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18 Jan 2008, 7:11 pm
Chuck wrote:
Nan wrote:
Damn, this makes me wanna just run down to the beach for a picnic, ya know? 
<---- she said, with more than a twinge of irony and sarcasm, as she already hates the beach.... [Chuck, where PRECISELY have you been for the last couple of days???]
<---- she said, with more than a twinge of irony and sarcasm, as she already hates the beach.... [Chuck, where PRECISELY have you been for the last couple of days???]Not to worry. They say "small charge". Depending on exactly what type of charge it was, as long as you are picnicking on the beach, and not actually in the water, the "kill radius" should not approach 300 yards (for anything I ever used).... ...more or less...
(barring freak accidents)[Unless they are referring to a small time-delay depth charge armed with nuclear warhead. ] [We will hope for a Bouncing Betty, even though that makes no sense 
]. ...and I swear it wasn't me. I've been with Agent Smith. 
While a Bouncing Betty would be, no doubt, amusing (especially near a crowded pier), I'm afraid this is garden-variety C4. Still, might make for an interesting pick-a-nick....
SAN DIEGO – A belt-shaped explosive charge is missing in the waters off San Diego after it failed to detonate during a Navy training exercise – and sailors are hoping the tide will find it for them. According to a statement released by the U.S. Third Fleet, the time-delayed charge disappeared Thursday about 300 yards off the Silver Strand just south of Coronado during an exercise with a Navy explosive ordnance disposal team. The EOD divers had attached the device to a simulated undersea mine about midday Thursday and sent an electronic signal to detonate it. A Third Fleet official, who declined to give his name, said the triggering device, called an “initiator,” fired as expected, but the C-4 plastic explosive inside didn't go off. After the device failed to explode, divers waited an hour – as required by Navy safety rules – before returning to the spot where the charge was last seen, the statement said. They couldn't find it. Divers and sailors in boats searched for the device until nightfall, while other search teams on shore scanned the waters off the Silver Strand through the night. It was still missing Friday morning, and search teams combed the beaches between Coronado an A Third Fleet spokeswoman said the device was expected to wash ashore at the Navy's Silver Strand Training Facility around noon due to the tides. Meanwhile, anyone who happens upon the device should call 9-1-1 and inform lifeguards, Navy officials said.
[Hope they warn the old guy who goes out there really early with his fishing pole....]
18 Jan 2008, 7:50 pm
Chuck wrote:
ZanneMarie wrote:
...Psychiatry - Keepers of the Matrix. Don't ask why you don't quite feel right about it, just keep generating that energy the Matrix can use. We need to suck out your energy so we can keep working...
Working at what? you ask.
Yours is not to question why, only but to do and die...
Take that...MMMMMrrrrr. Anderson.
(Just remember, there is no spoon.)
Working at what? you ask.
Yours is not to question why, only but to do and die...
Take that...MMMMMrrrrr. Anderson.
(Just remember, there is no spoon.)
I had to face Smith for one reason and one reason only - I had to meet the Maker of Definitions - The Diagnostician:
Neo: Oracle, am I One of the Ones?
Oracle: Well... let's see kid, hold out your hand, stick out your tongue and say ahhhhh...
Neo: Ahhhhhh.......
Oracle: OK, now I'm supposed to say, "Hmm, that's interesting, but...” then you say...
Neo: ...”but what?"
Oracle: But... you already know what I'm going to tell you.
Neo: I'm not One of the Ones.
Oracle: Sorry, kid. You got the gift, but it looks like you're waiting for something.
Neo: What?
Oracle: A neurologist, maybe. Who knows? Saying "ahhhh...." and pointing a wet finger into the wind is as good as anything until one of them shows up. That's the way these things go. Until then - you gotta go to... to...
Neo: Yes?
Oracle: The Diagnostician.
I'm sorry Neo. More bad news. Have another cookie.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Neo: So - you've diagnosed others with Asperger's before?
Agent Smith: Yes, Mr. Anderson. Many times. With a certain satisfaction, I might add.
Neo: And I resemble those others? I fit your Aspergian definition?
Agent Smith: Why yes, MMMMMrrrrr. Anderson. As a matter of fact - you do.
Neo: Then I know the minds of the Ones as I know my own. That's all I needed to know. I have no further need for you Smith. <Neo removes a spoon from his pocket, looks at his image in it, and watches himself disappear.>
Agent Brown: He's gone.
Agent Smith: Good bye, Mr Anderson.
Neo: Do you know the keymaker?
Oracle: Yes
Neo: Do you know where I can find him?
Oracle: Yes
Neo: I need to find him. I need that key.
Oracle: Have a cookie. MMMM These are really good.
Neo frowning: I need that key.
