“You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.”
ON BEAUTY:
3. “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”
ON WRITING:
5. “If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
“I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.”
“I hate writing, I love having written.”
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are ‘cheque enclosed.’"
(Actually, this quote attributed to Parker is a paraphrase. In 1932, the New York Herald Tribune asked her for a list of the most beautiful words. Dorothy said, “To me, the most beautiful word in the English language is cellar-door. Isn’t it wonderful? The ones I like, though, are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’")
“There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
ON DRINKING:
10. “One more drink and I’ll be under the host.”
“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
When asked if she was going to join Alcoholics Anonymous: “Certainly not. They want me to stop now.”
ON MONEY:
13. “Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.”
“I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.”
When she was offended by the amount of money a producer offered her to write a script: “You can’t take it with you, and even if you did, it would probably melt.”
ON LOVE:
16. “I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.”
“Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!”
“Better be left by twenty dears / Than lie in a love-less bed; / Better a loaf that’s wet with tears, / Than cold, unsalted bread.”
“Four be the things I’d have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.”
“It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.”
“By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying -
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying."
ON CHILDREN:
22. “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”
ON DEATH:
23. “Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.”
“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
“Excuse my dust.” Parker suggested that this be used as an epitaph on her final resting place—and it was.
Step 1: Let a=b.
Step 2: Then a^2=ab
Step 3: a^2+a^2 = a^2+ab
Step 4: 2a^2 = a^2+ab
Step 5: 2a^2-2ab = a^2+ab-2ab
Step 6: 2*a^2-2ab = a^2-ab
Step 7: This can be written as 2(a^2-ab) = 1(a^2-ab)
Step 8: and cancelling (a^2-ab) from both sides gives 2=1
@Yoda_Daenerys
{I have to be careful how I write this out: if I include too many asterisks in a line, stuff gets italicized; Instead of the asterisks appearing as a multiplication sign. So I will only use an asterisk when a variable (i.e. “a” multiplies itself.}
In step 8, “canceling” is actually an elementary algebraic notational synonym for division.
Step 8 proposes “canceling” [I.E. dividing] both sides by the expression:
(a^2) - (ab)
Which is a simplifiable expression:
(a^2) - (ab) = (a*a) - (ab)
And further simplification:
(a*a) - (ab) = a(a - b)
But the initial premise is: a = b in step 1. Therefore a - b = 0.
So
a(a - b) = a*0 = 0
Therefore Step 8 proposes “canceling”, or more precisely, dividing by an expression that provably, by initial conditions, is equivalent to zero.
The conclusion, stated correctly, is not that
2 = 1
But rather that
2/0 = 1/0
And that’s “another matter”. Or “another lack of matter”.
@f00l You should be able to backslash escape asterisks *like so* (type \*) or use the mathematical times symbol with × - ×. Let’s see if any of that actually worked.
@brhfl
(Test about using asterisks as characters indicating multiplication operations rather than as formatting commands)
Backslash asterisk
(a*a) + (a*b) = (testing 1st formatting example)
(Did I do that right)?
(a “x” a) + (a “x” b) = (testing second formatting example).
(Using “x” for multiplication.)
×
(did I do that right? Seems not)
×
(did I do that right? Seems ok)
(This one was × with a “;” immediately after the “s”)
How did you get the
& t i m e s ;
(With no spaces)
to post as a text string rather than as a an “x” character in your post?
Note I am using the stock iOS keyboard. I don’t have a trad full key set, obviously. I suppose I could load an alt keyboard.
I am not sure I am folliwing your formatting instructions properly.
Please elaborate or point me to where I can read up, if you have the patience.
BTW Do you happen to know how to create a "Comment character at the beginning of a line, in order to post an otherwise embedding URL as text string rather than as the embed?
@f00l Sorry, I reformatted that a couple of times to try to make it more clear but it was a little tricky to do so. &(code number or shorthand identifier); is standard HTML escaping, so if you ever need to find out how to get this or that funny character, you can look for HTML escape codes. Couple of ways to show the escape code literally instead of having it turn into its respective character:
Use the & escape code to make your ‘&’ instead of typing it.
Putting things in a code block (surrounded by `backticks`) also bypasses some HTML passthrough, for the sake of simplifying showing HTML code in code blocks.
I think I responded to you a couple of days ago when you asked someone else about the URL thing, but… there doesn’t seem to be a way to get around it. Things like the YouTube embed code in mehdown use node.js’s URL library, specificaly url.parse() to figure out if a thing is a URL. If so, it immediately regexes it against what a YouTube URL looks like. There doesn’t seem to be a mechanism to defeat this (I tried replacing the dots in a URL w/ escape codes; it was too smart… presumably because url.parse() normalizes the URL before the regex gets to it).
