my mommy once told me "if it quacks like a duck, it might be a duck"

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...5/babyduck.jpg

Your mommy was right,
like most mommies are reckoned,
right up to a point.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...8ifto1_500.jpg

The new Iranian warship Jamaran fires a missile, reported to be a Noor, a long-
range anti-ship missile manufactured by Iran and based on the Chinese C-802,
in an exercise in the southern waters of Iran, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
-- (AP Photo/IIPA, Ebrahim Norouzi)

I'll bet that blows ducks
by flocks out of the water
& falls back like soup.

Duck Soup is not a feature-length film, is it?

---------- Post added at 07:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:36 PM ----------

just barely... over an hour. It is.

Laurel and Hardy, though; they dabbled in short films, did they not? I think they are an untapped fountain of inspiration.

2+1+4+0=7

When inspiration
fails to strike without google
our species is doomed

Oh, I use the nice feature of Wikipedia instead; my brain does not turn without query, otherwise I'd go nuts over-analyzing my dreams and how exactly, is it possible, that my brain synapses fire.

Ah, Tiger Bunny!
If wondering how can hurt
you might be nuts now.

So, says everyone.

I wish they'd stop, though.

I'm not "crazy" or "weird".

Unlike the rest of you, I am actually phenomenal at the art of acting, being self-aware without actually realizing my truest potential.

(the problem with that is, if you rearrange the context of the words above, any third-year sociologist can rearrange it as the exact definition of a sociopath)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky...4foso1_500.jpg

I said no such thing
but "I value your madness".
I thought you would know.

I know you didn't; as most do, too.

I just over-rambulate because I don't think all that much, so I instill ponderances upon the both of us to compensate for depth. I go for volume, I guess.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...5vu7o1_500.jpg
it's mona

yes, as usual. I got nothing to say.

I have a lot to say but I'm not going into it all right now. Meet me for drinks after work today and I'll say a lot of stuff.

I didn't know where else to feature this . . .(maybe take 2)

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...pwi0o1_500.jpg

Sci-Fi Ray Gun Jesus Fish from Etsy seller Zom-Bot Labs. Vinyl decal. $5.

The Jesus Fish Thread
could have used one like that one.
How multi-purpose!

2into14x1=7

Ah, I have not heard mention of that thread in over a right year, at least, it must have been.

Time flies, having fun,
& more quickly, uncounted,
as speed kills again.

I think I had a dream about your haikus, and then I remembered, it was only Tuesday.

21=42/2

I've dreamed about you
even while I've been conscious;
analysis fails.

that looks like a scene from tron or hacker. fun!

I forgot until now... timing-wise, my coincidences are lagging.

for badNick... (referring to that page or two back about stars and nebulas and suches)


http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw...navao1_400.jpg
Nibiru by Michæl Paukner


Oh yeah, it’s Planet X and it’s 3,600 year orbit in our solar system.

There’s a lot of subtle fear with the approaching “doomsday” of 2012. We live in a world where the economies have failed, our governments have lied to us and there seems to be little hope. This fear is based, in part, on our collective “gut feeling” that something big and bad is on the event horizon. We sense it is something much bigger than our own obvious ineptitude at running the world. We look to space for the source of this catastrophe.

The interest in Planet-X was first triggered by the writings of Zecharia Sitchin, whose translations and interpretations of the oldest known civilization, the Sumerians, gave us a cosmology that included what he called “The Twelfth Planet.”

Sitchin’s work with ancient texts, specifically the Enumma Elish, is brilliant. The cosmology includes an extra, as yet undiscovered planet, which is similar to the descriptions used by NASA and other researchers. This planet is in an eliptical orbit with a “year” equal to an amazing 3600 earth years. This long orbit is why the planet — called Nibiru by the ancients — has eluded observation with current telescopes and satellites.

Embedded with the cosmology of the Sumerians is the description of an alien race of beings who came to our planet to mine precious minerals and who genetically altered our species. This latter bit of the tale in the Sumerian writing has caused the cosmology to be thrown out along with the aliens. But it does not negate the cosmology.

The idea of a new planet being discovered in our Solar System is pretty exciting. Even more so because of the many theories about “Planet-x” or “Nibiru” being associated with space aliens and the doomsday prophecies of 2012. Scientists at places like NASA and famous observatories have deflected inquiries about the discovery for a few years now, mainly because they feared being associated with these “fringe” theories. But like it or not — it has happened. Well… according to a team of Spanish astronomers who call themselves the StarViewer Team: Spanish Astronomers Claim Dwarf Sun Beyond Pluto

Isn't Planet X supposed to destroy the Earth in 2012? I should look into it a bit more but so far I don't believe it.



ps: Jet, the last picture linkage pic you posted is red x'd ...I was gonna go with smokey stage but I'm not sure if that's right

^ I can hum that

ps: I realize this is not my longest post but I'll keep humming to make up for it.