Oracle: You already have it.
Agent Shrink: Have you ever stood and...stared at it? _marvelled_ at its
beauty? Billions of people, just...living out their lives..
oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed by a shrink to
be a perfect human world? Where none _suffered_, where
everyone would be.._happy_. It was a disaster. No one would
accept the program, entire crops were lost. Some belived
that we lacked the psychiatric language to _describe_ your
perfect world...But _I_ belive, that as a species, human
beings define their reality though _misery_ and suffering.
Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to _this_, the peak of
your reality. I say _your_ reality, because as soon
as we started thinking _for_ you, it really became _our_
reality, which is, of course, what this is all about....
Evolution, Morpheus, evolution..like the _dinosaur_. Look
out that window...you had your time. The future is our world,
Morpheus, the future...is _our_ words. It doesn't matter what reality actually is...only how...we....define it.
Agent Shrink is back at the window of the office, staring out into the world.
He turns to Agent Brown.
Agent Shrink : Why isn't the serum working?
Agent Brown : Perhaps we're asking the wrong questions... Perhaps you need a Neurologist to actually look at his brain and tell you for sure what's happening.
Agent Shrink: Nonsense! We own this world. We define it. We aren't turning it over to people who can actually diagnose it, you fool. What are you thinking? Leave me with him.
Agent Brown leaves.
Agent Shrink grabs Morpheus' head with his hands.
Agent Shrink : Can you _hear_ me, Morpheus? I'm going to be honest with you..
I hate this place...this..zoo, this..prison, this...reality..
whatever you want to call it. I can't stand it any longer. But it's all I have...and now you
...with your _mirror neurons_. If there is such a thing...I feel...
_saturated_ by it. I can...taste, your _lack of emotion_. And every
time I do, I feel I have somehow been..infected by it, it's
repulsive. But still...I own it. I can't get _free_...and
in this mind...is the key.
He taps Morpheus' head.
Agent Shrink : My key...I can't allow it to go to the....Neurologist...Once Autism is explained there is no need for me to be
here, don't you understand? I can't let the Neurologists tell people how this works. It must be Psychiatry. I need the codes..I have to get, _inside_ to make ABA and therapy work, and _you_ have to tell me _how_. You are going to tell me, or...you are going to die...
Shrink injecting drugs. Morpheus laughs.
Morpheus : Morpheus, get up! Get up, get up!
With tremendous effort, Morpheus regains control and yells out as he strains the handcuffs, and finally snaps them in two. He pulls the wires from his head, and stands up.
Tank : I knew it! He's the one...
Neo and Trinity rush into the room. They both shake as they recover from the shock of what nearly happened if the Agent Shrink had really been able to work on Morpheus mind.
Morpheus looks at Trinity
Morpheus : Do you belive it _now_, Trinity?
Neo : Morpheus...The Oracle, she told me, I'm...
Morpheus : She told you _exactly_ what you needed to hear..that's
all. Neo, sooner or later, you're going to realize, just
as I did, that there's a difference between thinking you know and actually knowing.
Oracle to Agent Shrink: Have a cookie. They're nice and warm.
Agent Shrink: What's going to happen?
Oracle: You already know the answer to that one.
Zanne takes a cookie. Zanne: Lennon?
Oracle: Sure.
Oracle and Zanne: I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round.
Agent Shrink: Errrrrrrrrrrr
NEO: (voiceover; computer graphics on screen) I know you're out there. I can see you now. I know that you're afraid. Afraid of the Neurologists. Afraid of us. I don't know the future; I don't know how this is going to end. But I do know how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without Psychiatrists saying don't you feel bad cause your mirror neurons are broken? A world without their expectations, without their neat little boxes for people's ideas. Where we go from there is up to you.
(click)
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18 Jan 2008, 7:54 pm
Chuck wrote:
blessedmom wrote:
MMHHMMMM.... That explains everything. (And I am probably one of the few people who has no interest in Keanu Reeves or his movies.)
...before diagnosis, chop wood/haul water.
after diagnosis, chop wood/haul water...
...same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was...
(except my hunch was validated, so I know my astrolabe works... )There is water under the ocean.
This is not my beautiful wife.
This is not my beautiful car.
And I ask you, how did I get here?
And the days go by...
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18 Jan 2008, 7:57 pm
hey ZM, good to see ya around 
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18 Jan 2008, 7:58 pm
18 Jan 2008, 7:59 pm
Chuck wrote:
Nan wrote:
SAN DIEGO -- The Navy is searching for a demolition charge that disappeared during a training exercise 300 yards off the coast of San Diego. The U.S. Third Fleet says it has been searching for the small explosive since it failed to detonate Thursday during an exercise for an ordnance disposal team. The Navy says in a news release that after the time-delay charge failed to go off, divers followed a safety-mandated one-hour waiting period before approaching its location, only to discover it was missing. Officials believe the explosive will wash ashore within the Navy's Silver Strand Training Center.
