Random thought of the day
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Russia doesn't know it can't coordinate a full MAD response anymore, yet.
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If Christopher Lloyd had never existed, who would you cast to play Doc Brown? John Lithgow, or Matt Frewer?
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@da-Doctah It would be hard to beat Lithgow for this kind of role. On the other hand, maybe he would be too predictable casting.
James Cromwell is another who comes to mind. And Jim Carey.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
If Christopher Lloyd had never existed, who would you cast to play Doc Brown? John Lithgow, or Matt Frewer?
Well, if we don't mind being anachronistic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OJnkJqkyio
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Google is condensed for Go Ogle.
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Delivering food yesterday I got a ping to pick up at order at Taco Bell for someone named "Sonnet". Instructions said twelve items, so the guy at the restaurant and I went on a tear about how it was two items short (sonnets always have fourteen lines).
And that led to me telling him about when I decided to read Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" and after two or three days found it difficult to formulate my thoughts if they weren't in iambic pentameter.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Delivering food yesterday I got a ping to pick up at order at Taco Bell for someone named "Sonnet". Instructions said twelve items, so the guy at the restaurant and I went on a tear about how it was two items short (sonnets always have fourteen lines).
And that led to me telling him about when I decided to read Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" and after two or three days found it difficult to formulate my thoughts if they weren't in iambic pentameter.
Over/under on when you get banned from delivery apps due to the restaurants complaining about “that freaky iambic pentameter guy”?
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@da-Doctah And never was there a tale of more woe
Than of sonnets and lines and Bell... Taco.
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@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Delivering food yesterday I got a ping to pick up at order at Taco Bell for someone named "Sonnet". Instructions said twelve items, so the guy at the restaurant and I went on a tear about how it was two items short (sonnets always have fourteen lines).
And that led to me telling him about when I decided to read Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" and after two or three days found it difficult to formulate my thoughts if they weren't in iambic pentameter.
Over/under on when you get banned from delivery apps due to the restaurants complaining about “that freaky iambic pentameter guy”?
I can't find an online prose-iambic_pentameter converter.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Delivering food yesterday I got a ping to pick up at order at Taco Bell for someone named "Sonnet". Instructions said twelve items, so the guy at the restaurant and I went on a tear about how it was two items short (sonnets always have fourteen lines).
And that led to me telling him about when I decided to read Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" and after two or three days found it difficult to formulate my thoughts if they weren't in iambic pentameter.
Over/under on when you get banned from delivery apps due to the restaurants complaining about “that freaky iambic pentameter guy”?
I can't find an online prose-iambic_pentameter converter.
I thou doth want something done right
Thou must doeth it thyself
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@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Delivering food yesterday I got a ping to pick up at order at Taco Bell for someone named "Sonnet". Instructions said twelve items, so the guy at the restaurant and I went on a tear about how it was two items short (sonnets always have fourteen lines).
And that led to me telling him about when I decided to read Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" and after two or three days found it difficult to formulate my thoughts if they weren't in iambic pentameter.
Over/under on when you get banned from delivery apps due to the restaurants complaining about “that freaky iambic pentameter guy”?
Probably just as well that I never followed through on another idea I had. Was going to write a memo, maybe reporting on an outage and its solution, that would look like regular prose but if you read it aloud it would turn out to be a sonnet.
Was never able to get both the meter and the rhyme scheme to work.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Delivering food yesterday I got a ping to pick up at order at Taco Bell for someone named "Sonnet". Instructions said twelve items, so the guy at the restaurant and I went on a tear about how it was two items short (sonnets always have fourteen lines).
And that led to me telling him about when I decided to read Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" and after two or three days found it difficult to formulate my thoughts if they weren't in iambic pentameter.
Over/under on when you get banned from delivery apps due to the restaurants complaining about “that freaky iambic pentameter guy”?
I can't find an online prose-iambic_pentameter converter.
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Hopefully the next LOTR remake will make the Bridge at Khazat-Dum scene more accessible for the modern viewer. Gandalf, Wizard of the Double Yellow.
