technology
Hey Pete, here's one for the nostalgia / childhood memories collection. Check out this kid's ninja throwing stars!
Zap Rowsdower: "I don't know about the Edison cylinders, but I've got 78s from the 'teens that are still playable. The things are 1/4" thick and like steel plate."
Morning Glories!
DishofRed, did you try unplugging the cable box to reboot it?
Morning, Glories!
Hmmm. My cell's screen appeared to be dead, but I found if I slap it, the screen comes back on. So, good for a couple more terabytes, right?
my cell... it has no more juice... I can't see you... aaaaggghhh
oh, here's the charger.
Lucky y'all. My comments keep getting eaten. Greatly enjoying this storm, otherwise.
Relief from cut-n-paste Unicode submission errors occurring since the server crash on Ace of Spades, Spring of 2014, and still broken as of August. Never mind the program I wrote. Use this instead:
Convert special characters to HTML
http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/convert-to-html.php
*grumble grumble*
Why the Hell Not Dept.
Recomment, from Ace's scratched drive post yesterday:
Scratch:
1. a small incision (I scratched my hand pulling out the hard drive)
Dang, whut? Partial post followed much later with the full post? That's new.
Boris and Edna at the NSA must be messing with me again, those wacky kids!
Total weirdness. Tried to load this page, but what came up was yesterday's dump. Hard to imagine how that happened!
There's a lot less content here. Maybe I'll go back.
Total weirdness. Tried to load this page, but what came up was yesterday's dump. Hard to imagine how that happened!
There's a lot less content here. Maybe I%2
bet the picture posts would be great fun in town on the big screen with the big net pipe. Out here on the fringe on the tiny screen with a strangled connection, not so much fun.
» Speaking of relics. Of a different sort. Bet Vic invented some of them.
'Twas technology insisted upon Daylight Savings and Time Zones. Whale oil and train schedules.
re: I'll Use This When We Lose A War To Japan
Mary Cloggenstein has apparently been hitting the breakfast Shnappes.
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Thanks as always for your reporting, Vic.
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Also dredged from Drudge: GOOGLE Glass app lets wearers watch themselves have sex from partner's POV.
Um...
¡ew!
Oh, and...
Wow. Scanning off & on, I've ... caught up ... to #311, at least. I keep forgetting there's no Saturday dump. I thought I was going to have a whole 'nother thread to catch.
I gave up reading at 400 when I realized how many more there were to go. Still having Nostalgia Fest?
The FBI can secretly activate a computer's webcam to spy on an individual without turning on the indicator light, a former official revealed to the Washington Post in an article published Friday.
93 Technology hates me.
...prosperity we enjoy today depends on packaging technology.... - West at January 13, 2013 11:50 AM
Subjects: prosperity, technology, time marches on, transport
Subjects: adornment, Antarctica, cosmology, Disney, dogs, earth, history, invention, Japan, NASA, relationships, science, solar system, technology
That is strange. They seem to be going for the "cloud" market for data storage. Cloud, a/k/a out-of-your-control.
Subjects: technology, print is dead, Hallmark, Kodak, business, the cloud
I'm down. My phone is dying. My net connection's shot. I'm down to reading text with the pictures off. No videos. What is this, 1995? Siiiiih. Like I could keep up with AoS under these conditions!