HansardExpert

I am none of these. I'm in my late 50's and have been paying income tax since I was 16. Sure, rescind my voting rights ... I'd like all my 40+ years taxes back please then.

The latest results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration, which involves UCL researchers, combined four methods for measuring the expansion of the universe for the first time.

It's a nice bit of prose but I am struggling to see what this has to do with boredom.

Staring out of window looking at scenery is for all intents and purposes doing something. This isn't even close to the silly pre-oocupation with 'raw dogging'. Being in a place (even if it is only in your mind) that brings you peace as you describe it above is not boredom. There is no tension to be doing something else, at least it doesn't sound like it.

I can sit in a room in the dark lying on the couch staring at the ceiling (that I cannot actually see) and stay like that for hours - I am absolutely 'doing' nothing but I am also absolutely not bored.

So I don't think 'hitting the road' is as you put it 'embracing boredom at all' it simply doing something else.

The next time you feel like hitting the road, don't. Stay at home and be truly bored.

Hikaru Nakamura commented on Chess960 (or 'Freestyle' chess as chess.com is desperately trying to re-brand it) and said that as a 'spectator' sport he felt that only the high-elo crowd would really get excited about 960.

To clarify, not that lower ELO or the casual player wouldn't enjoy it but that there is so much history with the standard layout that even the beginner ends up understanding the high-level tactics and strategies of the openings.

This makes standard chess much more enjoyable for more people to watch and follow (i.e. bums-on-seats at the chess tournaments). While the super grandmasters are celebrities for the chess crowd in their own right, those lower down don't generate that kind of excitement and throwing 960 in the mix would see much less eyes than normal chess does.

Literally 960 different layouts might generate some types of opening theory, but to layman or perhaps 2200 and lower ELO players it just isn't that much fun to watch.

They are both equivalent. Scratch-built is perfectly cromulant.

My father used to talk about 'Scratch-building' his WWII dioramas and model vehicles/tanks. While you could use a phrase like 'Scratch-cooked' rather than cooking from scratch, I've never heard but someone would not think the former meant something different to the latter.

I like to leave my platonic solids in the toilet bowl.

Hmm I wonder if an Ox would be exempt from the new congestion cameras they've just set up. I can see some exemptions for commercial HGVs so maybe they might come under that.

A web app that uses Python to create Celtic knots and it's really fun!

The expression is "work in-progress"

As non-MLB watcher, I have only a passing knowledge of the game why does it matter if the strike-out is swinging or not?

To use a Cricket analogy you don't differentiate if or what the stroke was at the time they were LBW, stumped, bowled caught out.

> If a ninth planet exists in our solar system, scientists say this telescope would find it in its first year.

Why?

I read the article and it wasn't clear to me what makes this telescope more likely (and within a year) be able to find this infamous Planet 9 than any other attempts.

What am I missing?