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Damn, this makes me wanna just run down to the beach for a picnic, ya know?
[Chuck, where PRECISELY have you been for the last couple of days???]
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Damn, this makes me wanna just run down to the beach for a picnic, ya know?
[Chuck, where PRECISELY have you been for the last couple of days???]
Not to worry. They say "small charge". Depending on exactly what type of charge it was, as long as you are picnicking on the beach, and not actually in the water, the "kill radius" should not approach 300 yards (for anything I ever used).... ...more or less...
(barring freak accidents)[Unless they are referring to a small time-delay depth charge armed with nuclear warhead. ] [We will hope for a Bouncing Betty, even though that makes no sense ]....and I swear it wasn't me. I've been with Agent Smith.
I say the whales took it. They're going to launch it from the Gulf of Mexico into Texas sometime in May.
18 Jan 2008, 8:00 pm
Sedaka wrote:
hey ZM, good to see ya around
Hey Sedaka
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18 Jan 2008, 9:07 pm
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19 Jan 2008, 1:42 am
Chuck wrote:
blessedmom wrote:
MMHHMMMM.... That explains everything. (And I am probably one of the few people who has no interest in Keanu Reeves or his movies.)
...before diagnosis, chop wood/haul water.
after diagnosis, chop wood/haul water...
...same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was...
(except my hunch was validated, so I know my astrolabe works... )before enlightenment, chop wood/ haul water
after enlightenment, chop wood/ haul water
a baby's arm holding an apple. . . (congratulations, you're an Aspie, Chuck!)
Merle
hey, Chuck that Stroop test?
Demonstration
Say the color of these words as fast as you can:
Green Red Blue
Yellow Blue Yellow
Blue Yellow Red
Green Yellow Green
According to the Stroop effect, the first set of colors would have had a faster reaction time.
I thought about it for a few, then took off my glasses and did both sets timed the same! all I had to do was squint.
Merle
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19 Jan 2008, 5:25 am
Nan wrote:
Damn, this makes me wanna just run down to the beach for a picnic, ya know? <---- she said, with more than a twinge of irony and sarcasm, as she already hates the beach....
As one married to a redhead with fair skin, I know what that's about. Add in Daughter-Person's issues with high temperatures, and... I totally understand this.
We live very close to the surf, but you'd never know it from our lifestyle. Unlike many of our neighbours, who are full-on sunworshippers and waterbabies, and put their kids in Nippers (junior surf-lifesavers) from the time they can walk.
And then there's that melanoma thingie, which is the spectre haunting all Australian whitefellas - no matter how much we slip, slop, slap & wrap.
19 Jan 2008, 6:23 am
Nan wrote:
... I'm afraid this is garden-variety C4. Still, might make for an interesting pick-a-nick....
SAN DIEGO – A belt-shaped explosive charge is missing in the waters off San Diego after it failed to detonate during a Navy training exercise – and sailors are hoping the tide will find it for them. According to a statement released by the U.S. Third Fleet, the time-delayed charge disappeared Thursday about 300 yards off the Silver Strand just south of Coronado during an exercise with a Navy explosive ordnance disposal team. The EOD divers had attached the device to a simulated undersea mine about midday Thursday and sent an electronic signal to detonate it. A Third Fleet official, who declined to give his name, said the triggering device, called an “initiator,” fired as expected, but the C-4 plastic explosive inside didn't go off. After the device failed to explode, divers waited an hour – as required by Navy safety rules – before returning to the spot where the charge was last seen, the statement said. They couldn't find it. Divers and sailors in boats searched for the device until nightfall, while other search teams on shore scanned the waters off the Silver Strand through the night. It was still missing Friday morning, and search teams combed the beaches between Coronado an A Third Fleet spokeswoman said the device was expected to wash ashore at the Navy's Silver Strand Training Facility around noon due to the tides. Meanwhile, anyone who happens upon the device should call 9-1-1 and inform lifeguards, Navy officials said.
