Well that's weird

[David Mary]

Learned or experienced something weird? Share it here. Remember to keep it top notch family friendly.

Here's one, a follow-up query I made after I looked up pedestrian's etymology (which was used in a movie review I read, calling the dialogue pedestrian).

 

[zaedion]

So what I’m getting from this is, that David Mary made knives are by no means, pedestrian…

 

[RPZIP]

I have a recollection of the use of the word pedestrian meaning "dull, prosaic or ordinary" from decades ago but can not remember where or in what subject matter in was used.

Edit: And the more I think about it the context was along the lines of "ordinary".

 

[sharp image]

I thought it meant if I walked across the street my David Mary knife would be waiting for me.

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

The English language is stupid.

 

[SharpBits]

I've always used it both ways.

 

[oldmanwilly]

So what I’m getting from this is, that David Mary made knives are by no means, pedestrian…

David is a cyclist, so by at least one definition he can't be pedestrian. Given that, perhaps "revolutionary" is more appropriate.

 

[JBoone]

Random weird fact:

The number of possibilities for a standard 52-card deck is 52 factorial which can also be stated by 8 x 10 to the 67th (an 8 followed by 67 zeros). This number is so large that it's virtually impossible for a randomly shuffled deck to have the same order as any other shuffled deck in the history of the universe.

You could conjur a card combination every second since the big bang, and you wouldn't even be close to halfway to reaching all combinations.

Edit - googling does the explanation more justice but I tried to copy paste the main point.

 

[SharpBits]

Random weird fact:

The number of possibilities for a standard 52-card deck is 52 factorial which can also be stated by 8 x 1 to the 67th (an 8 followed by 67 zeros). This number is so large that it's virtually impossible for a randomly shuffled deck to have the same order as any other shuffled deck in the history of the universe.

You could conjur a card combination every second since the big bang, and you wouldn't even be close to halfway to reaching all combinations.

You get started and we'll wait.

 

[David Mary]

Weird fact: SharpBits turns green while waiting.

 

[zaedion]

Random weird fact:

The number of possibilities for a standard 52-card deck is 52 factorial which can also be stated by 8 x 1 to the 67th (an 8 followed by 67 zeros).

Shouldn’t that be 8x10 to the 67th? 1 to the 67th is still 1, very pedestrian

 

[JBoone]

Shouldn’t that be 8x10 to the 67th? 1 to the 67th is still 1, very pedestrian

Yes! The copy paste did not show the exponent correctly and I flubbed the retyping.

 

[Bigburly912]

Shouldn’t that be 8x10 to the 67th? 1 to the 67th is still 1, very pedestrian

That’s only if you trust the fact that a 1 is always a 1.


I learned that even though I love working in supply chain it’s pretty terrible.

 

[sharp image]

I've always used it both ways.

Thats called Jay waking!!

 

[David Mary]

I texted a friend, asking him to check his email. Then hopped in the shower. About five minutes later I was just getting out of the shower, but I had left a song playing on the computer. Mike texted me back and said he was in bed but would check the email tomorrow. So I texted:

Oops I didn't mean to bug you after bedtime

Thank you

Good night


But the song ended right then, and only a second after I typed that last message I heard one of the band members say "Thank you, good night"