(2x1)+4+2=8

Failing to be overjoyed
while knowing the alternative sucks
is unlikely self-defense

Ocm?, thanks, glad you liked the eagle vid

Oh, thanks for telling me.

I already forgot where and what the 'keyword' was.

I'll check it forthwith to see what the dealio is.

PS
(I finally upgraded from Opera 9.53 to Opera 10.50, and I am scrambling around trying to re-familiarize my browser to something I can work with, but boy, is this web browser fast [apparently the fastest in the world, they tout])

I fixed the image.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr...yagco1_500.gif

(I also think posting trains is getting progressively harder now)

((2x1)+4)/3=2

It's easier to pretend
I'm going somewhere while watching that.
Many thanks for the ticket.

a nice little fact of learning from a contact of mine, the Tutonic Tony Delgrosso:

You know that tired adage "write what you know"?

It’s utter crap. Forget it.

At the very least, outgrow it.

Write what you want to know.

Confront the questions and puzzles and secrets and I-wonder-hows and what-ifs that itch at the back of your brain late at night, and make up the answers. Just make them up. Then write the living fuck out of them.

((2+1)x4))/3=4

You know what you've done,
you wild & crazy rabbit?
I might be blushing.

I know not what I have done.

Enlightenment might be needed.

Had I posted this before?

I'm not sure,
but I do know this:
This thread grows.

this would be this month's first favorite
(and although it spawns to my mind a new potential topic, I'd rather not start a "Post a Panhandler" kind-of-thread, no matter how interesting a few of them may be)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/101/2...0d1e80d9_m.jpg
Vote for Kinky by Stuck in Customs

Association
of ideas by many
is less effective.

sounds about right. keep going.

for BadNick:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...ofxco1_500.jpg

thanks, Jet. I love that dramatic range of blues and the color and texture contrasts with the still bottom vs boiling surf

I also got inspired by your Jewish cowboy post above so I listened to his band, Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys

1945?

1949 was my favorite year back in those days. I wasn't around before that.

The reasons why not
are rarely as important
as the reasons why

for NoSoup:

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx...iwcjo1_500.jpg

---------- Post added at 02:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:37 PM ----------

Aewan, #1019, by Ham Jin

Now I have to have some phở tomorrow. I love phở and phở loves me. Phở sure.

I eat soup
almost ev'ry meal:
Perfect food.

I pitty the phở!

You've noticed, I trust,
that our posting's been faster.
How about a graph?

It is probable
reading too much into that
could cause some trouble.

(2-1-4)+5=2

They didn't have canada on the list because it was too high to show.

That would remind me
of Zooksport's allegations
regarding aussies.

They aren't allegations.... Thems are factoids....

I don't disbelieve:
Imagining overtime
is enjoyable.

Hey, just came back from the doc.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...jggvo1_500.jpg

Told me I had at least one thing photographic (I don't recall if he said anything about my memory, though).

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...pwi0o1_500.jpg

Google’s Pi Day Doodle, courtesy of Malaysia, where the local time is tomorrow.

[thenextweb.]

Hey, Jet.... Thats what I need, instead of these frikken glasses.

no progress.

21460.

---------- Post added at 03:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:32 PM ----------

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...7evco1_500.jpg

Progress ill-measured
can fly beyond its damn self
& come back broken.

anybody up for a discussion? I mean other than what we're discussing.

what kind of format is ".mkv"?

Sounds like the speed racer... go, speed racer... oh, I'm so stressed.

Being a perfectionist is... not at all rewarding when you only try to impress yourself.

The 4th generation Supra, of which I am a proud owner of one, is usually called mkiv so all the fanboys keep talking about when the mkv is coming out, etc. But in "Jetee context" I think it might more likely be the Matroska Multimedia Container Matroska though I recall you also appreciate the MkIV Supra.

I'm pretty sure I noticed one of the anime things I was watching a few days ago was in mkv format and my VLC media player handled it no problems as usual.

Red Molly, where are you?

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g292/nickjt/vbl.jpg

That seat looks comfortable....

We don't need no stinkin' seat!

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...record_run.jpg

"...On 13 September 1948, Rollie Free achieved the US national motorcycle speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah riding the first Vincent Black Lightning. During test runs Free reached average speeds of 148.6 mph (239.1 km/h). To reduce drag, Free stripped to his swimming shorts for the final run, which he made lying flat with his legs stretched out and his head low, guiding the Vincent by following a black stripe painted on the salt bed..."

Art follows function:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...lackShadow.jpg

http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Services/volun...s/sunshine.JPG

This thread is my sunshine on a cloudy day :)

Yep, it is pretty awesome, isn't it :)

No sun here. Man, it's dark. Makes me hungry thinking I'm so alone and devoid of essential vitamin D.

