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Wireless Network or Weird Al?
coronaride writes "This article over on Wired discusses the current topic of the FCC's regulation of UHF's (ultra-high frequencies). Apparently, UHF channels 52 through 69 are in danger of being taken over by wireless networking!" Insert your Conan the Librarian or Wheel of Fish
joke here.
Well if you didn't get the reference, you'll just think I'm insulting you :)
rm -rf / is the evil of all root
But at least I'll still have Buffy.
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I don't want to rule the world... I just want to be in charge of mayonnaise.
Karate Master: "And TODAY on Wheel of Fish, what do we have!? Ah! A wireless network! Now....will you keep the wireless network, or will you take what's on...broadcast TV?"
Woman: "I'll take...uh...um..."
[everybody shouting different answers at her]
Woman: "I'll take...broadcast TV!!"
Karate Master: "And now we see...what's on...broadcast TV! What's good that's on...broadcast TV?!"
[hushed pause; they turn on a TV, "Friends" is on]
Karate Master: "NOTHING!! THERE'S NOTHING GOOD ON BROADCAST TV!! STUPID! YOU'RE SO STOOPID!!!"
There's no sig like this sig anywhere near this sig, so this must be the sig.
With all the people willing to shell out money to fight lawsuits over copyright violations, I'm sure we can raise $75,000 by 10pm Friday night.
"It's not like the broadcasters are getting totally screwed," said Carri Bennet, an attorney representing the Rural Telecommunications Group, a lobbyist for wireless carriers in rural areas.
Partial screwing is fine.
-- My HARDWARE, My CHOICE.
Heh. It always seemed to me that the Spanish-language networks (both TV and radio) had the most powerful broadcasting equipment on the face of this earth. I can pick up a Spanish radio station pretty much anywhere, and the Spanish TV channels are much clearer than any other channels picked up by my antenna. Converting those airwaves to wireless services means I can truly be connected anywhere!
Insert your Conan the Librarian or Wheel of Fish joke here.
;)
Of course, all the real UHF fans make their jokes about "Spatula City" or the cut scene of "Oh Those Homos!".
If you haven't seen that last one, I suggest you rent/buy the DVD immediately! It's worth it just for Al's commentary alone!
Sen. Hollings wins the "Inane Bill Of The Year" award!!!!!
Applause from audience...
Sen. Hollings gets to drink from the Firehose!!!
Insane cheering from audience...
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
In LA we have 16... I'm teaching myself Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Armenian, and what I think might be Thai.
There are 10 types of people in this world, those who can count in binary and those who can't.
Insert your Conan the Librarian or Wheel of Fish joke here.
I would never resort to such a blatant, cheap attempt at humor. Now if you'll excuse me I must go drink from the fire hose.
As a possible combat to this a few people have been wondering if large radio telescopes (GBT, VLA, etc..) could put out enough power transmitting to disable communications satellites and clean up radio frequency interference. Of course this is entirely unrealistic since the electronics of the telescopes are designed for receiving not transmitting, but I think it would be funny if some radio astronomers blew out the front ends of all the Iridium satellites so they could study OH again.
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Striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap, will be the leap ho
Jeez, at first I thought it said "Weird AI". I'm like, "There's such a thing as non-weird AI?"
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
he could do both if we adopted a communication protocol that relied on I Love Lucy reruns.
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I don't see why we don't just avoid all this hassle and jump to Ludicrous High Frequency
We see Raul standing in the middle of his funky apartment, surrounded by cages containing various household pets. RAUL (to camera) Hey, man, this is Raul Hernandez, and welcome to "Raul's Wild Kingdom," coming to you live from my apartment! How about that, huh? Okay, first thing we're gonna do today is check out the wonderful world of turtles. This is my friend Tommy. Say hello to the nice people, Tommy... (holds up turtle) Aaaay, isn't he great? Okay, so... the turtle is a member of the reptile family, right? And it's got this hard, protective shell... (he raps on it) ... which keeps predators away, and provides him with his own house for when he sleeps. And he's got these teeny tiny little legs, so he moves real slow. And not many people know this, but the turtle is also nature's suction cup! Watch this...
Raul turns the turtle over and throws it as hard as he can towards the ceiling. We hear an o.s. SUCTION sound.
RAUL
(continuing)
See that? It sticks! Okay, lets's see, what else we got here? Oh yeah, check this out.
He walks over to his ant farm, which is on top of his dresser.
RAUL
(continuing)
This is my ant farm. You know, ants are really amazing. They can carry fifty times their own weight, and they work for weeks and weeks making these intricate tunnels, and... oh yeah, they really hate it when you do this...
Raul grabs the ant farm and shakes it vigorously.
RAUL
(continuing)
Oh, look, they're really mad now!
58 INT. U62 - DAY
Bob is watching Raul on a monitor as George enters.
GEORGE
Hey, Bob, Where did you find this guy?
BOB
I thought you hired him...
59 INT. RAUL'S APARTMENT
Several yapping poodles now surround Raul. He picks one up and starts swinging it back and forth by an open window.
RAUL
Okay, Gigi, are you psyched? Are you ready? Okay, here we go... get ready... and... FLY!!
He hurls Gigi out the open window, then looks outside.
RAUL
(continuing)
Oh, man... You know, sometimes it takes 'em a long time to learn how to do it right.
(to poodles)
Okay... shut up... shut up... hey! All right, who's next?
The poodles jump up and down, yapping cheerfully. One jumps up into his arms. In the b.g. we see Tommy the Turtle fall through frame.
RAUL
(continuing)
Okay, Fifi, let's go. Now, remember what I told you... flap your legs back and forth really, really hard... you're gonna have a great time... ready, and... FLY!!
RAUL hurls Fifi out the window.
60 EXT. RAUL'S APARTMENT BUILDING - DAY
Fifi flies out a third story window and drops with a THUD on a huge mound of poodles on the ground below.
RAUL (V.O.)
Oh, man...!
And of course we can't forget the infamous:
Philo: Hello, and welcome to...
Secrets (echo)
Of (echo)
The Universe (echo)
Today, we will be learning how to make Plutonium out of common household items.
Speaking of which, when I was young, I *didn't* get on my roof with a neighbor kid and a small television, and listen to cellular calls in the high UHF channels. ;)
Had I have done so, I would have thought that someone's phone was being tapped or something, called a few numbers that I heard spoken, and generally panicked a few people. Especially ones who call 'the other woman' and express their love over the open airwaves.