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by athom 2mo ago
A friend of a friend building an airplane? How about a flying saucer? https://enjoyer.com/an-alien-cult-built-a-spaceship-in-a-mic... I first learned about this from a friend in Detroit, MI, who told me about it when he lea
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by athom 3mo ago
Achievement Unlocked: Invent Skynet
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by athom 7mo ago
Please, please, PLEASE tell us that stands for Peanut Butter and Jelly! More seriously, how DID you wind up with those call letters? Do applicants get some say in the selection, or is it just whatever they give you?
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by athom 7mo ago
I'll do you one better. The first item returned by a search on "couch" is ABC-00927226, which "features a rectangular form resembling a couch, characterized by a solid, box-like structure." In other words: it's
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by athom 7mo ago
In three decades of surfing the web, I've never encountered more than a couple of those error messages. This set of pictures makes me wish I'd run into them more often.
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by athom 11mo ago
Ah, The Design of Everyday Things is a wonderful book, and the source of one of my favorite epithets: It probably won an award.
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by athom 1y ago
The one I love is Microsoft's project manager, MS... ...wait for it... ...Project. Was charged with managing a department-wide installation about fifteen years back, now. You want to have fun looking for relevant docs, try a search on
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by athom 1y ago
No kidding! The FIRST thing that came to mind when I read that headline was Hofstadter's Contracrostapunctus in THAT book! Check it out! Read it! And if you DON'T find the WHOLE hidden message, read it again, because it's spe
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by athom 1y ago
Thank you for stepping in, Evan! My original post was from work, and when I tried to find a reference, I was blocked from following any links! Think they recently instituted a policy... So I finally do the lookup from home, and what do I fi
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by athom 1y ago
This reminds me SO much of Atari's "Graduate Computer" attachment for the 2600. Unfortunately, I can't find an accessible link from where I am right now. Maybe when I get back home...
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by athom 2y ago
I first read about this back in the 1980s, in an issue of Science Digest. Couldn't find a link or reference on short notice, but here's something from the American Academy of Ophthalmology that explains the phenomenon, with an exp
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by athom 2y ago
Easily defeated by arranging the images vertically. Or at least, makes it a LITTLE bit harder.
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by athom 2y ago
Starting from March also sets up a neat pattern that can be used to generate accurate month/day values from day-of-year numbers, IF you number them from zero. You can also go back the other way. March through July follow a simple two-m
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by athom 2y ago
Kind of wish you could drop a list in there, and have it step through.
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by athom 2y ago
That's it. If I EVER go so crazy as to buy one of THOSE trucks the plate is going to read 'LOPOLY' I don't even care who gets it, or doesn't.
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by athom 2y ago
My workplace doesn't even allow us to plug in (unapproved?) USB devices, so even this workaround likely wouldn't fly here.
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by athom 2y ago
If you DO start in March, your days/month fall into a neat little pattern: Mar 31 - Aug 31 - Jan 31 Apr 30 - Sep 30 - Feb 28/29 May 31 - Oct 31 Jun 30 - Nov 30 Jul 31 - Dec 31 That highlights a few interesting cycles you can use t
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by athom 2y ago
Had a quick peek at the first couple of paragraphs, here. And now, I want to go back and reread some of that turgid text!
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by athom 2y ago
You want to know what's REALLY bad? When the whole TOASTER pops up in your face! Here's the deal: I maintain a boatload of Visual Basic (yeah, yeah) in Autodesk Inventor. That program REALLY wants to make sure you're saving
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by athom 2y ago
The FUN part is, if you just happen to have the same name as one of the crew, you can get a credit without being involved at all! Funny story: I usually sit through the full end credits when I go to the movies, just in case something intere
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by athom 2y ago
Pretty sure my dad still has his. I still have memories of his working on our microbus at the time, back in the early '70s. Don't think I was even five, yet, but I remember lying underneath the thing with him, watching while he wo
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by athom 3y ago
Related: A Catalogue of Unfindable Objects, by Jacques Carelman https://www.amazon.com/Objets-Introuvables-Catalogue-Fantast... Perhaps best known for his Coffee Pot for Masochists, featured on the cover of Don Norman&#x27
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by athom 3y ago
Okay, at first, I was amused with the acronym's similarity to a certain Ford model that... didn't last too long on the market. I've snarked on things like this before, and been downvoted, likely for adding little else to the
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by athom 3y ago
Point given for "write my own ERP software." I work with that stuff on a daily basis, and am actually thinking of trying just that.
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by athom 3y ago
Indeed. First I read of him were some of his articles on stuff he wouldn't work with. There's a passage in his article on dioxygen diflouride (AKA FOOF) that would sound delightfully wicked read in the voice John deLancie. Brillia
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by athom 3y ago
I once had the pleasure of seeing Terry Pratchett speak, at the first Penguicon, near Detroit, MI. (Somewhen between 2006 and 2009, I think) He told us, among other things, of working at a facility where they had to wear some sort of dosime
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by athom 3y ago
Try looking up "pinkie pie party cannon"
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by athom 4y ago
My favorite part of this article is the liberal, and completely unironic scattering of the term 'OMG'.
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by athom 8y ago
That's weird. I remember learning AutoCAD back in the release 10 and 11 days. They used to have this "donut" command that would draw a 2D donut shape using a polyline with thickness, and just two points joined by arcs. Now I
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by athom 8y ago
You should look him up from about ten years prior to TNG. He was in several episodes of I, Claudius back in 1976, thereabouts, and aside from the hair, he STILL didn't look much different.

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