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@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Delivering food yesterday I got a ping to pick up at order at Taco Bell for someone named "Sonnet". Instructions said twelve items, so the guy at the restaurant and I went on a tear about how it was two items short (sonnets always have fourteen lines).
And that led to me telling him about when I decided to read Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" and after two or three days found it difficult to formulate my thoughts if they weren't in iambic pentameter.
Over/under on when you get banned from delivery apps due to the restaurants complaining about “that freaky iambic pentameter guy”?
I can't find an online prose-iambic_pentameter converter.
I thou doth want something done right
Thou must doeth it thyselfI guess I'm going to be on thin ice here if I fuck this up ... but that's no pentameter, that's four and three feet respectively.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Delivering food yesterday I got a ping to pick up at order at Taco Bell for someone named "Sonnet". Instructions said twelve items, so the guy at the restaurant and I went on a tear about how it was two items short (sonnets always have fourteen lines).
And that led to me telling him about when I decided to read Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" and after two or three days found it difficult to formulate my thoughts if they weren't in iambic pentameter.
Over/under on when you get banned from delivery apps due to the restaurants complaining about “that freaky iambic pentameter guy”?
I can't find an online prose-iambic_pentameter converter.
I thou doth want something done right
Thou must doeth it thyselfI guess I'm going to be on thin ice here if I fuck this up ... but that's no pentameter, that's four and three feet respectively.
I'm not a poemologist
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Are we supposed to believe that in the Star Wars universe, all inhabited planets have been given names by someone who speaks with a Modesto, California accent? I mean, you've got your Alderaan, your Coruscant, your Tatooine, your Kamino, your Bespin, etc.
Not one world with a consonant cluster that doesn't occur in English, not one with an African-style "click" or a Chinese tone, not one that uses sounds the human vocal apparatus is incapable of producing?
And yet out of all those faraway places with not particularly strange sounding names, none of them happens to have been given through sheer coincidence a name that sounds like a mundane English word or given name like Sandwich, Doorknob or Fred?
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@da-Doctah Kashyyyk?
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@da-Doctah Language is something that sci-fi seldom handles well, for practical reasons. In Star Trek, they eventually invented a Universal Translator. The impressive thing about this is that it even works for inhabitants of planets that had never been previously known to the Federation.
I just put language in the category of things for which one needs to suspend disbelief.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah Language is something that sci-fi seldom handles well, for practical reasons. In Star Trek, they eventually invented a Universal Translator. The impressive thing about this is that it even works for inhabitants of planets that had never been previously known to the Federation.
I just put language in the category of things for which one needs to suspend disbelief.
I vaguely recall a scene in a (non-star-wars) scifi book where after going into orbit around an inhabited alien planet the protagonist went off to make a sandwich or something while the UT was figuring out what the locals were saying.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah In Star Trek, they eventually invented a Universal Translator. The impressive thing about this is that it even works for inhabitants of planets that had never been previously known to the Federation.
Except that then you get things like Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah Kashyyyk?
Okay, but show me one place where a Wookiee says anything that could be transcribed with that sequence of characters.
Preferably something that doesn't have a four-armed Harvey Korman in drag in it.
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
after going into orbit around an inhabited alien planet the protagonist went off to make a sandwich or something while the UT was figuring out what the locals were saying.
Something pretty much like this in
The Ringworld Engineers
, except without being in orbit.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah Kashyyyk?
Okay, but show me one place where a Wookiee says anything that could be transcribed with that sequence of characters.
Preferably something that doesn't have a four-armed Harvey Korman in drag in it.
Everything Chewbacca says is spelled like that. What?
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Padme Amygdala
Filed under: Hey, it says random
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@topspin You're not the first to have thought of this*.
*unless you first thought of it while watching the movie and you've watched the movie before me.
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Also: Dark Fader.
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@Zecc Darth Father
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Any Key Skywalker.
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Look, Sky Walker
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The placeholder text in the search input of File Explorer says
Search <CurrentDirectory>
.There's got to be a computer out there with a directory called Warrants.
