Friday Night Gin Buzz. Ask me anything.

[Aristus]

Two shots to get the party started. Now, a Dawn. Gin, Campari, and orange juice. Yummy! It’s a small drink, so I’m on my second.

Hope everyone is having a pleasant Friday evening.

I love you all…

[Dave Bowman]

1. Not a big gin fan but please have a good time. 🙂

[Aristus]

3. I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that...

[Dave Bowman]

5. Lol! 👍

[Aristus]

7. One of my favorite movie lines ever.

[Dave Bowman]

10. One of my favorite movies. 😀

[yellow dahlia]

2. Campari makes a nice cocktail.

Enjoy!

[Aristus]

4. I am!

[buzzycrumbhunger]

6. I don't think I ever heard the answer to this one...

Why does the porridge bird lay its egg in the air?

[Aristus]

8. You won't hear it from me.

Couldn’t tell you…

[buzzycrumbhunger]

9. Maybe another Firesign fan will know.

(Edit: I don’t think there IS an answer to this one…)

[True Dough]

11. Where do you figure

you will vacation next, Aristus?

[Aristus]

12. As soon as Mrs. Aristus's new passport gets here,

we’re taking a trip to Canada. No word on whether we plan to come back.

[True Dough]

15. Cool.

Where in Canada are you headed? It's a big country.

British Columbia?

[Aristus]

17. It's just an hour drive and a ferry ride away.

Victoria, baby. Lovely, liberal Victoria. One of our favorite escapes.

[-misanthroptimist]

13. Can God make a rock so big he can't lift it?

h/t George Carlin

[Aristus]

14. No.

Rocks exist. God doesn’t.

[-misanthroptimist]

16. Oh, so you want to be factual, do you?

Then can something with a net energy (including mass and gravity) actually exist?

[Aristus]

19. Mass, energy, gravitation, empiricism.

These things exist. Anything with a definable molecular structure is irrefutably real.

[-misanthroptimist]

20. That's interesting

I say that because as near as we can tell at this point, the net energy of the universe is zero. (Or at least that was the case the last time I checked.)

So...if that's the case, is the universe "real?"

[Aristus]

22. In that case, no.

If you divide the amount of matter in the universe by how much nothing there is in the universe, the answer is so close to zero as to essentially be nothing.

So it’s possible we’re all just each other’s crazy dreams…

[-misanthroptimist]

23. I liken it more to like being characters in a work of fiction

The world certainly looked real enough to Tom Sawyer, for instance. No way we could make him believe otherwise. But we know he's a work of fiction. As such, Tom thought and did exactly as Mr. Twain wished without a single thought of his own.

It's appalling if you think about it too much, isn't it?

[Aristus]

24. Very.

[summer_in_TX]

30. Hmm.

Can't say that emotions have a definable molecular structure. But love and the other emotions are real.

[Aristus]

31. Fair enough!

[Bristlecone]

18. What type of glassware do you favor for this one?

Small, so martini?

[Aristus]

21. For this drink, a cut-glass whiskey tumbler.

I usually reserve it for bourbon, neat. But it’s perfect for this cocktail. 🥃

[AverageOldGuy]

25. Hendrick's gin . . .

. . . Fever Tree tonic water, quarter of a lime, Waterford crystal tumbler, measured using old shot glass from Swiss grandfather. A bit more gin than tonic.

Best gin and tonic I ever had was at the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel, Singapore, before it became awash in tourists.

[Aristus]

27. I'm on my second bottle of Hendrick's gin.

Great stuff. As good or better than The Botanist.

[Endlessmike56]

26. All I know is that if you step on the brake your life is in your foot's hands

[3catwoman3]

28. As long as the universe is part of tonight's discussion, if the universe...

…has no end, how can it be expanding.

[WestMichRad]

29. I've wondered about that, too!

We can’t say for certain how big it is, only that we can observe it to a certain distance, so we can deduce that it’s at least this big. (I forget the numbers.) We can say that some of it is moving away from us (pretty rapidly)… I think. Based on the red shift of light from galaxies reaching us, we can estimate how rapidly they are moving away from us.
But there’s a whole lot we will never know about the universe! (And vastly more that I don’t know!)

[Dunc]

32. My question.

How are you and the family doing friend hope all is well . Heading to the gym in a bit to workout ,at the moment I’m having coffee and my furry son is sleeping on my feet on back porch.
Fell asleep around 20:00 and was wide awake 01:30 decided just to get up start the day tossed in a a load of laundry.
Ran into one of your M.O.S. Tribe members at work the other day 19K series and as you he is Gulf war veteran he’s a fine man thinks as we think.
We were picking up freight at the same customer and he climbed into my tractor and we talked.
He’s running local as i am we have start times half hour apart like me he just turned sixty and we’re both waiting to hit 65 to collect Medicare and our union pension.
As me he doesn’t want to purchase gap insurance the price is high.
At one time in retirement if you were not 65 yet teamsters actually had you and family covered on health care insurance fully paid until you went on Medicare.
I’m hoping we have the beginnings of a reset come midterms 46 years of trickledown and here we are in late stages of vulture capitalism.
Take it easy Aristus.