[12:17 PM] Mr. Blue:
TJ Maxx in Europe is called TK Maxx
[12:42 PM] Mr. Silver:
TK?
TJ mean something else? (looks)
Yup, kinda
“The first European store opened in Bristol in 1994. The company modified the name to T.K. Maxx to avoid "confusion with the established British retail chain T J Hughes (which is not affiliated with TJX)".
[12:43 PM] Mr. Blue:
Yes, that would be quite confusing
(???)
[12:44 PM] Mr. Silver:
Well, Hughes and Maxx do rhyme, after all
[12:45 PM] Mr. Blue:
TJ Mieux's
[12:45 PM] Mr. Silver:
Hahaha
Hughes with a silent H, a U as in hug, and a hard phlegmy G - “Ucgks”
"It looks like 'Hughes', but it's pronounced like a Scotsman barfing out bad cheese."
[11:35 AM] Mr. Blue:
Headline of the day
(Although it was several days ago)
[11:56 AM] Mr. Silver:
That's a good headline!
That's a quote so newsworthy that I think it should be on Boris' tombstone.
[11:57 AM] Mr. Blue:
Gunshot victim: 'Ow, I've been shot'
[11:57 AM] Mr. Silver:
'Nice day out' declares meteorologist
[11:57 AM] Mr. Blue:
That Boris guy was doing a good job on the streets for the parts I tuned into. Cops could learn a thing or two from him about de-escalation
Reminds me of this
[1:13 PM] Mr. Silver:
"For some reason, the simulator will only say things like "I'm cold!" "What the heck is up with my arm?" "Where's my nose?" and "Somebody shot me!"
"Falling between the frequencies of 100 and 150 Hertz, the Iceman’s dulcet tones were more or less the same as those of the average modern male."
Which is hardly surprising since he's only 5000 years old and IS an average modern male.
[1:21 PM] Mr. Blue:
They found he's actually related to people in a nearby village
Just listen to what they sound like.
[1:33 PM] Mr. Silver:
Iceman speaks in an Italian accent? How odd.
"Eh Gino...tweaka the As...he don'ta sound'a quite-a right."
[1:43 PM] Mr. Blue:
Yet it’s actually a German-speaking area of Italy
[1:44 PM] Mr. Silver:
Just goofing on the article details though: They made it speak the Italian vowels
[1:44 PM] Mr. Blue:
Oh okay
[1:50 PM] Mr. Silver:
(Scientist #1) "The Iceman, a-now he-a sounds'a perfecto!"
(Scientist #2) "Nein! Gib mir der contrrrols!"
(Struggle over mixer)
[1:51 PM] Mr. Blue:
"We hypothesize that he spoke a dialect we've dubbed 'old Italian man'"
Interesting
“By autosomal DNA, Ötzi is most closely related to southern Europeans, especially to geographically isolated populations like Corsicans andSardinians.[44][45][46][47]
A 2012 paper by paleoanthropologist John Hawks suggests that Ötzi had a higher degree of Neanderthal ancestry than modern Europeans.[50]”
Hey! That makes two of us.
[1:55 PM] Mr. Silver:
Two of us what? Two with the opinion or two with high levels of Neanderthal?
[1:56 PM] Mr. Blue:
I have high levels of Neanderthal DNA
According to 23andme.com
Higher than 96% of the world
[1:56 PM] Mr. Silver:
Well your family lived where they survived longest, I think
[1:56 PM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah
[2:07 PM] Mr. Silver:
"Yo! Yo progenitor had intercourse with a Mousterian flint knapper!"
"Whatchu call me?!?"
Couldn't resist looking it up.
[3:07 PM] Mr. Blue:
They theorize that Neanderthals, like Middle paleolithic Homo sapiens, did not have a division of labor between the sexes. Under this hypothesis, both male and female Neanderthals participated in the single main occupation of hunting big game that flourished in Europe in the ice age, such as bison, deer, gazelles and wild horses. This hypothesis proposes that the Neanderthal's relative lack of labor division resulted in their poor extraction of resources from the environment — as compared to Homo sapiens — and contributed to their demise.
So they died out for same reason birthrates are currently plummeting and the only humans left in 500 years will be Nigerians and Haredi Jews
It seems like neanderthals were just smaller shittier humans
It seems borderline obvious to me that humans probably played a huge part in wiping them out, ya know? We do that to a lot of species. Hell, we've done that to a lot of human subclades
It also seems weird though, that like everyone who has neanderthal DNA seems to be doing comparitively better, evolutionarily, than those that have none. You'd think if neanderthals were so disadvantaged that you'd think even as little as 1-4% neanderthal DNA would be enough to set that group back further than the group with 0%
So maybe they were weaker physically but stronger mentally? But that didn't mean squat back in the era of proto-bears and dire wolves and glyptodons.
