Posts made by Gern_Blaanston
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RE: Sportsball WTF
@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
My personal favorite has always been shortstop Ron Hansen, probably because I was following baseball at the time and saw it happen.
Hansen was playing for the Chicago White Sox and was traded to Washington for infielder Tim Cullen. While playing a 3 game series against Cleveland:
Game 1 - Hansen made an unassisted triple play, the first time this had been done in 40 years
Game 2 - He hit a grand slam home run
Game 3 - He was traded back to Chicago, for infielder Tim Cullen, the first time in MLB history where two players were traded for each other twice in the same season -
RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
I used to post to usenet with the "Registration" header filled out with a long sequence of organ stops.
Why did J.S. Bach have 20 children?
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Because his organ didn't have any stops.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
E_NOT_HI_HAT
Crash and ride cymbals are essentially the same with the only difference being thickness.
Still not sure if the punchline is funnier if it is "password cannot contain cymbals".
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RE: :confused: The Official Dad Jokes Threadâ˘
I learned how to play the guitar by ear.
Then I figured out that it's easier to use my hands.
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RE: Important announcement: It's snowing in Canada
It was 75°F today, which for this time of year in this area is about 30° above normal.
Yay Global Warming.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Bulb said in I, ChatGPT:
@boomzilla said in I, ChatGPT:
âIt basically means that now you have the ability to conduct or to perform a new kind of cyberattack that hasn't been seen before,â says Ben Nassi, a Cornell Tech researcher
So, the Robert Morris worm of 1988 with A.I. attached to the name.
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RE: WTF Spam!
I just mentioned the Chinese Illuminati and I promptly got an invitation to join them:
From: The illuminati <seguridad.galicia1@fesmcugt.org>
Subject: Join the illuminati!!.I would rather join the Illumi-naughty.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
They keep making the same clbuttic mistakes.
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RE: The Official Cool Stuff Thread
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
What do you think of a "christmas tree" made of empty wine bottles?
We call that a 3-Day Weekend, son
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
A person has a meeting with a lawyer to get some legal advice. After the meeting is finished the lawyer says "That will be two hundred dollars". The client pays the lawyer but accidentally gives him three hundred dollars instead of two hundred.
After the client has gone the lawyer notices that the client gave him too much money. What should the lawyer do?
(A) Keep the money and say nothing.
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RE: The Belt Onion club
@jinpa said in The Belt Onion club:
@coderpatsy Though I do remember you could change your cursor. Don't know if you can still do that.
Follow-up: Yes you can.
My favorite was the banana, and the "busy" version would peel itself while waiting.
So, yes, you can still change the cursor but now the only choices are boring. Just one more thing that Microsoft ruined
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
Doesn't Windows pretend it can grow the pagefile infinitely for a very similar end result?
Not "infinitely" but up to the size of your hard drive. Which is a lot, unless you are using a really old computer with a really small hard drive.
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RE: WTF Bites
I have an e-mail account on Microsoft's outlook.live.com because .... raisins.
E-Mail from Microsoft, promoting Microsoft Co-Pilot, is marked as spam. On Microsoft's own e-mail system.
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RE: Important announcement: It's snowing in Canada
@TimeBandit said in Important announcement: It's snowing in Canada:
@HardwareGeek said in Important announcement: It's snowing in Canada:
It's currently (23:00) 4°C in central , with a forecast overnight low of 2°. It looks like that's the coldest it's supposed to get all week, but it's a weather forecast, so .
IOW, central Texas and Montreal's weather are currently almost the same
I remember several years ago I was following the news of one of the Mars rovers and noticed that it was warmer on Mars than it was in Boston that day.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
Canadians .... throwing pottery?
Doesn't it break?
No. Because in context, âthrowâ is the beginning of the making processâyou throw the wet clay onto the wheel to spin it.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Article @izzion posted said in WTF Bites:
meaning that for the first time in four years, it's February 29.
Written as if that was an astonishing or unexpected occurence....
Leap Year / Feb. 29 has only been a thing for hundreds of years. So definitely unexpected, and can't possibly be able to handle it.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
@Gern_Blaanston 1989 was not before the Internet. Usenet dates to 1980, and I personally used it as early as 1984, maybe late 1983, during a 6-month internship while in university. Even the Web existed in 1989 (although it didn't open to the public until 1991). As for the Sears catalog, I would assume the 1889 version got the job done, too. (Actually, I have no idea when they started putting photos of the merchandise in the catalogs, so maybe it didn't.)
I thought about editing the year to 1969 or something, but
This particular joke was obviously created by someone who thinks that 1989 is "old".
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have a video interview in 5 minutes and I just realized I don't have pants.
Did you ship your pants?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
@TimeBandit I hate it when they pan away. I want to see the carnage!
Yes, the whole point of the video is that she crashed.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
The Doobie Brothers have announced their 50th anniversary tour.
Many years ago, I lived next door to their parents, Chuck and Helen Doobie.
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RE: Today in reading the headlines...
@izzion said in Today in reading the headlines...:
125,000 Gigabytes
How many Library of Congresses of Porn is that?
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RE: The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
My parents opened a restaurant but it never did very well. I tried to tell them that they shouldn't use their own names but they wouldn't listen.
Eventually, the Sam 'n Ella Restaurant went out of business.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
"Brithday"?
Misspelled birthday.
Misspelled name.
And it's a carrot cake.They really don't like Marc.
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RE: Delphi 2024
@BernieTheBernie said in Delphi 2024:
@Gern_Blaanston said in Delphi 2024:
Turbo Pascal
Oh ye good old days of the early 1990ies (or was it late 1980ies?).
And Turbo Basic and .... Turbo Assembler.
Object Oriented Assembly Language
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RE: The bad jokes topic đ´đšđ¨
A guy says to a trans woman
"Does the carpet match the drapes?"
And she replies:
"I don't have carpet. I have hard wood floor."
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RE: Delphi 2024
@dkf said in Delphi 2024:
@Gern_Blaanston Turbo Pascal was great. It was fast and relatively easy to understand.
Yes. Pascal was sort of similar to BASIC and I was able to figure it out pretty quickly.
Once I got what it was doing, I was then able to transfer my knowledge to C. C was less great, but with a whole lot more code available and less restricted memory models
I was never able to get interested in C, and then C++ .... just made my brain hurt.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
I found this somewhere a while back.
A.I. can write reviews (that no one reads) of A.I. novels (that no one buys), generate playlists of A.I. songs (that no one listens to) and create A.I. images (that no one looks at) for websites (that no one visits).
This is the A.I. future. Endless content generated by robots, enjoyed by no one, clogging up everything, and wasting everyone's time.