[quote]Grneyes wrote:
LOL…sometimes we ARE next to each other on the couch and if he’s typing I ask him where he’s posting and then when he’s done I go to that thread.
Are you a real doctor, btw? Are you glad Chicago is getting hit with a blizzard late tonight? It was 62 here today. :)[/quote]
I’m looking forward to the blizzard. We’ve gotten off light this year, the temperatures have rarely dipped into the 20s and very little snow. it’s been the mildest winter I can remember in Chicago.
I’m not a real doctor, the name is from a character in Voltaire’s Candide.
geek alert
Gottfried Leibniz was a German philosopher who was trying to answer this question: If God is omnibenevolent, omnipotent and omniscient, how do we account for the suffering and injustice that exist in the world? His answer was to cast God as the role of an optimizer of sorts. Since He is good and omnipotent, and since He chose this world out of all possibilities, this world must be goodâ??in fact, this world is the best of all possible worlds. Later, Voltaire wrote a scathing satire of this idea that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and Dr. Pangloss was the character that embodied this optimistic ideal.
The romantic in me wishes it could be true, the realist (cynic?) in me realizes that it’s not.
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I use Leibniz’s Pre-Harmonic Oscillator as my go to bullshit detector. If I think someone is BSing me I just say “Oh yes, that was proven by Leibiz’s Pre-Harmonic Oscillator.” If they agree I know they are full of it.
Candide was the first marching band show I did in high school.[/quote]
Instrument? I think the easy guess would be flute or clarinet, but I could see you playing something like French horn. It’s a bit more baroque than the other two.
My daughter has a friend over. He is seated ten feet from me in the living room, not saying a whole lot. I frighten him. I wish I had a gun, just so I can really put the fear of prison-sex and death in him…like this.
[quote]inkaddict wrote:
Rod, that clip was fucking awesome. AWESOME![/quote]
Ink - you haven’t see Bad Boys II?
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I honestly don’t know. I’ve seen so many movies in my day, I very well could have and didn’t remember it. I’ll watch it (again), just in case. BRB…
Candide was the first marching band show I did in high school.[/quote]
Instrument? I think the easy guess would be flute or clarinet, but I could see you playing something like French horn. It’s a bit more baroque than the other two.
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