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Title: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on November 15, 2010, 01:15:11 PM
I learned there is a tool called a SPLINE CHISEL.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: yesno on November 15, 2010, 03:45:12 PM
This ships tomorrow.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/They_call_me_baba_booey_book_front_cover_2010.jpg)
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Gilly on November 15, 2010, 06:51:49 PM
That people are still super excited about Apple ripping their Beatles cds for them and charging them 99 cents a song.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Austin From NC on November 15, 2010, 10:02:30 PM
J Mascis is an asshole.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: fonpr on November 15, 2010, 10:38:36 PM
J Mascis is an asshole.

How'd you learn that?  Did he snub you?
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: JustSheaNo on November 15, 2010, 10:42:23 PM
I realized that I am not impervious to Charles Bronson movies. I can't get Death Wish 3 off my mind.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Austin From NC on November 15, 2010, 11:28:08 PM
No, Lou Barlow interview. He always seemed like a sorta shy but nice enough guy, but apparently he a big control freak. I think murph only played on a few tracks on green mind.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Christina on November 15, 2010, 11:47:43 PM
All Things Must Pass is getting reissued on vinyl. (http://dailyvinyl.com/blogs/news/2132692-all-things-must-pass-getting-a-vinyl-reissue-it-deserves)
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: fonpr on November 16, 2010, 09:31:26 AM
He always seemed like a sorta shy but nice enough guy, but apparently he a big control freak.

Of whom are you speaking?
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Austin From NC on November 16, 2010, 04:53:04 PM
He always seemed like a sorta shy but nice enough guy, but apparently he a big control freak.

Of whom are you speaking?

Mascis.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: fonpr on November 16, 2010, 06:32:14 PM
Yeah, there was a weird vibe when I saw Dinosaur Jr. earlier this year.  J and Lou didn't even look at each other.

Murph was just joyfully bashing away appearing to be oblivious to the obvious tension.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Austin From NC on November 16, 2010, 07:41:00 PM
Gotta love Murph. I heard some weird story about J making Lou scream over and over on that last track from Bug that he started coughing blood.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Keith Whitener on November 16, 2010, 07:46:27 PM
I want to go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallatin_School_of_Individualized_Study (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallatin_School_of_Individualized_Study)

THAT IS WHAT I LEARNED?!

Anyone know of any other programs like this?
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: fonpr on November 16, 2010, 08:06:18 PM
Gotta love Murph. I heard some weird story about J making Lou scream over and over on that last track from Bug that he started coughing blood.

I read that book.

Why don't you like me?
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: fonpr on November 16, 2010, 08:23:32 PM
I want to go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallatin_School_of_Individualized_Study (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallatin_School_of_Individualized_Study)

THAT IS WHAT I LEARNED?!

Anyone know of any other programs like this?

That's a way of learning!
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Austin From NC on November 16, 2010, 09:22:18 PM
Gotta love Murph. I heard some weird story about J making Lou scream over and over on that last track from Bug that he started coughing blood.

I read that book.

Why don't you like me?

Youre talking about "our band"? I actually ordered it at borders earlier today, weird coincidence. Seems like a good read.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Scott From Brooklyn on November 16, 2010, 09:24:03 PM
Mascis.

I met him in Gainesville before Farm came out and he was super nice. He signed my Jazzmaster, too, which has since ceased to function. Lou was cool, too.

I learned that owls are the only birds that can see blue, as told by my Snapple cap.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: AllisonLeGnome on November 16, 2010, 10:23:46 PM
I learned that cognitive ethnomusicology is a thing. If I really never narrow down what I want to do with myself...
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: fonpr on November 17, 2010, 08:40:07 AM


I met him in Gainesville before Farm came out and he was super nice.



That's the show I was at.  Sorry, I missed you, Scott.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Scott From Brooklyn on November 17, 2010, 01:48:38 PM
That's the show I was at.  Sorry, I missed you, Scott.

That was right before I moved back to NY. I kind of, sort of lived in Orlando, Miami and West Palm for a combined total of four years (oops).

I listened to the Best Show during my time down there, but had no idea of any FOTs in the area. Little did I know...
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: DS1077 on November 17, 2010, 06:26:09 PM
Katy Perry has a cat named Kitty Purry.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Austin From NC on November 17, 2010, 07:22:11 PM
Katy Perry has a cat named Kitty Purry.

In a weird coincidence, I learned something about celeb cats too. Glen Danzig has several cats he calls the Hissfits and one is named Purry Only. Groan.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on November 17, 2010, 08:01:42 PM
Katy Perry has a cat named Kitty Purry.


aha..haha...hah..hehee...oh, boy, that makes me giggle.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on November 18, 2010, 11:50:49 AM
I know I am waaaaaaay behind on this one, but I just learned today that the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network were played by one dude and some body doubles.

