Random Thoughts Thread

[Uncle Ted]

Yeah, this is best, but I'm incapable of balance right now. So I'm taking a step away so I don't become a meataholic.

Yes, there is not much in the way of "times of winter, or of cold, or famine" down your way so good for you.

[BigPiney]

Yeah, this is best, but I'm incapable of balance right now. So I'm taking a step away so I don't become a meataholic.

Where do you plan to get your protein? The whey shakes from costco as supposed to be pretty good.

[Surfah]

Where do you plan to get your protein? The whey shakes from costco as supposed to be pretty good.

The whey from Costco is the bomb. Tastes great. Mixes really well with water in blender bottle. Plus it has lots of BCAAs, protein with reasonable calories. I am a big fan and am on my 3rd bag of it.

[Pheidippides]

Where do you plan to get your protein? The whey shakes from costco as supposed to be pretty good.

That and nuts, beans, etc. I have a ton of the whey protein already.

This is just an experiment for now to see how my body responds. I already know it responds well to low meat diets.

[LA Ute]

"Great engineers don’t wear designer jeans. So if you’re interviewing an engineer, look at his jeans."

http://bit.ly/IF0odP

[Uncle Ted]

"Great engineers don’t wear designer jeans. So if you’re interviewing an engineer, look at his jeans."

http://bit.ly/IF0odP

You don't know how true this is... someday I need to post pictures of the people I work with.

When I was an engineering manager if a candidate showed up to an interview wearing a tie he was pretty much disqualified before he opened his mouth.

[LA Ute]

You don't know how true this is... someday I need to post pictures of the people I work with.

When I was an engineering manager if a candidate showed up to an interview wearing a tie he was pretty much disqualified before he opened his mouth.

[mUUser]

There's nothing like the feeling of winning a high school state team championship (football, basketball, baseball, soccer, softball etc....) Unadulterated joy.

[Uncle Ted]

ChemE nerd video: A non-stick bottle...

[YOUTUBE]67H1eZBHiDQ[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]dlGvIq5CAn8[/YOUTUBE]

No wasted mayonnaise, ketchup, etc. Also, think of never having to clean the skid marks off a toilet bowl coated with this stuff.

[Jeff Lebowski]

ChemE nerd video: A non-stick bottle...


No wasted mayonnaise, ketchup, etc. Also, think of never having to clean the skid marks off a toilet bowl coated with this stuff.

Whoa. That's incredible.

[wuapinmon]

There's nothing like the feeling of winning a high school state team championship (football, basketball, baseball, soccer, softball etc....) Unadulterated joy.

I thought you got one of those upon graduation in Utah.

[wuapinmon]

ChemE nerd video: A non-stick bottle...

[YOUTUBE]67H1eZBHiDQ[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]dlGvIq5CAn8[/YOUTUBE]

No wasted mayonnaise, ketchup, etc. Also, think of never having to clean the skid marks off a toilet bowl coated with this stuff.

So, I posted the mayonnaise video to facebook, and one of my colleagues, an anti big everything type, posted this:

Yay! One more chemical for us to ingest. Don't have enough additives to our food...

I don't know if other fields are abloom with folks like her, but academia is full of people who will spend $10 on a gallon of organic milk and then swear that the stuff tastes better than Wal-Mart skim milk (emphatically, it does not).

The mentality is such that these folks will gripe about fertilizers and pesticides to feed the growing billions, they will have conniption fits about genetically-modified foods, but they think that everyone can avoid the awful conditions around the globe in which their food is grown, fetid filth and shit, by "simply" switching to organic. They have no concept of yield, of profit, or of hunger. They expect the world to feed itself with hopes and dreams of a return to an agricultural ideal that never existed and that could not be today without a drastic reduction in force of the world's population. They also usually have lots of pets and animals, living that petit-bourgeois dream, comparing "raising their pet" to my having three children while they walk around picking up their "kids'" shit in plastic bags three to five times a day.

[Portland Ute]

So, I posted the mayonnaise video to facebook, and one of my colleagues, an anti big everything type, posted this:



I don't know if other fields are abloom with folks like her, but academia is full of people who will spend $10 on a gallon of organic milk and then swear that the stuff tastes better than Wal-Mart skim milk (emphatically, it does not).

The mentality is such that these folks will gripe about fertilizers and pesticides to feed the growing billions, they will have conniption fits about genetically-modified foods, but they think that everyone can avoid the awful conditions around the globe in which their food is grown, fetid filth and shit, by "simply" switching to organic. They have no concept of yield, of profit, or of hunger. They expect the world to feed itself with hopes and dreams of a return to an agricultural ideal that never existed and that could not be today without a drastic reduction in force of the world's population. They also usually have lots of pets and animals, living that petit-bourgeois dream, comparing "raising their pet" to my having three children while they walk around picking up their "kids'" shit in plastic bags three to five times a day.

[Scott R Nelson]

The mentality is such that these folks will gripe about fertilizers and pesticides to feed the growing billions, they will have conniption fits about genetically-modified foods, but they think that everyone can avoid the awful conditions around the globe in which their food is grown, fetid filth and shit, by "simply" switching to organic. They have no concept of yield, of profit, or of hunger. They expect the world to feed itself with hopes and dreams of a return to an agricultural ideal that never existed and that could not be today without a drastic reduction in force of the world's population. They also usually have lots of pets and animals, living that petit-bourgeois dream, comparing "raising their pet" to my having three children while they walk around picking up their "kids'" shit in plastic bags three to five times a day.

Last night, Jay Leno said:

"New research shows that eating organic foods can make people more arrogant and judgmental. In fact, eating just one handful of organic bean sprouts has the same effect as driving 1,000 miles in a Prius."

[Jeff Lebowski]

My wife purchased three padded envelopes yesterday at the grocery store. They were marked $1.00, $1.25, $1.25.

teller: That will be $9.
wife: Uh... That can't be right.
teller: Oh sorry. It is $6.
wife: Um... I could be wrong, but when I do it in my head, I get $3.50.
teller: Oops. Yeah, that's right.
wife: (hands her a $10 bill)
teller: (hands my wife back $2 in change)
wife: OK, I gave you a $10 bill. That is not the correct change.
teller: (fumbles around and finally gives correct change)