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[[Nuggets_Of_Wisdom:About|About this site]]
[[Nuggets_Of_Wisdom:About|About this site]]
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# [[Theory of Wine]]
# [[Theory of Wine]]
# [[Theory of Dancing]]
# [[Theory of Dancing]]
# [[One Finger Dancing]]
# [[3 Book solution to trials involving secrets]]
# [[3 Book solution to trials involving secrets]]
# [[5 Layer model of Travel]]
# [[5 Layer model of Travel]]
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# [[Not the last place you look for something]]
# [[Not the last place you look for something]]
# [[A place for everything but it's not necessarily there]]
# [[A place for everything but it's not necessarily there]]
# [[Strong sense of direction but not accurate]]
# [[Benford's law - pick random X, pick Y between 1 and X, Y likely to start with 1]]
# [[Benford's law - 2*X likely to start with 1]]
# [[Benford's law - explained by logarithmic approach?]]
# [[Most fictional futures are a group rebelling against the dictatorship - except Star Trek]]
# [[Kitty system for bistro math - meal together, couple with multiple meals, larger group carrying credit/debt]]
# [[Piece of art with 256 blue dots all aligned, one is red, but one blue is mis-aligned]]
# [[When it's reasonable to put your bag on the seat next to you on public transport]]
# [[Quiz question: What number am I thinking of?]]
# [[Walking along pavement, you can tell where you're going to step]]
# [[Graph of hunger]]


= Broad concepts =
= Broad concepts =
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# [[Plastic package opener]]
# [[Plastic package opener]]
# [[Gate Squeaker]]
# [[Gate Squeaker]]
# [[Pre-fire combi boiler to safe water]]
# [[Pre-fire combi boiler to save water]]
# [[Nugget Restaurant]]
# [[Nugget Restaurant]]
# [[Streaming TV, never see the same advert twice]]
# [[Streaming TV, never see the same advert twice]]
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# [[Parser planned for final project]]
# [[Parser planned for final project]]
# [[Sack over head to manage rioting prisoners]]
# [[Sack over head to manage rioting prisoners]]
# [[Self-generating quiz, player asks question, they get points if 25%-75% of teams get it right]]
# [[8-bit character set so you can tell if you're in the middle of a multi-byte character]]
# [[Finger counting in binary]]


= Trivia =
= Trivia =
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# [[Differences between people more than differences between genders]]
# [[Differences between people more than differences between genders]]
# [[Secondary adjectives - sino/franco]]
# [[Secondary adjectives - sino/franco]]
# [[Quiz tie breaker questions - estimate]]
# [[Childhood is just Stockholm Syndrome]]
# [[Rhythmic clapping]]
# [[Train fill pattern]]
# [[The curse of remembering something each time you do something]]
# [[How to dispose of tissue while on toilet]]
# [[The importance of Scrappy Doo]]
# [[Why licence plate recognition doesn't have to be perfect for congestion zone fining - and fingerprint checks]]
# [[Toilet cubicle locks]]
# [[Fantasy Football, such a good idea!]]
# [[Augmentation - embracing something you like]]
# [[The benefits of being 5'8" - BMI]]
# [[Don't make final arrangements for meetings too soon]]
# [[New words Theyr and tuw]]
# [[Affluence test - how much to return a product]]
# [[Buying something and never opening it]]
# [[Take security tags off your fire extinguisher]]
# [[Using tile samples as drink coaster - with ridges]]
# [[Men's suits are dull, they have to compress their personality into their tie]]
# [[Set your timer to 17 minutes]]
# [[I can't hear weather]]
# [[Protocol for cancelling weather]]
# [[Seesaw economics - more tax for more services or don't]]
# [[Don't clear your plate]]
# [[Yes - Oui - We - Nous - No]]
# [[Pickpocket taking nothing but leaving a "you could have been pickpocketed" card]]
# [[When have Olympics not been in a leap year?]]
# [[Bin evolution, as types of recycling change]]
# [[14 pills a day, managing ibu/para during toothache]]
# [[Compromise is equally annoying to both parties]]