As Mr Tudball would say, "Any news on the Hindenburg? Dee-hur dee-hur dee-hur."
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: cutout on November 18, 2010, 02:01:34 PM
I learned that Chilean hot dogs are a thing and sold more widely across Manhattan than I would've thought.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Kim Kelly on November 18, 2010, 02:29:52 PM
This is from a couple of weeks ago, but it's still pretty amazing: A personal named Simson Garfinkel exists.

This is what he looks like:

(http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/10d-2/simson-garfinkel.jpg)

Oh, and I'm changing the topic to "most amazing thing I learned a couple of weeks ago"
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: fonpr on November 18, 2010, 05:03:28 PM
(http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/nancyfredericks/beck_credo_200.jpg)

I fear Jen Kirkman may have ratted us out.

Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: lauraaaaaak on November 19, 2010, 04:08:46 AM
I learned that bananas are not fruit, they are herbs.


Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: dave from knoxville on November 19, 2010, 09:43:51 AM
I learned that cognitive ethnomusicology is a thing. If I really never narrow down what I want to do with myself...

Andy from Knoxville wants to be a musicology professor. Want to marry him?
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: fonpr on November 19, 2010, 01:20:09 PM
I learned that bananas are not fruit, they are herbs.
I beg to differ.  Banana trees aren't trees.  Bananas however are fruit, according to my sources.

Where did you get your information, Laura?
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Alex_from_the_woods on November 20, 2010, 01:07:40 PM
Mice can chew through drywall???!!! I discovered a quarter-sized hole in the drywall in my closet today. I have no idea how it got there. Mice? I've had 'em lately. Are they capable of chewing through 1/2 inch drywall? Scary. Anybody seen this? Maybe the hole got there some other way but I don't see how. Do I need to build a steel plated panic room to hide in while waiting for the hapless (but suddenly more capable seeming) critters to stumble into one of my traps? 
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: fonpr on November 20, 2010, 01:54:26 PM
In Egypt a cooked mouse was used to cure a variety of ills including stomachaches






From: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/facts-about-mice.html (http://www.buzzle.com/articles/facts-about-mice.html)
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: effecT on November 20, 2010, 05:48:28 PM
After a 5 hour marathon of Whale Wars i officially declare these people to be insane!
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: AllisonLeGnome on November 21, 2010, 01:15:25 PM
I learned that cognitive ethnomusicology is a thing. If I really never narrow down what I want to do with myself...

Andy from Knoxville wants to be a musicology professor. Want to marry him?

Well, Amazon has been recommending me engagement rings for some reason...
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: effecT on November 21, 2010, 02:27:52 PM
I learned Kurt Cobain did not live under a bridge.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Scott From Brooklyn on November 22, 2010, 09:24:29 AM
Russ and Daughters (smoked fish/bagel place in Manhattan) has a picture of Mark Ibold on their wall, wearing a shirt from Russ and Daughters.

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Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Alex_from_the_woods on November 22, 2010, 01:47:11 PM
In Egypt a cooked mouse was used to cure a variety of ills including stomachaches

From: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/facts-about-mice.html (http://www.buzzle.com/articles/facts-about-mice.html)

"•Some ancient stories give credit to mice or rats with punishing evil people."

This isn't looking good for me.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: JustSheaNo on November 22, 2010, 06:46:49 PM
There's a food handler at FoodParc that thinks nothing of rubbing his mouth eyes and nose and then rubbing your food, no handwash in between.

I know worse is done all the time, but its an open kitchen. He may as well have frenchkissed the sandwich.


Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on November 22, 2010, 09:59:02 PM
Sanford & Son was a spinoff from a British sitcom.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Wes on November 23, 2010, 09:51:53 AM
Sanford & Son was a spinoff from a British sitcom.
Technically a remake, not a spinoff, you big dummy.

But now I very much want there to have been a British show that introduced Redd Foxx as Fred Sanford in a supporting role that ends with him moving to the US to open his junk business. Given the descriptions of "One Foot In The Grave" on last week's show and in that other thread, we can assume that they wrote the Sanfords out after Elizabeth was killed by the Krays.

The British influence also goes a bit deeper: Foxx based Fred's "This is the Big One!" heart attack routine on Joe Cocker's stage moves, while Cocker returned the honor by aging into Redd Foxx.

(http://images37.concordmusicgroup.com/artists/fullsize/Joe_Cocker_general_4___credit_John_Macpherson_cmg.jpg)(http://www.pollsb.com/photos/o/26339-redd_foxx.jpg)
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on November 23, 2010, 04:59:16 PM
I originally meant to type remake and not spinoff, but after I read this I changed my mind.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: ~L on November 23, 2010, 10:01:34 PM
I own a spline chisel.
Use peanut butter as bait for your mousetraps. Mice are rodents that have no bladders, so they drip urine constantly, which you can see with an ultraviolet light to track their entry.
Methylated Vitamin B-12 may cure autism for some people.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: lauraaaaaak on November 24, 2010, 05:14:17 PM
I learned that bananas are not fruit, they are herbs.
I beg to differ.  Banana trees aren't trees.  Bananas however are fruit, according to my sources.

Where did you get your information, Laura?

