# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=239 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 240 --- ## [\[Breaking News\] Stampede at Israel Religious Celebration Kills at Least 45](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-stampede-at-israel-religious-celebration-kills-at-least-45/941119)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-stampede-at-israel-religious-celebration-kills-at-least-45/941119 "2021-11-08T18:20:09Z")
While relatively common in the third world it is rare that large numbers of deaths are seen in stampedes in advanced, industrialized countries: I suppose it’s because of the heavy influence of the Orthodox parties in… --- ## [Thoughts on sharing sexy selfies on social?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-sharing-sexy-selfies-on-social/953738)
**Author:** [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-sharing-sexy-selfies-on-social/953738 "2021-11-08T10:42:01Z")
I follow a former coworker on Instagram. She’s young, brilliant, driven and AFAICT quite successful in her gigs since we last worked together. Her Instagram, of course, isn’t business oriented – it’s about travel and nig… --- ## [Using An Inverted Parabola To Approximate Sine Function](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-an-inverted-parabola-to-approximate-sine-function/953829)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-an-inverted-parabola-to-approximate-sine-function/953829 "2021-11-08T09:28:53Z")
I’m putting this in MPSIMS, because I partly want to share something with you all. But I also have a couple of questions. Anyways, since I took my first class in trigonometry, I have tried to deduce ways of finding valu… --- ## [In previous times, what did people have to keep up-to-date on, such as WRT technology?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-previous-times-what-did-people-have-to-keep-up-to-date-on-such-as-wrt-technology/953648)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2021, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-previous-times-what-did-people-have-to-keep-up-to-date-on-such-as-wrt-technology/953648 "2021-11-08T06:09:37Z")
I don’t want this to come across as an anti-tech rant, but my wife and I often comment on the challenge of staying abreast with technology developments such as phones, TV, and computers. For just one example, a while ba… --- ## [Banner Printer Utility](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banner-printer-utility/953955)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2021, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banner-printer-utility/953955 "2021-11-08T03:03:31Z")
Well, another day and another proof that my board search cred is in the pits. ISTR that years ago, someone posted a nifty utility program that prints out a banner, but it prints it out in a bunch of letter-size pages tha… --- ## [Well it's done. (bad, bad, bad time changes)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-done-bad-bad-bad-time-changes/953928)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-done-bad-bad-bad-time-changes/953928 "2021-11-07T22:58:42Z")
I fell back one hour. Every clock is wrong. No matter. They weren’t ever right in the first place. I spend my days doing math by clocks that are off. I end up using the phone or laptop for very time sensitive stuff. Ya… --- ## [Aaron Feuerstein dies at 95 (business owner who paid employees after the building burned)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaron-feuerstein-dies-at-95-business-owner-who-paid-employees-after-the-building-burned/953919)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaron-feuerstein-dies-at-95-business-owner-who-paid-employees-after-the-building-burned/953919 "2021-11-07T20:05:28Z")
The company he owned, Malden Mills, has since been sold, but PolarTec fleece is still American-made. He sounded like a good and humble man. --- ## [I'm here now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-now/953335)
**Author:** [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-now/953335 "2021-11-07T17:01:23Z")
I don’t know if anyone has really noticed, but I’ve kinda/sorta been on hiatus. I had several “events” back to back, and simply did not have any brains or effort to come to SDMB and play. I had a colonoscopy. Not my fir… --- ## [How does one get gasoline in 2050 for your 2030 vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-get-gasoline-in-2050-for-your-2030-vehicle/947571)
**Author:** [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-get-gasoline-in-2050-for-your-2030-vehicle/947571 "2021-11-07T14:55:52Z")
I’ve become aware that gasoline and diesel powered vehicles are on their way out. what happens to the infrastructure of gas stations when fewer petrol powered vehicles are on the road. Do we wind up having to go to Wal… --- ## [Men's Underwear...with no fly](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-with-no-fly/603069)