Edit: The backslash thing is a standard Markdown escape mechanism, so any of the formatting things that come from Markdown _like underscores_ ~~or tildes~~ can be escaped with a backslash.
@f00l The official Markdown syntax guide can be found here. Since then, various parsers have taken to extending the syntax in various ways, particularly for the sake of strikethrough and tables. Meh uses the markdown-it parser, which starts with the CommonMark spec and adds some additional features (by default the aforementioned strikethrough and tables; not sure if meh has enabled anything else outside of their mehdown-specific implementations).
I know there are various note-taking apps out there and the like that rely on Markdown, but don’t know any off the top of my head. I personally write essentially everything I do in Markdown, which is why I tend to jump into these formatting discussions…
@Yoda_Daenerys Ateempting to answer huh? It’s sure still out there and still works great and it’s still free. I don’t think they’re putting out new and improved versions anymore though.
Ctrl + Shift + Delete
You will never look at all those pictures. Just purge them all and start your collection all over again with a higher saving standard!
no need. i already found it for you.
@carl669 does that person have six fingers, or am i out of focus?
@Yoda_Daenerys you’re out of focus. put the bottle down.
@carl669 Too good, indeed.
@Yoda_Daenerys They do have six fingers. Just not all on one hand.
@carl669 i’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
@Yoda_Daenerys Song by Randy Hanzlick, supposedly inspired by a Dorothy Parker quip
@compunaut
/giphy "Dorothy Parker"
/giphy Algonquin
/giphy Round Table
@f00l
Such a distracting gif. I keep on laughing.
That quote is funny.
@Yoda_Daenerys
@compunaut
@PlacidPenguin
ON OTHER PEOPLE:
“Their pooled emotions wouldn’t fill a teaspoon.”
“You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.”
ON BEAUTY:
3. “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
ON WRITING:
5. “If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
“I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.”
“I hate writing, I love having written.”
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are ‘cheque enclosed.’"
(Actually, this quote attributed to Parker is a paraphrase. In 1932, the New York Herald Tribune asked her for a list of the most beautiful words. Dorothy said, “To me, the most beautiful word in the English language is cellar-door. Isn’t it wonderful? The ones I like, though, are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’")
“There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
ON DRINKING:
10. “One more drink and I’ll be under the host.”
“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
When asked if she was going to join Alcoholics Anonymous: “Certainly not. They want me to stop now.”
ON MONEY:
13. “Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.”
“I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.”
When she was offended by the amount of money a producer offered her to write a script: “You can’t take it with you, and even if you did, it would probably melt.”
ON LOVE:
16. “I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.”
“Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!”
“Better be left by twenty dears / Than lie in a love-less bed; / Better a loaf that’s wet with tears, / Than cold, unsalted bread.”
“Four be the things I’d have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.”
“It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.”
“By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying -
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying."
ON CHILDREN:
22. “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”
ON DEATH:
23. “Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.”
“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
“Excuse my dust.” Parker suggested that this be used as an epitaph on her final resting place—and it was.
Step 1: Let a=b.
Step 2: Then a^2=ab
Step 3: a^2+a^2 = a^2+ab
Step 4: 2a^2 = a^2+ab
Step 5: 2a^2-2ab = a^2+ab-2ab
Step 6: 2*a^2-2ab = a^2-ab
Step 7: This can be written as 2(a^2-ab) = 1(a^2-ab)
Step 8: and cancelling (a^2-ab) from both sides gives 2=1
@Yoda_Daenerys
{I have to be careful how I write this out: if I include too many asterisks in a line, stuff gets italicized; Instead of the asterisks appearing as a multiplication sign. So I will only use an asterisk when a variable (i.e. “a” multiplies itself.}
In step 8, “canceling” is actually an elementary algebraic notational synonym for division.
Step 8 proposes “canceling” [I.E. dividing] both sides by the expression:
(a^2) - (ab)
Which is a simplifiable expression:
(a^2) - (ab) = (a*a) - (ab)
And further simplification:
(a*a) - (ab) = a(a - b)
But the initial premise is: a = b in step 1. Therefore a - b = 0.
So
a(a - b) = a*0 = 0
Therefore Step 8 proposes “canceling”, or more precisely, dividing by an expression that provably, by initial conditions, is equivalent to zero.
The conclusion, stated correctly, is not that
2 = 1
But rather that
2/0 = 1/0
And that’s “another matter”. Or “another lack of matter”.
/giphy "it matters"
@f00l
More:
Fun fun fun till Daddy took the T-Bird away!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero
/giphy "divide by zero"
@Yoda_Daenerys
PS
I hope your photo cleanup project is not the spiritual equivalent of division by zero.
Most of my simplification and cleanup projects seem to have that fatal quality.
