Quotes

[aggienaut]

Quotes
"After killing bees all day how can you sleep at night?" -Alvin Tsao
"Well, its 3am and I'm not asleep am I." -Me. I wouldn't sleep for 20 more hours or so.*

Office Dave was shleffing through business cards looking for the silkscreener who made our shirts last time. He came upon a card from someone we rent lifts from or something, the company was named something like "John's High Reaching" or long reaching or something.
"You ever wonder how people get into things like this? Like did John just wake up one day and go shit, I'm good at reaching shit, I should start a reaching company dammit" -Me.
"Yeah how do people these weird businesses... like bees..." -someone else
"I just woke up one morning and was like you know what I want to do when I grow up, I want to reach my arm into holes filled with bees!!" -Jeremy

Jeremy is gassin some bees, I'm standing next to the truck, a guy comes by and sees the bees flying around the dying colony:
"Are the doing that because there's a queen there?" -guy
"uh.... there's always a queen. -Me, after being dumbfounded for a minute on how to even respond to that.
"but they're doing that because there's a queen there right?"
"uh.. there's always a queen, you have bees, you have a queen."

"There's the bees" -some client
"um sir, thats a pinecone" -one of the technicians, arriving at a call that turned out to be a pinecone.

*but I had just woken up from five hours of sleep you see.


Today
   Today I finally got down to Diedrichs again, for the first time in at least a week. Alexis the Frenchman came as well. There were two chess boards going at Diedrichs. The regular chess games are starting to attract more chess enthusiasts. Today there was this guy Brett who teaches Chess to the children of rich people for $30 was down there. He was damn good and gave a few pointers to everyone. There was also this guy Jim who is 62 and has three masters degrees. Then this middle-aged guy who it appears had just come in for coffee joined a game.
   Former Diedrichs-area security guard Danny showed up which was awesome because I hadn't seen him in a year and he is awesome.
   After Diedrichs closed down after 10:00 Alexis went with Mike & Brian to this bar/place called Le Cave that purportedly was pretty cool and had jazz music. I didn't go though because jazz music usually involves saxophones and saxophones to me are like nails on chalkboards. Apparently they continued to play chess there.
   After they left Brett and I ended up talking about logical fallacies, paradoxes, & logical riddles. Eventually we went to Harbour House to continue talking, and played some chess.

In Other News" my laptop which is essentially dead at this point.


Previously on Emosnail
   Two Years Ago Thursday: First Occasional LJ Awards - & I see Bullets N Octane at Chain Reaction, & hang out with Hannah at Wild Rivers
   Two Years Ago Today: Getting Hassled By The Constabulary - And hanging out with Jimmy McTaig & making the Steel Reserve shirt and hanging out with Hannah at Wild Rivers.
   Year Ago Wednesday: Peasants Quest comes out!!! - And pictures of Petey & Shalane.
   Year Ago Thursday: Gutter Punk Trogdor!!! - and some chillaxing at Diedrichs

edit: original post time: 04:37 (moved to 23:37 to put on previous day)

Comments

[ashael.livejournal.com]

Was it a nice pinecone?

pinetermination

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

I dunno, maybe it was stinging people or something. Anyway not every pinecone gets calls to exterminate it.

[barnabas-truman.livejournal.com]

I used to really hate the Monty Hall Problem and think the "correct" answer was totally wrong. I suspected that perhaps this was just because I didn't understand probability theory well enough. Then I took a class in probability theory. Now I understand the Monty Hall Problem, but I still hate it. I know why the "correct" answer is in fact correct, but I just can't stand the fact that I live in a universe where something that repulsive could actually be true.

The Monty Hall Loophole

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Yeah I know what you mean, even "understanding" it it feels like the puzzle is exploiting some loophole in reality or something.

[revchad.livejournal.com]

"but they're doing that because there's a queen there right?"

It seems that the guy was asking more about the particular behavior of the bees, such as "considering that you are killing them, do they fly around risking death because they hope to save the queen by doing so?" or "Why don't the bees just fly away? Is it because there is a queen there and bees don't abandon their queen?"

plaztarded

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

nah, he was just plaztarded. I could tell by the nonsentient look in his eyes.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

I stand by my answer that they were flying around because Her Highness commanded them to do so.

Just felt like leaving you a comment...

[basicallyasap.livejournal.com]

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Time for classy, ti amo!