I've been getting into Kate Miller-Heidke

So, I can't upload anything at all to the web without infringing multiple copyrights, so... I'm still a person who can never upload or share anything of mine own.

are any of you as amazed about this coincidence as I am!?:

21 X 474 = 9954

...say no more ...at least for now.

ps: we're within 646 of them

I don't know what to do.

maybe I'll look up something along the lines of "Old Man Dexter" + ".avi|.mp4" and download, transload, convert, then reupload, and be done with actually thinking of a topic without verifying it's existence.

seek out what's available, don't think about what may be coincidental... hoping.


anyway... I finished this upload (hopefully nobody ever finds it)


---------- Post added at 10:28 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:25 AM ----------

great, the new updates to Dailymotion doesn't look to be too favorable towards the TFP embedded videos that originated from there.

I care too much about stuff that's past me.

If only I was a bit more nerdy I could be like Dexter. And I always wished I had an older sister to teach me the ropes.

you see a big white screen above, though right?

it wasn't there two days ago when I was updating the cartoons thread... if time could stand still, then I could get caught up.

*eyes light up* I think I just found the post I'll be featuring when we topple the 'WA' (drab state) thread.

I am like him got the plastic the knives and a younger sister.
dont think i would like miami though

2+14-7=9

Say what you shouldn't.
None can tell you what it is,
in America.

Being Hungarian, I can't help but notice that 214 ate 0 so now I'm also hungry.

Well, I wouldn't call it "big"..... Perhaps medium sized?

Tis, white though, to be sure.....

.

---------- Post added at 02:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:47 PM ----------

Hey..... got the new page!

Congratulations, Zook. You guys have those rabbits under control yet?

That's funny, BadNick.
Controlling the aliens
when they breed so fast?

Ocm?, my friend
dingos are multi-purpose
just for things like this.


(sorry Jetee, don't take it too personally)

Part of the reason
for the problem, as stated,
is a solution.

Talk about problems, the longest standing math problem in the world is standing no more; i.e. Fermat's Last Theorem.

While this might be old news to all you math buffs, I'll take the liberty to post about it here hoping that this might be one of the longest posts in the longest thread. It doesn't have to be "longest"; "one of the longest" is good enough for me until further notice.

Fermat proposed that x^n + y^n = z^n has no non-zero integer solutions for x, y and z when n > 2. This simple conjecture was not solved for over 350 years and through the centuries became one of math’s greatest puzzles.

Then came along Andrew Wiles. As a child Wiles loved doing math problems. When he was ten he came across Fermat’s Last Theorem which was, at the time, unsolved for 300 years. “It looked so simple, and yet all the great mathematicians in history couldn’t solve it,” said Wiles. “I had to solve it.”

Wiles quickly became obsessed with solving the problem. Throughout his teenage and college years he worked on it, using his own methods and that of the mathematicians who had worked on it before him. However, when he became a research student he decided to put the problem aside. Wiles realized that current techniques could not solve the problem and that one could spend years without making any progress. Also, a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem would be completely useless to mathematics – it would not lead to anything useful for mathematicians. Instead, he went on to study elliptical curves at Cambridge.

His study of elliptical curves would prove useful, for in 1986 a new possibility was presented to Wiles. Ken Ribet linked Fermat’s Last Theorem to another unsolved problem, the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture, which happened to be about elliptical curves. If one conjecture was true, both were – thus, if Wiles could prove the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture, he could prove Fermat’s Last Theorem as well.

From that moment on he was determined to solve the riddle. He dropped all other projects he was working on and concentrated on the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture – in secrecy and isolation. “I realized that anything to do with Fermat’s Last Theorem generates too much interest. You can’t really focus yourself for years unless you have undivided concentration, which too many spectators would have destroyed.” His wife did not even know that he was working on the problem until he told her during their honeymoon.

Wiles worked on the problem alone for seven years. He devoted all of his time to working on the proof, the only exception being spending time with his family. He had a few breakthroughs but not a complete proof until one day in spring of 1993 in which he had the idea of examining the elliptical curves from the prime five instead of the prime three. Working feverishly (and forgetting to eat lunch), Wiles went to his wife that afternoon saying he had the proof.

Wiles introduced the proof in a series of three lectures which made no mention of Fermat’s Last Theorem, but rather of elliptical curves. However, the audience realized by the end of the third lecture what Wiles was leading them towards. Once Wiles had finished his proof of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture, he put Fermat’s Last Theorem on the board then concluded saying, “I think I’ll stop there.”

Wiles gained instant fame for having developed a solution to Fermat’s Last Theorem. However, soon Nick Katz discovered that there was an error in a key section of his original proof. This setback proved difficult for Wiles to overcome, and none of the methods he tried could solve the error. He was about to give up when he re-examined his original (though discarded) method and found that there was actually a way to use it to resolve his mistake. “It was so indescribably beautiful,” said Wiles about the moment he solved the problem. “It was so simple and so elegant, and I just stared in disbelief for twenty minutes.” Thus, in 1994 the final proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem was complete, weighing it at 200 pages, more complex than most people can understand.

