Ever since I took, the, Evelyn... Woodhead... sped, redin'... course... my redin has improvd 100, percent, and.. also, my comprensn has improvd, won..der..full..y
*sigh* It is such a geeky pasttime to rail against the quirks of our living language. There are so many phrases that people use without having any idea what they means or where they come from. The one that always gets me is when people say "That's a whole nother thing." The word nother doesn't exist, (yet,) and so far it only seems to comfortably fit into that one phrase. Here's a good link for the google impaired.
One good thing to come out of the nightmare of malware is that more people will be upgrading their browsers to the latest versions. Supporting ugly old browser versions won't be as necessary.
The way it makes life easier it that it uses a different part of your brain. You can train yourself to remember lists and directory trees, and obviously some people are better at that than others, but we are hardwired to remember things in a 3D environment.
I had cool book about that... now where did I put that thing? Duh, the book shelf. I know it had a red cover with.. ah, here it is.
I seem to remember an old Laverne and Shirley episode where Vern explains to Shirl that RSVP means "Respond Swiftly, Very Politely." And I'm kind of creeped out by the fact that crap like that remains in my head 30 years later.
We HAVE to have the term terrorist, we aren't allowed to call everyone who disagrees with us "nazi" anymore. And if you don't agree, that's because you are a friggin terro-nazi.
Newlywed, though, makes the list because of one reason: it's the only game show with an urban legend. Supposedly, Eubanks once asked the question, "Where is the strangest place you and your husband ever made whoopee?" One female contestant answered, very simply, "Up the butt, Bob" (or, in other versions, "That'd be the butt, Bob"). Eubanks swears it never happened, other people say they saw it. Eubanks has ruined his credibility on this issue by stating "I could have sold a million 'Up The Butt, Bob' T-shirts if I'd wanted." Chuck Barris would be proud of that sentiment. Anything to make money, after all.
I was reading this and thinking that asking the drivers made sense, but when I read, "Just get the drivers to punch in an estimated arrival time. It'll be right to within five minutes. Their tachys will show whether they were right or wrong," I started thinking about error correction. The past is the best place for real data. You can start with estimates, but you need to store the data, so that as the system ages, it can learn from experience, and get better at predicting the time based on the distance. Sure, it would be good for the drivers to have input for road conditions, if there was a bus breakdown or traffic tie-up, but on an average day a database will predict better than the driver. And drivers need to be driving, not playing with toys.
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Ever since I took, the, Evelyn... Woodhead... sped, redin'... course... my redin has improvd 100, percent, and.. also, my comprensn has improvd, won..der..full..y
Wasn't there a scene in Blade Runner where he used something like that?
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shh... don't say that too loud, they are everywhere.
Won't somebody please think of the children?
That's not Lake Minnetonka.
*sigh* It is such a geeky pasttime to rail against the quirks of our living language. There are so many phrases that people use without having any idea what they means or where they come from. The one that always gets me is when people say "That's a whole nother thing." The word nother doesn't exist, (yet,) and so far it only seems to comfortably fit into that one phrase. Here's a good link for the google impaired.
New punctuation.
One good thing to come out of the nightmare of malware is that more people will be upgrading their browsers to the latest versions. Supporting ugly old browser versions won't be as necessary.
Well, their both gooder then bad.
In addition, the 2.5" hard drive platters are (obviously) physically much smaller than the 3.5" hard drive platters.
Wait, you are saying 2.5" is smaller than 3.5"? I'd like to see your calculations on that.
Offtopic?
Simpson quotes are always on topic.
The way it makes life easier it that it uses a different part of your brain. You can train yourself to remember lists and directory trees, and obviously some people are better at that than others, but we are hardwired to remember things in a 3D environment.
I had cool book about that... now where did I put that thing? Duh, the book shelf. I know it had a red cover with.. ah, here it is.
I seem to remember an old Laverne and Shirley episode where Vern explains to Shirl that RSVP means "Respond Swiftly, Very Politely."
And I'm kind of creeped out by the fact that crap like that remains in my head 30 years later.
And that's supposed to help you see better?
Whoa, can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of those things?
You rang?
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We HAVE to have the term terrorist, we aren't allowed to call everyone who disagrees with us "nazi" anymore.
And if you don't agree, that's because you are a friggin terro-nazi.
"Up the butt, Bob"
Newlywed, though, makes the list because of one reason: it's the only game show with an urban legend. Supposedly, Eubanks once asked the question, "Where is the strangest place you and your husband ever made whoopee?" One female contestant answered, very simply, "Up the butt, Bob" (or, in other versions, "That'd be the butt, Bob"). Eubanks swears it never happened, other people say they saw it. Eubanks has ruined his credibility on this issue by stating "I could have sold a million 'Up The Butt, Bob' T-shirts if I'd wanted." Chuck Barris would be proud of that sentiment. Anything to make money, after all.
spam eggs sausage and spam...
Gee, I alway used to print out a second copy and cut out the text and reglue it where it was supposed to be.
I was reading this and thinking that asking the drivers made sense, but when I read, "Just get the drivers to punch in an estimated arrival time. It'll be right to within five minutes. Their tachys will show whether they were right or wrong," I started thinking about error correction. The past is the best place for real data. You can start with estimates, but you need to store the data, so that as the system ages, it can learn from experience, and get better at predicting the time based on the distance. Sure, it would be good for the drivers to have input for road conditions, if there was a bus breakdown or traffic tie-up, but on an average day a database will predict better than the driver. And drivers need to be driving, not playing with toys.
from the Seven-Stranded-Castaways department
Move to a real city. That'll show em.