Heh heh, yeah, I remember those shows. I called on one of the Mel's Hole shows when the subject of an official Mel's Hole drink came up. I suggested it should be served with chili because "dead cows must be involved."
I miss the old show with Art too. These days, I just check it out from time to time and usually switch back to my mp3 player at work. My original comment was about the fact that many of the news stories at the beginning of the show seem to come from here.
The shows where Art interviewed George Carlin and Willie Nelson are classics too.
I thought our heavy elements came mostly from the short-lived first generation of hypergiant hydrogen stars going supernova. If this theory is true, then are we lucky to have so much on this planet? I think about all the lead here, much of which is the end product of nuclear decay over billions of years from radioactive elements that must have been more abundant at some point.
I also wonder if our protoplanetary disc acted like a gold pan during the formation of the solar system, so Mercury might have lots of heavy elements as well as Venus (talk about hard to mine!)
Maybe our solar system would be attractive to extraterrestrial miners after all.
Interesting article—makes me think of four things:
1) The Harold and Maude movie: she invented a method of smell playback. 2) Scratch and Sniff technology (microencapsulation) may reach a whole new level. 3) Are there "primary smells" like primary colors? If so, imagine people creating new smells and posting the formulas online. I imagine engineered tastes would be possible too, as it's a closely related sense. 4) Imagine if High Times starts using that technology...
Now we can't even trust the babysitter to grab a Slurpee down the street...
I can only see this inspiring people with shifty morals to try something new because it's now more convenient. Good thing car keys are more complex these days.
Why not the RMS Olympic? It was the lead ship of it's class, survived several collisions, served in WWI, and completed 257 round trips across the Atlantic, transporting 430,000 passengers on her commercial voyages, travelling 1.8 million miles (according to Wikipedia.)
Of course, the sister ship with the most casualties was the one most remembered. The third and largest one (Britannic) got one movie, but only thirty died when she hit a mine.
It makes me wonder how many people would feel safe going out on this replica...
I have always wanted to see (or rather "hear") you appear with George Noory or Ian Punnett on C2C. Have you considered it? I think it would be fascinating, and would probably steer millions of people towards free software, even if it was just to try Open/Libre Office to save a few (hundred) bucks. Hell, it may just inspire some to start programming.
Thanks for your time, and all that you've accomplished.
Heh, that brings back memories of 88KB on my Atari's floppies, which I doubled by cutting a notch on the other side and flipping it over, even if they were sold as Single-Sided Single Density.
As for the OP, so far I'm keeping stuff on external hard drives, but I know it's not the best solution for long-term. Where are those multi-layer FMD discs I kept hearing about?
I can't believe I didn't find "Cheech" or "Chong" with my browser's search. My step-brother saw Up in Smoke in the theater when he was ten or so. Some people were smoking in front, and he said, "They have smell-o-vision!"
It's just a matter of time before movies start adding smell tracks and George Lucas has another excuse to re-release the Star Wars movies again. Hmm, "Smellies!"
They certainly made me forget about Hollywood Video and Blockbuster back in 1995.
While their price rose to $19.99/mo this year, I'll always remember them for sending me an e-mail a few years back, saying their rates were going to be lowered from $17.99 to $16.99. There is also the way they like to send an extra "+" movie if something in my queue comes from another part of the country because of the delay.
Superior value indeed!
(I killed my cable back in 1999, but that was because most of my entertainment came from reading and writing on the net, as well as the previously mentioned video stores.)
I just spent last weekend watching most of the fourth season of SJA, except for the last story: "Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith," then I got the news yesterday. I'm sure no one knew that would be her final show. It's going to make it sad when I finally watch it.
A few episodes back, there was "The Death of The Doctor" with Matt Smith. The real surprise was Katy Manning playing Jo Grant: the previous companion. It was neat seeing them interact, although the previous get-together between Sarah Jane and Rose Tyler can't be beat. I see Manning was born in 1949, so she's a bit younger. I also see she once posed nude with a Dalek back in '77. *scratches head* Okay, back to Ms. Sladen.
I had no idea she was in her sixties--she looked great and had to be in shape. Cancer is a real bastard.
I first saw her and The Doctor (Tom Baker) when I was twelve or so, thanks to PBS for bringing it to us in the states all these years. She will be missed.
My Casio Wave Ceptor radio-controlled watch has been having a hard time receiving WWVB's 60KHz signal for the last week. I'm in Oregon, but then late night long-distance transmissions are squirrely by nature.
Let's see... directly hacking a machine code that involves a two-byte address to the faster zero-page version so it's only one-byte, and inserting a NOP into the extra space so the machine doesn't crash... I always wondered if that instruction had a purpose.
I'd love to see the source for Robotron. I'll bet it's some of the most elegant code ever.
I tend not to vote for anyone that campaigns using telemarketing techniques, and have wondered if the more obnoxious ones are really coming from their opponents.
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Heh heh, yeah, I remember those shows. I called on one of the Mel's Hole shows when the subject of an official Mel's Hole drink came up. I suggested it should be served with chili because "dead cows must be involved."
I miss the old show with Art too. These days, I just check it out from time to time and usually switch back to my mp3 player at work. My original comment was about the fact that many of the news stories at the beginning of the show seem to come from here.
The shows where Art interviewed George Carlin and Willie Nelson are classics too.
Nah, it's old news when it's read on Coast to Coast AM. :-D
I thought our heavy elements came mostly from the short-lived first generation of hypergiant hydrogen stars going supernova. If this theory is true, then are we lucky to have so much on this planet? I think about all the lead here, much of which is the end product of nuclear decay over billions of years from radioactive elements that must have been more abundant at some point.
