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Whats making you happy right now

#18121 User is offline   worry 

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Posted 04 August 2021 - 11:05 AM

Name it Worry Jr. And when it starts playing with your Beach Boys records, you can say "Don't, Worry, baby".
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#18122 User is offline   QuickTidal 

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Posted 04 August 2021 - 11:19 AM

View PostMacros, on 04 August 2021 - 09:44 AM, said:

Only failires are called Martin

Matt is the true name for a great


I feel like an amalgam of the two would work.

Mattartin
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#18123 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

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Posted 04 August 2021 - 11:27 AM

I was thinking of using usernames for it, like "The Quick Retired Abyss Morgoth Macros Worry Smith"

May have to do some quick talking with Mrs Tiste...
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#18124 User is offline   Morgoth 

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Posted 04 August 2021 - 11:47 AM

Anomandaris has a nice ring to it. Anomandaris Martin Simeon
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#18125 User is offline   Tsundoku 

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Posted 04 August 2021 - 01:51 PM

I will be humble and accept you giving them Shane as a middle name.

The advantage over the rest - it's unisex. True story.

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#18126 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

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Posted 04 August 2021 - 03:30 PM

View PostMorgoth, on 04 August 2021 - 11:47 AM, said:

Anomandaris has a nice ring to it. Anomandaris Martin Simeon

That's not... Actually the worst name...
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#18127 User is offline   Morgoth 

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Posted 05 August 2021 - 05:36 AM

View PostTiste Simeon, on 04 August 2021 - 03:30 PM, said:

View PostMorgoth, on 04 August 2021 - 11:47 AM, said:

Anomandaris has a nice ring to it. Anomandaris Martin Simeon

That's not... Actually the worst name...


It is the best name. The middle ties it all together. Like a rug.
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#18128 User is offline   Tsundoku 

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Posted 05 August 2021 - 07:46 AM

Or a noose.
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Posted 05 August 2021 - 10:42 AM

It can't be Anomandaris Shane Simeon because the initials would be ASS.
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#18130 User is offline   Tsundoku 

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Posted 05 August 2021 - 12:36 PM

... but it would look great as a vanity plate on his car.
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"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys

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#18131 User is offline   worry 

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Posted 05 August 2021 - 07:23 PM

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#18132 User is offline   Azath Vitr (D'ivers 

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Posted 05 August 2021 - 07:34 PM

'Starlight Could Really Be a Vast Alien Quantum Internet, Physicist Proposes

What if the universe is a giant alien chatroom, and we just can't understand it?

[...] "What I show is that alien civilizations can, in principle, run their own quantum internet in such a way that to the creatures excluded from the conversation (us!) we will only ever see thermal electromagnetic radiation,[...] All we would see, if they did use the effect I propose, is some very random looking thermal light."


[...]


Rudolph said the idea for the paper on aliens communicating with quantum starlight flowed from his work on quantum computers. Unlike the quantum computers being pursued by the likes of Google or Intel that use superconducting circuits or trapped ions at incredibly cold temperatures to create qubits (the quantum equivalent of a computer bit), photonic computers use light to accomplish the same thing. While Rudolph says this kind of quantum design is unconventional, it does also have advantages over its rival—including being able to operate at room temperature and easy integration into existing fiber optic infrastructure.
"It was while I was stuck trying to deeply understand one of those advantages that I decided to push my analysis to an extreme limit, a limit which I thought would end up being ridiculous and would definitely not work,[...] Instead I found things still worked, and the end result was the realization that certain incredibly simple photonic quantum effects are in principle usable by circumspect aliens (or humans!) for the quantum internet."


[...]


Aliens aside, Rudolph says that his paper demonstrates that building a photon-based quantum internet here on Earth might be "much easier than we expected."


[...]


"A distinct but important point is that even if your adversary can intercept and listen in on your communication, the quantum internet is provably securable,"'

https://www.vice.com...sicist-proposes

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#18133 User is offline   Malankazooie 

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Posted 06 August 2021 - 05:09 PM

Stopped at a red light and a few cars over was a teenage girl in full goth makeup and goth style regalia. Black lipstick, eye shadow, etc. She even leaned in extra hard and did what I call "goth clown" look by adding some accentuating makeup below her eyes. And she had the Wednesday Addams fashion going. The window was down and she was doing that goth thing were she had her head propped/resting on her arms and was looking forlornly out the window.

Now I don't have any sentimentality towards the goth lifestyle, I didn't know it was still a thing, but I was happy for it instead of some coal rolling Stop the Steal, Trump is my President, Back the Blue giant American flag waving truck nuts moron.
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#18134 User is offline   Malankazooie 

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Posted 08 August 2021 - 05:37 PM

Oh snap, we edged out China for most golds (by one, ha! US Women's volleyball for the F to the T to the muthafukin' W to get that last gold!). That was kind of a surprise. We didn't make the greatest showing in events we normally dominate.

You guys think it will be the same story for the Winter Olympics in about six months? Those are being held in Beijing so I'm guessing China is going to have a windfall of gold.

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Posted 09 August 2021 - 05:46 AM

I’m not convinced they will happen at all.
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Posted 09 August 2021 - 11:10 AM

Congrats @Tiste.
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#18137 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

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Posted 09 August 2021 - 06:49 PM

Welp. Today's surprise is that it's twins.

Hoo boy.
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#18138 User is offline   Maark Abbott 

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Posted 09 August 2021 - 06:58 PM

Book 2 is VERY close to ready for publishing. I'm currently doing last formatting edits, then it goes on the iPad and kindle app to ensure it reads correctly... Then I suppose artwork!

Exciting times, hey?
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#18139 User is offline   worry 

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Posted 09 August 2021 - 07:39 PM

View PostTiste Simeon, on 09 August 2021 - 06:49 PM, said:

Welp. Today's surprise is that it's twins.

Hoo boy.


Is that the push or the pull of Oponn?

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#18140 User is offline   Tsundoku 

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Posted 09 August 2021 - 08:42 PM

A lot of push.

Double congrats Simmo. :)

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"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys

"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
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