soaring crane

Haha! That is bizarre, I want one

Move to a new country ;-)

That Nietzsche guy?

Ditto. Really good stuff, mainly because you explain it so well. I'd like to see a map and timeline making the geographical development clear

Looks like an interesting read, thanks for the tip :-) The only books on alchemy I've read so far have been from Terry Pratchet ;-)

Also sprach Zarathustra

I'm getting fat. Happens every year. We spent the evening at the neighbors who had organized a kind of St John's Fire Festival (very common here at summer solstice) in their beautiful yard. It was all set up like a winter village, with goulash and Glühwein and Swedish fires... Lots of kiddies running around. It's chilly but not really cold, no snow. Really a magical little event they pulled off there.

"mine are always interesting and asking specific questions about the mechanics of things . " Have you ever gotten specific answers?

Forgot to mention: as MPG stresses, he IS courteous to people and I have trouble seeing any grounds to ban him or any like that. He writes what he wants to and it's up to others to respond or not. It would be good if more chose not to but I think for a lot of us that's a difficult hurdle to get ovet.

The only thing that is a drag for me is the redundancy factor. I have MPG on ignore, not because I dislike him but because he writes soooo much and it's always the same basic message. And that kind of thing just takes up real estate in the browser window. I often open his posts anyway, when someone writes an interesting reply to something he wrote, just to see the original. But it's inevitably a variation of the same theme every time. The bigger problem to my thinking are actually the people who continually take up dialog with him. They are the ones who actually throw threads off track, or derailing in TTB talk, and I'm often more disappointed in them than annoyed with MPG. Anyway, what about limiting the number of posts per diem? 10 posts a day across the board for everyone. It would probably be good for some member if they spent a little less time in front of the computer screen anyway...

Then crosses himself Like the martyred Messiah He saw it coming

I've only skimmed this so far, but it looks like a worthy read to me, and I suspect a lot of TTB'ers may enjoy it: Gut instincts: The secrets of your second brain The images are sublime:

Enjoying :-) :-) :-)

Very very very good stuff there, powerful, thank you for posting that

Well, if that's your only criticism of the book, I'll take it as a glowing recommendation :-) Terminology isn't a concern for me at all anymore. Not because I don't value it, quite the contrary. I appreciate linguistic accuracy and authenticity above all else, but living where I do and with my extremely limited access to authorative sources, I have to take what I can,and if the practice is described in a logical, repeatable fashion, then it would be silly of me to discount it because the Chinese description isn't traditionally recognized. You know what I mean? That said, Bisio doesn't actually use those terms interchangeably as your post would lead one to believe. There's not a lot of use of any of them in any event. But first get the book and then maybe you'll see what I mean here.

There are tremendous hills all around my area here, overgrown with trees, just hills like any other, until you dig down just a little bit and see that they're actually piles of loose rock that were built long long ago, 3000+ years ago, by Celtic communities who populated the landscape. The sheer legwork involved is awesome, and the engineering that went into the works is just unfathomable.

I also enjoy this stuff but don't really believe any of it, much as I'd like to. In pre-internet days, I was certainly a reliable customer for anyone selling (literally) alternative science theories. But these days, not so much. The old days were arguably more fun, though, gotta admit that. Also, we have those 'Marvin the Martian space gears' in the field behind our house. Tons of them.

Dude! Expand on that one, please. Amps/volts/watts and the 3 DTs is something I was just thinking about while sitting in the reading room this evening...

Well,to be fair pai is pie, it's Chinese after all. but yeah, I have that in the back of my mind whenever I see one of 'those' threads...

Btw,in the original, Π/pi is actually pronounced 'pee'

mind = blown

Except when they smell Bacteria everywhere My foot has no nose

Thank you Yabyum, that was very informative ☺

I'm thinking there must be a word for when you're so drunk you don't realize you're drunk. And so in love, too.

I have to agree with you here. Seems to me like there was a booby trap with a hair trigger and you walked into it.