SAN DIEGO – A belt-shaped explosive charge is missing in the waters off San Diego after it failed to detonate during a Navy training exercise – and sailors are hoping the tide will find it for them. According to a statement released by the U.S. Third Fleet, the time-delayed charge disappeared Thursday about 300 yards off the Silver Strand just south of Coronado during an exercise with a Navy explosive ordnance disposal team. The EOD divers had attached the device to a simulated undersea mine about midday Thursday and sent an electronic signal to detonate it. A Third Fleet official, who declined to give his name, said the triggering device, called an “initiator,” fired as expected, but the C-4 plastic explosive inside didn't go off. After the device failed to explode, divers waited an hour – as required by Navy safety rules – before returning to the spot where the charge was last seen, the statement said. They couldn't find it. Divers and sailors in boats searched for the device until nightfall, while other search teams on shore scanned the waters off the Silver Strand through the night. It was still missing Friday morning, and search teams combed the beaches between Coronado an A Third Fleet spokeswoman said the device was expected to wash ashore at the Navy's Silver Strand Training Facility around noon due to the tides. Meanwhile, anyone who happens upon the device should call 9-1-1 and inform lifeguards, Navy officials said.
No worries then. Lots of good news here. First of all, of all things it could be, it's C4 - which in the explosives world is extremely stable. The initiator (detonator) exploded (good news). No chance for the C4 going off now. Even catching it on fire will not make it explode - you can light it and cook with it. If it's not on fire - you can drop it , kick it, hit it with a sledge hammer... no problemo. Now, if you were to be cooking with it, and suddenly decide it would be a good idea to stomp the fire out - well...
I'm thinking this fake undersea mine with belt of C4 inside it attached to a line (like an underwater balloon) was taken by a shark to a group of sea otters as a peace offering. "We won't attack you guys - in exchange, you don't beat us to death with rocks." (As Postie noted, otters is cussed mean). "I offer you this funny balloon!" (Results of the negotiations not yet in).
Nan wrote:
[Hope they warn the old guy who goes out there really early with his fishing pole....]
He can use it to cook his fish.
(note: if the sea mine does go off
, expect an escalation in the whole "shark/sea otter gang war" affair)
19 Jan 2008, 6:40 am
SleepyDragon wrote:
Nan wrote:
Damn, this makes me wanna just run down to the beach for a picnic, ya know? <---- she said, with more than a twinge of irony and sarcasm, as she already hates the beach....
As one married to a redhead with fair skin, I know what that's about. Add in Daughter-Person's issues with high temperatures, and... I totally understand this.
We live very close to the surf, but you'd never know it from our lifestyle. Unlike many of our neighbours, who are full-on sunworshippers and waterbabies, and put their kids in Nippers (junior surf-lifesavers) from the time they can walk.
And then there's that melanoma thingie, which is the spectre haunting all Australian whitefellas - no matter how much we slip, slop, slap & wrap.
I just don't understand you people. Nothing beats a day in the sun, swimming in the rip tides amongst sea mines, rocky reefs, sharks, sting rays, jelly fish, piranhas, electric eels, bullrout, rat fish, flatheads, sea snakes, spiny sea urchins, anemones,etc., getting melanoma. Where is your sense of adventure? Your daring-do?
...you wanna live forever?
19 Jan 2008, 6:50 am
sinsboldly wrote:
...congratulations, you're an Aspie, Chuck!
Merle
Merle
I'm betting you already knew.
Quote:
I thought about it for a few, then took off my glasses and did both sets timed the same! all I had to do was squint.
Merle
Merle
Maybe that's why I did better the second time. I can't see well. I was wearing my tri-focals, and everything was a bit blurry. When I draw, I have to take my glasses off, and practically have to stick my eyes on the paper to see what I am drawing. I have excellent vision in a narrow range: approximately 3 inches from my eyes to about 8 inches from my eyes.
19 Jan 2008, 6:52 am
Zanne wrote:
Agent Shrink : Why isn't the serum working?
Agent Brown : Perhaps we're asking the wrong questions... Perhaps you need a Neurologist to actually look at his brain and tell you for sure what's happening.
Agent Shrink: Nonsense! We own this world. We define it. We aren't turning it over to people who can actually diagnose it, you fool. What are you thinking? Leave me with him.
Agent Brown : Perhaps we're asking the wrong questions... Perhaps you need a Neurologist to actually look at his brain and tell you for sure what's happening.
Agent Shrink: Nonsense! We own this world. We define it. We aren't turning it over to people who can actually diagnose it, you fool. What are you thinking? Leave me with him.
Hahaha!
Oh, my. Zanne, I'm not going to copy all that you wrote, but it was very funny. Hey Hartz! Hey Sedaka! Hey Lauri!
Hope you all are well! 
Zanne wrote:
Neo, sooner or later, you're going to realize, just
as I did, that there's a difference between thinking you know and actually knowing.
as I did, that there's a difference between thinking you know and actually knowing.
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19 Jan 2008, 7:05 am
19 Jan 2008, 7:17 am
Rjaye wrote:
Zoom zoom!
Rjaye!! !
Whatcha doin' up at this hour?
Good to see you though! I'm just heading out for the gym...
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