List something about you that's considered cool

[mvd]

Well, I just won't use Norton or free AVs for my security. I use Kaspersky, which would be considered hip.

[ZombieNixon]

1. I herk like it's nobody's business.

Which it isn't. :evilgrin:

[mvd]

2. LOL

:hi:

[amitten]

13. I'm gonna Herking kill you.

x(

Stop. It.

[Initech]

3. I own many leather bound books and my apartment smells of rich mohgany

*waits for someone to get the reference*

:popcorn:

[deadparrot]

14. You're so wise. You're like a miniature Buddha, covered with hair.

:eyes:

[Fleshdancer]

4. I like my life

I'm genuinely happy and I'm not even 30 yet. That's pretty cool. :)

[Wetzelbill]

22. married?

kids?

What is it that's making you so happy? :)

Hell, I'm 31 and a genuine mess, but somehow I like it. :)

[Fleshdancer]

28. yep and yep

wonderful husband and a great daughter (age 6). Family life is good, friends are good, work is good...everything is going very well for me right now.

[Wetzelbill]

41. very nicely done

good for you! :)

[blondeatlast]

5. My hubby is 12 years my junior and we'll celebrate 10 years of marriage

and 14 years of being together on April 27!

[mvd]

6. Hope you have a great anniversary!

And night, all! :hi:

[In_The_Wind]

7. I ride a 1800 CC Trike.

[u4ic]

8. My body temperature

:(

[RevCheesehead]

9. I'm a pastor who occasionally says "shit"

among other things. :evilgrin:

[Wetzelbill]

23. you are cool

no doubt about that. In a totally non-fire and brimstone way too. :)

[XemaSab]

10. Depends on who is doing the considering

:D

[Nicole]

11. My heart

Cool & cold is the same thing, right? :rofl:

[Random_Australian]

12. I can understand statistical ramifications (that's not the cool bit)

and variations wa-aa-aa-ay above the normal level. In such a way that I can comprehend all sorts of metahysical stuff in the real world, and sometimes (read:very occasionally) prove it. Little hard for others to follow, but they get there in the end.

So, incidentally, we do have free will. It's actually inherit in Quantum Mechanics, but it isn't all there the way we usually see it. There is one last unknown, part of how our brains operate/process. We may not have free will at any given instant (don't worry, when you add time we get it) in the one extreme, but I know we aren't at the other, we are allowed to predict statistically what people will do. Oh yes, sometimes we make decisions long before we are aware that we have. It's very interesting.

I do pay for it though, my geometry is very sub-standard.

What am I working on right now? The nature of mistakes. What a mistake is, what properties it would statistically display.

It doesn't appear to be quite as random as I had expected, but also some of our mistakes lead to a lot more random outcomes than most people expect. I've already begun to plot them between the two extremes of erroneous calculation or processing by the brain, and correct processing using logical deductions with assumption. (it's the former type that lead to what appears to be more random behaviour than people seem to expect)

So call me Captain stats! (not really)

[Hardrada]

15. Is this to help you understand American foreign policy

Or military strategy?

[Random_Australian]

20. Huh? I can try both, but I don't have the info I need, BUT I can tell

you that yes, things will get worse if they stay in power (duh!), but also that the whole persecute the ________ things will get worse. What's more, you've got about 8 years left before they begin the process of disbelief in some of the old values. About 12-ish if the Dems win, and be conservative in their governance, but I do not yet know what would happen if the Dems took power and went full right wing.In the next 20 odd years, however, it is likely that the old version of the repubs- the more moderate and fiscally responsible side- is pretty much doomed. Nuts. You really needed them because you can find really competent bastards in their midst, but unfortunately the old ways people moved into their beliefs is dissolving. Media and the manipulation thereof is really randomizing my results. My accuracy is wa-aa-aa-aa-ay down. I did, however, work out how the left and right formed. If you wanna know what I think, just answer this post to that effect.

Wouldn't be so arrogant as to post without prompt. (Well, just a link, but still)

[Hardrada]

27. Yes, that would be interesting.

I assume you mean the left to be Democrats. I am thinking more of the Left of socialists, Marxists and anarcho-syndicalists however.

[AlienGirl]

37. Which old values will they disbelieve in?

This stuff fascinates me, by the way, because it fits with my intuitive sense of how things work. Statistics and correlations of statistics *should* be able to predict the next stage! Ever read that Heinlein story about the statistician Potiphar Breen?

Tucker

[Hardrada]

53. He predicted what would happen

but he got murdered for his efforts. Good tale though. I am a student of SF and wrote a book on it one time.

[AlienGirl]

54. Potiphar Breen, you mean? He wasn't murdered

The Sun's humongous solar flare killed him, didn't it? Or am I confused?

Tucker

[Hardrada]

57. Heinlein had a character in a short story

who had a timeline of the future. When some of his predictions started coming tru, he was murdered. This story originates Heinlein's famous Future History (part of which is a theocratic dictatorship lasting several centuries). I don't have the stories handy to double check the name. He may have had more than one character who was a prognisticator however.

[AlienGirl]

59. Yeah, he had several--that one (I haven't read it), Breen, and Friday

All three made predictions of future events based on statistics. Breen was my favorite; he discovered that "silly season" events were correlated with sunspots. Though I also like the way Friday figured out where bubonic plague would start and how the transnational corporations were the ones who actually had all the power.