The full riddle, however, is still not completely solved, for it remains unknown whether Fermat ever really had a brilliant proof to his conjecture. Fermat could not have thought of Wiles’ proof – Wiles says that, “the techniques used in this proof just weren’t around in Fermat’s time.” With the many mathematicians who had thought they’d solved it in the past, it is possible that Fermat deluded himself as well – but a simpler solution may still exist. Wiles, however, is content with his difficult proof – “I had this very rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life what had been my childhood dream.”


I hope they named A & W Root Beer after Andrew Wiles in honor of this achievement.

The Haiku?

---------- Post added at 05:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:14 PM ----------

I'm stranded and cold and maybe hungry, on...

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...r38no1_500.jpg

2x1x4=8=8

I'd come pick you up,
but not knowing where you are
makes that difficult.

what am I not supposed to take personally?

where are you? what am I?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...pwi0o1_500.jpg
Spotted on on John St. in Brighton, blokes. Blimey!

We were warned.

Jet, I was concerned about you taking my suggestion about controlling rabbit populations with dingos "personally" due to your rabbitness.

I don't have rabies, and the rabbit thing I just sort of fell into... (get it? fell in the hole; the wonderland obscurity hole? So many times am I bombarded by recollections of 'Alice in Wonderland', and what really funny is that I have no idea how either the book or the classic 1905, or the Disney remake, actually ends).



to: the white rabbit.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...t37ho1_500.jpg
he pops up everywhere in life, whether I like it or not.

(and the above would be a nice little kitch addition to my bunny ears+santa hats collection.)

When I was much younger, I searched out and watched/studied every version I could find. One of my favorite versions was an Alice done by the Czech director Jan Švankmajer. It's sort of a cult film.

I like those sort of films (I like any recommended film at all, I think).

Had I recommended this one to you as of yet?

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

This is one of, if I recall correctly, maybe 3 films in total that mirrors my life, my dreams, and my afterlife precisely (not accurately though, because I'm neither French nor Spanish),

Also, the first time I saw the film above, I had this immediate inner notion that it would become one of my top five films of all time, and I was not wrong in that assumption.

that's a beautiful film that I really liked, saw it shortly after it was released many years ago. I should watch it again this weekend.

Back in my "movie" days I'd watch several a day, I wasn't married, no kids, no commitments, just my big house and me and a TV, and a VCR since that was pre-video discs except for those huge laser discs that I think Sony made. ...ahhh, the good old days; then I'd watch the ones I liked again until I had enough to think about. Luis Buñuel's films were always very interesting.

hey a quick question Nick, ol' boy: did you happen to see (and perhaps save?) that photo-linked post of paddyjoe's, the one where Bettie Page was photographed in a 3-way-mirror-splice-kind-of-way (and it was also monochrome)?


I wanted to re-host the broken image and send it to joe so that he can fix his post, but I can't find it myself.

Jet, is it this photo? http://www.photographersgallery.com/...ge_fan_101.jpg ...oops, that's not monochrome. I'll keep looking.

wow, that's not bad.

that is to say, I actually love that photo, and I think paddyjoe might love it, too (maybe enough to replace his previously-original-but-now-broken post with your exquisite found image instead.

Never mind the Rabbits.

Them bloody cane toads.... Queensland introdused them They should pay to get rid of them....

The federal government plans to abandon efforts to eradicate cane toads, and instead focus on saving certain areas and animals like the quoll and goanna from the pest.

The new strategy comes after recent research showed some native animal species adapt to cane toads in their environment, after an initial decrease in numbers.

It proposes giving up on efforts to rid Australia of the invasive toad, which is poisonous when ingested and competes with native species for food and shelter.

"Neither the resources nor the technologies required to contain and eradicate cane toad numbers on a continental scale are available," the plan, released on Wednesday, says.
Fed govt changes tack on cane toads - The West Australian

Predators
Many species prey on the cane toad in its native habitat. These include the Broad-snouted Caiman (Caiman latirostris), the Banded Cat-eyed Snake (Leptodeira annulata), the eel (family: Anguillidae), various species of killifish, the Rock flagtail (Kuhlia rupestris), some species of catfish (order: Siluriformes) and some species of ibis (subfamily: Threskiornithinae). Predators outside the cane toad's native range include the Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus), the Rakali (Hydromys chrysogaster), the Black Rat (Rattus rattus) and the Water Monitor (Varanus salvator). There have been occasional reports of the Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) and the Papuan Frogmouth (Podargus papuensis) feeding on cane toads.
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...d_Products.jpg

crikey, you are a wealth of information... Get your ass to Oz!