Nuggets Of Wisdom
From Nuggets Of Wisdom
Random thoughts from a random person
177 items so far...
General
- Nothing Matters
- People are a result of their history
- Herbert
- Consistent versus right
- Attractiveness grade 1 to 4
- How to swallow pills
- The Connoisseur effect
- Theory of Wine
- Theory of Dancing
- 3 Book solution to trials involving secrets
- 5 Layer model of Travel
- Layers of Drama
- Labels
- Selffulness
- Common enemy
- Scatological humour
- Park art
- Beware the man who smiles in the street
- The 3 body problem
- Symmetry when evaluating medical issues
- There's a lot of Asbergers about
- People sing 6-from-8 when there's no music
- Modern music 5-from-8 as iambic pentameter
- Fast walkers should walk behind their friends
- Why I wear a coat when it's hot
- The Council of 17
- England leaving the UK
- Jaywalking rules
- Sit-com spin-offs
- Write what you know
- The nature of War
- Reasons to interrupt someone
- See-saw economics
- The rule of Plenty
- Shopping by Numbers
- 3-from-5 using chain loops
- Live tweeting
- Turkish Vaccination
- Teeth familiarity
- Selling Quince wine
- Lack of discussion of bottom hygiene management
- Use of a torch to identify wet patches on floor
- Reckless and Responsible practice when crossing roads
- If you're not crossing the road, look away
- Not the last place you look for something
- 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?
Broad concepts
- Anthropic
- Evolution
- Social contract people who want to operate within society should be bound by its rules
- The point of prison
- Pay by use pay based on the value you get from an item
The Value of Life
Inventions
- Toaster Whistle
- Stair Walker
- Plastic package opener
- Gate Squeaker
- Pre-fire combi boiler to save water
- Nugget Restaurant
- Streaming TV, never see the same advert twice
- Monument making use of solar alignment
- Magnets move up a spinning screwdriver
- Drip silencer
- Calendar of last year's photos
- Parser planned for final project
- 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
- Months on a Piano
- Dishwasher loading
- Pre-soak
- Sport in Odd Years
- Twitter 4 types of followers
- Allergy to Nut
- Films in two halves
- Location of disabled toilet cubicles
- My second million pounds/second book
- The Usual Suspects poster
- First/third generation
- Who knows the mass of the Higgs Boson?
- When is a minute 4 seconds?
- Two year/Twenty year argument
- Trigger's broom
- Fridges are like lightbulbs
- Rationing on a desert island
- Spare locks for your house
- What I thought Karaoke was
- Dark lower light upper
- How many blobs on a power bar
- Theory of pins
- Thinking time to let an idea settle, eg interventions
- Rotate your toilet rolls
- Perennial Poke
- Unconscious interpretation of traffic movements
- TV show lengths
- Use of labels for bisexual groups etc
- Toilet roll direction
- Dusk ultraviolet
- Playing Pointless as a pub quiz round
- Local compass
- Gay versus camp
- Left/right Ant/Dec taps
- Past weather forecasts for comparison
- Walking the synonym homonym tree
- Insurance is for people who can't afford it
- They only listen to the last 3 seconds
- Bad cats go to dog heaven
- Perfect preparation for ABC candy
- Things that are interesting
- Why I don't get on with Shakespeare
- Different quality of vision indoors versus outdoors
- Sinister disposition
- The Bacon Sandwich effect
- See you soon/later
- Female names end with an E
- Use the smaller toilet roll first
- Pronunciation indicates news from tv or text
- Dying author writes an unfinished last book
- Differences between people more than differences between genders
- 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?
Maths observations
- thingy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mortice/Maths
- As x tends to 1, square tends to double
- Power Spiral - The full shape plotted by y=x^n
Talks
- DNA
- Memorising a Pack of Cards
- How play scriptwriters can make zoom based films
- Approximations - seconds in a day
- BPPV
- Bitcoin
- Conic sections using a lamp
- 5 Kennedy events of the 1960s
Dramatic works
- The Loneliest Man in the Universe
- Gameshow where contestants place a stake
- My Fair Lady based on handwriting
Profound thoughts from others
- Dropping a glass of water
- A big brown shaggy dog called sunshine
- Avoid nice food/tv while drunk
- Atheism is a faith
- Which urinal to use