I also wonder if our protoplanetary disc acted like a gold pan during the formation of the solar system, so Mercury might have lots of heavy elements as well as Venus (talk about hard to mine!)
Maybe our solar system would be attractive to extraterrestrial miners after all.
Interesting article—makes me think of four things:
1) The Harold and Maude movie: she invented a method of smell playback.
2) Scratch and Sniff technology (microencapsulation) may reach a whole new level.
3) Are there "primary smells" like primary colors? If so, imagine people creating new smells and posting the formulas online. I imagine engineered tastes would be possible too, as it's a closely related sense.
4) Imagine if High Times starts using that technology...
Now we can't even trust the babysitter to grab a Slurpee down the street...
I can only see this inspiring people with shifty morals to try something new because it's now more convenient. Good thing car keys are more complex these days.
Why not use this as a way to teach the kids how to install the OS from scratch?
Why not the RMS Olympic? It was the lead ship of it's class, survived several collisions, served in WWI, and completed 257 round trips across the Atlantic, transporting 430,000 passengers on her commercial voyages, travelling 1.8 million miles (according to Wikipedia.)
Of course, the sister ship with the most casualties was the one most remembered. The third and largest one (Britannic) got one movie, but only thirty died when she hit a mine.
It makes me wonder how many people would feel safe going out on this replica...
Greetings!
I have always wanted to see (or rather "hear") you appear with George Noory or Ian Punnett on C2C. Have you considered it? I think it would be fascinating, and would probably steer millions of people towards free software, even if it was just to try Open/Libre Office to save a few (hundred) bucks. Hell, it may just inspire some to start programming.
Thanks for your time, and all that you've accomplished.
It's a little eerie: I just watched the documentary "Reclaiming the Blade" with my friends last night. Bob Anderson was very interesting in it.
There's always PaperDisk, apparently able to store 1 meg per sheet. They quote 4MB, but that's after compression and BS to people like us. :-)
Heh, that brings back memories of 88KB on my Atari's floppies, which I doubled by cutting a notch on the other side and flipping it over, even if they were sold as Single-Sided Single Density.
As for the OP, so far I'm keeping stuff on external hard drives, but I know it's not the best solution for long-term. Where are those multi-layer FMD discs I kept hearing about?
I can't believe I didn't find "Cheech" or "Chong" with my browser's search. My step-brother saw Up in Smoke in the theater when he was ten or so. Some people were smoking in front, and he said, "They have smell-o-vision!"
It's just a matter of time before movies start adding smell tracks and George Lucas has another excuse to re-release the Star Wars movies again. Hmm, "Smellies!"
Uh oh... so I was practicing recreational solvent use on all those camping trips...
When did water get into this? I can't recommend drinking the stuff straight myself! :-ß
Whoops... I meant that to be 2005.
D`oh!
They certainly made me forget about Hollywood Video and Blockbuster back in 1995.
While their price rose to $19.99/mo this year, I'll always remember them for sending me an e-mail a few years back, saying their rates were going to be lowered from $17.99 to $16.99. There is also the way they like to send an extra "+" movie if something in my queue comes from another part of the country because of the delay.
Superior value indeed!
(I killed my cable back in 1999, but that was because most of my entertainment came from reading and writing on the net, as well as the previously mentioned video stores.)
I just spent last weekend watching most of the fourth season of SJA, except for the last story: "Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith," then I got the news yesterday. I'm sure no one knew that would be her final show. It's going to make it sad when I finally watch it.
A few episodes back, there was "The Death of The Doctor" with Matt Smith. The real surprise was Katy Manning playing Jo Grant: the previous companion. It was neat seeing them interact, although the previous get-together between Sarah Jane and Rose Tyler can't be beat. I see Manning was born in 1949, so she's a bit younger. I also see she once posed nude with a Dalek back in '77. *scratches head* Okay, back to Ms. Sladen.
I had no idea she was in her sixties--she looked great and had to be in shape. Cancer is a real bastard.
I first saw her and The Doctor (Tom Baker) when I was twelve or so, thanks to PBS for bringing it to us in the states all these years. She will be missed.
My Casio Wave Ceptor radio-controlled watch has been having a hard time receiving WWVB's 60KHz signal for the last week. I'm in Oregon, but then late night long-distance transmissions are squirrely by nature.
[Dude could optimize a NOP.]
Heh heh. I like that!
Let's see... directly hacking a machine code that involves a two-byte address to the faster zero-page version so it's only one-byte, and inserting a NOP into the extra space so the machine doesn't crash... I always wondered if that instruction had a purpose.
I'd love to see the source for Robotron. I'll bet it's some of the most elegant code ever.
Damn, I'm showing my age.
Oh yes. I had those in my Windows 95B years, and even bought his book on Windows architecture. Those were the days.
Sure, he wasn't a PC programmer, but his work at Williams from the pinball to videogame eras were an inspiration!
Why not? It wasn't too long ago when someone wrote about a paper entitled "Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection" around here.
I tend not to vote for anyone that campaigns using telemarketing techniques, and have wondered if the more obnoxious ones are really coming from their opponents.
It would seem to be underhanded but effective!
Missed it by three seconds
At least one suburb of Portland will charge extra if trash is above the top line of their Kitchen Wastebasket on Steroids dumpster
But still under the closed frickin' dome-shaped lid!