Tucker

[Hardrada]

60. Heinlein was a good SF writer from the start

and just got better and his work was built on good knowledge of the various sciences and a grasp of historical rendencies. He never did an actual novel about the theocracy he predicted through his character(s. Margaret Atwood had to do that! People have such a superficial grasp of SF and think it is either Star Wars stuff or medieval tales of knights and queens set in futuristic settings. I could go on about this for ages but will spare you that!

[SofaKingLiberal]

16. I have a rock collection!

:silly:

[u4ic]

17. As in...pet rocks?

[ghostsofgiants]

18. You've probably never heard of the band I'm listening to right now.

[Hardrada]

19. My left elbow has a fascination

few can resist.

[Shine]

29. Strangely, I can totally relate to that one!

my left elbow is double-jointed, allowing my arm to get into very strange positions. I can easily fascinate and/or gross people out with my little "circus trick". lol.

:hi: (that's my LEFT arm waving, btw!) heheheh.

[Hardrada]

52. That is amazing.

My elbow is quite prosaic in comparison.

[Wetzelbill]

21. I'm funny

:)

[jobycom]

24. I have every Barry Manilow album ever recorded

Actually, that's not true. I used to have one. It was on cassette, but I lost it long ago. It wasn't a popular one. It was a blues-y album with Sara Vaughn and Mel Torme on some of the tracks. I can't remember what it sounded like anymore, really. I was still listening to cassettes even after the CD era, just because I didn't really want to shop for a CD player. But...

Oh never mind. Nothing about me is cool.

[REP]

25. Retired at 37

Well, when I went to my brother's birthday bash in February, this random bit of info nearly made the old men who were hitting on me cry.

[MsUSA]

43. I'm 55 and I'm retiring this Friday.......

as in Good Friday, which really is a GREAT Friday for me. :bounce:

[mvd]

44. Congrats!

:bounce:

[MsUSA]

46. Thank you mvd.

[Omphaloskepsis]

26. I can nollie big spin a pallet..

[fudge stripe cookays]

30. My mind is a roll-o-dex of useless musical trivia.

And I kick ass at Jeopardy.

fsc

[_testify_]

33. I do well with Jeopardy also

And here's a fact: I have never lost a game of Trivial Pursuit in my adult life.

That's a challenge to anyone willing to travel to Tampa.

[fudge stripe cookays]

34. I've only lost once.

I kicked ass the entire game, but could never get into the middle portion. When I finally did, I got a sports question, which everyone knows is my worst category.

Blegh.

[_testify_]

36. my weakness is the arts & entertainment category

at least in the older game. The updated questions are a bit easy when it comes to pop culture.

[fudge stripe cookays]

40. I kick ASS at that.

My mom was a bigmovie fanatic back in the 40s and 50s, and raised me watching old MGM musicals and reading old movie magazines, and I read voraciously, so can usually run rings around everyone else in that category.

I also love geography and history, so do well there too.

fsc

[_testify_]

42. History and geography are strengths as well.

When it comes to geography, if you don't know the answer, just say 'Angel Falls'. It's mentioned about a brazillion times.

[taterguy]

31. The rumor that I have an enormous

CD collection

[Shine]

32. I participated in the 7th annual CA AIDS Ride and helped raise $11.25 mil

I rode a bike from SF to LA, over the course of a week, with 3000 others who had each raised at least $2500.

I personally raised almost twice that amount.

3000 of us rode 575 miles on bicycles for a great cause, talk about inspiring! :thumbsup:

Very cool, indeed.

[MiniMandaRuth]

35. I have this guy under my wing:

[NewWaveChick1981]

38. I'm wildly uninhibited in all the right ways. :)

You'd never be able to tell by looking at me. In some circles, that's very cool. :)

[Redstone]

39. My coolness.

Redstone

[LSK]

45. GD is beyond cool

:D

[Left Is Write]

47. Ummm...nothing?

I'm a rather average middle-aged suburban housewife.

[Shine]

48. Oh, shut up.

YOU are hardly average, my dear. :hug:

[Left Is Write]

49. Thank you...

Though I can't think of a single thing that would make me "cool." But I'm cool with that. :D

[Shine]

51. Just you being you is cool enough.

:pals:
you are a beautiful goddess with a big and kind heart. :hug:

just breathe that in, girl. You know it's true.

[AllegroRondo]

50. My photo appeared in Playboy

June, 1992.

My mom bought five copies.

[Ouabache]

56. That is cool

I used to drive a friend of mine and his girlfriend to the college we attended after breaks, since we were all from the same town originally. Anyway, she broke up with my friend, several years passed, and a couple years after my friend and I graduated, SHE was still in that college town doing some grad work I guess, and she appeared in Playboy, girls of the Big 10 !! Around 1977 or so. Get this, she is a doctor today.

One time when we were driving from our town to the college town we stopped in a redneck town and got kicked out of a McDonald's because she walked in barefoot. (You know, 'no shoes, no shirt, no service.)( I still wish it had been her shirt.)

[Ouabache]

55. I have the Anatolian bump on the back of my head

Perhaps not particularly cool, but most people don't know what it is and fewer have it.

[AngryAmish]

58. I played basketball with Husker Du

and they f'n sucked. I took Bob Mould to the hole. Repeatedly. Sucker for a head and ball fake.