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If I was going to be around a little longer, I'd roll the board with an observation about Schroedinger's marshmallow -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 22, 19:24
After writing the Avatar quiz, I feel I may have a bit of leeway on what quiz I want to take on crafting next. I mean, how do you follow that up? - Qale Jul 22, 19:20 1
- It'll be edited hopefully better than my TT posts. -- nm - Qale Jul 22, 19:20
Ok, here we go - re-linking my baby's photos. :) (Including some new ones, of course) -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 22, 19:14 [flickr] 3
- 2 things - I *LOVE* the photo of him curled in his mum's (I assume?) arm - that has a yellow tint - sooooo tiny and precious - and 2) they bundle at - JenBro Jul 22, 19:20
- my 5MP canon is soooo much better at low-light photos than my Pentax -- nm - Beryllium Jul 22, 19:15 1
  - never tried Pentax, but I specifically bought my Canon for low light photos. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 19:18
So Monday at 5:45am our Scout Troop is headed out for a 200-mile, week-long bike camp trek thing. It is going to be *awesome*. - landbeck Jul 22, 19:14 5
- Sounds like a lot of fun. Do they carry their own gear, or will you have support for that? -- nm - MojaveMeg Jul 22, 19:18 3
  - There is a "chuck wagon" car that goes ahead of us and stops at lunch and camp sites. We'll just be biking with water and repair kits. -- nm - landbeck Jul 22, 19:23 2
    - spare tires or patch kits? - loosilu Jul 22, 19:26 1
      - patch kits. The car will have spare tubes and the equipment for making major repairs. -- nm - landbeck Jul 22, 19:28
- wow!!! Love the C&O canal! good think you are starting Monday, this weekend is supposed to be mega hot. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 19:15
The other husband from Cougar Town is on Royal Pains tonight. -- nm - Max Jul 22, 19:12
st quiz. you walk into a deserted room, there is a bag of large marshmellows and a bag of pretzels on the floor. - tRuMaN Jul 22, 19:04 15
- the marshmellows - passive/aggressive behavior - Epiphany Jul 22, 19:32
- Grow to the size of a skycraper and menace the city. -- nm - Qale Jul 22, 19:26
- if they are storebought, neither. if they are fresh & homemade, the pretzels. hunger -- nm - peglegpete Jul 22, 19:23
- thin stick pretzels would probably be ignored, combos would have a very good chance of being opened first, but I love the vanilla smell of marshmallow - zork Jul 22, 19:14
- So, it's a desserted room? -- nm - nubby Jul 22, 19:07
- The pretzels, so I can use them to start a fire and cook the marshmallows. -- nm - landbeck Jul 22, 19:06 3
  - I like this answer a *lot*. -- nm - kelly Jul 22, 19:07 2
    - Seriously, you can totally rub pretzels together and create enough friction that they combust. They even *look* like wood. -- nm - landbeck Jul 22, 19:10 1
      - I saw Bear Gryll's do that just before he drank his own urine -- nm - I'm Bacon Jul 22, 19:12
- I don't even open the bag of pretzels - I throw them in the trash. - kelly Jul 22, 19:06
- I would ignore them both and look for the trap door to the secret bacon reserves. It's the law of a marshmallow in the hand is not worth 2 bacon in - I'm Bacon Jul 22, 19:06 2
  - On the subject of bacon, I mapped Voodoo... - MojaveMeg Jul 22, 19:15 1
    - There is ALWAYS a line out the door onto the sidewalk there. -- nm - I'm Bacon Jul 22, 19:26
- I was about to say ... - zork Jul 22, 19:06
- Pretzels first. Law of Desserts: the sweet stuff comes last. -- nm - mara Jul 22, 19:05
Livan Hernandez is the biggest mystery in MLB. How he continues to get batters out is completely baffling. -- nm - Subversive Jul 22, 18:56
From the producers of Juwanna Mann -- (link) - Reagen Jul 22, 18:52
Q: A marshmallow is put into a closed container. The air is then removed from the container. What happens to the marshmallow, and why? - nubby Jul 22, 18:49 52
- stay fresh if you put it in the freezer -- nm - peglegpete Jul 22, 19:23
- mandy opens the container and eats the marshmallow -- nm - chuckles Jul 22, 19:15
- it becomes a miniature marshmellow and gets shipped off to swiss miss for packaging -- nm - JenBro Jul 22, 19:12
- Well, since gravity might just be a side effect of entropy, as the air evacuates the inside does cool down, right? -- nm - landbeck Jul 22, 19:06 7
  - actually, if it turns marshmallow gas, heat would be released -- nm - zork Jul 22, 19:16 3
    - If I read what you're saying right, you've got that backwards. Evaporation is an endothermic process. -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 19:19 2
      - d'oh. i'm still tired from the long hospital visit last night - zork Jul 22, 19:23 1
        
