squash stroke

Body: Holy Crap! I think I am having a stroke.
Brain: LOL no you're not.
Body: don't laugh at me. what does FAST stand for again?
Brain: Fat Ass Slow Time
Body: no really, I'M DYING
Brain: do you think it might have something to do with it being 80 in your living room?
Body: Time?
Brain: or the 12 hours binge-watching House?
Body: YOU SHUT UP
Brain: LOL
Body: let's go to the store now that we are up and have our shoes one
Brain: um .... why did we go to the store again?
Body: LOL

Facebook cohortts

So facebook connections are interesting ....

As a Data Science NERD (FFS for 35 years???) I find the data of facebook to be quite interesting and wonderful.

And in strange ways, they mimic real life perfectly.

Squash -> Synthia (RL) -> Eric (RL) -> Leanne (FB), would never have met Leanne in RL. I dont travel enough!!

For my next trick, I want a loop, hasn't happened yet, but soon!  Theoretically, if I go far enough, they should loop back to someone that I already know in RL.

My current longest friend chain scares me:

Work -> Beth (RL) -> Trina (RL) -> 10 year gap -> Trina (FB) -> Trace (FB) -> Gisela (FB) -> Farrah (FB)

That these are different states and countries ... LOL

And that doesnt enter into the other Cluster of friends.

WOW ....

Scott (FB - RL) brought up one cool metric.

People who have been both home cities.

(If one is always coming to your city, that makes them a stalker. Heh)

WOlfram used to have the singular best FB app ever, it created a cluster of your friends, showing the interconnections, and creating clusters. Automatically.

For me it created: and they were all obvious

Family - duh

HS - College (going to commuter college made for a lot of overlap)

Work - College (working in college)

Squash - biggest real world cohort, outside of work and school

WoW - biggest virtual cohort. And one of the most amazing.

People from EVERYWHERE. And having met a bunch of them in RL, quite strange and wonderful. Hell even dated one for a bit. 

Remember when people said "those people arent real friends!" ? Mhmm

Expected Outcomes

STOP IT! 

STOP RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

Stop being surprised by school shootings.

Expected Outcomes.

This is an expected outcome.

You hit you thumb with a hammer, it hurts.

You drop a glass off the table, it breaks.

You have unprotected sex, you get pregnancies and STDs.

You dont have universal healthcare, you have sick citizens.

You have unregulated police, you have a police state.

You have 300,000,000 GUNS, you have shootings every fucking day.

Lost. Lost in Space.

Lost in Space ... with no writers, no scientists, common sense. No mom's to tell them to zip their coats up and put on their hats.  No chemists or physicists to explain what happens when water freezes or when water is heated to steam.

Lost without any ability to follow directions or orders. Lost without any rational leadership.

Alas ... they all froze to death in the first episode. 

I had hope for a second episode.

Lost 

Lost in Space Challenge 
Explain WHY you liked it, in detail.
Nostagila - no need for other words. I GET Nostagila. 
Dialog? - post any dialog that you couldn't' have written better. Think tyrion, or president Bartlett. Or anything.
Special effects? Nessecary but not sufficient. Ok at best. Good a couple of times.
Main story arc - could be interesting ... what little that we saw in the first season
Episodes - short season, 10 EPs, and yet most of them were filled with childish bickering (and that was the adults) with a minimal main story. You could remove any episode and miss NOTHING.
Characters? If you LIKED any of the characters, explain, in detail, WHY.
June Harris/Dr Smith - COULD have been amazing ... and instead .... her dialog was so bad, no one could make it interesting. NO ONE.  Hint: how many quotes did you post while watching it? I post quotes all the time from ... SHameless, from Lucifer, Homeland. LiS? Zip
Don West was the only REAL character ... and the only one with any jokes, 3 over the last 3 episodes.  ALL of the dialog was FLAT ... like George Lucas wrote and directed this!!!

Will I watch season two? In what ... a year? YAWN ...... 
Will I ever rewatch this? Nope. Never.

Dont get me wrong, I know that people like things that I dont like.
So not interested in "I liked it" ... yawn

What did you like? How did you like? Why did you like?

"Just mindless entertainment" ... ok ... but if that is the case, there are a million better mindless to watch. Hell, rewatch Archer!!  Watch Califonrication, Watch Lucifer and Shameless. I am rewatchin House !!!

Oooo recommendation ... Watch Chance !!!  Huge Laurie and Gretchen Mol ... amazing San Fran Modern Noir

morons in space

and she's DEAD again ..
Takes a weather balloon up to 350,000 feet !!! 65 miles, space. pressure is ~ zero.
A) the weather balloon never expands as rises, staying the same shape as at launch .... sigh
B) um the balloon explode, once the pressure gets too low ... 
C) our highest balloon was HALF that .... so no
D) sure, she is in a space suit, so fine, she can breath ....
E) oh never mind ... this is the 20th time that she has died ... in 4 episodes .... good thing they ONLY TOOK qualified morons on the mission ... I would hate to see how bad things would be if they took any idiot ... oh wait, she faked the test results so her kid could come ... yup .... all idiots

crab cakes

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/crab-cakes-recipe-1942406

tritium

GOD DAMN THIS headline and article ..>
a) it is fucking tritium - half life of 12 years ... YAWN
b) this isnt PANIC Pu, U, Ce, Sr, or any other long lived isotope
c) FFS - the biological half-life of HTO (tritutim water) is 7-14 days .... and the "cure" is drink lots of water ... LOL
d) it decays into He3 and literally floats away forever

dont get me wrong, they should do this ... but ... yawn

Prognostication

"You are being temporarily reassigned."