My plant biologist housemate. Should I challenge her??!?!
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: fonpr on November 24, 2010, 05:28:00 PM
Of course. 

Bananas are sterile ovaries.   

Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: lauraaaaaak on November 28, 2010, 10:15:19 PM
I learned that bananas are not fruit, they are herbs.
I beg to differ.  Banana trees aren't trees.  Bananas however are fruit, according to my sources.

Where did you get your information, Laura?

You are correct Fredericks! I asked my housemate again and she sent me this:

"Ok. So the banana is an herb and a berry. A berry is defined as, many seeds with in a fleshy layer. Diff. varieties have seeds, but the ones that we eat have little no seeds b/c they are triploids (YAY Gentics!!)- they were genetically engineered to have 3 sets of chromosomes which prevents them from undergoing meiosis- the products of which are seeds covered in a fleshy delicious fruit. (Also think of seedless watermelons). This is very taxing for the plant to produce a seedless fruit, which in the case of a banana is actually a berry, b/c ultimately it serves no purpose for the plant to produce a seedless fruit.

The bananas that we eat today were made by a process similar to grafting, except since the banana is herbaceous and has no wood, (the leaves grow around each other in layers.) This makes every banana you've ever eaten an exact genetic clone of the one MOTHER banana plant. How wild is that? Plants are immortal?!?"
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Sarah on November 28, 2010, 10:29:14 PM
Sanford & Son was a remake from a British sitcom.

Ah yes, Steptoe and Son, Steptoe being played by Wilfrid Brambell, Paul McCartney's very clean grandfather in A Hard Day's Night.  The show had just started up again in 1970, when my family was living in England, and it was one of my father's favorites (he was also partial to Dad's Army).  He liked Sanford and Son, too.

On topic:  The most interesting thing I learned today is that the guy who painted the trim on my house a few years ago is in jail again.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: fonpr on November 29, 2010, 08:32:42 AM
I learned that bananas are not fruit, they are herbs.
I beg to differ.  Banana trees aren't trees.  Bananas however are fruit, according to my sources.

Where did you get your information, Laura?

You are correct Fredericks! I asked my housemate again and she sent me this:

"Ok. So the banana is an herb and a berry. A berry is defined as, many seeds with in a fleshy layer. Diff. varieties have seeds, but the ones that we eat have little no seeds b/c they are triploids (YAY Gentics!!)- they were genetically engineered to have 3 sets of chromosomes which prevents them from undergoing meiosis- the products of which are seeds covered in a fleshy delicious fruit. (Also think of seedless watermelons). This is very taxing for the plant to produce a seedless fruit, which in the case of a banana is actually a berry, b/c ultimately it serves no purpose for the plant to produce a seedless fruit.

The bananas that we eat today were made by a process similar to grafting, except since the banana is herbaceous and has no wood, (the leaves grow around each other in layers.) This makes every banana you've ever eaten an exact genetic clone of the one MOTHER banana plant. How wild is that? Plants are immortal?!?"

Let us just call them sterile plant ovaries.

Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on November 30, 2010, 12:21:22 PM
Nation states do not believe half of what they say to the press about other nation states.

Oh wait. I knew that.

How about this then: After downloading Interstellarium (amazing freeware), I learned that the massive sun Betelgeuse is visible in our night sky.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: cutout on November 30, 2010, 01:25:45 PM
My mother wants Julian Assange to be assassinated.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: ben on December 04, 2010, 02:59:24 AM
That Steve Sodabug is the actual name.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Ike on December 04, 2010, 03:11:35 AM
My mother wants Julian Assange to be assassinated.

The political scientist who shares my office does as well.  Totally peaceful, extremely liberal fella, and he can't see why the US has let this "goon walk around, not getting rubbed out." 

NEARLY a spittake moment in the office. 
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on December 04, 2010, 05:27:26 PM
'"On the Blessed Land." DPRK 2010 A new release! The feature film deals with the noble ideological and moral traits and optimistic work style of young Koreans who are devotedly carrying out the Workers′ Party of Korea′s policy of bringing about a radical turn in potato farming after volunteering to work'
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Austin From NC on December 14, 2010, 10:27:54 PM
Tom Leher allegedly invented jello shots.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Sarah on December 15, 2010, 12:06:01 AM
You mean Tom Lehrer?  Really?  Source, please.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: Sarah on December 15, 2010, 12:13:23 AM
Found it. (http://www.sfweekly.com/2000-04-19/news/that-was-the-wit-that-was/)

I love Tom Lehrer.  Was singing "We'll All Go Together When We Go" when I was five.  I especially liked the more ghoulish numbers.
Title: Re: Most interesting thing you learned today
Post by: yesno on December 18, 2010, 09:26:08 AM
I knew that the Italian humanists had modeled their typefaces on Carolingian minuscule, but I did not know that this was because they had erroneously thought that the Carolingian-era manuscripts they studied were Roman originals.  In fact, had they actually copied originals, our current lower-case letters would look more like this:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/CursivasRomanas.png/400px-CursivasRomanas.png)