Comment Re:Not sure why we'd listen to Michael Mann (Score 1) 786
Well played!
Well played!
Chekov will probably be from India.
Chekov: "Ah, yes - Quatro-triticale!"
Kirk: "Does everyone know about this wheat but me?"
Chekov: "Not everyone, Captain - it was an Indian inwention!"
Something from the climax of Hitchcock's "Rear Window" - the sound of a spent flashbulb being ejected!
How about the normal analog sounds you'd hear after the needle caught the groove, but before the recorded audio began?
Or the sound of a skipping record, where the same few seconds would repeat over and over? That was especially funny when you'd hear it over the radio for a couple minutes because the DJ had left the booth...
Starsky and Hutch and Crime Story didn't really have much to do with climate change - but I did like the Del Shannon theme song he used on the latter.
They read the envelope it was in - it was labeled "Glenn Seaborg's Plutonium".
Terrorists are trained by the A-team and Mac Guyver.
Well, given the terrorists died - it's more likely they were trained by MacGruber.
...does it know when to fold 'em? When to walk away? When to run?
Yes, it does. However it inexplicably insists on counting its money while it's sitting at the table, even though there's time enough for counting when the dealing's done.
The downside was that if one card in the ring failed, the whole thing would generally die.
As I recall, that "downside" pretty much single-handedly killed the technology. It's a big deal.
If it's anything like my old Chevy Nova, it'll light up the night sky!
Spot on. Consumer trade shows don't really have much to offer in today's world.
She shouldn't have dressed her computer so provocatively!
Spot-on in all regards.
- I have worn progressive lenses for about a decade now. Until monitors got big, this wasn't much of a problem. But now, my monitors are simply too large to play nicely with a pair of glasses when the close-up part of the lens is just the bottom section. At the end of the day I have a stiff neck from tilting my head back for eight hours.
- When I bought my current glasses, I went with narrow lenses. This has turned out to be a big mistake. It might not actually be as bad if they were traditional bifocals, since in that case the working area would be larger - but with my current lenses, the actual functional part of the glasses is pretty small. My vision hasn't changed much since I bought them two years ago, but I'll be replacing them this year.
- Fortunately I am able to tolerate wearing one "close-up" contact lens and one for distance, so I can work around the glasses problem. However I really don't like wearing contact lenses when I'm doing computing work, since my eyes tend to dry out in that situation (I don't blink as much when I'm staring at a screen, apparently).
The money won't just appear out of thin air, you know?
Have you seen the valuations for Snapchat and WhatsApp - or Facebook for that matter? We're well into Dot Com Boom 2.0.
Just remember to get out before it all evaporates...
Why, in 2015, would anyone want to print on paper at home?
My wife likes to sew. There are a number of programs that let her print out pattern pieces, which she then lays out on the fabric for cutting.
I have occasionally printed and framed some of my photos for gifts.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