        one of the fun consequences of this is that you can make ice at the same time that you're cooking something with one of those little propane bottles. -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 19:26
  - Your forgot to cite the Maxwell equations. -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 19:12 2
    - that's his kid's name. :) -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 19:16 1
      - *reminds self to check and make sure he logged out of facebook* -- nm - landbeck Jul 22, 19:24
- question fail. you didn't specify whether it's a rigid container or not ... - zork Jul 22, 19:04 6
  - Heh heh heh heh, he said rigid -- nm - Nubby's Students Jul 22, 19:08 1
    - The other day I said "It's not the size that matters, it's the speed." - nubby Jul 22, 19:09
  - Thankfully no one called me on it. -- nm - nubby Jul 22, 19:05 3
    - Why would you call zork a no one? -- nm - I'm Bacon Jul 22, 19:09 2
      - Depends, what's his mass? -- nm - nubby Jul 22, 19:09 1
        
        my wife would call me a gas giant - zork Jul 22, 19:11
- A: Nothing. - Stephen (Status Seeker) Jul 22, 19:02 1
  - You can still eat them! - nubby Jul 22, 19:06
- but, wait. is the air expanding, or are the protein strands being stretched? -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:59
- The marshmallow will start to expand...but hesitate. "I may become more attractive to prey. This is bad." And then it will shrink. -- nm - Max Jul 22, 18:55 1
  - We can only hope the 'shmallows don't become sentient. -- nm - nubby Jul 22, 19:07
- Huh? Wouldn't the air trapped inside the marshmallow try to get out to equalize pressure? - I'm Bacon Jul 22, 18:53 15
  - You're too smart for my class, I guess. -- nm - nubby Jul 22, 18:54 14
    - Except I am lost. Was that an answer a student gave? Is that the real answer? -- nm - I'm Bacon Jul 22, 18:55 13
      - Yeah, it took me while too. I think it's a student answer and obviously wrong. -- nm - mara Jul 22, 18:57 12
        
        yes, nubby tends to post his most egregious student answers here as a form of catharsis -- nm - Beryllium Jul 22, 18:58 11
        
        Thanks, drill sergeant therapist. -- nm - nubby Jul 22, 19:01 2
        
        Why don't you take a trip to Mamby Pambi Land! -- nm - I'm Bacon Jul 22, 19:03
        
        the gravity thing is pretty damn funny. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 19:02
        
        as a former TA (who had to grade Intro Bio essays), I get that. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 19:00 7
        
        I'm suprised his eyes don't pop out and roll around on the floor in the middle of class. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 22, 19:01 6
        
        "Professor, I don't think that's possible under the laws of thermodynamics. Stop that at once!" -- nm - Beryllium Jul 22, 19:02
        
        seriously, you grade (literally) hundreds of essays, and you go insane. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 19:02 4
        
        This explains so much. -- nm - mara Jul 22, 19:03 3
        
        burn! -- nm - zork Jul 22, 19:07 2
        
        it's not a burn when it's 100% true. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 19:17
        
        heh. after the Salem thread -- nm - zork Jul 22, 19:08
- it was expand, because its yummy -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 22, 18:52 2
  - The Law of Yumminess Maximization. -- nm - nubby Jul 22, 18:53 1
    - yup, that is the one. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 22, 18:55
- "gravity from teh container"? Doesn't mass produce gravity? -- nm - mara Jul 22, 18:50 9
  - Does the container have mass? -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 18:52 4
    - A very small amount compared to the planet. -- nm - mara Jul 22, 18:53 3
      - I was born under the astrological sign of the Container. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:59 2
        
        Sounds like BP should have hired you -- nm - Beryllium Jul 22, 19:00 1
        
        I wish someone would. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 19:01
  - Apparently air is repulsive? -- nm - nubby Jul 22, 18:51 3
    - no, that's pixie. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 19:00 2
      - pixie causes marshmallows to get fat. you heard it here first! -- nm - Beryllium Jul 22, 19:01 1
        
