Re: Ry

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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> On 12.03.2024 14.30, Merlyne wrote:
>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>> On 24.02.2024 21.56, Merlyne wrote:
>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>>> On 11.02.2024 15.49, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>>>>> On 14.01.2024 16.02, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>>>>>>> On 07.01.2024 23.21, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>>>>>>>>> On 30.12.2023 20.20, ryzilla wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 21:39:28 +0200, BeH
>>>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Happy birthday to you, wherever you are...
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I think I'm encased in a block of ice for 50000 years or
>>>>>>>>>>>> so. Again. 
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Ry. Last I heard you were in Arizona, which makes that
>>>>>>>>>>> theory rather untenable, climatically.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I was wondering the same thing.
>>>>>>>>>> Seems suspicious...
>>>>>>>>> Right. unless he got lost in a very large freezer I can't see
>>>>>>>>> how something like that could happen.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I imagine the wifi would suck inside a freezer.
>>>>>>>> Making it hard to post.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If the router is outside the freezer yes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I wonder if you'd even connect to a router outside the thick
>>>>>> metal walls of a freezer.
>>>>> You can try if you want - but keep someone around to open the door
>>>>> when you are done. Anyway it's not often one has to connect to the
>>>>> inter or local net while inside a freezer.
>>>>>
>>>> It was more of a science experiment. 
>>>> Enquiring mind want to know but not badly enough to get locked in 
>>>> freezer.
>>>> I am oddly ok with it if someone else gets in the freezer to try
>>>> the wifi.
>>> If you do find someone let me know the result, will you?
>>> Purely academic interest. I'm not going to stuff anyone into a
>>> freezer for nefarious purposes.
>>>
>> Of course.
> 
> I can hardly wait for all this data I'm gonna get.

You're going to get intel vs. data i.e. the wifi worked or didn't work.

> 
>>>>>>> I don't think temperature as such would be a factor. With a
>>>>>>> wired connection on the other hand it would theoretically be
>>>>>>> faster. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> So, how is every little thing?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Sup acme!
>>>>>>>>>>> Well in the last year there have been as many as five or six
>>>>>>>>>>> different posters here, and only one of them a spammer. So
>>>>>>>>>>> *almost* like the old days. 
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I've never been referred to as canned meat before.
>>>>>>>>> Not you. The unsolicited avertisement. Us internet
>>>>>>>>> professionals call that sort of thing "spam".
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Like I just fell off the turnip truck or something.
>>>>>>> Do you even have any turnips in that frozen wasteland up there?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We do.
>>>>> Excellent. Don't fall off the turnip truck.
>>>>>
>>>> Got it. 
>>>> Avoid turnip trucks altogether.
>>> Given the amount of sugar beets all over the roads around here every
>>> season, that's probable a sensible decision. Having one of them fall
>>> on ones head can't be pleasant.
>>>
>> I've never seen one up close.
> 
> It's not very exciting to tell the truth. A dirty cone with some
> stubble sticking out of the flattish bit.

How big are they?
The size of a regular beet?

> 
>>>>>>>> You're so serious all the time.
>>>>>>> Is that why people keep calling me the Half Blood Prince?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Who does that?
>>>>> People who have read the Harry Potter books, mostly...
>>>>>
>>>> Obviously.
>>>>>>>>>> Stop posting when you're hungry!
>>>>>>>>> What if I get hungry in the middle of a post. I might lose my
>>>>>>>>> train of thought and post something completely incoherent.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Waffles for everyone!
>>>>>>> It's still to cold for ice-cream...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nah. You need to broaden your horizons.
>>>>> Where I live the horizon can get much broader. 360 line of sight
>>>>> all the way to the water and beyond. In clear weather of course.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Purple Monkey Dishwasher
>>>>>>> How many purple monkeys do you have that you can't wash them by
>>>>>>> hand? 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's a secret, pass it on!
>>>>> How can I pass it on if I don't know the secret? Also what
>>>>> possible use do you have for several Purple Monkeys?
>>>>>
>>>> I can't tell you.
>>> Sure you can. It'll stay between us. I'm very discreet.
>>>
>> 
>> Hmmm.
> 
> Sooo...

How about that local sports team?