**Author:** [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2021, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-with-no-fly/603069 "2021-11-07T05:36:51Z")
I’m wearing today a new pair of briefs, in a different style and brand than usual. So I just went to the men’s room to shake the dew off the lily, and unzip, and then fumble around inside my pants for an unseemly amount… --- ## [Ever been to to high school reunion?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-to-to-high-school-reunion/953094)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 115\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2021, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-to-to-high-school-reunion/953094 "2021-11-07T03:55:06Z")
Just got home a few hours ago from the first one I have been to, the 40th, and I’ll never attend one again. I looked forward to it, a chance to see friends I had then and remember the good times we had way back then. … --- ## [Unexpected Bullwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpected-bullwinkle/953844)
**Author:** [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2021, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpected-bullwinkle/953844 "2021-11-07T00:02:50Z")
Well there’s something you don’t see every day. Everyone’s being pretty blase about it and treating it as a humourous story, but honestly this had the potential to be a tragedy. A moose in a confined space can be extre… --- ## [Trying weekend and Monday. Egads, it's bad, bad bad!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-weekend-and-monday-egads-its-bad-bad-bad/953190)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-weekend-and-monday-egads-its-bad-bad-bad/953190 "2021-11-06T19:24:21Z")
I won’t bore you with details. Suffice it to say it was medical. So stoooopid!! I came home to the cutest thing tho’ I walked around to the deck steps and Clarence, that adorably ugly marsupial was on the bottom step. … --- ## [Dr. DeBold and the Mysteries of the Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-debold-and-the-mysteries-of-the-heart/953903)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-debold-and-the-mysteries-of-the-heart/953903 "2021-11-06T19:10:57Z")
I was saddened to read in the papers an obituary for Dr. DeBold, the father of cardiac endocrinology who discovered that the heart produces a hormone, which no one believed. He had difficulty publishing his most importa… --- ## [Eight Dead in Houston](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eight-dead-in-houston/953893)
**Author:** [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eight-dead-in-houston/953893 "2021-11-06T16:52:46Z")
Reports this morning say eight people were killed last night in a crowd crush at a concert by Travis Scott. Few real details yet. There will be an investigation of course. I suppose some fire code rules were not in pl… --- ## [Petting my cat causes static on my guitar amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/petting-my-cat-causes-static-on-my-guitar-amp/953676)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2021, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/petting-my-cat-causes-static-on-my-guitar-amp/953676 "2021-11-06T07:23:29Z")
In my TV I also have 3 guitars connected to an amp. On Friday my cat came in here, he was on the floor in front of the couch, and when I reached down to pet him I heard some very faint static on the amp. This happened t… --- ## [Taking a trip to NYC (restaurant suggestions)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-trip-to-nyc-restaurant-suggestions/953831)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2021, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-trip-to-nyc-restaurant-suggestions/953831 "2021-11-05T20:19:15Z")
This winter for a week. We already have a packed itinerary and plans on eating tons of New York pizza (or as Jon Stewart calls it - pizza) and street hot dogs. My question is what is a restaurant that we absolutely, po… --- ## ["Guy in a jetpack" reported at LAX](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-in-a-jetpack-reported-at-lax/919559)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-in-a-jetpack-reported-at-lax/919559 "2021-11-05T16:01:13Z")
Wow! At about 3,000 feet, apparently. :astonished: Here’s audio in this brief news clip: Found a local news article, too: (ETA: shouldn’t that be him/her?) First drones, now folks with jetpacks… this… --- ## [I Bought An EVP Device](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-an-evp-device/953274)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2021, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-an-evp-device/953274 "2021-11-05T12:36:27Z")
…off of Amazon, in fact. (EVP stands for ‘electronic voice phenomenon’, in case you don’t know. It’s used by ghost hunters.) Anyways, my father died 10 years ago, this year. And my mother 15 years before that. I was ver… --- ## [Halloween candy - so what did you give out this year?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-candy-so-what-did-you-give-out-this-year/953597)