/giphy "fatal flaw"
@f00l
@f00l You should be able to backslash escape asterisks *like so* (type \*) or use the mathematical times symbol with
×- ×. Let’s see if any of that actually worked.@brhfl
(Test about using asterisks as characters indicating multiplication operations rather than as formatting commands)
Backslash asterisk
(a*a) + (a*b) = (testing 1st formatting example)
(Did I do that right)?
(a “x” a) + (a “x” b) = (testing second formatting example).
(Using “x” for multiplication.)
×
(did I do that right? Seems not)
×
(did I do that right? Seems ok)
(This one was × with a “;” immediately after the “s”)
How did you get the
& t i m e s ;
(With no spaces)
to post as a text string rather than as a an “x” character in your post?
Note I am using the stock iOS keyboard. I don’t have a trad full key set, obviously. I suppose I could load an alt keyboard.
I am not sure I am folliwing your formatting instructions properly.
Please elaborate or point me to where I can read up, if you have the patience.
BTW Do you happen to know how to create a "Comment character at the beginning of a line, in order to post an otherwise embedding URL as text string rather than as the embed?
@f00l
Did you read the guide?
@PlacidPenguin
Read parts of the style guide. Guess I need to finish it.
Incidentally: if a tiger cubs sniffs my butt while I am eating, I respond exactly that way.
oh shit pls put the damned giphy back. I loved it.
@f00l no f00lin’?
@f00l
@PlacidPenguin
Yeah, that’s how I handle butt-sniffing tiger cubs!
I hover over my food and growl, then do a quick turn and snap at the tiger cub, then I fall on my ass.
Works every time!
/giphy "fall on my ass"
@f00l
Last year Life of Pi was on TV.
And though I didn’t watch the beginning, and I changed the channel to other stuff numerous times throughout the movie, I watched most of it.
I was dismayed to find out that Richard Parker wasn’t really on the boat.
Almost as disappointing as finding out that Elmo is a puppet, that the Singing Cowboy doesn’t play the guitar and that @Matthew is a sockpuppet.
Although I’m convinced that @galmaegi is just a site script.
I should probably contact my Meh conspiracy group…
@f00l Sorry, I reformatted that a couple of times to try to make it more clear but it was a little tricky to do so. &(code number or shorthand identifier); is standard HTML escaping, so if you ever need to find out how to get this or that funny character, you can look for HTML escape codes. Couple of ways to show the escape code literally instead of having it turn into its respective character:
code block(surrounded by `backticks`) also bypasses some HTML passthrough, for the sake of simplifying showing HTML code in code blocks.I think I responded to you a couple of days ago when you asked someone else about the URL thing, but… there doesn’t seem to be a way to get around it. Things like the YouTube embed code in mehdown use node.js’s URL library, specificaly url.parse() to figure out if a thing is a URL. If so, it immediately regexes it against what a YouTube URL looks like. There doesn’t seem to be a mechanism to defeat this (I tried replacing the dots in a URL w/ escape codes; it was too smart… presumably because url.parse() normalizes the URL before the regex gets to it).
Edit: The backslash thing is a standard Markdown escape mechanism, so any of the formatting things that come from Markdown _like underscores_ ~~or tildes~~ can be escaped with a backslash.
@brhfl
Much thx. Appreciate. Need to practice. There must be an app for that.
Never bothered to learn markup language. Guess it shows.
/giphy "my bad"
@f00l The official Markdown syntax guide can be found here. Since then, various parsers have taken to extending the syntax in various ways, particularly for the sake of strikethrough and tables. Meh uses the markdown-it parser, which starts with the CommonMark spec and adds some additional features (by default the aforementioned strikethrough and tables; not sure if meh has enabled anything else outside of their mehdown-specific implementations).
I know there are various note-taking apps out there and the like that rely on Markdown, but don’t know any off the top of my head. I personally write essentially everything I do in Markdown, which is why I tend to jump into these formatting discussions…
@brhfl
/giphy thank you thank you thank you
(It’s always overkill once the toddler learns to talk, isn’t it?)
Have you tried Picasa? You can rate photos and even do facial recognition, or add tags even. It’s not perfect, but I like it and it’s free.
@luvche21 i thought google shit canned picasa? i have used it in the past…
thanks though for attempting to answer the question, which is rare so far in this thread
@Yoda_Daenerys Ateempting to answer huh? It’s sure still out there and still works great and it’s still free. I don’t think they’re putting out new and improved versions anymore though.
Irfanview
@OCBill3 thx
Puff Clap Bing Clap
@Ignorant huh?
@Yoda_Daenerys was just reading the header pic.
The best picture is already the thumbnail for this thread.
Ctrl + Shift + Delete
You will never look at all those pictures. Just purge them all and start your collection all over again with a higher saving standard!