The thread of learning something new every day
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The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has announced that it will replace its CHESS post-trade settlement system using technology developed by blockchain startup Digital Asset.
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Is this common knowledge and I have been living under a rock for years?
I complained to wife a couple of days a go about a blocked ear, not being able to hear properly, etc. I started hiccuping a couple of hours later and it continued for 24 hours until I became even more grumpy and irritable than usual. In desperation (possibly fear for her life) she found that anything touching your eardrum will cause hiccups. I cleaned ear out and hiccups gone. While ears were being cleaned and water touched drum, I hiccuped.
Pretty weird in my view, but I learnt something. Lot's of other things can cause them but a hair on your ear?
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During the 1970s, when dieting and fitness became more popular, Carvel began offering a low-fat frozen dessert called Thinny-Thin ("Thinny-Thin, for your fatty-fat friends"), and a frozen yogurt product called Lo-Yo.
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@snowy said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Is this common knowledge and I have been living under a rock for years?
I complained to wife a couple of days a go about a blocked ear, not being able to hear properly, etc. I started hiccuping a couple of hours later and it continued for 24 hours until I became even more grumpy and irritable than usual. In desperation (possibly fear for her life) she found that anything touching your eardrum will cause hiccups. I cleaned ear out and hiccups gone. While ears were being cleaned and water touched drum, I hiccuped.
Pretty weird in my view, but I learnt something. Lot's of other things can cause them but a hair on your ear?
Anything in my ear, I cough.
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I learnt from wise people that the key to happiness is gratitude, and that the meaning of life can be found in the voluntary adoption of responsibility.
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@majorrage said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Anything in my ear, I cough.
It does make sense - the whole ear, nose throat thing. I really didn't know about it though.
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@no-quarter said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I learnt from wise people that the key to happiness is gratitude, and that the meaning of life can be found in the voluntary adoption of responsibility.
Fuck off, hippy!
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I finally understand the real meaning behind "The Third World".
The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Communist Bloc. The United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Western European nations and their allies represented the First World, while the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and their allies represented the Second World. This terminology provided a way of broadly categorizing the nations of the Earth into three groups based on political and economic divisions.
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Albhy Galuten won two Grammys as the producer of the Saturday Night Fever and produced and arranged dozens of albums and singles, including 18 number 1s.
But in his day job as a senior VP with Universal then head of Media Technology Strategy at Sony he invents stuff and holds inventor patents for processing derivatives contracts, electronic music distribution, DRM, epidemiology and a veracity scale for journalists (I know, when are they rolling that out!).
He's basically to Sony what Jimmy Iovine is to Apple, except with actual nerding skills.
Geeks can dive in here:
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I’m resurrecting this thread because I’m currently reading a book called The View From Alger’s Window by Tony Hiss. He was the son of Alger Hiss, the notorious Soviet spy.
That’s not the thing I learned though, it’s this. Alger Hiss clerked for Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was a US Supreme Court Justice. Holmes served in the Civil War. He had personally shaken the hand of John Quincy Adams - the sixth president - and Jack Kennedy, the 35th. Adams was alive during the War of Independence and Kennedy during Vietnam. If Kennedy had lived to 76 instead of 46, that link would have spanned from the birth of the US right through to the Gulf War.
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@JC said in The thread of learning something new every day:
That’s not the thing I learned though, it’s this. Alger Hiss clerked for Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was a US Supreme Court Justice. Holmes served in the Civil War. He had personally shaken the hand of John Quincy Adams - the sixth president - and Jack Kennedy, the 35th. Adams was alive during the War of Independence and Kennedy during Vietnam. If Kennedy had lived to 76 instead of 46, that link would have spanned from the birth of the US right through to the Gulf War.
That reminds of this video
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@JC said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I’m resurrecting this thread because I’m currently reading a book called The View From Alger’s Window by Tony Hiss. He was the son of Alger Hiss, the notorious Soviet spy.
That’s not the thing I learned though, it’s this. Alger Hiss clerked for Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was a US Supreme Court Justice. Holmes served in the Civil War. He had personally shaken the hand of John Quincy Adams - the sixth president - and Jack Kennedy, the 35th. Adams was alive during the War of Independence and Kennedy during Vietnam. If Kennedy had lived to 76 instead of 46, that link would have spanned from the birth of the US right through to the Gulf War.
You might like this
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I learned that there is something called a Kumara Moth (aka the Convolvulus hawk moth) which is a big old moth with a big old proboscis (similar species overseas are called a Hummingbird moth) one was having a good old feed of nectar from some flowers we have at home last night...never seen one before.
President John Tyler’s Grandson, Harrison Tyler, on Still Being Alive
Carvel (franchise) - Wikipedia
Third World - Wikipedia
How two of President John Tyler's grandsons are still alive, 174 years later