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When I was young, my father liked referring to leftovers as "Yesterday's delight".
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Status: Well, I suppose at the end of the day a GUID is technically a number....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Status: Well, I suppose at the end of the day a GUID is technically a number....
Except a VERSIONINFO number is only 64 bits... (4 x 16bits)
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@dcon said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Status: Well, I suppose at the end of the day a GUID is technically a number....
Except a VERSIONINFO number is only 64 bits... (4 x 16bits)
Just cut off the first half, it'll be fine!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Status: Well, I suppose at the end of the day a GUID is technically a number....
In Computer Science, everything is a number. It's sort of a creed for us.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Status: Well, I suppose at the end of the day a GUID is technically a number....
In Computer Science, everything is a
numberfile. It's sort of a creed for us.FTFL
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Just cut off the first half, it'll be fine!
VERSIONINFOEX
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Status: Well, I suppose at the end of the day a GUID is technically a number....
In Computer Science, everything is a number. It's sort of a creed for us.
So when we joke about “and then the murder began”, is that invoking the Assassin’s Creed here?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Status: Well, I suppose at the end of the day a GUID is technically a number....
In Computer Science, everything is a
numberfile. It's sort of a creed for us.FTFL
No, you're confusing Computer Science (a mathematical discipline) with Data Processing (a business one).
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Random: Almira Gulch, from 1939's The Wizard of Oz, is probably the prototype of the original Karen. Claims she's "all but lame from the bite on my leg" and gets the sheriff to issue an order to have Toto put down with not a hint of an actual investigation, yet she has no trouble riding her bicycle to and from the Gales' farmhouse.
It was a pure joy to see her caught up in the tornado, and again not to see her in the epilogue where the Kansas versions of all the main characters from Oz (with the curious exception of Glinda) turn up, so Ms Gulch's lifeless body is probably lying in a ditch somewhere and nobody even thinks to search for her.
(Speaking of Glinda not having a counterpart in Kansas, has this ever bothered anyone else? I know I always wondered why there's no Uncle Henry in any form in Oz --- even Auntie Em appears in the Wicked Witch's crystal ball.)
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
In Computer Science, everything is a number. It's sort of a creed for us.
Or a (binary) string. They're equivalent views of a bit sequence.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Speaking of Glinda not having a counterpart in Kansas, has this ever bothered anyone else?
I always assumed and was too good for that world.
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We occasionally hear about periods of time in American history when there were four, five, or six ex-presidents still living, as well as times when there were no living ex-presidents (the last of the latter happened during the Nixon administration).
We much less often consider times when there were some remarkable number of future presidents living. To some extent this is because there are probably close to a dozen people now walking around who will some day become president, but we really have no idea who they are.
Did a little number crunchingand discovered that the record is fifteen future presidents alive at one time. This has happened exactly twice. The first such period began on August 20th, 1833, when a bouncing baby Benjamin Harrison was born, and lasted a bit under four years until Martin Van Buren went from a future president to a current one.
The second period of fifteen future presidents all alive at once began just two weeks after Van Buren took office, when Grover Cleveland was born, and ended when Ben Harrison's grandfather took over the presidency, again just under four years later.
(There's also a bit of a quirk surrounding Cleveland's second election. Ex-president Hayes died after Cleveland was re-elected but before his inauguration, and at the time he was the only living former president, unless you count Cleveland himself, who had held the office earlier, or the lame duck Harrison who had lost but not yet vacated his post.)
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@da-Doctah Were presidents less likely to be re-elected back in that era?
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@BernieTheBernie Just taking a glance at the list and not doing any formal analysis, it appears that way. There are only a few one-term presidents within my lifetime, but before FDR an equivalent span of time tends to show quite a few.
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How many of you will shift in their seats if I say the word "posture"?
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@Zecc I might shift in my seat, but probably not in their seats. I don't even know who they are; why would I be in any of their seats?
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@HardwareGeek Same way you might walk a mile in their shoes.