Merry flipping Christmas, everyone. Bah, humbug.

hhh · 2019-12-25 02:31:44

hhh wrote:

glittersloth wrote:
I like WHAM! I really do, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Their work, particular the "B-sides" is some of the chillest pop ever made (just search youtube for the song Blue).... yeah, anyway, I like WHAM!, except during X'mas time, because every public space I pass through plays that bloody Last Christmas song. Gaaaahhhh!!!
Dude, it took me awhile... but George Michael was a huge talent, and the competitors were Boy George with Culture Club and freaking Duran Duran. I became a so-called adult in the early eighties. I knew it was was awesome then, but compared to today... How did everything get so much worse? Never mind, I withdraw the question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf_Lwe6p-Cg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nXGPZaTKik
^ The short dub break near the end in that is awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uxc9eFcZyM

So, winner, Duran Duran.

The Residents (featuring Snakefinger) - Live In The USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COxYQrYQluw

-edit- Wow, Snakefinger and the whole band are amazing on that, but Snakefinger's guitar parts are phenomenal, way better than even Buckethead, IMO.

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TeoBigusGeekus · 2019-12-25 04:24:10

Just a copypasta I've found, merry Christmas everyone.

AN ENGINEER'S VIEW ON CHRISTMAS
There are approximately 2 billion children (persons under age 14) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan ) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 19% of the total, or 378 million (according to the population reference bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming there is at least one good child in each.

Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that, for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stocking, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get onto the next house.

Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks.

This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second -- 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.

The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized LEGO set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousands tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer can pull 10 times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them -- Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).

600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance. This would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip.

Not that it matters, however; since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,000 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo . Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.

hhh · 2019-12-25 04:32:24

As long as I'm spouting superlatives, 3 best pop/country crossover tunes (maybe related to Christmas, I don't know. Hey, this is Off Topic)...

#3) Johnny Cash - One (by Bono/U2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGrR-7_OBpA

#2) Dolly Parton - Shine (by Collective Soul)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e-Ip9RagkU

And I should just end it there, because that recording and the performances on it are stunning.

#1) Madonna - Don't Tell Me (by Madonna)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLFWRDs … adio=1&t=0

hhh · 2019-12-25 04:43:40

Right, so, sorry for the spam but why didn't anybody mention, ever, that Madonna and Massive Attack had released a Marvin Gaye cover that was more epic than embarrassing? And also that it's her sexiest camera shoot ever, she's recreating the last days of Marilyn Monroe? I feel like I should have been informed of this. Dudes, shake my head. :monkey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mln4Xg … AI&index=2

jr2 · 2019-12-25 17:53:00

Happy Humbug everyone!

For @damo:
https://youtu.be/OqFCBarT-Q0

damo · 2019-12-25 20:27:01

Too soporific!

Coding is very slow, the keys keep hiding or moving on the keyboard, and git is a minefield. But I'm happy in my little world

lowrider · 2019-12-26 01:26:29

Arrgh, to hopefully end this rant let us all hail king rock and merry *mas
Peace be upon you.
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
Merry Xmas everyone ]:D

damo · 2020-01-02 15:59:16

https://isitchristmas.com/

https://xkcd.com/2236/

hhh · 2020-01-03 02:42:47

misko_2083 wrote:

January 2, only 5 days to Christmas and 12 days to the New Year.

Bah, humbug!

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