        Pixie -- both the cause and cure of all our problems. -- nm - mara Jul 22, 19:02
BB HOH competition update (spoilers) - Dano Jul 22, 18:48 1
- spoiler - prayformojo Jul 22, 18:50
Photo of flash flood in Milwaukee -- 7 inches of rain in 2.5 hours. -- (link) - mara Jul 22, 18:47 4
- Sinkhole swallows vehicle -- (link) - mara Jul 22, 18:52
- holy shit!!!! -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:48 2
  - This is the first time that I've heard of a woman complain about 7 inches in 2.5 hours. -- nm - nubby Jul 22, 18:51 1
    - nice -- nm - I'm Bacon Jul 22, 18:52
#599! -- nm - Krusty Jul 22, 18:44
Louis CK is really good at comedy directing. The way the whole airport bit was filmed was super, especially the way the (spoiler) - prayformojo Jul 22, 18:43
This photo (of a female) even turns me on. -- (link) - Dano Jul 22, 18:42 7
- she's gorgeous although her legs and arms are a bit thin for me. -- nm - zork Jul 22, 19:00 1
  - She's a model. Models are thin. -- nm - mara Jul 22, 19:07
- From the page you linked to, I had no idea James Gammon passed away. - Stephen (Status Seeker) Jul 22, 18:55
- That is a Super Hottie! -- nm - I'm Bacon Jul 22, 18:43 1
  - Spider Monkey. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:44
- she looks like a 19 year old boy! -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:43 1
  - Might explain Dano's attraction - Epiphany Jul 22, 19:29
~Baby I like the way you move on the floor - baby I like it, come on give me some more~ -- nm - Epiphany Jul 22, 18:38
Cook Like an Iron Chef with Michael Symon debuts in 24 minutes on the Cooking Channel. he makes lamb. -- nm - peglegpete Jul 22, 18:36
i am wondering if there will be halo or if there will be cowards tonight? -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 22, 18:28 2
- Kim is laughing her way through Scott Pilgrim, so I could play any time. -- nm - David Jul 22, 18:29 1
  - i will be on at the top of the hour -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 22, 18:40
Nubby, is it really National BLT Day? -- nm - I'm Bacon Jul 22, 18:15 3
- On this list, it's National Hammock Day and National Ratcatcher's Day. -- (link) - loosilu Jul 22, 18:19 1
  - This explains why Pixie hasn't posted. -- nm - I'm Bacon Jul 22, 18:29
- If Firehouse Subs says it is, then it is. -- nm - nubby Jul 22, 18:19
Redmond is a celebrity. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:15 21
- Here's the arrow story. Redmond is apparently participating in the comments under the name Cuddle_Soft (bwahaha) -- (link) - loosilu Jul 22, 18:16 20
  - ok so ... has that reporter put you in the friend zone yet or do you have a date despite the massive amount of lint on that arrow? -- nm - JenBro Jul 22, 18:52 6
    - oops ... that question is for "cuddle soft" ... sorry Loosi! -- nm - JenBro Jul 22, 18:57 5
      - That reporter was never at my house. (I answered the, what was the hot chick like) question all day. -- nm - I'm Bacon Jul 22, 18:58 4
        
        so you're saying there's a chance ... - JenBro Jul 22, 19:07 2
        
        I was going to call her up (I actually have her work number) and say, "I know who shot the arrow, but I can only tell you over dinner" - I'm Bacon Jul 22, 19:11 1
        
        and then I'd have to kill you ... right? -- nm - JenBro Jul 22, 19:13
        
        Yeah, you got the short end of the "hot reporter stand-in" stick -- nm - Beryllium Jul 22, 18:59
  - STALKER!!! So where were YOU exactly 48 hours ago? HUH? -- nm - I'm Bacon Jul 22, 18:27 8
    - you say that as if I could hit the side of a barn with a cannon. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:31 7
      - So...if his barn is winged by a cannon it's you? -- nm - the liioulu with graphic novels Jul 22, 18:32 6
        
        Let me explain something. When I go bowling, 1/3 of the time I hit the pins in another alley. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:33 5
        
        duckwing? -- nm - peglegpete Jul 22, 18:36
        
        I said winged. That's a miss. ;) -- nm - the liioulu with graphic novels Jul 22, 18:34 3
        
        see! I don't even know the word for missing. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:35 2
        
        It's kind of nicking. - the liioulu with graphic novels Jul 22, 18:38 1
        
        gotcha. I could do that. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:39
  - Cuddle Soft?! - the liioulu with graphic novels Jul 22, 18:22 3
    - that's the name of the fabric softener. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:23 2
      - Oooh that fabric softner teddy bear, going to hunt that little bitch down -- nm - Dean Winchester Jul 22, 18:32
      - It's his now. ;) -- nm - the liioulu with graphic novels Jul 22, 18:24
Dano ... any chance you got that stomach thing at the hospital? They sometimes have norovirus outbreaks. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:12 14
- What's the general incubation period? -- nm - Dano Jul 22, 18:32 13
  - Not sure about that, but I know it really sucks to have, but you get over it pretty quick, - I'm Bacon Jul 22, 18:35 1
    - I had one where I felt bad for about a week. I was super contagious as well. Got two co-workers sick a week after I first fell sick. - loosilu Jul 22, 18:36
  - 12 to 48 hours, apparently -- (link) - mara Jul 22, 18:34
  - usually 1-2 days, I believe. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:34 9
    - Then unlikely. It was five days after I was last at the hospital. -- nm - Dano Jul 22, 18:36 8
      - yes, very unlikely. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:37 7
        
        did you go anywhere else? It's a really persistent little bug. Lives for hours on surfaces people have touched. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:38 6
        
        The library. -- nm - Dano Jul 22, 18:40 5
        
        I bet that's it. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:42 4
        
        Um, I work in a library, and I've never gotten something that could be mistaken for norovirus. -- nm - mara Jul 22, 18:45 1
        
        I'm basing it on the fact that he is at home. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:46
        
        Or it could just be a run of the mill stomach bug. -- nm - Dano Jul 22, 18:43 1
        
        norovirus *is* a run of the mill stomach bug, silly. -- nm - loosilu Jul 22, 18:44
Heh, Nick Swisher wished the kid of one of my friends a happy birthday on twitter. -- nm - Ender Jul 22, 18:12
I have a green Plymouth Barracuda Hot wheels on my desk -- nm - amoxy Jul 22, 18:11
Swoop! -- nm - JenBro Jul 22, 18:11

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