[3:26 PM] Mr. Silver:
Of course it did
[3:26 PM] Mr. Blue:
But they still died out.
[3:27 PM] Mr. Silver:
Approaching your idea from more evolutionary thinking, it seems most reasonable that the % of neanderthal DNA that remains, remains because it was an advantage to have it.
Whatever it does
[3:28 PM] Mr. Blue:
But it wasn't an advantage to be full-on neanderthal
[3:29 PM] Mr. Silver:
Quite possibly not
[3:29 PM] Mr. Blue:
So 1-4% is better than 0%, but 100% is worse than 0%
[3:29 PM] Mr. Silver:
Yes
[3:29 PM] Mr. Blue:
I wonder what the sweetspot is
Maybe me and Otzi got it.
[3:30 PM] Mr. Silver:
People breed animals to best advantage all the time.
We got "the good bits" of the neanderthals
Whatever it is.
[3:31 PM] Mr. Blue:
Too bad this sort of stuff isn't looked into more
Lets see something about neanderthal DNA and IQ or some other intelligence scoring
[11:43 AM] Ms. Rose:
So now I need your help with editing.
I'm applying for that Knowledge Base Developer position. I am certain I have a snowball's chance in hell of getting it. But it's "important" that I put my name in the hat. May I email you my cover letter and résumé in a few? Just need it proofread. I can't make any changes to the résumé since I designed it at home and made a PDF. But I'd appreciate any feedback! Deadline to apply is today.
[11:45 AM] Mr. Silver:
Sure!
(reads)
Crankin' hard on the enthusiasm in this.
[12:42 PM] Ms. Rose:
I'd consider cutting off an appendage to get that job. I'm probably up against every good ol' salaried boy though, I'm sure.
[12:57 PM] Mr. Silver:
The resume is dandy
I think it's acceptable. Maybe a bit overboard in the enthusiastic word choices, but it's OK.
[1:26 PM] Ms. Rose:
Okay, thank you. I appreciate your feedback. As I said, this is probably like a part-time IT guy applying for X's job. It could even be one of those things where there is already someone doing it and they just want to formally give them a title.
I would seriously love, love, LOVE to get it though.
[1:42 PM] Mr. Silver:
Sounds like you match it
[1:44 PM] Ms. Rose:
Well, cross your fingers and toes, and break out the lucky charms (actual charms, not cereal) for me. :)
[1:54 PM] Mr. Silver:
The “consolation cereal” will be available if you call for it.
(Exaggerated Irish Accent) "Those kids are always after me lucky gainful employment...Orange Experience, Yellow Degrees, Red Schedule Requirements, Green Nepotism and Purple Horseshoes!"
I should have listened to my guidance counselor and gotten into marketing 30 years ago...
[2:02 PM] Ms. Rose:
Hahaha! (About the charms, not your life goals.)
I just don't want to loathe and despise my job, and feel so damn useless. I'm not saying I want to LOVE my job. But being engaged in your work and having a measurable start-middle-end to tasks is not too much to ask, I think.
[2:13 PM] Mr. Silver:
You could simplify it to a photo of you laying face down in dirt and typing "PLEEEEEEAAAAASSSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
[2:33 PM] Ms. Rose:
That would be both concise AND artistic!
[2:36 PM] Mr. Silver:
As your marketing expert, I say go for it.
[3:24 PM] Mr. Brown:
I just thought of something.
How would anybody be able to pick a favorite drink in Japan?
There are so many
That's the drink right there. Cool name. They have Tommy Lee Jones as the spokesman.
[3:29 PM] Mr. Silver:
They must just do runs of 200,000 cans of whatever they threw together.
That product list is ridiculous and it's one brand.
[3:30 PM] Mr. Brown:
Yep
[3:30 PM] Mr. Blue:
Here's the one I was thinking of
Why would you put "sweat" in the name of your drink
[3:31 PM] Mr. Silver:
Maybe Pocari a Japanese word for “kawaii schoolgirl”?
“Kawaii Schoolgirl Sweat”
They'd sell a billion to creepy old guys
(looks)
Officially it's “meaningless”.
[3:03 PM] Mr. Blue:
[3:07 PM] Mr. Brown:
How does a wall keep frost off?
[3:07 PM] Mr. Blue:
They heat it, apparently
[3:08 PM] Mr. Silver:
The shelter provided by enclosing walls can raise the ambient temperature within a garden by several degrees.
The exterior of a typical walled garden where the stone acts as a slow-release re-radiator of solar energy.
Pre-glass "greenhouse"?
Sun hits the wall...
Wall heats garden...
Shark's in the garden...
Our shark?
Hehehe
(sings) Fare-weeell and adi-
(oops...got mixed up there)
[3:10 PM] Mr. Blue:
Heh
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