= Maths observations =
= Maths observations =
# [[thingy]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mortice/Maths
# [[thingy]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mortice/Maths
# [[As x tends to 1, square tends to double]]
# [[As x tends to 1, square tends to double]]
# [[The full shape plotted by y=x^n]]
# [[Power Spiral - The full shape plotted by y=x^n]]


= Talks =
= Talks =
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= BGT =
= BGT =
# [[3 cups trick with tea jar]]
# [[3 cups trick with tea jar]]
# [[Spinning plates, but charging mobiles]]
= Standup =
# [[Explain to an audience member about how you're lying about being married, etc]]
# [[Pretend your set is a harmonica recital]]

Latest revision as of 17:56, 14 October 2024

Random thoughts from a random person

184 items so far...

About this site

General

  1. Nothing Matters
  2. People are a result of their history
  3. Herbert
  4. Consistent versus right
  5. Attractiveness grade 1 to 4
  6. How to swallow pills
  7. The Connoisseur effect
  8. Theory of Wine
  9. Theory of Dancing
  10. One Finger Dancing
  11. 3 Book solution to trials involving secrets
  12. 5 Layer model of Travel
  13. Layers of Drama
  14. Labels
  15. Selffulness
  16. Common enemy
  17. Scatological humour
  18. Park art
  19. Beware the man who smiles in the street
  20. The 3 body problem
  21. Symmetry when evaluating medical issues
  22. There's a lot of Asbergers about
  23. People sing 6-from-8 when there's no music
  24. Modern music 5-from-8 as iambic pentameter
  25. Fast walkers should walk behind their friends
  26. Why I wear a coat when it's hot
  27. The Council of 17
  28. England leaving the UK
  29. Jaywalking rules
  30. Sit-com spin-offs
  31. Write what you know
  32. The nature of War
  33. Reasons to interrupt someone
  34. See-saw economics
  35. The rule of Plenty
  36. Shopping by Numbers
  37. 3-from-5 using chain loops
  38. Live tweeting
  39. Turkish Vaccination
  40. Teeth familiarity
  41. Selling Quince wine
  42. Lack of discussion of bottom hygiene management
  43. Use of a torch to identify wet patches on floor
  44. Reckless and Responsible practice when crossing roads
  45. If you're not crossing the road, look away
  46. Not the last place you look for something
  47. A place for everything but it's not necessarily there
  48. Strong sense of direction but not accurate
  49. Benford's law - pick random X, pick Y between 1 and X, Y likely to start with 1
  50. Benford's law - 2*X likely to start with 1
  51. Benford's law - explained by logarithmic approach?
  52. Most fictional futures are a group rebelling against the dictatorship - except Star Trek
  53. Kitty system for bistro math - meal together, couple with multiple meals, larger group carrying credit/debt
  54. Piece of art with 256 blue dots all aligned, one is red, but one blue is mis-aligned
  55. When it's reasonable to put your bag on the seat next to you on public transport
  56. Quiz question: What number am I thinking of?
  57. Walking along pavement, you can tell where you're going to step
  58. Graph of hunger

Broad concepts

  1. Anthropic
  2. Evolution
  3. Social contract people who want to operate within society should be bound by its rules
  4. The point of prison
  5. Pay by use pay based on the value you get from an item

The Value of Life

  1. Introduction to Life
  2. Suicide
  3. Abortion
  4. Euthanasia

Inventions

  1. Toaster Whistle
  2. Stair Walker
  3. Plastic package opener
  4. Gate Squeaker
  5. Pre-fire combi boiler to save water
  6. Nugget Restaurant
  7. Streaming TV, never see the same advert twice
  8. Monument making use of solar alignment
  9. Magnets move up a spinning screwdriver
  10. Drip silencer
  11. Calendar of last year's photos
  12. Parser planned for final project
  13. Sack over head to manage rioting prisoners
  14. Self-generating quiz, player asks question, they get points if 25%-75% of teams get it right
  15. 8-bit character set so you can tell if you're in the middle of a multi-byte character
  16. Finger counting in binary

