Nuggets Of Wisdom

Random thoughts from a random person

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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?

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

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