hrothgar Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Ciao 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 ! be sure to have some more fish - expertly prepared ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanoi5 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Leaving the Water Cooler? These Fora? Bridge? Life? Are you a dolphin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Leaving the Water Cooler? These Fora? Bridge? Life? Are you a dolphin? There was a case where someone was suicidal and said so on the internet, and was saved. If the OP feels like this, perhaps someone who knows him could see if he is in trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shyams Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 CiaoDon't go! The forums are Mostly Harmless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 I suppose a free tuna salad would not lure you back. So so long and good luck, and welcome back if you should change your mind. I think ciao is pleasantly ambiguous in this regard. I am always sorry to see someone go. Well, maybe an exception here or there, but not often. Otoh, the guy across the street left his wife after forty years of marriage. A tragedy of a whole different dimension, so I will keep your (presumed) forum departure in perspective. At any rate, I wish you the best of luck with your fish, your girlfriend, and your life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLOGIC Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Hopefully/probably just leaving the water cooler, that does seem to be the BBF cesspool. Edit for my lol spelling there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Hopefully/probably just leaving the water cooler, that does seem to be the BBF cest pool. I am wounded! But yes, I would think so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aguahombre Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Or, Maybe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_end_times_prediction with dual reference to the book of the same title as this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babalu1997 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Ciao don't do it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 I really don't know how you could go before you find out the complete truth about the great global warming conspiracy. After all, everyone knows it was climatologists who brought down Lehman Brothers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Thanks for the guidance, wetguy. I am so ignorant of the great literature! So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984, ISBN 0-345-39183-7) is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" written by Douglas Adams. Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, as described in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. [/Quote] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aguahombre Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Or, maybe there was someone else, somewhere who was unaware of one or both references. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 It takes me back to my childhood. When I was in high school my teacher suggested that I do a term paper on Freud. "Who's Freud" I asked. It runs in the family. When my daughter was in college she had a professor who kept speaking of organic capitalism. So she asked the meaning. His shock at her lack of knowledge was matched only by his inability to explain it. Sort of like organic chemistry maybe, which I also don't understand. Those of us who grew up in Lake Woebegone get together to swap such stories. Anyway, I suppose he is gone, fish and all. Too bad, one of the more interesting dolphins in the tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chas_P Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 Joy and peace behind you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 Of course we got the reference right away. The answer is 42 though I am not sure I understand the question fully. fully understanding the question is often more important than the answer. As a nonstat guy who tries to understand stats and respects and admires stat guys I find thinking and understanding the question is often more helpful than getting an answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 The answer is 42 though I am not sure I understand the question fully. It's funny how Adams, along with most other science fiction authors, got this one thing wrong -- they assumed that more and more powerful computers would get bigger and bigger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 It's funny how Adams, along with most other science fiction authors, got this one thing wrong -- they assumed that more and more powerful computers would get bigger and bigger. Well the internet is pretty big. And the smaller you go the more space there is.---- There is alot of discussion of computers that not only take this universe but all of the other universes to compute. that sounds big.--- I am just sorry the Earth was destroyed to make a highway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One was about the "birth" and education of a self-aware computer. Unfortunately for Harlie, his builders wanted a computer that could answer any question — and Harlie wasn't that computer. But Harlie, being pretty smart, saved himself from being dismantled by designing the computer that could answer any question, and ensuring himself a perpetual job by ensuring that only he could talk to it. He called this new computer "Graphic Omniscient Device". B-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 Sort of a know-it-all who doesn't actually do anything? I may have met him once or twice. Note: I can actually answer any question, if that's the only criterion. In college, I did this all the time on multiple choice exams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 I think that, to the people who wanted this machine built, the correct answer was important. B-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 I think that, to the people who wanted this machine built, the correct answer was important. B-)Mice worked in base 13, it was correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobowolf Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 http://youtu.be/J0eobraL3mY?t=2m45s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aguahombre Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 Today, at 9:15 Mountain Time, he was observing a thread. Whew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyGo Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 Today, at 9:15 Mountain Time, he was observing a thread. Whew. Excellent. I was just starting to think he'd meant from the forums since he hadn't posted anywhere since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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