**Author:** [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2021, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-candy-so-what-did-you-give-out-this-year/953597 "2021-11-05T10:53:03Z")
Pretty much solid chocolate this year. Splurged and bought normal-sized Snickers bars, along with the higher-end mix of name-brand bars of Heath, Milky Way, Twix, Kit-Kat and the like. Standard drop is a handful of the b… --- ## [The Campground (A MDS story)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-campground-a-mds-story/953669)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2021, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-campground-a-mds-story/953669 "2021-11-05T00:56:35Z")
Authors note: This is a companion piece to this thread about my family business. It can be read as a stand alone, or in conjunction with the original thread. I’m placing it as its own thread because, frankly, I want a wi… --- ## [The Fat Advantage](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-advantage/953756)
**Author:** [@civilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/civilis)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-advantage/953756 "2021-11-04T16:58:35Z")
Two men from the same sunken cruise ship manage to float in their PFDs over several days and nights onto a barren tiny atoll somewhere in the middle of the vast South Pacific ocean. No food (no nearby flora or fauna), no… --- ## [NASA picks 3 companies to work on next Moon mission](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-picks-3-companies-to-work-on-next-moon-mission/852918)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-picks-3-companies-to-work-on-next-moon-mission/852918 "2021-11-04T16:08:11Z")
Blue Origin was founded by Jeff Bezos. They have not done many flights, mostly sub orbital missions. Not sure what the point of a Moon mission is now. Been there, done that. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release… --- ## [Oral arguments today in the SCOTUS/New York gun carry case](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oral-arguments-today-in-the-scotus-new-york-gun-carry-case/953767)
**Author:** [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oral-arguments-today-in-the-scotus-new-york-gun-carry-case/953767 "2021-11-04T00:33:04Z")
Here is the full oral argument: My thought is that it doesn’t look like a huge slam dunk win for the pro-carry side. Kavanaugh and Barrett in particular seem to want to rule very narrowly so as to dunk the consequenc… --- ## [Ridiculous add-ones pushed by car dealers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-add-ones-pushed-by-car-dealers/939712)
**Author:** [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-add-ones-pushed-by-car-dealers/939712 "2021-11-03T23:08:28Z")
Antenna wax Piston reciprocators Tire air freshener Clear pinstriping --- ## [One of My Birds Died Tonight](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-birds-died-tonight/953491)
**Author:** [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-birds-died-tonight/953491 "2021-11-03T20:14:02Z")
Sydney the Christmas Cockatiel died tonight as I was taking him to the emergency vet. OF COURSE it was a chilly, damp, rain-filled night because this never happens in nice weather, right? Not sure what got him in the e… --- ## [Please help, looking for old toy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-looking-for-old-toy/953627)
**Author:** [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2021, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-looking-for-old-toy/953627 "2021-11-03T07:15:24Z")
When I was a child we would go to my grandmother’s house (40 years ago approx) and she had these toys that my brother and I loved playing with. I have been looking for them and cannot seem to find them, or anything like … --- ## [Aaron T. Beck - R.I.P](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaron-t-beck-r-i-p/953650)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2021, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaron-t-beck-r-i-p/953650 "2021-11-03T04:10:42Z")
Aaron T. Beck, the father of cognitive behavioral therapy has died. His idea about recognizing and replacing negative thoughts helps me a lot, even I only spottily follow it. He’s someone I’m glad lived to be 100. --- ## [The 5 Universal Laws of Human Stupidity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-5-universal-laws-of-human-stupidity/953651)
**Author:** [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-5-universal-laws-of-human-stupidity/953651 "2021-11-02T21:05:51Z")
Interesting article I’d never heard of before. Dr. Cippolla had some interesting takes on the Human Condition. Core take-away: Never underestimate The Stupid. --- ## [Sesame Street: Ernie is a total dick!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-ernie-is-a-total-dick/953117)
**Author:** [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-ernie-is-a-total-dick/953117 "2021-11-02T14:35:46Z")
For some reason a bunch of classic Sesame Street clips have been on my YouTube home page. I’m thinking because they’re related to whatever my Grandson was watching. So I watched a few clips. The very early episodes wer… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=238) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=240)