Just once…
Just once I would like to go to a military surplus store, up here in Oregon, that doesn’t have something racist and/or disparaging of democrats on the wall or for sale. I am not holding my breath, it is 18 years and counting…
Angry Rage Monkey
Grubosity
I have been trying to remember how far back in time you have to go for John Gruber’s complaints and bitchiness to make sense and seem justified. I think it is 24 months, but it could be more…
“ Girl 1: ooo look! Wierd looking things!
Girl 2: interesting! Overheard: Two little girls at the Seattle Aquarium.
Girl 2: interesting! Overheard: Two little girls at the Seattle Aquarium.
“ Every feel like you are one lightening strike and a maniacal laugh away from being a mad scientist?
You say hello, I say goodbye
We all say hello. It is built in, its automatic. You cant start a relationship — no matter how fleeting — without some kind of greeting. It is a shame the same isn’t true about goodbye’s.
When those are over sometimes they end with a goodbye, a Dear John, a “we have to talk”, a heartfelt missive, or the like. In an ideal world all “hello”s would end with some kind of “goodbye”.
A goodbye is as, or more, important than a goodbye. It tells the other party that it is over, it tells them why, it can even tell them what role they still have. When we leave out the goodbye, one person is left hanging, existing in a twilight state where they don’t know what the other one knows.
No one likes that feeling.
So if you say hello, say goodbye as well. You will be better for it…
Dear Hobby RC community…
Dear Hobby RC community,
Please, oh please, learn about the wonders of version control, and free services like Github, Bitbucket, et al.
Because do you know what I don’t enjoy? Rifling though tons of forum posts across multiple websites to find the most recent version of some piece of software.
Yours,
Jock
PS: Please reconsider your “mac users need not apply” attitude
PPS: Apologies to those for whom this makes no sense…
Those who fail to understand statistics, don’t cite their sources, or otherwise “spice up the facts” will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes…
Full extension let you be like a tiger with wings added
From the Amazon.com page for the “Mini MK802 Android 4.0 Google TV Box HD IPTV Player PC Allwinner A10 1G DDR3”
Except of course this story is wrong (read the part after my missive to lean more, or see the article on Snopes).
I cannot express how many times I have had to correct this urban myth by those who we might call “The Snide”. If there is one thing people should know about me, it is that I care deeply about facts. I care about getting it right. I care about painting a fair picture were I can.
It isn’t just that people get things wrong all the time — and lets face it, I do to — but a minute or two on google is all most people need to find out if they are right or not. Sadly they don’t, all to often because all they want is validation of their worldview. If the story fits, then it must be true right?
So please, please, double check stuff like this. Challenge your assumptions. Take a little time to make sure your are believing things for the right reasons. Its the only chance we got people…
In the early years of space flight, both Russians and Americans used pencils in space. Unfortunately, pencil lead is made of graphite, a highly conductive material. Snapped graphite leads and particles in zero gravity are hugely problematic, as they will get sucked into the air ventilation or electronic equipment, easily causing shorts or fires in the pure oxygen environment of a capsule.
After the fire in Apollo 1 which killed all the astronauts on board, NASA required a writing instrument that wasn’t a fire hazard. Fisher spent over a million dollars (of his own money) creating a pressurized ball point pen, which NASA bought at $2.95 each. The Russian space program also switched over from pencils shortly after.
40 years later snide morons on the internet still snigger about it, because snide morons on the internet never know what they are talking about.
(Source: yourresidentginger)
