my list. Is move to a better country. My c.v is on LinkedIn mo ranger Picture of a shuttle. Check about. Just the heads up I'm being tracked heavily by corrupt plain clothed cop. Causing a problem in serciety it is just treason or high treason. Not good for them.

Cool. But don't come all at once. Bonaire’s laid-back beauty might blow you away. The food will, too. - The Boston Globe

Hello In your opinion, what is the most important thing that the humans should work together to try to achieve ? Is there a list/poll answering this somewhere ? IMO I think about being able to create artificial brains to upload the minds of biological ones into them, to have more time/less weaknesses to try to understand how the universe works. I also think about creating a website to suggest and vote for rules to apply to communities/countries/world

Hello Do you have some movies or series to suggest please ? I think about the movie Transcendence (2014) and Chappie And about those/these series : Prison Break and Chuck

You reach out to an eminent person in your field whom you don't know with a question, they respond with a brief, but polite answer. Their answer does not call for a response from you. Do you leave it there or do you respond with a "thank you" email?

Hi. Have a good '23 Uneven results, some stay hard, some are enjoyable soft. What differs? The chestnut 'quality' itself, or soaking, or its size, or the time boiling, the depth of scaring, or else ? Read the pointy ones are edible and the rounded ends are not Some recipes call for boiling in an extra large pot with a huge amount of water compared with the volume of nuts in. I do not get what is the effect* Your expertise to obtain then very buttery soft, please ? *( as to boil pasta, why suggested in huge amounts of water and not simply submerged ? )