Fishin' in the stream of consciousness (all-purpose, no topic chat thread)

...I have literally never been scared of house centipedes, I dunno what y'all are talking about. They're cute little bugs! So many good legy :3

 

On that note, Spiders have the Correct Number Of Legs, although only since I got a good chance to inspect an anatomically correct spider brooch, pill bugs (which live under the flower pots in y parent's backyard...) and silverfish do not.
Don't think I 've seen a centipede yet.

 

Silverfish are horrible. *shudders* I hate, hate, hate the little buggers.

 

I quite like silverfish and isopods, but centipedes and millipedes are No. A millipede ran over my knuckles when I was pruning shrubs once and I swear I fuckin teleported to the other side of the garden.

 

I know why I'm terrified of anything with more four legs (pro tip: if a kid tells you they don't want to handle the big expensive African millipede at the bug museum, believe them) but I can't help with reasoning for anyone else.

 

I think dog sized insects/arachnids would freak me out more than tiny ones tbh

 

Knowing what I saw of Ant Man, I think a dogsized Ant at least is the most adorable thign I have ever seen.

 

For me it's the number of legs + how they're arranged, all like flaring out from the body like that.

 

I'm not bothered by other types of centipedes, it's just the house centipedes. And I think millipedes are kinda cool. But agh, house centipedes.

 

Centipedes freak me the fuck out. They're huge (for bugs) and they're fucking fast. Find one upstairs = the dance of a thousand muffled screams and fetching the vacuum cleaner.

I'll leave them alone in the basement, though. They hunt other bugs so I don't have to, and are probably even less pleased than I am about any chance encounters between us. I remember a humorous incident in which me and a centipede realized simultaneously how close together we'd accidentally gotten and both froze momentarily before making crazy mad dashes in opposite directions. I almost felt like apologizing for scaring it so bad, because it had way more realistic fears than I did about that. If I see one or have reason to suspect there may be one, I make sure to stomp around so it has plenty of time and warning to get out of my way. We're both happier that way.

 

spiders and centipedes have Too Many Legs, though my arachnophobia has gone away a lot.

 

The fact that they're inside is a large part of what sets off the "nope!!!" in my brain. Things with too many legs that are outdoors are far less upsetting.

 

Im kinda still nope about outside bugs but inside definitely sets off a THIS IS MY DOMAIN panic. No. Go to your own space or suffer my (brothers or moms) boot

 

Voynich Manuscript solution

 

hmmMmmMMM

Edit: Update: I showed this to my friend and she told me a sixth degree polynomial was definitely too many and I should calculate my reduced chi square error. I've been definitively out nerded

 

@Saro That is the coolest thing! Thank you!

 

@blue I'm not sure about the best practices as far as statistics go but for something, well, periodic, I'd probably want to smooth out the curve with something taking advantage of the periodicity which means sines and cosines and possibly a Fourier transform.

 

https://twitter.com/csgv/status/906512170405507073

why does this need to be said

 

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