Random Thought of the Day

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On topic, how come using your stove to compliment your furnace is rife with a multitude of CO warnings, yet roasting a turkey for 6 and a half hours is A-OK?

My understanding is, the oven needs
to reach a certain internal temp for
it to burn all the gas efficiently and
not give off carbon monoxide. If
the oven door is open, it never gets
hot enough. Same with the top
burners. The plate around the burner
has to get to a hot temp to burn
off all the gas, and it won't get there
without a something sitting on the
grate forcing the heat down.

If your gas stove set up doesn't have a powered vent to send the noxious gases outside, something is not up to modern code.

Ski joke. Tis the season.
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Three guys go to a ski lodge.

There aren't enough rooms, so they have to share a bed.

In the middle of the night, the guy on the right wakes up and says, "I had this wild, vivid dream of getting a hand job!"

The guy on the left wakes up, and unbelievably, he's had the same dream, too.

Then the guy in the middle wakes up and says, "That's funny, I dreamed I was skiing!"

I think it's really commentary on parking in NYC.

Yesterday a supplier left me a very thoughtful gift, consisting of a lovely, square wicker basket, with dark varnish, a sufficiently sturdy plywood base, and wooden handles. Unfortunately it was filled with cans and jars of different types of tuna.

We sell lots of canned tuna, ergo the supplier. But I must wonder who eats the stuff.

Anyway, the boss offered to buy the stuff for $25, which a hasty search told me it was around 70% of retail. Not bad.

And I kept the basket. It can be used for serving hot dishes at the table.

What do you call it when you spend a considerable amount of time, on and off, throughout the day looking for some documents, and find them, at long last, on a pile right there on your desk?

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What do you call it when you spend a considerable amount of time, on and off, throughout the day looking for some documents, and find them, at long last, on a pile right there on your desk?

Luck?

Vera Rubin, the astronomer who discovered galaxies contain too little observable mass to account for their rotational speed, passed away on Dec. 25 2016.

Damn this fucking year.

Rubin's measurements and discoveries led to the current notions about dark matter, or the idea that gravitational theory is incomplete in very large scales.

Dammit, Carrie Fisher died earlier today :(

Business idea

1. Work hard on a good catch phrase, not in the current popular lexicon. Work hard, really hard until you're sure your idea is good.
2. Buy it as a domain name.
3. Keep introducing it everywhere to try to make it catch on.
4. (somehow profit)