How far?

"Quite"

Silence 

“The Department of Justice is assigning you to temporary duty on Solaria.”

Yup ... being reassigned OFF WORLD, to ANOTHER STAR, .... quite far.

As an "aware" adult, reading OLD SF, has a strange, pleasant and wonderful taste to it.

The "mistakes" in "what will the world look like with 8 billion people living on it", and how terribly wrong they predicted, are refreshing and confirming in many ways.

The late, GREAT, Julian Simon talked about the ULTIMATE RESOURCE ... and was proven, over and over and over to be RIGHT.

Asimov wrote about an earth with 8 billion people, barely able to feed them. On the BRINK.

Instead, we sit here with 7.6 billion fat humans.

(Point of fact - the starving humans, are not starving from lack food, but from lack of humane government. Haiti, NK, Somalia, Flint, these people are suffering because of tax cuts, NOT the lack of food.)

India and China are effectively feeding their billions.

And housing and educating and providing healthcare.

Perfect? No, of course not, GO AWAY and take perfect to your wall.

The predictions of SOYLENT GREEN and The Population Bomb, was the US !!!  Would have degenerated into caniblism by the 90s!!!  Instead we have an obesity problem.

A) predicted by Julian Simon 

2) completely missed by the fool, Paul Erhlich.

(Hint: if PE is your go to guy, you should find someone with a better success rate.)

Prognostication 

We really need to MEASURE these people, rank them, and FUCKING IGNORE THEM. And certainly remove them from power.

BOA gave 5 billion to vulture capitalists to destroy toys r us, and will never get their money back. WHy?

Vulture capialists have cost the banks and INSANE amount of money. STOP LENDING THEM MONEY

Strange, no one lends trump money anymore. NO ONE.

So where does the money come from for his new stuff?

Russian Mob. NICE

interstellar travel SF

and TIME ... and DISTANCE

say they WERE HERE ... but 100 million years ago?

and the time and geology smoothed it all over ?

there are a lot of interesting SF storylines that dig into the TINIEST details of how hard it would be to do even a TINY sphere ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Interstellar_culture

another good series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engines_of_God

talks about .... our finding ruins .... say if we were ONLY a million years late ......

sas jupyter

https://github.com/sassoftware/sas_kernel
https://github.com/sassoftware

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2016/04/24/how-to-run-sas-programs-in-jupyter-notebook/

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2017/04/08/python-to-sas-saspy/

https://github.com/Avkash/mldl/blob/master/notebook/utils/Netezza-Connection-Demo.ipynb
python, jupyter and netezza
heh

crime and budgets

crime and budgets

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2017/econ/g15-aspef.pdf

https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/other/expenditures-corrections-education/brief.pdf

https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/report-increases-spending-corrections-far-outpace-education

my fit was working perfectly until 6.64.
a) how can I install the old firmware that worked?
b) how can I reset my One so it will work?

my symptoms are identical to 
https://community.fitbit.com/t5/One/Fitbit-One-Will-Not-Turn-On/td-p/2566778

this is CLEARLY a problem with your firmware
1) do you have a engineering fix? AKA ask the engineers how this was broken and how to fix it?
2) IF NOT, please provide me with contact to reach your lawyers ... you intentionally broke my working device, this is illegal

IF you cant fix this, I have to assume that your products will always be disabled by you in the future.
Time to find any other supplier.

thanks for posting LINKS HERE on how to trouble shoot this problem
so the 1000s of other with the same problem wont have to call the help desk

catering

https://www.ezcater.com/company/blog/the-ten-best-chicago-caterers/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=contentchicago&utm_term=bestofchicago

dating 101

"addiction" ... LOL
and yah
people dont change
so if they play games when you meet them, they will play games when you are married.
No different than EVERYTHING else.
(feel free to change pronouns as needed)
Strangely enough, I know PLENTY of happily married gamers.
Zero difference than any other hobby/habit/avocation/addiction.
(brb, WOW is calling me)

"all he does is sit around watching baseball!!"
Did he do that before you married him?
"yes"
um, why did you think he would change?

"OMG he is addicted to porn!!"
did he use porn before you married?
"NO he said he never looks at porn!!"
so you believed a liar and then married him?
"NOT MY fault that he lied!!!"
ummmm

"I hate his taste in movies."
and this is different how?
"it's not my fault he wont do what I say!!"
mhmm


my last GF was better at games than me.
my most recent GF didnt play games.
neither worked out for different reasons.

what I can not comprehend or accept:
you dont like their hobbies? 
DONT DATE THEM
DONT MARRY THEM

the funniest part ... is this is ALL dating 101