Trivia

  1. Months on a Piano
  2. Dishwasher loading
  3. Pre-soak
  4. Sport in Odd Years
  5. Twitter 4 types of followers
  6. Allergy to Nut
  7. Films in two halves
  8. Location of disabled toilet cubicles
  9. My second million pounds/second book
  10. The Usual Suspects poster
  11. First/third generation
  12. Who knows the mass of the Higgs Boson?
  13. When is a minute 4 seconds?
  14. Two year/Twenty year argument
  15. Trigger's broom
  16. Fridges are like lightbulbs
  17. Rationing on a desert island
  18. Spare locks for your house
  19. What I thought Karaoke was
  20. Dark lower light upper
  21. How many blobs on a power bar
  22. Theory of pins
  23. Thinking time to let an idea settle, eg interventions
  24. Rotate your toilet rolls
  25. Perennial Poke
  26. Unconscious interpretation of traffic movements
  27. TV show lengths
  28. Use of labels for bisexual groups etc
  29. Toilet roll direction
  30. Dusk ultraviolet
  31. Playing Pointless as a pub quiz round
  32. Local compass
  33. Gay versus camp
  34. Left/right Ant/Dec taps
  35. Past weather forecasts for comparison
  36. Walking the synonym homonym tree
  37. Insurance is for people who can't afford it
  38. They only listen to the last 3 seconds
  39. Bad cats go to dog heaven
  40. Perfect preparation for ABC candy
  41. Things that are interesting
  42. Why I don't get on with Shakespeare
  43. Different quality of vision indoors versus outdoors
  44. Sinister disposition
  45. The Bacon Sandwich effect
  46. See you soon/later
  47. Female names end with an E
  48. Use the smaller toilet roll first
  49. Pronunciation indicates news from tv or text
  50. Dying author writes an unfinished last book
  51. Differences between people more than differences between genders
  52. Secondary adjectives - sino/franco
  53. Quiz tie breaker questions - estimate
  54. Childhood is just Stockholm Syndrome
  55. Rhythmic clapping
  56. Train fill pattern
  57. The curse of remembering something each time you do something
  58. How to dispose of tissue while on toilet
  59. The importance of Scrappy Doo
  60. Why licence plate recognition doesn't have to be perfect for congestion zone fining - and fingerprint checks
  61. Toilet cubicle locks
  62. Fantasy Football, such a good idea!
  63. Augmentation - embracing something you like
  64. The benefits of being 5'8" - BMI
  65. Don't make final arrangements for meetings too soon
  66. New words Theyr and tuw
  67. Affluence test - how much to return a product
  68. Buying something and never opening it
  69. Take security tags off your fire extinguisher
  70. Using tile samples as drink coaster - with ridges
  71. Men's suits are dull, they have to compress their personality into their tie
  72. Set your timer to 17 minutes
  73. I can't hear weather
  74. Protocol for cancelling weather
  75. Seesaw economics - more tax for more services or don't
  76. Don't clear your plate
  77. Yes - Oui - We - Nous - No
  78. Pickpocket taking nothing but leaving a "you could have been pickpocketed" card
  79. When have Olympics not been in a leap year?
  80. Bin evolution, as types of recycling change
  81. 14 pills a day, managing ibu/para during toothache
  82. Compromise is equally annoying to both parties

Maths observations

  1. thingy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mortice/Maths
  2. As x tends to 1, square tends to double
  3. Power Spiral - The full shape plotted by y=x^n

Talks

  1. DNA
  2. Memorising a Pack of Cards
  3. How play scriptwriters can make zoom based films
  4. Approximations - seconds in a day
  5. BPPV
  6. Bitcoin
  7. Conic sections using a lamp
  8. 5 Kennedy events of the 1960s

Dramatic works

  1. The Loneliest Man in the Universe
  2. Gameshow where contestants place a stake
  3. My Fair Lady based on handwriting

Profound thoughts from others

  1. Dropping a glass of water
  2. A big brown shaggy dog called sunshine
  3. Avoid nice food/tv while drunk
  4. Atheism is a faith
  5. Which urinal to use

BGT

  1. 3 cups trick with tea jar
  2. Spinning plates, but charging mobiles

Standup

  1. Explain to an audience member about how you're lying about being married, etc
  2. Pretend your set is a harmonica recital
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