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[system7]

I stumble from Day to Day. But an excellent Joke from Colin Murray on BBC R5L tonight.

BBC Radio 5 live - Colin Murray, 04/05/2021

Today being May the Fourth, Colin hopes that may the "Fourth may be with you"....

Star Wars fans will get that one.

I revisited the Brittanica Space Quiz;

Astronomy and Space Quiz | Britannica

Much better this time. 35/62. Or 813/1775.

But frankly, this is cheating.

 

[Galu]

Colin hopes that may the "Fourth may be with you"....

Since you're keen on correcting other people's work, I will correct yours to "May the 4th be with you"

As all the fans will tell you, this is known as "Star Wars Day".

Star Wars Day: May the 4th Be With You | StarWars.com

Google "Star Wars Day" now and watch the confetti fall!

 

[system7]

As a highly Dyslexic sort of person, I thought there was little left to learn. How wrong I was.

My sister claims to suffer from a rarer condition called Numerolexia.

This may explain your failure in Maths exams. Number blindness. Since Sis is way better at Finance than I am, I question this.

Anywhoo, my current interest is in being nice and sympathetic to people:

The Surprising Benefits of Unconditional Positive Regard

AFAIK, It's nice to be clever, but cleverer to be nice.

 

[Galu]

Anywhoo, my current interest is in being nice and sympathetic to people

It's never too late to learn!

For my own part, it's very much a work in progress, four-eyes!

 

[Galu]

Geez, Steve, I could never live up to what's suggested in your link!

The Surprising Benefits of Unconditional Positive Regard

Let’s say a friend borrowed your new car and brought it back with a dent. Instead of asking, “What on earth happened?” a person-centered therapist would advise you to say, “I see you feel awful. Do you want to tell me what happened?”

 

[Disco-Pete]

You know you're there when you can apply it while driving.

 

[KaffiMann]

People can be so extremely unpredictable, sometimes even if you're trying to be as efficient, inoffensive and nice as possible some people will still complain loudly and quite verbally. It's happened time and again that I've gone to fix random stuff somewhere and the customer is nice when you're there, get everything fixed to satisfaction, good communication etc. But send the bill and all hell breaks loose.

 

[Galu]

It's nice to be clever, but cleverer to be nice.

I went too far with my clumsy attempt at humour earlier, to the point of being offensive, and for that I apologise.

Unconditional Positive Regard is an attitude of acceptance of others despite their failings, so I hope you're still talking to me!

 

[system7]

No offence taken. I've been called worse things than "Four-Eyes"!

But was self-conscious about needing glasses...

 

[Disco-Pete]

pissed me off too

 

[Galu]

I didn't have to wear glasses when I was younger, but I was quite capable of making a spectacle of myself!

Nowadays, I need them for driving!

 

[MITsound]

Sight less?

If time and space are the same thing, and we can traverse space in any direction we want, but traverse time in only one direction- is something wrong with how we decode what we think we see?

 

[KaffiMann]

That's it! We've learned to walk, and we've learned to age. Now we just have to learn to ignore time, then after we've done that we can probably tune time as well.

 

[Bonsai]

If time and space are the same thing, and we can traverse space in any direction we want, but traverse time in only one direction- is something wrong with how we decode what we think we see?

I think it’s all correct. The reason the arrow of time points in only one direction is because you have to expend energy (and so increase entropy) to move ‘in time’. If you move an object from one location to another in space, you are simply shifting its time reference. That’s why time and space are considered the same thing (space-time).

Conversely, if ALL movement (right down to the atomic level) was suddenly stopped, time would cease to flow (exist).

 

[Bonsai]

@Galu, that bench needs some work!

 

[KaffiMann]

Looks like a statement to me.

 

[system7]

Time can go backwards or forwards at the sub-atomic level. Consider that an anti-electron is just an electron moving back in time. But at a macroscopic level moves forwards.

Portsmouth is moving forwards!

We have new street lighting. Out with the old Sodium-vapor lamp - Wikipedia. No, we get LED downshiners!

Local Council promises us better and more economical downshining lighting while preserving our splendid Victorian lamposts.

All sounds good to me. I am quite the one for Dark Skies;

International Dark Sky Association | International Dark-Sky Association

IMO, Yarborough Road is a shoo-in for "Portsmouth's Best Dressed Street" this year. Huge efforts have gone into Gardening, tidyness and ecology this year.

 

[system7]

If you are like me, you can't wait to see how it turned out.

Ooh, warm lights with pentagonal (5 fold) symmetry!

With every symmetry comes a Conservation Law.

What does this mean? We must wait for darkness...

 

[Ultima Thule]

Hey Stevie can your Coolpox ever do more than meager 640x480px Wonder pics, and in focus?

 

[Bonsai]

The street lamps look nice Steve - onward and upward! Here in deepest darkest Norfolk, we are thankfully not cursed with them where I live. At 1am on a clear night the sky is spectacular (20 miles from Norwich, which I understand was Britain's 2nd largest city up until 1630. Who'd have believed that?)